Ancient "Fidget Spinner" – the real story behind!

in history •  8 years ago 

Currently a photo of an ancient object went viral on the internet which was called to be an ancient toy – the first "Fidget Spinner", dating 2000 BCE.

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6qq03z/my_daughter_found_the_worlds_oldest_fidget/

I did some research on the Number A8761 which had to be an inventory number of a museum. So I found out that the Museum of the Oriental Institute in Chicago made some clarification about the real function of this object: it was not a toy at all. It was used for ritual purposes and was a so called "mace head" from a temple in ancient mesopotamia.

Here is the link to the original message of the museum: https://oi.uchicago.edu/article/mace-head-misidentified-fidget-spinner

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