We are so conditioned to think of ancient man as living in caves, tents or simple stone structures whose most advanced achievment was the ability to domesticate animals, create writing and build pyramids and statues.

A hundred years ago our own technological advances was almost as archaic as ancient man's. A hundred years ago the idea of man flying, let alone reaching the moon, was science fiction. Is it that difficult to imagine a culture acheiving the same technological advances as we have in the last few decades?

Below are a few possible interpretations of the following artifacts and writings.

In progress.

sakiah 8-21-2007
i know that i will get a good grade on this report

IML 5-30-2006
[Concerning the Saqqara "plane"] It is known to be a cross between a bird and a fish representing a soul based on Isis or Ma'at and other feathered representations of spirits/sprites such as the winged Sun. It is one of the deified aspects of creation as is all the rest of Egyptian 'mythology'. Unfortunately, it forms part of the joke culture of 'Is it a bird?' 'Is it a 'plane?' 'Is it a fish?', 'Can you eat it?' and Supermen/Soup-er-men from the Marx Brother's film, Duck Soup (1933). So the fish is from Ptah (Peter) the fisherman (fish-er-man), a fisher of men, and the bird is from Is-is this a woman? (All a bit jokey.) Women are often affectionately referred to as birds in England or by the vulgar term, particularly in America, as a 'bit of tail'. Like Egypt the inference is to be a bird-brain or, as with the ostrich feathers, a feather-head. Vole, vole petite flamme, as with an old flame, being someone of the opposite gender who has inflamed desire. I use a nom de plume (appropriately :) which is - Ian Chattan, Chattan being a collective of clans in Scotland.

Mitchell 7-11-2005
Ancient Man did have put much effort and inspiration in nature and imimated but yes they were advanced .

Rick Davis 11-28-2005
The Old Testament contains numerous descriptions of Cherubs. Most of which indicate that they could fly. The description in Ezekiel 10 is extremely detailed containing such graphic definitions as 'wheels in the midst of a wheel'

Shane S. 8-8-2006
A theory which I have never heard anyone propose, but sounds the most plausible to me, is that considering how sparse the evidence for ancient technology is, and how similar what does exist is to ours I think that people simply recreated things they saw in visions of the future through drawings and carvings.

The Bible is full of people who had visions of future events. Most relevent to these oddities presented here, especially the ones from Egypt, is Joseph who lived in Egypt and was given glimpses of the future.

Perhaps the carvings at Abydos and the other places are simply things someone saw in a dream about events which would happen several thousand years in the future.

This theory gets rid of the need to actually find the buried, fossilized, or hidden and decayed remnants of the technology which is supposed to be represented and takes the evidence at face-value; that these people were artistically recreating an idea in their head. This is all that is required (remember ocam's razor) to explain these ooparts.

Finding a carving of a helicopter doesn't mean one existed at the time the sculptor made a carving of one anymore than finding a drawing of a concept car on a General Motors engineer's desk means the car is already built.