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part 58 of the series "Monster walls, mummies and mysteries" of
Walter-Jörg Langbein ,
released on 27/02/2011

Prof. Cabrera
his private museum closes on
Photo: Walter-Jörg Langbein

Many a time I Prof. Javier Cabrera Darquea (1924-2001) visited. And each time it was for me almost a magical moment when he opened the door to his mysterious museum. When the door was pushed open, opened up to me a strange world. I walked into a museum, in parts more like a chamber of horrors possible. It was like an Indian Jones movie: the adventurer enters a fantastic looking world.

kept on far too narrow space Prof. Javier Cabrera Darquea stones of various sizes. Shelves literally swelled into a fist of mostly black stones. At the bottom were those in medicine ball size ... and all were provided with engravings. On some stones, just a scratched drawing could be seen. Others told stories of fascinating picture sequences. It was always an experience to be led by Prof. Cabrera through a fascinating world. He did this always full of energy and enthusiasm.

thousands stones with tens of thousands of engravings had to be said Prof. Cabrera Darquea insisted again and again how to read a book. I wonder worried: Will the engraved stones soon fall silent ... before you've listened to them properly? According to Cabrera in an underground depot rest much more enigmatic objects. are only a fraction of the finds could, so Cabrera, made in his museum. Does this really mysterious Depot? If it is not the fantasy Cabrera should have sprung .... it will probably never release its treasures. For Prof. Cabrera to know where is located the ominous Depot, took to his grave.

A man riding dinosaurs
Photo: Walter-Jörg Langbein

tell the library of the engraved stones says the museum's founder, looking fantastic stories: From ancient to have periods of our globe, as human beings and dinosaurs inhabited the planet together. Yes, it should be the people even managed to domesticate dinosaurs and to ride them. An ancient culture is lost in antiquity.

Prof. Cabrera Darquea arguing his theses about the fantastic history of our world always with missionary zeal. Be museum was his life. Criticism of his often seemingly bold idea could make the otherwise very sociable sometimes quick-tempered doctor. However, he found himself time and again unfair and inadequate criticism. His museum was also made by critics ridiculous never have put a foot in the found objects with overflowing buildings. Many years would have been possible. Since Cabrera's death but that was more difficult!

same motif in tone
Photo: Walter-Jörg Langbein

On other stones have been shown medical interventions: no simple operations, but organ transplants such as heart transplants. Many a time I said Prof. Cabrera Darquea how one could read the number of frames as a book of dinosaurs, long before modern medicine people and untold times. Only when the scholars had taken confidence in me, I was allowed to enter his "secret chamber". Thousands of figurines in baked clay told the same stories as the engraved stones, from people who lived as contemporaries of the dinosaurs ... and complicated operations in the distant past. In short, Prof. Javier Cabrera Darquea wanted visitors to his museum to read a book that presented the image of our past to the head.

were According to our present understanding of the dinosaurs never ever contemporaries of man. These creatures were monsters under the consensus of the scholarly world died out many millions of years, when the man appeared. And of course, were only a few decades ago performed heart surgery, not in the distant past. And yet Prof. Cabrera Darquea showed just such motives in his museum.

heart surgery as a stone engraving
Photo: Walter-Jörg Langbein

The reaction of the scholarly world was largely in unison: Because not be what should not be ... there must be at the museum artifacts counterfeit. In that case, the scholars were usually held without even a stone or clay figure even in his hand. Then, when Cabrera died, the museum lost its main supporter. And then came the 15th August 2007. A great earthquake was invading South America. Peru was mainly affected. But Ecuador, Brazil and Chile felt the spur.

died in Peru, according to official count "about 510 people," How many dead people were complaining a whole is not known. Among the poorest of the poor, there were so many victims that was never included in the statistics. Alone in the town of Pisco, 80 percent of the houses were destroyed, 200 dead were recovered from the rubble. The epicenter of the quake - it reached a magnitude 7.5 to 8 - was present South America where the Nazca plate slides under the South American plate. Earthquakes occur as regularly. An even stronger quake could be very probably trigger a massive tsunami and devastate an entire country, even a continent.

heart surgery in clay fired
Photo: Walter-Jörg Langbein

also Ica was devastated by the earthquake: Prof. Cabrera's museum was damaged. Engraved stones were broken or were at least damaged.

survived as so fragile clay figures to disaster? Despite intensive research, I could not find it. Were allegedly brought to the thousands of fantastic clay figures even before the earthquake in a "depot". Apparently these were "impossible" Objects spared. But they are no longer marvel at the museum. Where are they located? I have serious doubts ... and fear that the mysterious museum stands on the brink of.

When Prof. Javier Cabrera Darquea still alive, he led like interested people through his museum. He wanted to infect as many people with his enthusiasm. While sympathetic doctor who lived on site, the new head Eugenia Cabrera moved to Lima. The daughter Cabrera is theoretically available for tours of the museum. You must arrive in Lima but each time only ... a highly complicated task in Peru.

engraved

»Urmeli" in stone
Photo: Walter-Jörg Langbein

Theoretically, you can see part of the museum pieces yet (only the engraved stones!), practically this is quite difficult become. De facto, the collection hardly accessible to the public. I fear that the once famous museum gets to fade into oblivion. And then there is only one step away to the engraved stones from the scene. Reminder: Father Crespi's collection was already dismissed for the most part. A large part of the engraved metal plates is lost forever. You for example, were part - that led to my research - the church in Cuenca concreted in the ground.

I regret this very general trend: Archaeological objects that threaten to undermine the traditional view of history ... should not be declared to be forgeries unaudited. Real science should have the courage to face critical questions. Could one but the findings Cabrera read like a book. But this can not happen if all the controversial findings soon to be declared worthless junk ... And usually by remote diagnosis.

In my travels to the most mysterious parts of our planet, I've always allowed to see archaeological objects, that there is not supposed to. I see it as my job to document these discoveries of forbidden archeology as well as possible.

thanks: Thank you very much for Eugenia Cabrera, which I always reply to my questions in detail to the museum her father.

All photos by Walter-Jörg Langbein
»Gold in secret graves,"
part 59 of the series
"Monster walls, mummies and mysteries"
of Walter-Jörg Langbein ,
released on 03/06/2011
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