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Russian Humanoid Wooden Statue Older Than Pyramids

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Channel: Real Thing TV · 2015 · News & Politics

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Russian Humanoid Wooden Statue 3X Older Than Pyramids.

Recently, an ancient wooden humanoid statue was unearthed in Russia.  Now, carbon dating has confirmed that it is at least 3 times as old as the pyramids in Egypt.

The Daily Beast reports:

New carbon dating places Siberia’s Shigir Idol at 13,000 years old, more than three times as old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids—but scientists are still puzzling over its secret symbols.
An enigmatic wooden idol that has puzzled archaeologists since it was unearthed in a Siberian bog 125 years ago revealed a little more about itself last week.

New carbon dating has indicated that the 9-foot-tall sculpture is much older than previously thought, though there are still no clues to decode its mysterious markings.

The statue, known as the Shigir Idol, already had the distinction of being the oldest wooden structure in the world. The idol, which dates to 11,000 BC, is more than three times as old as the Pyramids, from 3,000 BC, or Stonehenge, from 2600 BC.

It was discovered 13 feet below a peat bog western Siberia in 1890. It had been broken into pieces, but the anti-bacterial quality of peat had preserved the coding—etched long ago with small stones—that covered its exterior. The symbols formed a complex series of wavy, straight and zig-zagged lines.

The statue first stood over 17 feet tall, but since its discovery some pieces of the statue have been lost to history—though original drawings drafted by a Russian archaeologist remain. The statue wasn’t dated for more than 100 years, until 1997, when a radiocarbon test estimated it to be 9,500 years old. Now, researchers in Germany have added 1,500 years to that, placing its origin at the beginning of the Holocene era.

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