ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A metal monolith who mysteriously appeared on a field in southeastern Turkey has now disappeared, Turkish media reported on Tuesday, four days after it was discovered.
The three-meter-high (about 10 feet high) metal plate with an ancient Turkish script was found by a farmer in Sanliurfa province on Friday. It was discovered near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Gobekli Tepe, home to megalithic structures dating from the 10th millennium BC, thousands of years before Stonehenge.
However, the shiny structure was reported to have disappeared on Tuesday morning, days after authorities said they had investigated its occurrence by examining television footage of closed circuits and searching for vehicles that may have transported it to the site.
It was not immediately clear whether it had been taken down by the authorities. Officials at the Sanliurfa governors’ office were not immediately available for comment.
The state-run Anadolu agency quoted the owner of the field as saying he was surprised by its occurrence and disappearance.
“We do not know if it was placed on my field for marketing purposes or as an advertisement,” Anadolu Fuat quoted Demirdil. ‘We saw that the metal block was no longer in place. Residents also can not solve the mystery of the metal block. ”
The agency also quoted local resident Hasan Yildiz as saying the block was still at the field Monday night, but disappeared that morning.
According to reports, the monolith had an inscription that read: ‘Look at the sky, you will see the moon’ in the ancient Turkish Gokturk alphabet.
Other mysterious monoliths have also appeared and some have disappeared in numerous countries over the past few months.
Gobekli Tepe was the setting for the Turkish Netflix mystery series ‘The Gift’.