M-Destinations.blogspot.com - One more a mystery of nature. Yonaguni island is part of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. In 1986 under the waters around it are found the ruins of an ancient civilization that is believed to be a natural.
Masaaki Kimura is a geologist for the University of the Ryukyus. He has studied the Yonaguni Monument sites over the last 15 years. He believed that the rocks under the water it is the remains of a city 5,000 years ago. It is based on the dates of stalagmites found in caves that collapsed who allegedly is a city.
He claimed to have found the signs and symbols carved into the rock in the shape of animals. He also identifies the ten structures in Yonaguni and five similar structures on the main island of Okinawa. The ruins include the territory of 300 x 150 meters.
The structure of the building including the ruins of the fortress, a triumphal arch, the Temple of five and a big Stadium, linked by road and waterways and protected by a large wall. The largest monolithic pyramidal structure, which rises to a depth of 25 meters.
The city sank around 2000 years ago in a suspect as a result of one of the major earthquake that hit parts of the Pacific Ocean. In fact, on May 4, 1998, part of the island and the ruins were demolished by an earthquake under the sea.
But not everyone believes as Kimura. Robert Schoch, a Professor of science and mathematics from Boston University, is convinced that there is no large stone structure which was done by human hands. The analysis says that the building already existed at the end of the ice age of about 10,000 years ago.
Other researchers even estimate the age of the building is older, including Teruaki Ishii, a Professor of geology from the University of Tokyo who estimate that the building had sunk at the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago (two times older than the pyramids of Egypt). If this theory is true, it means that our history books about the age of Asian civilizations must be changed.
Near the pyramid structure, there is a large chunk of rock a few feet tall that looks like a human head found along with some unknown hieroglyphic carvings.
The Japan Times reported the story below in conjunction with the discovery of the building: "in Okinawan society legend, there is a traditional story about a city of the gods called Nirai Kanai, a land far away, a place where happiness comes"
However, the community of researchers in the world does not agree on the origins of the building. Robert m. Schoch did not accept the theory that the building was created by man. For him, the giant structure is not another rock formations that form naturally.
"I'm not sure that that building was shaped by human hands, in my opinion, all that occurs naturally. The building is just a basic geological stratigraphy of sandstone which tends to be formed at the ends of the straight, especially in areas where many cracks and tectonic activity. "
He compares the building with Cliff formations found on land that is believed to have formed naturally.
As a consequence, the scientific community to accept the doubts such sites as man-made ruins that until now was not recognized by the Government of Japan as an important cultural site.
On April 5, 1998, a large earthquake on the Richter scale struck around 7.7 area where the pyramid is. Whether that structure suffered damage or not, no one knows it.