It is obvious the stone was machined. Xray analysis confirmed the slab was artificial constructed, having been made with precision tools.

A discovery by Bashkir scientists contradicts all traditional notions of human history: Stone slabs dated to 120 million years old are covered with a relief map of the Ural Region. This seems impossible.

 

 

Scientists of Bashkir State University have found indisputable proofs of an ancient highly developed civilization's existence. The question is about a great plate found in 1999, with picture of the region done according to an unknown technology. This is a real relief map. Today's military has almost similar maps. The map contains civil engineering works: a system of channels with a length of about 12,000 km, weirs, powerful dams. Not far from the channels, diamond-shaped grounds are shown, whose meaning is unknown. The map also contains numerous inscriptions. At first, the scientists thought the inscriptions were an Old Chinese language. It turned out they were done in a hieroglyphic-syllabic language of unknown origin. The scientists have never managed to read it.

"The more I learn, the more I understand that I know nothing," says Alexandr Chuvyrov, a doctor of physical and mathematical science and Professor of Bashkir State University. Professor Chuvyrov made the sensational find.

During 1995, the Professor and his post-graduate student from China (Huan Hun) decided to study the hypothesis of a possible migration of the Old Chinese population to the territory of Siberia and Ural. In an expedition to Bashkiria, they found several rock carvings illustrated in Old Chinese language. These finds confirmed the hypothesis of Chinese migrants. The inscriptions mostly contained information about trade bargains, marriage and death registration, were easily translated.

During their investigation, ancient records dating to the 18th century were found in archives of the Ufa Governor General. There they discovered reports of about 200 unusual stone slabs found near the Chandar village, Nurimanov Region. Chuvyrov and his colleague at once decided these slabs might be connected with Chinese migrants. Archive notes also reported that during the 17th & 18th centuries, expeditions of Russian scientists investigating the Ural Region had studied 200 white slabs with signs and patterns. During the early 20th century, archaeologist A. Schmidt had also seen some white slabs in Bashkiria. These discoveries prompted the scientists to begin their search. In 1998, after having formed a team of his students, Chuvyrov launched the work. He hired a helicopter, and the first expedition flew to the area where the slabs were supposed to be. Despite all efforts, the ancient slabs were not found. Disappointed, Professor Chuvyrov considered the information about the slabs might be flawed.

Unexpected luck

During one of Professor Chuvyrov's trips to the village, ex-chairmanVladimir Krainov of the local agricultural council came to him (archaelogist Schmidt once stayed with Krainov's father) and asked, "Are you searching for some stone slabs? I have a strange slab in my yard!

"At first, I did not take the report seriously," Professor Chuvyrov said. "But, I decided to go to his yard to see it. I remember this day exactly: July 21, 1999. Under the porch of the house we saw the slab. There were several dents on its exposed surface. The slab was so heavy that we could not take it out. So, I went to the city of Ufa to ask for help."

Within a week, work was launched in Chandar. After having dug out the slab, the searchers were struck with its size. The slab was 148 cm (4.855643æFeet) high, 106 cm (3.47769 Feet) wide and 16 cm (6.299213æinches) thick, weighing at least one ton. Vladimir Krainov made wooden rollers, and the slab was rolled out from the hole. The slab was named "Dashka's Stone" in honor of Alexander Chuvyrov's granddaughter, who had been born the day before it was removed. The slab was then transported to the university for investigation.

After the slab was cleaned of earth, the scientists could not believe what they saw... "At first sight," Professor Chuvyrov said, "I understood this was not simply a common stone relic like any we have ever seen. It is a real map! And not a simple map, but a three-dimensional relief map! You can see it yourself."

"How did we manage to identify the place? At first, we could not imagine the map was so ancient. Happily, relief of today's Bashkiria has not changed so much within millions of years. We could identify Ufa Height, while Ufa Canyon is the main point of our proof. We carried out geological studies and found the track where it should be, according to the ancient map. Displacement of the canyon occured because of tectonic plates which moved from the East. The group of Russian and Chinese specialists in the field of cartography, physics, mathematics, geology, chemistry, and the Old Chinese language managed to precisely determain that the slab contains a map of the Ural region, with rivers Belya, Ufimka, Sutolka," Alexandr Chuvyrov said while showing the lines on the stone to the journalists. "You can see Ufa Canyon. The break of the earth's crust has been stretched out from the city of Ufa to the city of Sterlitimak. Currently, Urshak River runs over the former canyon." The map had been created with a scale 1 : 1.1 km.

As a physicist, Alexandr Chuvyrov has gotten into the habit of only trusting the results of scientific investigation and facts. To date, his findings support the ancient age of the map.

The next inquiry was to determain the geological structure of the slab. Analysis has shown it consists of three levels. The base is 14 cm (5.511811æinches) thick, made of the firmest dolomite. The second level is probably the most interesting, "made" of diopside glass. The technology used to create it is not known to modern science. Actually, the map relief is marked on this level. While the third level is 2 mm (.07874 æInches) thick and made of calcium porcelain, protecting the map from external impact.

"It should be noticed," the Professor said, "the relief has not been manually made by an ancient stonecutter. It is simply impossible. It is obvious this the stone was machined."

X-ray analysis confirmed the slab was artificially constructed, having been made with precision tools

At first the scientists speculated that this could have been made by the ancient Chinese, because of vertical inscriptions on the map. It is well known, literature composed of vertical styled characters were used in the Old Chinese language before the 3rd century. To check his supposition, Professor Chuvyrov visited the Chinese Empire Library.

Having only been granted 40 minutes, Professor Chuvyrov looked through several rare books. Not one of them contained literature similar to that found on the slab. After the meeting with his colleagues from Hunan University he concluded the language was not Chinese, and the porcelain covering the slab had never been used in China.

Though all efforts to decipher the inscriptions were fruitless, it is clear the characters are hieroglyphic-syllabic. Professor Chuvyrov has deciphered one glyph on the map, however. It signifies the latitude of today's city of Ufa.

The longer the slab was studied, the more mysteries appeared

According to the map, Belaya River had an artificial river bad. A giant irrigation system is clearly illustrated. In addition to the rivers of the region being clearly identifiable, there are two 500 metre (1,640.419948æfeet) wide channel systems, 12 dams, 300 ~ 500 metres (984.251969 ~ 1,640.419948 feet) wide, approximately 10 km (6.213712 miles) long. Each were 3 km (1.864114 miles) deep. The dams most likely helped in turning collected water from the rivers towards either side of the valley. Over 1 quadrillion cubic metres of earth had to be moved and positioned. In comparison with the current irrigative system, Volga-Don Channel looks like a scratch compared to that on the relief map. As a physicist, Alexandr Chuvyrov suggests mankind, by todays technology, could only build a small part of what is pictured on the map.

It was difficult to determine an approximate age for the slab

At first, radiocarbon analysis was done. Afterward, levels of slab were scanned with a uranium chronometer. These tests gave different results. The age of the slab was still unclear. Then while examining the stone, two shells were found on its surface. The age of one of them - Navicopsina munitus (of the Gyrodeidae family) is about 500 million years old, while of the second shell, Ecculiomphalus Princeps (of the Ecculiomphalinae subfamily) is about 120 million years old. Namely, that age was accepted as a "working version".

"The map was probably created during the period when the Earth's magnetic pole was situated in today's area of Franz Josef Land. This was exactly 120 million years ago," Professor Chuvyrov says. "The map we have is beyond traditional perception of mankind and we need a long time to get used to it. We need time to get used to our miracle. At first we thought the stone was about 3,000 years old. Though, that age was changed as we identified the shells embedded within the stone. But is it realistic to think the shell was alive while being ingrained onto the stone the map is constructed of? The map's creator probably used a petrified find which would qactually push the date back much further."

Why was the map created?

This is probably the most interesting thing. Materials from the Bashkir find have been investigated at the Center of Historical Cartography, in Wisconsin (USA). The Americans were amazed. According to them, a three-dimensional map could have only one purpose - navigational. The precise detail could only be worked out through aerospace survey. Moreover, work is being carried out in the US to create a three-dimensional world map like this one. The Americans intend to complete their work during 2010. The greatest problem is that compiling information to create such a three-dimensional map requires powerful computers.

"Try to map at least a mountain!" Chuvyrov says. "The technology of compiling the information to construct a map of this kind demands super-power computers, and the ability to generate an aerospace survey from the Shuttle."

So, who created this map? Chuvyrov, while speaking about the unknown cartographers, is wary. "I do not like to discuss the possibility the map was created by some UFO and extraterrestrial presence. Let us call the author of the map simply - The Creator."

"It appears as if those who lived and built at that time must have used air transportation. There is no way the map could have otherwise been made. It is obvious they used water ways. There is also an opinion that the authors of the ancient map did not live there at all, but only prepared that place for settlement through draining the land. This seems to be the most probable version, though nothing factual about either idea can be stated for the time being. Why not assume the authors belonged to a civilization who existed earlier?"  

Latest investigations of the map bring one sensation after another

Scientists are now sure that the map is only a fragment of a larger map of the Earth. According to some hypothesis, there werea total of 348 fragments like the one found. The other fragments are probably somewhere near the area of the first piece. In the outskirts of Chandar, scientists have recently taken over 400 samples of soil. They have estimated the whole map had most likely been situated in the gorge of Sokolinaya Mountain (Falcon Mountain). During the glacial epoch it would have certainly been broken and torn apart. But if the scientists manage to gather the "mosaic," the map should have an approximate size of 340 x 340 m (1,115.485564 X 1,115.485564 Feet).

After having studied the archive materials, Chuvyrov has calculated the approximate place where four more pieces might be situated. One might be found beneath another house in Chandar, another under the house of the merchant Khasanov, the third under one of the village baths and the fourth under a bridge's pier for a local narrow gauge railway.

Meanwhile, Bashkir scientists have sent information about their find to scientific centers worldwide. They have already presented reports on the subject before several international congresses: "The Civil Engineering Works Map of an Unknown Civilization of South Ural."

With only one exclusion, the discovery of the Bashkir scientists has no analogues. When the research was at its height, a small stone - chalcedony - arrived to Professor Chuvyrov's table. Upon it was seen a similar relief to that of the map. It is guessed that someone who saw the slab wanted to copy the relief.

Of course the question is... Who did this, and why?

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