* A few years ago an incredible discovery was made inside a coal mine in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
* 900 meters deep in the mine, a large sandstone base was found, something known as a rock shield; Inside the “shield” an object that appears to be a carriage wheel was found.
In 2008, a mysterious artifact that closely resembles an ancient wheel was discovered in a coal mine in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Since it could not be cut due to the nature of the sandstone in which it was embedded, the miners decided to leave it intact inside the mine.
The Finding
The mysterious wheel was discovered while miners were drilling into the coking stratum of coal called J3 ‘Sukhodolsky’ to a depth of 900 meters (2,952.76 ft) from the surface. Workers were surprised to find what appears to be the shape of a wheel on the tunnel’s sandstone ceiling.
Fortunately, Deputy Chief V.V. Kruzhilin took several photographs of the unusual wheel and shared it with the mine foreman S. Kasatkin, who spread the news of the find. Unfortunately after the news, no further exploration of the site was allowed and we were left with only the photographs as evidence of its existence and the word of a group of Ukrainian miners.
Wheel dating
The Rostov region surrounding Donetsk has been observed to be situated on carboniferous rock thus experts claim that the coking coals have been derived from the Middle to Late Carboniferous; suggesting an age of 300 to 360 million years.
This would mean that an actual wheel got stuck millions of years ago and dissolved over time due to a process called diagenesis, where sediments lithify into sedimentary rocks, as is common with fossil remains.
The following is an excerpt from a letter written by S. Kasatkin (translated from Ukrainian) in reference to his testimony of witnessing the anomalous wheel track discovered by his team of miners in 2008:
“This find is not a public relations action. In due time (2008), we, as a team of engineers and workers, asked the mine director to invite scientists for a detailed examination of the object, but the director, following the instructions of the then mine owner, he forbade such talks and instead only ordered to speed up work on passing through this section of lava and fast ‘loading’ of the section with mining equipment.
Because of that, this artifact and a smaller one found during the work could not be extracted for study. It’s good that there were people who, despite the director’s prohibition, photographed this artifact.
I have connections to the people who first discovered these tracks and also to those who photographed them. We have over a dozen witnesses. As you understand, admission into the mine is strictly limited (it is dangerous due to sudden cave-ins) and getting a permit for access is quite difficult.
The “wheel” is imprinted in sandstone above the ceiling. The miners tried to “cut” the find with pick hammers and bring it to the surface, but the sandstone was so strong (firm) that for fear of damaging the shape of the wheel, they left it in place. At present, the mine is closed (officially since 2009) and access to the “object” is impossible: the team of miners has been disbanded and the tunnels are already flooded.”
This testimony and the word of the miners in addition to (the photographs), are the only proof of this anomalous footprint, but it must be considered worthy of mention despite the difficulties to verify the details beyond what has been read. Because, if the photographic evidence is real, then one must ask how a man-made wheel could have become embedded in such ancient strata? When according to scientific orthodoxy, man did not even exist.
Evidence for the existence of wheeled vehicles in ancient times has emerged in other parts of the world, as revealed by ancient petrified footprints found in France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and even North America. A prehistoric site formally known as Misrah Ghar il-Kbir, meaning the Great Cave in Maltese (and commonly known as Clapham Junction), is located at Siggiewi, near the Dingli Cliffs in Malta.
It is at this now famous site that what have been called “cart ruts” cut into the limestone have mystified all who have visited the area.
Likewise, on the island of Sicily, in the Greek amphitheater called the Great Theater of Syracuse, you can also see several unusual traces in stone. Interestingly, most archaeologists have suggested that the Maltese footprints were probably created by Sicilian settlers who traveled to Malta around 2000 BC. at the beginning of the Bronze Age.
However, more clues can be found in Turkey. Some in Sofca cover an area of about 45 by 10 miles (72.42 by 16.09 km), and also in Cappadocia, where several pockets of tracks can be seen. The numerous grooves discovered throughout the world have sparked a great deal of controversy as to their purpose, age, and origin. These mysterious factors remain the subject of debate, but due to the association and proximity with megalithic structures, particularly on Malta, and due to the fact that many tracks are now submerged under the sea in that region, many researchers have concluded that the fossilized lines show signs of great antiquity.
Interestingly, considering the anomalous wheel track discovered in Ukraine just discussed, a medieval fortress-city in the Crimean mountains of Ukraine called Chufut-Kale is in ruins, but is also home to a series of stone lanes like those at the nearby site. from Eski-Kermen.
Dr. Alexander Koltypin is a geologist and director of the Research Center for Natural Sciences at the Moscow Independent International University of Ecology and Political Science. He has spent a lot of time visiting these sites and comparing them to each other looking for similarities.
“I saw for the first time footprints in stone: fossilized tracks of cars or SUVs (usually called car ruts) on the surface of the Neogen (Phrygian) plantation in the May 2014 Plain (Central Anatolia, Turkey). They were situated in the development field of Middle and Late Miocene tuffs and, based on age analysis of nearby volcanic rocks, had a Middle Miocene age of 12 to 14 million years,” Koltypin wrote.
This particular region, which Koltypin has investigated further, is relatively unknown and the guides offer nothing in the way of information. While orthodox researchers claim that the tracks are simply the remains of old petrified cart tracks of the type of wheeled vehicles that would have pulled donkeys or camels, Koltypin has other ideas. “I’ll never accept it,” he explained to himself when he was faced with the standard explanations. “I myself will always remember it. . . many other inhabitants of our planet erased from our history”.
By 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 automobiles, but with 9-inch (22.86 cm) wide tires. With the depth of the stone track impressions exceeding what would be associated with small carts, Koltypin argues that the vehicles responsible must have been much heavier.
He theorizes that the civilization that drove the heavy vehicles that created the tracks were likely responsible for the many different but identical roads, ruts, and underground complexes found scattered throughout the Mediterranean, more than 12 million years ago.
Mindful that the petrification process can occur in a relatively short period, Koltypin insists that the heavy mineral deposits lining the tracks and visible erosion suggest 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 opinion.
Koltypin wrote on his website: ‘We are dealing with extremely hard lithic (petrified) sediments, covered with a thick layer of weathering, which takes millions of years to develop, filled with multiple cracks with newly developed minerals in them, which could only emerge. in periods of high tectonic activity.
Clearly a lot of research is needed to clarify the age and origin of the many tracks being discovered in multiple geographic locations, and just as easy as it is to say simply that they are the product of old cars that once roamed these parts. , further investigation may reveal much more complex and remarkable explanations that could well be correlated to the mysterious remains of an unknown ancient civilization as postulated by Alexander Koltypin.
The mere presence of the fossilized wheel found in the Ukraine certainly suggests the fact that the ancients may have had access to more technology and knowledge than is currently accepted.
