"Fear" and "Horror" - two fragments of a once united whole?
Today we know a lot about Mars thanks to the latest research of Curiosity, there is a lot of information about its moons, Phobos and Deimos, although the main answers to key questions, of course, are still ahead. However, it turns out back in 891 AD. our ancestors had, albeit incomplete, a map of Mars and its satellite … yes, it was a satellite, not satellites! Moreover, it is clearly not the original, but a copy from some much more ancient sources …
It is known that the "red planet" has two moons - Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Mars are so small that even the famous Galileo Galilei at the beginning of the 17th century could not see them through his telescope with 32x magnification. These celestial bodies were discovered only in 1877. Astronomers then suggested that such a small size could mean that Mars once had one satellite, and later it split into two parts …
And so, back in 1939 in Armenia, scientist Harutyunyan discovered more than a strange manuscript containing … a map of the surface of Mars! The pole of Mars is shown as a spiral. Mars is also surrounded by a circle representing its only satellite. Not Phobos and Deimos! In addition to the images on the map, there is a small text in Latin. It indicates that the map was made by the priests of Western Cairo in 891 AD.
Comparison of this ancient map with modern maps of the surface of Mars, made with the help of space stations, gives considerable similarity (but there are differences, which can be explained both by the time difference and the inaccuracy of the compilers). Science does not know when Mars had one satellite, and not two (and whether it was!), In what historical era it could be divided into Phobos and Deimos … A global catastrophe on Mars happened about 300 million years ago - but then no one could make this map!
A copy of the map could have come to Armenia from the "hiding places" of the Alexandria library - through the great Armenian enlightener Mashtots, who sent his students to Alexandria, tasking them with "copying as many ancient manuscripts as possible." Today the map is in the Matenadaran archive, but there is no free access to it …
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