The mainland of Hyperborea is not a myth, but a huge land mass that actually existed in the distant past, which, as a result of some kind of cataclysm, sank in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. More and more researchers are coming to this conclusion, believing that a highly developed civilization managed to emerge on this continent, the descendants of which became our distant ancestors.
Once upon a time it was warm in the North
When you start to say that in the distant past there was a continent in the Arctic Ocean where people lived, numerous animals lived and fruit trees bloomed, most listeners immediately have a completely natural question: “How could this be, if there is only ice and terrible cold ? This question is not surprising, because not everyone knows that in the past the climate in many regions of the planet was completely different: for example, rivers and blue lakes once flowed in the Sahara, vegetation turned green, and numerous animals and birds lived. So in the Arctic, “eternal” ice and cold did not always reign.
Comprehensive studies carried out several years ago in the north of Scotland showed that 4000 years ago the climate at this latitude was not much different from the Mediterranean. This was confirmed by the discovered remains of heat-loving animals, pollen of plants and trees that do not tolerate cold. But a group of scientists led by Catherine Moran from the University of Rhode Island and Ian Beckman from Stockholm University recently found that about 55 million years ago, the ocean temperature in the Arctic reached 23 degrees Celsius! It is hard to believe in it, because such water temperature is observed off the coast of Crimea at the height of the holiday season!
Of course, it is difficult to assume that 55 million years ago there was a developed civilization in the pole area; according to all available data, the Hyperborean civilization in the Arctic, which will be discussed, existed in the days of Ancient Greece. It was about its representatives that Diodorus of Siculus wrote: "The Pterboreans have their own language, but they are very close to the Hellenes, and especially to the Athenians and Delians, supporting this disposition from ancient times." It is unlikely that the ancient Greek historian could write this about a mythical people, everything suggests that the Hyperboreans, like their civilization, really existed. By the way, references to Hyperborea and her powerful people are found in ancient sources in India, Persia and other countries.
I will not go into the details of the discussion about the location of Hyperborea, many researchers believe that the main part of this continent has disappeared under the waters of the Arctic Ocean, however, they believe that traces of the Hyperborean civilization can be found on the Kola Peninsula, in Karelia, in the Polar Urals, Novaya Zemlya, Svalbard, Taimyr Peninsula. There is an assumption that Greenland could be a part of Hyperborea.
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Skeptics point out that all reports about Hyperborea and her civilization refer to either myths or esoteric literature. They do not take seriously the map of Gerardus Mercator, published in 1595, on which Hyperborea was drawn from some ancient sources in the northern polar region. According to skeptics, what is needed is not unfounded, but material evidence of the existence in the past of the Arctic continent and its developed civilization. Do the supporters of Hyperborea have such evidence?
What did Barchenko's expedition find?
Supporters of the existence of Hyperborea and its civilization believe that the first material evidence confirming their views was discovered in the 20s of the XX century by the expedition of Alexander Vasilyevich Barchenko. On February 19, 1923, Krasnaya Gazeta came out with a sensational message: “Prof. Barchenko discovered the remnants of ancient cultures belonging to a period older than the era of the birth of Egyptian civilization. Did this message correspond to reality and what did the expedition of A. V. Barchenko actually find?
In 1922, the expedition went to the Kola Peninsula in the area adjacent to the Lovozero pogost and at that time practically not explored by scientists. Barchenko and his companions went to the very center of Russian Lapland, their tasks included ethnographic, psychophysical and geographical research. One of the important goals of the expedition was to study a mysterious disease - "measuring". Alexander Barchenko actively collaborated with academician Bekhterev and took part in the work of the Institute of the Brain, which is why he was instructed to study this mysterious mental illness. The people struck by it repeated the movements of each other, as if the automatons carried out any commands, behaved like zombies. Barchenko himself set himself another task - to find traces of the legendary Hyperborean civilization,information about which he learned from the study of archival materials.
Already in the first days of the expedition, approaching Seydozero, the researchers discovered a massive rectangular granite stone. It was clearly artificially processed, and it was oriented to the cardinal points. By all indications, its processing was carried out in very ancient times. A little later, the members of the expedition found another rectangular ancient stone. And at Seydozero the Lapps showed them an ancient manhole; unfortunately it was littered with collapsed rock. They tried to enter another hole they discovered, but due to the chilling feeling of horror that arises during the descent into it, all their attempts were unsuccessful. They were content with the fact that the whole team was photographed next to him.
At Seydozero, the researchers were very interested in the dark figure of the "Old Man" or Kuiva, seen on the steep rocky shore, as the locals called this mysterious "drawing". There were also other mysterious formations in the vicinity of Seydozero. Expedition member Alexander Kondiain wrote in his Astronomical Diary: “In one of the gorges we saw a mysterious thing - next to the hermitages, here and there in spots lying on the slopes of the gorge, we could see a yellowish-white column like a giant candle, and next to it a cube stone … On the other side of Mount N one can see a giant cave, 200 yards, and next to it is something like a walled up crypt. " The expedition also discovered a kind of small pyramid made of stones.
The man who gave us back Hyperborea
Even then, the findings of Barchenko's expedition were perceived ambiguously. A skeptic was found who even equipped his expedition, followed in Barchenko's footsteps and said that he had not found any signs of ancient structures. One of the Petrograd newspapers wrote that the expedition of AE Fersman, who had visited the same places in the same year, also "did not find anything archaeological in them." On April 25, 1938, Alexander Barchenko was shot, the finds of his expedition and the alleged traces of Hyperborea in the Russian North were forgotten for a long time.
Perhaps, over the next decades, someone remembered Hyperborea and the findings of Barchenko's expedition, but no one dared to try to secure funds for the search for traces of the “mythical” civilization. Most likely, such an attempt would have ended in failure, but the one who raised such a question would be threatened not only by the ridicule of his colleagues, but also by the loss of his scientific reputation. Everything got off the ground thanks to Valery Nikitich Dyomin, Doctor of Philosophy. In the 90s, he drew attention to the similarity of the local legends of the Kola Peninsula with the Greek ones, and recalled the finds of Alexander Barchenko.
“The very name Hyperborea has come down to us precisely in the ancient Greek transcription,” wrote Demin. - Hyper in translation means "beyond" or "beyond anything." Borey is the north wind. Hyperborea is “the land beyond the Ripaean mountains, beyond the evil north wind Boreas,” as the ancient Roman historian Pliny the Elder describes it. The scientist decided that traces of Hyperborea should be sought on the Kola Peninsula.
It should be noted that, unlike many skeptical scientists, V. N. Dyomin realized the importance of Hyperborea for world history and the study of the roots of human civilization. He wrote: “The ancient northern country, from where all the Indo-European peoples (and not only them) came out, named by the ancient authors Hyperborea, is no less famous than Atlantis. The mysterious country beyond the Arctic Circle had hundreds of cultural and historical threads associated with ancient civilizations. There are more than enough written testimonies of the most authoritative scientists and writers in this regard”.
The northern pyramids are the oldest in the world
Thanks to the enthusiasm of the researcher and his supporters, the expeditions "Hyperborea-97" and "Hyperborea-98" were organized and carried out, which made it possible to find material evidence of the existence of an ancient civilization. Huge hewn slabs of the correct geometric shape, traces of man-made cuts in stones, the remains of an ancient observatory with a 15-meter trench directed towards the sky, fragments of steps, a paved road two kilometers long - all this clearly testified to the presence of a developed civilization in the distant past in our North.
Unfortunately, on November 26, 2006 V. N. Dyomin passed away, but other enthusiasts continued the research he had begun. They write a lot about Hyperborea now, popular science films are made about her search. Since 2000, the Northern Search Expedition of the Scientific Tourism Commission of the Russian Geographical Society began to search for traces of Hyperborea in the Russian North, and since 2005 - a specialized scientific expedition of the International Club of Scientists. Of course, in recent years, the number of finds associated with the Hyperborean civilization has also significantly increased.
For example, in 2007, researchers, following in the footsteps of Demin's expeditions, found two pyramids on the Kola Peninsula and examined them. An unambiguous conclusion was made about their man-made origin. One of the participants who studied these structures said the following: “Analyzes have shown that the pyramids are at least 9000 years old, which means that the culture of the pyramids came from the North. So there is a history behind our country that goes back to the deep antiquity of a great power."
The Kola pyramids, of course, are difficult to compare with the Egyptian ones, they are only about 50 meters high, connected by a bridge and oriented to the cardinal points. It is believed that they could have been used as an observatory for observing the starry sky. Using GPR, voids or cameras were found inside the pyramids; it is not yet clear what they were intended for.
With the help of geophysicists, the 2001 expedition in the Seydozero area at a depth of 4 meters discovered underground cavities with vaults up to 30 meters high, as well as a buried tunnel leading to Mount Ninchurt. In subsequent years, in the Russian North, researchers found more than ten stone labyrinths, a majestic stone throne, ruins of megalithic complexes, pyramids and even a Sphinx statue.
The reports about the finds of ancient inscriptions carved on stones in the ancient Greek language, and especially inscriptions made in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, are amazing! Everything suggests that the Russian North could be the cradle of a number of ancient civilizations. After the cataclysm caused by some unknown reason, the main part of Hyperborea disappeared under water, and the Hyperboreans, driven by the cold, headed south. Their traces can be traced in India and several other countries.
Most likely, the blood of the Hyperboreans also flows in us. Valery Nikitich Dyomin wrote: “There is no doubt that the ancient Hyperborea is directly related to the ancient history of Russia, and the Russian people and their language are directly connected with the legendary country of the Hyperboreans that disappeared or disappeared into the depths of the ocean and land. It is not for nothing that Nostradamus in his Centuries referred to the Russians as the Hyperborean people.