posted on Aug, 26 2003 @ 12:22 PM
The dropa stones.
Chi Pu Tei, a professor of archaeology at Beijing University, was leading some his students on an expedition to survey a series of interlinking caves
in the Himalayan mountains. According to one account, the caves may have been artificially carved, and were more like a complex system of tunnels and
underground storerooms. The walls were squared and glazed, as if cut into the mountain with a source of extreme heat. Inside the caves were several
ancient, but neatly arranged burial sites, and in them the skeletal remains of a strange people. The skeletons, measuring a little more than four feet
tall, were frail and spindly with disproportionately large skulls. At first. it was suggested by a member of the team that these might be the remains
of an unknown species of mountain gorilla. Professor Chi Pu Tei is reputed to have responded, "Who ever heard of apes burying one another?" Yet,
what kind of human was this?
More discoveries made further in the caves all but ruled out the idea that these were apes. On the walls were carved pictograms of the heavens: the
sun, the moon, the stars, and the Earth with lines of dots connecting them. Then the team made the most incredible discovery of all. Half-buried in
the dirt floor of the cave was an odd stone disk, obviously fashioned by the hand of an intelligent creature. The disk was approximately nine inches
in diameter and three-quarters of an inch thick. In the exact center was a perfectly round, 3/4" hole, and etched in its face was a fine groove
spiraling out from the center to the rim, making the disk look for all the world like some kind of primitive phonograph record
Images here:
paranormal.about.com...