A mid-2008 a team of German archaeologists were excavate a tomb in China, they found an artifact that did not seem to match the time and place where he was. It was a tiny, modern Swiss watch, even had printed the word "Swiss" on its back, confirming their origin. 
This would be unremarkable if not for the tomb where he was found within the tomb of a noble Chinese Ming dynasty, had been sealed at least 400 years earlier.
surprises Although not end there. Carbon-14 analysis of the piece performed at the University of Guan-Xi, reveal the piece was already a relic even in the time he put it inside the tomb, it would have approximately 900 years old, perhaps a family heirloom that this member of the nobility China decided to take the next world.
"So far we have no logical explanation for this," says Viktor Hausbau, director of the excavation and professor of archeology and anthropology at the University of Frankfurt. Most surprising is that experts who analyzed watch the piece, which is being held at 11:41 am, reached the unanimous conclusion that with current technology a device of this size would be impossible to build, even for experts Swiss watchmakers. Is this a gift from a time traveler to Ming? We may never know for sure.
This would be unremarkable if not for the tomb where he was found within the tomb of a noble Chinese Ming dynasty, had been sealed at least 400 years earlier.
surprises Although not end there. Carbon-14 analysis of the piece performed at the University of Guan-Xi, reveal the piece was already a relic even in the time he put it inside the tomb, it would have approximately 900 years old, perhaps a family heirloom that this member of the nobility China decided to take the next world.
"So far we have no logical explanation for this," says Viktor Hausbau, director of the excavation and professor of archeology and anthropology at the University of Frankfurt. Most surprising is that experts who analyzed watch the piece, which is being held at 11:41 am, reached the unanimous conclusion that with current technology a device of this size would be impossible to build, even for experts Swiss watchmakers. Is this a gift from a time traveler to Ming? We may never know for sure.
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