The Ustyurt plateau is located on the territory of the republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Until now, this place remains one of the most unexplored on the planet.
The area of Ustyurt is more than 200 thousand km, and the height of the plateau is 180-300 meters. The earth is everywhere dotted with gaps and cracks, and the cliffs (chinks) bordering the plateau, up to 300 meters high, evoke awe and resemble pictures of deserted planets from science fiction films. Climbing the plateau is possible only in a few places. The territory is a continuous desert without water bodies and permanent rivers. The climate of Ustyurt is extremely harsh and inhospitable: in winter the air temperature drops to -40 degrees, and in summer it sometimes reaches + 60. Local residents say about Ustyurt: “this desert is so empty that you can't even meet an enemy here”, and one expedition of scientists in the sixties XX century got lost on the plateau and they could not be found for 10 days.
In ancient times, the plateau was not deprived of people's attention. Scientists have discovered 60 sites of ancient people of the Neolithic era here, as well as traces of the presence of the Scythian and Mongol tribes. The ancient trade routes connecting Asia with Europe passed through the plateau, including one of the most important branches of the Great Silk Road. To this day, architectural monuments of the ancient period have been preserved here, such as the ancient dilapidated arch of the Beliuli caravanserai, the ruins of the once impregnable fortress Alan-Kala disappearing into the sands, a huge number of burial grounds and cemeteries of the more ancient period with mausoleum-minarets and underground temples.
The Ustyurt plateau is located on the territory of the republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Until now, this place remains one of the most unexplored on the planet.
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The area of Ustyurt is more than 200 thousand km, and the height of the plateau is 180-300 meters. The earth is everywhere dotted with gaps and cracks, and the cliffs (chinks) bordering the plateau, up to 300 meters high, evoke awe and resemble pictures of deserted planets from science fiction films. Climbing the plateau is possible only in a few places. The territory is a continuous desert without water bodies and permanent rivers. The climate of Ustyurt is extremely harsh and inhospitable: in winter the air temperature drops to -40 degrees, and in summer it sometimes reaches + 60. Local residents say about Ustyurt: “this desert is so empty that you can't even meet an enemy here”, and one expedition of scientists in the sixties XX century got lost on the plateau and they could not be found for 10 days.
mysterious Ustyurt plateau
In ancient times, the plateau was not deprived of people's attention. Scientists have discovered 60 sites of ancient people of the Neolithic era here, as well as traces of the presence of the Scythian and Mongol tribes. The ancient trade routes connecting Asia with Europe passed through the plateau, including one of the most important branches of the Great Silk Road. To this day, architectural monuments of the ancient period have been preserved here, such as the ancient dilapidated arch of the Beliuli caravanserai, the ruins of the once impregnable fortress Alan-Kala disappearing into the sands, a huge number of burial grounds and cemeteries of the more ancient period with mausoleum-minarets and underground temples.
secrets of Ustyurt
The so-called “arrows of Ustyurt” are considered the main mystery of the plateau. These are ancient structures that have never been encountered by archaeologists before. They represent calculations made of crushed stone up to 80 cm high. The base resembles a bag from which two arrows with pronounced tips emerge. Each arrow is 800-900 m long and 400-600 m wide, and all of them are directed to the north-east. Their exact purpose is still not clear, because because of their gigantic size, arrows cannot be seen from the ground by a pedestrian or a rider on a horse or camel. They were able to detect these arrows only in 1986 during aerial photography.
According to one version, these structures were intended to collect water in these arid regions, according to another - for corraling livestock, but there are more interesting versions.
So archaeologists have established that the arrows were erected much earlier than the appearance of the first human settlements in this area, and the settlements were located south of the mysterious complex. During archaeological excavations, skeletons of fish were discovered in the area, which suggests that there was once a sea here, the waters of which went to the northeast, where the arrows point. Perhaps arrows indicate the direction of the outgoing water. But for whom are these giant pointers that cannot be seen from the surface of the earth?
Not far from the arrows, scientists discovered stone-carved figures of animals similar to giant turtles, which were also directed to the northeast, as well as many small pyramids of rough stone, reminiscent of the Egyptian pyramids. Moving further in the indicated direction, an absolutely straight road of the same stone was found, laid out in the endless expanses of the desert.
There is a bold opinion that this entire stone complex, built by unknown builders from antiquity, is nothing more than a cosmodrome. Science cannot prove it or not, but even today, inexplicable phenomena often occur on the Ustyurt plateau, such as bright glow in the sky, mirages that appear in the daytime and at night, which have been repeatedly observed by local residents and lovers of everything mysterious and aspiring here. inexplicable.