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From a piece of meteorite found in the tTutankhamun’s tombuntil jesus crown of thorns. Safeguarded in museums, laboratories and warehouses are the most remarkable, mysterious and extraordinary objects on the planet. These bizarre artifacts span thousands of years, created by different cultures from around the world, but they share one thing in common: each has confused or astounded experts, sometimes for centuries.
New technologies and research allow you to delve into these artifacts like never before, and this engaging documentary series uncovers the secrets and how incredible, ancient, or truly unusual they can be. Incorporating fascinating insights from many experts who return to the various items with new insights, the consignment allows viewers to get a never-before-seen look at these rarities and treasures. Even using innovative techniques through the latest 3D graphics to digitally separate them, thus concentrating on their smallest details and
rebuild them.
In the first episode, “The Scarab, the Ark and the Rock,” experts inspect a 4,000-year-old tablet with what could be instructions for building the biblical Noah’s Ark. Thus we learn that, in 2009, a clay tablet shaped like a telephone was delivered to the British museum for your research. They quickly realized that it was covered in Babylonian cuneiform writing, the oldest known on Earth, dating back at least 3,700 years. Deciphering the 60 lines of text, they believe it to be a training manual for building a boat of colossal size and an oddly round shape.
He Tempest Forecaster (storm forecaster) is one of the strangest and most mysterious scientific instruments in history. He is introduced in the second episode, “The Lost Roman Treasure and the Leech.” Driven by a 19th-century obsession with forecasting the weather, this Victorian-era barometer in the shape of a miniature modern carousel is unlike anything before or since, because it’s powered by leeches. These types of worms were popular in the medical communities of the day, but one man believed they could do much more: detect weather conditions and forecast storms. The device was even praised in the press for its predictive power and was displayed at the Great Exhibition as an example of British scientific prowess.
