-Caveat Lector-
Interesting archeology information, if true. Interesting fiction if not.
Take a look and judge for yourself.
This is forwarded from a newsgroup.
Subject: The Dropa Stones
From: Reverend Chupacabra <A
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Date: Thu, 23 September 1999 02:59 AM EDT
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Has this story been debunked, dehoaxed, clarified,
expanded upon, ignored, verified, updated, or what?
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The Dropa Stones
<A
HREF="http://paranormal.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm">http://paran
ormal.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm</A>
Records of Past Civilizations - <A
HREF="http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm">http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm</A>
Such records have indeed been found ... in China. These were
contained in a large number of peculiar stone disks discovered
in some underground repositories in the Himalayas near the border
of Tibet.
The discovery of the disks was made in 1938 by Professor Chi Pu
Tei, an archeologist who was leading students on an expedition
into the Bayan Kara Ula Mountains in the then-disputed frontier
territory of Tibet and China. Professor Chi Pu Tei and his students
discovered what was first described as a series of caves, but
later admitted to be a complex system of artificial tunnels and
underground storerooms. These tunnels were perfectly squared and
the walls, ceilings and floors were highly glazed, as if the
passages and rooms were carved by a device emitting heat of such
intensity that it simply melted its way into the mountains.
The archeological group followed some of these passages and
encountered larger chambers in which numerous un-described
implements were discovered. The implements evidently differed from
one chamber to another, but one item was found in common in each
of the chambers -- the stone disks mentioned earlier. In each
chamber, they were found in the same position -- on a smooth
cube of rock, glazed just as the tunnels were, with anywhere
from seven to 20 of the disks neatly stacked on top.
Each disk was 22.7 cm (9 inches) in diameter and 2 cm
(3/4 inch) thick. Each disk also had a perfectly circular 2 cm hole
in the exact center. The outside edges were regularly indented all
the way around, almost like the fluting on a pie crust. Each disk
also had a twin groove which began at the center hole and gradually
moved in an expanding counterclockwise spiral to the outer rim. The
individual disks thus bore a certain similarity to the phonograph
records of today.
All of the disks -- a total of 716 -- were removed and taken for
study to the Peking Academy of Prehistory. Nothing was heard about
this discovery by Western scientists for the next 27 years.
During that period, the disks were being studied intensively
by Professor Tsum Um Nui.
The Bayan Kara Ula Mountains area is one of the most isolated and
least known areas on Earth today. The nearest city of any consequence
is Lhasa, Tibet, about 400 miles to the south through virtually
impassable terrain.
It is an area presently inhabited by two tribes of very unusual
people. The tribes call themselves Dropa and Han, and simply do
not fit into any racial category established by anthropologists.
For one thing, they are both of pygmy stature. The tallest and
shortest adults have measured 4' 7" and 3'6" respectively, but
the average height is 4'2". They are yellow-skinned. Their heads
are disproportionately large and sparsely haired, and their eyes
are large but not Oriental in aspect, with pale bluish irises.
Their features are very nicely formed, most nearly approximating
Caucasian, and their bodies are extremely thin and delicate.
Adult weight is estimated to average about 38 to 52 pounds.
The disks underwent extensive study by Professor Tsum Um Nui,
interrupted at times by war. It took him and his coworkers only
a short time to discover that the spiral grooves were not sound
tracks but, rather, an incredibly ancient writing inscribed in
some unknown way and very nearly microscopic in size. The disks
were determined to be no less than 3,000 or 4,000 years old at
the youngest, and more likely anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000
years old.
This would make them the oldest known form of writing in the world.
Deciphering was incredibly difficult. It took 24 years -- until
1962 -- before Professor Nui and a young colleague found the key
and began deciphering=2E The deciphered spiral text of the stones,
even though only a small amount was completed, was so startling
in its content that the Chinese government prohibited any
publication of the resultant papers.
The precise location of the site has never been released, and
that area has been termed 'Positively Forbidden Territory' for
the Western world since 1938.
Then, in 1965, in a mysterious manner, an article written by
the Russian philologist Vyacheslav Saizev appeared in Das
Vegetarische Universum, a German magazine, and in the Russian-
English magazine Sputnik, telling about the disks, their qualities
and composition, and a little about what had been deciphered from
them. It's rather startling. <A
HREF="http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm">http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm</A>
<A
HREF="http://paranormal.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm">http://paran
ormal.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm</A>
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