Chinese Stone

Always a sucker for this sorta thing, I did some data mining. What I came up with was that there appears to be one story about this, which has burgeoned across the web, strictly among the sort of website that generally waxes breathless about such "discoveries" as man-eating dinosaurs, bat-faced babies, and miraculous pictures of saints appearing in improbable circumstances. All references to the "hidden words tones" stem from one identical article, and searching the English Language sites of Chinese, general Asian, and other newspapers turns up nothing. While certainly not conclusive, that leads me to suspect there is far less to this story than meets the eye.

270,000,000 years old?

The stone may be ancient, but the carving is undoubtedly more recent.

For starters, who was around to carve?

I question the writing characters (writing) too. They look very modern to me, and I don't know chinese. So long ago, would they not look different?

Thanks timber. and Noddy

Chinese wouldn't have changed that much - those words may look "modern" but they could highly possibly be from that time. The whole issue looks ridicolous to me - the collapse of the chinese communist party? Yeah yeah yeah...the stone is probably ancient but this looks like a stupid prank.

I'm a skeptic - about the writing being that old.

Pragmatic, so your saying that the chinese text would not have changed that much. I still find it difficult to believe that chinese text looked so much the same that long ago.

I agree cicerone.

Thank you all for your input.

Chinese text would not have changed - words are still the same words. But the carving does look a bit too modern.

So many forgeries out there. It just proves how easily the human animal can be fooled. Most, but not all, is still a bad thing.

Did you hear about the great fairy scam a few years back? Don't feel too bad about forgeries Angelique, even the great Sir Arthur Doyle, writer of sherlock holmes, was fooled by the fairy scam. the scammers? Two little girls.

Yes, I'm a fan of Arthur Cannon Doyle, and I did hear of it. I have the pictures and story too. He was also seriously searching for the truth in spiritualism. In spiritualism they have people that conduct scams too, but they are some people that are true spiritualist too.

Among all the forgeries you can find some authentic works too.

There will be both in every case. What's the go - are you intending to go into forensics or something? It would be a great career in History and/or criminal areas.

No, I study the human animal, his mind, and his soul. This I do on my own. I'm really studying to be an Art Therapist.

Arthur Cannon Doyle was my first inspiration. I like his Sherlock Holmes stories. I believe that if you search for the truth, in a sincere, and unselfish manner you will find it.

I love Sherlock Holmes for his pure ingenious!! I love all his stories but the Blue Carbuncle and the Spotted Band would be my favourites.

Do you like Agatha Christie as well then? (Love that hercule piriot!)

Yes, and miss marble, and all the others. But Sherlock Holmes has the magic for me. His intelligent deductions really started me thinking about a lot of things.

We both love the human mind and brain and its thought processes, don't we? :wink:

Oh yes, you have no idea how much I love it. Humans, what a wonderful animal, and since they discovered words there is no end to their deadly mischief.*smiles*

People!

The carving is claimed to be 270 million years old. I don't know about your families, but my family was still knuckle-walking across the African savannah.

270 Million years ago, there wasn't an African Savannah, and knuckles were yet a future development.