In 1844, near Rutherford on the River Tweed, workers working in a quarry found a gold thread in a piece of rock. They brought part of it to the newspaper office in the town of Kelso. The age of the sandstone in that area is estimated at about 360 Ma. A note about the strange find was published in the same year by the British newspaper The Times
In 1860, the Italian geologist Professor Giuseppe Ragazzoni discovered fossilized human bones in ancient coastal formations at the base of the Italian Alps (3-4 million years ago there was a warm sea). They belonged to individuals anatomically identical to modern humans! The professor considered them to belong to a much later period: they, de accidentally, fell into such an ancient layer. But 20 years later, a similar find was again made in the area. Ragazzoni was personally involved in the extraction of fossil bones. This time there could be no doubt. These were indeed the remains of four ancient people - apparently, a family (man, woman and two children), which drowned in the sea at least three million years ago.
In 1872, at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute in London, a collection of shark teeth fossils was presented, recovered in Suffolk from formations left over from an ancient sea that existed 2-2.5 million years ago. This find would hardly have attracted the attention of the audience, if not for the startling fact: shark teeth were carefully drilled. There was a neat little hole in the center of each tooth.
In 1885, in the Austrian city of Voecklabruck (between Salzburg and Linz), foundry workers discovered a metal object in a broken piece of coal - close in shape to a cube measuring 6.5 x 6.5 x 4.5 centimeters. An analysis was carried out at the Linz Museum, which showed that the artifact was made from a metal containing nickel and carbon. In the chaos of the war years of World War II, he was lost. Only a cast made then has survived, confirming the very fact of the existence of a mysterious ancient object.
In 1891, in the American town of Morrisonville, Illinois, Mrs. Culp, the wife of a local newspaper publisher, discovered in one of the lumps of coal a thin gold chain - "very ancient and of some unusual work." The chain, as it turned out later, is about 25 centimeters long, firmly "rooted" in the coal, i.e. was as old in age as the lump of coal mined near the town by the miners. Its age in this area is estimated by geologists to be between 260 - 320 million years. Mrs. Culp kept the find with her until her death in 1959. After her death, the outlandish chain passed to some relative, and traces of the artifacts were lost to researchers.
It should be noted that such is the fate of the vast majority of artifacts. It's amazing, but they all have one thing in common: sooner or later they disappear in a strange way. As if there are forces on the planet that are not interested in the evidence of the antiquity of the human race.
If we do not consider artifacts as hoaxes, then we have to admit that in very ancient times some human community was at a very high cultural (and technological) level and was able to establish the production of gold jewelry. In this regard, it should be noted that the orthodox trend of historical science proceeds from the fact that the very first gold chains found by archaeologists belong to representatives of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia and were made no earlier than 5,500 years ago, i.e. somewhere in the middle of the fourth millennium BC.
To this we can add that the ancient Egyptian chains were made of pure gold. The find of Mrs. Culp from the USA was made of an alloy: eight parts of gold and sixteen parts of some kind of metal, most likely copper. The jeweler at the end of the 19th century could not determine more precisely. During the late Middle Ages, gold alloys did take place, but these were alloys with a gold content of over 60 percent.
In the middle of the last century, in 1952, in American California, Frederick Hare, who was drilling artesian wells, found the remains of an iron chain at a depth of 11 meters in hard sandstone. In 1955, a photograph of the strange find was taken, but later the artifact itself disappeared somewhere.
There are quite a lot of reports about such difficult-to-explain finds in the literature and newspapers of different countries. Their authors are often respected people in their midst who are not interested in self-promotion and value their reputation.
Dinosaur contemporaries
Acquaintance with such facts pushes to the insane (from the traditional point of view of the origin and age of humanity) assumption that people have existed on Earth much longer than we are used to thinking. But at the same time, the question arises: are there any remains of the original Homo sapiens - a skull, some bones - in the same corner or sandstone? It turns out that such finds took place in several countries, and representatives of science do not explain their appearance in any way. Here are a few more examples from the book "Forbidden Archeology", the author of which has collected many amazing facts about the "inexplicable."
In 1862, in the already mentioned American state of Illinois, at a depth of 27 meters, miners discovered human bones. The age of the breed is at least 286 million years.
In 1938, Professor Wilber Burroughs, who headed the Department of Geology at the College of the American city of Beria (Kentucky), discovered human footprints on rocky sandstone (once an ancient beach), which is about 250 million years old. Both the right and left feet are clearly visible, each with five toes. In order not to be ridiculed by his own orthodox colleagues, he reported, using cautious wording, that "creatures that walked on two hind legs and had human feet left a trace on a sandy beach in Rockcastle County, Kentucky." Similar traces of unidentified "creatures that walked on two hind legs" have been identified in the United States, according to the Smithsonian Institute, and elsewhere, in particular in Missouri and Pennsylvania.
In 1969, in the bed of the American Paluxy River (near the Texas town of Glen Rose), Stan Taylor saw a chain of human tracks in shallow water. The site was carefully cleared with the help of excavator equipment and found fourteen right and left footprints of a person's bare feet. And most amazingly, there were more than one hundred dinosaur footprints nearby of approximately the same geological age! These fourteen ancient (apparently human) footprints, once left in the muddy sediment, were called "Taylor's path".
Have there been such finds in Russia? One fact is reliably known. Back in Soviet times, in 1983, Professor Amaniyazov from the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan published the find of an imprint that can be identified as a trace of a human foot in a rock 150 million years old. The footprint of a three-toed dinosaur was also found there.
It turns out that our very distant ancestors or their predecessors, although they could make iron nails, steel cubes and even gold jewelry, walked barefoot? Why not. After all, although we fly on jet airliners and travel in cars stuffed with electronics, we love to wander along the beach without shoes.
A number of chance finds suggest that someone who lived on Earth hundreds of millions of years before us was also by no means a primitive savage, content with the skin of a deer or a bunch of palm leaves to cover up "original sin." Fossil footprints have been found in ancient rocks. Here are some examples to support this more than bold hypothesis.
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In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in the state of Nevada. Unexpectedly for himself, he found a clear imprint of the back half of the shoe sole. Moreover, along its edge "there was a well-imprinted sewing thread that attached the welt to the sole." The astonished geologist took the carved piece of rock to New York, where several professors from the American Museum of Natural History and a geologist from Columbia University examined it. Their conclusion was unambiguous: the rock is from 213 to 248 million years old (Triassic period). A photograph of this wonderful find has survived to this day.
In 1968, in another American state - Utah (near Antelope Springs), a shoe print was found in a rock that is estimated to be the same age as the so-called Cambrian explosion (505 - 590 million years ago). Someone was wearing sandals and the front of one of them crushed a small mollusk, considered extinct 280 million years ago.
Ten years later, no less sensational news came from Africa. An expedition led by Mary Leakey discovered fossilized footprints of three human beings in northern Tanzania, who had walked barefoot in their time on the volcanic ash that had fallen shortly before, and probably still warm. There were about fifty such tracks, and their age was approximately determined: they were from 3.6 to 3.8 million years old. As Baigent notes, the footprints "were feet from an anatomical point of view exactly like the feet of modern people."
"Let's drink from grief, where is the mug …"
Among the studies that force us to take a fresh look at the distant past of mankind is the book by the American scientist Richard Thompson, a specialist in mathematics, physics and geology, co-authored by him with the writer Michael Cremo. Under the influence of the ancient Indian Vedic treatises, according to which the history of mankind is at least an order of magnitude longer than the generally accepted opinion, Thomson systematized a large amount of information that was actually withdrawn from scientific circulation, so did not "fit" into the generally accepted concept. The scientific work was published in 1993, and soon there was a version available to the general reader (translated into Russian it was published in our country in 1999 by the publishing house "Philosophical Book" under the title "Unknown History of Mankind").
The authors cited many examples of the discovery of amazing objects of material culture, which, unfortunately, did not end up in historical and natural science museums. So, traces of some ancient civilization were discovered at the end of the 18th century near the French town of Aix-en-Provence. Workers mining dense limestone stumbled upon fragments of columns and fragments of once semi-finished stone at a depth of 12 - 15 meters.
In 1861, miners near the French city of Laon, at a depth of about 70 meters, discovered a chalk ball about 6 centimeters in diameter in brown coal deposits that belonged to the Upper Eocene period (44-45 million years ago). Apparently, the ball was a product of human hands.
Already in our time, in 1968, it became known that semi-oval metal pipes were found in the French quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livé in the strata of the Cretaceous period (65 million years).
In 1844, physicist David Brewster, who founded the British Association for Scientific Progress, announced the discovery of a nail in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. This sandstone belonged to the Lower Devonian period (age 360 - 408 million years). The head of the nail has "grown" into the stone, which makes it possible to discard all suspicions of falsification.
Similar ancient finds, Thompson and Cremo reported, have been made more than once in the United States. In the middle of the 19th century, blasting operations were carried out in Massachusetts, and a metal vessel was found among the fragments of boulders, which was ripped in half by the blast wave. It was a bell-shaped vase, about 11 centimeters high, made of a metal resembling zinc in color or some kind of alloy with a share of silver. The walls of the vessel were decorated with images of six flowers in the form of a bouquet. The rock in which this outlandish vase was kept belonged to the Precambrian era (about 600 million years old).
In another American state, Illinois, while drilling a well in 1870, a round plate resembling a coin was discovered at a depth of 38 meters. It had images of some figures and inscriptions in an unknown language. Sediments at this depth were formed, according to geologists, about 200 - 400 thousand years ago. Let us recall that modern academic science claims that the first metal coins entered circulation in Asia Minor in the 8th BC.
In the US state of Idaho, at the end of the 19th century, well drillers raised a clay figurine depicting a woman from a depth of 90 meters. The find dates back to the era at the turn of the Pliocene and Pleistocene (2 million years).
In Iowa in 1897, miners found a rectangular stone block at a depth of about 40 meters, on which images of the elderly were engraved.
An ancient iron mug found in 1912 in Oklahoma was kept in a private museum in the United States (South Missouri) in the 1940s. The power plant worker smashed the too massive block of coal with a hammer, and this mug fell out of it. Coal, which was then used in this state, was, according to experts, about 312 million years old.
The list of such items of material culture of the "antediluvian era" in the book of Cremo and Thompson is quite impressive. Here are two more examples of striking finds. In Texas, in 1928, in a deep coal mine where the coal was mined at least 286 million years old, miners stumbled upon very smooth, literally polished, cubic concrete blocks. The find was reported to the company's management, which for some reason forbade the miners to report what they saw to the press, and the mine was urgently closed.
In the 1970s and 1980s, South African miners in the Western Transvaal found several hundred metal balls underground in rock (2.8 billion years old!), One of which retained three parallel notches around its central part. Some balls are solid, made of some kind of bluish metal, others are hollow, with a kind of spongy filling of white color. The surface of the balls, which are the result of the activities of mysterious creatures, is very hard, and it was not possible to scratch it even with a steel object.
The available reports of arch-ancient artifacts allow us to formulate a hypothesis that intelligent beings, like modern man, lived on our planet several hundred million years ago. Apparently, there were civilizations, technologically and culturally, somewhat similar to ours. But as a result of some kind of global cataclysms of a natural or technological nature, they perished, and the development of intelligent life began anew. This version is supported by the legends and myths of various peoples of our planet, including the ancient Indian books called the Vedas. According to them, intelligent life on Earth originated in antediluvian times. It is no coincidence that the adherents of the Vedas use in measuring time such units that are ultra-long from the point of view of orthodox historians, such as the southern period,which is 4,320,000 million years, and a kalpa equal to one thousand yugas. Kalpa is also called the "day of Brahma", which, according to modern cosmology, is approximately equal to the age of our planet. In short, in order to try to find information about our distant past, it makes sense to turn to mythology.
