Sadigh Gallery

While it lacked political or ethnic cohesiveness, Canaan’s inhabitants throughout the region had cultural similarities that reflected in archeological remains and the body of Canaanite literature, art, and artifacts known today. Literary sources largely provide what is known today about Canaan’s history and culture, and they pair well with what archeology has so far uncovered about Canaan, according to the New-York based family-owned Sadigh Gallery. Image source: FactsandDetails.com Image source: TimesofIsrael.com  Canaanite art, artifact, and objects maintain an identity derived from different cultures, such as the Mycenaean, Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures. A stark symbol of the Canaan life – characterized by rural towns and farms – was a form of hoe, which helped the Canaanites break up soil to prepare for sowing. Thus, a number of ancient digging tools from the area can be dated to the Late Bronze or Early Iron Age, or around 1200 BC. Canaan art obje...

Have you heard of out-of-place artifacts? Oopart, as it’s commonly called, represents dozens of prehistoric items found in different places around the world that appear to be technologically advanced, unlike the times in which they were made. Here are some interesting out-of-place artifacts, and they remain interesting whether they are fake or misinterpreted, misdated, or don’t come with any reasonable explanation. Image source: ArchyFantasies.com 500,000 year old spark plug In 1961, three individuals were searching for geodes for their gem and gift shop in California when they stumbled on what seemed to be a spark plug encased in a geode. The device was dated at 500,000 years or older. Armed with x-rays and an artist’s sketch of the artifact, critics of the claim thought it was truly a modern spark plug housed in a quick-forming concretion instead of a geode. Mysterious blue stone Could an odd kind of blue stone, discovered in 1990 by archeologist Angelo Pit...