Across the Europe there are thousands of
underground tunnels from the north in Scotland leading all the way down to the
Mediterranean.
This 12,000-year-old massive underground
network is very impressive.
Some experts believe the network was a way of
protecting man from predators while others suggest the idea that the linked
tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely
regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground. They could be
described as a kind of ancient underground superhighway.
Others think the tunnels can be seen as a
gateway to the underworld.
German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch said
evidence of the tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements
all over the continent. In his book – Secrets Of The Underground Door To An Ancient World (German title: Tore zur Unterwelt) – he says that the fact so
many have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original tunnel network
must have been enormous.
“In Bavaria in Germany alone we have found 700
meters of these underground tunnel networks. In Styria in Austria we have found
350 meters,” he said.
“Across Europe there were thousands of them –
from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.
Most are not much larger than big wormholes –
just 70cm wide – just wide enough for a person to wriggle along but nothing
else.
They are interspersed with nooks, at some
places it’s larger and there is seating, or storage chambers and rooms. They do
not all link up but taken together it is a massive underground network.”
In his book, he book notes that chapels were
often built by the entrances perhaps because the Church were afraid of the
heathen legacy the tunnels might have represented, and wanted to negate their
influence.
Similar underground tunnels exist on other
continents. Throughout all the Americas there are a number of legends of secret
of subterranean passages stretching for miles.
Why were these ancient tunnels constructed?
Was it perhaps our ancestors had to seek protection underground?
Many of these ancient legends tell of a great
catastrophe that occurred in ancient times. Several myths and legends also
relate how the first human beings emerged from underground caves, tunnels and
even cities!
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