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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Jacob on September 27, 2012, 03:38:10 PM

Title: Nazis stole meteorite statue from Tibet
Post by: Jacob on September 27, 2012, 03:38:10 PM
Cool little tidbit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19735959

Kind of silly how the headline says "buddhist statue" when the article says it was "pre-buddhist", but still interesting for the archaeology and pulp fiction nerds among us.
Title: Re: Nazis stole meteorite statue from Tibet
Post by: mongers on September 27, 2012, 04:06:12 PM
Quote from: Jacob on September 27, 2012, 03:38:10 PM
Cool little tidbit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19735959

Kind of silly how the headline says "buddhist statue" when the article says it was "pre-buddhist", but still interesting for the archaeology and pulp fiction nerds among us.

:thumbsup:

Yeah, interesting, though I first say this at theregister.co.uk and their headline was rather more misleading, "Tibetan STATUE found by 1930s NAZI expedition is of ALIEN ORIGIN"   :hmm:
http://m.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/tibetan_alien_statue_discovered_by_nazis/ (http://m.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/tibetan_alien_statue_discovered_by_nazis/)


Co-incidentally late last night I watched a Horizon about asteroid and a fair bit of it was about looking at meteorites.
Title: Re: Nazis stole meteorite statue from Tibet
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 27, 2012, 04:49:02 PM
They have top monks working on it now.  Top. Monks.