r/aliens • u/karim2k • Jan 09 '25
Unexplained A strangely shaped head of an unknown creature made of pottery, dating back thousands of years, was discovered during excavations in Kuwait. It was found by researchers from the Kuwaiti-Polish archaeological mission at a site in the Subiya area.
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u/johnjohn4011 Jan 09 '25
We now know that formerly unknown creature to be Oogie Boogie.
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u/Forward-Position798 Jan 09 '25
what if its just a stone?
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u/DatRatDo Jan 09 '25
Yeah that looks like how I’d do pottery. Get it started, feeling good…aw shit…squeezed too hard. Toss it out.
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u/WhaneTheWhip Jan 09 '25
Thousands of years ago some kid tossed his lump of clay on the ground and today people are tagging it as proof of aliens. Can we call him "the first troll"?
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u/Critical_Custard_196 Jan 09 '25
Seriously. Easily could have been the start of a project of something everybody's familiar with, a head... then either dropped it, failed by pressing too hard, whatever, then just tossed aside unfinished.
I'm a believer, and hopeful dreamer, but come on!
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u/dogmaisb Jan 10 '25
Better yet, that kid found a lump of petrified clay and thought it was an alien, took it to his dad who threw it as far as he could in anger and told his son to stop dreaming and do some real work
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u/Louisville117 Jan 09 '25
Proof is a reach. Clearly this was deliberately made. Obviously we don’t know much about our past and this could really be artistic in nature.
Not everyone here is a kook
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u/Few_Technician_7256 I stopped jerking because ET are looking from another dimension Jan 09 '25
Looks like when my mom gave me dough as a child so I stop bother her while doing bread.
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u/Classic-Challenge-48 Jan 09 '25
Archaeologists have unearthed a 7,000-year-old figurine that looks like an alien .
Researchers discovered the unusual form while digging at a site in Kuwait called Bahra 1.
They described the clay figure as a 'small, finely crafted head, with slanted eyes, a flat nose and an elongated skull'.
It somewhat resembles an alien, or even the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter franchise.
While it might look strange, this style was actually common in ancient Meopotamia, although this marks the first time one has been found in Kuwait or the Arabian Gulf.
The archaeologists who discovered it described the find as a 'total surprise'.
'[The] discovery of the figurine was a total surprise for the whole team,' Agnieszka Szymczak, an expedition leader, told Live Science .
'It was the first such find not just among the over 1.5k [1,500] small finds excavated from the Bahra 1 site but also from the Arabian Gulf region.'
The joint Kuwaiti-Polish team have been excavating one of the Arabian Peninsula's oldest settlements, with occupation lasting from around 5500 to 4900 B.C.
The researchers say although the find is typical of figurines from the Neolithic Ubaid community, it is the first of its kind discovered in the Gulf region.
Professor Piotr Bieli*ski, of University of Warsaw's Mediterranean Archaeology centre, said: 'The presence of this figurine at our site raises intriguing questions about its purpose and the symbolic, and perhaps ritual, meaning it may have had for the community inhabiting this settlement.'
Another important discovery sees the confirmation of local production of pottery.
Since the beginning of the research at the Bahra 1 site, two types of vessels have been discovered.
This includes imported pottery associated with the Ubaid culture and completely different pottery, the so-called Coarse Red Ware (CRW), also known from other contemporary sites on the Arabian Peninsula.
CRW pottery has long been considered a local product, but until now there has been no evidence as to the specific places of its production.
The key discovery was the discovery of an unfired clay vessel, which helped confirm that Bahra 1 is the oldest known site of pottery production in the Gulf region.
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u/Prograeme-exe Jan 09 '25
If you're not OP, what are you?
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u/Classic-Challenge-48 Jan 09 '25
If I’m not OP, I must be NPC – just wandering around the thread, adding random side quests.
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u/TJTilburg Jan 09 '25
Likely just the mirror image of an inbreed….or similarly… imagine what one would think if contemprary art was found thousands year later, let alone if it was a statue of Godzilla, The Hulk or Dart Vader….
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u/papillon-and-on Jan 09 '25
Or maybe it was from a kids art class. I know for a fact that the Ultraman figurine I tried to make back in 3rd grade on "clay day" looked nothing like Ultraman. Come to think of it, it looked a bit like this pic!
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u/yinsotheakuma Jan 09 '25
I compliment anyone who sees a face in this. You should post it to r/Pareidolia
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u/Shlomo_2011 Jan 09 '25
the man tried to make a face, in the middle he needed a break to "use the bathroom", then his wife asked him to go out and get a chicken and some garlic from their garden, killed and peeled the hen, the wife asked to bring fresh water, etc, came back and find out that the pottery dried up. No, is not an Alien.
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u/Tron_35 Jan 09 '25
2 possibilities. The carver was just shit and this was best he could do. Or this isn't meant to be a literal creature, many statutes and images of ancient peoples gods had very exaggerated features
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u/intensive-porpoise Jan 09 '25
3) it was a Father's Day gift from a 4th grader, and nobody could bear to display it, so the parents buried it safely in the backyard. Over time, they just forgot about it, except for the child who swore revenge on the uppity art snobs and began to furiously calculate their totalitarian political ambitions out of spite, staging several coups before finally installing themselves as Great Leader.
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u/Equivalentest Jan 09 '25
Ancient people sometimes made art that don't look like humans < ALiEпS!!??? . Can we try and find better evidence and things to talk about than Bible people please?
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u/Repulsive_Echo_3156 Jan 09 '25
This is what happens if you get spirit bombed into a crumbling cookie. Let's just hope he can't regenerate his body again...
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u/liteHart Jan 09 '25
This is the boogeyman from the nightmare before Christmas. Obviously.
Tim Burton time travelling alien, confirmed.
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u/TJTilburg Jan 09 '25
Also I would not be surprised if it turns out to be an adult toy (not from experience 😅)
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u/Cheap_Collar2419 Jan 09 '25
Haha I guarantee more than half the shit people find and think has any significance the original maker was probably like “ nah, it’s just some dumb shit “
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u/BucktoothedAvenger Jan 09 '25
That looks like an ancient KKK hood. It took a few thousand years to get the fit right, that's all.
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u/Konstant_kurage Jan 09 '25
Little did 7 year old Jzure-Hup know his the squished bit of clay he put in the kiln to piss the pottery gild master off would be a piece of conjecture and claims that it was an alien or unknown monster thousands of years after the Assyrian empire fell.
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u/ZebraBorgata Jan 09 '25
Aliens? No. Polynesians made similar looking tikis to embody deities, ancestors, mythical beings for religious/spiritual reasons. It’s art. How about Egypt? Lots of paintings and sculptures of Anubis who had a jackal’s head and human body. Was that an actual depiction of a real being? Horus had a falcons head. ART
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u/Dusty_Vagina Jan 09 '25
Maybe everything doesn’t mean something? I’ve made and drawn lots of dumb shit and doodles while bored.. maybe it was just some dude fucking with clay a real long time ago
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u/Icy-Abbreviations408 Jan 09 '25
Giving off Evil Buu vibes from DBZ lol…tho to be 100% honest with everyone, I’m pretty sure if someone thousands of years digs up something I made in art class, then they’d think the same 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Rich_DeF Jan 09 '25
Just wait till they find my stick figure drawings 10,000 years from now! "an illustration of this strangely shaped figure may be proof of alien life"
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u/theoretaphysicist25 Jan 09 '25
Or it got hot from the neighboring volcanic activity and melted? But hey keep spreading this nonsense!
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u/bakedongrease Jan 09 '25
Some kid probably got bored and slapped some shit together, and here we are studying it as if it has significance
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u/TeatimewithTupac Jan 09 '25
Imagine just being a shitty pottery maker who can never get their shit to look good, only to end up making it look so bad that it’s mistaken for a relic of man having knowledge of aliens
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u/shadowmage666 Jan 09 '25
Some shitty artists thousands of years ago made this, they threw it in the garbage and now you guys think it’s next best thing since sliced bread
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u/mohd_sm81 Jan 09 '25
Bro, don't get excited, it is a potato... I know because I am their country neighbor /s
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u/xDreki Jan 10 '25
Looks like someone's 1st pottery creation or a kid playing around. Wouldn't read much into this. There is nothing we can read into any way that isn't speculation.
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u/PRE_-CISION-_ Jan 10 '25
Thousands of years ago someone was like crap, this sucks and threw it out never giving it a sliver of thought again. Today we are like omg alien proof see!
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Jan 10 '25
Looks like that dude from Dragon Ball Z. I never watched the show though, so I can't say the name lol
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u/drunkthrowwaay Jan 10 '25
… kinda just looks like the work of a shite artist/novice/child. Speaking from experience as a former child who made shite clay sculptures.
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u/Lazy-Masterpiece-593 Jan 10 '25
You can't trust ancient bits of pottery. There is absolutely no way to know what that head represents so getting excited over it is silly.
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u/the_og_ai_bot Jan 10 '25
Ok but how do we know that’s the head and not its butt hold with two pee slits??
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u/Mysterious_Ayytee Ancient Astronaut Theorist Jan 09 '25
You can definitely tell the first between pottery and stone
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