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The aluminium wedge of Aiud (also called the object of Aiud) is a mysterious artifact of uncertain origin in the shape of a wedge, which was found at an archeological site near the Roman town of Aiud, allegedly near by a mammoth skeleton.





DISCOVERY : Back in 1974, near the banks of the

River

Mures

construction workers found a set of three strange objects in the sand 35 feets below. The set of objects include two mastodon bones (M

astodon is an extinct large tusked mammal species)

along side a mysterious

.

Based on it being found in the same layer as the mastodon bones, the wedge is claimed to be at least 11,000 years old, if not millions.









The fact that this wedge-shaped thing is made from aluminum gets many people very excited because, prior to 1825, metallic aluminum effectively did not exist.





Physically, the

aluminum wedge

looked similar to the head of a hammer. The wedge was allegedly taken to the Archeological Institute of Cluj-Napoca to be examined, where it was determined that it weighed 5 pounds, and measured 7.8 inches long, 4.9 inches wide and 2.8 inches thick.





They were also able to discern its composition. The wedge is an alloy composed of 12 different elements. It contains 89% aluminum, as well as 6.2% copper, 2.85% silicon, 1.81% zinc, 0.0003% bismuth, 0.0002% silver, and trace amounts of gallium. The metallic item was also covered in a layer of aluminum oxide.









Theories and B

eliefs:

Pseudoarchaeologists and Ufologists believed that this finding is evidence of extraterrestrial beings visiting Earth in the past.

Floring Gheorgita a known Romanian ufologists believes that this item is actually a landing gear of an alien spacecraft.

The scientific community believes the wedge was made on earth and its purpose is not yet identified. Due to the limited amount of information that exists on the subject, the antiquity and origin of the artifact is unclear.

While some call it evidence of extraterrestrials, others are calling it a hoax. Whatever it is, we may never know.













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