The history of this unique find began in 1995, when a joint expedition of Russia and China discovered hieroglyphic rock inscriptions in the ancient Chinese Jiaguwen dialect.
A postgraduate student of the Chinese expedition who was able to read the hieroglyphs.
This curious fact piqued the interest of the researchers. They decided to find out if this territory was the place of permanent residence of the ancient Chinese.
To do this, they initially decided to turn to the archives and found a very curious record, which said about 200 plates found, which were covered with an unknown script. Scientists considered this entry to be related to wall hieroglyphs.
Further research of the archives made it possible to find the notes of the expedition of Schmidt, who claimed to have found only 6 such plates near the village of Chandar in Bashkiria.
Several small expeditions, assembled by Professor Chuvyrov, to these areas did not yield any results. But on 21.07.1999, luck smiled at the archaeologists.
The Chandarn slab was found right next to the porch of the head of the village council. It turned out that it was in this house that Schmidt stayed and, apparently, he planned to take this stove out, but then changed his mind and left it near the house. Since then, she lay there, waiting for her finest hour.
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Now this find is on display in the Ufa Museum. Its dimensions are as follows: 148 cm high, 106 cm wide, and 16 cm thick. Weight is equal to one ton. Moreover, this artifact consists of three layers. The main layer, 14 cm thick, is made of cement based on dolomite. The second layer, 2 cm thick, is made of diopside glass (an extremely durable material that retains an integral structure under extreme stress). And the third layer was porcelain, which was made on the basis of calcium!
Such porcelain is not used and has never been used by mankind, since it is very complex and expensive to manufacture. Although it has increased strength.
After conducting many tests, scientists came to an unambiguous conclusion that this stove, even with all modern achievements, cannot be created.
World map
Further research not only surprised, but amazed the researchers. After all, what was initially taken for an unknown relief drawing turned out to be a real relief map! It captured the area near the modern city of Ufa, and the scale was maintained in a ratio of 1: 110,000, and the coverage of one plate was equal to an area of 150 by 100 kilometers.
After that, it became clear that the unknown writings on the slab are the names of rivers, hills and mountains.
Then this slab was sent for research at the American Center for Cartography of Wisconsin. And after studying the ancient map, scientists were amazed, because it turned out that a map of this class could only be compiled by orbital surface survey from an altitude of 300 km.
The square marks the location of the modern village of Chandar.
It was also concluded that this is just a small part of the global map and the total number of fragments is 1 224 025 pieces! The joint efforts of Russian and Chinese research centers made it possible to establish that the map depicts an area that was more than 5 million years ago! And radiocarbon analysis showed that the age of the plate varies from 5 to 40 millennia.
This discrepancy with the age of the artifact and the depicted area has only one logical explanation, that in distant antiquity, a Civilization with a much higher technological level created a copy of an older map. But for what purposes this work was done, it will remain a mystery sealed with seven seals.