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Alex Chionetti

Alex Chionetti is an award-winning journalist, explorer, and filmmaker. A consulting producer for several seasons of Ancient Aliens , his documentaries have been broadcast on Fox, NBC, A&E, History Channel, and other international networks. The discoverer of two lost cities in the Andean region and a member of the Explorers Club, he lives near New York City.

In this examination of the Tayos Cave complex in Ecuador, the people and myths connected with it, and the treasures glimpsed in its depths, Alex Chionetti shares his more than 30 years of research and personal explorations into the Tayos Caves, along with detailed reconstructions of the controversial expeditions from the 1960s and ‘70s.

Book: The Mysteries of the Tayos Caves.

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Carved metallic plates from Father Crespi’s collection of the Tayos Caves strewn on the floor in a dilapidated old building. Credit: Ancient-Origins.net

9 January, 2020 - 02:48 Alex Chionetti

The Elusive Metal Library of the Tayos Caves

Legend has it that a metal library, containing valuable plates of inscriptions, recording an ancient history of some 250 000 years ago, written by an advanced previous civilization, is hidden in the...