Near the Ryūkyū islands, in Japanese territorial waters, is a very special site, that of Yonaguni. Only 25 meters deep, divers can come face to face with an imposing stone structure about 27 meters high which has aroused many questions since its discovery. Some researchers believe that it could be a human achievement, but nothing has yet made it possible to confirm this hypothesis, and these vestiges of an ancient lost civilization could very well be only a strange geological training.
The theory of a structure of human origin is not completely absurd, explains Daily Galaxy magazine. Analyzes indicate that it would only be 10,000 years old, which would rather go in this direction. If this should be confirmed, this would imply that its construction preceded the pyramids of Egypt and the megalithic monument of Stonehenge in England, questioning in question the chronologies established on the evolution of human civilizations.
Masaaki Kimura, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Science of the University of Ryūkyū in Japan, engaged in his own estimate of the age of these stones. According to him, the “pyramid” was once visible above the water-before the end of the last glacial period-approximately 12,000 years ago, when the rise in sea level swallowed up the region.
The eternal spectrum of Atlantis
Conversely, the geologist Robert M. Schoch, teacher at the prestigious University of Boston, in Massachusetts, in the United States, firmly believes that this structure is a completely natural geological training. It argues that the building would have been created by multiple ruptures and cracks of sandstone rocks over the centuries and millennia. If he recognizes that the appearance of the structure is impressive, it is nonetheless skeptical about the idea that it was intentionally created by man.
Like any self -respecting engulfed structure, it did not take a long time for the myth of Atlantis to be mentioned. The Yonaguni monument is often compared there and is at the origin of many fantasies evoking ancient and advanced civilizations which would have disappeared there are millennia without leaving any trace.
Some authors have taken hold of this legend, not hesitating to challenge scientists on their land, without necessarily bringing the necessary rigor. Graham Hancock, a controversial British writer, is one of them, and his surveys regularly arouse the exasperation of researchers.
For him, no doubt: the structure was built by a technologically advanced civilization, long before traditional civilizations began to erect monuments. A wacky theory that nothing comes to support.
