ANCIENT HUMAN METROPOLIS FOUND IN AFRICA by Dan Eden
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The article: Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa By Dan Eden for viewzone.

They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could
remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many
there were. Now they are everywhere -- thousands -- no, hundreds of thousands of
them! And the story they tell is the most important story of humanity. But it’s
one we might not be prepared to hear.

Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150
miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. It is the remains of a huge metropolis
that measures, in conservative estimates, about 1500 square miles. It’s part of
an even larger community that is about 10,000 square miles and appears to have
been constructed -- are you ready -- from 160,000 to 200,000 BCE!

The image is a close-up view of just a few hundred meters of the
landscape taken from google-earth. The region is somewhat remote and the
"circles" have often been encountered by local farmers who assumed they were
made by some indigenous people in the past. But, oddly, no one ever bothered to
inquire about who could have made them or how old they were.

This changed when researcher and author, Michael Tellinger, teamed up with Johan
Heine, a local fireman and pilot who had been looking at these ruins from his
years flying over the region. Heine had the unique advantage to see the number
and extent of these strange stone foundations and knew that their significance
was not being appreciated.

"When Johan first introduced me to the ancient stone ruins of southern Africa, I
had no idea of the incredible discoveries we would make in the year or two that
followed. The photographs, artifacts and evidence we have accumulated points
unquestionably to a lost and never-before-seen civilization that predates all
others -- not by just a few hundred years, or a few thousand years... but many
thousands of years. These discoveries are so staggering that they will not be
easily digested by the mainstream historical and archaeological fraternity, as
we have already experienced. It will require a complete paradigm shift in how we
view our human history. " -- Tellinger

Where it was found

The area is significant for one striking thing -- gold. "The thousands of
ancient gold mines discovered over the past 500 years, points to a vanished
civilization that lived and dug for gold in this part of the world for thousands
of years," says Tellinger. "And if this is in fact the cradle of humankind, we
may be looking at the activities of the oldest civilization on Earth."

To see the number and scope of these ruins, I suggest that you use google-earth
and start with the following coordinates:
Carolina -- 25 55’ 53.28" S / 30 16’ 13.13" E
Badplaas -- 25 47’ 33.45" S / 30 40’ 38.76" E
Waterval -- 25 38’ 07.82" S / 30 21’ 18.79" E
Machadodorp -- 25 39’ 22.42" S / 30 17’ 03.25" E

Then perform a low flying search inside the area formed by this rectangle.
Simply Amazing!

Did gold play some role in the dense population that once lived here? The site
is just about 150 miles from an excellent port where maritime trade could have
helped to support such a large population. But remember -- we’re talking almost
200,000 years ago!

The individual ruins [see below] mostly consist of stone circles. Most have been
buried in the sand and are only observable by satellite or aircraft. Some have
been exposed when the changing climate has blown the sand away, revealing the
walls and foundations.

"I see myself as a fairly open-minded chap but I will admit that it took me well
over a year for the penny to drop, and for me to realise that we are actually
dealing with the oldest structures ever built by humans on Earth.

The main reason for this is that we have been taught that nothing of
significance has ever come from southern Africa. That the powerful civilizations
all emerged in Sumeria and Egypt and other places. We are told that until the
settlement of the BANTU people from the north, which was supposed to have
started sometime in the 12th century AD, this part of the world was filled by
hunter gatherers and so-called Bushmen, who did not make any major contributions in technology or civilization." -- Tellinger

A Rich and Diverse History

When explorers first encountered these ruins, they assumed that they were cattle
corals made by nomadic tribes, like the Bantu people, as they moved south and
settled the land from around the 13th century. There was no previous historical
record of any older civilization capable of building such a densly populated
community. Little effort was made to investigate the site because the scope of
the ruins was not fully known.

Over the past 20 years, people like Cyril Hromnik, Richard Wade, Johan Heine
and a handful of others have discovered that these stone structures are not what
the seem to be. In fact these are now believed to be the remains of ancient
temples and astronomical observatories of lost ancient civilizations that
stretch back for many thousands of years.

These circular ruins are spread over a huge area. They can only truly be
appreciated from the air or through modern sattelite images. Many of them have
almost completely eroded or have been covered by the movement of soil from
farming and the weather. Some have survived well enough to reveal their great
size [see above] with some original walls standing almost 5 feet high and over a
meter wide in places.

Looking at the entire metropolis, it becomes obvious that this was a well
planned community, developed by a highly evolved civilization. The number of
ancient gold mines suggests the reason for the community being in this location.
We find roads -- some extending a hundred miles -- that connected the community
and terraced agriculture, closely resembling those found in the Inca settlements
in Peru.

But one question begs for an answer -- how could this be achieved by humans
200,000 years ago?

How the Site was dated

Once the ruins were examined, the researchers were anxious to place the lost
civilization in a historical perspective. The rocks were covered with a patina
that looked very old but there were no items sufficient for carbon-14 dating. It
was then that a chance discovery revealed the age of the site, and sent a chill
down the spine of archaeologists and historians!

Dating the site:
Finding the remains of a large community, with as many as 200,000 people
living and working together, was a major discovery in itself. But dating the
site was a problem. The heavy patina on the rock walls suggested the structures
were extremely old, but the science of dating patina is just being developed and
is still controversial. Carbon-14 dating of such things as burnt wood introduces
the possibility that the specimens could be from recent grass fires which are
common in the area.

The breakthrough came quite unexpectedly. As Tellinger describes it:

"Johan Heine discovered Adam’s Calendar in 2003, quite by accident. He was on
route to find one of his pilots who crashed his plane on the edge of the cliff.
Next to the crash site Johan noticed a very strange arrangement of large stones
sticking out of the ground. While rescuing the injured pilot from about 20
metres down the side of the cliff, Johan walked over to the monoliths and
immediately realised that they were aligned to the cardinal points of Earth --
north, south, east and west. There were at least 3 monoliths aligned towards the
sunrise, but on the west side of the aligned monoliths there was a mysterious
hole in the ground -- something was missing.

After weeks and months of measuring and observations, Johan concluded that it
was perfectly aligned with the rise and fall of the Sun. He determined the
solstices and the equinoxes. But the mysterious hole in the ground remained a
big puzzle. One day, while contemplating the reason for the hole, the local
horse trail expert, Christo, came riding by. He quickly explained to Johan that
there was a strange shaped stone which had been removed from the spot some time ago. Apparently it stood somewhere near the entrance to the nature reserve.

After an extensive search, Johan found the anthropomorphic (humanoid shape)
stone. It was intact and proudly placed with a plaque stuck to it. It had been
used by the Blue Swallow foundation to commemorate the opening of the Blue
Swallow reserve in 1994. The irony is that it was removed from the most
important ancient site found to date and mysteriously returned to the reserve --
for slightly different reasons.

The exact location of the calendar is listed on www.makomati.com. The first
calculations of the age of the calendar were made based on the rise of Orion, a
constellation known for its three bright stars forming the "belt" of the
mythical hunter.

The Earth wobbles on its axis and so the stars and constellations change their
angle of presentation in the night sky on a cyclical basis. This rotation,
called the precession completes a cycle about every 26,000 years. By determining
when the three stars of Orion’s belt were positioned flat (horizontal) against
the horizon, we can estimate the time when the three stones in the calendar were
in alignment with these conspicuous stars.

The first rough calculation was at least 25,000 years ago. But new and more
precise measurements kept increasing the age. The next calculation was presented
by a master archaeoastronomer who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of
ridicule by the academic fraternity. His calculation was also based on the rise
of Orion and suggested an age of at least 75,000 years. The most recent and most
acurate calculation, done in June 2009, suggests an age of at least 160,000
years, based on the rise of Orion -- flat on the horizon -- but also on the
erosion of dolerite stones found at the site.

Some pieces of the marker stones had been broken off and sat on the ground,
exposed to natural erosion. When the pieces were put back together about 3 cm of
stone had already been worn away. These calculation helped assess the age of the
site by calculating the erosion rate of the dolerite.

Who made the metropolis? Why?

It would seem that humans have always valued gold. It is even mentioned in
the Bible, describing the Garden of Eden’s rivers:
Genesis 2:11 -- The name of the first [river] is Pishon; it flows around the
whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

South Africa is known as the largest gold producing country of the world. The
largest gold producing area of the world is Witwatersrand, the same region where
the ancient metropolis is found. In fact nearby Johannesburg, one of the best
known cities of South Africa, is also named "Egoli" which means the city of
gold.

It seems highly probable that the ancient metropolis was established because of
its proximity to the largest supply of gold on the planet. But why would ancient
people work so hard to mine gold? You can’t eat it. It’s too soft to use for
tool making. It isn’t really useful for anything except ornaments and its
physical beauty is on a par with other metals like copper or silver. Exactly why
was gold so important to early homo sapiens?

To explore the answer we need to look at the period of history in question --
160,000 to 200,000 years BCE -- and learn what was happening on planet Earth.

What were humans like 160,000 years ago?

Modern humans, homo sapiens, can trace our ancestry back through time to a point where our species evolved from other, more primitive, hominids. Scientists do not understand why this new type of human suddenly appeared, or how the change happened, but we can trace our genes back to a single female that is known as "Mitochondrial Eve".

Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) is the name given by
researchers to the woman who is defined as the matrilineal most recent common
ancestor (MRCA) for all currently living humans. Passed down from mother to
offspring, all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in every living person is derived from
this one female individual. Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of
Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor, although they
lived at different times.

Mitochondrial Eve is believed to have lived between 150,000 to 250,000 years BP,
probably in East Africa, in the region of Tanzania and areas to the immediate
south and west. Scientists speculate that she lived in a population of between
perhaps 4000 to 5000 females capable of producing offspring at any given time.
If other females had offspring with the evolutionary changes to their DNA we
have no record of their survival. It appears that we are all descendants of this
one human female.

Mitochondrial Eve would have been roughly contemporary with humans whose fossils have been found in Ethiopia near the Omo River and at Hertho. Mitochondrial Eve lived significantly earlier than the out of Africa migration which might have occurred some 60,000 to 95,000 years ago.

The region in Africa where one can find the greatest level of
mitochondrial diversity (green) and the region anthropologists postulated the
most ancient division in the human population began to occur (light brown). The
ancient metropolis in located in this latter (brown) region which also
corresponds to the estimated age when the genetic changes suddenly happened.
Could this be a coincidence?

Ancient Sumerian history describes the ancient metropolis and its inhabitants!

I’ll be honest with you. This next part of the story is difficult to write. It’s
so shocking that the average person will not want to believe it. If you are like
me, you’ll want to do the research yourself, then allow some time for the facts
to settle in your mind.

We are often made to believe that the Egyptians -- the Pharoahs and pyramids --
are where our known history begins. The oldest dynasties go back some 3200 years BP. That’s a long time ago. But the Sumerian civilization, in what is now Iraq,
is much older. What’s more, we have translated many of their history tablets,
written in cuneiform and earlier scripts so we know a lot about their history
and legends.

The seal image depicts the legend of the "Great Flood" which consumed
mankind. Many Sumerian legends are strikingly similar to Genesis. Like Genesis,
the Sumerian legend, Atrahasis, tells the story of the creation of modern humans
-- not by a loving God -- but by beings from another planet who needed "slave
workers" to help them mine gold on their extra-planetary expedition!

I warned that this is difficult to believe, but please keep reading.

Who made the metropolis? Why?

1. This story, the Atrahasis, comes from an early Babylonian version of about
1700 BC, but it certainly dates back to Sumerian times. It combines familiar
Sumerian motifs of the creation of mankind and the subsequent flood -- just like
Genesis.

The story starts out with the "gods" -- beings from a planet called Nibiru --
digging ditches and mining for gold as part of an expeditionary team. Modern
humans (homo sapiens) did not exist yet; only primitive hominids lived on Earth.
There were two groups of "gods", the worker class and the ruling class (i.e.
officers). The worker gods had built the infrastructure as well as toiled in the
gold mines and, after thousands of years, the work was apparently too much for
them.

The gods had to dig out the canals
Had to clear channels,
the lifelines of the land,
The gods dug out the Tigris river bed
And then they dug out the Euphrates. --(Dalley 9, Atrahasis)
After 3,600 years of this work, the gods finally begin to complain. They decide
to go on strike, burning their tools and surrounding the chief god Enlil’s
"dwelling" (his temple). Enlil’s vizier, Nusku, gets Enlil out of bed and alerts
him to the angry mob outside. Enlil is scared. (His face is described as being
"sallow as a tamarisk.") The vizier Nusku advises Enlil to summon the other
great gods, especially Anu (sky-god) and Enki (the clever god of the fresh
waters). Anu advises Enlil to ascertain who is the ringleader of the rebellion.
They send Nusku out to ask the mob of gods who is their leader. The mob answers,
"Every single one of us gods has declared war!" (Dalley 12, Atrahasis).

Since the upper-class gods now see that the work of the lower-class gods "was
too hard," they decide to sacrifice one of the rebels for the good of all. They
will take one god, kill him, and make mankind by mixing the god’s flesh and
blood with clay:
Belit-ili the womb-goddess is present,
Let the womb-goddess create offspring,
And let man bear the load of the gods! (Dalley 14-15, Atrahasis)
After Enki instructs them on purification rituals for the first, seventh and
fifteenth of every month, the gods slaughter Geshtu-e, "a god who had
intelligence" (his name means "ear" or "wisdom") and form mankind from his blood
and some clay. After the birth goddess mixes the clay, all the gods troop by and
spit on it. Then Enki and the womb-goddess take the clay into "the room of
fate," where The womb-goddesses were assembled.

He [Enki] trod the clay in her presence;
She kept reciting an incantation,
For Enki, staying in her presence, made her recite it.
When she had finished her incantation,
She pinched off fourteen pieces of clay,
And set seven pieces on the right,
Seven on the left.

Between them she put down a mud brick. (Dalley 16, Atrahasis)
The creation of man seems to be described as a type of cloning and what we would
today consider in vitro fertilization.

The result was a hybrid or "evolved human" with enhanced intellect who could
perform the physical duties of the worker gods and also take care of the needs
of all the gods.

We are told, in other texts, that the expedition came for gold and that great
quantities were mined and shipped off the planet. The community in South Africa
was called "Abzu" and was the prime location of the mining operation.

Since these events appear to coincide with the dates of "Mitochondrial Eve"
(i.e. 150,000 to 250,000 BP) and appear to be located in the richest gold mining
region on the planet (Abzu), some researchers are thinking that the Sumerian
legends may, in fact, be based on historical events.

According to the same texts, once the mining expedition ended it was decided
that the human population should be allowed to perish in a flood which was
predicted by the atronomer of the "gods." Apparently, the cyclical passage of
the home planet of the gods, Nibiru, was going to bring it close enough to the
orbit of Earth that its gravity would cause the oceans to rise and flood the
land, putting an end to the hybrid species -- homo sapiens.

According to the story, one of the "gods" had sympathy for a particular human,
Zuisudra, and warned him to construct a boat to ride out the flood. This
eventually became the basis for the story of Noah in the book of Genesis.

Did this really happen? The only other explanation is to imagine that the
Sumerian legends, acknowledging life on other planets and human cloning, were
extraordinary science-fiction. This in itself would be amazing. But we now have
evidence that the mining city, Abzu, is real and that it existed in the same era
as the sudden evolution of hominids to homo sapiens.

Just think about this for a while.