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[electrobleme]

The different types of Cart Ruts (Cart Tracks) that you find increases the puzzle and ancient mystery of how were the Cart Ruts (Cart Tracks) of not just Malta but the world created?

The other Cart Ruts around the world have to also be considered.  These were photographed near Tlaxcala in Mexico and you also have some in Spain.

 

Were they created by heavy laden Carts?  Were they ancient roadways or transportation systems?  Were they for irrigation? Were they for something else? Are they man made or could nature have somehow created them?  Are they evidence of the idea that Malta was Atlantis (the land of temples)?

No one actually knows.  Those people who were around when they were created disappeared along with a lot of cultures around that time.

When you see a single pair of Cart Ruts they do look like some sort of track.  When you see the main area of Clapham Junction or the San Gwann "spaghetti junction" it leaves you puzzled as to why so many tracks were needed either beside each other or intersecting at one point.

If they were worn away then how many journeys, in the hardest rock on the island did it take? And why?

Were they Cart Tracks that were enlarged by man?




Was the actual top layer of Malta very different back then?  Was its composition changed in some catastrophe?  The island of Malta has certainly changed.  Cart Ruts go off cliff tops and appear to cross bays and can be found underwater on the sea floor.  Something appears to have happened on a massive event.  Would it be at the same time that those who built the "temples" went MIA?




Do the mysterious and strange geological shapes and features found on and around the Malta Cart Ruts/Tracks have anything to do with how and why they were created or stopped being built or used?

[hulland]

I have read a lot about the ruts, as well as searched and carefully observed them in Malta.

A study was carried out a few years ago by a University team who discovered several interesting facts-

1) when the limestone is actually wet ( eg being rained on) it becomes much softer, and prone to be worked on / eroded. and

 2) If you check out the frozen tracks used in snow by the Inuit tribes, they have always found it much easier ( and therefore faster) to re-use the frozen tracks in the snow / ice, then to create fresh tracks each time.

Every set of cart ruts that I have found,  runs from or to a supply of ( building) stone. If the two poles had hard stones affixed to their tips, and the load was stones for building, then regular transport of the stones, along pre-cut grooves, pulled by some "beast of burden" ( as the feet marks show near Ta Baldu!), then once these tracks were established they could have been used for generations, and generations, and would have been the easiest way to solve a heavy moving problem.

The opposite extreme are the cart ruts, barely visible, in the valley called "kalkara" leading from Id - Deli to the sea. Here it would appear, that although the prime motivation was for the transport of stone, the demand, or supply was not used for many journeys at all.

Apologies for a brief comment, but it is so easy to type reams, and reams and reams on this subject !

[electrobleme]

1) and 2)  I didn’t know about wet limestone being easier to work. With the different and constantly changing climates for Malta, the Med and the world, a wetter or more damp Malta in the past is a safe bet. This would help to explain why they are so smooth.

With the changes in environment could the cart ruts have been formed when the top layer was different today, then with another climate change the top surface hardened and that is why we find them still around today?  Is there any evidence of the tracks in other areas other than the hardest of rock? I know they are unlikely to have lasted but there could be something that might show them, like a "green road" or old track that leads on from them? Any folklore about them?

There is another idea that might be an option in an Electric Universe. There seems to be evidence that an event was witnessed in the skies by all the ancient peoples. This is seen in the squatting man and tree of life - images that were carved as petroglyphs into rocks all around the world.
A high energy plasma discharge such as this would give off a lot of x-rays and EM (waves/rays). We use variations of such a technique today for many different purposes, from the dentist hardening your fillings to plastics and circuit boards. If the squatter man did happen and the earth was subject to such rays could this then have hardened the top layer of Malta and that is why the rocks are so hard and why the cart ruts have remained, frozen in time?
This might also explain how come delicate footprints of dinosaurs, animals and even humans have somehow been captured in mud and remained long enough to become fossilised. It has always seemed strange to me how come mud lasted so long to even start the process. If it happened instantly or very quickly then this could be the answer.


The steps at Ta Baldu are fascinating (there will be a page soon about them with some interesting stuff that i am still trying to work out fully - see below) and I have also seen some faint steps also at Clapham Junction, going up to the cave.

I met a chap through the chat room on http://www.cartrutsmalta.com/ who was visiting Malta on holiday again but wanted to see the other cart rut sites. He said before we went that he hoped to see an area where they turned the carts or had the "switch" points. He said they needed to use it mainly for going downhill and it should be where tracks meet, a dug out lower circle or square. We did observe a couple of areas at Ta Baldu and Naxxar which looked like areas he had suggested! If it was the case and that they used these, then maybe they were only at the busiest junctions? The problem with this idea is why not use them everywhere?

I have not heard of the cart ruts at Kalkara, are they easy to find? Are they similar to the ones at St George’s bay going into the sea?

Hopefull this article is not to long!