Ancient Evidences
The Monster of Troy (Click at the picture for full size)
In a small glass case in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts lies a
strange ancient Greek vase. This odd vase is covered by a series
of strange paintings, including one which has bewildered
archaeologists for centuries, because the head of the monster is
a dinosaur and the image shows man and dinosaur coexist? The
painting in question is the oldest illustration of the story of
the Monster of Troy, a creature described in Homeric legends. The
tale of the Monster of Troy was first told by Homer in the eighth
century B.C. In this legend, a terrifying monster suddenly
appeared on the Trojan coast after a flood, and began preying on
the farmers in the neighborhood of Sigeum. The king's daughter,
Hesione, was sent as a sacrifice to the monster, but according to
the legend, Heracles arrives in time to kill it.
The painting on the Boston vase shows Hesione and Heracles
confronting the monster, with Hesione throwing rocks at it and
Hericles shooting arrows. Yet, it is the image of the monster
that is most disturbing. The painter of this vase lived in
Corinth, a Greek trade hub, and painted the picture of the
Monster sometime near 550 B.C. Vasepartzoom
Caria
monster
To the left is an urn from Caria, which was located in Asia Minor
. This artifact (described in Thomas H. Carpenter’s 1991
book Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook) is estimated to
be from 530 BC. It depicts what appears to be a mosasaurus with
several known sea creatures. The animal behind the sea serpent is
a seal, while an octopus is below the sea serpent along with what
seems to be a dolphin. The thick jaws, big teeth, large eyes, and
positioning of the flippers on this creature match a mosasaurus
skeleton very well. Some mosasaurus species also had a narrow
cranial crest behind the eye that may have had a fin attached the
way it is depicted on the Carian urn.
Ica
stones of Peru
Dr. Javier Cabrera was professor of medicine and head of his
department at the University of Lima. He has retired from that
position and is presently the Cultural Anthropologist for Ica,
Peru. In the early 1930's, his father found many of these
ceremonial burial stones in area's numerous Inca tombs. Dr.
Cabrera has continued his father's research and has collected
over 1100 of them. Approximately one third depict the
pornographic culture of the Incas, graphically portrayed in the
artifacts of that period (c.a. 500-1500 AD). Some picture their
idolatry , other represent amazing accomplishments, such as
successful brain surgery confirmed by scarred skulls which
demonstrate healed recovery.Almost one third of the stones depict
specific types of dinosaurs, as well as Triceratops, Stegosaurus
and Pterosaurs. Several diplodocus-like dinosaurs have what
appear to be dermal frills . Confirmation of these features has
been reported only recently (Geology, 12/1992, v.20, No.12,
p.1068-1070).These stones do not depict skeletons but live,
active dinosaurs, most of whom are seen interacting with man. The
obvious implication is that ancient Peruvians saw and lived with
dinosaurs.(Click at the
picture for full size)
2.8 Billion
Year Old Grooved Sphere
Over the past several decades, South Afrikaans miners have found
hundreds of metallic spheres, (found in a Precambrian deposit,
said to be 2.8 billion years old) is at least one of which has
three parallel grooves running around its equator. The spheres
are of two types - "one of solid bluish metal with white
flecks, and another which is hollow and filled with a white
spongy center". Roelf Marx, curator of the museum of
Klerksdorp, South Africa, where some of the spheres are housed,
said:" the spheres are a complete mystery. They look
man-made, yet at the time in Earth's history when they came to
rest in this rock, no intelligent life (supposedly) existed;
they're nothing like I have ever seen before".
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size)
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