The find made by the scientists of Bashkiria contradicts traditional ideas about the history of mankind. The stone slab, which is approximately 120 million years old, has a relief map of the Ural region.
A stone slab found in Chandar village. According to scientists, this is part of the relief map of the Ural region. Researchers believe there may be other fragments of the giant map in the vicinity of Chandar.
This may sound incredible. Scientists at the Bashkir State University have found irrefutable evidence of the existence of an ancient highly developed civilization. This is a huge stone slab found in 1999 with a depiction of the area, made in an unknown way. This is a real relief map. The military has about the same. The stone map shows hydraulic structures: a system of canals 12 thousand kilometers long, dams, powerful dams. Not far from the canals, diamond-shaped areas are marked, the purpose of which is not clear. There are also inscriptions on the map. Lots of inscriptions. At first, they thought it was an ancient Chinese language. It turned out not. The inscriptions made in a hieroglyphic-syllabic language of unknown origin are not yet readable …
“The more I learn, the better I understand that I don’t know anything,” admits Alexander Chuvyrov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor of Bashkir State University. It was Chuvyrov who made a sensational find. Back in 1995, the professor and his graduate student from China Huang Hong decided to study the possible migration of the peoples of Ancient China to the modern territory of Siberia and the Urals. In one of the expeditions to Bashkiria, several rock inscriptions were found in ancient Chinese, which confirmed the conjecture about the Chinese settlers. We managed to read the inscriptions. They mainly contained information about commercial transactions, registration of marriages and deaths.
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On the stone map, scientists were able to see the outlines of rivers, hills and hydraulic structures. In their opinion, the depression in the center of the plate is an ancient Ufa canyon, which later disappeared due to the movement of tectonic plates.
However, in the process of scientific searches in the archives of the Governor-General of Ufa, it was possible to find notes dated to the end of the 18th century. They talked about two hundred unusual white stone slabs, allegedly located near the village of Chandar, Nurimanov district. The idea arose that these slabs might also be related to Chinese settlers. Alexander Chuvyrov also found in the archives a mention of the fact that in the 17th-18th centuries expeditions of Russian scientists who explored the Urals recorded that they had examined 200 white plates with signs and patterns, and at the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologist A. V. Schmidt also saw six white plates of some kind on the territory of Bashkiria. This prompted the scientist to start searching. In 1998, having formed a team of his friends and students, Chuvyrov got down to work. Having hired a helicopter, the first expedition flew around the places where the slabs were supposed to be. But, despite all efforts, it was not possible to find the ancient slabs then. Desperate, Chuvyrov even thought that the existence of stone slabs was nothing more than a beautiful legend.
Luck came unexpectedly. During one of his visits to the village of Chandar, Chuvyrov was approached by the former chairman of the local village council Vladimir Krainov, in whose father's house, by the way, the archaeologist Schmidt was staying: “Are you looking for any slabs here? I have a strange slab in my yard. " “At first I didn’t take this information seriously,” Chuvyrov says, “but I decided to go and have a look. I remember this day exactly - July 21, 1999. There was a slab under the porch of the house, and some notches were made on it. It was clearly beyond the strength of the two of us to get this stove, and I rushed to Ufa for help."
A week later, work began to boil in Chandara. Having unearthed the slab, the searchers were amazed at its dimensions: height - 148 centimeters, width - 106, thickness - 16. Its weight was no less than a ton. In a few hours the owner of the house made special rollers from wood, with the help of which the slab was rolled out of the pit. The find was named "Dashkin's Stone" in honor of the granddaughter of Alexander Chuvyrov, who was born the day before, and was transported to the university for research. They cleared of the earth and … they could not believe their eyes. “At first glance,” says Chuvyrov, “I realized that this is not just a piece of stone, but a real map, and, moreover, not simple, but three-dimensional. Look for yourself."
“How did you manage to identify the area? At first, we did not even in our thoughts admit that the map could be so ancient. Fortunately, for many millions of years, the changes in the relief of modern Bashkiria are not global in nature. The Ufa Upland is easily recognizable, and the Ufa Canyon is the most important point of our evidence, since we carried out geological surveys and found its trace where it should be, according to the ancient map. The displacement of the canyon was due to tectonic plates advancing from the east. A group of Russian and Chinese specialists working in the field of cartography, physics, mathematics, geology, geography, chemistry and the ancient Chinese language managed to establish precisely that a three-dimensional map of the Ural region with the Belaya, Ufimka, Sutolka rivers,- Alexander Chuvyrov demonstrates the lines on the stone to the correspondents of Itogi. - On the map, look, you can clearly see the Ufa Canyon - a fault in the earth's crust, stretching from Ufa to Sterlitamak. At the moment, the Urshak River flows through the former canyon. There she is . The image on the surface of the slab is a map at a scale of 1: 1.1 km.
Alexander Chuvyrov, as a physicist, is accustomed to trust only facts and research results. The facts are as follows.
The geological composition of the slab was established. As it turned out, it consists of three layers. The base - 14 centimeters - is the strongest dolomite. The second layer - perhaps the most interesting one - one would like to say, "made" of diopside glass. The technology of its processing is unknown to science. Actually, the image is applied to this layer. The third layer of 2 mm is calcium porcelain, which protects the card from external influences. “I would especially note,” says Professor Chuvyrov, “that the relief on the slab was by no means carved by hand by some ancient stone-maker. This is simply not possible. It is obvious that the stone has been machined. " X-ray analysis confirmed that the slab was of artificial origin and was created using some precise mechanisms.
At first, scientists assumed that the ancient slab may be of Chinese origin. The vertical labels on the map were misled. As you know, vertical writing was used in ancient Chinese until the 3rd century. Professor Chuvyrov, in order to check this assumption, flew to China, where, not without difficulty, he obtained permission to visit the imperial library. During the 40 minutes given to him by the curators for viewing rare books, he was convinced that the samples of vertical writing on a stone slab did not resemble any of the versions of ancient Chinese writing. Meeting with colleagues from Hunan University finally buried the version of the "Chinese footprint." Scientists have concluded that the porcelain that is part of the plate has never been used in China. Also, attempts to decipher the inscriptions gave nothing,but it was possible to establish the nature of the letter - hieroglyphic-syllabic. True, Chuvyrov states the following: “As it seems to me, I was able to decipher one icon on the map. It denotes the breadth of modern Ufa”.
As we studied the slab, the riddles only increased. The map clearly shows the region's gigantic irrigation system - an engineering marvel. In addition to rivers, there are two systems of canals 500 meters wide, 12 dams 300-500 meters wide, up to 10 kilometers long and 3 kilometers deep each. Dams made it possible to turn the water in one direction or another, and more than a quadrillion cubic meters of land were moved to create them. Compared to them, the Volga-Don Canal on the modern relief may seem like a scratch. As a physicist, Alexander Chuvyrov believes that in modern conditions humanity is able to build only a small part of what is shown on the map. According to the map, the bed of the Belaya River was originally artificial.
It was very difficult to determine even the approximate age of the slab. The radiocarbon analysis and scanning of the layers with a uranium chronometer, carried out in turn, led to contradictory results and did not clarify the question of the age of the plate. When examining the stone, two shells were found on its surface. One of them, Navicopsina munitus of the Gyrodeidae family, is about 50 million years old, and the second, Ecculiomphalus princeps of the Ecculiomphalinae subfamily, is 120 million years old. It is this age that has been accepted so far as a working version. “Perhaps the map was created just at the time when the Earth's magnetic pole was in the modern region of Franz Josef Land, and that was just about 120 million years ago,” says Professor Chuvyrov. - What appeared before us,is beyond the traditional perception of humanity and requires long-term addiction. We also got used to our miracle. At first, we thought that the stone was somewhere around 3000 years old. Gradually, this age was pushed back until they identified shells interspersed into the slab to designate some objects. And who can guarantee that the shell was interspersed into the slab layer while still alive? Maybe the creator of the map used a fossilized find? And if so, then the age of the slab may be older. "did the map creator use a fossilized find? And if so, then the age of the slab may be older. "did the map creator use a fossilized find? And if so, then the age of the slab may be older."
What could be the purpose of the giant map? And here, perhaps, the most interesting part begins. Materials about the Bashkir find have already been studied at the Center for Historical Cartography in the US state of Wisconsin. The Americans were amazed. In their opinion, such a three-dimensional map has only one purpose - navigation - and can be compiled exclusively by aerospace photography. Moreover, right now in the United States, work is underway on a project to create such a volumetric map of the world. And it is planned to complete these works only by 2010! The fact is that when drawing up three-dimensional maps, it is necessary to process a huge array of numbers. “Try to map at least one mountain,” says Chuvyrov, “you’ll go crazy! The technology for making such a map requires super-powerful computers and aerospace surveys from shuttles. Who then created the map? Chuvyrov himself, speaking about unknown cartographers, is careful: “I don’t like it when they start talking about some aliens, aliens. Let's just call the person who made the map - the creator."
Most likely those who lived and built then flew - there are no roads on the map. Or they used waterways. There is also an assumption that the authors of the ancient map did not live here, but were preparing a place for future settlement by draining the land. One can speak about this with a high degree of certainty, but, of course, nothing can be stated unequivocally. Why not assume that the authors of the map could have been people of some pre-existing civilization?
The latest research on the "card maker" is bringing sensation after sensation. Scientists have no doubt that the plate found in Chandara is just a small fragment of a large map of the Earth. It is believed that there were 348 fragments in total. It is possible that the rest of the map fragments may be nearby. In the vicinity of Chandar, scientists took more than 400 soil samples and found that most likely the entire map was located in the Falcon Mountain gorge. However, it was torn apart during the Ice Age. If the "mosaic" can be reassembled, then, according to the calculations of scientists, the size of the stone map should be approximately 340 by 340 meters. Once again plunging into the study of archival materials, Chuvyrov was already able to approximately establish the location of four fragments. One can hide under a farmhouse in Chandara,another - in the same village under the house of the former merchant Khasanov, the third - under one of the village baths, the fourth - under the bridge of the local narrow-gauge railway.
Meanwhile, Bashkir scientists are not wasting their time and are trying, as they say, to “stake out a plot”. They send information about the find to the largest scientific centers of the planet, spoke at several international congresses with a report on the topic: "Map of hydraulic structures of unknown civilizations of the Southern Urals".
What Bashkir scientists have found has no analogues on earth. However, with one exception. When the research was in full swing, a small pebble, chalcedony, got on the table to Professor Chuvyrov, on which the same relief was applied as on the found slab. Perhaps someone who saw the slab decided to copy the relief. However, who did it and why is also a big mystery. The history of "Dashkin stone" continues …
Professor Alexander Chuvyrov, who discovered the Chandar plate, and Deputy Director of the Ufa Museum of Archeology and Ethnography Rif Yakupov