Some Sacred Books, issued from very ancient oral traditions, such as the Torah or the Popol Vuh, narrate the World Creation and explain how our planet was terraformed by a Group of Creators.

Discovered in 1999, the « Map of the Creation » might confirm that some gigantic Civil Engineering Works have been undertaken all over all the Earth by an Unknown Civilization, several hundreds of millions of years ago. This discovery might confirm the ancient terraforming of our planet.

Also named « the Dashka Stone », this 3-D map comes in the form of a strange slab weighing at least one ton and measuring 148 cm long, 106 cm wide, 16 cm thick. It was discovered by Pr Alexander Chuvyrov and his team of researchers at Bashkirskiy State University, Ufa, Bachkorstotan, Federation of Russia.

In the course of searches and studies concerning the hypothesis of the possible migration of Old Chinese populations to the territory of Siberia and Ural, the professor and his post-graduate student team from China Huan Hun University found, in the archives of Ufa general-governor, notes dating back to the 18th century. They reported about 200 unusual stone slabs which were situated not far from Chandar village, Nurimanov Region. Archive notes also reported that in the 17th-18th centuries, expeditions of Russian scientists who investigated Ural Region studied 200 white slabs covered with signs and patterns, while in the early 20th century, archaeologist A.Schmidt also saw some white slabs in Bashkiria.

Chuvyrov then decided to start the search. In 1998, with a team of students, he launched the work. He hired a helicopter, and the first expedition took them around the places where the slabs were supposed to be. Despite all their efforts they could not find the ancient slabs. Chuvyrov was very upset and even thought the slabs were just a beautiful legend. During one of his trips to the village, Vladimir Krainov, ex-chairman of the local agricultural council, came to him and said :

- « I've heard you were searching for some stone slabs. I have a strange slab in my yard. »
- « At first, I did not take that report seriously, - Chuvyrov said - However, I decided to go to that yard and have a look. I remember the day was July 21, 1999. Under the porch of the house, I saw the slab, it was so heavy that we together could not take it out. So I went to the city of Ufa, to ask for help. »

Within a week, work was launched in Chandar. After digging out the slab, the searchers were amazed by its size and weight. The master of the house made special wooden rollers, so the slab could be rolled out of the hole. The find was called « Dashka's stone » (in honour of Alexander Chuvyrov's granddaughter born the day before) and transported to the University for investigation.

After the slab was cleaned, the scientists could not believe their eyes :

- « At first sight, - Chuvyrov said, - I understood that it was not a simple stone piece, but a real map, and not a simple map, but a three-dimensional map. You can see it yourself. »

Alexander Chuvyrov, being a physicist, only relied on the results of investigation. The geological structure of the slab could be determined: it consists of three levels. The base is 14 cm thick, made of the firmest dolomite. The second level is probably the most interesting, « made » of diopside glass. The technology of its « treatment » is unknown to modern science. Actually, the picture is engraved on this level. The third level is 2 mm thick and made of calcium porcelain protecting the map from external impact. X-ray photographs confirmed that the slab was of artificial origin and has been made with precision tools.

The Ural Mountains were formed about 260 million years ago, some breaks appeared during the tertiary, and after this period, tectonic movements seem to be stabilized. The general terrain of the Bashkortostan would therefore have not much changed in a few million years.

- « How did we manage to identify the place? At first, we could not imagine the map was so ancient. Happily, the relief of today's Bashkiria has not changed so much within millions of years. We could identify Ufa Height, while Ufa Canyon is the main point of our proofs, because we carried out geological studies and found its track where it should be according to the ancient map. Displacement of the canyon happened because of tectonic stabs which moved from East. »

As we can see, the deep canyon is very visible on the Map of the Creation as well as the general shape of the rivers despite the geological changes due to the huge temporal gap between these two images. This is why, while taking into account the local geology, Russian scientists were fairly quickly able to identify Mount Ufa and especially its deep canyon with its rivers. The scale of the map is 1 : 1.1 km

On the map, a giant irrigation system could be seen: in addition to the rivers, there are two 500-meter-wide channel systems, 12 dams, 300-500 metres wide, approximately 10 km long and 3 km deep each. The dams most likely allowed to pour water in the different networks. It has been calculated that their creation required digging off over 1 quadrillion cubic metres of earth. In comparison with that irrigation system, the Volga-Don Channel looks like a scratch today. According to scientists, this map might represent a mysterious system of canals approximately 12,000 km long, with dams and powerful dikes. Close to these channels, they have noticed strange diamond-shaped areas whose destination is unknown.

According to the map of Dashka Stone, the Belaya River (or White River) would have been artificial at the origin. This meandering River takes its source in the mountains of southwestern Urals, is 1.430 km long, and drains a basin of 142,000 km2. Its bed is established in deep gorges between the cities of Ufa and Sterlitamak. At first, on account of vertical inscriptions visible on the map, the scientists supposed it could have been made by the ancient Chinese. As it is well known, vertical literature was used in Old Chinese language before the 3rd century. To check his supposition, professor Chuvyrov visited the Chinese empire library. Within the 40 minutes he was allowed to spend in the library he looked through several rare books, though none of them contained any literature similar to that on the slab. After meeting with his colleagues from Hunan University, he completely gave up the « Chinese track ». The scientist concluded that the porcelain covering the slab had never been used in China. All the efforts to decipher the inscriptions were fruitless, but they seem to be constituted of hieroglyphic-syllabic symbols. Chuvyrov, however, states he has deciphered one sign on the map: it corresponds to the latitude of today's city of Ufa.

It was difficult to determine even an approximate age of the slab. At first, radiocarbonic analysis was carried out, afterwards defferent levels of stab were scanned with uranium chronometer, but the investigations showed different results and the age of the slab remained unclear.

While examining the stone, two shells were found on its surface. The age of one of them - Navicopsina munitus of Gyrodeidae family - is about 500 million years, while the second one - Ecculiomphalus princeps of Ecculiomphalinae subfamily - is about 120 million years old. That age was accepted as a « working version ».

A Group of Cartography from the University of Wisconsin, USA, studied the various elements of the Dashka Stone in a project on the History of Cartography and came to the conclusion that this three-dimensional map could be achieved only from aerial surveys, this type of work requiring the use of an extremely powerful computer for processing satellite data.

Latest investigations of the map bring one sensation after another. Now, the scientists are sure it is only a fragment of a big map of the Earth. According to some hypothesis, there were a total of 348 fragments like that one. The other fragments could probably be somewhere nearby. In the outskirts of Chandar, the scientists took over 400 samples of soil and found out that the whole map was most likely situated in the gorge of Sokolinaya Mountain (Falcon Mountain) and could have been torn to pieces during the glacial epoch. So, the Russian scientists are convinced that this 3-D map of the Ural region is in reality a small fragment of a huge cartographic model of 340 m x 340 m representing the Earth. Pr Chuvyrov is obviously very circumspect as to the authors of this map: « I don't like to talk about UFOs or extraterrestrials. So let us simply call the author of this map the Creator ». Strangely, the Popol-Vuh gives some additional information allowing a better understanding of the possible use of this three-dimensional map and of its authors.

Planning a large project begins with the realization of a scale model on which we can think and work. Popol-Vuh says: « the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were by nature great sages and great thinkers. Then while they meditated, it became clear to them that when dawn would break, man must appear. Then they planned the Creation... ».

It seems that the authors of this map only used aerial ways because there are no traces of roads on the Dashka Stone. Strangely, the Popol Vuh confirms : « from where they were, they saw all, they saw the round face of the Earth ». The authors of this map, the Group of Creators, therefore appeared to be in the space during the planning of Creation.