The paradox of modern science is that for the bulk of scientists an inexplicable fact has not only meaning, but also no place. Therefore, many amazing archaeological finds that conflict with generally accepted theories of human origin and the development of civilization are ignored and hushed up in every possible way. Among them is a silicon human brain, found in the quarry of the village of Odintsovo near Moscow in 1925.
The find of an amateur archaeologist
Nikolai Alexandrovich Grigorovich was a versatile personality. Having a medical education, in the reference book he was listed as a surgeon, and in fact taught pharmacology at the chemical and pharmaceutical faculty of the 2nd Moscow State University. In addition, he was fond of archeology, was a lover of all sorts of rarities and wonders. Having heard that a mammoth tooth was found in a quarry near the village of Odintsovo near Moscow, where clay was mined for a local brick factory, Grigorovich decided to look there for the bones of this prehistoric animal.
On August 25, 1925, Nikolai Alexandrovich came to the quarry. Beginners and amateurs are lucky. In the excavation, he discovered a large flint cobblestone, shaped like a human brain. Slightly clearing the stone of adhering clay, the researcher was convinced that the resemblance to the brain is simply striking: the find was divided in half by a groove passing between the right and left hemispheres, and in the occipital part he found a torcular Herophili - the connection of the large sickle process with the cerebellum, as well as part of the cerebellum.
Excited by the amazing discovery, Grigorovich wanted to immediately go home to clean and inspect his find in more favorable conditions (it was raining in the morning, and his boots were stuck in a sodden clay porridge), but some seventh sense prompted him to continue excavations. Intuition did not disappoint: in the same clay pit, in the same horizon, a piece of another brain was found - the left cerebral hemisphere.
The discovery of N. A. Grigorovich puzzled scientists. Geologist N. Z. Milkovich, whom Nikolai Aleksandrovich brought to the Odintsovo quarry, was able to assess the horizon of the finds as the lower layer of the moraine (deposits) of the Mindelian glaciation, which, as is commonly believed, took place 450-500 thousand years ago. But in that era, as the science of the 1920s believed, half-monkeys lived on Earth, like the Javanese Pithecanthropus and the German "Heidelberg man". 500 thousand years ago, Homo sapiens, which has a brain identical to the brain of modern man, could not have appeared yet: this completely contradicted the theory of Darwinism.
Specialists-geologists dealing with this problem, in particular Professor S. A. Yakovlev and academician A. P. Pavlov, found that "the silicon mass found at Odintsov, similar to the human brain," was brought to the Moscow region by a glacier from sediments formed at the bottom of the sea of the Carboniferous period, that is, 285-350 million years ago.
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And since a scientist who dared to assume that at that unimaginably distant time, when even reptiles did not yet exist, any brains at all could exist, would have been immediately sent to a madhouse, geologists concluded that Odintsovo's findings were lusus naturae, play of nature.
That is, in the limestone of the Carboniferous sea, by a blind chance, he took and formed a stone, like two drops of water, similar to a human brain. And so twice. Absurd? But even the ancient Latins used to say: Credo quia absurdum ("I believe, because it is absurd").
And one more nonsense. If, as geologists say, these “cobblestones” were brought to the Moscow region by a glacier from afar, why didn’t it roll them along the way to the smoothness of other boulders, keeping all anatomical details intact? And why were both "brains" close? Maybe they were here, in Odintsovo, and "were born"?
However, Professor Yakovlev believed that there were no geochemical conditions for this. And he came to a disappointing conclusion: “The findings of Dr. Grigorovich must be recognized as concretions in which lusus naturae manifested itself in such a bizarre form. But if anatomists prove their identity with the human brain, then geologists will have to recognize in them a new miracle of nature, which we are currently unable to find an explanation for”.
Medics: real, but petrified
The big "brain" had to be investigated and described by Grigorovich himself, and the small one was very scrupulously worked on by B. K. Hindze, who soon became a professor. Doctors came to the conclusion that "in both finds we have specimens of the human brain that have come down to us from prehistoric eras, which … have undergone a process of being soaked in silica."
But it was very difficult to explain how the brain substance could be replaced by silicon. No, actually silicification is a well-known process. In museums, there are many fossil worms and flowers, consisting of solid silicon. But opponents of our researchers objected that the brain substance is very unstable, decomposes quickly, and silicification takes thousands of years.
It is a pity that, due to practically interrupted contacts with the rest of the scientific world, they did not have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the notes of the South African anatomist Raymond Dart, published in the journal Nature in February and September 1925. He described a limestone cast of the brain, and "on the surface of the stone were clearly visible convolutions and grooves of the brain, blood vessels."
Of course, limestone is not flint, but what is important is that it turns out that the brain can retain its shape for as long as it takes to petrify. Dart was lucky: in the same breed, skull bones were found that perfectly covered the cast, and his discovery (and the genus Australopithecus was discovered) had to wait only 22 years for recognition.
And if these are dummies?
The conclusions of the doctors were called into question by another experiment. On one of Grigorovich's finds, a flat area was polished. The researchers found that the grooves and convolutions streak only the surface of the "silicon brain", and then a monolith follows. Therefore, they decided that this was a play of nature.
And no one even dared to suggest that these artifacts could be of artificial origin. Let's say this is a cast from a real brain, similar to the one used by the scientists themselves, comparing Odintsov's "cobblestone" with the brain of a modern man. But who could have made such a dummy in the Paleozoic?
Who left behind on the beach?
Currently, scientists have come to the conclusion that the human race may be much older than previously thought. For example, in 1938, in the state of Kentucky (USA), a section of an Upper Carboniferous petrified beach with traces of bare feet was discovered (they were left more than 300 million years ago).
“Each track had five fingers and a distinct characteristic deflection. The toes were spread wide apart, which is typical of a person who never wore shoes … Like a human foot, the foot of a creature that left footprints sagged back to the heel, which also looked just like a human,”said Professor W. Burrows, Dean of the Geology Department of the City College Berrea (Kentucky).
One critic stated that the marks could have been carved by people of a later time, but he was objected - under the microscope, not the marks of the incisor are found, but the thin lines of compression of sand under the pressure of the foot. Similar tracks have also been found in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
But who could have left these traces? Our distant ancestors (if we take into account the hypothesis that the current civilization is not the first on Earth and - alas! - not the last: all the previous ones ceased to exist due to all-destroying wars on a planetary scale or natural disasters such as falling asteroids or changing the poles)? Or distant descendants who arrived in the Paleozoic in a time machine? Or maybe it was generally aliens who, according to the now popular hypothesis, created us and populated the planet with us?
Many traces and artifacts similar to Odintsov's were found. And science ignores most of them, since their existence does not fit into any scientific theory and violates the usual picture of the world. Therefore, Grigorovich's findings from Odintsovo have been safely forgotten. Now they are stored in the funds of the Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow and do not cause scientific interest.
Nikolay SOSNIN