In the periodical press and on the Internet, a topic is widely discussed that challenges the classical theory of the origin and existence of intelligent life on Earth. And we will try to figure out ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Read on and decide for yourself what you think about this.
Fossilized wheel tracks found in various places, including in some parts of Turkey and Spain, were left by heavy all-terrain vehicles about 12-14 million years ago, according to Alexander Koltypin, a geologist and director of the Research Center of Natural Sciences of the Moscow International Independent Ecological and Political University.
This statement causes considerable controversy, since most archaeologists believe that human civilization has existed on our planet for only a few thousand, not millions of years. To agree with the theory of this scientist means to admit that even before us, there was a prehistoric civilization on Earth, which, perhaps, was sufficiently developed to have such vehicles.
Wheel tracks cross faults formed in the middle and late Miocene period (about 12-14 million years ago). Having determined the age of the faults, Koltypin suggested that heavy transport of a civilization unknown to us traveled these roads millions of years ago.
At that time the earth was wet and soft like clay. Large vehicles were loaded in the mud, leaving deep ruts in it. Over time, when the earth dried up, there were ruts of different depths in it. The transport continued to ride the beaten paths already on dry land, according to Koltypin, and the load was not so deep.
The vehicles were the same length as modern cars, but the tires were about 23 cm wide.
According to the scientist, very few works on geology and archeology contain information about these fossilized tracks of cars. But even in these rare references, as a rule, the explanation comes down to the fact that the tracks were left by carts pulled by donkeys or camels.
“I will never agree with these explanations,” the scientist wrote on his Internet page. "Personally, I will always remember … that in the history of our planet there were other civilizations that disappeared long before the appearance of modern man."
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Petrified wheel ruts in Phrygian Valley, Turkey
Photo by Alexander Koltypin
Koltypin argues that the tracks could not have been left by light carts or chariots, because only heavy vehicles could make such deep furrows.
He has done a lot of research in various places where these traces were found, and he studied well the published studies on local geology. He suggested that the road network stretched along much of the Mediterranean and beyond over 12 million years ago.
These well-trodden paths were used by people who built those underground cities, the remains of which we can still find, for example, in the area of Cappadocia in Turkey. Alexander put forward a theory according to which these cities are also much older than it is believed in official archeology.
Petrified wheel ruts have been found in Malta, Italy, Kazakhstan, France and even North America, writes Koltypin.
Most of them are in the province of Kutahya, Turkey, and in the already mentioned historical area of Cappadocia. There, petrified wheel tracks stretch for many kilometers.
Kutahya, Turkey
Cappadocia, Turkey
Fossilized footprints in the Phrygian Valley, Turkey, still visible today, according to Dr. Alexander Koltypin, left by heavy vehicles that people of prehistoric civilization drove around the area
Photo courtesy of Alexander Koltypin
Fossil footprint left by a prehistoric building next to similar ancient wheel tracks in the Phrygian Valley, Turkey
Photo by Alexander Koltypin
Most archaeologists attribute many of these traces to different civilizations that lived at different periods of time. But Koltypin believes that it is not correct to attribute the same roads, potholes and underground structures to different eras and cultures.
Instead, he attributes them to one widespread civilization that inhabited the Earth in a distant era. Countless natural phenomena, such as tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods and tectonic disturbances, have wiped out most of the remains of that highly developed prehistoric civilization, he says.
Taking into account the impact of these natural phenomena on geological formations, Koltypin was able to determine that these potholes and roads appeared, most likely, even earlier than all these catastrophic events.
Heavy mineral deposits covering the tracks and erosion are also evidence of deep antiquity, the scientist says.
Petrification can occur over a period of several hundred years or even several months, so the mere fact that the wheel ruts are petrified is not yet proof that they are very old. But, Koltypin argues that other geological evidence indicates that they appeared during the Miocene, millions of years ago.
Nearby underground cities, irrigation systems, wells and more are also showing signs of being millions of years old, he says. But he adds: "Without careful additional research with the participation of many archaeologists, geologists and specialists in folklore, it is still impossible to answer the question of what kind of civilization it was."
Svetlana Bodrik
