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The Morien Institute Interview - Page Five of more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of Professor Masaaki Kimura


more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of
Professor Masaaki Kimura


University of the Ryukyus
Okinawa, Japan



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The controversy that has erupted in archaeological circles around the world since the discovery of an enigmatic

structure, described by some as ‘pyramid-like’, at Iseki Point, just off the coast of the southernmost

Japanese island of Yonaguni-Jima, some 15 years ago, looks set to get even hotter as news

emerges that the so-called ‘Yonaguni Monument’ is just one of a number of

underwater megalithic structures in a ‘complex’ stretching for

many hundreds of miles northeast of Taiwan.

 


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Several stone artifacts have been discovered at various locations around Yonaguni-jima, and the image below is of the ‘line-engraved tablet’ which was recovered from the southern part of Iseki Point.

an image of the 'line-engraved tablet' which was recovered from the southern part of Iseki Point





Okinawa, Japan

 


The image and diagram below show the ‘line-engraved tablet’
and the scale gives an idea of its actual size.

an image and diagram of the 'line-engraved tablet'. The scale gives an idea of its actual size





Okinawa, Japan


There are similar symbols amongst the many engravings on one of the more than 60 sheets of tablets that were found 60 years ago on the island of Okinawa. They are collectively known as ‘The Okinawan Rossetta Stones’.


The tablet below has become known as THE ‘Okinawan Rossetta Stone’, and Professor Masaaki Kimura and his research team have speculated that the symbol to which the black arrow points might be a depiction of an ‘underwater temple’ – as at Iseki Point.

an image of the artifact that has become known as Okinawan Rossetta stone





Okinawa, Japan


The symbols on the ‘Okinawan Rossetta stone’ are most certainly intriguing, and there is bound to be much speculation in times to come about the meaning of the ‘spiral symbols’, which are something that is common in the petroglyphs of many ancient cultures.


But there are also a number of symbols that have been found carved onto the rocks near what is now the sea-bed around Yonaguni-jima, and they could only have been done when the sea-levels were low enough to allow access to the area when it was dry land.



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“Do undersea relics near Okinawa offer proof of a sophisticated civilization during the last ice age?


Archeologists have long believed that civilization as they define it — intelligent, tool-making, monument building, social humans — began about 5,000 years ago.


But submerged beneath the waves near the Japanese island of Yonaguni is evidence that may well overturn that long-held theory.


A small but persuasive number of scholars and scientists have long thought that “advanced” societies may have existed as long as 10,000 years ago.


Their theories, however well reasoned and defended, have been hamstrung by a lack of evidence..


But recent discoveries of man-made artifacts on the Pacific seafloor may well prove to be the smoking gun that will propel this alternative view of civilization to prominence”.


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Following the great cataclysms and mass extinctions of 11,500 years ago, land that once lay between the Chinese mainland

Okinawa and Japan was inundated. Only in the last 15 years or so has the attention of marine scientists been

drawn to the existence of ‘undersea walls’ off Taiwan, ‘stepped-pyramid-like structures’, an
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very ‘unusual artifacts’ that have been discovered underwater in the East China Sea.


Needless to say, archaeologists and prehistorians studiously ignore them.


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