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mysterious Cart Ruts at Malta A Report by Walter Hain
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 Die "railway tracks" at Malta (t-schoen-maltafan.de) |
In the popular scientific literature again and again is reported from the mysterious rail tracks, also trail tracks or cart ruts on the Mediterranean island Malta and the neighboring island Gozo. About the origin and purpose of these tracks in the limestone ground of the islands, there exist the most incredible theories - up to a work of extraterrestrial intelligences. With the help of Google Earth, one can also come exactly localize these strange ground structures, on account of satellite consumption, and perhaps the puzzle can be solved.
The island Malta was already settled probably 8000 years ago of Sicily. Still to 11,000 BC they was combined with the south Italian island. From the time by 5200 to 4600 BC there are the first lanes of human accomodations through cave finds. From 4600 BC are first dwellings and huts to be found and from about 3800 BC it began the Stone Age stage at Malta that left up to now impressive evidences which annual thousands of tourists allure. The megalith temples Mnjadra and Hagar Qim as soon as the Hypogaeum in the city Paola are the main attractions of the island from this time. Ceramic finds, artistic reliefs and paintings as soon as the famous "sleeping lady" show the amazing artistic work of the inhabitants of this period. From about 2500 BC this stage would end and the inhabitants left the island.
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However, from about 2000 BC, at the Bronce Age, a new settlement began,
probably again from Sicily, who brought again amazing factories to the
light - among other things these strange railway track structures. Already
in 1647 the Spain Gian Francesco Abela believed, the rail tracks
might be thought in order to advance stones to Africa. As the English
archeologist David Trump in 1954 saw these tracks, they remembered him to
the railway station Clapham Junction in London. Since then this field
where these lanes are to be found named Misrah Ghar il-kbir bears this
name. Also near Bugibba and Naxxar, there are similar rail tracks but they are scattered in actual fact
over the whole island and also they are to be found on the neighbor island
Gozo. At Malta, they are especially frequent in the southwest on the coast
to find in the nearness of Dingli. The satellite consumption shows that
especially clearly. The tracks begin to the north, at the shore of
Is-Sikka, near Tal-Mehrla, on 35°53'31.10" North and 14°20'10.87" East and
may end in the south in Il-Mara, near Benghisa, close to the Fort
Benghisa. They extend for itself above a length of 20 kilometers.
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 The "prehistoric railway" Clapham Junction at Malta.
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However, the satellite consumptions shows another image. Many ones do not
look real as rail tracks, rather how rectangular things those for this purpose
are still especially long not even. According to measurements with Google
Earth they are about 10 to 40 meters long and 8 to 15 meters broad. That
is presumably a little too short and also too broad for rail tracks or
cart ruts on which should drive some vehicles. The "transportation theory"
does not at least apply for these tracks and also the "irrigation theory"
is problematic. The tracks lead to no one of the temples or of the other buildings and by
the majority not to the ocean. Rather, they are of the majority arranged
parallel to the coast - although there are also some in the interior of
the Island. Those count on the railway construction on the hill of Misrah
Gahr il-kbir (Clapham Junction), where they achieve up to 180 meters.
Various experiments and models of thought driving some cars on wheels in
the tracks today to may leave already fail on account of the depth of the
furrows.
The wheels would get stuck in the curves. In such a way, I had before
formulated - as well as others - carts with wood poles which are perhaps
pulled by oxen.
On these poles, blocks of stone would be able to be tied for
transportation. Such carts would leave parallel furrows, by sanding the
wood poles on the ground.
The furrows would become with time deeper and deeper until they scratch
the limestone ground. One will refresh the poles again and again and that
go years in such a way, perhaps also decades long until the activity is
ended. The region is then left and the lanes remain unchanged from human
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If it rains again and again over centuries, the water gathers in the furrows and it becomes alkaline. That decompose over the years the limestone why the lanes are today relatively deep and can drive today of course no carts or cars in it. That all calls itself erosion (water, ice or wind erosion) in the geology and that is to be found often on stony grounds, on mountains and in rivers. The term "cart" employed for it has to do nothing with cars, it designates places in the rock (e.g. limestone, plaster and dolomite) which resulted by erosion of water (too rainwater) and that sometimes can occur also line type. In such a way, the well known carst landscapes results. On account of the lime containing ground at Malta it can have come to the reduction of the vegetation and also to the depression of the ground structures. That is at least a declaration of some of the rail tracks at Malta - but it is not completely satisfactory. Some furrows perform as chiselled out and on account of the shortness of the most lanes, no doubt are never in it vehicles gone. The tracks are of the majority rectangle and they are clearly a work of human beings.
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 The cart ruts at Malta at the Dingli cliffs. |
The rail tracks are in a scattered manner on the island in different directions too sometimes blasting shaped current apart as fragments of rails of a model railroad or a model motorway in a child's room. They also perform as parts of Roman streets. Ought the rail tracks at Malta, be used for a similar purpose?. Should they be joined together sometime? Presumably hardly probable already on account of the emphasis of the stones and the immense amount of work combined with it. It makes no sense to at first build street pieces together then they take apart and in order to build them together elsewhere to a longer street again. Or these rail tracks at Malta are pieces were only teaching pieces for road construction? A High School for Building Engineering from the Bronze Age? Also a astronomical declaration of the rail tracks at Malta can be excluded. They are also not resistance arrangements of the Carthaginian, that the island of 900 to 218 BC settled, they would have to be instead essentially longer.
Some of the tracks - as those they go into the sea - can quite be traced back to means of transport vehicles, the most ones of them however, need another declaration.
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 The cart ruts near Il-Mara, close to Fort Benghisa.
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Railway tracks as these at Malta and Gozo gives it probably around the
world: in Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Spain, Greece, France, Germany, Austria which
ones were found - and even more
3000 kilometers away on the peninsula Apsheron, near the town Mardakyan,
in Azerbaijan. Not all of them are of the same origin and not all of
them have the same purpose to fill. Some are constructed gutters with
lithic bricks, many a one are weathered tracks, and many a one resulted by
natural erosion. However, the rail tracks at Malta are unique and
especially impressive and mysterious. Some coordinates: Malta: 35°53'31.10"N 14°20'10.87"E
35°52'56.17"N 14°20'24.92"E
35°52'22.55"N 14°20'54.88"E
35°52'7.73"N 14°21'24.57"E
35°51'39.50"N 14°21'54.73"E
35°51'21.75"N 14°22'16.90"E
Misrah Ghar il-kbir (Clapham Junction), Malta: 35°51'7.05"N 14°23'52.87"E
Mnjadra Temples, Malta: 35°49'36.30"N 14°26'11.28"E
Hagar Qim, Malta: 35°49'39.58"N 14°26'32.35"E
35°48'52.52"N 14°29'8.28"E
35°48'34.50"N 14°30'28.92"E
35°48'29.86"N 14°31'39.84"E
Fort Benghisa: 35°48'32.54"N 14°32'10.84"E
Naxxar: 35°55'54.45"N 14°27'19.05"E
Bugibba: 35°56'38.98"N 14°26'48.29"E
Gozo:
36° 1'39.22"N 14°18'45.48"E
36° 1'47.44"N 14°19'41.45"E
36° 1'57.50"N 14°20'4.35"E
36° 2'11.90"N 14°19'50.15"E
Azerbaijan, Mardakyan:
40°28'5.18"N 50°12'58.59"E
40°23'5.18"N 50°12'58.59"E
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| Walter Hain November 2006 Sources:
Books:
Benesch, Kurt: Rätsel der Vergangenheit ( Riddles of the past), Berlin-Vienna, Germany- Austria 1977. Hain, Walter: Irrwege der Geschichte (Wrong ways in the History), Vienna, Austria 1981. Däniken, Erich v.: Prophet der Vergangenheit (Prophet of the past), Düsseldorf, Germany 1979. -"- : Die Spuren der Außerirdischen (The tracks of the Extraterrestrials), Munich, Germany 1990.
Internet:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleifspuren_%28Malta%29 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction_%28Malta%29 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst_%28Geologie%29
Malta: Card of Misrah Ghar il-kbir (Clapham Junction): http://www.angelfire.com/ar/magrosalibarchaeo/
Azerbaijan: http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai103_folder/103_articles/103_cart_ruts.html
Sicily: http://www.arielgodwin.com/photossicily.html
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