Users on social networks were surprised by an almost 90-year-old image that is supposed to confirm the existence of time travel. , because many people believe that one of the figures on it is holding a modern smartphone. But what is the truth?
- The picture from 1937 was painted by the Italian artist Umberto Romano.
- The work depicts the arrival of settlers in American Springfield in the seventeenth century.
- One indigenous figure in the painting is holding a rectangular object resembling a smartphone.
- Internet users are speculating that this may be evidence of time travel.
Image with title Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield painted by Italian artist Umberto Romano in 1937. The work depicts the arrival of settlers to the American town of Springfield in the 1720s. In it you can notice a white man in pink clothes named William Pynchon surrounded by several Native Americans.
But the picture did not gain popularity because of its quality or the accuracy of the scene. Many people remembered him for one detail, which is located in the lower right part of the work. It is one of the natives holding a strange rectangular object resembling a smartphone. It looks like you are taking a selfie.
Unsurprisingly, this confused users as such technology did not exist at the time the scene took place or when the image was created by Romano. One commenter even joked that the native was posting on social media when the settlers arrived. “The guy in the picture is just posting what’s going on around him. He thought no one would notice,” he wrote.
The picture was painted by Umberto Romano in 1937.
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Skeptics, on the other hand, think that time travel is unlikely. Editor Brian Anderson offered a more realistic explanation. “There is reason to believe that what the man is examining is not an indigenous object. Rather, it is a thing of European origin, such as a mirror, which was often exchanged at such meetings. The way the man is holding it, if he is really looking at his reflection, would definitely make sense“, he stated.
