If the "British scientists" reported about the find, indicating that the first cars appeared on the planet Earth millions of years ago, this story could be passed by.
However, a sensational statement was made by our compatriot - director of the Scientific Center for Fundamental Research in Natural Sciences, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Alexander Koltypin.
In his opinion, intelligent beings existed on Earth, which even 5 or 10 million years ago traveled around our planet in some kind of all-terrain vehicles. And the evidence for such a paradoxical statement, according to the scientist, exists in abundance in Turkey.
“This year,” Mr. Koltypin told the AvtoVzglyad portal, “a group of four Russian researchers went to inspect archaeological sites located in Central Turkey - on the eastern outskirts of Central Anatolia,” says Alexander Viktorovich. - For such a trip, we rented a car at Ankara airport. After a while we got to one of the most remote places on our route - the Phrygian Valley.
Once, having retired deep into the territory on a dirt road in order to explore the rocky cities near the town of Dodger, we decided to continue our way along it to the nearest village, where the asphalt road began. Everything went well at first.
However, with every hundred meters, the primer became worse and worse, and its ruts became deeper and deeper. Gradually the road bifurcated, then new ruts appeared on its sides. All of them were so deep that it was impossible to drive through them in an ordinary passenger car (Fiat linea).
Deciding to find out the possibility of a detour, we got out of the car and … opened our mouths in surprise. The ruts of this and neighboring "roads" were fossilized wheel tracks in tuffaceous rocks. Judging by all the signs, it is a Neogene leveling surface. And these stone expanses turned out to be covered with traces of wheels that passed here many millions of years ago.
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Millions? But, according to the generally accepted version, the wheel was invented by man only a few thousand years ago …
- So it's not about the human race …
Do the ruts you discovered form a system of prehistoric roads?
- We stumbled upon huge desert fields - tens of kilometers long, ten kilometers wide, dotted with such traces. But I didn't notice any system. However, the distance between two adjacent tracks is the same everywhere, and it is quite consistent with the track of today's passenger cars.
The maximum track depth is one meter. Horizontal scratches are visible on the side walls in the deepest places, it is very likely that they were left by the protruding ends of the axles on which the wheels of ancient vehicles were attached. We found a lot of areas with such marks.
It can be assumed that the most ancient wheeled carriages rode on some kind of pliable at that time - maybe just a damp surface and pressed deep ruts into it with their weight, and then this surface gradually petrified, preserving all the prints to this day. Such cases are well known to geologists - there are, say, examples of "natural conservation" of dinosaur tracks.
The "rut" field was a completely unexpected find for me. In reference books, in guidebooks, there is not even a mention of this phenomenon. The only pair of sources that could be found: reports on the work of a Turkish graduate student and another researcher - a Turk of English origin. They both call the fossilized ruts "cart tracks."
However, my colleague Andrei Kuznetsov and I, after a careful study of these ruts, came to an unequivocal conclusion: they have nothing to do with carts. After all, there are no traces between the tracks - a deepened groove from the legs of animals or humans. We searched for them carefully, but did not find them.
So, most likely, we need to talk about some cars or all-terrain vehicles. The tracks sometimes intersect each other, and in some places one wheel track is deeper, and the one crossing it is shallower.
After several photographs of the unique field were posted on the Internet, on the forum, some meticulous site visitors expressed arguments in favor of the assumption that the tractive effort in these all-terrain vehicles was transmitted to the body, and not to the wheels.
There was even a person who posted a specific version of the design of such a drive mechanism on the network. Other analysts, based on the nature of the tracks left on the bends, concluded that most likely the ATVs were 6- or 8-wheeled, with a wheel diameter of about one meter.
The appearance of the ruts does not raise doubts about their antiquity: in some places the surface has undergone strong weathering, here and there are visible cracks-faults, along which mineral formation proceeds, secondary crust of changes are clearly visible … The age of these ruts is determined by the age of those tuffs and volcanics that form the field itself: minimum 12 million years.
Is that so unambiguous?
- The point is that the method for determining the absolute age of volcanics is well developed. Therefore, I can say with confidence, as a geologist, that unknown to us antediluvian all-terrain vehicles traveled across today's central Turkey 12-14 million years ago.
The area where fields with amazing auto tracks are located is sparsely populated, there are only a few villages, the largest of which is Gazligol. However, these places cannot be called completely unvisited …
Archaeologists avoid touching on this topic. After all, this fact violates all their classical constructions. By the way, my colleague found a similar field with stone ruts in Cappadocia - 200 kilometers from ours.
That is, you believe that in very, very distant times on the planet there were some intelligent beings who used the "great-cars" invented by them?
- I think in this case we are meeting with traces of the civilization that existed before the classical creation of the world. Perhaps the bearers of that proto-civilization were creatures completely different from modern people. The legends of many peoples say that once upon a time another world existed on the planet, which was destroyed as a result of a terrible catastrophe. There is information about those "ultra-distant" times in religious literature.
For example, in the New Testament there is a reference to the antediluvian history of the Earth. And the Koran says that before the creation of the world, the earth was inhabited by some jinn. In fact, the traces of prehistoric cars that we found that drove around the earth millions of years ago are just one of the arguments in favor of revising the framework established by the modern generally accepted history of the Earth.
If desired, on our planet you can see a huge number of artifacts confirming the existence of very ancient civilizations, the age of which is estimated at hundreds of thousands and millions of years.