Mystery: A century old Swiss watch found in a 400 year old sealed tomb

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Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years
By CHER THORNHILL

Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago.
They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral.
But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old.
Watch ring
Mystery: Archeologists have uncovered a 100-year-old watch in a tomb believed to have been undisturbed for 400 years
The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.
Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.
The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.

'When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, suddenly a piece of rock dropped off and hit the ground with metallic sound,' said Jiang Yanyu, former curator of the Guangxi Museum.
'We picked up the object, and found it was a ring.
'After removing the covering soil and examining it further, we were shocked to see it was a watch,' he added.
The Ming Dynasty - or the Empire of the Great Ming - was the was ruling dynasty in China from 1368 to 1644.



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[Grand Champ]

Publicity stunt?
Maybe some dude found it first 100 years ago?
Maybe they found a way to make watches in China?

Or maybe... it's midget time travelers from the distant future

[Enayze]

Publicity stunt?
Maybe some dude found it first 100 years ago?
Maybe they found a way to make watches in China?

Or maybe... it's midget time travelers from the distant future

Yes, bingo!

[squealpiggy]

This was five years ago, obviously it didn't make too much of an impact in the scientific world.

Of course the likeliest explanation is that someone already went in the tomb and left the watch there. That is assuming that it is in fact a watch.

[phallus]

This was five years ago, obviously it didn't make too much of an impact in the scientific world.

Of course the likeliest explanation is that someone already went in the tomb and left the watch there. That is assuming that it is in fact a watch.

grave robbers from outer space left their watch in the tomb...as giorgio tsoukalos would say, " aliens did it!"

[Ogecca MaMa]

old news. time travelers, this is just 1 case, out of hundreds.

[Enayze]

This was five years ago, obviously it didn't make too much of an impact in the scientific world.

Of course the likeliest explanation is that someone already went in the tomb and left the watch there. That is assuming that it is in fact a watch.

old news. time travelers, this is just 1 case, out of hundreds.

And here I thought I was onto something new and interesting.

[lovetopunch]

it would have been cool if it were a Swatch.

[Southpaw Stinger]

I got a bigger surprise when I found a DVD player at my Grandma's house.

[New England]

i'm guessing that it's a hoax played out somebody who lived when the watch was contemporary, and that the documentary crew and the men of science got catfished.


maybe they're in on it, doe. nothing says "big time discovery, fame and fortune," like a watch that came from a time machine.