How old is humankind? Modern scientists, usually referred to as a figure of 40 thousand years - since the appearance on Earth of the CRO-magnon. This is a standard time interval allotted human history in educational, scientific and reference literature. However, there are other numbers, it went beyond the scope of officialdom. 400 thousand years - such a date is calculated by ancient historians - Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek, and Russia is projected Lomonosov. (In fact, in the scale of world history that there is another, clearly fixed date, which is not able to accommodate the imagination of modern people: in its painstaking calculations of astronomers, and the priests of the ancient Mayan history of mankind began in 5 041 738 year BC!)

Literally, the ethnonym of the Hyperborean means "those who live in Boreas (North wind)", or simply "those who live in the North". They were reported by many ancient writers. One of the most respected scholars of the Ancient world - Pliny the Elder wrote about the Hyperborean, how about a real ancient people, who lived near the Arctic circle, and genetically linked with Hellenes through the cult of Apollo Hyperborean. This is what literally says "the Natural history" (IV, 26): "these [Riphean] mountains on the other side of Aquilonia, happy people (if you can believe it), called Hyperboreans, reaching very old age and glorified wonderful legends. Believe that there are loops in the world and the extreme limits of handling bodies. The sun is shining there for six months, and this is just one day, when the sun is hidden (as is thought would be ignorant) from spring equinox to autumn, the lights go back there only once a year during the summer solstice, and only come when the winter. This country is all in the sun, with mild climate and devoid of any harmful winds. Homes for these residents are groves, forests, the cult of the Gods handle individuals and society as a whole, there are unknown, the contentions of the disease. Death comes there only on satiety life.

... It is impossible to doubt the existence of this nation".

Even from this small fragment of "Natural history" it is easy to make a clear idea about Hyperborea. First - and most importantly - it was located where the Sun may not come for several months. In other words, we can speak only about the polar regions, those in Russian folklore, was called the Sunflower Kingdom. Another important circumstance: the climate in Northern Eurasia in those days was different. This is confirmed by the latest comprehensive research conducted recently in the North of Scotland in the international program: they showed that 4 thousand years ago the climate at this latitude was comparable with the Mediterranean, and here was found a large number of heat-loving animals. However, even earlier Russian Oceanography and paleontologists found that in 30-15 Millennium BC Arctic climate was quite mild, and the Arctic ocean was warm, despite the presence of glaciers on the continent. Approximately the same conclusions and chronological framework came U.S. and canadian scientists. According to them, during the Wisconsin glaciation in the centre of the Arctic ocean there was a zone of temperate climate, favourable for such a flora and fauna that could not exist in the Subpolar and polar territories of North America.

The main confirmation of this fact favourable climatic situation are the annual migration of migratory birds on the North - genetically programmed memory of warm Homeland. Indirect evidence for the existence in the Northern latitudes of the ancient highly developed civilization can serve here everywhere powerful stone constructions and other megalithic monuments (the famous cromlech of Stonehenge in England, the alley of menhirs in frantsuzskoi Brittany, stone labyrinths of Solovki and the Kola Peninsula).

Preserved card Mercator - the most famous cartographer of all time, based on some ancient knowledge, where Hyperborea is depicted in the form of huge Arctic continent with highest mountain (Measure) in the middle.

Despite scant information, historians of the ancient world had great ideas and important details about the life and morals of Hyperboreans. And all because the roots of the long-standing and close ties with them going in the ancient community PRA-Indoeuropean civilization, is naturally related to the Polar circle, and with "edge of the earth" - the Northern coastline of Eurasia and ancient mainland and island culture. Here, as written by Aeschylus: "at the end of the world", "in uninhabited desert wild Scythians" - on the order of Zeus was chained to a rock rebellious Prometheus: contrary to the prohibition of the Gods, he gave people the fire, revealed the secret movement of the stars and the stars, were taught the art of the addition of the letters, agriculture and sailing. But the edge, where they languished tormented draconomicon the kite Prometheus, as long as it is not released Hercules (which earned it the epithet Hyperborean), is not always been so desolate and homeless. Everything looked different, when several previously here on the end of the Road, to the Hyperborean came the famous hero of antiquity - Perseus, to fight the Gorgon Medusa and get here magical winged sandals, for which he was also called Hyperborean.

Apparently, a reason many ancient authors, including the largest ancient historians, persistently speak about flying abilities Hyperborean, i.e. the possession fly. Such, however, is not without irony them described Lucian. We can do it - to the ancient inhabitants of the Arctic mastered the technique of Aeronautics? And why not? Preserved as many images probable aircraft - type balloons - among the petroglyphs of Onega lake.

Archaeologists never ceases to amaze plenty of so-called "winged objects"constantly found in eskimo burial grounds and attributable to the most distant times of the history of the Arctic.

Here it is another symbol of Hyperborea! Made from walrus ivory (where striking safety), these wings that do not fit into any directories themselves suggest ancient flying devices. Subsequently these characters, passed from generation to generation, spread around the world and strengthened in almost all ancient cultures: Egyptian, Assyrian, Hittite, Persian, Aztec, Maya, and so - to Polynesia.

There is no doubt that the ancient Hyperborea has a direct relationship to the ancient history of Russia and Russian people and its language is directly connected with the vanished or disappeared in the depths of the ocean and land legendary land of Hyperboreans. A reason why Nostradamus in his "Centuries" called Russians only as "the people of the Hyperborean". Refrain Russian fairy tales about Sunflower Kingdom that is far away, are the memories of the old days when our ancestors in contact with the Hyperborean themselves were Hyperboreans. There are also more detailed description of Sunflower Kingdom. Thus, in the epic-a tale from the collection Penlivanova explains how the hero on the flying wooden eagle (hint at the same flying Hyperborean) flew in Sunflower Kingdom:

Flew it into the Kingdom under the sun,

Peel off with eagle aircraft

And began the Kingdom to pokazivati,

Under Sunflower to pogulyat.

In this case, in the Kingdom of Sunflower

Melted Terem of Golden tops,

The round towers were white yard

About ies the gate of the twelve,

About ies starogo about simple ...

But the legendary Sunflower Kingdom is modern and accurate geographic address. One of the oldest Indo-European titles of the Sun - Colo (hence "ring", and "wheel" and "bell"). In ancient times it corresponded to a pagan solar Deity Colo-carols, after whom coped holiday caroling (day Sunny winter solstice) and sung archaic ritual songs, Christmas carols, bearing the imprint of ancient kosmicheskogo worldview:

... There are three towers zlatoverhogo;

In the first mansion young bright month

In the second, the Terem red Solnyshko,

In the third-the tower frequent stars.

Young bright month - the owner of ours.

Red Solnyshko - the hostess,

Frequent stars - the small dedushki.

That's the name of the ancient Somnabula Colo-carols have got the title of the Kola river and all of the Kola Peninsula.

About the cultural antiquities Soloveyko (Kola) of the earth show the existing stone labyrinths (diameter up to 5 m), such as those that are scattered throughout the Russian and European North with migration, in Mycenaean (famous labyrinth with the Minotaur), ancient Greek and other world cultures.

Was offered a lot of explanations concerning the destiny of the Solovetsky stone spirals: burial, altars, models of fishing traps. Most recently, the labyrinth - model antennas for communication with extraterrestrial or parallel civilizations. The most close to the truth explanation of the meaning and purpose of the Russian Northern labyrinths gave a well-known former Soviet historian of science DocVerse. In his opinion, the tunnels of the labyrinth, forcing the Wayfarer long and in vain to find a way out and, finally, still threw him out, are not than other, as symbolization wandering of the Sun during the semi-annual polar night and the semi-annual day circles or rather a large spiral, projected on the dome of the sky. In the cult labyrinths probably arranged procession to symbolize the movement of the Sun. Russian Northern labyrinths not only served for travel within them, but also acted as a schema collection for doing magic dances.

Northern labyrinths characterized by the fact that next to them are the slides (pyramid) stones. Especially a lot of them in Russian Lapland, where their culture is crossed with traditional Sami sanctuaries - seids. Like the Lovozero Tundra, they are found all over the world and, along with the classic Egyptian and Indian pyramids and bulk mounds are symbols-reminders about polar Homeland and universal mount Meru, located at the North pole. It is surprising that have survived the spiral stone mazes and the pyramids in the Russian North. Until recently, they are very few people were interested, but the clue stored in secret meaning was lost.

More than 10 stone labyrinths found to date on the Kola Peninsula, mostly on the coast. Most writing about Russian labyrinths dismisses the possibility of convergence with Cretan megaliths: Cretans, they say, could not visit the Kola Peninsula, as they would need several years to the Atlantic ocean bypassing Scandinavia to achieve the Barents sea, while Odysseus, as we know, got to Ithaca not less than 10 years. Meanwhile, nothing prevents to represent the process of distribution of labyrinths in the reverse order is not from South to North and Vice versa - from the North to the South. Indeed, the Cretans - creators of the Aegean civilization is hardly visited Kola Peninsula, although it is not excluded, as it was in the area of Hyperborea, had constant contacts with the Mediterranean. But prepreci Cretans and agachev probably lived in the North of Europe, including the Kola Peninsula, where the left was preserved traces-labyrinths, typed up all of the subsequent equipment of this kind. Path "from the Varangians to the Greeks" was laid not on the verge of I and II millennia BC, linking not for long Scandinavia, Russia and Byzantium. It existed for centuries, speaking of the natural migration bridge between North and South.

And went on this "bridge" each other prepreci modern Nations - each in his time, each in its own direction. And urged them to the unprecedented climatic disaster, connected with the sharp fall of temperature caused by the displacement of the earth's axis and therefore poles.