I can't wait to hear what Melodi has to say about this find!
I just watched it - what a mad combination of speculation and "maybe!" and "how else?"
I don't want to write 20 pages, but let's start with, it makes a huge difference if this was a 1,000-year-old find (almost the modern era) or 12,000 years ago (where a lot of the really weird Vedic and Eurasian stuff like Gobekli Tepe comes from).
A thousand years ago China (very near Cambodia) was on the verge of an industrial revolution that came very close to having us 1,000 years ahead in technology and everyone speaking Chinese as the main world language.
Heck, they had early steel factories, gun powder, industrial silk wheels and the Emperor had a totally modern functioning water toilet that was placed (and set up in his tomb in case he needed to take his "ease" in the afterlife - then pull the chain and flush).
There are geopolitical and cultural reasons the Chinese (or their neighbors) didn't jump from steel foundries to a true industrial age but they could have, so could the Romans for that matter. Wolf has a friend working in the Roman military archives (it will take decades to translate them all) and he found a proposal for an internal combustion engine and it would have worked! But the superior of the inventor thought that as a weapon it was too "out there" and told him to design a new seige engineer or something.
Oh and a thousand years ago, China had a printing press too, there is one of two or three still in existing in the Gutenberg Museum in Germany where it has its own room (I've seen it) and admits that the Chinese invented it first.
OK that entire background sums up what I am about to say:
Even if (and that's a very long stretch) these ARE parts of a "crystal radio" or telegraph set up, IF they are only 1,000 years old there is absolutely no reason they could not have been a military or temple "secret" used to send something like Morris Code, to send intelligence back and forth to some other temple or general in the field.
If we find ANOTHER temple with the same sort of set up or the ruins of a such a machine, I'd get really suspicious that like the steam-powered doors in Alexandrian Greece that wowed the public by opening using hidden engines under the doors (but untouched by human hands); that this was in fact going on - about a thousand years before the telegraph wires stretched across the old West.
Other explanations? Well, there were wires, pots and weird stuff found in ancient Iraq that made up a perfectly usable electrical battery, in fact during one of the Gulf Wars and young engineer made a copy of it and used it to charge the mobile phones and radios when the West "bombed Iraq back to the stone age," except by the Bronze Age Iraq had electrical batteries, but probably used them mostly in medicine and maybe to make jewelry.
Bronze wire was used for everything you can imagine since the "Bronze Age," and I believe wire and crystals could be used to make jewelry, I know next to nothing about South-Asian archeological finds on this topic, but just finding wires, pretty crystals, and a weird pitch-fork could be "precious" items stashed away for future jewelry or other temple decorations, just as easily as it could be a primitive radio.
The frequency depiction (if correct) might suggest some experimentation with wires and early batteries or radios, I mean you can watch frequencies making sand patterns (or using other materials) in many Youtube videos from various frequencies, people experimenting around with such things usually figure this out early on. This is why I think looking for other sites and some reconstructive archeology (like the Bagdad Battery) might be in order.
But finally, what really had me rolling on the floor laughing (and I'm sorry but really put me in doubt of this guy's information, not his sincerity just his conclusions) is Why Aliens?
What does he mean, this "has" to be to receive signals from outer space? It isn't like the telegraph and later the radio was invented to listen to space signals, that came about a lot later in the game.
Again, 12,000 years ago, well I still wouldn't say it had to be, but I'd be more curious in the context given some of the Vedic material and other suggestions, but it is still a stretch.
Much more likely would be, if this really is a telegraph or simple radio, it was a "temple" or "military" secret used to send boring messages like: "This year's grain offerings were XYZ..." or "The enemy is located here."
Imagine if the Emperor's spymaster had such a hidden telegraph, and could monitor parts of the great wall?
Sadly, since this is the first time that I know of, such a find has happened and since they are not all over the place; if this technology did exist, it isn't likely to have been widespread.
So once again, how old is this find really? And is there any other finds that put it in any kind of context?
OK hope that helps....
