UNKNOWN MONOLITH FOUND IN CHILE'S

ATACAMA DESERT

• A team of archaeologists from Bourne University made their way to the excavation • Teams discovered an ancient metal monolith in the Atacama desert • Relic is not from Indian, Spanish or any modern South American origin • Experts say the prehistoric relic could be some 3.2 billions years old A digitally enhanced study of the odd monolith having been partly buried by weathering and erosion. The Chilean government has not expressed interest in the relic and believe it to be a hoax. Independent research supported by Bourne University they say proves it's authenticity. SANTIAGO - A strange and mysterious structure with puzzling metallic attribute and immense age was discovered in the Atacama Desert's El Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley) by a team of Bourne archaeologists who are basing their expeditionary mission on the evidences of the Cunza Indian tribe from the Andes region through Spanish maps. They suggest that it could have been from an ancient empire indicating the site to be an isolated region. The archaeologists claimed that the site was first discovered the previous year by them during their excavation of Indian sites. "We were excavating some sites last year when we discovered this strange monolith through the Spanish maps. We then decided to make some researches on it this year. As far as we have discovered, It seems the monolith is from an ancient empire and the site is not of modern origin," Pablo Sanchez, one of the lead archaeologists said. Associate Professor Sanchez further explained further that Chile and Bolivia disputed over the Atacama Desert in the late 1800s in the Guerra del Pacífico (War of the Pacific). This region is the largest natural supply of sodium nitrate, which can be used for producing fertilizers and explosives amongst other things. The relic could not have been produced by soldiers of Chilean Divisional General Juan Jarpa, who had secretly sent troops to occupy the valley. (Insert) Chilean solder Vicente Luis Silva in 1881 during the Guerra del Pacífico. He had stated to his daughter, Elvira Silva, that he has seen the mythical metal. (Image) Moon Valley hills. Emilia Silva, of Santiago, who's great grandfather Vicente Luis Silva had fought in the Guerra del Pacífico as a Chilean soldier, remembers her grandmother, Elvira Silva, stating that he had seen the strange metal and signs and was unable to explain it. "This desert caused a war between the Chileans and Bolivians in the 19th century had brought Vicente to Moon Valley within sight of it. The thing had a strange, other-landy look to it, which was not made by their (Chilean) soldiers nor from the many abandoned mining towns that could have been salvaged for metals. At the end of the war, Chile took control of the entire region," Emilia Silva added. Some Chilean ranchers state that the desert mountains around the relic are haunted and their families known about the ruin for generations. They also believed that some past, unknown and advanced peoples had built the monolith. "We have known about the Indian peoples who built towns here many years back, so, it is nothing new to us. We believe the monolith was built by some strange civilization either as marker or as a structure," added Hernandez Castillo, a Chilean rancher from San Pedro de Atacama. Some scientists were informed and stated they would arrange for metal composition testing, age tests on the relic using carbon dating. "We received some information about the unknown monolith and we have made some progress on it, which we discovered made the metal to be 3.2 billion years old in age. Atacama is near the Arequipa–Antofalla Craton, the same continental crusts that collided with the Amazonian Craton some 1000 Ma during the continent building eras - so is it Archean?", Alexis Fernandez, one of the scientists reported. Over the last few months, according to some archaeologists, it was stated that it is impossible to attribute the structure to Mayan, Inca or Aztec civilizations who reigned on the hemisphere from 220 AD to 1460 AD respectively. Mario Ochoa, Physical Science Technician at the Metal Labs Facility in Arica, in the process of examining metal shavings of the mysterious metal object for the Ministry of Technology. Neither the Cunza, an extinct culture of the Andean desert oases of northern Chile and northwestern Argentina could have produced it. The last surviving groups of the Cunza were absorbed by Spanish and other Indian tribes. None of these Indian cultures had undergone of the skill of metallurgy, and used stone, wood and local resources to manufacture goods that were needed. Some strange pictographs and glyphs were also found on the monolith, depicting animals currently unknown in the prehistoric history of the isolated region.