A 7,000-year-old figurine has been discovered, resembling an alien at first glance.
Sumerian Reptiloids
Narrow slits for large, slanted eyes, an elongated skull bent back, and a barely noticeable flat nose – these are the facial features of a miniature clay head recently discovered in Kuwait, which appear otherworldly. It's as if someone sculpted an alien. Or maybe an alien female. Enthusiasts find similarities between this head and current depictions of extraterrestrials.
The "alien female" was discovered by participants of a Polish-Kuwaiti expedition conducting excavations at Bahra 1 - a prehistoric site in northern Kuwait. Archaeologists estimate the find to be around 7,000 years old. At that time, Bahra 1 was inhabited by people from Mesopotamia – someone among them likely brought the "alien female" along. After all, nothing like this had been found in the area before. Meanwhile, among the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, "alien figurines" were found quite frequently, all exhibiting reptilian features.
Conspiracy theorists and some scholars believe that the ancient Sumerians crafted these figures from life – or at least from memory. This implies that they somehow interacted with those they were depicting, or had a fairly good understanding of them. And these beings were reptilian aliens from outer space – representatives of an intelligent reptilian civilization. Hence, their heads resembled those of reptiles. Or serpents.
3Figurines of reptiloids (most often female) found in ancient Mesopotamia. Photo: livescience.com
According to an alternative hypothesis, reptiloids represented a civilization that existed on Earth before humanity but vanished almost entirely for some mysterious reason.
The official version suggests that the anthropomorphic figurines with heads resembling reptiles and snake-like facial features held some symbolic meaning. But what that meaning is remains unknown. Thus, even the theory of aliens doesn't seem utterly absurd and somewhat explains the advanced knowledge of the ancient Sumerians.
Interestingly, it appears that the inhabitants of Mesopotamia were the first to deform the skulls of infants by bandaging them in a specific manner to elongate and bend the occipital regions backward. This gave their heads a modified appearance that bore at least a distant resemblance to reptiloids. The head found in Kuwait fits this description.
African Aliens
Equally surprising is the ancient rock art. Many also consider the beings depicted on rock surfaces and cave walls to be aliens. Polish archaeologists have made their mark here as well.
Scientists from Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) discovered drawings of mysterious tall and slender beings in the Swaga-Swaga reserve in Central Tanzania – in a cave known in the scientific community as the "Amakhee 4 rock shelter."
4Slender beings with huge heads from Tanzania. Aliens? Photo: livescience.com
The authors of the drawings found in the "shelter" were likely local residents – members of the ancient indigenous Sandawi people, who have lived in Tanzania for 87,000 years. The drawings may not be extremely ancient, but they are clearly several thousand years old.
The painters realistically depicted antelopes, giraffes, and buffaloes – unmistakable in their representation. Scientists even identified the species of antelopes – wildebeest and canna. This allows us to conclude that the anthropomorphic figures did not differ much from the "originals." That is, from the big-headed aliens that many apparently saw in Tanzania.
Similar figures have been found in two other locations – in the Kolo B2 and B1 shelters, which British researcher Mary Leakey mentioned in 1983 (Mary Leakey, Africa's vanishing art: the rock paintings of Tanzania).
Boring skeptics believe that the drawings depict Earthlings who donned buffalo heads for ritual purposes. They argue that the similarities are evident in the details. The "big-headed" figures supposedly show characteristic indentations on their crowns – akin to those of buffaloes between their horns. The sides of their heads allegedly feature drooping ears and horns.
5Skeptics think the antennas on the aliens' heads are baskets. And the aliens are Earthlings. Boring. Photo: livescience.com
At one time, Polish colleagues interpreted the famous drawings found in the central Sahara in a similar manner. They claimed that the figures depicted were not aliens in helmets with antennas but Earthlings with baskets on their heads.
Contact in India
The discovery was reported by the Indian newspaper Times of India. The rock paintings are located, respectively,
The figures in spacesuits holding objects resembling weapons are about 10,000 years old. They were found in India – in the state of Chhattisgarh (Chhattisgarh), approximately 130 kilometers from the city of Raipur (Raipur). Isn't that aliens? They were discovered in caves that stretch beneath the villages of Chandeli and Gotitola (Chandeli and Gotitola).
6The Indian authorities believe that the cave walls depict a "flying saucer" that aliens once used to visit India. Photo: livescience.com
Next to the figures is an object on three legs, which could be mistaken for a "flying saucer." Indian archaeologists and, of course, ufologists believe that ancient artists captured the moment of the aliens' arrival.
Interestingly, according to Indian archaeologists, there is a legend among the local people, passed down through generations: that small people – "rohela" – once descended from the heavens here several times and took one or two villagers with them. They never returned.
7A new drawing discovered in India, near the previous one. Photo: livescience.com
The state authorities take the find very seriously and also believe that the cave walls depict aliens. They intend to involve experts from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to study the drawings. Especially since a drawing of the same age was recently discovered in the same state. It possibly depicts an alien in close-up.
SUMMARY
Not photos, of course, but still…
There is surprisingly an abundance of rock paintings where enthusiasts see aliens. Just like there are photographs of UFOs. For instance, the figures depicted in the Camonica Valley in Italy, which are also about 10,000 years old, could easily be mistaken for aliens in spacesuits. And the faces from Australia – well, they look just like aliens.
The famous petroglyph from North Africa was drawn approximately 8,000 years ago. Is it not an alien in a spacesuit? Located in Tassili (Sahara Desert).
Images and sculptures serve as confirmations for ufologists of the paleo-contact theory – that is, the hypothesis that our planet was visited by representatives of extraterrestrial intelligence in ancient times.