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== Alternative interpretations ==
[[File:QtubIronPillar.JPG|thumb|200px|The [[iron pillar of Delhi]]]]
* [[Helicopter hieroglyphs|Abydos helicopter]]: A [[pareidolia]] based on [[palimpsest]] carving in an ancient Egyptian temple.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=paleocontact hypothesis |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science |url=http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/paleocontact.html |last=Darling |first=David |accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Dendera light|Dendera Lamps]]: Supposed to depict light bulbs, but made in Ptolemaic Egypt, debunked by the analysis of the [[Epigraphy|epigraphic]] text. The [[Motif (visual arts)|motif]] actually represents a [[Nymphaea caerulea|lotus flower]].<ref>{{cite web |date=3 October 2019 |title=Debunking the Dendera "Light Bulb" |work=Pseudoarchaeology |url=https://anthropology.msu.edu/anp364-fs19/2019/10/02/debunking-the-dendera-light-bulb/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Awful Archaeology Ep. 5: The Dendera Light |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=2OOrlhtdONE |website=[[YouTube]]| date=26 June 2022 }}</ref><ref>[https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/620376 Search for Hidden Light in the Pyramids]</ref>
* [[Sabu disk]]: a disk of notable precision apparently from ancient times in [[Saqqara]]. Its purpose is unknown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Tomb of Sabu and The Tri-lobed "Schist" Bowl |url=https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_egipto_mist_2c.htm |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=www.bibliotecapleyades.net}}</ref>
* Iron Man (''[[Eiserner Mann]]''): An old iron pillar, said to be a unique oddity in [[Germany]], but consistent with medieval methods of ironworking.<ref>Grewe, Klaus. ''Der Eiserne Mann im Kottenforst''. Rheinlandverlag, Cologne, 1978.</ref>
* [[Iron pillar of Delhi]]: A "rust-proof" iron pillar which supposedly demonstrates more advanced metallurgy than was available in India before 1000 CE.<ref>{{cite news |year=2005 |title=IIT team solves the pillar mystery |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IIT-team-solves-the-pillar-mystery/articleshow/1058320.cms}}</ref>
* [[London Hammer]]: Also known as the "London Artifact", a hammer made of iron and wood that was found in [[London, Texas]], in 1936. Part of the hammer is encased in "400-million-year-old" ("[[Ordovician]] era") rock. In 1985, anthropologist John R. Cole<ref>{{Cite journal |title = If I Had a Hammer |last = Cole |first = J.R. |journal = Creation Evolution Journal |volume=5 |issue =15|pages=46–47 |date = Winter 1985 |publisher = [[National Center for Science Education]] Inc. |url = https://ncse.com/cej/5/1/if-i-had-hammer |quote = One of his principal pieces of evidence for human contemporaneity with supposedly ancient geological strata is an iron hammer with a wooden handle found near London, Texas by others in the 1930s in an "Ordovician" stone concretion..."(Baugh, 1983b). }}</ref> hypothesized that the stone surrounding the hammer is a recent carbonate soil concretion.
* [[Meister Print]]: A supposed human footprint from the [[Cambrian]] period, long before humans existed, which has been debunked as the result of a natural geologic process known as [[spall formation]].<ref name="TalkOrigins">[http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/meister.html "The "Meister Print" An Alleged Human Sandal Print from Utah"]. TalkOrigins. Retrieved 4 May 2019.</ref>
* [[Pacal's sarcophagus lid]]: Described by [[Erich von Däniken]] as a depiction of a spaceship's cockpit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Derek D. |title=Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy |last2=Turner |first2=Michelle I. |date=2021 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-61051-7 |editor-last=Killin |editor-first=Anton |pages=7–24 |chapter="I'm not saying it was aliens": an archaeological and philosophical analysis of a conspiracy theory |editor-last2=Allen-Hermanson |editor-first2=Sean}}</ref>
* [[Piri Reis map]]: Several authors, such as [[Pseudohistory|pseudohistorian]] [[Gavin Menzies]] and [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientist]] [[Charles Hapgood]], have suggested that this map, compiled by the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] admiral [[Piri Reis]], showed [[Antarctica]] long before it was discovered (cf. [[Terra Australis]]).<ref name="McIntosh2000a">{{Cite book |last=McIntosh |first=Gregory C. |title=The Piri Reis Map of 1513 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=2000 |isbn= |pages=230 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="dutch">{{cite web |last=Dutch |first=Steven |title=The Piri Reis Map |url=http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/piriries.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813090645/http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/PiriRies.HTM |archive-date=2013-08-13 |access-date=2013-08-16}}</ref>
* [[Quimbaya airplanes]]: Golden objects found in [[Colombia]] and made by the [[Quimbaya civilization]], which have been alleged to represent modern airplanes. In the [[Gold Museum, Bogotá]], they are described as figures of birds and insects. Some of the artifacts have also been debunked as forgeries.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Brodie |first1=Neil |title=The Plunder of the Ulúa Valley, Honduras, and a Market Analysis For Its Antiquities |date=2006-08-01 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813029726.003.0008 |work=Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade |pages=147–172 |publisher=University Press of Florida |doi=10.5744/florida/9780813029726.003.0008 |isbn=9780813029726 |access-date=2022-04-20 |last2=Kersel |first2=Morag M. |last3=Tubb |first3=Kathryn Walker|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Saqqara Bird#Controversial ideas|Saqqara Bird]]: Supposedly depicts a glider, but made in Ancient Egypt.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Desmond |first1=Kevin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXJuDwAAQBAJ&dq=Khalil+Messiha&pg=PA5 |title=Electric Airplanes and Drones: A History |date=20 September 2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-6961-8 |page=5 |language=en |access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[Dogū#Pseudoarchaeology|Shakōkidogū]]: Small humanoid and animal [[figurine]]s made during the late [[Jōmon period]] (14,000–400&nbsp;BCE) of prehistoric Japan, said to resemble extraterrestrial astronauts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weintraub |first=Pamela |title=Omni's Catalog of the Bizarre |publisher=Doubleday |year=1985 |isbn=9780385192613 |pages=24 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Stone spheres of Costa Rica#Myths|Stone spheres of Costa Rica]]: Inaccurately described as being perfectly spherical, and therefore demonstrating greater stone-working skill in [[Pre-Columbian era|pre-Columbian times]] than has previously been known.<ref name="SkeptoidEpisode">{{Skeptoid|id=4452 |number=452 |date=3 February 2015 |title=The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica}}</ref>
* [[Fuente Magna]], a large stone vessel that was discovered in [[Bolivia]] in 1950, with many engravings on its inside that have been compared to [[Sumer|Sumerian]] [[cuneiform]] writing. Archeologist and historian of the [[Near East]] [[Alexander H. Joffe]] has described the patterns as "geometric filler or deliberate gibberish" and thought the face on the interior resembles local [[Tiwanaku Empire|Tiwanaku culture]]. He suggested it could be a fake or a local oddity.<ref name="Joffe">{{cite web |last1=Joffe |first1=Alex |author1-link=Alexander H. Joffe |title=ANE TODAY – 201609 – Ask a Near Eastern Professional: How the Sumerians Got to Peru - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) |url=https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2016/09/ask-near-eastern-professional |publisher=[[American Society of Overseas Research]] |access-date=3 May 2024 |date=24 January 2018}}</ref>