Claims that archaeologists have dug up an 800-year-old object that perfectly resembles a modern-day mobile phone have gone viral online.

Video clips have emerged of the bizarre discovery.

The object, unearthed during a dig in Austria, is allegedly a clay copy of a mobile phone with a Sumerian writing style known as cuneiform on the keys.

YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible reported: "What is it? Is it evidence of an advanced civilisation or time travel?” 

The tablet was dated to around the 13th century BCE. By that time, the Sumerian writing style – usually known as cuneiform - had already been around for a few thousand years.

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