An incredible new discovery! What else is hidden on our planet that we have yet to see? How old are these earthworks? Who made them and why? Were they used for solar observation? Were they meant to be seen from space?

 

So many questions…

 

Author Graham Hancock insists that these ancient sites indicate that the earth was inhabited by an ancient, advanced, and globetrotting civilization (his new book goes in-depth on this subject.)

 

One of the enormous earthwork configurations photographed from space is known as the Ushtogaysky Square, named after the nearest village in Kazakhstan. Credit DigitalGlobe, via NASA

One of the enormous earthwork configurations photographed from space is known as the Ushtogaysky Square, named after the nearest village in Kazakhstan. Credit DigitalGlobe, via NASA

 

NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL (NYTimes)

 

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….”

 

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