Revealing secrets of Truong Yen ancient stone block

A 1.5m long round stone with lugs on both ends that people discovered in Truong Yen commune (Hoa Lu) once caused a stir in Ninh Binh province is gradually revealing unbelievable mysteries about beliefs Stamp religion with "customary worshiping stone".

Unearth strange stone

It is a stone block with strange marks containing many secrets of ancient times found by Ninh Binh people in the ancient capital of Hoa Lu in Truong Yen commune.

When an enterprise in Ninh Binh province is executing construction works in the area which contains many historical secrets, it was unknowingly "hoe" a strange block of rock submerged under the mud floor about 3m from the foot of the field.

The ancient stone of Truong Yen.

Immediately, the person who directed the work stopped the workers to inform the officials of Ninh Binh Department of Culture, Sports & Tourism about the stone block. However, it took a lot of time, the excavation team could bring the stone to the surface.

After putting the water sprayer and performing the cleaning process, archaeologists from Ninh Binh Department of Culture, Sports & Tourism have made an initial prediction of a new megalithic relic.

According to Nguyen Cao Tan, head of the Heritage Department, the main area discovered strange rocks of Sao Khe river, in front of Dinh temple area and King Le temple. This is the location that contains many mysteries about the Stone Age. At the same time, it is also a place that is less excavated because according to the spiritual conception it is sacred land.

After meticulous measurement, the stone block has a length of 1.2m (including 2 lugs located at the top of the rock is 1.5m - PV), diameter of 0.7m. At the ends of this rock there is a very strange circular lug, but elaborately trimmed. On the body of this cylindrical stone, there are also marks carved with a cross section of 1 - 4cm and 0.5 - 3cm deep. As for these symbols, the legacy officials cannot decipher the meaning as well as the message and code of the ancients.

Identify matches

Not far from this place, in 2009, people also discovered a round stone pillar about 3m long, on the body of the stone pillar, there were also engraved lines of similar width and depth. Stone material is completely the same, the same type and shape.

But there is something special when at the top of the stone column there are two mortars opposite each other to form two niches. After carefully measuring with the most modern measuring machine, the archaeologist realized that this mortise had the size corresponding to the newly discovered cylindrical rock.

And right at Hang Son, about 1km away, archaeologists have discovered the imprint of the Stone Age cultural inhabitants and the metal age of 2,000 - 10,000 years ago today. And a little further to the southwest, in the mountains of Con, archaeologists also found stone axes and other imprints on these strange rocks.

From these facilities, officials of the Department of Heritage, Department of Culture - Sports & Tourism of Ninh Binh said that two large stone artifacts discovered above are in a large stone project (megalith). And it is possible that the ancient inhabitants of Son cave, the ancient stone exploitation site in Con mountain and these newly discovered large stone relics are related to each other.

The stone block has strange marks that contain many secrets of ancient times.

According to Nguyen Cao Tan, the documents available in Vietnam through the discovery of some large stone works (megaliths) in the northern mountainous provinces of Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc, Cao Bang, Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang and Lang Son.

To the southeast of the Northern Delta, this is the first time to discover a megalithic relic. This megalithic relic may be of prehistoric residents at the stage of metal from 2,000 to 3,000 years ago today.

Although Ninh Binh archaeological officials tried to find materials and measure the status quo to make the most accurate final conclusion but almost unanimous. Currently, the above blocks are being stored at Ninh Binh Museum and are in need of scientists to study and decipher historical mysteries to clarify this relic in the land of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital.

Mr. Nguyen Cao Tan said, megaliths are archeological terms referring to buildings constructed from large blocks of stone that are natural or processed. The jelly was originally discovered in the Mediterranean, after being discovered in most of the world. Megaliths date from the new stone age to the Bronze Age (about millennium 3 - BC).

And in Vietnam, the megalithic remains are always a mystery that requires scientists to spend a lot of effort and time and the most accurate historical materials to make conclusions in the most accurate way. .

This strange block of rock is currently unable to determine the exact date. But in my personal opinion, that block of stone is a flat piece of soil like our "rice-pulling stone" which is still used in agricultural cooperatives. However, this is a large rock and certainly belongs to an ancient chronology. Many archaeological officials have researched but have not yet had any results. We also want to put the stone on the Archaeological Institute to be able to determine its date and exact meaning for the activities of the ancients. But because the rock mass is too heavy, it is still kept at Ninh Binh Museum ". Mr. Nguyen Xuan Khang (director of Ninh Binh Museum)