Saed News: A rusty hammer trapped inside a hard rock… Could this simple tool have existed millions of years ago?! From the very first day of its discovery, the London Hammer came with a mysterious question: How was a metal tool found inside an apparently ancient rock? But the scientific explanation turns everything upside down…
Saed News Historical Report: In 1936, an American couple named Max and Emma Hahn, while walking near a river in Texas, came across a strange rock. Later, when they broke it open, a rusty hammer appeared inside the stone. The curious part of the story was not the hammer itself, but the rock that surrounded it — a rock said to belong to the Cretaceous period, meaning between 100 and 145 million years ago [Kuban, NCSE].
This discovery sparked a controversial theory:
Could an unknown civilization in prehistoric times have produced such an advanced metal tool?
Or even… did humans live alongside dinosaurs?
However, a closer look by geologists changed the story.
The Mystery of the Tool’s Petrification
Experts like Brian Dunning from Skeptoid and the TalkOrigins team believe what was introduced as an ancient stone is likely the result of a natural process called concretion. In this phenomenon, minerals accumulate around an object over a short period (decades or centuries) and encase it [Skeptoid, 2007] – [TalkOrigins].
Based on these analyses, the hammer likely dates back to the 19th century, not millions of years ago.
Metal Analysis Revealed the Time
Tests on the hammer’s metal showed a composition of 96.6% iron, 2.6% chlorine, and 0.74% sulfur — a formula consistent with metalworking methods common in 19th century America [Kuban, NCSE].
These scientific evidences weaken supernatural hypotheses about the hammer’s age. But the question remains: why was such a hammer buried inside a hard rock? And why did the discovering family not share exact details about the location?
The Mystery Remains
Maybe it’s just an ordinary tool from 150 years ago... or maybe we still don’t know everything about the past.
In a world full of buried wonders, sometimes even a hammer can tell a story from the depths of time.