Yes, you read that right: 3-D MAP OF THE EARTH CREATED 120 MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. and THE MAP OF “THE CREATOR”
Anyone know anything about this?
Yes, you read that right: 3-D MAP OF THE EARTH CREATED 120 MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. and THE MAP OF “THE CREATOR”
Anyone know anything about this?
Have not heard anything about this, but just wanted to say that they could not have been THAT advanced if they were still drawing thier maps on stone.
That whole story sounds pretty whack to me, to the point where I want to see this “stone slab” and give it a good thump before I even accept its existence; but I would like to point out that dating a stone artifact by the fossils embedded in it strikes me as highly dubious. You take a 120 million year old rock, with 120 million year old fossils in it. You carve stuff into the rock, last Thursday. Voila! A 120 million-year-old rock with week-old carvings!
I mean, nobody is saying Michelangelo’s David or the statues at Mt. Rushmore are millions of years old, although I’m sure the rocks thereof are much more ancient than any work of human hands.
From the article second article in the OP:
I’m guessing, as MEBuckner surmised, that the hypothesis within the last sentence quoted is, indeed, the case: the map was carved on a slab in which the fossils were already embedded.
Ignore that first “article” in my post…
The link above makes it clear that they are not looking at an artifact from a 120m year old civilisation but from a 3000 year old civilisation:
“Our research topic is about the possible migration of ancient Chinese to the territory of modern Russia: Siberia and Urals. We have discovered letters on the rocks made in ancient Chinese about 3000 years ago.”
My reading of the story is that they at now point try to claim that the carving is 100s of millions of years old.
The point of interest about the story is that they found an artifact that looks like it was more developed than the local culture 3000 years ago (which hadn’t got past drawing pictures of animals on cave walls) but may not have been more advanced than the contemporary chinese culture, leading them to wonder if the chinese hadn’t migrated to the Urals in that period.
Yes, the slab can be millions of years old while the carvings on it much much younger.
Besides, the really ancient Chinese is very difficult to read, and there are only a few people on this planet who can. They probably don’t have one of these experts on their team.
Sounds interesting nevertheless.
I saw that article a while back, and I thought it was ridiculous! So someone found a rock. If I took a rock tomorrow, and chiseled something on it, the rock would still be millions of years old.
I’m having a hard time deciphering what they claim the age of this map is. On the one hand, the tail end of thinksnow’s quote makes it sound like the guy is claiming the map was made 120 million years ago while others say only the rock is that old and the carvings a few thousand.
If the guy is claiming that the map itself is 120M years old, that’s clearly ludicrous. The closest thing to a human at that point is some mouse sized mammal skittering around beneath dinosaurs.
Funny this hasn’t turned up in more reputable journals yet. Interesting to see where it goes.
See, being the dubious sort that I am, I agree with everything y’all have said. I just wanted to share this around and see if maybe I was missing something.
I still find the bolded text below interesting, though:
If you read the article’s and their descriptions of the stone slab and how the slab was supposedly made, etc. It is so obvious it is so fake. Not manually made by a sonecutter, but by a machine… I mean, come on… what, these ancient peoples had a CNC machine to make this thing?
Also, be aware that these articles have been TRANSLATED. From a Slavic language none-the-less. So, I feel we, as well as the translator, are taking the English for granted in some aspects.
I think a more important consideration is that Pravda runs a lot of articles which look like stuff in some tabloid and are probably just as accurate.
Good to know, rowrrbazzle.