On route to find one of his pilots who crashed his plane on the edge of the cliff, Johan noticed an arrangement of large stones sticking out of the ground next to the crash site. There are also several thousand of them spread over tens of thousands of miles.Īn air crash involving one of his crew brought Johan to discover the mysterious monolithic circle by accident. Today this theory seems far from definitive as the structures are unlike any other Bantu cattle-kraal designs, which are usually made of thorny shrubs, with a single entrance/exit for the cattle. In consulting experts on their origins, he was informed that they were the remains of "cattle kraal" (livestock enclosure) left behind by the Bantu people when they migrated from the north around the 14th century. He had been flying over the mountains of Mpumalanga, South Africa for over 20 years and took an interest in the thousands of strange circular stone objects scattered throughout the region and began photographing them. Known by African elders, as the “The Birthplace of The Sun” or “Inzalo y’Langa”, the site was first brought to public attention in 2003 by South African pilot Johan Heine. Screenshot from Google Earth showing just a tiny area in South Africa, which is rich with ancient earthworks and stone structures ( Google Earth ) 2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres Found in South Africa: How Were They Made?.The incredible Senegambian Stone Circles.The Mysterious Stone Kingdom of the Great Zimbabwe.Adam’s Calendar is considered to be the most famous among these ruins. This connected grid of circular ruins are immersed in a seemingly never-ending expanse of ancient agricultural terraces surrounding the structures.
Some of these “stone circles” have no doors or entrances while most are connected by an expansive network of channels that are often misinterpreted as “roads” by some historians. Today, researcher and authority on the subject, Michael Tellinger, has estimated the number of ancient stone ruins to be 100,000 or possibly much higher. By 1974 the estimate had risen to 20,000. He estimated there were about 4,000 in this area of the world.
The first estimates of the number of these ruins was made in 1891 by English explorer Theodore Bent. Scattered throughout the mountains of South Africa are thousands of stone circle ruins. Various astronomical alignments have been identified at the site and it is possibly the only example of a completely functional, mostly intact megalithic stone calendar in the world.Īdam’s calendar is location in Mpumalanga, a picturesque region in South Africa ( Wikimedia Commons ) Located in Mpumalanga, South Africa it is a standing stone circle about 30 meters in diameter and has been estimated by some accounts to be more than 75,000 years old. Sometimes referred to as "African Stonehenge", it predates both Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza by tens of thousands of years. Adam’s Calendar is controversially suggested to be the oldest man-made structure in the world.