Unveiling the Real Carpet of Prophet Solomon + Years-Old Document Reveals His Story

According to Saed News’ society section, citing the Young Journalists Club, a fascinating story about the discovery of the secret behind Solomon’s carpet has recently circulated on social media. We investigated its authenticity.

The Rumor:
"The Discovery of Solomon’s Flying Carpet"
In 2007 (1386 in the Iranian calendar), three major universities—Oxford, Harvard, and a German university—allegedly launched a joint project to study an anti-gravity element called “graviton,” reportedly detected on asteroids by the Hubble Space Telescope. Two years into the research, satellite imagery of Earth supposedly revealed locations where the element could be found: the Najd desert in Saudi Arabia, a desert in China, and the Rig-e Jenn Desert in Iran.

A research team from the three universities reportedly spent three years examining the sands of Saudi Arabia and China, but found no trace of the element. The only remaining option was Iran’s Rig-e Jenn Desert. However, under the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, foreign access to Iran was restricted. The story claims that Oxford University contacted the British ambassador in Iran, who discussed the matter with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (referred to as Jafari-Jozani in the text). Panahi supposedly coordinated with the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization at the time, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, resulting in a temporary loan of Cyrus the Great’s charter from the British Museum to allow two months of scientific research in Iran.

The narrative continues that an Iranian archaeologist joined the team and discovered that ancient Iranians had known about this anti-gravity element 2,500 years ago. According to the story, the Cyrus Garden (Paradise Garden) was constructed by excavating a massive pit, filling it with sands transported from Rig-e Jenn, planting mulberry trees, and introducing silkworms. The anti-gravity element supposedly transferred from sand to leaves, then to silkworms, and finally into silk, which was woven into carpets. These carpets, the rumor claims, could levitate, move in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, and were gifts from Cyrus to King Solomon, who allegedly misused the secret to mass-produce them.

The Reality Check:

1. No credible sources verify the claimed research project or its details.

2. The graviton is a hypothetical massless particle proposed as a carrier of gravitational energy. Observing it, imaging it, or pinpointing specific locations on Earth containing it is scientifically impossible.

3. There is no evidence of clay tablets proving ancient Iranians knew about gravitons. Their discovery, location, and content remain unverified.

4. Mulberry trees and most plants cannot grow in pure sand without soil. If the sand had anti-gravity properties, why didn’t it float itself?

5. The scenario is scientifically and logically implausible. Even if the element transferred from sand to silk, why weren’t flying platforms made from trees or mulberries? How could the carpets be controlled in the air?

6. King Solomon lived around 1300–1100 BCE, before the Achaemenid Empire and contemporaneous with early Aryan migration into Iran. Thus, he and Cyrus the Great were not contemporaries.

7. Claims that Solomon broke a divine promise contradict religious texts, which describe prophets as infallible. Also, carpets requiring such rare materials and complex technology could not be reproduced elsewhere.

8. Islamic scripture attributes Solomon’s swift travel to divine command over the wind, not magical carpets: “We subjected the wind to Solomon, traveling at his command to cover a month’s journey in the morning and another month in the afternoon” (Quran, Saba, 34:12).

Conclusion:
The story of Solomon’s flying carpet, while captivating, is a myth combining science fiction with historical and religious elements. Reality, not rumor, honors both scientific rigor and ancient history.