In 2014, UNESCO placed the stone balls on the list of “World Heritage Sites” and called them miraculous objects. 300 giant stone balls in the forest in Costa Rica. The Republic of Costa Rica is located in the south of Central America, a rich and beautiful tropical country. Most of the country’s land is mountains and plateaus, the North and coastal areas are low plains. In ancient times, there were more than 30,000 Indians residing on this land.
In the late 30s of the 20th century, a land delimiter from the United Fruit company surveyed the tropical jungle of Costa Rica to consider the possibility of opening a banana farm. In the dense forests, mountains and slopes of the delta, he discovered about 300 stone balls that looked like they had been skillfully crafted by a stonemason. Stone balls of different sizes range in size from a few centimeters to more than 2 meters in diameter. The largest fruit weighs up to 16 tons with a diameter of 2.4 meters.
Many spherical stone blocks were chipped and broken during the moving process. Besides, treasure hunters looking for gold deliberately broke them while still underground. By the time the authorities intervened, the situation had subsided, but dozens of rocks had been destroyed.
It is difficult to estimate the age of these rocks. Archaeologists date them through the age of the ceramic samples and the radiocarbon age associated with the sediment found in excavated areas. The dating of stones is even more complicated when the areas where spherical stones were found have the presence of cultural artifacts of different dates. Furthermore, most of these spherical stones are no longer in their original positions.
Most of them are located mainly around the Diquis River Delta region. Some places are arranged in straight lines, some places are shaped like arcs, triangles or parallelograms.
Stone balls of different sizes, located in different places, caused a lot of excitement for everyone. Scientists have meticulously measured stone balls and discovered that on stone balls, the curvature anywhere on a ball seems to be completely uniform, exactly like a standard sphere.
No one has been able to explain what effect the stone balls have until now. The stone balls placed at the East and West ends of the cemetery likely represent the Sun, Moon or mark their totems. There is another group of stone balls, including 4 different balls facing North, so people suspect they were arranged by people familiar with using compasses or have astronomical significance. But that’s just speculation. Some people also guessed that the stone ball was a giant’s toy.
According to the survey, those challenging stone balls seem to be entirely made of solid marble. What makes scientists and archaeologists confused is: The surrounding areas near where the stone balls are located do not have raw marble. In other places, no traces were found to show that there was any stone processing.
Faced with such strange phenomena, scientists cannot help but raise questions such as: Who, at what time, created such formidable and ingenious giant stone balls? How were those giant rocks transported here? Or what tools did they use to process them?
Archaeologists have conducted meticulous investigations and carefully studied the stone balls and said that the deviation in diameter of the stone balls is less than 1%. The precision reaches almost the ideal sphere. From the precise curvature of the large sphere, it can be seen that the person who crafted it must have quite advanced geometric knowledge and must also have skilled stone chiseling and carving techniques, and must also have machining tools. Very tough work with very sophisticated measuring equipment. Without those conditions, it is impossible to imagine any other way for them to complete such masterpieces.
One thing that is certain is that creating such giant stone balls must be very hard work, from quarrying to cutting and chiseling. Each step requires moving the rock, but the carved rocks discovered so far all weigh tens of tons. Therefore, this job is not easy at all.
Could it be that those giant marble balls were carved one stroke at a time by the ancestors of the Indians with primitive tools, in the absence of a single measuring device? get out. That is something that cannot be explained.
Some scientists have linked the rocks to the lost continent of Atlantis, while others believe the rocks are related to Stonehenge in England and the giant stone heads on the island. Resurrection or even alien connections.
Among the Indians in Costa Rica, a magical legend has long been widely circulated. That’s the story of space people sitting in spherical spaceships, falling from outer space to this area. For that reason, many people have thought of a direct connection between the sphere and aliens.
In their view, the visitors from the Universe, after a short time, made these stone balls and placed them in positions arranged according to their wishes, possibly according to the patterns of the stars. planet in space. These giant stone balls represent planets in the Universe. The position and distance between the stone balls are also the relative positions of the planets in the Universe.
According to speculation, perhaps the cosmic visitors intend to use the “planetary model” made of stone balls to convey a certain message to people on Earth. But until today, no one has been able to explain the true meaning of that “planetary model”.
Michen Sumac – researcher of strange phenomena said: “Costa Rican stone balls are famous all over the world but people know too little about them. Unless we can find the original arrangement of the stone balls, undamaged, moved and disturbed. Otherwise we will never be able to find the answer to the secret of those stone balls.”
Currently, these rocks have become a UNESCO heritage site. Strange spherical stones are still used to decorate the front yards of government buildings, in museums, parks or in front of people’s houses in Costa Rica and are an attraction for world tourists.