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Mysterious Russian Statue Is 11,000 Years Old – Twice as Old as the Pyramids
- greenyoda 11y ago"Even more mysteriously, it is covered in what experts describe as ‘encrypted code’ - a message from a lost civilisation." Why should we believe that it's an "encrypted code" rather than just a long-forgotten language that we don't understand?
- gus_massa 11y agoThis article has very little information. The Wikipedia article has more information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigir_Idol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigir_Idol but the Russian article is more complete (autotranslation) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fru.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25D0%25A8%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B3%25D0%25B8%25D1%2580%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B9_%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B4%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BB&edit-text=&act=url https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... In the photos of Wikipedia, it doesn't look like an encrypted message or language, it looks like a decoration, but IANAA.