Dropa stones

Dropa stones, otherwise known as Dzopa, Dropas, or Drop-ka stones, are a series of 716 circular stones discs dated to be 12000 years old. Measuring up to 1 foot in diameter, these discs are inscribed with two grooves originating from the discs center hole and move out to the rim and back creating a double spiral.

Background

Dropa stones were found in a cave near the Himalayan mountains close to the Chinese-Tibetan border in January 1938 by archaeology professor Chi Pu Tei from Beijing University and a group of his students who were out on an exhibition. The cave in which they were found had been enlarged and crafted to include a series of tunnels and storerooms. The "walls were squared and glazed using an unknown, but massive heat producing process". Additionally, the walls were decorated with depictions of the moon, sun, stars, small dots connecting the Earth and sky, and of people with elongated heads.

The discs were found bruried in the ground as grave markers overtop of small, 3 to 4 feet long skeletons. The skeletons had abnormally large heads and thin, fragile bodies. The skeletons are of people known as the Dropa, who arrived on earth in a saucer that crashed after coming from the Sires constelation.

Research

Tsum Um Nui

For 20 years the Dropa stones sat in storage before they were given Tsum Um Nui for study in 1958. He concluded that the grooves on the discs were actually very tiny hierolgyphs of "unknows patter and origin" which can only be seen with the use of a magnifying galss. By 1962 he had decpihered them into a story that told of a spacecraft that crashed landed in the area of the cave, the Bayan Har Shan region. The shiped contained the Dropa people who could not fix it and therefore had to adapt to earth. The Dropa people were hunted down and killed by the local Ham tribesmen for a period of time. Tsum Um Nui noted specifically that one glyph says "The Dropa cam down from the coluds in their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last they understood the sign language of the Dropas, they realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions".

Tsum Um Nui published his findings 1962 in a professional journal, and was subsequently ridiculed and met with disbelief. The Academy of Sicence banned his publication and findings. Shortly afterwards he went to Japan in a self-imposed exile where died not long after he completeed the manuscript of his work.

Russian

Russian researcher requested the discs for studying, and several were shipped to Moscow. Once there they were scraped for loose particles and put through a chemical analysis which revealed that they contained large amounts of cobalt and other metallic substances. As recorded in the Soviet magazine Sputnik, Dr. Vyatcheslav Saizev describes an expriment where the discs were placed on a special turntable whereby they were shown to "vibrate or "hum" in an unusual rhythm as though an electric charge is passing through them.

Wegerer

Ernst Wegerer (Wegener) was an Australian engineer and in 1974 he visited the Banpo Museum in Xi'an, Shaanix Province, and located 2 of the Dropa stones. When he inquired about the discs the manager could tell him nothing, but permitted him to take one in his hand and photograph them. In his photos the heiroglyphs can not be seen as they have been hidden by the flash from the camera and have also deteriorated. By 1994 the discs and the manager had dissapeared from the museum.

Publications

The earliest recorded refrence to the Dropa and Dropa stones is found in the July 1962 edition of the German magaizine "Das vegetarische Universum".

In 1980 they are mentioned in "Sungods in Exile" edited by David Agamon. This book passes itself off as a documentary of a 1947 expidition with the scientist Dr. Kayral Robin-Evans. It follows his travels into the secluded region of the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountain range where he finds dwarfish like people called the Dropa. According to his book the Dropa population conissted of few hundrend members all of which were approximately 4 feet tall. Robin-Evans lived among the Dropa for half year and in that time learned their language and history. He was told that they had crashed there long ago and that their ancestor had come from a planet in the Sirius constellation.

In Japan they are mentioned in 1996 when a translated version of Hartwig Hausdor and Peter Krass's "Satelliten der Gotter (Sattilites of the Gods) is released.

Controversies

It has been claimed that Tsum Um Nui is not a real Chinese name. There no mention of him in China outside of his connection to Dropa

A Han Dynasty bi, 16 cm in diameter.

stones. However, Tsum Um Nui is a "former Japanese name, but adapted to Chinese language". Nor is there any mention in any records about Chi Pu Tei's expidition in 1938.

"Sungods in Exile", with its account of Dr. Kayral Robin-Evans in all apearances gave credibility to Dropa stones until 1988, when Agamon told Fortean Time magazine that the book was fiction and Dr. Kayral Robin-Evans imaginary.

The stone discs were stored in various museums across China. However, none of these museums have any records or traces of Dropa stone every being there.

According to the Gould-Parkinson system if tansliteration, Drop-ka is Tibetan for 'solitude' or 'inhabitant of pasture lands'. It is the name of a tribe of Tibetian nomadic herders on the eastern Tibetan plateau..

With Wegerer's photos lacking concrete evidence of the heiroglyphs, they display similarity to Bi discs. Bi discs are round discs with a hole in the centre. They are made of jade and when buried in the earth the minerals change them to be multi-colored. The earliest Bi discs have been dated to 3000 B.C.E. and were common in the Shaanix Province. Some Bi discs are decorated with parallel groves and other markingings.