2000-Year-Old Romanian Fort Has Disappeared.

A polished metal monolith that was recently left near an ancient site in Romania – you’re presumably familiar with this sort of thing by now – has vanished once again.

A huge undescribed metal block was found in the desert of Utah earlier this month, but then vanished and mysteriously reappeared – or at least one very close to it – near a Dacian fort in the Neamt county of Romania.
Now for a second time, it’s just gone and died.

What’s the matter with that thing? It’ll actually turn out to be some kind of viral media advertising campaign, but we can at least enjoy the suspense before then, can’t we?
The monolith was gone, a Romanian journalist named Robert Iosub reported, telling Reuters: “The 2.8 metre (9ft) tall structure disappeared overnight as quietly as it was erected last week.”
The Romanian system and the one that was tossed up in Utah had some notable differences.

For a start, the workmanship on this European edition seems to have been a little slipshod, rather than the slick and almost flawless style of the first obelisk.
Iosub went on to demonstrate that beneath the new monolith, there is apparently a local hypothesis to be identified.
He said local reporters had said, “An unidentified person, apparently a bad local welder, made it… Now all that remains is just a small hole covered by rocky soil.”
This sheet metal monolith, he said, seemed to have a poorly connected edge on one side.

Now the police are going to take a look at what happened. They certainly have as many opportunities as all of us have to figure out what has really been going on this entire time, to be honest.

Police spokeswoman for Piatra Neamt, Georgiana Mosu, said officers are now undertaking an inquiry into the sculpture that had been illegally erected.

It was unlawfully placed there and it is a protected archaeological area that has been trapped in the earth. Remember the ancient fortress we mentioned?

It’s unbelievably possible, either way, that we haven’t heard the last one in this monolith company.

Loads of people have argued that it – at least the Utah one – resembles a monolith from the classic 2001 film by Stanley Kubrick: A Space Odyssey, which may be more to do with a rebooted version of that but we’re just going to have to wait and see.

Enjoy the mono-madness before then.