remains were quite unique in that they were only around 5 feet in height, had unnaturally spindly
bodies and quite large and ‘overdeveloped’ heads (fig.39).
While the archeological team was studying the skeletons, one of the men also accidentally
stumbled across a large, round stone disk that lay half buried in the dust on the floor of the cave.
The disc had a hole in the center and a fine, spiral groove radiated to the rim and looked
ridiculously like a kind of 'Stone Age Gramophone record'. (fig.40). Closer inspection, however,
showed that the spiraling groove was, in fact, a continuous line of tiny and very closely written
characters that had been somehow meticulously inscribed on to the surface of the disc. The
object, it appeared was indeed a record of sorts, though not of the gramophone variety. On the
walls of the caves themselves archeologists also discovered crude pictures of the rising Sun, the
Moon, the Earth and some unidentifiable stars all joined together by lines of pea-sized dots. The
discs and the cave drawings have both been dated at around 12,000 years old.
Fig.39 Fig.40
In all, 716 such discs were eventually found and retrieved from within the cave system; all
have been dated as being between 10,000 and 12,000 years old. Each stone disk is precisely 9
inches (22.7 cm) in diameter and 3/4 inch (2 cm) thick, each disk has a perfectly circular 2 cm
hole in the exact center and each bears an inscription in the form of strange carved hieroglyphics.
For 20 years after their discovery, all attempts to translate them having failed, the discs sat in
the Peking museum mostly forgotten. Finally in 1963 another Chinese Professor, Dr. Tsum Um
Nui was finally able to break the code and set about deciphering the discs. And it’s here that the
story becomes even more intriguing. Initially, the Professor’s conclusions on the meaning of the
discs was considered so shattering that his transcriptions were suppressed and he was forbidden to
publish his findings by the Peking Academy of Pre History. However two years later in 1965, Dr.
Nui and four of his colleagues at last received permission to release his transcription.
The story it told was astounding, to say the least for the discs told the tale of a spaceship,
perhaps like a probe or scout ship, from a distant planet that crash-landed in the Himalaya
Mountains region thousands of years ago. They tell how the surviving occupants of the
spacecraft, ‘the Dropa’, had taken refuge in the caves of the mountains but despite their peaceful
intentions, they had been misunderstood by members of the local Ham tribe who were occupying