Anachronous discovery: Swiss watch in ancient tomb
Published: 16 December, 2008, 11:54
Edited: 13 October, 2010, 23:36
image from www.ananova.com
Chinese archaeologists have found a tiny Swiss watch in a tomb dating back to the Ming dynasty, which they believed has been intact for four centuries.
The watch was discovered by scientists making a documentary, reports ananova.com website.
The out-of-time piece of jewellery was pressed into the soil covering one of the coffins.
The watch is stopped at 10:06, and there is the word “Swiss” on its back.
Work at the archaeological site has been suspended and experts from Beijing have been called in to help solve this mystery, which appears to belong in a sci-fi flick.
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I'm surprised the guy that posted the You Tube video
after watching the Charlie Chaplin DVD hasn't chimed
in to state that this unequivocally has to be TIME TRAVEL
cuz there is no other logicall options out there.
Psssst ... let you in on a little secret, when I am gonna be
65 in about 20 years from now I jump in a time machine &
go back to that time this guy was buried & I dropped my watch.
After I leave back for that time I came from as a 65 year old man
I realize I forgot my watch, so I go back, but I can't find it. So,
I go ahead til an hour ago & tell myself that I have to come up
with a plausible story to fool the masses, I so pick up the phone &
call the team exploring this site & suggest that it is a rare swiss artifact.
If & when they ever open the watch back they will see that it was actually
built in the year 2030 and was a retirement gift from my colleaugues at work
on the day I retired.