The Morien Institute - more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of Professor Masaaki Kimura from an exclusive illustrated interview with Professor Kimura about the underwater pyramid structures discovered off Yonaguni-Jima, Japan

The The Morien Institute - more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of Professor Masaaki Kimura from an exclusive illustrated interview with Professor Kimura about the underwater pyramid structures discovered off Yonaguni-Jima, Japan from an exclusive illustrated interview with Professor Kimura about the underwater pyramid structures discovered off Yonaguni-Jima, Japan

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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 archæological 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 ...

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

There are similar symbols amongst the many engravings on one of the tablets that were found 60 years ago on the island of Okinawa. 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? ...

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 before the end of the last Ice Age when the sea-levels were low enough to allow access to the area when it was dry land ...

Please left-click on any of the images on this page to directly access Professor Kimura's own 'Japanese language' website. To download Japanese fonts for a 30-day trial period please click here. Those wishing to use Professor Kimura's images should please request permission by sending him an email. If you do not want to use Japanese fonts, the email link on Professor Kimura's site renders as ”ü•ô characters near the top of each page on his website. Images of Professor Kimura's students exploring Yonaguni-jima are here

History's Mysteries

"Do undersea relics near Okinawa offer proof of a sophisticated civilization during the last ice age? Archeologists have long believed that civilization as we 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".

see the evidence with 'unique underwater footage' of
the Yonaguni structures in the NEW DVD of the
'History Channel' television programme

"Japan's Mysterious Pyramids"
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Following the great cataclysms and mass extinctions of 11,500 years ago, land that was once between the Chinese mainland Okinawa and Japan were inundated.

Only in the last ten years or so has the attention of marine scientists been drawn to the existence of 'undersea walls' off Taiwan, 'stepped-pyramid-like structures', and some very 'unusual artifacts' that have been discovered underwater in the East China Sea and elsewhere

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