Scientists often say that modern civilization is threatened with destruction as a result of a global war with the use of weapons of mass destruction. Curiously, ancient epics and archaeological finds sometimes testify in favor of the fact that something similar has already happened on our planet.
Glass fields
The land of Ancient Egypt is full of mysteries. And they are connected not only with the pyramids and burials in the Valley of the Kings. One of these mysteries is associated with the huge fields of fossil green glass, stretching for hundreds of square kilometers in the Libyan desert, near the Saad plateau in the border area of Libya, Egypt and Sudan, where the dunes of the Great Sandy Sea stretch. Some pieces of this natural glass weigh up to 26 kilograms, but most are much smaller and in shape resemble shards of a giant green bottle. For the first time, this natural glass in the form of small glass pebbles was found in the Libyan desert back in 1816, but became widely known after Patrick Clayton, an employee of the Egyptian Geological Gazette, saw the glass fields themselves in 1932. And 200 kilometers from these deposits, numerous pieces of the same glass were found, together with spearheads, axes and other tools made from it, which were used by the ancient inhabitants of this area. Some of them are about 100 thousand years old!
The ancient Egyptians also knew about these deposits. They not only knew, but also used them for their own purposes, for example, for the production of jewelry. Thus, the scarab beetle, one of the elements of the famous necklace of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered by Howard Carter during excavations in the Valley of the Kings, is skillfully carved from volcanic glass. Where did it come from in the desert?
It is generally known that the transformation of sand into glass occurs as a result of heat treatment. The temperature is high, the sand melts at 1700 ° C, so matches, logs and brushwood are indispensable here. What kind of heat source would be required to turn many hundreds of tons of sand into glass? There are several theories about this. One, for example, talks about fulgurites - sand caked from a lightning strike, the power of an electric charge of which is enough to melt it. However, it is completely incomprehensible how the dunes of the Libyan Desert attracted such an amount of lightning. Another calls the meteorite, which exploded over the desert in time immemorial, as the culprit for the formation of glass deposits. Many scientists agree that the reason for the appearance of glass in the desert was the invasion of the atmosphere by a 100-meter asteroid, which was rushing at a speed of 20 km / sec. It would be,perhaps an impeccable explanation, if not for one "but": on the surface of the Great Sandy Sea there is neither an impact crater, nor its traces.
Meanwhile, back in the forties of the last century, after testing a nuclear bomb in the state of New Mexico in the United States, the desert sands also turned into molten green glass. Can we conclude on this basis that the glazed sands of the Libyan Desert were born under similar circumstances, only over 100 thousand years ago as a result of a nuclear bombardment, after which most of North Africa was occupied by the world's largest Sahara desert? To conclude, as the author of the book “Project Earth. The mystery of the future is in the past”Ya. V. Zuev, perhaps, is not worth it, but no one bothers to have something like that in mind.
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Mohenjo-daro - radioactive ruins
In 1922, the Indian archaeologist R. Banerjee discovered the ruins of an ancient city in the Indus Valley. Excavations have shown that it was impeccably planned and equipped with plumbing and sewerage systems superior to those used in India and Pakistan today. Over time, the ancient city received the name Mohenjo-Daro. Among its ruins, scattered pieces of melted clay were found, which at one time, under the influence of high temperature, turned into black glass. Analysis of the samples, carried out at the University of Rome, and then in the laboratory of the Italian National Research Council, showed that the reflow occurred at one and a half thousand degrees Celsius.
In ancient times, such a temperature could be obtained in the forge of a metallurgical workshop, but not in a vast open area. Not only that, archaeologists have drawn attention to one gloomy feature of the ancient city. Having carefully examined the ruins, they came to the conclusion that the degree of destruction of buildings and structures decreases with distance from the city center or, rather, the epicenter of the explosion, which completely swept away the city blocks. But that's not all. Skeletons found among the ruins suggested that death found people suddenly. Finally, the bones were found to be radioactive over the years.
The mysterious and ominous picture found an explanation only after the Americans launched nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. There, after the explosions made at an altitude of about 500 meters, the same terrible pictures of destruction were observed with the same patterns, but everything was fresh for thousands of years. So did the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro die in a nuclear attack?
However, this does not exhaust the traces of the great upheavals on the Indian subcontinent. So, the traveler De Camp discovered ruins that were destroyed so badly that it is difficult to believe that an ordinary fire was raging here. A pair of rock formations literally look as if they were partially melted and formed large indentations, similar to those left in a tin slab by a jet of hot steel. According to the traveler, these ominous ruins are located in an area that stretches between the Ganges and the neighboring Rajmahal hills. Even today, this area in West Bengal, located not very far from the border with neighboring country - Bangladesh, remains largely unexplored. The area is cut by numerous tributaries and lateral branches of the Ganges. Only in those months when the monsoon rains do not fall,here you can still move with considerable difficulty. In the remaining months, it is impossible to explore this area because it is all flooded with water. Moreover, this area is replete with poisonous snakes and other terrible creatures.
A little further south of this area, British officer J. Campbell stumbled upon similar ruins during the time of the British Empire. At the same time, he made a terrible discovery, the meaning of which became clear to us only after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here, in the midst of these nameless ruins, on the floor of the courtyard, partially transformed into glass, the shadow of a certain human figure is clearly visible. With nuclear explosions, such can form near the epicenter: for that brief moment that a person evaporates from the monstrous heat, an image of his shadow remains on the wall or on the floor, as if when photographing.
In the entire strip that runs from Western China through India and Pakistan to Iraq, archaeologists, starting from a certain depth, came across layers of fused rocks - a kind of greenish molten glass. Who will answer the question why these fused glassy particles look like they formed in the state of Nevada or the Gobi Desert, where ground tests of nuclear weapons were carried out in the 1950s?
The testimony of the Mahabharata
The Sanskrit texts of the ancient Indian epic "Mahabharata", consisting of 18 books and numbering over 200,000 verses, which is seven times more than in the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" of Homer combined, contains information about religion, worldview, customs, history of the Ancient India, as well as the legends of its gods and heroes. A significant part of the epic is devoted to the description of military operations with the participation of gods, demigods and people. Researchers believe that these events relate to the semi-legendary history of the invasion from the north of Hindustan by the Aryan tribes, who pushed the indigenous inhabitants of the Dravids back to the southern part of the peninsula. However, among the episodes of ancient battles common for those times, there are also detailed scenes in which it is easy to recognize the use of … artillery pieces, missiles, combat aircraft, locators, smoke screens, poison gases and even nuclear weapons.
For example, Drona Parva, one of the books of the Mahabharata, tells of a battle in which the explosions of shells, similar to huge balls of fire, cause storms and storms, incapacitating entire armies. As a result of these explosions, many enemy soldiers, together with weapons, war elephants and horses, rise into the air and are carried away by a powerful whirlwind like dry leaves from trees. This text also describes the process of the formation of a mushroom cloud, characteristic of a nuclear explosion. It is compared to opening a giant umbrella. After these explosions, the food became poisoned, the surviving people fell ill, and the symptoms of the disease exactly corresponded to the main signs of radiation sickness - they had bouts of vomiting, hair and nails fell out, and then death occurred.
In the Indian epics, ancient airplanes are also described in detail - the flying machines of the Vimaana. The book "Samarangana Sutradharan" compares different types of vimaanas, mentions the advantages and disadvantages of each variety, gives take-off and flight characteristics, landing methods. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of structural materials such as wood, light metals and their alloys, as well as the materials used to create the driving force. The latter, oddly enough, includes mercury.
Ancient Star Wars
Alexander Viktorovich Koltypin in his work "The Disappeared Inhabitants of the Earth" draws attention to the fact that in the "Mahabharata", "Bhagavata Purana", "Vishnu Purana" and other ancient Indian texts, the cosmic travel by air ships. “Citraketu, the lord of the Vidyadharas [class of demigods, good spirits of the air], went on a journey through the vast expanses of the Universe … on his dazzling airship …” “Rushing through space, Maharaja Dhurva saw one after another all the planets of the solar system and saw on his way demigods on celestial chariots … " In this way the Maharaja Dhurva passed the seven planetary systems of the great sages known as saptarishis … " Descendant of the dynatia Kuru,King Vasu could travel outside the Earth in the upper regions of our Universe, and therefore in those distant times he became famous under the name Upari-chara, "Wandering in the higher worlds".
One of the episodes of the Mahabharata tells how the great warrior Arjuna, after a battle with the underwater inhabitants of the Nivatakavachas, returned to heaven in his flying amphibious chariot and found a city flying in space: “On the way back I saw another huge and amazing city capable move anywhere. He shone like fire or sun. " In this flying city called Hiranyapur there lived daityas (daityas) demons. Arjuna was ordered to defeat them. Noticing the approach of his aircraft, the Danavs began to fly out of the city on their celestial chariots - well, just like the "Star Wars" of George Lucas and similar directors! Then Arjuna “with a powerful avalanche of weapons … blocked this formidable stream. He made them in awe, plowing the battlefield with a chariot, and … the Danavs began to smite one another."
Under a powerful attack from Arjuna, they lifted their flying city into the air. Then Arjuna “with a powerful shower of arrows … blocked the path of the Daityas and tried to stop their movement. Thanks to the gift [from Brahma] received, the daityas directed where they wanted this heavenly, floating in the air, wonderfully sparkling city, moving at will: it went underground, then rose again, then swiftly moved to the side, then plunged into the water “. Ultimately, Arjuna struck the heavenly city with iron arrows, so similar to modern kinetic ammunition, and when 60 thousand surviving demons rushed at him in their flying chariots, he incinerated them with a weapon called Raudra, apparently a kind of nuclear weapon.
So, the finds of archaeologists and ancient epics really testify in favor of the fact that in deep antiquity on our planet and even in outer space unthinkable wars raged with the use of the most advanced weapons. It is very likely that such events have played out more than once. And their consequences were hardly cheerful.
Victor BUMAGIN