The mysterious Atlantis is searched for in different parts of the world. Recently possible traces of this ancient civilization have been discovered on the island of Malta
ON THE WORLD MAP, the island looks like a bold dot. 27 by 14 kilometers - many European cities are larger than this state. However, in terms of the number of wonders and mysteries, the country, lost at the sea crossroads of the Mediterranean Sea, can compete with the great powers.
The rails gone crazy
ONE of the most incredible mysteries is the ruts that cross both the whole of Malta and the second largest island of Gozo. Unlike rails that can withstand a standard track width, stone ruts bifurcate, creep over one another, suddenly disappear and suddenly reappear as if from nowhere.
And the road itself is not a road at all. Either a hillock rises in the middle of the track, or a gap gapes. The width of one "rail" ranges from 15 to 25 centimeters, the depth of the track is from 10 to 70 centimeters, which means that the diameter of the wheel that moved along this road should reach two meters. How to imagine a vehicle with such walking parameters?
Finally, there is no road-laying logic whatsoever. Either the tracks can break off, then they can start from an arbitrary place, then one rests perpendicularly against the other. And in some places, as, for example, on the pier of the town of Birzebbuja, stone paths go straight into the sea and continue along the bottom.
In the late 19th century, the Maltese architect George Grone de Wasse substantiated the idea that Malta could be the remnant of the sunken Atlantis. Later, underwater archaeologists found remnants of walls and the same ruts on the seabed.
Everything converges if we return to the theory of the giants that inhabited the Earth. Only they were able to move multi-ton monoliths and push hard stone. Another question is why? The answer will be found when specialists scan from the air all the "strokes in stone" applied to the surface of both islands - Malta and Gozo. Perhaps then the tracks will form a single picture. Considering that Malta is clearly visible from near-earth orbit, ancient craftsmen could use such a convenient "canvas" in the very middle of the Mediterranean Sea for messages to fellow minds from space.
"Narrow gauge railway" to the temple
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WHAT do scientists think about strange furrows?
The curator of archaeological research at the Malta Heritage Department, Katya Stroud, referred to the opinion of the reputable archaeologist from Cambridge, David Trump: this is a transport system for the delivery of multi-ton stone blocks for the construction of temples (there are 23 of them in Malta today, and there were probably much more). Near each temple there are stone balls with a diameter of about half a meter. The scientist considers them to be devices for rolling blocks. But the cross section of each track is a "trough", and by no means a semicircle, as the balls would require. And will the limestone balls withstand the pressure of ten-ton boulders? And if, suppose, they can stand it, how can the lumps be delivered along the confused routes?
Katya Stroud is inclined to think that these are traces left by the carts of ancient farmers. But Malta is covered in stone. Try to push it with wheels! Which, by the way, at the time of the creation of the mysterious stripes - 6-7 thousand years ago - simply did not exist.
The largest Maltese archaeologist, professor at the local university, Anthony Bonanno, believes that at least 90% of all depressions pass near the temples of the new Stone Age. This means that the paths were required for their construction.
However, Dr. Bonanno also admits the Roman origin of the Maltese furrows. In this case, the track builders could use metal. But, having searched dozens of ruts with my hand, I did not find a single trace of a chisel - the slopes of the paths are everywhere smooth and smooth, as if limestone was once soft, like plasticine.
The only thing that scientists know is that the tracks are contemporaries of the Maltese temples built of giant stones. How they were broken down, delivered to the construction site, laid down is no less a mystery than the "stone rails".