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What is the world’s oldest wooden statue trying to tell us? Etchings on haunting seven-faced Shigir Idol ‘could hold a message to modern man’
by Will Stewart
Daily Mail
Secret encrypted codes on Shigir Idol written around 9,500 years ago
Experts say codes contain information on the 'creation of the world'
Shigir Idol was preserved 'as if in a time capsule' in a Siberian peat bog
German scientists are now close to a precise dating within five decades
They say results are likely to be known in late February or early March
Researchers say messages remain 'an utter mystery to modern man'
Scientists in Germany are closer to dating an ancient wooden statue which they say contains secret encrypted codes written around 9,500 years ago – possibly the oldest on the planet.
The haunting Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids and was preserved 'as if in a time capsule' in a peat bog on the western fringes of Siberia.
Now Russian experts say the remarkable relic contains encoded information on the 'creation of the world' – a message to modern man from the Mesolithic era of the Stone Age.
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/11/what-is-worlds-oldest-wooden-statue.html
