The high-tech, scientific and enlightened XX century, marked by the outstanding achievements of mankind, such as, for example, a flight into space, landing on the moon, descent into the most known deepest Mariana Trench in the World Ocean, left, nevertheless, mysteries of origin that are not explained by official science humanity. Found under the earth's surface, clearly untouched for millennia, and certified artifacts, which, as it were, are, moreover, in an amount estimated in tens of thousands of original copies and which at the same time do not exist, nevertheless exist. Scientists do not recognize them for various reasons, but mainly because they radically break the established scientific paradigms of the origin and development of life on Earth.
We have already written about the mysterious stones-artifacts in the vicinity of the small town of Ica (Secret Doctrine, №21, 22/2012) in the south of Peru, off the coast of the Pacific Ocean, which clearly show fantastic stories of human existence. Representatives of dogmatic schools will not like the plots of drawings engraved on these boulders by ancient craftsmen. But this is not the end of the mystery of the finds, but continues in no less interesting finds near the Mexican town of Acambaro, three hundred kilometers from the capital, where official historians, archaeologists and ethnographers behave in a similar way in relation to the local brilliant discovery made in the middle of the past centuries.
Acambaro is not much different from the mass of other Mexican towns. It does not have any generally recognized attractions related to ancient history or at least to the time of the Conquest, so the main tourist routes pass away from it. Earlier, before the arrival of the Spaniards, representatives of the Tarascan people lived in the vicinity of Acambaro, who spoke a language radically different from the language of their neighbors. According to the researchers, they had no relatives among the surrounding tribes and could well have come to Mexico from the territory of Peru, where mysterious stones with engraved drawings, which often depicted dinosaurs and horses, were found near the mentioned city of Ica.
So, in the summer of 1944, a native of Germany, Voldemar Julsrud (or Yulsrud), a businessman in the state of Guanajuato, while making a horse ride in the vicinity of the El Toro hill, accidentally found several hewn stones, fragments of ceramics and a small clay figurine on the side of the road that was washed out by the rains. this hill. He took his favorite finds with him. With enough knowledge of local archeology, Dzhulsrud immediately realized that these finds could be of scientific interest.
This is how this story began and the related problems and misunderstandings in the scientific world. It should be noted that Dzhulsrud was always interested in various antiquities, even participated in archaeological excavations in his youth. In 1923 he was directly involved in the excavation of the ancient Chupicuaro culture. The excavation site was only fifteen kilometers from the find, which is why he suggested that what was found was also related to the Chupikuaro culture. But he was not a professional scientist, and by the time he began to form his collection, which is now kept in the museum named after him, he was engaged in the trade in hardware.
Over time, intrigued by the find, he began his own research, doing very simply at first - he hired local peasants. However, they chased the number of finds, not paying much attention to their
safety, and brought to Dzhulsrud many already broken clay figurines. Then he changed tactics and announced that he would pay only for whole items, and paid from one to three pesos (the Mexican peso was then equal to about 12 American cents) for each whole find, depending on its size. After that, the work went much more neatly, and even accidentally broken objects were previously glued together before being presented to Dzhulsrud. This is how his collection began to form, which was later replenished by his son and grandson.
Active excavations lasted seven years. Julsrud spent almost all of his fortune, which was about 70 thousand pesos (at that time it was equal to about 8.5 thousand US dollars). However, being a researcher and not an antiquities dealer, Dzhulsrud in his entire life, even in the most constrained situation, did not sell a single item from his collection.
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Voldemar became the owner of a significant collection of 33,000 (according to other sources - more than 37,000) of ancient artifacts. Most of them were ceramic figurines made of various clays by open firing. There are products from both local, light, and black clay from the city of Oaxaca, which is more than half a thousand kilometers away by air. About 2,600 figurines depicted various creatures that became extinct millions of years ago, mistaken for dinosaurs, including those similar to the iguanodon, tyrannosaurus, brachiosaurus, ankylosaurus, plesiosaurus, pteranodon, etc. There were also many unknown species resembling something like winged dragons. A significant number of figurines depicted people with these creatures. Such a kind of everyday sketches showed a wide range of coexistence and interaction, from hunting each other to domestication.
Figures resembling extinct mammals were presented in a significantly smaller volume - an ice age horse, a woolly rhinoceros, giant monkeys of the Pleistocene period. There were also found stone products, various musical and craft instruments, masks, dishes, and more. Basically, the statuettes had sizes from several tens of centimeters to a meter and a half and were represented by people, animals, sculptural compositions. In general, the found collection is characterized by an unusual variety, which is rejected and even simply ignored by academic science under various pretexts.
Since extinct animals, including dinosaurs, were found among the figurines, it became clear that the initial assumption about the Chupikuaro culture is extremely doubtful.
Almost all finds were found in a strip about 80 meters wide and one and a half kilometers long along the entire slope of this hill at a shallow depth. The statuettes were grouped into several dozen pieces, as it were, in separate cells. Many animals are shown in motion, which is not typical for such an ancient art. And among the human sculptures there are clearly Caucasian bearded men, as well as, apparently, the inhabitants of Sumer, Egypt, Mongoloids and individuals with pronounced negroid features - unknown masters depicted all races living on Earth (from Caucasians to Mongoloids).
In the dry Mexican land, Dzhulsrud also found: human skulls, obsidian and jade tools, masks, ice age horse teeth, a mammoth skeleton, several types of figurines and figurines (made of clay, stone, ceramics). In addition to dinosaurs, the species identity of many fossil animals remains a mystery to this day.
Usually, the art of other ancient cultures is characterized by a fairly frequent repetition of plots, images, the presence of numerous duplicates, but here most of the figurines are unique. Although, of course, they can still be grouped according to the similarity of the plots. And this is where riddles begin, since the biggest surprise is the presence of images of dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals among the finds. Moreover, if elephants (mammoths), horses and camels became extinct in America relatively recently (although much earlier than according to officially accepted ideas), then plesiosaurs and brontosaurs - many millions of years ago.
At the same time, on some figurines (as, indeed, on the plots depicted on the stones from Ica), you can see people who peacefully coexist next to these fossil animals.
Obviously, academic science did not like all this very much. At first, they simply turned a blind eye to the finds, pretending that nothing was happening at all. Then, when more and more persistent publications began to appear in the press, the figurines from Acambaro were declared simply a hoax.
In the composition of the clay of many products, it was sometimes possible to find the remains of plants, which made it possible for the prominent American historian and archaeologist Charles Hapgood to organize a professional expert analysis of the finds and carry out radiocarbon dating. As a result, a number of figurines have been attributed to the period from 1000 to 4500 BC.
In the late 1960s, radiocarbon and thermoluminescent dating of the figurines began. All examinations confirmed the ancient age of the finds (in no way less than 2000 years BC). One independent research group set the date of their creation as accurately as possible - 2700 BC, each sample was checked 18 times.
When scientists found out about the origin of the samples under study, they immediately changed their mind, motivating it with the "malfunction" of the equipment, and that a mistake was made, and the final analysis results were interpreted incorrectly, and named the new age of the artifacts - 30 years. At the end of the twentieth century, additional analyzes were made, which showed that the artifacts belonged to the same era: from three to six thousand years ago.
Over time, similar finds were discovered on the other outskirts of the city of Acambaro, near Mount El Chivo.
It should also be noted that a number of creatures are surprisingly similar to the rather "typical" image of aliens (in our view). There are also humanoids with reptilian faces. Perhaps these are some unknown deities, or maybe an ancient race that has died out or left the Earth.
But the riddles do not end there either - there is a version that inside the hill there may be some kind of tomb or other ancient room. But in order to unequivocally determine this, you need to carry out professional excavations.
Regarding the falsification of the finds, it should be noted that all of them were found within a small area, and to make such a number of finds in such a time, it would be necessary to organize a real factory production, which is simply impossible to hide under these conditions. In addition, these products still needed to be buried so that the top was untouched soil and sod. At the same time, the excavations often took place in front of the visiting journalists and scientists.
In 1952, the professional scientist Charles Di Peso became interested in the collection, and Dzhulsrud sent him samples of the figurines. Although laboratory tests did not give any unambiguous result, Di Peso was initially convinced that this was falsification. However, in July 1952, he nevertheless came to Acambaro to familiarize himself with the collection on the spot. According to Giulsrud, Di Peso, after inspecting the collection, showed his admiration for the finds and expressed his desire to buy samples for the museum of the Amerides Foundation, where he worked. However, when he returned to the United States, he published several articles in which he categorically stated that the Djulsrud collection was falsification. Di Peso showed that the figurines were of modern origin and that the surfaces of the figurines were almost “new” and lacked the characteristics of pottery that had been in the earth for at least 1,500 years. In his opinion, the surface of the figurines did not have any scratches or patina characteristic of ancient clay objects. Also, the figurines allegedly have no damage, which is sometimes done by people digging up archaeological finds. If the figures were missing any parts, it was clearly seen that this was done by their manufacturer in order to give the impression of antiquity. Di Peso also noted that all the figurines were found in the mud that filled recently dug holes in the excavation sites, while, for example, authentic artifacts of the Tarasco culture were recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions.typical for ancient clay items. Also, the figurines allegedly have no damage, which is sometimes done by people digging up archaeological finds. If the figures were missing any parts, it was clearly seen that this was done by their manufacturer in order to give the impression of antiquity. Di Peso also noted that all the figurines were found in the mud that filled recently dug holes in the excavation sites, while, for example, authentic artifacts of the Tarasco culture were recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions.typical for ancient clay items. Also, the figurines allegedly have no damage, which is sometimes done by people digging up archaeological finds. If the figures were missing any parts, it was clearly seen that this was done by their manufacturer in order to give the impression of antiquity. Di Peso also noted that all the figurines were found in the mud that filled recently dug holes in the excavation sites, while, for example, authentic artifacts of the Tarasco culture were recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions. If the figures were missing any parts, it was clearly seen that this was done by their manufacturer in order to give the impression of antiquity. Di Peso also noted that all the figurines were found in the mud that filled recently dug holes in the excavation sites, while, for example, authentic artifacts of the Tarasco culture were recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions. If the figures were missing any parts, it was clearly seen that this was done by their manufacturer in order to give the impression of antiquity. Di Peso also noted that all the figurines were found in the mud that filled recently dug holes in the excavation sites, while, for example, authentic artifacts of the Tarasco culture were recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions.authentic artifacts from the Tarasco culture have been recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions.authentic artifacts from the Tarasco culture have been recovered from the rock. According to Di Peso, these figurines have been made by locals since the early 1940s for a profit. So the opinions were radically different and all the opponents remained in their original positions.
By 1954, criticism of the Giulsruda collection had reached such a limit, it forced the official circles of Mexico to intervene. A whole delegation of scientists arrived in Acambaro, headed by the director of the Department of Pre-Hispanic Monuments of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Dr. Eduardo Nokvera. In addition to him, the group included three more anthropologists and historians. They themselves chose the site for the control excavations on the El Toro slope.
The work was carried out in the presence of many witnesses from local respected citizens. After several hours of excavation, a large number of figurines were found, similar to those that made up the Julsrud collection. According to archaeologists in the capital, an examination of the found artifacts clearly indicated their antiquity. Everyone congratulated Dzhulsrud on the outstanding discovery, and two of the delegation promised to publish the results of their trip in scientific journals.
However, then everything went according to the already familiar scenario: three weeks after returning to Mexico City, Dr. Noquera submitted a report on the trip, which claimed that the collection of Giulsrud was falsification. And there was only one "justification" for this conclusion: the collection contains figurines depicting dinosaurs. Instead of explaining the facts - discrediting them, just because they do not fit into the accepted theory - this cannot be, because it can never be …
On July 23, 1952, the mayor of Acambaro, Juan Carranza, published an official statement, in which it was reported that, according to the results of a special study conducted in the area, it was established and found that there is not a single person in Acambaro who would be engaged in the production of such products.
At the same time, the opinion of supporters of the antiquity of the Acambaro figurines is detailed in the book by Professor Charles Hapgood who studied them. Among them are the following weighty arguments:
- all clay figurines were open fired. This requires wood, which is scarce at the present stage in the arid region of Acambaro, is extremely rare and expensive;
- at the time of their appearance, the Akambaro figurines were sold at too low a price (about 10-12 US cents), which is very little and clearly could not recoup the costs of their production;
- the collection includes a significant number of stone figurines, and all of them bear traces of erosion and the centuries-old patina of the stone, which cannot be faked;
- many objects were entwined with plant roots, so there was no doubt about the authenticity of the finds.
Could Julsrud have prepared a hoax of this magnitude? Very unlikely. Acambaro would not have enough human and natural resources (clay, wood) to provide the trick of an archaeological entrepreneur. The lack of human resources could be solved by building a factory (which of course is difficult to hide from the Mexican authorities), but it is downright impossible to carry out a long-term secret supply of all the necessary materials to a poor region of Mexico - this exceeds the capabilities of anyone, even the most gifted and fabulously rich. businessman. The authorities of the state of Guanajuato in 1952 interviewed local residents - according to them, in Acambaro, for hundreds of years, they had not been engaged in the production of any kind of clay products at all.
But some stubborn critics still believe that Dzhulsrud simply brought thousands of figurines from Europe, which, moreover, he also buried 3-4 meters underground. However, the collection consists not only of clay artifacts, and stone sculptures have traces of prolonged erosion and centuries-old patina of the stone, which are almost impossible to fake.
There are persistent rumors that the thirty thousandth collection of Julsrud is only part of the giant library of the underground city located on the side of the El Toro hill. However, who knows how it really is.
History preserves many completely sensational archaeological discoveries. However, not all of them have taken their deserved place in the history of science. It often turned out that the apologists of established scientific concepts either surrounded the findings with a conspiracy of silence, or even tried to present the findings as falsifications, as can be seen in this example. Satisfied with the “fake” stigma, the scientific community simply ignores these artifacts, repeating the version of the modern production of figurines, based on the only thesis: man could not exist with dinosaurs at the same time, and therefore the collection has a modern origin.
In 1964, Voldemar Dzhulsrud passed away and his house was sold. The collection of finds, packed in boxes, was placed in the Akambaro City Hall. In 1999, a significant part of the artifacts was found missing. The result of the scandal was the organization and opening of the Voldemar Dzhulsrud Museum on October 9, 2000 in a separate small building allocated for him. A modest part of the collection is currently on display here as a permanent exhibition.
Vladimir Golovko