The location of the largest cluster of megaliths. Technology and Megalithic Structures

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In many countries of the world, and even on the seabed, there are mysterious structures made of huge boulders and slabs. They were named megaliths (from Greek words"Megas" - big and "lithos" - stone). It is still not known exactly who and for what purpose carried out such a titanic work in very ancient times in various places of the planet, because the weight of some blocks reaches tens, or even hundreds of tons.

The most amazing stones in the world

Megaliths are subdivided into dolmens, menhirs and triliths. Dolmens are the most common type of megaliths; they are a kind of stone "houses", only in Brittany (province of France) there are at least 4500 pieces. Menhirs are called vertically elongated boulders. If a third is placed on top of two vertically installed blocks, then such a structure is called a trilite. In the event that the triliths are installed in a ring ensemble, as in the case of the famous Stonehenge, then such a structure is called a cromlech.

Until now, no one can say for what purpose these impressive structures were built. There are a lot of hypotheses on this score, but none of them can comprehensively answer all the questions posed by these silent majestic stones.

For a long time, the megaliths were associated with an ancient burial ritual, however, near most of these stone structures, archaeologists did not find any burials, and those that were found were most likely made at a later time.

The most widespread and supported by many scientists hypothesis connects the construction of megaliths with the most ancient astronomical observations. In fact, some megaliths can be used as sighting devices, allowing you to fix the points of rising and setting of the Sun and Moon on the days of the solstices and equinoxes.

However, opponents of this hypothesis have quite fair questions and critical remarks. First, there are many megaliths that are difficult to associate with any astronomical observations. Secondly, why did the ancients at that distant time need such a laborious way of understanding the movement of heavenly bodies? Indeed, even if in this way they established the timing of agricultural work, it is well known that the beginning of sowing depends much more on the condition of the soil and weather than on a certain date, and can shift in one direction or another. Thirdly, opponents of the astronomical hypothesis rightly point out that with such an abundance of megaliths, as, for example, in Karnak, it is always possible to pick up a dozen stones, allegedly set for astronomical purposes, and what were thousands of others intended for then?

The scale of the work carried out by the ancient builders is also impressive. We will not dwell on Stonehenge, we have already written a lot about it, let's remember the megaliths of Karnak. Perhaps this is the largest megalithic ensemble in the whole world. Scientists believe that at first it numbered up to 10 thousand menhirs! Now only about 3 thousand vertically installed boulders have survived, reaching in some cases a height of several meters.

It is believed that originally this ensemble stretched for 8 km from St. Barb to the Crash River, now it has survived only for 3 kilometers. There are three groups of megaliths. To the north of the village of Karnak there is a cromlech in the form of a semicircle and eleven ranks, in which there are 1169 menhirs with a height of 60 cm to 4 m.The length of the row is 1170 m.

No less impressive are the other two groups, which, most likely, once together with the first formed a single ensemble, back at the end of the 18th century. it was more or less preserved in its original form. The largest menhir of the entire ensemble was 20 meters high! Unfortunately, now it is tumbled down and split, however, even in this form, the megalith inspires involuntary respect for the creators of such a miracle. By the way, even with the help of modern technology it is very difficult to cope with even a small megalith if it needs to be restored in its original form or moved to another place.

Are the dwarfs "to blame" for everything?

Megalithic structures were found even at the bottom Atlantic Ocean, and the oldest of the megaliths date back to the 8th millennium BC. Who was the author of such laborious and mysterious stone structures?

In many legends, in which megaliths are mentioned in one way or another, mysterious powerful dwarfs often appear, able to playfully perform work that is beyond the power of ordinary people. So, in Polynesia, such dwarfs are called menehuns. According to local legends, these were ugly-looking creatures, only vaguely reminiscent of people, growing only up to 90 cm.

Although the Menehuns possessed a gaze that made their blood run cold, dwarfs were generally friendly to humans and sometimes even helped them. The Menehunes could not stand sunlight, so they appeared only after sunset, in the dark. The Polynesians believe that these dwarfs are the authors of the megalithic structures. It is curious that the Menehuns appeared in Oceania, having arrived on the large three-tiered island of Kuaikhelani.

If the Menehuns needed to be on land, their flying island sank into the water and swam up to the shore. After completing the intended work, the dwarfs on their island again rose into the clouds.

The famous Caucasian dolmens are called the houses of dwarfs by the Adyghe people, and Ossetian legends mention dwarfs, who were called the people of Bicenta. The dwarf bicenta, despite its height, possessed remarkable strength and was able to knock down a huge tree with one glance. There are also mentions of dwarfs among the aborigines of Australia: as you know, megaliths are also found in large numbers on this continent.

IN Western Europe where there is no shortage of megaliths, there are also legends about powerful dwarfs who, like the Polynesian menechunes, cannot stand daylight and are distinguished by remarkable physical strength.

Although many scientists still retain a certain skepticism towards legends, the ubiquitous dissemination in the folklore of peoples of information about the existence of a small powerful people should be based on some real facts. Maybe there was actually a race of dwarfs on Earth, or were they mistaken for aliens from outer space (remember the flying island of the Menehuns)?

The mystery is still a mystery

Megaliths, perhaps, were created with goals unclear to us. This is the conclusion reached by scientists who were studying the unusual energy effects that are observed in the locations of megaliths. So, in some stones, devices were able to register weak electromagnetic radiation and ultrasounds. In 1989, under one of the stones, researchers caught even unexplained radio signals.

Scientists believe that such mysterious effects can be explained by the fact that megaliths were often installed in places where faults are located in the earth's crust. How did the ancients find these places? Perhaps with the help of dowsers? Why were the megaliths installed in the energetically active places of the earth's crust? Scientists do not yet have clear answers to these questions.

In 1992, the Kiev researchers R.S.Furdui and Yu.M. Shvaidak proposed a hypothesis that megaliths can be complex technical devices, namely, generators of acoustic or electronic vibrations. Quite an unexpected assumption, isn't it?

This hypothesis was not born out of nowhere. The fact is that British scientists had already established that many megaliths emit ultrasonic pulses. As scientists at Oxford University suggested, ultrasonic vibrations occur due to weak electric currents induced by the radiation of the Sun. At the same time, each individual stone emits a little energy, but in general it is megalithic stone complex can create a powerful energy surge at times.

It is curious that for most of the megaliths, their creators selected rocks containing a large amount of quartz. This mineral is capable of generating a weak electric current under the influence of compression ... As you know, stones from a temperature drop either shrink or expand ...

They tried to unravel the mystery of the megaliths on the basis that their creators were primitive people of the Stone Age, but this approach turned out to be unproductive. Why not assume the opposite: the creators of the megaliths had a very developed intellect, allowing them to use the natural properties of natural materials to solve technical problems that are still unknown to us. In fact - the minimum cost, and what a disguise! These stones have stood for thousands of years, fulfilling their tasks, and only now people have some still vague doubts about their true purpose.

No metal would have withstood that long, it would have been taken away by our enterprising ancestors or eaten by corrosion, but the megaliths are still standing ... Perhaps someday we will reveal their secret, but for now it is better not to touch these stones. Who knows, maybe these structures are neutralizers of some formidable natural forces?

Megaliths (from the Greek μέγας - large, λίθος - stone) are structures made of huge boulders. Everyone knows about such stone structures as Stonehenge, Easter Island statues, Egyptian or Mayan pyramids, etc. But there are a lot of similar stone structures around the world. Let's talk about some of them.

Kalasasaya and Puma Punku (Tiahuanako). The Incas believed that it was in this place that the creation of the world took place.

Puma Punku is a complex of megalithic structures located in Bolivia near the ancient city of Tiwanaku.

Puma Punku is a terraced hill lined with megalithic blocks. The size of the base is 167.36 m from north to south and 116.7 m from west to east. In the northeastern and southeastern corners of the complex, there are 20-meter wide ledges extending from the rectangular embankment by 27.6 m to the north and south. To the east is the Stone Platform (Plataforma Litica), which consists of a 6.75 m by 38.71 m stone terrace and many huge stone blocks. One of the building blocks of the Stone Platform is the largest stone block found at Puma Punku and Tiwanaku. The length of this red sandstone block is 7.81 m, width 5.17 m, and an average thickness of 1.07 m. Its weight is estimated at 131 tons.

A notable feature of Puma Punku is the I-shaped construction brackets, made from a unique copper-arsenic-nickel alloy. These braces were also used on a section of the canal found at the base of the Akapana pyramid at Tiwanaku. They were used to hold the blocks that make up the walls and bottom of the stone channels. I-shackles of unknown composition were used to hold together the massive slabs that make up the 4 large platforms

Terraces in Saxauman, Cusco, Ollantaytambo, Machu Picchu, Tambo Machaya (Peru).

The colossal fortress is built of huge stone blocks, fitted to each other practically without gaps, and so skillfully that for many centuries they have stood unshakably without the slightest maintenance and repair. The Incas built this complex to defend against enemies. Here you can see three parallel powerful stone walls of a zigzag shape (there is a hypothesis that Sacsayhuaman was dedicated to the god of lightning). They were built of stone blocks, the largest of which is 8.5 m high and weighs about 200 tons. The longest wall is 400m and 6m high.

The purpose of the megalithic wall of Sacsayhuaman is a mystery, but it is not the only one left by the ancient architects. No less mysterious is the question of the very technique of such a construction. Many researchers believe that the Cyclopean stone structures were erected by a more developed and more ancient culture that existed here long before the arrival of the Incas.

Ollantaytambo

The scattering of stones is also surprising here - the stones scattered all over the place are more reminiscent of the fact that once upon a time Ollantaytambo was attacked by an enemy equal to him in strength. And the explosion and scattered megaliths around. And only one wall remained standing. And not amenable to any logic and their huge size and even the fact that between the stones are inserted narrow stone layers, the purpose of which is not entirely clear. And even if we assume that they only hold the giants together so that they come closer to each other and do not fall apart, then the next question will be: how were they connected so exactly?
The giants stand with a slight slope, from below they are also supported by rather small stones. Scientists have suggested that the stones were previously lined with gold or quartz and, reflecting the sun's rays, could be a powerful weapon against enemies, or a powerful source of energy.
The official version says that the Incas were building this complex for a very long time, and therefore "tired" stones in such quantities are scattered around the area. It was as if they had not been brought to the site of the building. But they carried them up the hill. And the local historian Inca Garcilaso de la Vega reports that once one of the rulers (Incas) tried to repeat the achievements of the past and took twenty thousand slaves to carry one of the stones up. People could not do this, moreover, the stone fell and crushed three thousand people. And even if the numbers are lying, then, having reduced them by half, we still see: people cannot move megaliths by their own power. It was some other technology.

Ollantaytambo contains giant andesite and pink porphyry building blocks scattered in the “sacred zone” and the first row of terraces

A fantastic hypothesis was put forward on the website "Living Ethics in Germany" - the ancient builders of South American megalithic structures softened rock matter to a jelly-like state with the help of their psychic energy. Then they cut it into huge blocks of arbitrary shape, transported them through the air to the place of construction using telekinesis, and there they laid them in the walls, adjusting one to the other using the same method of softening the rock blocks to a plastic substance, giving them the desired shape on the spot. Today we do not know any other way to build something like this known to us.

Baalbek in Lebanon

The most interesting structures in Baalbek are huge terraces. They are laid out of huge stone blocks weighing from 300 to 1000 tons (for example, the average weight of stone blocks in the Cheops pyramid is 2.5 tons), and they are laid without any binding composition and so accurately and accurately that even a needle can be inserted between them very problematic.

The Temple of Jupiter did not survive to this day, it was destroyed by a powerful earthquake. Only 6 columns with a height of 22 meters remained from it.

The three walls of this terrace are lined with nine rows of monolithic blocks, each measuring 11 x 4.6 x 3.3 meters and weighing over 300 tons. The fourth wall is special, it was made of three chutli not the largest cut stones in the world. Each of them weighs about 1000 tons, the dimensions are no less impressive - 29 x 4 x 3.6 meters. This wall is better known as Trilithon.

And this is the southern stone - actually the largest processed stone block in the world, or rather almost processed - its part was never separated from the rock. The southern stone was found in a quarry one kilometer from the city. The weight of the monolith is over 1000 tons.
In addition to the fact that scientists argue over the question of who built Baalbek, it is also unclear how. Only one thing is known - all the stones are processed by hand with a chisel, but how they were delivered there is not clear. The version about wooden rollers does not stand up to criticism, stones of this weight would turn wood into dust, and it would take about 50,000 people to move one such stone, which is incredible for that time, because even cities with such a population were extremely few. In addition, the blocks had to be lifted and placed precisely. There are only a few cranes in the world today capable of lifting this weight. And then?

Megaliths in Asuka Park, Japan

One of the largest in the park is the Masuda Iwafune monolith, which is 11 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 4.7 meters high.
This huge stone, which was clearly hewn from a single piece of granite by hand, weighs at least 7 tons. Surprisingly, the age of the monolith is more than 2.5 thousand years. Another surprising fact is that the granite rock from which the megaliths were made is incredibly strong, even with the use of modern equipment it is extremely difficult to leave at least a scratch on its surface.

Residence of the Emperor of Japan - the styling is amazing

The city of Shravanabelagola India is famous for its carved columns, with a unique shape, the way of processing which is still incomprehensible to scientists

The perfectly polished surface of the columns and intricate patterns are striking in perfection - how they did something like this with the help of chisels, chisels and other hand tools, researchers find it difficult to answer.

The world's largest obelisk weighing 500 tons and a height of 32.9 m is located in Ethiopia, in the town of Aksum.

Made of bluish granite and covered with mysterious carvings, the monolith has now fallen and split into several parts.
The question of how and with the help of what this structure was made remains open. Moreover, scientists have found that the obelisk goes deep underground - Beta Giorgis Hill, on which the so-called Axum Stelae Field is located, is a huge 115-meter long platform made of hewn basalt slabs. The largest slab on a rectangular platform is 33.5 m high and weighs about 500 tons. The rest of the blocks are slightly smaller - 20-24 m. Scientists during excavations have established that the stele is just the upper part of a truly fantastic structure hidden underground.

And here are our, Russian mysterious buildings - Khabarovsk megaliths

Mount Vottovaara

Geologists believe that cracks and faults were formed as a result of a strong earthquake about 9 thousand years ago. The flat planes of the stones are the result of the properties of the local rock - quartzite, the structure of which sets such flat planes during a split.

But other researchers do not give this version a move - the stones are cut as if with a laser and some angles are exactly 90 degrees, moreover, stone balls were found under the stones - how quartzite could split and roll at the same time is not clear

The masonry is clearly visible here. Or is it a split by nature?

Mountain Shoria (Western Siberia, Mezhdurechensky district, village Kameshki)

The size of the blocks is impressive, according to one version, the find is a man-made structure over 100 thousand years old.

Scientists have come to the unequivocal conclusion that these megalithic structures are man-made. But how they were raised to such a height in the middle of the taiga and, most importantly, why is a mystery.

By the way, a huge block was found in Shoria, according to the researchers, the brother of the block from Baalbek

Megaliths are the most ancient structures, consisting of blocks or single modules. The definition of megalith is not clear-cut and includes groups of various structures. An example of this are such structures as menhir, cromlech, dolmen, taula, trilith, seid, cairn. And since most of the underwater surfaces of the oceans remain unexplored to this day, it would be rash to claim that we know at least a small part about these buildings and their creators. After all, it is in salt water that buildings of this type are best preserved. But the cost of such scientific research is prohibitively high, therefore, while archaeologists are forced to be content with ground-based research.

The purpose of the megaliths

Megaliths are widespread in paralytic territories. According to scientists, the purpose of megalithic structures is very diverse. So, in some areas they served for burials, in others - to unite capacious communities, thirdly, they were ceremonial buildings that cultivated the spirits of the dead, and they could also be used for astronomical purposes. However, there is no general picture, scientists argue to this day and cannot come to one solution. On the this moment there are more than a dozen conflicting theories, and all of them are equally likely and unreliable.

In Europe, megaliths belong to the time period from the third to the second millennium BC. In England, the peculiarity is that megalithic buildings date back to the New Stone Age. The current analysis of pundits refutes earlier attempts to tie megaliths to a single large megalithic culture.

Megaliths and folk legends

In many countries of the world, legends are made about megaliths, to be more precise, they mostly tell about the creatures who were engaged in this titanic work. According to the Polynesians, the creatures were dwarfs, no more than ninety centimeters tall. The extraordinary power that overwhelmed them helped them topple the huge trees with just one glance. They were distinguished by their extreme benevolence towards human beings and therefore helped them in their energy-consuming work.

Hawaiian megaliths
Photo: http://earth-chronicles.ru/Publications_9/17/5/SamosirMegalith.jpg

According to popular beliefs, the megalithic structures of the Menehuna, as they were called in Polynesia, were built at night, since the sunlight was unbearable for them, and sometimes destructive. The ubiquitous folklore does not allow skeptical scholars to completely refute these speculations.
Therefore, while this mystical origin of the megaliths remains the deepest secret of the ancestors. Or rather, their legends, since there is no evidence or preservation of reliable facts in folklore either.

Classification of megaliths

Menhir appears to be the simplest representative of megaliths before archaeologists of various times. Menhir is an inelegantly worked pillar, wide at the base and tapering towards the top.

Most often there are menhirs set up in groups; in some areas they are exposed in whole alleys. It is also customary to refer cromlechs to menhirs. The term cromlechs took root only in continental Europe. Cromlechs, in turn, are structures erected up to the early Middle Ages.

Cromlech with menhir.
Goncharsky Arboretum named after P.V. Boukreeva: Goncharka, Giaginsky district, Adygea
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The term characterizing this construction originated from the Celtic dialect and vaguely resembled dolmens, therefore, on the territory of Russia, archaeological communities often call them that, which creates some confusion in the wording. In Great Britain, not far from the town of Salisbury, there is the most popular cromlech for tourists and more than mysterious for researchers called Stonehenge.

The dimensions of menhirs are also very diverse and can reach twenty meters in height with a weight of about three hundred tons.

The riddle of the megaliths

On younger megaliths, over time, not only images, but also carved ornaments begin to be found, which makes them compare favorably with more ancient structures.
Almost until the 19th century, without the proper opportunities for full-fledged research, it was assumed that the druids used these structures for sacrifices.

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Today, structures of a mystical nature are still left beyond understanding. modern man the purpose of their installation. And also it remains only to guess how such cumbersome and heavy structures could have been erected, taking into account that the more developed a civilization is, the more traces of its existence remain on the planet. And we are dealing with rare, albeit extremely interesting traces of a lost civilization.

Location of megaliths

Menhirs are most often found in Western Europe, they are also widely represented in Asia and Africa. They can also be found on the territory of the Russian Federation, for example, in the Baikal region, the Caucasus and the Crimea.

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The horizontal installation of stones is less durable, because modern society, using the wisdom of the ancients, and to this day resorts to more durable and durable vertical practice in structures, for example, wishing to perpetuate an event in a specific area.

The history of these buildings has yet to be unraveled. Or maybe it will remain an intriguing secret of antiquity.

On all continents of our planet, with the exception of Antarctica, you can find mysterious structures made of processed blocks of stone. They are called megaliths. Most of the buildings are huge, weighing from tens to hundreds and even thousands of tons of boulders.

The stone blocks have been carefully hewn and polished thousands of years ago. But even the past centuries could not affect the quality of their connection - they fit together so precisely that it is impossible to push a knife blade into the joints.

Most of the megaliths are located near the shores of seas and rivers, sometimes they are under water, and often occupy the highlands. The material for the manufacture of megaliths is often not found in the immediate vicinity and was probably delivered hundreds of kilometers from the mining site to the construction site.

All tens of thousands of currently known dolmens can be divided into several types, according to the features of their design:

1. Actually classic dolmens.
2. Underground dolmens - tulumus.
3. Dolmen ensembles - cairns.
4. Single processed stones - menhirs.
5. Three-stone constructions - triliths.
6. Complexes of many triliths - cromlechs.
7. Cyclopean walls, built of the kind of bricks - huge stone blocks.

Classic dolmens. They are the most common. More than 65 thousand of them are scientifically described in the world! By their design, they represent four vertically placed stone slabs that form the walls, and a thicker slab covering them - a kind of cover.

Often the "cover" is located with a bevel to one side and an overhang to the opposite side. Thus, a "visor" is formed. In the slab, under this visor, at a height of about half a meter from the ground, there is a through hole drilled with excellent quality. The diameter of such a hole is about 50-60 centimeters.

Dolmens are rarely found, the holes of which are either completely absent or closed with a kind of mushroom plug, carved from the same material as the wall slabs. Even more rare are the classic dolmens, which do not have walls at all; they are replaced by four pillars hewn out of stone on which the multi-ton cover rests.

Geographically, classic dolmens are scattered across all latitudes - from northern Scotland to the islands of Oceania.

Tulumus is a rare type of classic dolmens. The builders in ancient times placed them either in the depths of caves, or simply covered them with earth for unknown purposes. As for the rest, in their design, tulumuses are no different from ordinary dolmens.

Cairns. They are huge ensembles of many classic dolmens. Located side by side, these dolmens form giant covered galleries. In terms of their size, the cairns are in no way inferior to the pyramids. But not in terms of height - it rarely exceeds 15-20 meters, but in its area - for example, the Barneiz cairn (located in the north of France) covers an area of ​​more than two hectares!

Menhirs. This is another type of dolmens that stands out for its minimalism. Them appearance represents stone columns, up to 25-30 meters high, whose weight sometimes exceeds 500 tons! Such columns are often installed strictly vertically or at a certain, strictly verified angle in desert places.

Sometimes tens or even thousands of menhirs are installed not far from each other. Thus, they form huge fields of upright Cyclopean columns.

Triliths. A curious type of dolmens is the development of the menhir - two vertical stone columns were installed nearby, and a third was placed horizontally on top of them. This is how a giant gate was made.

Cromlechs are complex ring-shaped trilithic complexes spread over vast areas. Such a design is the well-known Stonehenge. This monument of ancient architecture is built of dozens of stone blocks, whose weight is about 50 tons, and the length is 8-10 meters! The area of ​​Stonehenge is over one and a half hectares!

Especially worth it. For a very long time it was believed that megaliths can only be on the surface of the land. However, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, authoritative archaeological expeditions made a series of sensational discoveries - they discovered a lot of underwater megaliths!

The first such discovery was made by west coast the islands of Cuba (at a depth of more than 600 meters), a little later, megaliths were discovered in Indian Ocean- off the coast of Indonesia and in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan and a number of islands in Oceania.

Not far from the last of the megaliths, in fact, there are almost a hundred small islets, with an area of ​​more than 90 hectares. Here, under the waters The Pacific found giant buildings - the temple of Non-Madol, fortress walls and sea dams.

In some places, their height exceeds 20-30 meters and never falls below 10 meters. Since it is well known from the studies of paleoclimatologists, and there is no doubt about the dynamics of the ocean level, this makes it possible to accurately date the minimum age of these grandiose structures: from 10 to 15 millennia ago!

But, despite all of the above, in the official historical science it is still recognized as an immutable truth: megaliths were built by primitive tribes at the end of the Stone Age - in the Neolithic. This was, according to the assurances of venerable archaeologists, not earlier than the 7th millennium BC.

But as shown above, this statement is erroneous. In addition to the facts of the latest finds, there are a number of controversial points.

The material for the construction of the megaliths was a natural mineral that was formed hundreds of millions of years ago. Until now, there is no reliable enough method to determine the time when blocks of megalith were cut from the rock mass in the quarry.

For this reason, radiocarbon analysis of the remains of the vital activity of people found next to the megalith in the cultural layers accompanying it is carried out. Often, such objects are traces of ancient fires that were made inside the dolmens.

In the case of menhirs, the age of the nearest Paleolithic site of primitive people is usually taken as the point of their creation. With all the obvious unreliability and approximation of such a dating, even it suggests that the megaliths are orders of magnitude older than all the peoples known to us who lived on these lands.

BEYOND THE SECRETS OF MEGALITES.

As a result, a natural question arises - why did people build these gigantic structures in those ancient times? The first step to getting an answer to this question is to figure out how the megaliths were built.

The most common explanation in the scientific community for the construction of megaliths comes down to analogy with the construction of pyramids. In the sense that hundreds of people were involved, from blocks, ropes and levers. It was in this way that giant stone blocks were transported and placed one on top of the other.

But if you think about it, then in this explanation you can find a number of contradictions. First of all, the fact that the pyramids are relatively few and they were built for decades in lands rich in resources to provide builders. But tens of thousands of megaliths are known. And many of them stand in hard-to-reach places, and the surrounding lands never had rich sources for the life of primitive tribes.

It can be concluded that the megaliths were built quite quickly. This is confirmed by many legends from various peoples about the creators of the megaliths. These legends tell about white red-bearded gods or goddesses who came to these lands from afar and built megaliths in a matter of days.

After analyzing all the above facts, we can conclude that the megaliths were built by some ancient navigators. They belonged to an ancient culture unknown to us, rather highly developed, possessing a significant amount of knowledge about mechanics, geometry and crystal chemistry.

In search of an answer to the question of the purpose of the megaliths, it was believed for a very long time that they were tombs. But in the thousands of structures examined in detail, not even a hint of the remains of burials has been revealed. And if they were there, then they were of a much later era. If the megaliths were ritual structures, then why are they so different from other structures for the administration of religious rituals? Why are megaliths so simple and utilitarian?

Another common explanation for the purpose of the megaliths is that they were ancient observatories. As evidence, they usually cited the facts that most of the megaliths are oriented by the time and place of the equinox. But this is completely irrational even for primitive thinking. The boulders used are too huge.

And, what is most interesting, since ancient times there have been structures made of stones used as observatories (this is a proven fact), but the maximum weight of stones from which they were built does not exceed 250-300 kilograms, and not 50 tons as in ordinary megaliths!

In the "yellow press" from time to time there are publications, the authors of which claim that the megaliths were landmarks for any transport (most often alien). But then why are the pointers located like this huge complexes and often in hard-to-reach places where they are not visible at all?

All these issues remain unresolved until now. So far, a detailed study of megaliths by methods of natural sciences continues. And it has already produced amazing results.

Examining the megaliths in detail, researchers were able to find a number of interesting facts... First of all, it turned out that all, without exception, megalithic structures on all continents of the planet were built of the same material - quartz sandstone. Often, its deposits are located hundreds of kilometers from the location of the megalith.

Now science knows that quartz (the main element of which quartz sandstone is composed) is an excellent generator of electric current when it is compressed (this is called the piezoelectric effect) and is able to stabilize the oscillation frequency. After the occurrence of an electromagnetic field and with simultaneous compression, quartz crystals generate simultaneously ultrasound and radio waves.

Nowadays, all these features of quartz are used in electronics. For example, a study of a well-preserved cromlech Royallight (located in Britain) revealed that this cromlech emits powerful ultrasonic pulses shortly before sunrise. They are most intense and complex in structure during the equinox.

All individual stones of the Royallite megalith have their own pattern and intensity of radiation. This is multiplied and modulated in some way due to the thoughtful arrangement of all the boulders that make up this megalith.

In the course of further research, it was found that some of the stones of the megalith emit strong ultrasound directed outside the complex.

Almost all megalithic structures, without exception, are emitters. To increase their power, one stone block was placed on top of another in a special way. And menhirs were installed on a thinner end, under which a specially treated support stone was placed, which had a well-pronounced piezoelectric effect.

And the last mysterious fact - many megaliths are located above the deep faults of the earth's crust. These are the so-called pathogenic / geopathogenic areas. This is hardly a simple coincidence, but what does it mean and how did the people of the Stone Age determine the structure of the earth's firmament at a depth of kilometers? All this remains a mystery awaiting a scientific solution.

Megaliths, huge structures made of massive boulders, are also found in our country. There are a lot of such structures in Russia, only they are not known as well as the famous Stonehenge in Great Britain or Ollantaytambo in Peru. We will get acquainted with the ancient megalithic structures found on the territory of Russia later.

The first thing to start the journey with is Mount Vottovaara - highest point West Karelian Upland - 417.3 m above sea level. The area of ​​the mountain is 6 sq. km.
The place is just full of strange artifacts after which you start to think about the ancient highly developed technologies for stone processing, let's better take a look at the photo.

Mount Vottovaara.
Megalithic blocks are scattered around.

The middle block was cut at an angle of 90 degrees or a game of nature?

As if a laser was carried out :) geologists believe that cracks and faults were formed as a result of a strong earthquake about 9 thousand years ago. The flat planes of the stones are the result of the properties of the local rock - quartzite, the structure of which sets such flat planes during a split.

So is it still nature or man-made? Let's take a closer look.

More like perfectly cut blocks that fit tightly together. It is difficult to imagine an ancient ancestor with a copper chisel who, somewhere on the mountain, grinds such even blocks.

Good foreshortening, perfectly flat wall.

Who lost the ball?)

There is clearly no high tech on stone processing has not been done or is it a game of nature? :)

Mount Pidan.
At first glance, it looks like an unremarkable pile of stones of cracked rock.

But coming closer it becomes more like a megalithic masonry.

Looking between the blocks, where the stones were less susceptible to the influence of erosion from wind and rain, you can see the hand-made and how the smooth edges were preserved.

In the place where the joint of the blocks has parted, an even cut can be seen and the technology of laying these blocks opens up in front of us.

Stone town in the Perm region.
According to scientists, Kamenny Gorod is the mouth of a river that flowed into the Perm Sea millions of years ago, this explains beautifully and evenly, at right angles, carved stones, their neat laying and perpendicular to each other “channels” “mouths”.

Stone city.

See how flat the sides of the megaliths seem to have been cut down.

Again the old method is to look between the blocks inside the masonry, look at the far block in the center, an even cut along the entire length of the block.

They say that somewhere on the Kola Peninsula there is this pool carved right into the rock.

In the south of Western Siberia, in the mountainous Shoria in the Mezhdurechensky region, there is a small geological settlement called Kameshki.
Several educated talented geologists live in this village. These are Alexander Bespalov, Vyacheslav Pochetkin and others. These people have been engaged in researching the mountain systems of Western Siberia all their lives. Once they came across strange megalithic structures in the mountains, which they could not explain for themselves. These were walls made of giant stone blocks and strange structures with vertically mounted stone obelisks. On the Internet, they contacted Georgy Sidorov, so the first expedition was assembled.

Mountain Shoria.
Some of the granite blocks at the bottom were made of red granite, crowned with blocks of gray granite, and above there was a polygonal masonry of various blocks, both red granite and gray.

Granite melted in some places from the impact of extreme temperatures and flowed under the weight of the upper rows. Kungurov would say about this that these are traces of reflow from a thermonuclear explosion :)

The wall is made up of polygonal masonry of colored blocks.

The size of the blocks is impressive, according to one version, the find is a man-made structure over 100 thousand years old.

In the photo, Georgy Sidorov, in his opinion, all this megalithic structure may be the ruins of an ancient power plant or energy center, which translated seismic energy into some others.

Looking again inside the masonry, where the blocks were less susceptible to erosion, you can see even straight edges, see how the two blocks lie tightly, here you can see the handicraft better.

Polygonal masonry.

Mountain Shoria. Huge blocks.
at the Department of Radiophysics at Tomsk State University showed photographs on the screen, talked about different types masonry, about stone castles that fasten giant granite blocks and not a single scientist physicist said that all this is of natural origin. Most of all, they were surprised how the ancients could lift giant stone blocks to a height of more than 1000 meters and install them there on a special platform.

Then in the Tomsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society the photographs were studied by scientists geologists and geographers. Both those and others came to the conclusion that the presented artifacts are man-made.

Sklyarov was asked to comment on the find. And what did he say? That all the artifacts found are nothing more than rocks cracked at right angles. That there is nothing man-made here. Just a play of nature, nothing more.
After these words, I am not surprised why LAI does not study Russian megaliths.

Between blocks.

For comparison, on the left is a megalith in Baalbek, on the right is a megalith in mountain Shoria, it seems the author is one :)

Mount Shaman near the village. Nizhnetambovskoe, Khabarovsk region.

Ancient megalithic masonry.

Again, between the blocks, hand-made and straight lines are better visible.

Large block of megalith.

A large block of megalith on small stones, this is done for better seismic resistance.

Megalithic masonry resembles Gornaya Shoria.

Kabardino-Balkaria, a cave in the Baksan gorge.
First, you need to squeeze into a 40 x 120 cm hole, then descend on a rope along a narrow vertical shaft. It is formed by two parallel stone slabs. After 9 meters - the first "knee": the hole goes to the side and immediately breaks down again. Already here you will be covered with absolute silence - not a sound penetrates from the outside. Another 23 meters deep - and a new "knee". To reach the bottom of the cave, you need to overcome more than 80 meters, and it will take an hour. But, having passed the "bottleneck", you will find yourself in a huge room, which the researchers called the "flask". Inside, we will see treated walls made of tuff and granite, made of polished megaliths of different sizes, tightly fitted to each other.

Descent into the cave.

The edges of the blocks and the seams between them are clearly visible.

The smooth masonry is striking and the seams fit well together.

The triangular blocks are slightly parted.

Barely noticeable block seams on the left half-moon wall and on the wall behind it.

How do you like the stitches?

Rotate the cave at an angle of 90 degrees. Two large megalithic blocks stand on top of each other.

The technologies of stone processing are amazing, and even more striking is the comment of the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian geological exploration expedition Vera Davidenko, but she is a realist and believes that nature can do everything and made the conclusion: “Tuff is an accumulation of volcanic ejection products - ash, pieces of lava , volcanic glass and, to a small extent, debris that composes the crater walls. The material of the ejection was hot during accumulation and therefore, during solidification, cracks formed separately - that is, the entire tuff massif turned out to be, as it were, broken into blocks. The depression found in the area of ​​the village of Zayukovo is one of such cracks of gravitational separation, which is characterized by flat contact surfaces, ”but this is the head of the geological exploration expedition, she probably knows better.

The scheme of the structure.

A bit of fiction for the finale) Arakul Shihan, a strange structure in the middle of the forest. I have it all, kick it :)