About the mysteries of the ancient city of the American continent - Tiahuanaco - "Mystery of the twentieth century," wrote time and again. We reported about strange events and discoveries on the moon. Mentioned riddles, known for tens, hundreds and thousands of years, a clear scientific explanation until they find it.


In such cases often are born different kind of "crazy" hypothesis, in which attempt to explain something that can't explain science, and sometimes identifies links between such phenomena, events and objects, which, apparently, can not be linked. One of these cases will be discussed below.

City by the sea
This city is located at an altitude of nearly 4,000 metres from the salty lake Titicaca in the Andes region in the North of Bolivia, in the plain of the Altiplano, surrounded by snow-covered mountain ranges of the Andes. However, found on its territory the remains of the big port, sea shells, images, flying fish and the fossil skeletons of marine animals indicate that once the city was on the seashore.
Recently at the bottom of lake Titicaca, the researchers found the remains of buildings, cobbled street and wall-mile long, built of large stone blocks. According to Professor Ruben Led from the archaeological Institute of Tiahuanaco, found in the ruins - a "coastal temple, where he was buried important persons". How did these ruins at the bottom of the lake?

Researchers have attributed these facts with the period before the beginning of the processes of mountain building that took place 60-70 million years ago. It is believed that if people on the Earth was not.
Its name Tiahuanaco received after residents ever left him. Who were these people and how they called the town, historians do not know.
Tell that to the Supreme Inca Maita the Capac staying on vacation in the ruins of the ancient city, came a messenger with news from the capital of the Empire, Cusco. The Governor appreciated the diligence of the messenger, comparing it with swift guanaco is a relative of the llama, " and said: "TIA Wanaka" You are quick, as guanaco"). Thus was the name of the city.

Who founded it?

The Indians, who lived in this region at the time of the invasion of the Spanish, believed that such a large city could not build a common people, - have made extinct tribe of giants. Researchers at the giants did not believe, however, attributed the city is incredibly ancient origin. Bolivian researcher of Austrian origin Arthur Poznan, half his life devoted to the study of Tiahuanaco, argued that the city was founded not less than 17 thousand years ago. And archaeologist Dr. H.S. Bellamy believed that the age of the city - 250 thousand years.
French paleontologist Alcid d Orbini (1802-1857) in his work "the American people" expressed the view that the creators of Tiahuanaco were residents powerful doinkskih state.

Palace or the Observatory?

City, or rather what is left of it, consists of several basic features. The most well reconstructed part of the city is the Kalasasaya, building with a rectangular base dimensions 118 x 18 metres. It is fenced by a wall that houses a number of monolithic columns. Courtyard of Kalasasaya, occupying about one third of its area located below ground level. Included in Kalasasaya through the large stone gate on the monumental staircase with a six-speed manual transmission. The inner courtyard was adjacent indoor lounge with large portals and Windows. In its time it was decorated with Golden items, and the walls were hammered gold nails that held the copper and bronze plates that covered the stone frame of the building.
Initially Kalasasaya perceived as a Palace or even the fortress, but now researchers are inclined to think that it was a stellar Observatory. Some design elements in the walls strictly oriented at a certain constellation and constructed so as to facilitate dimensions associated with the observations of the position of the Sun in the sky at different times of the year.

The Surroundings Of Kalasasaya

In the mid-twentieth century in the neighborhood Kalasasaya found sanctuary with an area of about 750 square meters, the so-called Semi-underground temple.
Its Foundation more than half a meter deepened into the ground. In 1932 Professor Wendell Bennett found a giant statue of pink stone.
Its height is slightly less than 7.5 meters. The head of the giant decorated with something like a turban, his hands pressed to his stomach. In one hand - vessel-Kero, another potato, ritual horn from the sink.
Just South of Kalasasaya rises the akapana pyramid. Some researchers consider it a man-made structure, others hill, which gave a view of the step pyramid. At its peak, perhaps, was the temple or the altar that might be a military fortress. There is a small artificial lake.

Gate in the ancient world

Further South, a conventional city, is another terracearea building, Puma Punku - Gate Cougars. It is built of huge stone slabs, the weight exceeds 100 tonnes. On top of Puma Punku builders put the sanctuary or the altar, and the whole object was surrounded by a double wall.
One of the most famous and perhaps the most mysterious tiauanaco monuments are, undoubtedly, the Gate of the Sun - Inti Punku. They are located in the North-Western part of Kalasasaya and hewn from solid andesite block size 3x3,75 meters.
Their upper East side is decorated with rich terrain, in the centre of which is probably the main deity in the form of a human figure with a disproportionately large head, surrounded by a halo. Halo form 24 beam, each of them ends head of the Jaguar or Cougars. From the eye of the divine flowing tears - apparently, it gave the land moisture, providing harvest fields. In the hands of the deity of the large Royal rod with the heads of the condors at the top. To it is being eyed forty-eight smaller figures depicting half-human half-birds. Above the entrance Gates opening of the Sun is visible band of ornament, which depicts a human face. But the most important here is the main relief with its Central figure.
The content of the relief scientists interpret differently. Some believe that the Central figure symbolizes the Sun God and a half men and half of politicy are other stars, faces her heavenly sovereign. For others, on the relief depicts tiauanaco calendar - sun or moon.

Starry sky 15,000 BC

If the complex of Kalasasaya is really Observatory, the calendar on the Gate of the Sun fits well into this complex.
Arthur Poznan - Professor, engineer, anthropologist, member of many scientific societies - in his work "Tiauanaco - the cradle of the American man" on the basis of archaeological research and astronomical calculations proves that the designers and builders of Kalasasaya have correlated its geometry with the stars. Looking in the starry sky... 17 000 years ago!
Of course, most adherents of Orthodox science took a guess Poznan with unconcealed skepticism. Soon, however, a group of researchers from related fields of science analyzed the results of his research. The group consisted of: Dr. Hans Ludendorff, Director of the Potsdam astronomical Observatory, Dr. Friedrich Becker from the Observatory of Specula Vaticano and two astronomer Professor, Dr. Arnold Kohlschutter from Bonn University and Dr. Rolf Mueller of the astrophysical Institute Potsdam.
Scholars working from 1927 to 1930, came to the conclusion: conclusions Poznan basically correct, construction of Kalasasaya oriented so that to provide the most convenient observation of heavenly bodies under their position that they occupied in the firmament of approximately 15000 year BC.

One more random similarity?

Among the sculptures that survived in Tiahuanaco, have three of these (one in the Semi-underground temple and two - in Kalasasaya), which suggests some reflections. The sculptures differ in size, degree of preservation, manner and craftsmanship. But all three represent the creature that the designers have sought to present as a hybrid of a man with a beautiful beard - in the upper part of the body and fish at the bottom. And one of the researchers, American journalist and traveler Graham Hancock, talking in Tiahuanaco with the local residents, received the curious information.
It turns out that in ancient local legends say about the "gods of the lake, with fish tails and whose name was Culla, Mantua".
The characters of this legend and tiauanaco sculptures clearly recall another character - hero tales of Ancient Babylonia, riboflavina of Oannes, which in ancient times was coming out of the sea to the shore in Mesopotamia and taught sense of local aboriginal people.
Riddles artifacts found in Tiahuanaco, largely rashodyatsya, if we accept the hypothesis of the existence on Earth in ancient times unknown advanced propertywritable, which was a common framework for civilizations of the Sumerians, the ancient Egyptians, as well as the Olmec and other Nations. We can only hope that in the future archeologists, historians and scientists of other specialties will find indisputable evidence of the reality of this mysterious civilization, establish its origin and the time of stay in our Land.
Vadim ILYIN