There were 716 tablets and they resembled gramophone disks with a diameter of about 30 centimeters and a thickness of 8 millimeters (a hole in the center and a double spiral groove with small hieroglyphs going to the outer edge), carved from hard granite.
The note went relatively unnoticed, but then several more editions reprinted it.
At the turn of 1937 and 1938, on the Bayan-Kara-Ula ridge, in the Qinghai province on the border of Tibet and China, a group of archaeologists led by Shi Pu-Tai investigated a rugged area. Suddenly, a rocky wall opened up in front of them, in which, like the honeycomb of a giant hive, carved niches blackened. It turned out that 716 niches were burial places.
The remains of buried people have puzzled scientists. The skeletons were about 130 centimeters long, had disproportionately large skulls and slender limbs. Archaeologists could not find a single inscription or epitaph on the walls of the crypts, but only found several drawings that resembled constellations, the Sun and the Moon, connected by dotted bundles of dots the size of a pea. yes strange stone discs with incomprehensible hieroglyphs.
Shi Pu-Tai considered that these are burials of extinct species of mountain monkeys, and the disks and drawings belong to representatives of a later culture. (Is it a heard thing: monkeys bury their relatives in graves arranged in strict rows).
During the Cultural Revolution in China, the unusual skeletons disappeared, and of the 716 discs, almost all were destroyed or lost. However, in the storerooms of several museums, by a miracle, isolated specimens of artifacts from Bayan-Kara-Ula were preserved.
After scraping off stone particles from the inscribed discs, a sensational discovery was made: the discs are high in cobalt and other metals. And the examination of the whole disk on an oscilloscope revealed an amazing rhythm of oscillations, as if the disks were once "charged" or somehow served as a conductor of electricity.
In 1962, Tsum Um Nui, a professor at the Beijing Academy of Sciences, made a partial translation of hieroglyphs from stone discs. The professor's publication was immediately banned, and it is not surprising: according to the deciphered hieroglyphs, an alien spaceship crashed in the mountains of Bayan-Kara-Ula 12 thousand years ago!
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However, in 1963, Tsum Um Nui, despite the ban, decided to publish the results of his research. The full report is kept at the Beijing Academy and the Taipei Historical Archives in Taiwan. Here is an excerpt from the text:
“Dropa descended to earth from behind the clouds in their air ships. Ten times the men, women and children of the local Kham tribe hid in caves until sunrise. Finally they understood: this time the drops came in peace. It follows from the inscription that the drops landed in Bayan-Kara-Ula more than once, and their visits were not always harmless.
Soon Tsum Um Nui emigrated to Japan, where he wrote the final version of the study of stone discs, and in 1965, he died.
But this story was soon denied.
The report about the discovery of "granite discs" in China is groundless. We also do not know anything about any professor "Tsum Umnue", - read the official response from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the PRC to the request of one researcher who tried to verify the truth of journal history. Moreover, connoisseurs of the Chinese language claim that the very name "Tsum Umnui" is unthinkable for a Chinese. In scientific circles, they did not hear anything about Zhi Pute, allegedly disgraced "all over Asia." Specialists do not know the “Dropa” and “Ham” tribes. And so on all points …"
A new round of this story began in 1974. Austrian journalist Peter Crassa has made the mysteries of history associated with space aliens as the main theme of his books. He mentioned the mystery of disks in his book When the Yellow Gods Came. And once, on the sidelines of a regular conference dedicated to "aliens", a middle-aged stranger approached him. He introduced himself as Ernst Wegerer, an engineer. According to him, in 1974 he and his wife visited China and saw something like the notorious "Bayan-Khara-Ula discs."
“The route of the Wegerer couple's trip ran through the city of Xian, one of the oldest cities in China. Here, among other attractions, tourists are attracted by the Banpo Museum, built on the site of the village of the same name, where archaeologists excavated a Stone Age settlement. Looking at the exposition of the museum, the guests from Austria suddenly froze in disbelief: in the glass window were displayed two discs with holes in the middle. On their surface, in addition to concentric circles, spiral grooves were visible extending from the center, but the spiral inscription was crumbled. Are Bayan-Khara-Ula disks? The Wegerer spouses very much hoped to find out something about them while traveling in China, but they really did not hope for such luck …
"Is it possible to photograph these exhibits?" The pretty woman, the director of the museum, did not mind. However, she reacted with a clear hesitation to the natural request to tell about the origin of the discs. Obviously, she said, the items are of cult significance and are made of clay, since the museum only displays pottery.
Strange: the disks did not resemble ceramics. Engineer Wegerer asked permission to hold them in his hands. The disks turned out to be weighty. “Although I'm not a geologist,” he later said, “it seemed to me that their material was similar to marble. In any case, it was undoubtedly a stone, greenish-gray in color and as hard as granite. From where these items came to the museum, the headmistress also did not know.
In March 1994, Peter Crassa again visited China and the Banpo Museum, but he did not see anything similar to the discs filmed twenty years ago by the engineer Wegerer. And the headmistress in the mid-seventies - yes, yes, soon after the visit to the museum of the European couple - was recalled from here, and her current fate is unknown. The director of the museum, Professor Wang Zhijun, explained that the discs were removed from the exhibition and no one else saw them. When asked where the disks are now, the professor answered: “The exhibits you are interested in do not exist, and, being recognized as foreign components of the exposition, they were moved.” How can you “move” a non-existent thing?
Crassa was discouraged, but pressed with questions about the "Bayan-Khara-Ula disks." Finally, the Chinese ushered the guests into the museum's back room and showed them a Chinese textbook on archeology. Having leafed through the pages covered with hieroglyphs, one of the owners of the study points a finger at the drawing. It depicts a disc with holes in the center, from which arcuate grooves extend along the edges. Close to what was captured by Vegerer's camera and fully corresponds to the descriptions of the Bayan-Khara-Ula disks! It turns out that they are still known to Chinese archaeologists?
In local legends and traditions, there are references to yellow-skinned dwarfs, or gnomes, who descended from heaven and were distinguished by an unusually repulsive appearance. Legends tell that they were hunted by “people on fast horses”, similar in description to the Mongols. They killed many yellow-skinned dwarfs, but a few of their tribe survived. The English archives contain mention of Dr. Caryl Robin - Evans, who visited the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains in 1947. Robin-Evans found a tribe there, whose representatives called themselves Dzopa - this is how the scientist transcribed this name. The people of this tribe were no taller than 120 centimeters and lived in a lost valley, with practically no contact with the outside world.
Robin-Evans lived with mountain recluse for six months. During this time, he learned their language, learned history and studied traditions. The most interesting discovery of the scientist was the legend about the origin of dzop. According to the stunted inhabitants of the mountains, their ancestors flew to Earth from the star Sirius. The ancestors of Dzop could not fly back and remained forever in the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains.
At the end of 1995, the Associated Press reported that a hitherto unknown tribe, numbering about 120 people, was discovered in the Chinese province of Sichuan (bordering Tibet). The most notable feature of the tribe members is their extremely small stature. It does not exceed 1 meter 15 centimeters. Are the descendants of those very "dzopa" or "boor"?”
However, in 1997, Chinese ethnologists declared the effect of increased concentration of mercury in local sources as the reason for the unusual appearance of the “descendants” …