10/7/2009

It’s hard to tell the purpose of the “Ancients” in creating this gold artifact, but it’s amusing to think of all the trouble the Japanese company had deciding what to call this gold geegaw .

Photo from ReutersPictures – 2009 Oct 7….Japan's top bullion house Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo, looks at a gold artifact using 15kg of pure gold in total …more...

Here’s a more mundane definition of “artfact,” but I am sure that somebody thought it would be good for marketing.

Previous 3Yen reports related to the mysteries of the Ancients include:
—Japanese Stargate mysteriously appears in Australia
—Stargate Mt Fuji
—Japanese schoolgirl contemplates the Stargate
—Tokyo Ginza’s Goa’uld Sarcophagus Salon