Syria's stonehenge': Mysterious ruins in desert could be 10,000 years old

A mysterious ancient building in Syria, described as a 'landscape for the dead' could be as old as 10,000 years ago - far older than the Great Pyramid. But scientists have been unable to explore the ruins, unearthed in 2009, because of the conflict in the region. The strange stone formations were uncovered in 2009, by archaeologist Robert Mason of the Royal Ontario Museum, who came across stone lines, circles, and tombs in a near-lifeless area of desert.

The strange stone formations were uncovered in 2009, by archaeologist Robert Mason of the Royal Ontario Museum, who came across stone lines, circles, and tombs in a near-lifeless area of desert near a monastery (pictured)

The strange formations were found around 50 miles north of Damascus. The area has been plagued by violence during the current unrest, including a massacre of 10 people in the village of Bakha north of the capital

Mason talked about the finds at Harvard’s Semitic Museum, said that more investigation is required to understand the mysterious rock structures - and how old they are - but Mason is unsure whether he will ever be able to return to the ruins.

Mason thinks that the rock formations could date to the Neolithic period or early Bronze Age, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Mason thinks that the rock formations could date to the Neolithic period or early Bronze Age, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Commemoration of the high current zeta-pinch aurora from around that time triggered by a coronal mass ejection resulting in severe atmospheric disturbances, not limited to fires on a global scale in the Northern Hemisphere, and a high enough influx of radiation to mortally wound large terrestrial mammals, at least in the northern latitudes.

A. L. Peratt, J. McGovern, A. H. Qöyawayma, M. A. Van der Sluijs, and M. G. Peratt, Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current
Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source, Trans. Plasma Sci. v.35, n.4, 2007

Other papers here: NEAR EARTH MANIFESTATIONS OF THE PLASMA UNIVERSE

This is from Anthony Peratt at Los Alamos National Laboratories, not from those who have modified his ideas and posted them on what he calls anti-science websites.

“What has garnered most of the attention thus far, are features called “nanodiamonds.” One way in which nanodiamonds are produced is under very high temperatures and pressures (consistent with a cosmic origin).

But the formation of nanodiamonds is also consistent with the electrical discharges associated with high current aurora.

The northern latitudes would have been bombarded with protons and the southern latitudes with relativistic electrons. Either of these should have altered atmospheric chemistry in predictable but different ways that should be detectable in ice cores from around that time.

To date, the primary focus in attempts to justify a cosmic origin for the Younger Dryas has been almost totally limited to black mat deposits (specifically nanodiamonds), that have been detected in various parts of the world. This is far too limited an approach!

Peratt and associates have cataloged petroglyphs from around the world in both hemispheres that reproduce with considerable accuracy the plasma instabilities that would have been visible at the time in such an aurora. The forms of the drawings are such that they demonstrate a change in geometry that is consistent with the latitude at which they are found, a change that would be expected if artists at different latitudes were copying such a fixed globally visible phenomenon. But more important was an anomaly in their distribution that went unexplained until the discovery by the THEMIS satellite of a breach in the earth’s magnetosphere A. L. Peratt, W. Fay Yao, P. Bustamante, and R. Tuki, The THEMIS magnetospheric breach discovery and an anomaly in the global distribution of petroglyphs; MHD instabilities recorded by mankind in antiquity, Spring Meeting American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado May 2-5, 2009.

The abstract below:

The THEMIS Magnetospheric Breach Discovery and an Anomaly in the Global Distribution of Petroglyphs; MHD Instabilities Recorded by Mankind in Antiquity ANTHONY PERATT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, W. FAY YAO¹, Albuquerque School System, P. BUSTAMANTE², UC en Concervacin, R.TUKI³, National Council Indigenous Development — The recent THEMIS spacecraft discovery of two very large holes in the Earth’s magnetosphere helps explain an anomaly in the global distribution of petroglyphs on our planet [1]. Previously, we reported a world wide GPS logging of some 4 million of these objects, each a picture of a filamental MHD instability carved in rock [2,3]. In all cases, the field-of-view of the petroglyphs was true south with an off-horizon inclination between 21-31 degrees. However, in a complete survey of the braided lava tube caves on Easter Island, petroglyphs were also found in long, true-north shafts, 50m or more in length. This observation had been noted in natural shafts of similar lengths in the Columbia River Basin. 1. W. Li, to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. 2. A. L. Peratt et al, Trans. Plasma Sci 35. 778. 2007. 3. A. L. Peratt and W. F. Yao, Physica Scripta, T130, 2008.

1 Library and Technology Division
2 Santiago, Chile
3 Easter Island, Chile

I know that fieldwork has been ongoing since 2010, but I haven’t yet heard the results.

INTENSE SOLAR STORMS; CORROBORATION OF PREHISTORY ROCK RECORDINGS AND THEMIS MULTISPACECRAFT OBSERVATIONS

A. L. Peratt, Fellow IEEE
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

W. F. Yao, Member, IEEE Library and Technology Division,
Albuquerque Public Schools,
Albuquerque, NM 87122

The identification of prehistoric petroglyphs as artists recordings of MHD Z-pinch column instabilities has led to a global survey of these in 139 countries, from 70°N to 48°S.1, 2 In all cases, after a survey of fields of several million glyphs, the field-of-view (FOV) alignment is found to be within 1° of true south. This accuracy was determined from southviewing caves in the Arnold Lave Tube system in Oregon and California, caves along 300 km of the Orinoco River in Venezuela, 3 and the braided lava tube caves of Easter Island. Each unmoved petroglyph is treated as a pixel containing GPS position, survey transit FOV, and angle of inclination. GIS techniques on a 1-petaflop computer allow the reconstruction of a virtual image of the multi-gigaampere aurora. The reconstructed image shows one plasma column into the true South Pole at Antarctica. As the very intense solar storm appears sporadic, and its duration is very long compared to milder storms, it is not known if it was periodic, that is, if a north column once existed and evidence eroded due to time. Corroborating these results were witnesses of the polar storm of 1859 who reported ‘figures in the sky as if drawn with fire on a black background’.4 Unexpected were the 2008 observations of the THEMIS spacecraft whose discoveries were contrary to long standing views of how and when solar plasma enters the Earth’s magnetosphere. A northward IMF orientation was found to allow 20 times more solar wind plasma to penetrate the magnetosphere when the sun’s magnetic field is aligned with that of the Earth.5

1A. L. Peratt, Characteristics for the occurrence of a highcurrent z-pinch aurora as recorded in antiquity. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. v.31, pp.1192-1214, 2003.

2A. L. Peratt, J. McGovern, A. H. Qöyawayma, M.A. Van der Sluijs, and M. G. Peratt, Characteristics for the occurrence of a high-current z-pinch aurora as recorded in antiquity Part II: Directionality and source. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. v.35, pp.778-807, 2007.

3A. L. Peratt and W. F. Yao, Evidence for an intense solar outburst in prehistory, Physica Scripta, T131, October 2008.

4S. Clark, The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began, Princeton University Press, 2007.

5D. G. Sibeck, M. Øieroset, J. Raeder, and W. Li, Breach in the Earth’s magnetosphere discovered, 2008 THEMIS Science Nuggets.

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