Welcome in the moon, leading up to the Banquet with this astonishing tour into the past. Older than the Giza Pyramids and Stonehenge.  The site is built along the same longitudinal line as Great Zimbabwe and the Great Pyramid. It is also aligned with the rise of Orion’s belt some 75,000 years ago when this calendar was built.

A new discovery of an ancient circular monolithic stone calendar site in Mpumalanga has proven to be at least 75,000 years old, pre-dating any other structure found to date. Southern Africa holds some of the deepest mysteries in all of human history. What we are told is that at around 60,000 years ago the early humans migrated from Africa and populated the rest of the world.

Take a guided walk between ancient carved monoliths and dating back to the dawn of Homo sapiens some 250 000 tears ago. As a guest to this area, one will have the opportunity to view sites such as the first sphinx on earth, carved male and female monoliths and sacred ritual paths. The carved monoliths at the calendar site show the significance of alignment to the rising sun in the east, Orion’s Belt constellation, equinoxes and solstices as well as many more mind enlightning facts.  The tour takes approximately 3 hours through the ancient sacred site.

Who were these first humans?  What did they do? And where did they disappear to?

It estimated that there are over 100 000 ancient stone ruins scattered throughout the mountains of southern Africa. Artefacts that have been recovered from these ruins show a long and extended period of settlement that spans to over 200,000 years. The most spectacular examples of these ancient ruins are RIGHT HERE within walking distance. Modern historians have been speculating about the origins of these ruins, often calling them ‘cattle kraal of little historic importance’. The truth of the matter is that closer scientific inspection shows that we actually know very little about these spectacular ancient ruins. It is a great tragedy that thousands have already been destroyed through sheer ignorance but forestry and farmers have now started to protect these ruins. We can date the monolithic calendar with relative certainty to at least 75,000 years of age based on a number of scientific evaluations.The ruins also present the first tangible evidence of consciousness among the earliest humans in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’.

This is possibly the only example of a functional, mostly in-tact monolithic stone calendar in the world.

The central stones, beautifully captured against the Mpumalanga sky

The founder of the ruins, Johan Heine, observed as the shadow of the setting sun on the summer solstice 21 Dec. As the sun sets the shadow slides off the edge – only to resume its path back to the opposite edge where it stops on the winter solstice, 21 June.

A view north, from the southern marker stone – disects the main calendar monoliths right
through the centre.

The Stone Ruin Museum
This is a museum with a real difference. Michael Tellinger has put together a staggering collection of items in a small private museum that tells the hidden history of humankind. See a breathtaking collection of aerial photographs of the hidden ancient stone ruins of South Africa, the oldest man-made structure on earth, this 75,000 year-old Stonehenge-type structure, pottery from the mysterious Lydenburg Heads civilisation from around 300 AD, stone tools that span one million years and the mysterious “wonder stone” – a spherical stone formed billions of years ago that slowly turns on its own axis.