Thanks Theoria and wildbill.
Posted on 10/30/2015 9:49:40 AM PDT by Theoria
High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.
Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old.
The largest, near a Neolithic settlement, is a giant square of 101 raised mounds, its opposite corners connected by a diagonal cross, covering more terrain than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Another is a kind of three-limbed swastika, its arms ending in zigzags bent counterclockwise.
Described last year at an archaeology conference in Istanbul as unique and previously unstudied, the earthworks, in the Turgai region of northern Kazakhstan, number at least 260 — mounds, trenches and ramparts — arrayed in five basic shapes.
Spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, Dmitriy Dey, the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs remain deeply puzzling and largely unknown to the outside world.
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Thanks Theoria and wildbill.
LOL
What? Over 20 posts and the “it must be aliens” guy hasn’t showed up yet?
I notice all the spots are white.
Maybe some early French were wandering around the area and that ground thingy was an attempt to surrender to some scary looking clouds overhead.
My interp on those “swastikas”.
Those are natives attempting to warn the Ancient Aliens not to mess with them because they have really wicked throwing knives as shown. But, the actual knives are smaller, you know, so they can be thrown.
Is it caused by the aliens???
I think that may be some computer code for quotes or an apostrophe. Perhaps it relates to that “Posting HTML” notice under the posting information.
This is very exciting about the geo”glyphs” being found in central Asia. We are just beginning to find all that satellite/Google Earth type study can provide. I remember spending hours looking over the system of irrigation canals in southern Africa that cover an area 300 miles square, that someone posted here. That one doesn’t even seem to have any archaeology group making plans to do something or trying to get the local government(s) interested in studying it. And then there is all the coastal plains between sea level and 400 feet down that ought to be engaging researchers. So much still to discover.
Prehistoric 1040 form. Box to check if they wanted 1 rock to be donated to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
early black and white rendering of the Confederate battle flag.
it must be removed ASAP
I think it means,” Put pyramid here”.
There’s a thread about the hash problem, John and Jim are working on it.
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