For a long period of time, the scientific world asks the question: could ancient people live under water and is it possible that the ancient advanced human civilizations on the planet died as a result of the onset of the ice age? These questions have arisen in connection with the discovery and investigation of huge temples in Malta. Scientists have put forward the assumption that they were built by some unknown civilization about 5 thousand years ago, after which, for some reason, disappeared without a trace.
The megalithic temples found in Malta are the oldest structures on the planet that have survived to this day. Outwardly, they are very similar to the English Stonehenge. It was erected from geometrically regular stone blocks; there are many rooms in the room, carved altars, figurines of obese women and many mysterious images. It should be noted that there are many such temples in Malta. This is Ta, and Hajrat, and Sorrow, and Mnajdra, and Tarshyen. In addition, there is also the underground sanctuary of Hap-Salfieni. Despite the rather high level of development of modern science, scientists from all over the world for more than a century have not been able to answer definitely which civilization and race these places of worship belonged to. No traces of human presence could be found in the interior of the temples. Those who built temples simply disappeared.
According to the British researcher, Professor Raymond Kemmler, who has been excavating in Malta for more than 10 years, the scientific world has long been lost in conjecture. Currently, there are a huge variety of theories and versions. The only thing scientists agree on is that the builders of the temple were representatives of the most ancient civilization on Earth, in fact, the ancestors of mankind. At the same time, scientists still cannot tell what their state was like. It is not known how in those distant times, when the level of development of mankind was at the lowest stage, they managed to build structures from huge stone blocks weighing up to 5 tons and up to 6 meters high. And most importantly - where did this race then disappear?
Ancient temples in Malta were discovered quite by accident in 1776, during earthworks carried out by the French artist Jean-Pierre Guell. First, the stone altar of Hajar Ima was excavated, one of the largest rooms. Half a century later, a detailed plan of the entire temple complex was drawn up by the British official Henry Bouverie. Thanks to this, it was possible to establish that an unknown civilization erected its temples to worship the gods not at all chaotically, but according to a certain scheme (it resembled a clover leaf, divided into two parts, 4-5 leaves on each side). In every temple there were necessarily huge stone altars, where not only wine and milk, but also human blood were poured. In addition, all the rooms inside were painted blood red, and a fire was burning in the very center. According to one hypothesis,these temples were symbols of the mother's womb.
The largest temple of Hajar Im consists of a defensive bastion, an inner courtyard, a separate room for women, a niche for a place of ablution and an altar. In addition, notes the Maltese historian Andrew Jovene, small houses have been found that could hardly accommodate a three-year-old child. Hence the theory arose that the ancient civilization that lived in Malta was dwarf.
However, this is not all. In the immediate vicinity of the temple, during the excavation of the underground cave Ghar-Dalam, scientists were able to find a large number of skeletons of hippos and dwarf elephants. The growth of these animals did not exceed 1-1.5 meters, and the hippos were even smaller. Such finds could not but give rise to many exotic hypotheses. So, in particular, the most widespread version was that in ancient Malta there was a civilization of the Lilliputians, and not even just a civilization, but a whole world in which everything was small: people, plants, animals. By the way, scientists remembered the "hobbits" of the Flores island - dwarfs, whose skulls were discovered in Indonesia in 2004 in one of the caves. These creatures did not reach more than one meter in height and died about 12 thousand years ago during a volcanic eruption.
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At the same time, approximately Australian professor Mike Morwood made the assumption that in ancient times other worlds were interspersed into the human world, in particular, on small islands. Thus, it follows from his theory that the Indonesian "hobbits" were not the only representatives of dwarf civilizations that once lived on Earth.
As Professor Kemmler notes, it is believed that pygmy hippos and elephants became extinct about 180 thousand years ago. At the same time, an analysis of some of the skeletons from the Ghar-Dalam cave showed that these animals could well have lived at the time when temples were erected on the island. In addition, it has been established that Lilliputian elephants were pets of an ancient civilization. That is, the theory that during the Stone Age our planet was inhabited by Lilliputians, received additional evidence. If we talk about the level of development of these ancient inhabitants of the Earth and whether they can be considered the ancestors of man, then Professor Kemmler notes that they were very well developed. As proof of the correctness of his words, he talks about the underground sanctuary of Khap-Saflieni. It consists of 34 rooms and is shaped like a mother's womb. The rooms are connected by stairs and tunnels. All rooms emit strong echoes from the male voice, while the female voice is hardly heard in them. Simply put, the sanctuary is built in such a way as to prevent a man from entering the temple. People with a low level of development would hardly have thought of this.
Indeed, human ideas about the Stone Age are limited to thoughts of people in animal skins who ran with axes. At the same time, if the version of the existence of the Lilliputian race is confirmed, then, according to scientists, it could well be that five thousand years ago, islands such as Flores or Malta were planets inhabited by small people surrounded by the same small animals, but at the same time they managed to build huge temples.
At first glance, this seems completely incredible and impossible. Indeed, the historian Jovena notes. There are many such incomprehensible facts regarding the midgets. So, for example, according to the analysis, each of the temples discovered in Malta was built for at least eight hundred years. The buildings also had observatories for observing the starry sky and predicting the weather. If tens of thousands of slaves were sent to build the Egyptian pyramids, how many people did it take to build temples in Malta? What resources and power did this state possess? Moreover, scientists were able to discover parts of the temple complexes in the sea, and it was found that they were originally built there. But in those days there was no special equipment, or even ordinary scuba gear, to breathe under water …
The most interesting thing is that even the discovered ancient roads built in that period led in the direction of these temples, in other words, to the seabed …
The finds at the bottom of the sea caused a real shock among scientists. First, they hypothesized that underground temples appeared as a result of a natural cataclysm, when, after an earthquake, part of the land, along with buildings, went under water. However, this theory was refuted by the found paved roads that led under the water. As a result, some scientists put forward a shocking version that the race that lived in Malta could have gills to breathe under water, that is, the ancestors of man were half-humans, half-fish.
It should be noted that the assumptions that the first man appeared in the water existed before. This theory is supported by representatives of the "Missing Link" hypothesis. They are confident that humanity descended from dinosaurs: the lizards did not die out, but evolved into humans.
The Norwegian traveler Thor Heyerdahl also adheres to this theory, but he draws his conclusions on the rock paintings of the Indians of Peru, which depict the appearance of a human-like creature with flippers and a tail from the ocean.
In addition, besides Malta, similar paved roads leading to the seabed have also been found on Easter Island.
According to Professor Giovena, the theory of the existence of people with gills or the version of an entire underwater civilization sounds too fantastic. At the same time, scientists have not yet given any answer to the question of how the ancient people managed to build temples under water. It is quite obvious that ancient people stood at a much higher stage of development than modern science can imagine.
Another interesting observation: from the outside it may seem that all the temples on the island of Malta are just a heap of ruins, but in reality this is not so. The fact is that in the Middle Ages, people for whom the concepts of holiness and value of temples were alien, dismantled these buildings into stones for their own needs. Meanwhile, the ancient builders erected temples using special technologies, completely without using a solution to fasten stone blocks. It is also important that when comparing the ancient buildings on Easter Island, Peru and Malta, it turned out that the masonry is very similar. This makes it possible to assume that about 5 thousand years ago a single civilization ruled on the planet. But just what happened, and why did she disappear without a trace?..
There is no evidence that the Maltese race died as a result of the cataclysms. All temples were excavated completely intact during excavations. After testing the soil, shrines, and jars, no viruses or epidemics were found either. The theory that the Lilliputians could have been destroyed by barbarians who sailed on ships is also untenable: the ancient Egyptian chronicles indicate that already at the time when the Egyptians visited the island, temples and settlements were empty and abandoned. According to preliminary estimates, the Maltese civilization disappeared in about 2.3 thousand years BC.
In addition, radiocarbon analysis showed that the age of the temples could be more. That is why some scientists are of the opinion that advanced civilizations existed during the last ice age (about 20 thousand years ago), but fell victim to climatic changes that caused powerful tsunamis and earthquakes. It is extremely difficult to say whether this theory is correct or not, because in Malta, as mentioned above, no traces of natural disasters were found.
