The lack of information on the dig, and the objects similarity to a Nokia mobile phone, have led many people to brand it an 'elaborate hoax'.
Conspiracy website tothedeathmedia.com reported: 'According to reports, during archaeological excavations at Fuschl am See, (in Salzburg), Austria, researchers unearthed a mysterious artefact from the thirteenth century with cuneiform writing that strangely resembles a cell phone. This type of writing is typically found in modern-day Iran or Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia).' ...read more>>>...
OPINION: Why are we such a skeptical and narrow minded race? Why can't we open our minds to the VERY distinct possibility we are NOT on our own in this universe; we are not the first advanced civilisation to be on this planet. There is too much credible evidence out there that paints a totally different picture of our past than the one the conventional science and historian teaches us. Let's be open minded enough to contemplate this actually being a genuine find and that it is evidence of a previous culture or race that used mobile phones to communicate with each other? Why not? It is very very feasible with the high degree of evidence that supports the truth that previous human cultures in the long deliberately forgotten past were more highly advanced than us. Someone somewhere on this planet has had the heads up for decades about advanced technology, and they have been re-introducing it ever so slowly back into our cultures. Modern mobile phones can be a carbon copy of previous model blue prints. Why ever not? I'm open minded enough to consider the possibility without generating the fear that makes the average so skeptical and narrow minded. Can you?