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Remnant: From the Ashes is a co-op 3rd person shooter with a procedurally generated world that encourages players to play through it multiple times. Each new playthrough of the campaign results in a new set of dungeons that players can explore in different worlds. To help you find and complete these locations, we decided to publish this small guide.

Helpful Notes:

• The land is divided into four main levels: the area of ​​the city before the church (city area #1), the Church, the area of ​​​​the city after the church (city area #2) and the Guardian Tower. Both the Church and the Guardian Tower are fixed locations, as they are connected to the storyline.
• City District #1 will always have the following layout: one dungeon with a mini-boss (Shadow/Ripper), one dungeon without a boss and a Subway.
• City District #2 will always have the following layout: one mini-boss dungeon, one non-boss dungeon, and a world boss.
• You can determine the type of dungeon you are entering by examining its passage. Each dungeon has a unique environment, which directly affects its passage.

Earth Dungeons with Bosses

A total of six bosses can be encountered on Earth. Of these six, four are encountered in dungeons, and two are world enemies. In one playthrough, you may well encounter two dungeon bosses and one world boss.

• Sunken Passage (Sewer Entrance): Go through this to reach another area called the Grinder. Here you will face a boss called the Ripper.
• Hidden Sanctuary (Sewer Passage): Go through this area to reach an area called the Infested Well. A boss called Shadow lives here.
• Thug Canal (Sewer Passage): This is the bandit area. Go through it to reach the Depot. Here you will encounter a boss named Brabus. You can exchange his pocket watch for bandit armor.
• Tangled Passage (crack-shaped passage): Go through this to reach an area called "Artery". The Shredder lives here.
• Choking Hollow (Tunnel Passage): This area contains the World Boss, Ent.
• Ash Yard (tunnel passage): This area contains the world boss, Scorcher.

Dungeons of Earth without bosses

In these locations you will have to complete various tasks to unlock useful items. These dungeons typically include stages where the heroes are required to fend off multiple waves of enemies.

• Hidden Grotto (Sewer Passage): Receive the Hunter's Key from the appropriate character at the checkpoint at the beginning of the dungeon. Then enter the dungeon and go through it to reach a locked door. Open it with the key you received earlier and take all the valuables, including the Huntress Pistol.
• Garbage (Sewer Passage): This location is home to an NPC called the Mad Merchant. You can trade with him without mentioning his mask. If you keep talking about the object on his face, he will attack you. Kill him to get the Wicker Mask. Then talk to Weeping Tree to unlock the Woodskin talent.
• Subway: This is a story-driven dungeon that you will definitely have to go down into. You must go through it in order to get to the Root Mother in the Church.
• Field of Sorrow (Crack Passage): There are no quest items in this dungeon, and it ends at a dead-end checkpoint.
• Warren (Crack Passage): Go through the new area to reach "Land's End". Help the two Lisas defend themselves from the upcoming attack by the Roots.
• Gallows (tunnel passage): You will need to survive waves of enemies while waiting for the metamorphosis to occur. Once you complete the quest, you will be able to interact with the Root Temple to create a set of Chain Armor.
• Bone Pass (Sewer Passage): Find and talk to the cultist to receive the Crown Root. Once this is done, destroy the two Root Nodes and then kill the cultist to receive the Ring of Braided Thorns.
• Monkey Key: A dungeon with a locked door that can be opened with a monkey key.

This is the entire list of dungeons you can visit on Earth while playing through Remnant: From the Ashes. Let us note once again that you will not be able to visit them all at once.

Bunkers, dungeons, hiding places... Deep underground fortresses and vast cave cities. The flickering lights of a modern shopping center and the gray walls of the prehistoric corridors of the pyramids. Salvation from nuclear war or death from the curse of the pharaohs. Heaps of bones in the catacombs and crowds of people in the subway. Bright light and hectic work in a secret laboratory or darkness and silence in ancient cave temples. The cries of heretics in the dungeons of the Inquisition and the bloody showdowns of youth gangs in the basements. Such is the world of dungeons - man-made and full of secrets.

Although dungeons are man-made, they are often more dangerous than natural caves. Here pipes with boiling water burst, booby traps explode, or floors collapse and spikes pop up in secret passages. Maniacs routinely butcher victims in dark corners, and adherents of secret sects eliminate random witnesses. Technical power does not guarantee complete protection from natural forces: in the dungeons, a vault collapse, flooding with groundwater, or a breakthrough of poisonous gas from the bowels of the planet can occur. But there are many more mysteries in the dungeons of ancient civilizations than in ordinary natural caves.

Communal horrors

Under any modern city a whole underground world is hidden - a network of tunnels with life support systems. Additionally, under each house there is a basement - concrete catacombs. Rusty pipes and wheel valves, dusty light bulbs and wires. Despite the external banality, a walk through man-made dungeons is not safe. When funds for repairs ran out, many dungeons fell into disrepair, and communications in them wore out. Now old pipes can burst at any second, dousing a person with boiling water from a hot water supply or superheated steam from a heating plant. Power wires with insulation that has crumbled over time spark and threaten with electric shock. Burst sewer pipes fill the catacombs with thick brown liquid. Leaks from gas pipes are invisible, but the slightest spark is enough to cause an explosion.

Many dungeons were built with economy rather than ease of maintenance in mind. Therefore, in many catacombs you have to squeeze sideways in narrow corridors or duck under a concrete lintel in doorways. Most passages are clogged with pipes and wires, leaving very little free space. City dungeons are stuffy, dirty and often smelly. The water in the pipes flows noisily, constantly reminding you of the danger of breakthrough and flooding.

Abandoned city basements are often favored by criminal elements, so there is a chance to film a horror film with yourself in the leading role. Basements also become home for homeless people. The smell of rotten food from garbage dumps and laundry that has not been washed for a long time complements the picture of a thick layer of dirt, cobwebs and dust. But in city dungeons flies, rats, cockroaches, spiders and other living creatures such as woodlice and caterpillars live and breed comfortably (not to mention all sorts of infectious bacteria). These are urban dungeons - outcasts of urbanization and at the same time an irreplaceable part of modern megacities.

Mines

Man's greed is limitless: in pursuit of minerals, he dug up the bowels of the planet far and wide. South Africa's gold mines go deepest underground - up to 5 kilometers at the Tau Tona mine. At this depth, the temperature in the mines reaches 60-80 ºC, ventilation is poor, and air humidity reaches 97-98%. A real hell in which blacks mine gold for white masters.

Work in coal mines is no better. When crushing and mining coal, miners constantly breathe coal dust, which over decades leads to silicosis of the lungs with a bloody cough. Methane constantly accumulates in coal mines, causing underground explosions and fires with massive roof collapses at the slightest spark. The largest disaster of this kind in the world was the methane explosion at the Raspadskaya mine in 2010, when all mine workings with a total length of 300 kilometers were destroyed and 91 miners were killed.

In general, coal mines love to burn and sometimes burn for a very long time and intensely: in 2004, China finally extinguished a 130-year-old fire in the Liuhuangou coal field, which burned 1.8 million tons of coal per year and released 100 thousand tons of harmful gases into the atmosphere and 40 tons of ash settled on the ground. In addition to coal dust, poisonous gases from the bowels of the Earth are concentrated in the stuffy, stale air of mines, which are also not good for health. Those who like to wander through abandoned mines should remember that the wooden roof and supports rot and collapse over time, so the walls and ceiling of the mine can collapse at the most inopportune moment.

Sometimes abandoned mines find a second, even more glorious life. Under many major cities there is a network of catacombs - the result of chaotic, unsystematic, but large-scale limestone mining. The most extensive catacombs with a total length of 1.5-2 thousand kilometers are located near Odessa, although the Parisian catacombs are more popular. The reason for this was a combination of several factors: the aura of a giant cemetery with the bones and skulls of millions of people, a vast and intricate labyrinth of passages with the possibility of getting lost, and heavy stone walls evoking the atmosphere of medieval castles. Of the numerous films about the Parisian catacombs, it is especially worth noting “The Catacombs” and. The first film presents the idea of ​​wandering in an underground labyrinth with maniacs in an original and unconventional way, while the second film presents the idea of ​​ancient powerful artifacts of secret sects with deep philosophical meaning.

Cave cities, bunkers and underground inhabitants

Until man learned to build multi-story buildings, he actively used natural mountains, cutting down corridors, rooms and stairs inside them. Entire underground cities are known all over the world, from the USA to Vietnam.

But the most life-threatening dungeons were built in China. If in other countries such cities were hewn out, for example, in granite or limestone, then in China - in loess rocks. This is, in fact, compressed sand, characterized by increased fragility and enhanced water absorption. The slightest earthquake causes a massive collapse of loess massifs, which bury people under them. What an earthquake! When water gets in, the loess shrinks, becomes heavier and crumbles. Therefore, even ordinary rain is fraught with the appearance of sinkholes and sinkholes in loess caves. When dry, loess dwellings emit a lot of dust at the slightest movement, which is very harmful to health. Cave cities were used only as a place to sleep, cook food, and sometimes as a temporary shelter.

The next level of underground life is completely isolated bunkers. In this case, the surface of the Earth is unsuitable for life and people are constantly sitting in bomb shelter bunkers. The main disadvantage and vulnerability of bunkers is the limited supply of food. In the movie Air, people sleep in suspended animation capsules, waiting for the Earth's surface to clear. Only two technicians wake up once a year for one hour for routine repairs and inspections. But the capsule of one of the technicians suddenly breaks down and now someone has to die - there is only air in the sealed bunker for one hour. The re-purified air will be automatically released into the bunker exactly in a year.

People living permanently underground are very popular in art, but implausible from a scientific point of view. Without sunlight and photosynthesis, the biosphere we are familiar with cannot exist. There is life underground using chemosynthesis, but its productivity is too low even for individual people - not to mention entire underground cities. Even turning people into dwarfs does not help to “pull an owl onto a globe” - except perhaps to reduce people to the size of underground crayfish. Without photosynthetic plants, it is unclear where the air for the inhabitants of underground cities comes from. You can, of course, prescribe powerful ventilation from the surface, but this is already cheating and in general - what is the point of people sitting underground when the surface is favorable for life?

There are even more misunderstandings with the metallurgy of all kinds of gnomes - where does the smoke go from the forge? If the Dwarven Moria has only a few carefully concealed exits, then the smoke from the metallurgy must fill and stagnate in the underground chambers. In the novel Metro 2033, people in the Moscow subway feed from mushroom plantations. Muscovites can estimate the size of the metro, where, in addition to the plantations, 50 thousand people will permanently live. In the film "City of Amber: Escape" it is not explained at all where the residents of the city get their food.

During a nuclear bombing, eight residents of a multi-story building break into the personal bunker of a firefighter who did not have time to slam the door. As famine approaches, the situation becomes more tense. The owner of the bunker is severely beaten, tied up and deprived of rations for hiding a room with an additional supply of food. Time passes, reserves decrease further, and then the most decisive ones seize power. Communist democracy “everyone eats equally” is being replaced by dictatorship. Now a group of rulers controls all the food, and the rest, for the sake of a “piece of bread,” are forced to humiliate themselves and serve the “masters.” At the end of the film, there is a natural riot of the “cattle”, a bloody massacre and only one girl runs upstairs in a chemical protection suit - the lifeless surface contaminated with radiation turned out to be better than the underground nightmare.

Involuntary underground inhabitants include prisoners of dungeons, because this is an indispensable attribute of knightly castles. For years, the prisoners do not know sunlight or fresh air, they sit in stuffy, damp and cold stone bags deep underground, and only the ringing of rusty chains breaks the grave silence. The jailer may not come, then the prisoner is free to scream and knock on the thick stone walls as much as he wants - no one will hear how he is dying of hunger and thirst. Like prisons, dungeons have two advantages: the difficulty of escaping and the harsh conditions of detention. Unlike above-ground prisons, such dungeons are located tens of meters away from the surface, or even rock. Try to break free with only a fragment of a knife as a tool!

Even worse than underground dungeons is being buried alive. In the film Buried Alive, Iraqi militants buried a captured American driver in a coffin, leaving him with only a flashlight and a cell phone to call home for a ransom. If the ransom is not paid, he will die from lack of air. But the American government does not want to follow the terrorists’ lead, and the company’s management is only concerned with the speedy dismissal of its employee in trouble in order to save money on insurance.

You can also recall the film “Kill Bill”. True, here the ending turned out to be happy: the heroine, with the help of Chinese fist art, was able to break the wooden lid of the coffin and break through a layer of still loose earth to the surface. Rescue from the underworld literally turned out to be a return from the other world.

Nuclear Dungeons

Most dungeons were formed as a result of mechanical extraction of rock from the depths of the Earth, but there are three very special types. To obtain combustible gas, shale or low-quality coal is sometimes specially set on fire. The result is underground cavities, very reminiscent of pyrogenic caves (already in DARKER). In another method of mining, hot water is pumped into sulfur-containing rocks, and then the solution with sulfur is pumped out. The underground voids formed as a result of explosions stand apart, and among them are nuclear dungeons.

The main disadvantage of nuclear testing is the heavy radiation contamination of the surrounding area. Therefore, over time, under pressure from environmentalists, countries around the world gradually switched to underground nuclear explosions, when radiation does not reach the surface. A nuclear bomb is placed in a deep adit and walled up on top. During an underground nuclear explosion, a spherical cavity of significant diameter is formed, the surface of which is covered with a crust of melted radioactive substance, and the air inside is saturated with radiation. Nuclear cavities are the most dangerous types of underground for health and, of course, are never visited by people.

Dungeon Caves

It happens that when digging dungeons a person goes into natural caves(for example, the Odessa catacombs have exits to very ancient and deep natural caves). Often people use existing natural voids, expanding and rebuilding them to suit their needs: for example, deposits of polymetallic ores were discovered and developed right inside the Chagyrskaya cave in Altai, adding mine workings to the natural voids. The theme of convicts in mine caves is interestingly explored in the fantastic horror film “Chthon”. Abandoned dungeons are often exposed to natural forces and become indistinguishable from real caves.

Of these mixed types of caves, the most interesting are found on the Aegean coast. Waves of seas, lakes and rivers attack coastal cliffs every day, especially quickly destroying soft rocks such as limestone. Over time, under the impact of waves, grottoes appear - hemispherical depressions in the coastal cliffs. Gradually, these grottoes deepen, collapse, and in their place coastal caves are formed - long tunnels going deep into the rocks, partially filled with water. Sometimes the vaults of sea caves collapse, revealing small lakes connected to the sea by an underground passage.

At the dawn of ancient Greek history, such sea grottoes were chosen by local pirates. They served as a secret refuge for them from patrol ships, which, as a rule, were larger and heavier than pirate boats and could not carefully examine the winding, shallow coastline. However, the path to the sea grottoes was dangerous even without government patrols.

The combination of strong currents with many shoals, rocks, reefs and stones led to the formation of a seething mess of waves, swells, whirlpools and breakers. Before the invention of engines and iron ships, strong currents could smash wooden sailing and oaring boats against rocks and reefs, and drag the crew down to the bottom. To transport loot or to escape from sea grottoes in an emergency, pirates dug underground passages to the surface or, in the event of a vault collapse, hewn steps in the limestone rock. The floor of the coastal caves was covered with a layer of water, and some were even half or completely flooded. Therefore, stone berths for ships and even sometimes temporary warehouses for mining were built in the grottoes themselves - a kind of prototype of later secret underground berths for strategic submarines of the USA and the USSR.

However, sea grottoes are not safe. Walls washed away by water can suddenly collapse. Collapses of sea caves, in addition to the death of people inside, are fraught with sudden failures on the surface. The noise and seething waves echoingly fills the enclosed space. At high tides, the entrances to some caves are below the water level and become temporarily inaccessible. During storms, some coastal caves are overwhelmed and filled with waves hitting the stones.

Like the secret hideouts of pirates, sea caves were sometimes used to store treasures (at least according to legends). In the 1930s, during excavations of a coastal cave, the remains of two treasure hunters were found who entered the coastal cave of Lundy Island on the north-west coast of England in search of the treasure of William de Morisco, who owned Lundy in the 13th century and from there pirated in British waters. However, instead of fabulous riches, the treasure hunters found their death: a sudden collapse blocked the exit from the cave, and with the tide, water filled the cave and people drowned.

The source of inspiration, and sometimes the beginning of desert cities, were aeolian caves. This is the complete opposite of sea caves. Sand instead of water, the whistle of the wind instead of the splash of waves, the dryness of deserts instead of coastal humidity.

Aeolian caves appeared as a result of the work of the wind. In arid areas, the wind picks up and carries with it huge amounts of sand. At high speed, grains of sand hit the rocks like shot, forming over time hemispherical recesses - aeolian grottoes. The sandy wind begins to concentrate in the grottoes and gradually deepens them into aeolian caves - dead-end tunnels deep into the mountain. Sometimes aeolian caves pierce right through the mountains, forming aeolian arches. However, they are also short-lived - the upper part of the arches often collapses, dividing the once single rock or mountain into two parts. So, in addition to sand shot, there is always the danger of the aeolian cave collapsing.

With a short length of up to 6-7 meters, aeolian caves have wide and high entrances through which the wind easily penetrates. During the day, aeolian caves provide good shelter from the sun's rays, but during a dust storm they turn into a death trap. A concentrated stream of sand-saturated wind flows inside through the entrance. Grains of sand at high speed can bleed your face or damage your eyes. Despite the danger, some aeolian caves show traces of human hewing and expansion - probably used for sleeping or storing valuables.

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We can say that this mystery has been solved, because modern researchers have already made their conclusion - we are not the only inhabitants on planet Earth. Evidence from ancient times, as well as the discoveries of scientists of the 20th and 21st centuries, claim that mysterious civilizations have existed on Earth, or rather, underground, from ancient times to the present day.

Representatives of these civilizations, for some reason, did not come into contact with people, but still made themselves felt, and terrestrial humanity has long had traditions and legends about mysterious and strange people who sometimes emerge from caves. In addition, modern people have less and less doubt about the existence of UFOs, which were often observed flying out of the ground or from the depths of the seas.

Research conducted by NASA specialists together with French scientists discovered underground cities, as well as an underground extensive network of tunnels and galleries, stretching for tens and even thousands of kilometers in Altai, the Urals, Perm region, Tien Shan, Sahara and South America. And these are not those ancient land cities that collapsed and over time their ruins were covered with earth and forests. These are precisely underground cities and structures, erected in a way unknown to us directly in underground rock formations.

Polish researcher Jan Paenk states that a whole network of tunnels has been laid underground that lead to any country. These tunnels are created using high technology, unknown to people, and pass not only under the surface of the land, but also under the bed of seas and oceans. The tunnels are not just pierced, but as if burned out in underground rocks, and their walls are a frozen molten rock - smooth, like glass, and have an extraordinary strength. Jan Paenk met with miners who, while digging shreks, came across such tunnels. According to the Polish scientist and many other researchers, flying saucers are carried along these underground communications from one end of the world to the other. (Ufologists have a huge amount of evidence that UFOs fly out from underground and from the depths of the seas). Such tunnels have also been discovered in Ecuador, South Australia, the USA, and New Zealand. In addition, in many parts of the world, vertical, absolutely straight (like an arrow) wells with the same melted walls have been discovered. These wells have different depths from tens to several hundred meters.

The discovered underground map of the planet, compiled 5 million years ago, confirms the existence of a high-tech civilization.
For the first time they started talking about the unknown underground people in 1946. This happened after writer, journalist and scientist Richard Shaver told readers of the American magazine “ Amazing stories", dedicated to paranormal phenomena, about his contact with aliens living underground. According to Shaver, he lived for several weeks in the underground world of mutants similar to demons described in ancient legends and tales of earthlings.
One could attribute this “contact” to the writer’s wild imagination, if not for hundreds of responses from readers who claimed that they also visited underground cities, communicated with their inhabitants and saw various miracles of technology, not only providing the underground inhabitants of the Earth with a comfortable existence in its very subsoil, but also giving the opportunity... to control the consciousness of earthlings!

In April 1942, with the support of Goering and Himmler, an expedition consisting of the most advanced minds of Nazi Germany, led by Professor Heinz Fischer, set out to look for the entrance to an underground civilization, supposedly located on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. Hitler was confident that at least some parts of the earth consisted of voids, inside of which one could live and which had long ago become home to the hyper-developed peoples of antiquity. German scientists, in turn, hoped that if they managed to place in the right geographical point If there are modern radar devices under the surface of the earth, then with their help it will be possible to track the exact location of the enemy in any part of the world. Almost every nation has myths about the race of Ancient creatures that inhabited the world millions of years ago. Infinitely wise, scientifically advanced and culturally advanced, these beings driven underground terrible disasters, created their own civilization there, giving them everything they needed. They want nothing to do with people they consider low, dirty and wild. But sometimes they steal human children in order to raise them as their own. Ancient creatures are similar in appearance to ordinary people and live for a very long time, but they appeared on our planet millions of years before us.
In 1977, photographs obtained from the ESSA-7 satellite appeared in several American magazines, showing a regular dark spot, similar to a huge hole, in the place where the North Pole should be located. Identical photographs were taken by the same satellite in 1981, could this be the entrance to the underworld?
Who are the inhabitants of the underworld?

In the history of the planet there were many ice ages, collisions with meteorites, and other cataclysms that led to the disappearance of civilizations, the period between which cataclysms occurred was quite sufficient for the formation of a highly technical civilization.
Is it possible that some civilization could survive the “end of the world”?
Monsters or inhabitants of the underworld

Suppose that millions of years ago there was a high-tech civilization, during which there was a collision with a meteorite or another global cataclysm that changed the climate of the planet, what would the civilization do then, most likely it would try to survive, and if the surface of the planet is not suitable for life and flying to another planet is not possible? The level of technology allows, only the “underground shelter” remains.
Then the question is what happened to civilization and why after climate change underground inhabitants didn't come to the surface?
Maybe they just couldn’t, constant exposure to a different climate and different gravity (underground gravitational pressure is significantly different from normal), in addition, it should be noted that there is no sunlight underground, technological lighting does not contain the full spectrum, and a long stay under technical lighting may also be the cause of “weaning” from sunlight.

Taking into account that all this happened over thousands of years, it can be assumed that the underground civilization could have evolved greatly, it is even possible that it has developed an aversion to some aspects of the climate, for example sunlight, it is possible that sunlight simply burns the inhabitants of the underground world, all this is not as fantastic as it seems. Another aspect of survival, adaptation of food, since organizing “vigitarian” food in the conditions of the underground world is not very simple, and rather depends on the level of civilization; in fact, it is quite possible that civilization switched to only animal food. Some of the listed parameters undoubtedly had to influence the culture and mentality of civilization; maybe some monsters are just inhabitants of the underworld?

The mysterious underground world exists not only in legends. In recent decades, the number of visitors to the caves has increased markedly. Adventurers and miners are making their way deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Earth, and more and more often they come across traces of the activities of mysterious underground inhabitants. It turned out that beneath us there is a whole network of tunnels, stretching for thousands of kilometers and enveloping the entire Earth in a network, and huge, sometimes even populated underground cities.

In South America there are amazing caves connected by endless intricate passages - the so-called chincanas. Legends of the Hopi Indians say that snake people live in their depths. These caves are practically unexplored. By order of the authorities, all entrances to them are tightly closed with bars. Dozens of adventurers have already disappeared without a trace in the Chinkanas. Some tried to penetrate the dark depths out of curiosity, others - out of thirst for profit: according to legend, the treasures of the Incas were hidden in the chincanas. Only a few managed to escape from the terrible caves. But these “lucky ones” were forever damaged in their minds. From the incoherent stories of the survivors, it can be understood that they met strange creatures in the depths of the earth. These inhabitants of the underworld were both human and snake-like.

There are pictures of fragments of global dungeons in North America. The author of the book about Shambhala, Andrew Thomas, based on a thorough analysis of the stories of American speleologists, claims that in the mountains of California there are direct underground passages that lead to the state of New Mexico.

Once upon a time, the American military also had to study mysterious thousand-kilometer tunnels. An underground nuclear explosion occurred at a test site in Nevada. Exactly two hours later, at a military base in Canada, 2000 kilometers away from the explosion site, a radiation level was recorded that was 20 times higher than normal. A study conducted by geologists has shown that next to the Canadian base there is an underground cavity that connects to a huge cave system that permeates the North American continent.

There are especially many legends about the underground world of Tibet and the Himalayas. Here in the mountains there are tunnels that go deep into the ground. Through them, the “initiate” can travel to the center of the planet and meet representatives of the ancient underground civilization. But not only wise creatures who give advice to the “initiates” live in the underworld of India. Ancient Indian legends tell of the mysterious kingdom of the Nagas, hidden in the depths of the mountains. It is inhabited by Nanas - snake people who store countless treasures in their caves. Cold-blooded, like snakes, these creatures are incapable of experiencing human feelings. They cannot warm themselves and steal warmth, physical and mental, from other living beings.

Speleologist Pavel Miroshnichenko, a researcher who studies artificial structures, wrote about the existence of a system of global tunnels in Russia in his book “The Legend of LSP”. The lines of global tunnels he drew on the map of the former USSR went from Crimea through the Caucasus to the well-known Medveditsa ridge. In each of these places, groups of ufologists, speleologists, and researchers of the unknown discovered fragments of tunnels or mysterious bottomless wells.

The Medveditskaya Ridge has been studied for many years by expeditions organized by the Kosmopoisk association. The researchers not only managed to record the stories of local residents, but also used geophysical equipment to prove the reality of the existence of the dungeons. Unfortunately, after World War II, the mouths of the tunnels were blown up.

A sublatitudinal tunnel stretching from Crimea to the east in the region of the Ural Mountains intersects with another one stretching from north to east. It is along this tunnel that you can hear stories about “wonderful people” who came out to local residents at the beginning of the last century. “Wonderful people,” as told in epics common in the Urals, “live in the Ural Mountains and have exits to the world through caves. Their culture is great. The “Wonderful People” are small in stature, very beautiful and have a pleasant voice, but only a select few can hear them... An old man from the “Wonderful People” comes to the square and predicts what will happen. An unworthy person hears and sees nothing, but the men in those places know everything that the Bolsheviks are hiding.”

Legends of our days.

Meanwhile, the most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today have no doubt at all about the existence of an underground empire: not yet explored by anyone, it, in their understanding, extends under the seas and continents. And above the entrances to this grandiose dungeon in various parts of the planet rise ancient buildings: for example, in Peru this is the city of Cusco... Of course, the opinion of Peruvian experts is not shared by all scientists. And yet, many facts speak in favor of the underworld, indirectly proving its existence. The most fruitful years for such evidence were the 1970s.

England. The miners, digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from somewhere below. Having made a passage, they discovered a staircase leading to an underground well. The sound of the operating equipment intensified, and therefore the workers got scared and ran away. Returning after some time, they found neither the entrance to the well nor the stairs.

USA. Anthropologist James McCann and his colleagues examined a cave in Idaho that was notorious among the indigenous population. Local residents believed that there was an entrance to the underworld. Scientists, going deeper into the dungeon, clearly heard screams and moans, and then discovered human skeletons. Further exploration of the cave had to be stopped due to the increasing smell of sulfur.

A bottomless mine with a diameter of about one and a half meters with amazingly smooth edges was discovered under the Black Sea city of Gelendzhik. Experts unanimously say: it was created using technology unknown to people and has existed for hundreds of years.

Speaking about the underworld, one cannot discount the legends that have appeared in our days. For example, modern Indians living in the mountainous regions of California say that very tall, golden-haired people sometimes come from Mount Shasta: they once descended from heaven, but were unable to adapt to life on the earth’s surface. Now they live in a secret city that is inside extinct volcano. And you can only get into it through mountain caves. By the way, Andrew Thomas, the author of a book about Shambhala, completely agrees with the Indians. The researcher believes that there are underground passages in Mount Shasta that go towards New Mexico and further to South America.

Another underground people was “discovered” by speleologists: they are sure that deep caves around the world are inhabited by troglodytes. They say that these cave dwellers sometimes appear to people; they help those in trouble who respect their world, and punish those who desecrate the caves...

To believe or not to believe?

To believe or not to believe all these stories? Any sane person will answer: “Don’t believe it!” But not everything is so simple. Let's try to think logically. Let's think about how real a person's full life underground is? Could an unknown culture or even civilization exist next to us - or rather, below us - while managing to limit contact with terrestrial humanity to a minimum? Going unnoticed? Is this possible? Does such “living” contradict common sense?

In principle, a person can exist underground, and it would be quite nice - if there was money. Suffice it to recall the bunker house, the construction of which is currently being carried out by Tom Cruise: the megastar plans to hide in his underground home from aliens, who, in his opinion, should soon attack our Earth. In less exposed, but no less solid bunker cities, the “chosen ones” are preparing to wait out the nuclear winter and the post-radiation period in the event of a nuclear war - and this is a period during which more than one generation will get back on their feet! Moreover, in China and Spain today many thousands of people live not in houses, but in well-equipped caves with all amenities. True, these cave dwellers continue to actively contact the outside world and take part in terrestrial life. But the inhabitants of cave monasteries scattered around the world - like the Greek Meteora - have always been almost completely cut off from the hustle and bustle of life. Based on the degree of isolation that lasts for centuries, their existence can be considered underground.

But, perhaps, the most striking example of the adaptation of a huge number of people (what is it - an entire civilization!) to the “lower” world is the underground city of Derinkuyu.

Derinkuyu

Derinkuyu, which means "deep wells", takes its name from the small Turkish town currently located above it. For a long time, no one thought about the purpose of these strange wells, until in 1963 one of the local residents, who discovered a strange gap in his basement from which fresh air was drawn, showed healthy curiosity. As a result, a multi-tiered underground city was found, numerous rooms and galleries of which, connected to each other by passages tens of kilometers long, were hollowed out in rocks...

Already during the excavation of the upper tiers of Derinkuyu it became clear: this is the discovery of the century. In the underground city, scientists discovered objects of material culture of the Hittites, a great people who competed with the Egyptians for dominance in Western Asia. The Hittite kingdom, founded in the 18th century BC. e., in the 12th century BC. e. disappeared into obscurity. Therefore, the discovery of an entire Hittite city became a real sensation. In addition, it turned out that the giant underground city is only part of a colossal labyrinth under the Anatolian Plateau. Scientists have come to the conclusion that underground construction was carried out for at least nine (!) centuries. Moreover, this was not just earthwork, albeit of a colossal volume. Ancient architects equipped the underground empire with a life support system, the perfection of which is still amazing today. Everything here was thought out to the smallest detail: rooms for animals, food warehouses, rooms for preparing and eating food, for sleeping, for meetings... At the same time, religious temples and schools were not forgotten. A precisely calculated blocking device made it possible to easily block the entrances to the dungeon with granite doors. And the ventilation system that supplied the city with fresh air continues to operate flawlessly to this day!

Given the availability of provisions, up to two hundred thousand people at a time could live indefinitely in the underground city. The issue of replenishing food supplies could be solved in many ways: from domestic production to the use of “intermediary services.” Apparently, there was no single scheme for all times.
But in the legends of different peoples, underground inhabitants obtain food by barter, secret trade, or even theft. The latter option, however, is only suitable for small underground communities: Derinkuyu could hardly feed himself in this way. By the way, most likely, it was the extraction of food that became the reason that the land inhabitants began to think about the existence of “children of the dungeons”...
Traces of the Hittites living underground can be traced until the Middle Ages, and then are lost. A developed underground civilization managed to exist secretly for almost two millennia, and after its disappearance it did not open up to the surface world for more than a thousand years. And this amazing fact alone allows us to draw an unambiguous conclusion: yes, it is still possible to live underground in secret from people!

This is a huge underground city that goes 8 floors underground.

Always +27.

Underground America

Legends and myths of many peoples of the world tell about the existence of various intelligent creatures underground. In truth, few sane people ever took these narratives seriously. But now our time has come, and some researchers began to write about the underground city of Agartha. The entrance to this secret abode of theirs underground is supposedly located under the Lasha monastery in Tibet. The absolute majority of representatives of official science reacted to such statements with slight irony. But on the other hand, messages about mysterious entrances to dungeons and bottomless mines may perhaps interest not only an inquisitive person, but also a serious scientist.

Among a number of researchers of the underground world, there is a strong opinion that entrances to the underground cities of humanoid inhabitants exist in Ecuador, the Pamirs and even at the poles of the Arctic and Antarctic.

It was in the area of ​​Mount Shasta, according to Indian eyewitnesses, that people, unlike those here, were seen several times coming out of the ground. According to the written testimonies of many Indians, one can enter the underworld through various caves located near the sacred volcanoes Popocatelpetl and Inlacuatl. Here, according to the assurances of the same Indians, they sometimes met tall and fair-haired strangers emerging from the dungeon.

Back in his time, the famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fawcett, who visited South America six times, said that he had repeatedly heard from Indians living in mountainous areas that they often see strong, large and golden-haired people descending and ascending into mountains.

Even 30 years ago, near Gelendzhik, both people and animals disappeared without a trace. And in the early 70s of the last century, people quite by accident discovered and immediately fenced off a bottomless mine with a diameter of about 1.5 meters. Its walls are smooth, as if polished, without any traces of formwork. Experts almost unanimously say that it has probably existed for hundreds of years and was created using technology unknown to modern humanity. The first attempt by scientists and speleologists to carefully examine the phenomenon ended tragically. Of the five members of the expedition, one disappeared, and four died a few days after rappelling to a depth of 25 meters. The man who died in the mine fell 30 meters, and at that moment his partners first heard some strange sounds, and then the wild cry of their comrade. Those who remained at the top immediately began to lift their colleague from the shaft, but the rope first stretched like a string, and then suddenly weakened. The lower end was cut off as if by a knife. There were subsequent, albeit short-lived, attempts to explore this bottomless well by lowering it into it. They gave practically nothing. Then they started lowering a television camera into the shaft. The rope was gradually increased to 200 meters, and all this time the camera showed bare walls. That's all that is currently known about the Gelendzhik phenomenon.

Similar bottomless wells have been found on all continents of the planet.

The most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today have no doubt at all about the existence of an as yet completely unexplored underground empire, stretching under the seas and continents. In their opinion, there are ancient cities and buildings above the entrances to them in various parts of the continents. For example, they believe that one of these places is Cusco in Peru.

In this regard, the most intriguing story is about the underground city of La Cecana in the Andes. More recently, in the university library of the city of Cusco, archeology discovered a report on the disaster that befell a group of researchers from France and the United States in 1952. In the vicinity of the named city, they found the entrance to the dungeon and began to prepare to descend into it. The scientists did not intend to stay there for long, so they took food for 5 days. However, only 15 days later, out of 7 people, only one Frenchman, Philippe Lamontiere, made it to the surface. He was exhausted, suffered from memory loss, almost lost his human appearance, and besides, he was soon found to have clear signs of infection with the deadly bubonic plague. While in the hospital isolation ward, the Frenchman was mostly delirious, but still sometimes spoke about the bottomless abyss into which his companions had fallen. No one took his words seriously, and therefore no rescue expedition was carried out. Moreover, out of fear of the plague epidemic that Philippe Lamontiere brought with him, the authorities ordered to immediately block the entrance to the dungeon with a reinforced concrete slab. The Frenchman died a few days later, and after him there was left an ear of corn made of pure gold, which he picked up from the ground with him. Now this underground find is kept in the Cusco Museum of Archeology.

More recently, the most authoritative researcher of the Inca civilization, Dr. Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the tragically missing expedition of the French and Americans. He gathered a group of 6 specialists and obtained permission from the authorities to enter the dungeon through the already studied entrances. However, having outwitted the guards, the archaeologists went underground through a room located under the tomb of a dilapidated temple a few kilometers from Cusco. From here there was a long, gradually narrowing corridor that looked like part of a huge ventilation system. Some time later, the expedition was forced to stop, since for some unknown reason the walls of the tunnel did not reflect infrared rays. Then the researchers decided to use a special radio filter, which suddenly started working when tuned to the frequency of aluminum. This fact plunged all participants into complete bewilderment. Where, one might ask, did this metal come from in the prehistoric labyrinth? They began to explore the walls. And it turned out that they had plating of unknown origin and high density, which no instrument could take. The tunnel steadily continued to narrow until its height reached 90 cm. People had to turn back. On the way back, the guide ran away, fearing that he would eventually be severely punished for assisting the scientists in their illegal activities. This is where the expedition ended. Dr. Centeno was not allowed to repeat further research even at the highest government authorities...

Tibetan lamas say that the ruler Underworld
is the great King of the World, as he is called in the East. And his kingdom is
Agartha, based on the principles of the Golden Age, exists at least 60
thousand years. People there know no evil and do not commit crimes. Unseen
Science flourished there, so the underground people who reached
incredible heights of knowledge, does not know diseases and is not afraid of any
disasters. The King of Peace wisely rules not only millions of his own
underground subjects, but also secretly by the entire population of the surface
parts of the Earth. He knows all the hidden springs of the universe, he comprehends the soul
every human being and reads the great book of destinies.

The kingdom of Agartha stretches underground throughout the planet. And under the oceans too.
There is also an opinion that the peoples of Agartha were forced to switch to
underground living after a universal cataclysm (flood) and immersion
under the water of land - ancient continents that existed on the site of the present
oceans. As the Himalayan lamas say, in the caves of Agartha there is
a special glow that even allows you to grow vegetables and grains. Chinese
Buddhists know that the ancient people, who took refuge after another
doomsday underground, lives in caves in America. Here they are -
Ecuadorian dungeons of Erich von Denniken in the foothills of South America
Andes. Let us recall that information gleaned from Chinese sources
published in 1922, that is, exactly half a century before the irrepressible
the Swiss began his fantastic descent to a depth of 240 meters to
mysterious repositories of ancient knowledge, lost in inaccessible
places in the Ecuadorian province of Morona-Santiago.

The underground workshops are in full swing with tireless work. Any metals melt there
and products are forged from them. In unknown chariots or other perfect
devices, underground inhabitants rush through tunnels laid deep
underground. The level of technical development of underground inhabitants exceeds
wildest imagination.

Dungeons of Cusco

An ancient legend is also associated with gold, telling about a secret entrance to a vast labyrinth of underground galleries under a collapsed building. As evidenced by the Spanish magazine Mas Alya, which specializes in describing all kinds of historical mysteries, this legend, in particular, tells that there are gigantic tunnels crossing the vast mountainous territory of Peru and reaching Brazil and Ecuador. In the Quechua Indian language they are called "chincana", which literally means "labyrinth". In these tunnels, the Incas, supposedly deceiving the Spanish conquistadors, hid a significant part of the golden wealth of their empire in the form of large-sized artistic objects. Even a specific point in Cusco was indicated where this labyrinth began and where the Temple of the Sun once stood.

It was gold that glorified Cusco (the only museum in the world dedicated to this noble metal still operates here). But it also destroyed him. The Spanish conquistadors who conquered the city plundered the Temple of the Sun, and all its riches, including the golden statues in the garden, were loaded onto ships and sent to Spain. At the same time, rumors spread about the existence of underground halls and galleries, where the Incas allegedly hid part of the ritual gold items. This rumor is indirectly confirmed by the chronicle of the Spanish missionary Felipe de Pomares, who spoke in the 17th century about the fate of the Inca prince, who confessed to his Spanish wife Maria de Esquivel about the mission “sent to him by the gods”: to preserve the most valuable treasures of his ancestors.

Blindfolding his wife, the prince led her through one of the palaces into the dungeon. After long walks they found themselves in a huge hall. The prince took off the blindfold from his wife's eyes, and in the weak light of the torch she saw the golden statues of all twelve Inca kings, reaching the height of a teenager; a lot of gold and silver dishes, figurines of birds and animals made of gold. As a loyal subject of the king and a devout Catholic, Maria de Esquivel reported her husband to the Spanish authorities, telling in detail about her journey. But the prince, sensing evil, disappeared. The last thread that could lead to the underground labyrinth of the Incas was cut off.

Archaeologists have found a network of mysterious tunnels in Malta

In Malta, in the city of Valletta, archaeologists have found a network of underground tunnels. Now researchers are racking their brains: either this is an underground city of the Order of Malta, or an ancient water supply or sewer system.
For centuries, it was believed that Crusader knights had built an underground city on the Mediterranean island of Malta, and rumors circulated among the population about secret passages and military labyrinths of the Hospitaller Order.

Ar Dalam Cave

We were building a garage and found ancient tunnels
This winter, researchers found a network of tunnels under historical center Maltese capital Valletta. These tunnels date back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It was then that the knights of one of the largest Christian military orders from the times of the Crusades of the 11th-13th centuries were strengthening Valletta to repel Muslim attacks.

“Many said that there were passages and even an entire underground city. But the question is - where were these tunnels? Did they even exist? Now we think we have found at least a small part of these underground structures,” said archaeologist Claude Borg, who took part in the excavations.

The tunnels were discovered on February 24 during archaeological exploration, which was carried out on Palace Square opposite the Palace of the Grand Master. The palace formerly belonged to the head of the Order of Malta, and today it houses the legislative institutions and the presidency of Malta. Archaeological survey was carried out before the construction of the underground parking.

Mdina

Underground city or water supply?
First, workers found an underground reservoir directly under the square. Near its bottom, at a depth of about 12 m, they discovered a hole in the wall - the entrance to the tunnel. It ran under the square and then connected to other canals. An attempt to pass through these corridors was unsuccessful - they were blocked. All the corridors found have a vault high enough for an adult to easily walk through. However, researchers believe that this is only part of an extensive plumbing system.

Restoration architect Edward Said of Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna considers this discovery “just the tip of the iceberg.” In his opinion, the found tunnels are part of the water supply and sewerage system, which also includes corridors where those who monitored the tunnels and kept them in order could walk.

Construction of Valletta
The Order of Malta, founded in 1099, became famous for its victories over Muslims during the Crusades. In 1530, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V gave the island of Malta to the knights. In 1565, the order, under the leadership of the Grand Master of La Valletta, was attacked by the Ottoman Turks, but managed to withstand the Great Siege of Malta.

However, this military experience led them to begin building a fortress in Malta, named after the Master of Valletta. The fortification was built on a hill, but there were not enough natural sources of water there. According to Sed, the main goal of the city's builders was to provide themselves with the necessary supplies in case of future sieges.

Saint Paul's Cave

“They soon realized that the rainwater and springs they had at their disposal would not be enough,” the architect noted.

Aqueduct and water supply
Therefore, the builders built an aqueduct, the remains of which have survived to this day: water entered the city from a valley located to the west of Valletta. The location of the tunnels under Palace Square also confirms the idea that they were built specifically as a water supply system. Probably, the large fountain on Palace Square was supplied through underground channels and a reservoir. When the British dominated the island (1814−1964), the fountain was demolished.

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How the knights left
In 1798, Napoleon expelled the knights from Malta. Now the Order of Malta continues to exist, but its residence is in Rome.
“The fountain was quite an important source of water for the people of the city,” Borg noted.

As Sed said, archaeologists found the remains of centuries-old lead pipes. The corridors connected to this tunnel may have been service passages used by plumbing engineers or so-called fontaniers.

“The fountain maintenance engineer, along with a team of workers, had to check the system and keep the fountain in good condition. They also turned off the fountain at night,” Sed said.

Didn't the underground city exist?
Stories about secret military passages, according to Sed, have more substance. Under the fortress walls there could indeed be secret corridors for soldiers. However, according to Sed, most of the legends about the underground city are actually stories about the water supply and sewerage system.

According to the researcher, Valletta's pipeline system was very progressive for its time. If, for example, we compare Valletta with such large cities of that time as London or Vienna, then the Maltese city of the 16th-17th centuries was much cleaner, while others were literally buried in dirt.

Following these findings, the Maltese government announced that construction of the underground car park would be postponed. They are planning to install a new fountain in the square, and the tunnels, Sed hopes, will subsequently be open to the general public.

Mexico. Mitla. Mayan underground structures

According to the participants, these structures have high quality finishes and look more like a bunker. They also notice that from some details it can be judged that the Indians did not build, but only restored one of these structures from blocks lying around in the vicinity.

Underground Giza

The pyramids, the sphinx, and the ruins of ancient temples on the Giza plateau have captured the imagination of people for more than one millennium. And here is a new discovery. It has been established that huge, completely unexplored underground structures are hidden under the pyramids. Scientists suggest that the network of tunnels could extend for tens of kilometers.

While studying one of the tombs, scientists accidentally leaned on the wall, and the rock collapsed. Archaeologists have found the beginning of one of the tunnels. Later it was believed that the tunnels penetrated the entire Giza plateau, on which the great pyramids stood. Egypt's chief custodian of antiquities said that a group of local and foreign archaeologists have begun work on drawing up a kind of map of the underground passages under the pyramids. The work is carried out both on the ground and from the air using aerial photography. Studying the tunnels will allow you to take a fresh look at the entire Giza pyramid complex.

There are about 300 archaeological expeditions in Egypt. Their goal is to study and preserve already found objects. Now several groups of scientists are excavating a unique temple. It may even eclipse the famous temple in Luxor. There is reason to believe that underground there is a huge, previously unknown complex of buildings, palaces and temples. A big obstacle for scientists is that houses, roads and communications have already been built on the lands that covered these unique structures.

Since the declassification of the new deep radar 2 years ago, information about underground complexes and labyrinths has begun to appear from many places around the world. In places like Guatemala in South America, tunnels have been documented under the Tikal complex, leading 800 kilometers across the country. Researchers note that it is possible that with the help of these tunnels the Mayans avoided the complete destruction of their culture.

In early 1978, a similar radar (SIRA) was deployed in Egypt and incredible underground complexes were discovered under the Egyptian pyramids. A research agreement was signed with Egyptian President Sadat, and this secret project has been ongoing for 3 decades.

Dungeons Kolobros

The Huaraz Plateau in the Western Cordillera has long been considered the secret refuge of Peruvian sorcerers. They say they can summon the spirits of the dead and materialize them. They can sharply increase and decrease the temperature of the surrounding air, which is necessary for the appearance of “shining carts driven by heavenly patrons.” Unfortunately, few foreigners managed to become participants in these magical rituals. One of them, the Englishman Joseph Ferrier, visited the mysterious underground settlement of Kolobros in 1922. And he was so shocked by what he saw that he was not too lazy to write a lengthy essay for the British Pathfinder magazine, preceded by an oath: “I vouch for the absolute truthfulness of what was stated.”

Joseph Ferrier is silent about how he managed to become a guest of a system of underground labyrinths forbidden to outsiders, “very confusing and cramped, almost unsuitable for free breathing and movement, but with rooms in which they are forced to live from birth to death. Because the life of each hereditary sorcerer has a special meaning that is not found anywhere else except on the local plateau.” What is this meaning? According to Ferrier, the following:

“Underground sorcerers do not draw a line between the world of the living and world of the dead. They believe that both the living and the dead are only spirits. The only difference is that until the moment of death, the spirit of each of us languishes in a bodily shell. After death, it is released, becoming a spirit outside the body. Therefore, by using special techniques, sorcerers ensure that spirits who have taken on flesh can be close to us, among us. You may not believe it, but copies of these once living creatures are found in labyrinths, walking among the living. I myself have repeatedly confused phantoms with people. Only the sorcerers of Kolobros do not confuse.”

Rituals of materialization, creations of phantoms, are practiced in big hall, having the shape of an isosceles triangle. The walls and ceiling are covered with copper plates. The floor is paved with wedge-shaped bronze slabs.

“As soon as I crossed the threshold of this ritual room,” writes Ferrier, “I immediately received eight or ten electric shocks. Doubts disappeared. The metallized room was not much different from the metallized internal volume of a capacitor jar, and, apparently, was needed by sorcerers-mediums for their afterlife rites. I was convinced of this when they stood up in their loincloths, clasped their hands, and began to sing without words. There was a buzzing in my ears. I bit my tongue when I saw thin silver hoops begin to rotate around the heads of the sorcerers, scattering wet, cold sparkles. Sequins fell onto the copper underfoot, forming a kind of cobweb, red as blood. From the web slowly sprouted faintly visible semblances of human bodies. They stood, vibrating unsteadily from the drafts of the galleries. The sorcerers, having opened their hands and stopped singing, began to dance and rub the resin pillars installed in the center of the hall with scraps of wool. Several minutes passed. The air became saturated with electricity and began to flicker.

Having found the power of speech, I asked the sorcerer Aotuk, what will happen next? Aotuk said that further the shadows of the summoned dead will become solid, suitable for being in our world.” The sorcerers of the Kolobros dungeon have achieved the impossible. Obeying the most ancient magical techniques, the discharged, light as smoke, shadows became completely indistinguishable from people - thinking, with beating hearts, capable of lifting and carrying weights weighing up to ten kilograms, sometimes more. The rituals of “humanizing disembodied spirits” seemed to Ferrier to be similar to European medieval rituals of evoking the dead. Whether this is so can be judged from an excerpt from the essay:

“The most dangerous ritual for sorcerers, luring the dead, takes a lot of bodily strength. The Sabbath is best performed during the period of time between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. The magical New Year in the Kolobros labyrinths begins on November 1 with a “silent supper” around an altar table covered with a triangular canvas on which there is a tin cup, a black cord and censer, an iron trident and knife, an hourglass, and seven burning candles.

Each sorcerer wears a protective golden pictogram on his chest in the shape of a grinning skull framed by four lead bones. As soon as it is closer to midnight, the upper vessel of the clock is freed from sand, the sorcerers light incense and begin to invite guests to a meal. When they approach, the trident begins to flash blue, the knife - red. The cord burns out completely. A flame emerges from the floor, following the contours of the Egyptian holy cross, symbolizing eternal life. Throwing a wooden skull and bones into the fire - the sign of Osiris - the sorcerers loudly exclaim: “Rise from the dead!” The chief sorcerer pierces the flaming cross with a glowing trident. The flame immediately goes out. The candles go out too. Silence, saturated with the smell of incense, falls. A strong phosphorescent glow spreads under the ceiling.

“Go away, go away, shadows of the departed. We will not let you near us until you become alive to us. Let there be agreement between us. Let it be!” - the sorcerers shout deafeningly. There are no more shadows. Instead of shadows, there are their detailed bodily repetitions, which can be consulted when important decisions need to be made.

Why do underground sorcerers prefer loincloths as clothing, you ask? Because negotiations with the resurrected wear thin the fabric of clothing, no matter how good the fabric is. I had a new linen suit. A few conversations with the resurrected, a few touches to them - and my suit became unusable, as happens under the influence of decay.”

Ferrier argues that the resurrected are not eternal. Each stays among the sorcerers of Kolobros for at most a year: “When the figure of the “neighbor” fades, when his internal energy is depleted, a ritual of returning to the shadows is arranged for him - a quick, purely formal one. How else? Knowledge has been gained. "Neighbor" is not needed. No matter how much the sorcerers wish, he will not return again.” However, it is from this fleeting rite that the main rite - the heavenly carts - begins. Ferrier does not write anything about the magical components of this action. He only reports that he saw how in the sky above the Huaraz plateau “with a terrible roar and rattle, fiery wheels rushed by and crashed into the edge of the Kolobros Canyon.” The sorcerers did not allow him to meet with the “gods of the seventh heaven,” citing the fact that mere mortals cannot communicate with immortals. To Ferrier’s objection that the sorcerers themselves, being mortal, still meet with the heavenly gods, the inhabitants of Kolobros replied that contacts are not frequent, they are carried out only on the initiative of immortals, who make meetings safe. Characterizing the level of knowledge of the gods, Ferrier says that they have gone so far ahead that “they have long forgotten what the best minds of humanity are just beginning to ponder.” Even experienced speleologists now do not risk visiting the labyrinths of Kolobros. One of them, American Michael Stern, dreams of visiting there. The expedition is planned for the summer of 2008, not paying attention to the increasing frequency of natural anomalies. These include local earthquakes, night-time above-ground glows, mud geysers in the area of ​​labyrinths, flights of fireballs, and “landings” of ghosts with pear-shaped heads. Local residents have no doubt that the dungeons of Kolobros are still inhabited. The way there is forbidden to strangers without the knowledge of the owners. Stern persists: “I am not a slave to superstition, I do not believe in sorcerers. For me, Kolobros is just a system of deep, difficult-to-pass caves, nothing more.” At the beginning of the last century, Joseph Ferrier also thought so...

Agarti (Agartha) - underground country

The only and still unconfirmed sources of information about the mysterious Agharti remain the publication of the Pole F. Ossendowski, a member of the Council of Ministers in the Kolchak government, who, during the civil war in the Siberian government, held the post of director of the Credit Chancellery2, who later fled to Mongolia, similar in description of this center, and, published twelve years earlier, the work of Saint-Yves d'Alveidre "Mission of India". Both authors claim the existence of the underworld - a spiritual center that is of non-human origin, and preserves the Primordial wisdom, passing it down through the centuries from generation to generation by secret societies. The inhabitants of the underworld are far superior to humanity in their technical development, have mastered unknown energies and are connected to all continents through underground passages. Comparative analysis Both versions of the myth of Agharti were performed in his work “King of the World” by the French scientist Rene Guenon: “If there really are two versions of this story, originating from sources very distant from each other, then it was interesting to find them and make a careful comparison.”

The French esoteric thinker, Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveidre (1842-1909) left a noticeable mark on history by writing books about occult ancient history3 and formulating a new universal law of history and human society, which he called “Synarchy”. The ideas of a new world order, set forth in the teachings of Saint-Yves "Synarchy", attracted the attention of future leaders of the National Socialist Party in Germany. According to Saint-Yves, all information about Agartha was received by him “from the Afghan prince Kharji Sharif, the envoy of the World Occult Government” and the center of Agartha is located in the Himalayas. This is an entire cave center with a population of 20 million people - “the most secret sanctuary of the Earth”, storing in its depths the chronicles of humanity for the entire time of its evolution on this earth over 556 centuries, recorded on stone tablets4. The chronology of humanity and the antiquity of the teachings of Saint-Yves, based on Indian sources, traces back to the era of the progenitor of mankind, the legendary Manu, i.e. 55,647 years ago. In his literary work, aimed, as he wrote, “at educated people, the most enlightened secular people and statesmen,” Saint-Yves describes in detail and convincingly the state structure of Agharti and provides quite original details, for example, such as:

“The modern mystical name of the Sanctuary of the Cycle of Rama was given to it approximately 5100 years ago, after the schism of Irshu. This name is "Agartha", which means: "inaccessible to violence", "unattainable to Anarchy." It is enough for my readers to know that in some regions of the Himalayas, among the 22 temples representing the 22 arcana of Hermes and the 22 letters of some sacred alphabets, Agartha constitutes the mystical Zero (0). "Unfindable."
* “None of our terrible systems of punishment are practiced in Agartha, and there are no prisons. There is no death penalty. Beggary, prostitution, drunkenness, and fierce individualism are completely unknown in Agharti. The division into castes is unknown.”
* “Among the tribes expelled from the great University (Agartha) there is one wandering tribe, which, since the 15th century, has been showing all of Europe its strange experiments. This is the true origin of the gypsies (Bohami - in Sanskrit, “Get away from me”).
* Agartha can monitor Souls on all ascending stages of the worlds up to the extreme limits of our solar system. During some cosmic periods one can see and speak with the dead. This is one of the secrets of the ancient Cult of Ancestors.”
* The sages of Agartha “tested the boundaries of the last flood on our Planet and determined the possible starting point of its resumption in thirteen or fourteen centuries.”
* “The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, received initiation into the Sanctuary of Agartta, but he was unable to remove his notes from Agartta and subsequently dictated to his first disciples only what his memory was capable of retaining.”
* “Not a single initiate can take away from Agartha the original texts of her scientific works, for, as I have already said, they are engraved on stone in the form of signs incomprehensible to the crowd. The threshold of the Sanctuary is inaccessible without the will of the student. Its basement floor is built magically, in various ways, in which the Divine word plays a role, as in all ancient temples.”
* “The sacred texts, owing to political conditions, were everywhere systematically changed, with the exception of Agartha alone, where all the lost secrets of the Hebrew-Egyptian text of our own Holy Scriptures and the keys to their mysteries were preserved.”

Saint-Yves does not answer the question of where Agartha is located; the text contains only one indirect indication that symbolically Agartha’s head is in contact with Afghanistan, and its legs, i.e. rests its base on Burman. This territory corresponds to the region Himalayan mountains, little explored at that time. A striking description of the most secret sanctuary on Earth, containing lost ancient knowledge, subsequently inspired the search for this secret sanctuary in Tibet, both by various scientists and adventurers, and by government officials. different countries, planning to send expeditions to little-explored areas of Central Asia, in particular to establish an alliance with Agartha.

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In many regions of the globe there are ancient structures, it is unknown by whom and for what purpose they were created. Given the limited technical capabilities of our ancestors, it is simply impossible to believe that they were built by people of the Stone or Bronze Age.

Found in Turkey (Cappadocia) huge complex underground cities located on several tiers and connected by tunnels. Underground shelters were built by an unknown people in ancient times. Eric von Däniken in his book “In the Footsteps of the Almighty” describes these shelters as follows: “...giant underground cities were discovered, designed for many thousands of inhabitants. The most famous of them are located under the modern village of Derinkuyu. Entrances to the underworld are hidden under houses.

Here and there in the area there are ventilation holes leading far into the interior. The dungeon is cut through by tunnels connecting the rooms. The first floor from the village of Derinkuyu covers an area of ​​four square kilometers, and the premises on the fifth floor can accommodate ten thousand people. It is estimated that this underground complex can accommodate three hundred thousand people at a time.

The underground structures of Derinkuyu alone have fifty-two ventilation shafts and fifteen thousand entrances. The largest mine reaches a depth of eighty-five meters. The lower part of the city served as a reservoir for water...

To date, thirty-six underground cities have been discovered in this area. Not all

they are on the scale of Kaymakli or Derinkuyu, but their plans were carefully designed. People who know this area well believe that there are many more underground structures here. All cities known today are connected to each other by tunnels.”

These underground shelters with huge stone valves, warehouses, kitchens and ventilation shafts are shown in Eric von Däniken's documentary In the Footsteps of the Almighty. The author of the film suggested that ancient people were hiding in them from some threat coming from heaven.

Sahara Desert. Many kilometers of tunnels are hidden under its surface.

In many regions of our planet there are numerous mysterious underground structures of unknown purpose to us. near the Algerian border (10° west longitude and 25° north latitude), underground there is a whole system of tunnels and underground communications, which are carved into the rock. The height of the main adits is 3 meters, width – 4 meters. In some places the distance between the tunnels is less than 6 meters. The average length of the tunnels is 4.8 kilometers, and their total length (including auxiliary adits) is 1,600 kilometers!

The modern English Channel Tunnel looks like child's play compared to these structures. There is an assumption that these underground corridors were intended to supply water to the desert regions of the Sahara. But it would be much easier to dig irrigation canals on the surface of the earth. Moreover, in those distant times, the climate in this region was humid, there was heavy rainfall - and there was no special need for irrigation.

To dig these passages underground, it was necessary to extract 20 million cubic meters of rock - this is many times the volume of all the Egyptian pyramids built. The work is truly titanic. It is almost impossible to carry out the construction of underground communications in such a volume using even modern technical means. Scientists attribute these underground communications to the fifth millennium BC. e., that is, to the moment when our ancestors just learned to build primitive huts and use stone tools.

Who then built these grandiose tunnels and for what purposes?

In the first half of the 16th century. Francisco Pizarro discovered a cave entrance closed by rock blocks in the Peruvian Andes. It was located at an altitude of 6770 meters above sea level on Mount Huascaran.

A speleological expedition organized in 1971, examining a tunnel system consisting of several levels, discovered sealed doors that, despite their massiveness, easily turned to reveal the entrance. The floor of the underground passages is paved with blocks treated in such a way as to prevent slipping (the tunnels leading to the ocean have an inclination of about 14°). According to various estimates, the total length of communications ranges from 88 to 105 kilometers. It is assumed that previously the tunnels led to the island of Guanape, but it is quite difficult to test this hypothesis, because the passages end in a lake of salty sea water.

In 1965, between the cities of Galacquisa, San Antonio and Yopi, the Argentinean Juan Morich discovered a system of tunnels and ventilation shafts with a total length of several hundred kilometers! The entrance to this system looks like a neat cutout in the rock, the size of a barn door. The tunnels have a rectangular cross-section with varying widths and sometimes turn at right angles. The walls of the underground communications are covered with a kind of glaze, as if they were treated with some kind of solvent or exposed to high temperature. Interestingly, no rock dumps from the tunnels were found at the exit.

The underground passage leads successively to underground platforms and huge halls located at a depth of 240 meters, with ventilation openings 70 centimeters wide. In the center of one of the halls measuring 110x130 meters there is a table and seven thrones made of an unknown material similar to plastic. A whole gallery of large golden figures depicting animals was also found there: elephants, crocodiles, lions, camels, bison, bears, monkeys, wolves, jaguars, crabs, snails and even dinosaurs. The researchers also found a “library” consisting of several thousand embossed metal plates measuring 45x90 centimeters, covered with incomprehensible signs. The priest Father Carlo Crespi, who carried out archaeological research there with the permission of the Vatican, claims that all the finds taken from the tunnels “belong to the pre-Christian era, and most of the symbols and prehistoric images are older than the time of the Flood.

In 1972, Eric von Daniken met with Juan Moric and persuaded him to show the ancient tunnels. The researcher agreed, but with one condition - not to photograph the underground labyrinths. In his book, Däniken writes:

“... In order for us to better understand what was happening, our guides made us walk the last 40 km. We are very tired; the tropics have worn us out. Finally we came to a hill that had many entrances into the depths of the Earth.

The entrance we chose was almost invisible due to the vegetation covering it. It was wider than a railway station. We walked through a tunnel that was approximately 40 m wide; its flat ceiling showed no signs of connecting devices.

The entrance to it was located at the foot of the Los Tayos hill, and at least the first 200 m went simply downhill towards the center of the massif. The height of the tunnel was approximately 230 cm, there was a floor partially covered with bird droppings, a layer of approximately 80 cm. Metal and stone figurines were constantly found among the garbage and droppings. The floor was made of processed stone.

We lit our way with carbide lamps. There were no traces of soot in these caves. It was said that, according to legend, their inhabitants lit the way with golden mirrors that reflected sunlight, or a light-collecting system using emeralds. This last solution reminded us of the laser principle.

The walls are also covered with very well-cut stones. The admiration aroused by the buildings of Machu Picchu diminishes when one sees this work. The stone is smoothly polished and has straight edges. The ribs are not rounded. The joints of the stones are barely noticeable. Judging by some of the treated blocks lying on the floor, there was no subsidence, since the surrounding walls are finished and fully finished. What is this - the carelessness of the creators who, having finished their work, left pieces behind them or did they think to continue their work?

The walls are almost completely covered with reliefs of animals - both modern and extinct. Dinosaurs, elephants, jaguars, crocodiles, monkeys, crayfish - all headed towards the center. We found a carved inscription - a square with rounded corners, about 12 cm on a side. Groups of geometric shapes varied between two and four units of varying lengths, appearing to be placed in vertical and horizontal shapes. This order was not repeated from one to the other. Is it a number system or a computer program? We also remembered about radio circuits.

Just in case, the expedition was equipped with an oxygen supply system, but it was not needed. Even today, the ventilation ducts cut vertically into the hill were well preserved and performed their function. When reaching the surface, some of them are covered with lids. It is difficult to detect them from the outside, only sometimes a bottomless well appears among groups of stones.

The ceiling in the tunnel is low, without relief. Outwardly, it looks like it is made of rough processed stone. However, it feels soft to the touch. Can't be! We touched it again - in fact, the feeling did not deceive us. Suddenly we began to understand that we seemed to be in a different atmosphere. The heat and humidity disappeared, making the journey easier. We reached a wall of dressed stone that divided our path. On either side of the wide tunnel we were descending there was a path leading to a narrower passage. We moved to one of those that went to the left. We later discovered that another passage led in the same direction. We walked about 1200 m through these passages, only to find a stone wall blocking our path. Our guide effortlessly extended his hand to some point, and at the same time two stone doors 35 cm wide opened.

Holding our breath, we stopped at the mouth of a huge cave with dimensions that cannot be determined with the naked eye. One side was about 5 m high. The dimensions of the cave were approximately 110x130 m, although its shape was not rectangular.

The conductor whistled, and various shadows crossed the “living room.” Birds and butterflies were flying, no one knew where. Various tunnels opened up. Our guide said that this Great Room always remains clean. Everywhere on the walls there are animals drawn and squares drawn. Moreover, they all connect to each other.

In the middle of the Living Room there was a table and several chairs. The men sit back, leaning back; but these chairs are for taller people. They are designed for statues, approximately 2 m high. At first glance, the table and chairs are made of simple stone. However, if you touch them, they will turn out to be made of plastic material, almost worn out and completely smooth. The table, measuring approximately 3x6 m, is supported only by a cylindrical base with a diameter of 77 cm. The thickness of the top is about 30 cm. There are five chairs on one side and six or seven on the other.

If you touch the inside of the table top, you can feel the texture and coldness of the stone, making you think that it is covered with an unknown material

First, considering our visit over, the guide led us to another hidden door. Once again, two sections of stone opened effortlessly, revealing another, but smaller, living space. It had a lot of shelves with volumes, and in the middle there was a passage between them, like in a modern book warehouse. They were also made of some cold material, soft, but with edges that almost cut the skin. Stone, petrified wood, wood or metal? Hard to understand.

Each such volume was 90 cm high and 45 cm and contained about 400 processed gold pages.

These books have metal covers that are 4mm thick and are darker in color than the pages themselves. They are not sewn, but they are fastened in some other way. The carelessness of one of the visitors drew our attention to another detail. He grabbed the open volume, taking one of the metal pages, which, despite being only a fraction of a millimeter thick, was strong and smooth. The notebook without a cover fell to the floor and when I tried to pick it up, it wrinkled like paper.

Each page had an engraving, so exquisite that it seemed as if it had been written in ink. Maybe this is the underground storage of some kind of space library?

The pages of these volumes are divided into various squares with rounded corners. Here it is perhaps much easier to understand these hieroglyphs, abstract symbols, as well as stylized human figures - heads with rays, hands with three, four and five fingers. Among these symbols, one is similar to a large carved inscription found in the museum of the Church of Our Lady of Cuenca. It probably belongs to the gold objects believed to have been taken from Los Tayos. It is 52 cm long, 14 cm wide and 4 cm deep, with 56 different characters, which could well be an alphabet. Some people believe that the text of a book in this library should be read in groups of phrases.

A visit to Cuenca turned out to be very important for us, because we could see the objects exhibited by Father Crespi in the Church of Our Lady, and also listen to the legends about the local white gods, blond and blue-eyed, who visited this country from time to time.

In their white tunics, they looked like North American hippies, except for their bearded faces. Their residence is unknown, although it is assumed that they lived in an unknown city near Cuenca. Although the dark-skinned indigenous population believes that they bring happiness, they are afraid of their mental power, as they practice telepathy and are said to be able to levitate objects without contact. Their average height is 185 cm for women and 190 for men. The chairs of the Great Living Room in Los Tayos will definitely suit them..."

Numerous illustrations of amazing underground finds can be seen in von Daniken’s book “The Gold of the Gods.” When Juan Moric reported his discovery, a joint Anglo-Ecuadorian expedition was organized to explore the tunnels. Her honorary advisor, Neil Armstrong, said of the findings: “Signs of human life underground have been found in what may be the major worldwide archaeological discovery of the century.” After this interview, there was no more information about the mysterious dungeons, and the area where they are located is now closed to foreigners.

Shelters for protection from the cataclysms that struck the Earth during its approach to the neutron star, as well as from all kinds of disasters that accompanied the wars of the gods, were built all over the globe. Dolmens, which are a kind of stone dugouts covered with a massive slab and with a small round hole for entry, were intended for the same purposes as underground structures, that is, they served as a shelter. These stone structures are found in different parts of the world - India, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Korea, Siberia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. At the same time, dolmens located in different parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to each other, as if they were made according to a standard design. According to the legends and myths of various peoples, they were built by dwarfs, as well as people, but the latter’s buildings turned out to be more primitive, since they used roughly processed stones.

During the construction of these structures, vibration-damping layers under the foundation were sometimes used to protect dolmens from earthquakes. For example, an ancient structure located in Azerbaijan near the village of Gorikidi has two damping tiers. In the Egyptian pyramids, chambers filled with sand were also discovered, which served for the same purposes.

The precision of the fit of the massive stone slabs of the dolmens is also amazing. Even with the help of modern technical means, it is very difficult to assemble a dolmen from ready-made blocks. This is how A. Formozov describes in the book “Monuments of Primitive Art” an attempt to transport one of the dolmens: “In 1960, it was decided to transport some dolmen from Esheri to Sukhumi - to the courtyard of the Abkhaz museum. We chose the smallest one and brought a crane to it. No matter how they fastened the loops of the steel cable to the cover plate, it did not budge.

They called the second tap. Two cranes removed the multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. For exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhumi. In 1961, using a new mechanism, all the stones were loaded onto vehicles. But the main thing was ahead: to reassemble the house. The reconstruction was only partially completed. The roof was lowered onto four walls, but they could not turn it so that their edges fit into the grooves on the inner surface of the roof. In ancient times, the slabs were driven so close to each other that a knife blade could not fit between them. Now there is a big gap left.

Currently, numerous ancient catacombs have been discovered in various regions of the planet; it is unknown when and by whom they were dug. There is an assumption that these underground multi-tiered galleries were formed during the process of extracting stone for the construction of buildings. But why was it necessary to spend titanic labor, gouging out blocks of the strongest rocks in narrow underground galleries, when there are similar rocks nearby, located directly on the earth’s surface?

Ancient catacombs were found near Paris, in Italy (Rome, Naples), Spain, on the islands of Sicily and Malta, in Syracuse, Germany, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Crimea. The Russian Society for Speleological Research (ROSI) has carried out a huge amount of work on compiling the Cadastre artificial caves and underground architectural structures on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Currently, information has already been collected on 2,500 catacomb-type objects belonging to different eras. The oldest dungeons date back to the 14th millennium BC. e (Kamennaya Mogila tract in the Zaporozhye region).

The Parisian catacombs are a network of winding artificial underground galleries. Their total length is from 187 to 300 kilometers. The most ancient tunnels existed even before the birth of Christ. In the Middle Ages (12th century), limestone and gypsum began to be mined in the catacombs, as a result of which the network of underground galleries was significantly expanded. Later, the dungeons were used to bury the dead. Currently, the remains of about 6 million people rest near Paris.

The dungeons of Rome may be very ancient. More than 40 catacombs, carved into porous volcanic tuff, have been found under the city and its surroundings. The length of the galleries, according to the most conservative estimates, ranges from 100 to 150 kilometers, and possibly exceeds 500 kilometers. During the Roman Empire, the dungeons were used to bury the dead: there are between 600,000 and 800,000 burials in the galleries of the catacombs and numerous individual burial chambers. At the beginning of our era, the catacombs housed churches and chapels of early Christian communities.

In the vicinity of Naples, about 700 catacombs have been discovered, consisting of tunnels, galleries, caves and secret passages. The oldest dungeons date back to 4,500 BC. e. Speleologists discovered underground water pipes, aqueducts and water tanks, rooms where food supplies were previously stored. During World War II, the catacombs were used as bomb shelters.

One of the attractions of ancient Maltese culture is the Hypogeum, an underground catacomb-type shelter that goes several floors deep. Over the centuries, it was chiseled out of solid granite rock using stone tools. Already in our time, on the lower tier of this underground city, researchers have discovered tens of thousands of human skeletons. The purpose of this structure still remains a mystery.

Perhaps the mysterious underground structures were used by people as shelters from various disasters that occurred on Earth more than once. Descriptions of grandiose battles between aliens that took place in the distant past on our planet, preserved in various sources, suggest that the dungeons could serve as bomb shelters or a bunker.