Voldemar Julsrud was a native of Germany who moved to distant Mexico at the end of the 19th century. He settled in the small town of Acambaro, which is 300 kilometers north of Mexico City. There he started his own hardware business, which earned him a decent income. And in his spare time, Dzhulsrud was fond of archeology. In the early twenties of the XX century, together with Padre Martinez, he discovered underground cultural monuments of Chupikauro eight miles from the El Torso hill.
But the most interesting event in his life happened twenty years later, in July 1944. Early in the morning, he was making a horse ride along the slopes of the El Toro hill and suddenly saw several hewn stones and fragments of pottery protruding from the soil After examining the strange finds, Julsrud came to the conclusion that they could not be attributed to any known archaeological culture. The hardware merchant decided to start his own archaeological research and hired a local peasant named Odilon Tinajero, promising to pay him one peso for each artifact found. Therefore, Ginajero was extremely careful when excavating, and accidentally stuck objects broken before taking them to the employer. This is how the famous collection of Dzhulsrud began to form, which was first replenished by Valdemar's son, Carlos Djulsrud, and then by his grandson,Carlos Jr.
Ultimately, the collection of Dzhulsrud began to number about 35 thousand artifacts. Basically, these are figurines made of various types of clay, molded by hand and processed by open firing. The second category is stone sculptures. The third is ceramics. The most interesting fact was that. that in the entire collection there was not a single duplicate specimen of sculpture. The sizes of the figures vary from ten centimeters to one meter in height and one and a half in length. In addition, the collection contains musical instruments, masks, obsidian and jade instruments found there. Along with the artifacts, several human skulls, a mammoth skeleton and ice age horse teeth were found during excavations.
In the collection of Dzhulsrud there were many anthropomorphic figurines representing an almost complete set of racial types of mankind - Mongoloids, Negroids, Caucasoids, Polynesian type and others. But this was not the main sensation. Most puzzling was the fact that about 2,600 figurines were images of dinosaurs. Moreover, the variety of types of fossil lizards is truly amazing. Among them there are easily recognizable and well-known species to paleontological science: Brachiosaurus, Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus River, Pteranodon, Ankylosaurus, Plesiosaurus and many others. There are a huge number of figurines that modern scientists cannot identify, including the winged "dragon dinosaurs". But the most striking thing is that the collection contains a significant number of images of humans along with dinosaurs of different species. Also in the collection there are now extinct mammals - the American camel and the Ice Age horse, giant Pleistocene monkeys and others.
It is this component of the finds from Acambaro that served as the reason for a long history of accreditation of the collection and its owner. In many respects this is understandable, because the fact of coexistence and close interaction between humans and dinosaurs not only refutes the linear evolutionism of the theory of the origin of species on earth, but comes into irreconcilable contradiction with the entire modern, officially accepted worldview paradigm. When in 1947 Dzhulsrud published a book on figurines at his own expense, the official science did not show any interest in it. And in the future, recognition came to the collection with great difficulty.
In 1950, the American journalist Lowell Harmer came to Acambaro. He was present at the excavations on El Toro Hill and even photographed Dzhulsrud with newly dug dinosaur figurines. Following him, Los Angeles journalist William Russell published an article about the excavations of Dzhulsrud with a photo report. In his publication, Russell indicated that the artifacts were removed from a depth of 5-6 feet (one and a half meters) and many objects were entwined with plant roots, so he did not have the slightest doubt about the authenticity of the finds. These publications played a role in popularizing the Waldemar Julsrud collection and breached the conspiracy of silence among academic scholars.
The thesis of forgeries in 1952 was officially denied by the Mexican authorities. Then the superintendent of the National Irrigation Institute Francisco Sanchez said that he can unequivocally state the absence of any ceramic production in Acambaro. The mayor of the city of Acambaro, Juan Carranza, also issued an official statement, which said that, as a result of a special investigation carried out in the area, it turned out that there was not a single person in the city and its environs who would be engaged in the production of such products. History professor Ramon Rivera interviewed local elders and learned that in the previous hundred years, nothing like a large-scale ceramic production had ever appeared in the Acambaro area. However, for any sane person it is clearthat no one will make thousands and thousands of figurines and bury them deep in the ground to play a trick on the public. The collection has features. Not only does it not contain a single duplicate, but the ceramic figurines are made from different types of clay, in different styles and with varying degrees of skill. The production of the figurines would require a huge amount of wood, which has always been extremely expensive in the arid and treeless region of Acambaro. In addition, such a large-scale production with open firing simply could not go unnoticed. The production of the figurines would require a huge amount of wood, which has always been extremely expensive in the arid and treeless region of Acambaro. In addition, such a large-scale production with open firing simply could not go unnoticed. The production of the figurines would require a huge amount of wood, which has always been extremely expensive in the arid and treeless region of Acambaro. In addition, such a large-scale production with open firing simply could not go unnoticed.
By 1954, criticism of the Dzhulsrud collection, initiated by ill-wishers, had reached its maximum, and this led to the fact that mainstream science finally showed interest in it. A delegation of scientists headed by the Director of the Department of Pre-Hispanic Monuments of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Dr. Eduardo Nokvera went to Acambaro. In addition to him, the group included three other anthropologists and historians. This official delegation selected the site for the control excavation itself on the hillside. They took place in the presence of numerous witnesses from respected local citizens. Literally after several hours of work, a large number of figurines were found, similar to those from the Djulsrud collection. According to the archaeologists of the capital, the examination of the found artifacts clearly demonstrated their antiquity. The team members congratulated Dzhulsrud on the outstanding discovery, and two of them promised to publish the results of the trip in scientific journals. However, three weeks passed, and upon his return to Mexico City, Dr. Noquera submitted a report claiming that the Giulsruda collection was a fake as it contained dinosaur figurines.
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Everything was complicated in the future, there were always those who wanted to expose Dzhulsrud. Meanwhile, experts from the United States have established that the age of the figures is from two to five thousand years. The collection contains a large number of stone figures, and all of them show signs of severe erosion. It's almost impossible to fake it. It turned out that the Indians considered the hill of El Toro sacred since ancient times. Now the locals claim that there are four tunnels that lead into the depths of the hill. There seems to be an underground city of some ancient civilization. But people diligently hide the entrances to these tunnels, because they are afraid that their native places will become the subject of unnecessary heightened interest of strangers. And the American John Tierney, who studied materials from Acambaro for almost forty years, is convinced that the collection collected by Julsrud is only part of a huge "library"accompanying the tomb. He believes that the main component of the El Toro monument should be a burial that has not yet been found.
It should be noted that back in 1945, the director for archeology of the Acambaro zone at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Carlos Perez, said that the authenticity of the items in the Giulsruda collection is beyond doubt. Moreover, he personally had a chance to study dinosaur figurines found at the sites of some ancient settlements in Mexico. In 1978, the federal police confiscated 3,300 statuettes from two antiquities hunters, similar in style to the Djulsrud collection. Among them were nine dinosaur figures. But they were all found on the El Chivo hill, also located near Acambaro.
To claim that the Indians of Mesoamerica lived side by side with dinosaurs would be somewhat rash. It is more logical to assume the following. Archeology is hardly an occupation that only our contemporaries are fond of. They were very fond of digging ancient Roman and Etruscan antiquities from the ground in medieval Italy. It is known that the subjects of the Egyptian pharaohs were not averse to delving into the thickness of the sand in search of something very ancient. It is possible that their contemporaries in Mexico could be engaged in paleontology, and even quite succeeded in this. So much so that students in schools in the classroom made dinosaur figurines out of clay, sometimes fantasizing and depicting fossil lizards together with people. When a certain ruler patronizing knowledge died, thousands and thousands of clay figures and much more were put in his burial. Among other things, there were dinosaur figures … But this, of course, is only one of the hypotheses.
V. Bumagin. "Miracles, Riddles, Secrets" №1 (50) 2009