This mystery of history would not have happened if the American Jack Nelson did not want vegetables from his own garden. The mysterious artifact would continue to lie in the ground and would not disturb the minds of pundits, and would not question the course of human history. But this amazing object was still brought to light. To be lost forever after a short time.
In 1927, Jack Nelson took a shovel and went to dig the ground in his site in Minnesota. More precisely, in a small village called Rosier (or Roseau). He was digging and digging for himself when he suddenly noticed a strange pebble that did not resemble ordinary ones, because it clearly bore traces of processing.
Jack was not lazy, picked up the find and cleared it from the ground. The oval stone was very small, only five centimeters in diameter. On the one hand, a kind of human face was carved on it, around which a ribbon curled, either with a pattern or with some kind of inscription in an unfamiliar language.
Destroyed relic
This is not to say that Jack was too surprised at his find. He had come across various interesting things on this site before: either shards, or ancient arrowheads, or stone hammers. This is understandable - the site was located on the site of an ancient Indian settlement. However, the new stone was not at all like the previous finds. So Jack put it in his pocket and decided to show it to a specialist.
It turned out to be John Jager of Minneapolis, a renowned American anthropologist and expert on ancient texts. Nelson brought his find to Jager, but he could not decipher the inscription on the fly and asked to leave this stone to him for research. Jack agreed and thereby deprived the scientist of peace for as much as 15 years!
The pebble, which was called the Rosier stone at the place of discovery, was not at all simple! After carefully studying it, Jager came to amazing conclusions. He wrote in his diary: “This inscription was made before the Greek and Egyptian civilizations. It is even older than the Sumerian, considered the first civilization on Earth in the IV-III millennia BC. And older than Chatal-Huyuk in Anatolia, which was considered the ancestral home of all mankind in the 5th millennium BC."
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Most of all, the scientist sought to decipher the text engraved on the Rosier stone. He managed to isolate several individual words from the tape, but he could not read them. Although he compared the inscription with ancient writing samples collected from all over the world.
The only assumption that Jager eventually made was that some mythical "Argonauts" were the authors of the text on the stone. According to John, they spoke an ancient language, which was the "mother" of all other future languages and dialects. Jager called it Euro-Afro-Asian. “It was spoken and written by the first people on Earth - the owners of the ocean, who swam all over the world,” the scientist concluded.
Most of Jager's colleagues with whom he shared his theory called him a visionary. Only two scientists from the University of Minnesota became interested and decided to join the study of the Rosier stone. They were Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Jencks, and his colleague, Professor of Geology, Dr. Stoffer. But the methods they chose were extremely unsuccessful. Scientists, deciding to clean the surface of the accumulated plaque, left the stone for some time in an acid bath. However, the acid corroded not only the dirt, but also the inscription!
Jager was very upset. Of course, the inscription was copied many times, but the unique stone itself was damaged. It can be said as an artifact it was completely destroyed. But even worse, after the death of the scientist in 1959, the remains of the stone itself disappeared, as well as all the materials about the unique artifact.
Lost in translation
Perhaps the stone, first lost in the land of Minnesota, and then in the archives of the University of Minnesota, would have disappeared if it had not been for Chris Patnaud, who was studying the ancient history of the North American continent. One day, this researcher, while rummaging in the university library, accidentally stumbled upon Jager's folder. Almost mechanically, she looked into it and found there photographs of the Rosier stone, along with materials for its study.
The photographs were very clear, so the inscriptions could be clearly seen. Which Chris Paytnaud did. It immediately seemed to her that the inscriptions reminded her of something. She recalled that she had seen very similar ones and that they were made in Russian. This amazed her so much that she, abandoning all business, took up the Rosier stone in earnest.
Paytnaud immediately wrote to her Russian colleague Vladimir Pakhomov, who, although he was a mathematician, not a historian, could help decipher the inscription. Of course, if Chris's guess about the language was correct. “It's a shame that he himself disappeared,” she wrote. “After all, today, with the help of modern technologies, we could restore even an erased image.”
“One glance was enough for me to understand: before me is a text in Russian,” Vladimir Pakhomov later recalled. -Here are just a few words that are easy to read if you look closely: YARA LIK, LIGHTHOUSE, TEMPLE YARA, WE ARE FROM YARY RUSSIA.
To say that Chris Paytnaud was shocked by his response is to say nothing. The inscription really turned out to be in Russian, but where did it come from in America ?! Who made it and why? And most importantly, how did he make it so many centuries before Cyril and Methodius?
Many questions immediately arose. But it became clear why Jager could not decipher the inscription. He, of course, did not even think about such a "young" language as Russian, comparing the inscription exclusively with ancient scripts.
However, even if he thought about the Russian language, it is not so easily recognizable in the inscription on the Rosier stone. “For example,“I”has almost no hind leg, it can only be drawn by the imagination of a researcher who knows Russian well,” Pakhomov is sure.
Pagan lighthouse
The news that an ancient stone with a Russian inscription was found in America was received by many in our country with great interest. Alas, most of those interested were amateur historians or advocates of the so-called alternative history.
The notorious Valery Chudinov, director of the Institute of Ancient Slavic and Ancient Eurasian Civilization of the public organization of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, immediately announced that the Rosier stone is another proof that the history of Russia began not in the time of the Scythians, but many millennia earlier. And that in those days when humanity was a single people, it spoke the same language - Russian. Some even believe that the Slavs could have been the discoverers of the American continent.
Some researchers do not dare to make such sensational conclusions and put forward other, however, no less controversial theories. The fact that the stone could have entered Minnesota by accident. For example, it was once given to Americans by Russian emigrants. Or stolen from them, and then passed from hand to hand, until it settled in Indian lands.
Another version is that the artifact was made in America by immigrants from Alaska. And it was used as a "beacon" - that is, a pointing stone. The question arises: what did he point to in this case?
Supporters of the "lighthouse" theory believe that the stone directed everyone to the sanctuary of the ancient Russian deity Yar. And the face on the Rosier stone is, in fact, his image.
Evidence of contacts with the Russians, who brought with them to America their faith in a god or goddess named Yar (Yara), these researchers consider the Indian myth of the beautiful Yara, which the owner of rivers and lagoons, a giant snake, fell in love with. The spirits of the mountains saved Yara from the serpent and made the goddess-guardian of nature. In the language of the Indians there is a stable expression "place of Yara", with which they denote beautiful places.
The authors of this theory believe that once in them there could be temples of that very Russian Yara or Yar. Official science is in no hurry to comment on these theories. It's a pity, since the solution to the images on the Rosier stone would be interesting to many people interested in history.
Perhaps historians believe that since the stone itself is lost, there is nothing to talk about, but there are evidences and documentary materials that continue to excite the minds, like any unsolved mystery.
Marina VIKTOROVA