The civilizations of the past could well have had flying machines of all kinds, from the similarities of modern airplanes to vimans and saucer-shaped vehicles.
There are several places in the world that everyone calls the airstrips of ancient civilizations and historians are not at all embarrassed by this. But now more in detail about these places.
I'll start with one of the most important cities of the Mayan civilization - Teotihuacan. One could say about pyramids with a strange platform, as if for landing, but the topic is a little different.
Directly from these pyramids, very close to the ancient city is the so-called "Road of the Dead". As strange as it may seem, this is a straight road 2.5 kilometers long, which just breaks off at one point.
That is, it begins in the ancient Mayan city and does not lead anywhere, which is at least strange and illogical. This is most likely not enough to argue that this road is a runway, but this is just one example.
Move on. Next in line are the Gambia and Yundum Airport, opened at the very end of the 20th century (96), as well as a runway built right on top of the ancient one.
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It so happened that it was there, already to the airport, there was one line with a length of 3.6 kilometers. This line was built from large monolithic stone slabs that were perfectly matched to each other.
In approximately 1996, most of this ancient strip was simply covered with asphalt, while small parts on both sides remained intact. That is, the runway was made slightly smaller than the ancient one.
Of course, no one knows what kind of ancient strip on the site of a modern airport. The funny thing is that the scientists were not even interested in these monolithic slabs, they were simply covered with asphalt.
And the last thing I know about is the stripes on the Nazca plateau. There are no longer any cities and settlements there, compared to the two above-described bands, but everything is done in almost the same form.
From a height you can see that there are several large lines on the Nazca plateau, still several kilometers long. What it was intended for, as well as when it appeared, is also unknown to anyone.
Perhaps in the world somewhere else there are these most ancient "runways" according to my version, but I know only about 3 such places in different parts of the world.
I doubt that any other explanation can be found for such places, other than the purpose of the takeoff acceleration and landing of some aircraft of the past.
Although it's obvious to me, I don't force anyone to believe in this version, so it's everyone's business. But I do not believe that ancient people just made many kilometers of roads that start out of nowhere and lead to nowhere - that would be stupid.