M.J. Rose

What’s a museum caretaker to do when a statue that was an offering to the ancient Egyptian god of death starts inexplicably rotating in its display case? Click here for a time-lapse video of the 4000-year-old relic of Neb-Senu as it inexplicably moves on its own…

From the comments in the original article, here are two interesting pictures:

Why is this Egyptian listening to a record player and holding a remote control? Is this merely a lotus and an ankh?

And what’s this? A laptop and a stylus?

Makes one wonder… 🙂

An interesting discovery has been made in Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. I wish that robots like this would be used in more mysterious ancient places – how about for exploring beneath the Sphinx where there may be large hollow chambers?

Teotihuacan ‘Orbs,’ Metallic Spheres, Found By Robot Under ‘Temple Of The Feathered Serpent’ In Mexico

The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble

“For centuries, Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret, only recently revealed by the help of robots equipped with lasers and infrared cameras.

The small, remote-controlled devices have explored several rooms beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, a structure described by Discovery as a “six-level pyramid decorated with snake-like creatures.” The probes revealed hundreds of mysterious yellow orbs that range from four to 12 centimeters across. Indiana Jones would most certainly approve…”

Click here for the article and a video.

This art is so deeply strange and oddly intriguing – are the installations permanently marking real locations commemorating history from an alternate reality? Or are the markers temporary art pieces placed strategically for short periods of observation? Either way, the work touches on the concepts of memorials, travel, geography, and history in a way that gets our imagination soaring…

THE BELIEVER – NOVERMBER/DECEMBER 2009

Discover Kymaerica

The brick courtyard was adjacent to the railroad tracks on Atlanta’s industrial west side—and part of a structure that had been transformed from its industrial roots to become the home of a five-star restaurant. I must have taken a wrong turn, because instead of finding the bathroom, I ended up staring at a bronze plaque that had been welded into the concrete abutting the building’s electrical boards. It looked just like one of the historical markers scattered throughout the South to mark every scrape and scuffle of the Civil War…

They even have their own travel guides.

More about this here.