Mystery of the 100-million-year old hammer. A mysterious hammer was discovered in Texas in 1934 embedded inside a rock several million years old. The peculiar object is an example of an out of place artifact (oopart), a term that is generally applied to the discovery of a modern object that seems to have originated from a time period that pre-dates its invention. The ‘London Hammer’ has been the subject of several tests and a lot of controversy since it was first discovered in Texas by a hiker in the 1930s. An analysis conducted at the Battelle Laboratory in Ohio, the same place that NASA sent some of the moon rocks for testing, was said to have determined that the hammer possessed unusual metallurgical properties.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:37:57 +0000
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