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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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A number of 'stone tools' have also been discovered at various locations in the East China Sea, and the images below show three 'adzes' that are similar in shape and size. The top two (A) are shown alongside a pen so that their size can be appreciated. The darker one to the right was recovered from a depth of about 50 feet to the south of Iseki Point, while the lighter-coloured one to the left is a stone tool from Taiwan ...
how many more artifacts might be down there
Below them (B) are a top-view and a side-view of a stone tool recovered from the sea-bed at a depth of around 35 feet off San'ninu-dai, to the east of Yonaguni-jima. Unlike Professor Masaaki Kimura, most scientists are not divers, and those archæologists and geologists who have dived at Iseki Point have spent most of their time underwater battling simply to stay alive in the notoriously strong currents around the 'No.1 Monument', rather than studying the structures, or looking for ancient artifacts ...
Also many 'petroglyphs' have been found carved on rocks on the sea-floor around Yonaguni-jima. The image (A) seems to be either a "U" or "V" symbol, and may have been intended to indicate a 'direction'. This carving was discovered at a depth of around 35 feet off Iri-zaki, the westernmost tip of Yonaguni island itself, and it resembles another symbol found on the 'line-engraved tablet' recovered from the sea-floor at the southern part of Iseki Point. Below that (B) is another 'petroglyph' that has been found near the 'entrance' of the 'Arch Gate', and if it was meant to indicate a direction it points directly towards the 'Arch Gate' ...
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
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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 was inundated, and only in the last few years has the attention of marine scientists been
drawn to the existence of 'undersea walls', 'stepped-pyramid-like structures', and some very
'unusual artifacts' that have been discovered underwater in the East China Sea ...
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