In modern society, it is generally accepted that the first flight in a self-propelled car in the history of mankind was made by the Wright brothers in 1903. But is it really so? People have been living on Earth for thousands, hundreds of thousands of years, was it really only a hundred years ago that a person could fly into the sky by plane? Many researchers answer this question with an unequivocal “no”. And they cite as proof of their innocence mysterious finds and rock paintings found in Egypt and South America.
For example, a toy airplane discovered during excavations in Colombia. The item is cast in gold and dates back to 500 BC. Archaeologists have suggested that it could be a bird or an insect, but in the modern world, nothing like that exists. Another figurine, also found in Colombia, looks like a flying fish, but its tail has no analogues in nature. The gold pendants worn by Colombians as jewelry in the first millennium AD also resemble modern airplanes. The length of the figures is about 5 cm, the front wings are in the form of a triangle with smooth edges. Researcher A. Poisley conducted a series of experiments and came to the conclusion that the prototypes of these figures could rise into the air. In 1996, using a mysterious golden object as a model,German engineers built a sixteen times enlarged copy of it and were able to launch the plane into the air. In our report on the results of the experiment, the engineers pointed out that the artifact has a number of similarities with modern supersonic aircraft of the Condor type.
All Colombian finds have two wings and a tail or four wings. Although some scientists insist that these are stylized figurines of insects or birds, it is difficult to deny the similarity of artifacts with airplanes and spaceships.
In Egypt, archaeologists have also found an object resembling an airplane. The figurine dates from the 4th-3rd centuries. BC. Egyptologists believed that this is a model of a hawk in flight. In 1969, professor of anatomy H. Messiha noted that the mysterious hawk has neither feathers nor legs, and the figure has a number of aerodynamic properties. The model, created in compliance with the proportions of the "bird", and filled with the necessary electrical filling, was able to rise into the air.
Another unsolved mystery is the hieroglyphs found in the temple at Abydos. The drawings depict strange shapes, very similar to a modern helicopter and jet plane. In the bottom of one of the helicopters there is a rectangular depression, which suggests the possibility of moving the plates for the pyramids using aircraft.
Opponents of the theory of the existence of aircraft in antiquity indicate that the rock paintings were applied one on top of the other, and in some places the lines of the old ones appeared on the new drawings, changing the image. Therefore, such drawings cannot be considered proof of the existence of aircraft. Furthermore, skeptics say, flying machines are not mentioned in any of the sources of Ancient Egypt. Images found only in Abydos. And in order to build aircraft, to provide them with fuel, an entire industry would be needed. Nothing of the kind was found in the excavations.
Or maybe the planes were built by the Atlanteans? Then all the ancient factories could have sunk together with the mysterious continent, which has not yet been discovered. Or aliens, the highest race, which revealed to mankind many secrets of the universe, moved on aircrafts. People have always dreamed of flying, who knows, perhaps this dream was realized not only by our civilization.