We’ve seen several instances before, which hint at ancient civilizations possessing knowledge or access to advance technologies beyond their means – technical knowledge and devices that would not have been invented for tens of thousands of years. Now, another interesting case popped up this week. An ancient Greek sculpture shows a young girl holding what looks like a modern-day laptop, while the woman can be seen touching the ‘lid’ or if we may, a laptop monitor. The sculpture is housed in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.

Although historians claim that the slave girl appears to be holding a small chest, paranormal researchers claim that the funerary sculpture, dated to about 100 B.C., actually shows the slave or servant girl of a Greek lady holding up a laptop while the lady views the monitor.

Conspiracy theorists StillSpeakingOut explain how the sculpture clearly shows a modern laptop or a hand-held device with USB ports. They further explain how the structure is too narrow to pass as a jewelry box, and it doesn’t match the descriptions of a Pandora Box either.

Then researchers proposed the object was a wax tablet, an ancient device coated in wax with which a stylus was used to write on. But paranormal investigators argue that the object depicted in the sculpture does not match depictions of wax tablets (The object was too thick to be a traditional wax tablet) in other examples of Greek art.

The image above shows a vase painting from around 500 B.C. The painting depicts a man with a wax tablet. Note that the man is holding a stylus used for writing on wax tablets while the woman in the sculpture is not holding one.

This further points the woman may be using a ‘touchscreen’ device!

And since the object comes with two gaping holes – that were amiss in ancient wax tablets and jewelry boxes alike – that the theorists believe to be USB ports, it just makes their argument stronger.

What do you think about it? Did the Greeks have internet at that time only? Express your views in the comment section below!