Is this the find of a lifetime?

Question

I am hoping I found something genuine here and not just a very old replica. I found this EXTREMELY heavy rock about the size and shape of a regular red brick. This rock has a black film coating on it and has hyroglyphic (not sure on spelling) writing on it. It looks like it is the base of a small statue and the figure is broke off. The place where the part that is broke off has a brown/gold colored rock embedded in it. This piece is also VERY magnetic in certain places. I am going to clean it and get pics sometime tonight. I just wanted to describe this early enough when a lot of people may be on. I am hoping someone has heard of something like this.

I appreciate the advice Drew, but if you read my post you can see I addressed that point before you made it. I just wanted to know if anyone has heard of a piece similar to the described. For those who ask to see the pics when I take them, I will gladly send them over.

Answer 1

Interesting.
Where was it found?
In situ or transported?
Be very careful about 'cleaning`.
It might be more advisable to leave that to someone who can evaluate/identify the object.
You could destroy information. if it's magnetic, that
"black film" might well be the origional surface.

Answer 2

No offense meant, but what you should have done was take a picture of it, post the picture somewhere where yahoo answerers can take a look and verify whether it is something that you can say a "find of lifetime" or something that was made for gifts and thrown away after it was broke. Try and do that next time.

Answer 3

Nothing immediately occurs. Take it to a decent natural history museum and show it to the curator.

Answer 4

I would like to recieve an e-mail of the pictures when you get them...most likely it is a modern artifact.