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Originally posted by Nohup
Time travelers.
Originally posted by Frogs
Is it just me or does that look like its one tiny watch? The small size of it almost makes it look like replica of a watch..
"We picked up the object, and found it was a ring. After removing the covering soil and examining it further, we were shocked to see it was a watch."
Local experts say they are confused as they believe the tomb had been undisturbed since it was created during the Ming dynasty 400 years ago.
Originally posted by Now_Then
Originally posted by Frogs
Is it just me or does that look like its one tiny watch? The small size of it almost makes it look like replica of a watch..
Ming dynasty 400 years ago?? Thats some dodgy reporting! Or a typo - interesting....
[edit on 15/12/2008 by Now_Then]
The Ming Dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; pinyin: Míng Cháo), or Empire of the Great Ming (traditional Chinese: 大明國; simplified Chinese: 大明国; pinyin: Dà Míng Guó), was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
Originally posted by Nohup
Time travelers. That's the most obvious answer to this mystery. Somebody went back in time at least 400 years and lost their watch ring. It could have been much longer than 400 years. The time traveler could be from the distant future, and happened to own an antique watch, or the watch had been kept in the past as a mystery object for who knows how long before it was buried in the tomb.
Originally posted by hikix
Originally posted by Nohup
Time travelers.
Yeah, I'd say that's the most obvious answer to this mystery!
In 1541, reforms implemented by Jean Calvin and banning the wear of jewels, forced the goldsmiths and other jewellers to turn into a new, independent craft : watchmaking.
By the end of the century, Genevan watches were already reputed for their high quality, and watchmakers created in 1601 the Watchmakers' Guild of Geneva, the first to be established anywhere.
Originating in the sixteenth century, ring-watches became newly fashionable after 1780.
Originally posted by RuneSpider
Makes me wonder who originally worked the site, and didn't leave any records of the digs.
Also makes me wonder what they may have made off with.