The Mystery of the 5,000-Year-Old Disc That Rewrites the Past

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Imagine finding an ancient artifact so strange that even experts can't agree on what it was used for! 🤯 That’s the Sabu Disc, a mysterious 5,000-year-old object discovered in an Egyptian tomb. Made of fragile metaschist stone, it looks like a modern machine part with curved blades and a precise circular shape—something you wouldn’t expect from an ancient civilization. Some believe it was a ritual object, while others think it might have had an advanced practical purpose, like a spinning tool or even a lost technology! 🔍⚙️ The mystery deepens because nothing else quite like it has ever been found. Could it be proof that ancient Egyptians knew more than we thought? 🤔   Credit: Unknown Author / Reddit Unknown Author / Reddit Peachy-Persimmons / Reddit MoquiMarble1: By Paul Heinrich, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3691420 Petrified wood: By Auckland Museum Collections - https://flic.kr/p/2heAw26, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109342680 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: Concretions: By CanyoneerJon, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129792022 Fossilised wood: By Du Hugin Skulblaka, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106072219 Digging for living: By Kareemtarekk, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64204091 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0: Sabu Disc: By ahmedadly/sketchfab, https://skfb.ly/ovBYt Egyptian Cat: By Mathias/sketchfab, https://skfb.ly/6AYus Ancient Egypt Pack: By suspishus/sketchfab, https://skfb.ly/oHrSF Schist, USA: By Sara Carena/sketchfab, https://skfb.ly/onWDo Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV   Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00In 1936, British Egyptologist Walter Brian Emery found a small object in the desert that

00:07made people debate whether it was an elaborate stone model of a flying saucer or even a hyperdrive

00:14from a spaceship that belonged to some advanced civilization that visited the Earth.

00:20Emery spent years excavating sites along the Nile River Valley, especially in the huge

00:25ancient necropolis of Saqqara.

00:29He found countless treasures from ancient Egypt, and the most bizarre one was definitely

00:33from the tomb of a high official, Sabu.

00:37Historians don't know exactly who he was for sure.

00:40Some sources say he was a king's son.

00:43His burial at Saqqara means he was an important figure in the royal court.

00:47There are no records from this early period he lived in, so Sabu's role and fate are still

00:53a mystery.

00:56Inside his tomb, scientists found seven funerary chambers, each filled with traditional grave

01:01goods, animal bones, flint tools, pottery, ivory objects, and stone bowls.

01:12And then there was a strange, broken artifact that became famous as the Disc of Sabu.

01:19It resembles a shallow, round-bottomed bowl, but with three delicately carved, curved lobes

01:24spaced roughly 120 degrees apart around its perimeter.

01:29These lobes are separated by three holes, and at the center there's a thin tube.

01:37The material used to build the disc is meta-siltstone, or schist.

01:42This type of rock is fragile, highly porous, and super difficult to carve.

01:46It flakes easily and crumbles under pressure.

01:51So how they made the disc out of it with rather simple stone and copper tools from 3000 BCE

01:57is still a mystery.

02:00The next big question is why they decided to bury Sabu with it.

02:06Perhaps if we knew its true purpose, it would make more sense.

02:10When it was first discovered, archaeologists thought it was nothing more than a vase, an

02:14incense burner, or a ceremonial decoration.

02:17But those who took a closer look from the point of view of an engineer decided it could

02:22actually be a component of a larger mechanism.

02:27An amateur historian made an exact copy of the artifact with a 3D printer, and it turned

02:32out that the Disc of Sabu was an ancient impeller, a crucial part of a centrifugal pump.

02:39When they put it in a housing and span at high speeds using the small central shaft,

02:44the disc was able to displace water.

02:47When it was tested without a housing, the disc created a powerful vortex.

02:53It became clear that the curved lobes and slightly concave shape of the disc weren't random.

02:59It was probably all engineered to move water with remarkable efficiency, like a powerful

03:04pump mechanism.

03:07Ancient Egypt's entire civilization depended on irrigation.

03:11Later dynasties perfected basin irrigation and managed to control the rise and fall of

03:17the Nile to take the most from agriculture.

03:21So the engineers of the first dynasty may have been experimenting with advanced irrigation

03:26techniques thousands of years earlier than scientists previously thought.

03:32But then again, some people have doubts schist is strong enough to be used for a pumping

03:37mechanism.

03:38They suggest that artisans from Egypt's first dynasty were trying to recreate an even older

03:44object, using whatever tools and materials they had.

03:48It could be a stone replica of something originally made from metal, possibly belonging to a civilization

03:54far older and more advanced than ancient Egypt itself.

04:00One Swiss author takes this idea even further and proposes that the disc is a copy of a

04:05component from an extraterrestrial spaceship's hyperdrive, or stone model of a flying saucer.

04:13One French researcher believes the disc of Sabu was part of a secret massive factory

04:18system to manufacture sodium carbon inside pyramids.

04:22Some people suggest that the disc may have been a primitive tool for weaving ropes.

04:28The lobes held strands of silk or fiber that were twisted into twine when it was spun.

04:34Or it may have been a gigantic lamp.

04:39Another historical mystery is a map from 1513 that is believed to be the oldest surviving

04:44detailed map showing the Americas.

04:48The author of the map is a Turkish captain, Piri Reis.

04:52He never crossed the ocean himself and put together this map from 20 regional maps.

04:58He used an Arab map of India, four Portuguese maps showing India and China, and a map of

05:05America by Christopher Columbus as he saw it.

05:09This last map was lost for many years, so Reis' map gave us an idea of what Columbus

05:15must have recorded during his third voyage to the New World.

05:19A historian who studied the map suggested that it showed Antarctica in prehistoric times

05:25because it strangely resembled Antarctica's true coastline the way it looked when it was

05:30free of ice.

05:32But it was later proven that this idea wasn't right.

05:37Another idea that rocked the science world was Klerksdorp spheres.

05:41They were found in deposits of mineral periphalate in South Africa and looked like tiny ancient

05:46cricket balls with lines around the middle.

05:51Back in the 1980s, there was a theory that some super-advanced pre-flood civilization

05:55we know nothing about had made these spheres.

05:59One journalist shared stories about how they rotated on their own in a display case.

06:06There was also a TV show that invited a psychic who was telling everyone the spheres were

06:11pieces of an ancient spaceship.

06:14But according to geologists, these spheres are pretty regular spherical objects formed

06:19from different minerals than the surrounding rock.

06:23The seam-like lines on them are just imprints from the host rock's layers building up

06:28over time.

06:29The Klerksdorp spheres come in different shapes, from flattened spheres to distinct disks.

06:36As for that episode when one of these spheres spun on its own, the curator of the Klerksdorp

06:41museum cleared that up too.

06:44He said that when he put one sphere on its glass shelf when the journalist came to visit,

06:48the sphere rotated a bit because it's round.

06:52There are some gold mining activities going on nearby, so the land where the museum stands

06:57often experiences earth tremors.

07:00In a remote part of China, there are some bizarre pipe-like formations known as the

07:05Beigon Pipes.

07:08A local explorer found them back in 1996 protruding from Mount Beigon and along the shores of

07:15Tosan Lake nearby.

07:18Some people thought they were the work of ancient guests from other planets.

07:23When scientists tested samples of the pipe material, they found out that they contained

07:28mostly common minerals, but there was a mysterious 8% of unknown stuff.

07:34Some extra tests showed that these pipes had been there before humans.

07:38Chinese geologists later visited the site and suggested that these pipes were formed

07:43naturally over time.

07:46It was probably fossilized tree roots from the area's super green past.

07:50It's still a real mystery with no clear-cut answer.

07:55While digging a trench along a river in Romania, workers found a wedge, which is now famous

08:01as the Aluminum Wedge of Ajut, or the Object of Ajut.

08:07Right next to it, there were some mastodon bones.

08:10Those distant relatives of elephants lived 11,000 years ago, so some people concluded

08:16the wedge is of the same age.

08:19The cool part is that it's made of aluminum, but this metal wasn't discovered until the

08:231800s.

08:25This material requires serious heat to produce.

08:29The wedge is said to be covered in a thick layer of oxide that's been sitting there for

08:34hundreds of years.

08:36Some folks believe this wedge must have crash-landed here on a spacecraft from some other planet.

08:42Some scientists think it's all a hoax, and others suppose it might be a human-made object

08:48with an unknown purpose.

08:52That's it for today!

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