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Michael Tellinger - Adam’s Calendar 17 Michael Tellinger - Adam’s Calendar 17 Discovering the Oldest cradle of humankind, we may be looking at the more explorations with amazing new Discovering the Oldest Man-made Structures activities of the oldest civilisation on Earth. discoveries on every trip to the mountain top, Man-made Structures Johan Heine manages the largest group that the site was accurately surveyed and the on Earth. of fire fighters and fire fighting fleet of aircraft true age of the monoliths was revealed. It turned on Earth. in Africa. As a pilot he has been flying over the out that the north, south east, west alignment is mountains of Mpumalanga for over 20 years. out by 3 degrees - 17 minutes - 43 sec. This He instantly took a keen interest and started means that we are dealing with a structure at photographing thousands of strange circular least 25,000 years old based on stone ruins that lie scattered throughout this archaeoastronomic calculations relating to the region. After consulting various so-called 26,000 year cycle of the precessional wobble. experts on their origins he was informed that Further studies of the geology, erosion, these were merely remains of "cattle kraal" left alignments with stars and lichen growth has behind by the migrating Bantu people from the allowed us to reach reasonable sound and north in the 14th century until about the 18th scientific conclusion that this site is at least century. But it was an almost fatal air crash by 75,000 years old. Our latest research has pushed one of his crew that brought him to discover the back this date to well over 100,000 years. mysterious monolithic circle we now call Adam's Calendar and put the entire mystery of Mysterious ancient ruins of southern by Michael Tellinger these ancient ruins into perspective. Africa by Michael Tellinger Johan spotted the strange monoliths standing upright in the centre of a larger eroded It is generally estimated by scholars that Decoding The Hidden Ruins circular structure, right on the edge of a high there are about 20,000 ancient stone ruins Decoding The Hidden Ruins Of Southern Africa. mountain cliff. After dealing with the crashed scattered throughout the mountains of southern Of Southern Africa. aircraft and recovering the pilot who only suffered a broken arm, Johan returned to Africa. Modern historians have been Scholars have told us that the first civilisation investigate the monoliths. This is when he truly speculating about the origins of these ruins, on Earth emerged in a land called Sumer some discovered how amazingly blind, 'those who often calling them 'cattle kraal of little historic 6000 years ago. Recent archaeological will not see' can be. He brought about 5 importance'. The truth of the matter is that findings suggest that the Sumerians may have academics to the site in search of explanations, closer scientific inspection paints a completely inherited some of their knowledge from an but not one of them could see the true different and astonishing new picture about the earlier civilisation that emerged many significance of the discovery, claiming that ancient history of these stone ruins of southern thousands of years earlier in southern Africa - these were just random stones. This was a big Africa. The scientific reality is that we actually the cradle of humankind. blow to his original excitement but like a true know very little about these spectacular ancient explorer he did not stop there. ruins and it is a great tragedy that thousands More than 100,000 years ago early The site is situated on the edge of what have already been destroyed through sheer humans built a stone calendar that predates all is known as the Transvaal Escarpment which is ignorance by forestry, farmers and other man-made structures found to geologically black reef quartzite, rich in gold. development. date. This discovery is so astounding After my personal explorations that it requires a true paradigm shift in on foot and by air over the past 2 our approach to ancient human years, I can confidently estimate the activity as it takes us closer to the number of ancient stone ruins to be emergence of the earliest humans on closer to 100,000. This figure was planet Earth. confirmed by Prof. Revil Mason in This 'African Stonehenge' January 2009. which we have called 'Adam's Calendar' has for the first time created Population Problem a link to the countless other stone ruins in southern Africa and suggests This immediately poses a huge that these ruins are much older than problem for archaeologists, we thought. The complex that links anthropologists and historians Waterval Boven, Machadodorp, because the accepted history of this Carolina and Dullstroom, covers an part of the planet does not at any time area larger then modern-day in our past place anywhere nearly Johannesburg and has emerged as the enough people here to have built this largest and most mysterious ancient number of structures. It gets even city on Earth. The discovery of carved more complex when you realise that dolerite statues of giant birds, some resembling This is incidentally where the gold rush took these were not just isolated structures left Horus, and petroglyphs of winged disks, place in the early 1800's. But the monoliths at behind by migrating hunter-gatherers. The true suggests that the prototype Sumerian and Adam's Calendar are all dolerite. The closest reality hits you when you take in the magnitude Egyptian civilisations had their origins in vein of dolerite to the site is about a kilometre and expanse of these settlements and witness southern Africa thousands of years before they away. This means that the architects went to a the staggering number of ancient terraces that emerged in the north. lot of trouble to get the monoliths, some of surround these settlements that cover over Seven years of research by a group of which weigh over 5 tons, to the site. The central 450,000 square kilometres in southern Africa independent scientists and explorers has monolith is carved with precision to allow the and possibly much more. A detailed delivered what may be the crucial missing setting sun to cast a shadow on what we call the archaeological scrutiny of photographic elements in our understanding of the lives and flat calendar stone. evidence of some of these terraces shows some development of early modern humans. Their Johan began to measure and calculate to be at least 5000 years old. discovery has been released in a book called the layout and parameters of the monoliths. The complex that links Waterval Boven, Adam's Calendar. But the research has also Using his years of experience in aeronautical Machadodorp, Carolina and Dullstroom, covers shown that these stone settlements represent the science and navigation he very quickly realised around 20,000 square kilometres, which is a most mysterious and misunderstood structures that the circular structure was purposefully larger area then modern-day Johannesburg. found to date. It points to a civilisation that lived designed and aligned to the cardinal points of and dug for gold in this part of the world for Earth, including equinoxes and solstices. thousands of years. And if this is in fact the But it was only six years later and many (Continued on Page 18)