Mainstream archaeology considers this a modern fabrication or artistic reinterpretation. However, its uncanny detail—complete with cockpit-like features, wings, and stabilizers—has drawn comparisons to the controversial Saqqara Bird, a wooden artifact some claim resembles a glider. But unlike the Saqqara Bird, this object bears unmistakable design traits of a 20th-century aircraft, merged bizarrely with pharaonic symbolism.

Could this be a representation of flight mythology lost to time? Or, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, a preserved memory of flying machines witnessed by early civilizations?

The inscriptions—genuine-looking hieroglyphs—amplify the mystery. Were they ceremonial, symbolic, or something more technical? The fusion of modern form with ancient script challenges the linear narrative of human progress.

Perhaps it’s just an elaborate hoax or a thought-provoking art piece. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a clue that history is far stranger than we dare to believe.

Ancient Flyer – The Mystery of Ancient Aircraft

I often find myself wondering about my eyesight and the quality of my perception. I mean, how much of what I see is actually ‘real’ versus an illusion. Technically we have blind spots in our vision where our optic nerve joins the back of our eye, yet our brains interpret and fill that space so we don’t actually have a blind spot in our vision. We monkeys are easily tricked by even the simplest of illusions.

Yet there is one visual mystery  I just can’t believe is a trick. The ancient flyer.

The Ancient Flyer is a sculpture and carving that has been found all over the world. Said to be  thousands of years old and yet, upon looking at it, appears to be an aircraft. No, really!

This post has been on my list for some time, but it wasn’t until my son poked my necklace  and said ‘plane,’ that I remembered. That reaction, the ‘point and plane’ is exactly why I  wanted to write this post in the first place.

The ancient flyer (the image in the тιтle pH๏τo) was first found in Colombia and is believed to have been from the Quimbayan civilisation 300-1550CE. The reason it caused so much controversy is because it was originally thought to be an insect – much like the other golden sculptures from that era. However, no insect has its wings attached to the bottom of its body, nor do they have upright tail fins or stabilisers as the sculpture does. Weird, right?!

Here’s a three minute video giving you some more info from experts including a snippet where some German engineers made a large scale replica in 1994 and flew it…