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The Dropa Stones: The 716 Discs That Never Existed

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A Qing-dynasty jade bi disc on display in a museum — a genuine Chinese bi disc of the kind the alleged Dropa discs are often compared with; no verified Dropa disc has ever been photographed

About 4 min readIn 1938, the story goes, archaeologists in a remote Chinese mountain range found 716 stone discs engraved with the tale of aliens who crash-landed 12,000 years ago. No museum has ever held the discs, no expedition has ever been traced, and the paper trail leads somewhere else entirely.