The legacy of Atlantis

Many scientists believe that the Axumite monoliths - a strange structure, which rises in the Ethiopian town of Axum, in fact, the traces left by the Atlanteans - the inhabitants of the mythical Atlantis.
 The big stone in the shape of a regular rectangle, 30 meters in height and weighs about 500 tons. Other stones are 20 meters high. Each of them was treated by hand, there are a lot of jewelry, but all are located in a chaotic manner.

According to ancient records from the Ethiopian town of Axum, ancient stones originated many years before our era. Scientists believe that the stones used to decorate the technology that we are not yet known.
 However, according to historians, Aksum was built by natives, who knew no other equipment, except for stone and copper tools.

 It is not clear how the huge stones were moved. There is speculation that the natives built their city on the ruins of an ancient civilization from which they got the stones.
 According to one version of scientists, at the beginning of our era there was a thriving African country Ak Sum. It appeared before biblical times.

 Many of the monoliths are actually giant steles and obelisks. Some of them are in huge platforms with a length of 120 m and a width of 80 meters. Below them were whole rooms which in 1938 were divided as a result of the bombing.

 There are also scientists who think that these ruins are the remnants of the chambers of the Negus - Axumite ruler. According to their assumptions, in one of the underground palaces were more than 1,000 rooms.
 The floors were decorated with green and white marble, and the walls with dark wood and marble, with gold inlays. There is evidence that palaces of Negus had 14 floors.

At the bottom of the Gulf may hide the remains of ancient civilization

About eight thousand years ago flooded the Indian Ocean, for at least a hundred thousand years of civilization flourished at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. It made a loud statement in the latest issue of the journal Current Anthropology by Jeffrey Rose, a British archaeologist from the University of Birmingham.

His hypothesis based on the latest archaeological finds made in recent years, during excavations on the coast of the Persian Gulf. There's like something very unexpected, sudden, "literally overnight," as Rose, were found more than 60 ancient settlements age of about 7,500 years. There once stood well-built stone houses, they found an extensive network of trade routes, elaborately decorated pottery, pets, they even found evidence of the existence of one of the oldest boats in the world.

All this appeared as if from nowhere, no more ancient traces of civilization emerging in places found. Rose argues that these traces are buried at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. And that all the settlements along its shores were built by refugees who managed to escape from the flood. That is where there was a huge oasis where you can escape from the deadly dry and hot desert, a place washed by the waters of the Tigris Euphrates, Karun, and Wadi Baton; and sure there also existed underwater springs, not to mention the proximity to the Indian Ocean. In the best years, according to Rose, this oasis grew to the size of the UK.

Oasis existed 75 thousand Years, until it was overtaken by the fate of the mythical Atlantis. But, according to Rose, the ancient people reached the places much earlier. As proof, he makes the stone products made in East African tradition, but found during excavations in Yemen and Oman. In his view, this suggests that people settled in these places, a hundred thousand years ago, or maybe even earlier. In any case, he said, it changes the way we think about today established models of human migration out of Africa, which began about 50-70 thousand years ago.