Going underground: The massive European network of Stone Age tunnels
That so many tunnels have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original network must have been enormous
Daily Mail – August 4, 2011
Stone
Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing
Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways
has claimed.
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 – he claims the fact that 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 700metres of these underground tunnel networks. In Styria in
Austria we have found 350metres,’ 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.’
Some experts believe the network was a
way of protecting man from predators while others believe that some of
the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to
travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above
ground.
The 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.
In some cases writings have been discovered referring to the tunnels seen as a gateway to the underworld.
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Dr Heinrich Kusch SITE
http://www.tropfstein.de/kusch/_anfang.htm
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Dr Heinrich Kusch SITE
http://www.tropfstein.de/kusch/_anfang.htm
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