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The story of The Dropa Stones continues to be one of the most tantalizing and fascinating archeological tales ever told. The name derives from a story about strange stones that were allegedly discovered in the mountains of Tibet in 1938. Chinese archeologists found many strange stone disks in a cave that were buried under ground. According to carbon dating, the stones date back almost 10,000 years and contain small hieroglyphic inscriptions.

At first it had been thought that the caves had been the home of an unknown species of ape. But as the species seemed to bury its dead they eliminated an ape race. While studying the skeletons one of the members of a research team stumbled on a large round stone disc half buried in the dust on the floor of the cave. The disc looked like a Stone Age record. There was a hole in the center of and a fine spiral groove that is a continuous spiraling line of closely written characters. No one understood the meanings of the message. The disc was labeled and filed away among other finds in the area. For 20 years many experts in Peking, China tried to translate the disc.

As the legend goes, in 1962 a Chinese scientist named Dr. Tsum Um Nui decoded the hieroglyphics and believed it contained a message of a “space probe” by inhabitants of another planet who crash landed in the Baya-Kara-Ula mountain range. They said they came down from the clouds in their space craft. It crashed landed in remote and inaccessible mountains. There was no way to build a new ship. They referred themselves as the Dropas and according to historians, several of the stones were tested and contained cobalt and other metallic substances that made the rocks vibrate or hum in an unusual rhythm. When the stones were tested using an oscillograph, they apparently depicted characteristics of once had been electrically charged like a conductor. Scientists believed it seemed to form a part of an electrical circuit or a communication device. The Peking academy of Pre-History forbade him to publish his findings. In 1965, 716 more grooved stone discs were uncovered in the same caves.

Legend in the area spoke of small gaunt yellow faced men who came from the clouds long ago. The men had huge bulging heads and puny bodies. This description is similar to the bodies found in the caves. On the walls of the caves archaeologists found crude pictures of the rising Sun, the Moon, unidentifiable stars and the earth all joined together by lines of pea-sized dots. The cave drawings have been dated around 12,000 years ago.

The cave area is still inhabited by 2 tribes known as the Hans and the Dropas. These tribes are odd looking in appearance. They are frail and stunted in growth averaging only about 5 feet in height. They are neither typically Chinese nor Tibetan. To this day, the story remains a mystery, surrounded in controversy and tales. The disks were supposed to be stored in several museums in China but currently, none of these museums have any traces of these disks. Historians and Archeologists continue to look for updated information about the Dropa Stones, their present location and any recent findings.