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This is pseudoscience nonsense spread by some huckster and it's not worth anyones time and is disrespectful to the people of Peru. It's a modern hoax > "They'r

• Rumudiez 1y ago
  > Joshua McDowell said: 'The bodies studied by Estrada were not related to any specimen that we have studied. They were folk dolls made to look like tridactyls confiscated at the airport.
• an0malous 1y ago
  The dolls in that article were confiscated in the mail and are made for tourists. The creator of those dolls has explained this already, and they are unrelated to the bodies discovered near Ica. Here’s an X-ray comparison between the two where it’s very obvious that there’s a difference between the modern dolls and the archaeological discoveries: https://x.com/_stranger357/status/1805272924640682036 https://x.com/_stranger357/status/1805272924640682036 Even if you’re incredulous that these bodies were living creatures, no one disputes their carbon dating of 500-1500 years old and this has been confirmed by multiple labs. It’s not possible to construct bodies from biological material that is that old, so if they were constructed it would have to have been done by ancient Peruvians. This begs the question of why ancient Peruvians were making constructions of beings that look remarkably similar to modern aliens as described by UFO experiencers: https://x.com/_stranger357/status/1804973689567326435 https://x.com/_stranger357/status/1804973689567326435 The archaeological discoveries are being studied by the University of Ica and other South American scientists across many disciplines. The South American cultures also have a long history of depicting tridactyl beings in their artworks, there are hundreds of examples but here’s one: https://x.com/_stranger357/status/1789875845542076808 https://x.com/_stranger357/status/1789875845542076808 So it’s really quite ridiculous to suggest this is disrespectful to Peruvians. Their own culture describes these creatures, and their scientists are the ones promoting the authenticity of the bodies. You’re just propagating ignorance. Skepticism has turned into a religion, the rational perspective here is that we have a genuine mystery that needs further investigation.
  • dunefox 1y ago
    You're linking to random twitter posts, with one of them mentioning a random reddit user with "throwaway" in his name, but "Skepticism has turned into a religion"? Please link to any credible source, just one.
    • an0malous 1y ago
      Here is the breast plate depicting a tridactyl being from the “random Reddit user”: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colombia,_quimbaya,_pettorale_in_lega_tumbaga,_300-1600_dc_ca.,_da_antioquia_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colombia,_quimbaya,_... Here is a website with the carbon dating reports from multiple reputable paleo labs, it includes the PDFs from the labs themselves with their names and letterhead: https://www.the-alien-project.com/en/results-analysis-nasca-mummies/ https://www.the-alien-project.com/en/results-analysis-nasca-... Here is a 2023 hearing where dozens of South American scientists across various relevant specialties present their findings and argue for the bodies’ authenticity: https://youtu.be/MwZkXwuMdsw https://youtu.be/MwZkXwuMdsw Here is the first 2018 hearing conducted by the Peruvian Congress where their scientists concluded the bodies are authentic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2xN41immWE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2xN41immWE
      • Aloisius 1y ago
        > Here is the breast plate depicting a tridactyl being Ok, ignoring the fact that various cultures drew all sorts of things from lion-headed people to feathered dragons so someone drawing little more than a stick figure hardly means it's real, but that could easily be a three toed sloth which have three very long claws on their hands and feet. Never mind that the Nazca lived like 1500 miles away from the Quimbaya. > Here is a website with the carbon dating reports That shows a large difference in age between body parts from one of the mummies. In one of the reports, it shows a 6000 year age cap between the skin and the bone. One DNA analysis says it contains DNA from multiple humans and that there isn't evidence the hand and left foot from the same mummy belong to the same person. This all screams hoax. It looks as if someone stitched together multiple mummies. > 2018 hearing conducted by the Peruvian Congress where their scientists One of the two only actual scientists, Jose de la Cruz Rios Lopez, published a paper saying the skull of one of them likely from a llama: https://www.iaras.org/iaras/filedownloads/ijbb/2021/021-0007(2021).pdf https://www.iaras.org/iaras/filedownloads/ijbb/2021/021-0007...