The idea of devices that allowed man to see other places frequently occurs in ancient legends. For example, the Book of Enoch states that Azaziel taught men to make mirrors, and according to this belief, distant scenes and people could clearly be seen in them (42). Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer, met a Hindu Yogi in the Caucasus. This Hindu asked Gorky if he wished to view something in his album, to which Gorky replied that he wished to see pictures of India. The Hindu allegedly put the album on the Russian’s knees and requested that he turn the pages. The polished copper sheets then showed beautiful cities, temples and landscapes of India. At the end of the session Gorky returned the album to the Hindu. The Yogi blew on it and asked whether Gorky wished to take another look. Gorky states that "I opened the album and found nothing but copper plates without a trace of any pictures (43).
Other ancient records have been destroyed. Bishop Diego de Landa in Yucatan in the early sixteenth century had all the Maya chronicles he could find burned, and by doing so probably destroyed any hope of modern researchers deciphering the ancient Mayan hieroglyphics that adorned the few ancient texts that did survive his vandalism.
This latter connection may seem
The speed of this demise is demonstrated by the fact that skeletons of slaughtered inhabitants have been found preserved at the old street level (45). Along with their destruction went our potential for understanding their ancient script, for their writings are now indecipherable, with their language disappearing along with the extinction of those who spoke it. Yet these people left behind a mystery for us to contemplate. We know they had a distinct script for many of the letters or syllables have survived on seals and other documents. What is remarkable is the similarity of these symbols with those found on the ‘rongo-rongo’ boards or carved on rocks on Easter Island, the opposite side of the world (above).  There are other examples of apparent connections between
ancient peoples. Such examples include the Chinese style frieze motifs found at
El Tajin and other sites in Mexico, which have a close resemblance to ancient
designs from the earliest Chinese dynasties (Hsia, Shang and Ch’ou 2000 to 250
BCE.)
The similarities, including the use of the double line for emphasis and the curved ‘tiger tufts’ appear too exact to be merely co-incidental. (46) The Olmecs leave further evidence of the global wandering of ancient man. The Olmec culture can be dated to c. 1500 BCE and although little is known of their existence, James and Oliver Tickell refer to their "complex calendar from astronomical observation that underpinned their religion, mathematics and science (47)."
In 1952 another find was made that indicates that ancient man wandered far and wide across the surface of the planet. This was the discovery by Dr. Daniel Ruzo of megalithic sculptures in Marcahuasi. Marcahuasi itself is about 80 kilometres north of Lima in Peru and is a plateau at an altitude of 4000 metres, where the air is cold and the landscape barren. There, Ruzo discovered huge figures of people and animals carved out of stone. Lions, cows, elephants and camels, which had never lived in the Americas, surrounded him. He also noted an amphichelydia - an extinct ancestor of the turtle, known only by its fossilised remains.
Then in 1962 on a rocky cliff west of Alice Springs in the heart of Australia, Michael Terry discovered a carving of the extinct Nototherium Mitchelli. This rhinoceros-type animal had disappeared some 2,500 years ago. In the same place he found six carvings of what appeared to be ram’s heads (49) and yet rams were supposedly unknown in Australia until the arrival of the English. It seems that whoever these people were, they knew how to travel, having left behind numerous clues to their wanderings. So who were these people and where did they live? TAGS: Who Found Easter Island, Who Found Easter Island Mystery, Who Found Easter Island Question, Enduring Mystery, Ancient Statues, Connection Between Ancient Peoples Part III
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In classical times the Romans in Egypt described the singing statute
of Memnon erected about 15OOBCE. Musical sounds were heard when the rays of the
rising sun illuminated its head. In AD 130 the Roman Emperor Hadrian
(left) listened to this singing monument one morning and heard the
sounds three times. 
The Phoenician Sanchuniathon (c. 1193BCE) and Philo Byblos
(AD 150) spoke of ‘animated stones’. The Christian historian Eusebius (c.
AD260-340 - right) apparently carried one of these mysterious stones on his
chest. 
somewhat tenuous
(although the headbands on each statue provide the most convincing evidence),
but there is other supporting evidence of a prehistoric link between Easter
Island, South America and the Indus Valley.
The valley itself hosts the great cities of Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro; cities thought to be 4500 years old, predating the historical
society of India. The Indus Valley culture came to a
sudden end in about 1500BCE when invaders from the north ransacked the area.
The top of these two decorative borders (left) is from the early
Ch’ou Dynasty in China, the lower decoration from El Tajin in Mexico. 
Our interest in the
Olmecs here stems from the carved heads they left in Mexico (right). Quite
clearly the statues show Negroid features, and yet Negroes were supposedly
unknown in the Americas until the voyage of Columbus, just as cocaine was
supposedly unknown to the Egyptians, despite traces being found in the bodies of
a number of Pharaohs.
There was also a sculpture of a horse, yet the horse died
out in America around 9000 years ago, reappearing in the 16th Century
when the conquistadors brought it with them from Spain. There is one obvious
answer to this puzzle; the sculptures are simply from the past few hundred
years. Yet geologists have analysed the white dioritic porphyry from which the
heads were carved, and conclude that the stone would have needed at least 10,000
years to take on the grey tint it now shows in the cuts (48). 
