Yonaguni's unique attraction for archaeologists and divers alike are the mysterious underwater ruins which lie off the southern coast of the island. A single platform 100 by 50 meters wide and up to 25 meters tall, seeming carved out of solid rock at perfectly right angles and dated by some to be 8000 years old, the technology required to build them here doesn't seem to match any known timeline of human history. Some maintain that they are the product of the lost Continent of Mu or even alien artifacts, while the most boring explanation would be that they are merely the product of strange geological processes — although the (apparent) hallways and staircases, as well as what appear to be regular rows of holes dug for moving rock and even what some take to be a form of writing on the walls, would appear to defy this.

Древние четырёхугольные пирамиды разных размеров находятся не только в Египте или Южной Америке, известны они и в Бирме, Китае и Корее. Но наиболее, наверное, интересным открытием такого рода следует считать удивительный комплекс, обнаруженный на морском дне у небольшого острова Йонагуни в самой западной части японского архипелага.

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