When looking at historical Chronicles about the unusual phenomena, someone's amazing abilities and achievements, noticed an interesting pattern. It is worth approved any idea as the dominant state ideology, as human life loses element of the presence of a miracle stories. Mermaids, gnomes and goblins seemed to lurk in the most secret refuge, fearing that the people would be named by their fiends. Lost and messages about magicians, as if they cease to be born, while at the same time, more and more reports about punished and executed for heresy "servants of the devil".


The magic or the amazing art remain beyond the society, and the news of the miracle only bring stories of travelers who visited the far "pagan" countries. Sometimes the missionaries of the Christian Church, unable to resist the charm of mystery, surprise described what he saw there.

At the end of the XVII century Catholic monks, who visited China, told about unusual aquarium, which consisted of a glass vessel and special transparent liquid. More to it, nothing is needed, even fish. When the liquid is poured into a vessel, he seemed to be full of them. When the liquid poured, turned out to be empty. So the Chinese are several times I filled this aquarium monks to many times can make an unusual phenomenon. What was it - a miracle optics or chemistry - we will never know.

Description of other wonders of the East leads the Abbe hack, sincere and tireless missionary, in the book about his travels, he called "Journey to Tibet". There is a story about an unusual picture in one of the Lamaist monastery of Tibet. It was written on a simple canvas, and consisted only of this canvas and frame what the Abbot himself has personally verified. It represented a landscape with the moon, and there would be nothing unusual in the picture, if that moon on it ideal not repeated the behavior of the real moon in the sky. The moon, full moon or just spawned the moon, in fact.

"You see on the picture of this planet in the form of a Crescent, sickle or full moon, shining brightly, hiding in a cloud, and again looking out of her just as her heavenly sister. In short, the most accurate and shining reproduction pale Queen of the night, which in the old days worshipped so many people".

We can assume that the Tibetans knew special herbs, finely reacting to the changing phases of the moon, and know how to make them paint. But as painted the moon learned about cloud in the sky, covering the prototype, and even respond to it?

...During the reign of Pope Paul III (1534-1549) in Rome on the Appian way was opened the ancient tomb of the daughter of Cicero, the Roman statesman, who lived in the first century BC. The body of a young girl swam in some clear liquid and because it is so well preserved that the deceased was asleep even after fifteen centuries since the death. But the most interesting was the burning lamp that stood at her feet. When the tomb was opened, she went out.

This lamp was kind of "unquenchable fixtures"referred to in the works of many historians and writers of antiquity. Augustine (354-430), the Holy Catholic Church, described such a lamp that burned in the temple of Venus. Neither wind, nor rain could not repay. Writer Pausini (II century) have seen the same in the temple of Minerva in Athens, and the historian Plutarch (46-120) - in the Egyptian temple of Jupiter Ammon. He, like Augustine, argued that the elements were not able to put it out*.

Roman scholar Pliny the Elder (23-79) reports that the wick of such a lamp is made of asbestos, the name of which came from the Greeks and meant "unquenchable". They said that if you manage to light, it cannot be extinguished. Often the device unquenchable lamp was used gold, this was explained by the fact that it is able to absorb pair of fuel, which in the normal burning more spent not on fire itself, and for evaporation under the action of heat. And the most important thing in such a lamp is a special way purified oil passing multiple distillation and filtration special substances.

The Roman historian Titus Livius (59 BC -17) wrote that many of these lamps in his time were found in the underground temples and tombs of ancient Memphis in Egypt. These lights are burning, maybe not forever, but an unusually long time, guarding the peace of the mummies. When the tomb was opened, they went out. - From desecration, as explained tradition.

It was attributed to the Egyptians invention these unquenchable lamps, from which the secret learned disciple them priests of Moses. According to the testimony of the Bible, such lamp he used in a camp Church, the tabernacle, when in the years of wandering in the wilderness was restrained passion of his people: "And you shall tell the children of Israel, that they brought clean oil, churned of olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always". (Exodus, XXVII, 20).

There were other achievements of chemistry.

In the reign of Tiberius Emperor of Rome (42 BC - 37 ad) in his Palace, one of the wanderer brought a glass bowl and claimed that it could not be broken. Tiberius tossed it on the marble floor and, from it, to the surprise of all, do not split a single spot. Formed only a small dent immediately straightened with a hammer**. In this regard, the Emperor was told that there is a special method of processing of ordinary glass, through which it is possible to make not only ductile, and malleable as pitch, capable of being extended into long thin thread.
But the secret of such technology was still a mystery. May be because that was still fresh memory of the unhappy master whom Tiberius ordered to cut off his head for the discovery and production of metal, the same white and gleaming like silver, but extremely easy. Tiberius was afraid that the new metal will put pressure on the silver and gold, and will undermine the financial wealth of the Empire.
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*Lib. de Defectu Oraculorum".
**Wendell Phillips, "lost knowledge".

Wrote Pliny the Elder*. What was the metal? Maybe magnesium? Or aluminum? And may be it fiction?
China has a tomb of the commander Zhou Zhu, who died in the beginning of III century. Relief decorations on it, according to the results of spectral analysis, containing 85% of aluminium**. And in Poland under the Kielce during mining of limestone workers dug a well-preserved sword, the handle of which was decorated with inlaid alloy 10 percent of copper, 5 percent magnesium and the same 85 percent of aluminum. Made the sword, according to the findings of archeologists, 400 BC
Both metal and magnesium and aluminium is considered to be new to science. Magnesium as metal was "first" opened in 1808 the British scientist Humphry Davy, and aluminum as something new made a splash at the world exhibition in Paris in 1855, when successful long-term attempts to separate it from alumina. "Silver from clay", as it was then called, was able to obtain only with the invention of electricity and electrolysis. Another way of extraction of aluminum from natural material is still unknown. Therefore, electricity owned already two and a half thousand years ago?

In modern Iraq during the excavations of the antique city of Seleucia archaeologists have found earthenware vessels, which have built-in copper cylinders iron core, soldered the same alloy of lead and tin, which is used in modern electrical engineering. On the model of those damaged by the time the vessels were made of the same new experimental model, and when they poured electrolyte - copper sulphate, they began to give volt, six-volt. When connecting many of the vessels in the battery could get any current voltage. The style of these batteries - two thousand years.

But there is something that everyone can touch it, not buried under sediment river silt and sand deserts that are not locked in storage of the museums and scientific laboratories. And worth thousands and thousands of years, enduring before the actual passage of time.
This is the megaliths, construction of giant stones. Representation of them as primitive crop calendars and clumsy traps for rhinos already fading, and the more we learn, the greater becomes for us the image of their unknown creators.


Their dimensions and weights are incomprehensible, their geography planetary. In Europe the territories of their spreading it - Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Caucasus, Crimea, North-West Russia; only one Caucasus archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of Academy of Sciences of the USSR during the research 1967 1976 sharing the office of years counted more than two thousand***. In the Mediterranean sea is the island of Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, Malta, Mallorca. In Asia - Jordan, Turkey, India, Japan, the Russian far East, Tuva and Khakassia. In Africa, Palestine, Algeria, Morocco, Sahara desert, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt. In South America - Peru and Bolivia, in the North - the United States.
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*Venezky SR, "Stories about metals".
**Igor Tsaryov, "encyclopedia of anomalous phenomena".
***Chernobrov VA, "encyclopedia mysterious places of the Earth".

Of these facilities, though different in detail, but are several basic types, which builders equally stuck around the world. It menhirs, rows of upright stones, stretched for long distances; cromlechs - circular concentric constructed; the dolmen - designs in which the stone slabs are delivered and placed in walls and ceilings napadaBIE "card houses", only items in them exactly fitted to each other, making them extremely stable. And there are just blocks erected on its own center of gravity so that they are able to swing from the touch of a finger, despite its great weight.
One of dolmens in the Caucasus in our time tried to move to another place. Transported using the most powerful cranes, but as tried and failed in the Assembly joined the stones to each other also tightly, as was done in ancient times.
Then who built the shelters?" What for? And what force had to be the creators of all these buildings?

Single swing stones of ancient peoples definitely was associated with the art of divination. We Celts, ancient people who inhabited the Western Europe, they were called "stone of destiny", "stones court", "prophesying stones", "stones-oracles"; the Phoenicians spoke of them as sentient stones. That by using them, we could obtain predictions, wrote in his writings Photius (810-890-s), Patriarch of Constantinople, a connoisseur of ancient literature, Damasci (458-538), Greek philosopher, Asclepiades (128-56 BC), the Roman physician. Irnobi (3rd - early 4th century), Christian Latin writer, recognized that could never pass by such "speaking" stone and not to ask him a question, "which sometimes worked the answer is clear and crisp voice"*. And all the traditions agree that these stones endowed with special energy and capable of responding to the impact of even the thoughts of man. Only you must be able to call them on the conversation.
The oldest Dating megaliths belong to the fourth Millennium BC. Although six thousand years, in itself, a huge age, archaeologists are recognised that it may be inaccurate, as determined only by age bonfire left about them ancient man, and fires can burn anyone, anytime. Besides, the creators of megaliths, endows them in some religious sense, hardly would be to arrange a dinner under the arches of their sacred buildings.
Old names of megalithic structures themselves are revealing. In Sweden they were called "the graves corridors"in Russia, Siberia, Peru and Bolivia "gravesites"in Germany ' graves giants"exactly - "the graves of giants" - in Spain, Palestine, Algeria, in Sardinia. In India it is "grave Giants Ditlev and Rakshasas". The cromlech Stonehenge in England was called "dance giants". In a word, everywhere "burial" and "the grave", and everywhere "giants".
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*Quoted Blavatsky in "Secret Doctrine", so 2.

No remains of the giants usually under them do not find it, but, meanwhile, the most ancient and widespread method of burial was burned, and if it is burning was in the burial practice of megalith builders, their names can specify what exactly were the builders. And not in vain then legends of many peoples say about the ages when the planet was inhabited by giants - "titans", "Atlanta", "Daichi", "Asura". As suggests the Book of Genesis (VI, 4), "Giants lived in the days on earth".
Even in the times of the ancient Greeks, according to historian Diodorus of Sicily (approx. 90-21 BC), there were such people huge growth. And, apparently, as an exception, may be sometimes found some material evidence of their existence. So, Abbe Pegus, who lived in the XIX century, in the labor "Volcanoes Greece" wrote: "In the neighborhood of the volcano island of Thera were found giants with a huge skulls buried under huge stones, the construction of which, in any case, would require Herculean strength"*.
And in different places on the planet there are stones that depressed footprint of human hands or feet. In Altai the Katun river traverses a huge piece of rock in which the trace from the hands of giant imprinted like for him lump was volleyball ball. On the island of Ceylon such a stone with a footprint of revered as the footprint of the Buddha. On the plateau weld in South Africa footprint, debossed on 15 centimeters in granite rock, the length is 1 meter 30 centimeters, width - 76 centimeters. In the print legs visible even stuck between his fingers lumps of soil**.

Mark how would melted and this suggests that there was some way, giving the body the properties of hydrofluoric acid, softening the stone. At first glance it's incredible, but there are plants, juice which dissolves the stone. In Tibet, this herb is called AUA Duthie, animal licks its her, stepping on the stone, forever leaves a mark on it. And in South America, the Indians knowledge of this plant was one of the ancient secrets, which helped them to construct buildings of stone, perfectly fitted for each other. The stones processed vegetable juice, on time, acquired properties of clay, and then it was possible not only tightly pripechatal them to each other, but do at least faces of convexity and concavity, as in modern children's designers that did buildings incredibly resistant to earthquakes.
Us now, when we see not yet hardened concrete or asphalt, it is difficult to resist the temptation to capture it for years to imprint his leg or arm. Probably, the giants of antiquity was felt that, and the more they do not deny myself the pleasure of this, if you were able to perpetuate its mark even in granite.
But the question is - why is similar findings are an exception? Why utensils giants and their autographs not sown ancient layers of the Earth, as with broken shards and arrowheads Parking our not too large ancestors?
Here will help us understand the same majestic ancient stones - the dolmens and menhirs and cromlechs.
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*Quoted De Mirville in "Pneumatology", "Des Esprits", III, 46-48. ( E.P. Blavatskaya, "the secret Doctrine", so 2).
**Journal "Incredible. Legendary. Apparent" №4, 1998, p.4, Victor Nikitin, the article "lived On Earth a 10-meter people".

It is noticed that they seem to gravitate to the sea, the coastline, and the closer to the ocean, the more their size and antiquity, as if their creators, moving back into continents gradually shrinking and losing in force. And legends of the lead researchers of megaliths even further - to the ocean floor. According to the legends of the Celts, Britain is "the earth is Given"* " I used to be much larger and stretched far into the sea, but the water is absorbed land, and together with it and most of its residents. Then, if you believe the legend and to follow the logic of placement of megaliths in the bottom of the sea, they may be even higher than the famous Stonehenge. And all material traces of life giants should be sought there.
Flood, old-peoples-giants - this is the main, the main reservoir in the myths of the most ancient peoples, which tells of the creation of the world and human history. In the myths ancestors giants killed during the terrible earthquakes and floods, and the whole country become the bottom of the sea. Few survivors give birth to a new human race and rule as the divine king.


But can it happen in nature? And what it says about science?
And science is an interesting thing. Science is hundreds of thousands of people living in constant search. Therefore the science it would be better to define the word process"than "knowledge". Scientists have accumulated a huge amount of facts and discoveries. At the same time, the opinion science is the point of view of most scientists on a certain subject or problem. The first is the accumulation of facts and discoveries - can be compared with a rushing at full speed Express train. And the second is the opinion of the majority - with a huge, unwieldy who not only with difficulty moves along rails, but slowly turned toward new observations and discoveries. Due to this slowness, most likely, the narrow specialization of the majority of scientists, where to go, to cover the problem from the point of view of different branches of knowledge is a difficult task. The more global the new truth, the more time is required for its adoption. On the recognition of the theory of relativity of Einstein's gone half a century. Theory on dinosaur extinction due to the collision with the Earth the great cosmic bodies ten years ago was discussed as a disputable hypothesis, although based on the obvious fact - the existence of "iridium anomaly", a thin layer of cosmic matter in the earth's strata. Now this theory has already voiced in textbooks and popular scientific editions as self-evident truth. For adoption took too some time. And always, at any time we live in a time when the process of birth and growth of some theories, and aging, death other. That is dying out as an aberration or transferred as part of a more General theory, for us embodies the past in the mindset of science and humanity. That have not had time to make his way and break through the clutter of old concepts, takes the name "innovative", "crazy", "fantastic" hypotheses. Young people tend to bold, decisive innovation, in adulthood, especially in old age - to conservatism. The view of science as a whole define the elderly, who managed to acquire a solid scientific titles and gained credibility in the eyes of the majority, but to this age conservatism becomes part of their worldview and defines a biased attitude to everything new. Because of these psychological reasons science in General is very awkwardness, not having time to learn a powerful stream of new observations.
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*I. Tsarev, "Esoteric knowledge, where are they from?"

In the reasoning of floods facts and discoveries now take by storm old theory of global platetectonic, which began to make its way to the recognition in the early XX century. It is a century gained weight and huge inertia and now its globality closes for many scientists the possibility of any other large displacements and withthe deeds in the earth's crust, except that it makes.

This theory was born from a simple observation that the continents of the planet Earth, if their profiles to lay down with each other, well converge, forming a single whole. Appeared the assumption that many, many million years ago was one of the mainland, which later split into several parts and gradually dispersed in different directions, forming a modern continents. Figuratively, it can be represented as pieces of foam that broke away from a single large piece and blurring on the water in different directions.
From a purely speculative point of view and taking into account modern slow "drift" continents, theory beautiful. But what if us this speculative nature to make more accurate, punctual and more suitable for the experiment, even in the mind? It will take a little time, but will reveal some surprises.
We usually thinking or talking about land and water, and correlating with the size of the planet imagine lakes and seas as the great ditches, holes or cracks in the solid earth, and the mountains - how large, towering above the surface arrays. But let us imagine that we want to build a large-scale relief model of the planet - the globe, in which accurately comply with all proportion. Mountains will make papier-mache, and the sea from some transparent material. And first we have to find out the exact proportion and according mountains paper real, and the thickness of transparent substance is thicker oceans.


What will choose the size of the globe? Meter, two meters long and five meters will be very inconvenient size. Why is it will soon become clear. The size will choose the one that is easier related to the size of the planet to facilitate calculations.


So. The average radius of the Earth - 6371 km Diameter respectively - 12742 km


For convenience of calculations will take the size of our globe in the same figure, not only in kilometers, and in millimeters - 12742 mm. In metres it is 12 meters plus 74 cm and 2 mm. And the exact value of our globe, and the Earth will be one to a million. One millimeter on the globe, equal to one kilometer on the planet. At this scale do not even have nothing to count. Eleven kilometers of the Mariana trench, the deepest abyss in the world ocean, is a dimple in eleven millimeters on our globe, and devyatimillimetrovy upland it is 8 kilometers 848 meters biggest Himalayan peaks.


Here's a globe with the height of a four-storey house. And, in presenting accurate, precise proportions, we see this picture:
Perfect ball height of a four-storey house. Flattening at the poles in this huge area, about which so much is said, will be only 10 millimeters, and we won't even notice. The surface of the globe slightly uneven, rough edges in the thickness from 2 to 9 millimetres is our mountain and the highest peak. A large part of the globe is covered with water (or imitation) average thickness of 4-6 mm, i.e. with a glass window. Under this layer a few scratches, the deepest of which is 11 mm - Mariana trench.


And all this "change" - on the ball with four-storey house. Such proportions.
We go further. Take out a piece of our globe, as from watermelon, so you can look inside. And then we'll see: hard shell of the planet - the lithosphere - has a thickness of 15 to 30 centimeters, it is divided into pieces (lithospheric plates)that float on semi-fluid asthenosphere - gap separating the hard shell from the rest of the dense content planet's mantle and core. Many pieces of a thickness of 15 to 30 centimeters float on the surface of a sphere with four-storey house, move, move, crawl each other and crawl out from each-other. And on them the thin-thin water layer of 5 mm.

Imagine now that we, the role of the space forces, putting a hand to these pieces on the globe, and they gradually begin to shift. What will happen from this with our five millimeter ocean? Something unimaginable. As so slow to move plate, even over millions of years to land has not changed its shape, and the ocean is not splashed and did not leave the banks? It is the task of incredible.
You can take any encyclopedia of Geology, carefully examine all of these plates and their movement and to ensure that the profiles of the continents coincide with the combination not from their origin from one piece, and for some other reasons. But for us it's not important. Another interesting to imagine whether the motion of the plates to change the shape of the ground and oceans?


For these changes to parts of the lithosphere on our globe will have a little, just a couple of millimeters or even a millimeter, to rise or fall. Not even through the pieces, and their edges, that is, some of their edge just POPs up, and the others will fall. Just a millimeter. And to exposing the bottom of the oceans and the land became the sea, this rise and lowering for the full effect should occur only on some centimetric. For example, the African plate, which on the surface of the globe occupies an area of 9.5 to 11 meters, will have one edge to raise an inch, and another to omit. And this despite the fact that, on proven scientific data, plates can be pulled on each other, face to move up and down, forming a mountain and ocean basin.


Also, we must remember the tsunami wave height in the tens and hundreds of meters, washing away everything in its path when earthquakes in marine areas. For the emergence of such wave two of lithospheric plates have to move relative to each other just a meter. This happens when their slow motion, when hundreds of years in the place of coupling plates accumulated huge tension and, having reached the critical point, by the earth falls or rises in an instant. In the scale of our globe one meter of this shift is equal to a thousand(!) fraction of a millimeter. The same African plate in the size of 9.5 to 11 metres and thickness of 15 to 30 centimeters lower or raise one of his land for a thousandth of a millimeter, and this planet will go destructive tsunami - "the deluge".


Proceeding from this model, it is easier to prevent "easy" fallen under water mountain ranges than diverging continents - the crown of lithospheric plates, open water. If you understand this exact model, it becomes clear that we live in a wonderfully calm, incredibly calm geologically time with its registered 10 000 per year by the earthquakes. Planet just breathing, or has a slight fever. But if she is seriously ill and her shiver will become stronger, we - the microorganisms inhabiting the folds of her skin, not be sorry.
From this reasoning and calculations fast forward to the past four thousand years ago.
In times when there was not Hellas, familiar to us by statues Pheidias and the writings of Herodotus, when not yet born Homer, but already occurred the events described in his poems, - in the heyday of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean.
Rich, beautiful country lying under the azure sky.
...In that day, as always, the waves carried the gifts of Poseidon at sun warmed stones. Seashells and seaweed, windy, gave him the taste of the sea, and he took them and carried to the fields, the vineyards, the city streets and markets, where generously shared with residents their cool patterns.

It seemed that nothing could stop this idyll of Paradise on the island, far from the shores of the warlike barbarians, Greeks, just starting their way to civilization. With the powerful Egypt bound of the Minoans friendly trade relations, and there was no need even to the construction of impregnable fortresses, because no one was on the defensive. The islanders passed among the nature, blooming and blossoming with all the colors of eternal spring. Has grown a rich harvest, the whole world built spacious, full of light palaces of the rulers, and the temples of the goddess rested in contemplation of sports and luxuriated among comfort bathrooms.
But such is life that the seeds of misery and suffering of man begins to grow in him - in soil, richly fertilized well-being and pleasure. Solar facade life, decorated with colored frescoes with birds, flowers and dolphins, lies and long gaining strength dark reality of new cults, impressive sophisticated, presyshchennoe in the pleasures of the imagination of the Cretans.


Fine home of some of the rich of the Minoans hide in ourselves strange objects. Special rooms are stored vases for ritual ceremonies. Some empty, ready in due time again filled with blood, in other interspersed with sea shells are already used baby bone - knuckles, the vertebrae. In the basement floor can be seen as sinister attributes of the cult. Bone teenage children keep themselves markings cuts from sharp knife and traces of removing them from the meat, cut on the cervical vertebrae indicate that the victims were slaughtered like sheep, by cutting the throat.
In the richest and most beautiful city of Knossos Crete behind high walls hid the temples, where human sacrifice replaced the old rituals of fertility. The Ministers of the new gods and goddesses trying to enter themselves adherents of the local nobility, which carry in their homes and families new symbols of worship and rituals.
That day, as it was not once, in one of these churches was the ritual of sacrifice.


The fire in the oil lamps plays live glare at large stone plates, employees walls of the temple. In a Central location on a hill stands a wooden idol of the goddess in growth of the person. Clothes on it, it seems that trembles in the warm glow of the fire, and he seemed to tremble, impatiently waiting for the moment when again you will breathe the sweet smell of fresh, warm blood.


In the next room at a low altar is associated, nice bull before slaughter, eighteen-year-old boy. He smotRIT, as inexorably closer to him the gods of night who reside in the bodies of three of the priests. He was scared, when the clergy - two men and a woman - fought whirling dance, indulging in the power of the gods, but now, under the views of demented people, in the dilated pupils which jump shadow of death and flames, the fear becomes a feeling of hopelessness. His naked body already in the government of the Kingdom of the dead, it beats in the chills, and the thoughts going through the names of the gods, interfering with their names dear, beloved people. Of those, the thought of which made life filled with warmth and sunlight. Who can help who are closer to humans or gods? Where they all at? Cold, chilling cold, fear and heavenly melancholy. The last sensation of life - touch to the throat of the cold bronze ritual dagger crunch cut cartilage, warm, flowing along the skin...
The priest lays aside the knife and quickly fills the bowl under the stream with the bull. The other two wearily and the removal of looking at the blood dripping into the vessel. The Cup was full, the priest slowly stands up and carries her, heading in the chambers of the divine. Now he was in the corridor, two steps away from the habitation of the idol, sees his face, lit by flickering lights. All stood before the final, no sound, no one blow...

Suddenly, the floor was gone from beneath his feet. The terrifying roar shook the entire island. Bowl falls out of hand, down the walls - stone blocks. The fire of oil lamps is bottled under the ruins of the ceiling, covering flame blood-soaked womb of the sanctuary, as the stomach crushed insatiable beast with its contents - the bodies of the priests, pieces of wood of God and ritual objects. Under the burning ruins of the temple of darkness in an instant and buried the victim, and the executioners.


Houses, temples, city of Crete turned into ruins. Everything louder groan and the cries of crippled people. And yet the noise and strikes the earth... And more. As if the earth itself has gone mad from these crazy rites. And, unable to tolerate more, takes revenge for the humiliation of life, which she gave him...
Such events is not a page from the art of the novel. This is exactly occurred on the island of Crete three and a half thousand years ago. The earthquake during a human sacrifice is the fact established by archaeologists Sakellaris during excavations on the island in 1979*. Bloody rites were renewed again and again, as soon as the life of the Cretans were in their usual way, and time after time the island was shaken by earthquakes, while the civilization of the Minoans finally fell under the blows of nature and militant invasion of the barbarians.

Natural disasters have always been one of the main reasons for the death of civilizations. Flood or, on the contrary, the care of water flows into the thickness of the earth. The invasion of deserts or a devastating earthquake. Hordes of nomads, the army foreigners only helped the work of nature, devastating the city, lazy among luxury, destroying the Empire torn by intrigues greedy rulers. Traces of such disasters are numerous. And the great catastrophe that left an indelible trace in the memory of Nations and in the annals of nature - the destruction of Atlantis.
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*Encyclopedia "lost civilization. Wonderful Aegean Kingdom"

Maltsev Sergey Aleksandrovich