The Baigon pipes are one of the greatest mysteries of antiquity. They can be found inside a badly collapsed pyramid atop Mount Baigon, which is located in Qinghai Province in northwestern China. Who could have built such a complex structure at a time when people barely learned how to make fire?..
The crumbling pyramid once had triangular entrances on three sides, but over time, two of them collapsed and are now inaccessible. The remaining course leads deep into the mountain. The floor is littered with iron debris and oddly shaped stones. This suggests that there was some activity in these premises.
In the only surviving cave there is a system of metal pipes of the most varied diameters, the largest up to half a meter, the thinnest - about a toothpick. Dozens of pipes go straight into the mountain, no one knows where.
Archaeologists who visited the site made the assumption that water was once supplied to the pyramid through these pipes. Their hypothesis is partly supported by the large number of iron pipes found on the coast of the nearby Lake Toson. These pipes also have various diameters and lengths, some of them rise above the surface, some are hidden under water.
Curious about these extraordinary artifacts, the Beijing Institute of Geology conducted analyzes of the Baigon pipes using the effect of thermoluminescence. The technique allowed scientists to determine when the pipes were last exposed to high temperatures. The study showed that the pipes should have been made about 150 thousand years ago.
But the mystery grows deeper: analyzes carried out at one of the state-owned smelters failed to establish the exact composition of the pipe material. Along with iron oxide, silicon dioxide and calcium oxide, the pipes contained 8% of an unknown substance.
Such a stunning find is not easy to explain. It is believed that humans first appeared in the region 30,000 years ago, but these were mostly wild nomadic tribes. It is impossible for a primitive society to leave behind such an advanced structure.
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There have been several attempts to explain who could make such pipes and what purpose they might serve. A highly developed, but long forgotten human civilization could build some kind of installation that needed cooling, and these pipes leading to the lake are all that remains of it.
It should be noted that the water in the lake is salty. And although there is also a freshwater lake nearby, no pipes are connected to it. Why did you need salt water?
One possible answer is electrolysis. When an electric current is passed through salt water, it decomposes into hydrogen and oxygen. These substances are absolutely necessary for any civilization if it possesses flying vehicles.
On the other side of the spectrum of assumptions, there are those geologists who suggested that the Baigon pipes are, although unusual, but natural formations.
The crux of the matter is that all these hypotheses are trying to explain something that does not fit into the generally accepted system of views.
One thing is for sure - until the history of mankind is subject to revision, such anomalous artifacts as Baigon pipes will not find a place in ordinary textbooks.
Based on materials from LockLip