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The mysteries linger.
Why does one ancient statue seem to show the goddess Ishtar wearing a space suit?
How did a few 15th-Century mapmakers know about Antarctica – centuries before the rest of the world discovered it?
Does The Sphinx predate the last Ice Age, as some say water damage suggests?
The Southwest Florida Museum of History doesn’t claim to have all the answers to those tantalizing questions. But the curator of a new exhibit hopes to intrigue people and get them searching for their own answers.
“For the most part, these things will continue to be mysteries,” says curator Marty Martin of the Origins Museum Institute in El Paso, Texas (the same group that put together the Fort Myers museum’s UFO, King Tut and fossil exhibits). “We can only speculate.
“These are antiquities that have no explanation. They just got put in a drawer and labeled ‘anomaly.’”
After five years in the making, “Forbidden History” debuts in Fort Myers today before eventually going on a national tour to other museums.
The show focuses on historical artifacts that are still unexplained to this day. There’s a print of the Dead Sea Scrolls, models of the biblical Ark of the Covenant and the famous South American crystal skulls (featured in the last Indiana Jones movie), and a foam replica of the famous Mayan calendar – which, by the way, predicts the world will end in 2012.
“We’re all in trouble,” jokes Matt Johnson, the history museum’s general manager. “At least we can say we warned people.”
The “forbidden” part of the show title comes from the hush-hush nature of many of these artifacts – whether they were hushed by the church or by mainstream archaeologists.
“Hundreds of years ago, some of these ideas might have been considered blasphemous,” Johnson says. “You couldn’t say that the sun was the center of the universe. This kind of thing would have been hidden.”
The exhibit offers some explanations for the mysteries, but even Martin says you should take those with a grain of salt. Take, for example, that Babylonian Ishtar idol that appears to be wearing a space suit.
“Some people think that’s a ponytail and not an oxygen supply tube,” Martin says. “Some people think that’s a crown and not a helmet.”
The idea is to get people thinking about the possibilities and fire up their imagination.
“It depends on your viewpoint,” Martin says. “With all these pieces, there are two ways of interpreting them.”
Whether or not you buy those explanations, you’ll still have a great time, Martin says.
“We’re not making a scientific case here,” he says. “It’s just fun. Whether you believe it or not, it’s really fun.”
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