Tassili caves Alien houses in the desert of Algeria
Tassili caves are named and where they are located.
Located on Algeria's southeastern border with Libya in the Algerian desert of Djanet, the Tassili or Tassili Najer caves are one of the most mysterious and intriguing places on earth. These caves are likely to be as old as the Earth because they consist of strangely shaped volcanic and sand rock formations thought to be petrified forests, and scientists are close years old to nearly 30,000 years.
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- The Tassili Caves, located in southeastern Algeria near Libya, are renowned for their unique rock formations and ancient artwork.
- French explorer Brennan accidentally discovered the caves in 1938 with the assistance of Jibreen Abu Bakr, a Tuareg tribesman.
- The caves contain prehistoric drawings of flying human figures, strange creatures, gods, and objects resembling spacecraft and astronauts.
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- Some theories speculate that the artwork represents contact with advanced extraterrestrial beings who once visited and influenced early humans.
- Swiss author Erik van Daniken popularized the alien theory through his books and films, though his ideas faced strong criticism from the scientific community.
- Another theory suggests that the ancient and highly advanced civilization of Atlantis was responsible for the cave drawings.
- Despite scientific advancements, the Tassili Caves remain an enduring mystery, highlighting how much of Earth’s ancient history is still unknown.
The discovery of the Tassili Caves and the role of the "Tuaregs" in them
The discovery of these caves dates back to the French traveler "Brennan" in 1938 and this was done by chance and with the help of "Jibreen Abu Bakr", a member of the Tuareg tribe who inhabit the area where the Tassili caves are located, where he discovered the strange inscriptions and drawings inside them that depict human creatures flying in the sky, ships, astronauts and scenes from daily life in addition to ancient gods and familiar animals and strange ones. This discovery prompted the assembler to search for explanations for these drawings and the truth of who drew them.
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Aliens and other explanations
Scientists' interpretations of these inscriptions and drawings varied, with some suggesting that intelligent beings from a planet other than Earth visited Earth in ancient times and interacted with humans, and that these are drawings through which they documented their story.
One of the biggest supporters of this theory is the Swiss scientist and writer "Erik van Duncan", who used it to write many books related to this theory, and he even produced films about this theory and what the ancient aliens did in the Tassili caves and how most of what we know today of progress, civilization and revolution in the world of electronics, communications and travel is what the aliens who inhabited the Tassili caves taught us.
One of his most famous books in this regard is a book entitled "The Existence of Aliens", a book that was later made into a documentary.
Of course, Van Duncan was attacked because of his adoption of the theory of the aliens who inhabited the Tassili caves and that the drawings on the walls of those caves are their effects, they were violently attacked by scientists despite the evidence and proofs that he spoke in his books and films, but they were not enough to convince scientists and protect him from that attack.
The theory of aliens descending from the sky to inhabit the caves of Tassili and transmit to humans their wondrous sciences was not the only strange theory in the interpretation of Tassili's drawings, as it was another very strange theory that the lost people of Atlantis or highly developed people inhabited it, and these theories remain strange even if they are less strange than the theory of aliens.
Atlantis. The Lost Continent
One of the most famous adopters of the theory that the people of the lost continent Atlantis are the owners of the drawings found inside the caves of Tassili is "Plato", who mentions that he heard from the Egyptian priests what is told about their ancient ancestors about a great continent dazzling in science and progress to the point of breathtaking in an area that most likely was behind Gibraltar and that it was using drawings to document what it finds, and therefore it is believed that Tassili's drawings belong to the people of Atlantis.
But it is sad that what caused its development as a continent and civilization and the high status of science in it and its access to a degree of progress that exceeds what we have reached today was the same reason for the loss of its impact and destruction until we reached a point where we do not know whether there was really something called Atlantis, the continent and civilization, or is it just a myth inherited through the ages.
It is certain that the Tassili Caves are one of the most mysterious phenomena in human history since scientists lifted the curtain and revealed their existence, which was the key to many scientific studies on the nature of the Tassili Caves and the drawings inside them, but also the theories that explain those drawings and their owners.
The Tassili Caves simply tell us that we have not discovered the land very long before its history and secrets and that it still holds a lot between its edges!
