Efimenko's expeditions. Mysterious ancient civilization in the Far Eastern taiga

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In early July 2005, an unusual natural phenomenon happened in the deep taiga. Forty kilometers from the town of Vyazemsky, by the Podkhorenok River, several hectares of forest were tumbled down in the taiga, as if someone had walked with a huge club on the ground, breaking and uprooted age-old trees. As explained in the Far Eastern regional center of the EMERCOM of Russia, only a tornado is capable of this …

The strength of the wind was so incredible, and the appearance of a siphon for these latitudes was so strange and rare that many researchers were already going to go to the epicenter and find out what the wind of change brought with it … However, the research scientist Mikhail Efimenko was ahead of everyone. He has just returned from an expedition and hastened to share his discoveries and show the finds. He found some of his artifacts in the garden of a local resident of the village of Sheremetyevo, Vyazemsky district, which he collected in the forest and displayed to the kids.

“Until now, the village of Sheremetyevo was of interest to historians only as one of the places of cultural monuments of the Neolithic Age - the New Stone Age,” says Mikhail Efimenko. - Here, on the rocks, they found drawings of primitive people - petroglyphs: funny horses and scenes from hunting life. But what I saw amazed me. Stones from another world, from another culture, from another time, from another civilization …

There are many finds, but few explanations. To understand their nature, the scientist sat in the library for a week and re-read books on the culture of the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece, Rome. I compared photographs of hewn stones of different lengths, widths and colors, which are scattered in the taiga. The profession helped, Efimenko is an architect with thirty years of experience.

“Look at the incredibly large ovals I found in the forest,” Mikhail Vasilyevich continues. “They’re as tall as a man. What do they resemble? It seems there is a small mouth, you can even see the nose, eyes, chin, which does not allow the stone head to turn over. But these are not human heads … This is how a stone was cut in Egypt in the eighth century BC. The oval is nothing more than the stone "head of Aries" in the first stage of processing. A Khabarovsk scientist saw a similar head in the temple of Amun in the city of Karnak, there is even an alley of stone heads. Amon in ancient Egyptian mythology deified the sun and was depicted as a ram. There was such a cult when a ram was sacrificed.

“Pay attention to the stone drawing,” the scientist says. - Embossed frame. This is a Greek method of stone processing. Stonecutters' footprints left on the stone date back to around the sixteenth century AD. In the Far East, such masters did not appear earlier than the twentieth century, and even then they did not manage to “outline” the stone so filigree. Even when the bridge over the Amur was being built, stone cutters were invited from Europe.

The processing of stone "in a frame", according to Efimenko, was used during the construction of the Parthenon temple in Athens in 438 BC. It was built on the initiative of Pericles, and the architects were Iktin and Callicrates. Today, only ruins remain of the temple …

But where did it come from? There is not a single stone building for a hundred versts, there are wooden houses all around …

“How these stones got to us, I cannot say yet,” says our guest. - Most likely, there were masters who knew the secrets of processing. But I can clarify that these stones were never placed in the walls, they were not used to build buildings. There is no solution on them. They seem to be prepared for construction. Everything is started and instantly abandoned.

In some stone blocks, Efimenko noticed through holes. They were as if from a puncture of the unprecedented power of weapons. The holes on the outside were melted, and the vitreous crust indicated that they were traces of the effect of a huge temperature.

Efimenko's expedition even managed to find a quarry on the banks of the Ussuri, where the "Parthenon stones" were mined. They broke them with the help of cuts - small squares along the edges, as if splitting a lump, like a coconut, first into shapeless pieces, and then, cutting off the edges, they got the necessary geometry. Holes in the form of bells, characteristic of the Hellenistic times, were found in the stones. They served either for transporting cargo, or were ordinary drain holes - drainage systems when they were collected in buildings. Exactly the same "bells" in stone blocks were found by archaeologists at the excavations of Pompeii, an ancient city on the coast of the Gulf of Naples, which died in 79 AD during the eruption of Vesuvius.

Near the quarry, Mikhail Efimenko also discovered the entrance to the labyrinth, to the underground city. This entrance is shallow and resembles a large crater in the ground. Local residents filled up the entrance with stones so that the village boys would not go underground, otherwise it is not known where these ancient catacombs might lead. They say they are so long that they can stretch to China, or even to Tibet … How to believe this?

Meanwhile, in the history of the Amur region, the Middle Ages are the most mysterious and unexplored historical period. A white spot in history, because it is believed that at this time the tribes that lived along the Amur disappeared and fell into decay. Even the powerful states of Bohai and Chzhurchzhen, which existed in the Amur region from the 7th to the 12th centuries and were quite advanced military feudal powers, were defeated. As it is written in all textbooks "the peoples of the Far East have lost their statehood and found themselves at the stage of the patriarchal system …". What happened next? Maybe a natural disaster? There is no answer to this question.

Of course, the tornado that swept a few weeks ago in the taiga in the Vyazemsky region could not move the stones from one side of the world to the other; most likely, it exposed the finds that the earth had hidden for many years.

According to Mikhail Efimenko, archaeologists are waiting for the most interesting finds, the secret of which is still kept by the taiga in the Khabarovsk Territory, and they will be incomparable with the pyramids in Egypt and the excavations of Troy. There was at least some idea about those cities and civilizations, epic images and ancient stories, books have come down, but we still don't know anything about the civilization of "Aries", the city of Tartary (the underworld). The story is just beginning here.