Ica stones are stones from andesite, weighing from 15 grams to 1.5 tons, which are boulders with drawings applied on them. The stones are said to have been found near the city of Ica in Peru. The stones depict scenes from the life of the Indians who previously inhabited this land. The mystery lies in the images themselves, in which you can see something that does not at all correspond to the modern understanding of the history of the world.
The history of the discovery of Ica stones
In 1961, after the flood of the Ica River, local "black" Peruvian archaeologists, who are called "huqueros", began active excavations in search of gold and various ancient artifacts that can be sold. Excavations were carried out in the area inhabited by the ancient cultures of Nazca, Ica, Paracas. Among the first collectors and explorers of Ica stones were the architect Santiago Augusto Calve and the brothers Pablo and Carlos Soldi.
A direct descendant of the Spanish conquistador, the founder of the city of Ica, Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera and Toleda, professor of medicine and dean of the medical faculty of the University of Lima Javier Cabrera, founded the museum of stones in the city of Ica, which made the Ica stones famous throughout the world. It all started with a stone that was presented to him on his 42nd birthday, in 1966. A cross-finned fish was depicted on the stone, which amazed the professor a lot. And when he bought some stones from the Soldi brothers, he found scenes of organ transplant operations on them.
Cabrera found that the images on the stones, which he called gliptolites, could be arranged in a series of 6 to 200 drawings. Moreover, as the plot developed, the size of the stones, as a rule, increased. One of the episodes depicted a heart transplant from a young man to an old man, including the process of subsequent rehabilitation by connecting tubes to the circulatory system of a pregnant woman. In his opinion, such series could make up a whole library, as if someone wanted to transfer knowledge to us. Also, Jose Cabrera discovered a strange feature of the stones: they have a higher density than untreated andesite, and besides, they break easier.
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Cabrera passed away in 2001, and the museum is open to the public today. More than 11,000 stones are represented in his collection. The villagers, in gratitude for the medical assistance, brought stones to the professor, and of course many of them are fakes. Today, scientists have to determine which of the stones are genuine, and what is the solution to their secrets.
Contradictory images
All the main mysteries of the Ica stones are hidden in the drawings depicted on them.
Images of dinosaurs, both known to science and completely unfamiliar. Some dinosaurs are depicted with people, and there are even people riding the dinosaurs. As you know, dinosaurs became extinct about 60 million years ago, the remains of the first man were found about 200 thousand years ago.
Images of animals of the Holocene fauna that became extinct during the last glaciation. Giant sloth, deer, kangaroo, horse, camel - these animals became extinct in South America long before the appearance of man. However, in some images, people ride them, and even in a team.
Images of inventions not known to the Indians. Wheeled carts, flying machines, magnifiers, telescopes, which are used to observe comets.
Images of surgical operations. Caesarean section, blood transfusion, and even organ transplantation, which is still an evolving science. And trepanning of skulls during the Paracas cultures was widely practiced, as evidenced by archaeological finds. Moreover, it is strange that all this is done with primitive tools, including scissors, similar to modern ones.
Images of ancient continents with modified contours. There are also unknown continents on such stones. In addition, all continents are drawn stylized as inhabited by people and animals, and people are divided by profession and class.
Image of geoglyphs of the Nazca desert. Moreover, it is strange that a man with a telescope was often depicted next to them.
The people depicted have a strange body proportion - the head is very large. Plus, they look as big as dinosaurs. This may only be a technique for depicting ancient artists, but it may not be.
Image of space objects: stars, comets, and strange flying machines.
Evidence for authenticity
Of course, in the collection of Ica stones, there are a lot of fakes, but still there are a lot of factors that indicate that there are also a lot of genuine, that is, really ancient stones.
1. Analysis results. Immediately after the discovery of the stones, many copies were sent to scientific laboratories in different parts of the world and were recognized as genuine. There are detailed reports from the laboratories of the University of Lima and the University of Bonn, saying that the patina (oxide film) covers both the surface of the stones and the grooves, which means it has an ancient origin. Moreover, the layer of patina (oxide) was much thicker than a similar layer on other objects of burial, which suggests that the stones are much older than the cultures of Ica. Many stones are kept in national museums, which also testifies to the authenticity of the finds. And the studies of scientists of the USSR, published in the journal "Science and Life", speak not only of the authenticity of the stones, but also that such grooves could only be made by devices like drills. And the Indians only had brass instrumentswho were not even able to leave a mark on the stone. It also shattered the myth of the peasant engravers who operated with ordinary saws.
2. Cutting technology. The drawings on the stones are made using different techniques. There are techniques that resemble a drill. But the most amazing technique resembles a knife cut on the softened top layer of stone. This technology still does not exist. Similar technologies were used in the megalithic masonry of Peru, for example in Ollantaytambo.
3. Dependence of techniques on size. The larger the stones, the, as a rule, the technique of execution of drawings and their elegance are higher. Some of the huge boulders are painted using the "low relief" technique, which is very laborious. With this technique, the tracks are not scratched, but the background is recessed by about 1 mm. There is doubt that the villagers will spend so much time for the sake of forgery. But with small stones - it is quite possible.
4. Finds of archaeologists. In the vicinity of Ica, stones are still being found in the burials of the Nazca, Paracas, Ica cultures. No one doubts their authenticity. Little of. In those burials, ceramics and fabrics are found, which also depict dinosaurs. And in some burials, dinosaur bones are also found along with human bones.
5. Images of crustaceans. A very strange image of an underwater animal that lived, according to modern data, 300-500 million years ago. If this is a fake, then who needed to depict a crustacean on more than 200 stones?
6. Discrepancies in opening times. Sauropods were depicted as viviparous and milk-feeding. And only recently, scientists began to assume that this was quite possible. And the depicted brontosaurus had plates on its back, like a stegosaurus, which was only discovered in 1992. It is possible that many other dinosaurs depicted on the stones are simply not yet discovered, and many, meanwhile, consider the depicted animals as mystical.
7. No traces of counterfeiting. Whereas locals easily scratch stones for tourists with wire, sometimes burning them on a fire to give an antique look, then a collection of thousands of stones had to be made on an industrial scale using special equipment, and even more so for making stones weighing up to 500 kg and up to 1 in size. 5 meters. Nothing of the kind has been found in the vicinity of Ica until now. No trace.
8. Lack of value. Until now, among the ancient Peruvian artifacts, fabrics, ceramics, gold, but not stones are of value. 8. The lack of value of stones is unlikely to encourage someone to massively counterfeit them.
9. Finds elsewhere. It is known about the finds of thousands of clay figurines depicting dinosaurs, including together with a man, in Mexico. And also found images of dinosaurs in Ecuador.
Versions of the origin of Ica stones
Today, there are several versions of the origin of stones, and only the first is explainable from the point of view of modern history and the theory of evolution. However, this version contradicts the evidence in favor of the authenticity of the stones.
1. Official version
The official version boils down to the fact that all stones, scenes on which contradict the modern understanding of the world, are fakes. As proof, it is also cited that about 1/3 of the images are banal sex scenes, moreover, often homosexual. The ancient peoples of the Andes loved to depict this, the art of which is well known.
2. Ancient library
This hypothesis claims that the stones are the oldest library that existed millions of years ago along with dinosaurs, which collapsed during a global cataclysm, such as the Flood. And people who lived 1000-2000 years ago only found these stones and used them as objects of worship. This version was put forward in 1974 in his book "The Mystery of the Andes" by the famous French writer and researcher Robert Charoux. He believed that the Ica stones are the library of ancient Atlantis. Professor Cabrera adhered to a similar version.
3. Two civilizations
Since inventions are depicted on the stones, but rather conditionally (for example, aircraft), there is a version that the cultures of Ica, Paracas, Nazca coexisted with much more developed cultures, and only depicted on the stones what they saw or assumed, as now, for example, the aborigines depict airplanes … And they spied images of dinosaurs from this civilization, which knew about their existence millions of years ago. Perhaps, in this case, the massive craniotomy was part of a global experiment.