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Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times | Spheres found in the mines of South Africa

have piqued the curiosity of researchers for decades.

According to Michael Cremo and other researchers of prehistoric culture,these spheres add to a ody of evidence suggesting intelligent life e!isted on

Earth long efore a conventional vie" of history places it here.

Cremo has traveled the "orld gathering information on out#of#place artefacts

$ooparts%& he compiled his 'ndings in the popular oo(, )*oridden

Archaeology+ The idden istory of the uman -ace.

In /012, "hile investigating the spheres, he contacted -oelf Mar!, curator of

the museum of 3ler(sdorp, South Africa, "here some of the spheres are (ept.

Mar! descried the spheres as eing aout 4.1 illion years old, "ith a very

hard surface and a 'rous structure inside. e found them quite strange and

pu55ling.

Mar! "rote, according to Cremo+ )6There is nothing scienti'c pulished aout

the gloes, ut the facts are+ They are found in pyrophyllite, "hich is mined

near the little to"n of 7ttosdal in the 8estern Transvaal. This pyrophyllite 9

is a quite soft secondary mineral "ith a count of only : on the Mohs scale ;a

scale of / to /< to ran( the hardness of minerals= and "as formed y

sedimentation aout 4.1 illion years ago.

)7n the other hand, the gloes, "hich have a 'rous structure on the inside

"ith a shell around it, are very hard and cannot e scratched, even y steel.

The Mohs scale of hardness is named after *riedrich Mohs, "ho chose ten

minerals as references points for comparative hardness, "ith talc the softestand diamond the hardest.

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Steel ran(s aout a >.? to @.? on the Mohs scale, so the spheres "ould e

harder than that, according to Mar!.

8ere They aturally *ormedB

Some say the spheres "ere formed y a natural process of concretion.

Concretions are masses of hardened mineral matter.

Some of the so#called 3ler(sdorp spheres are elliptical in shape "ith rough

ridges around the center. ut some are so alanced in shape and proportion,

and the grooves around them loo( so straight and hand#carved, it seemsunli(ely they "ere naturally formed, say proponents of the theory that these

spheres "ere made y intelligent eings.

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