Ancient Tracks: Evidence of an Unknown Civilization?

The following article is an excerpt from the chapter Out Of Time And Place in The Myth of Man by J.P. Robinson.

Evidence for the existence of wheeled vehicles in antiquity has surfaced in other parts of the world, as petrified ancient tracks found in France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and even North America reveal. A prehistoric site known formally as Misrah Ghar il-Kbir meaning the Great Cave in Maltese (and commonly referred to as Clapham Junction), is located at Siggiewi, near the Dingli Cliffs in Malta.

It is at this now famous site that what have been termed ‘cart ruts’ cut into the limestone have mystified all that have visited the area. Likewise, a number of unusual tracks in stone are also visible on the island of Sicily at the Greek amphitheatre called the Great Theatre of Syracuse. Interestingly, most archaeologists have suggested that the Maltese tracks were probably created by Sicilian settlers who travelled to Malta around 2000 BC at the start of the Bronze Age.

Yet more tracks are to be found in Turkey (above), some at Sofca cover an area roughly 45 by 10 miles, and also in Cappadocia where several pockets of tracks can be seen. The many ruts discovered around the world have caused a great deal of controversy as to their purpose, age and origin. These mysterious factors remain up for debate but due to the association and close proximity with megalithic structures, in Malta particularly, and due to the fact that many tracks are now submerged below the sea in that region, many researchers have concluded that the fossilised lines show signs of great antiquity.

Bizarrely, considering the anomalous wheel print discovered in Ukraine covered in this previous post, a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains of Ukraine called Chufut-Kale, lies in ruins but also plays host to a number of cart ruts in stone like those at the nearby site of Eski-Kermen.

Dr. Alexander Koltypin is a geologist and director of the Natural Science Research Centre at Moscow’s International Independent University of Ecology and Politology. He has spent a great deal of time visiting these sites and comparing them to one another in search of similarities.

'I first saw tracks in stone - fossilized car or terrain vehicle traces (usually called cart ruts) on Neogen plantation surface (peneplene in Phrygian) plain in May 2014 (Central Anatolia Turkey). They were situated in the field of development of Middle and Late Miocene tuffs and tuffites and according to age analysis of nearby volcanic rocks, had middle Miocene age of 12-14 million years', wrote Koltypin.

This particular region which Koltypin has researched further is relatively unknown and the guide books offer nothing in the way of information. Whilst orthodox researchers claim that the tracks are simply the remnants of old petrified cart ruts from the kind of wheeled vehicles which donkeys or camels would have pulled, Koltypin has other ideas. ‘I will never accept it,’ he explained when confronted with the standard explanations. ‘I myself will always remember . . . many other inhabitants of our planet wiped from our history.’

Upon measuring the width and length of the tracks at the Phrygian Valley site, he is convinced that they were created by vehicles of a similar length to modern cars but with tyres 9 inches wide. With the depth of the impressions of the tracks in stone exceeding that which one would associate with small carts, Koltypin maintains that the vehicles responsible must have been much heavier.

He theorises that whichever civilization drove the heavy vehicles that created the tracks were most likely responsible for the many different but identical roads, ruts and underground complexes which are scattered around the entire Mediterranean, more than 12 million years ago.

Aware that the process of petrification can occur within a relatively short period, Koltypin insists that the heavy mineral deposits which coat the tracks and the visible erosion are suggestive of a greater antiquity; along with the surrounding underground cities, irrigation systems, wells, and more, which also show signs of being millions of years old in his view.

Koltypin wrote on his website, ‘We are dealing with extremely tough lithified (petrified) sediments, covered with a thick layer of weathering, that takes millions of years to develop, full of multiple cracks with newly developed minerals in them, which could only emerge in periods of high tectonic activity.’

It is evident that much research is needed to clarify the age and origin of the many tracks that are being discovered at multiple geographical locations, and as easy as it is to simply state that they are the product of old carts which once trundled through these parts, further investigation may well reveal far more complex and remarkable explanations which could well correlate with the mysterious remnants of an unknown ancient civilization as postulated by Alexander Koltypin.

The sheer presence of the fossilized wheel found in the Ukraine is certainly suggestive of the fact that the ancients may have had access to more technology and know-how than is currently accepted.

Sources:

http://www.earthbeforeflood.com/auto_roads_or_cart_ruts_of_neogene_times_in_central_turkey.html

http://www.earthbeforeflood.com/imprint_of_wheel_in_carboniferous_sandstone_in_coalmine_rostov_region.html