# Ancient stargates — suppressed gateways to the heavens > **TL;DR:** Ring-class **stargates** were **scattered on Earth**, **photographed** across **continents** in the **early 1900s**, and **confiscated / sealed** by **state programs** by the **1950s** to preserve the **Dead Planet** narrative. **Ancient tablets** describe them as **heaven-linked** routes — **Mars and worlds beyond** coupled to **Earth** — for **tunnel** transit through the **æther**, not luminal wave travel. **Primary dossier:** [Early 20th-century stargate discoveries — image catalog & source trace](/history/chronology/ancient-stargates/investigations/early-20th-century-stargate-discoveries-image-catalog-investigation.md) — **27** `stargate-*.jpeg` assets, [`ancient-stargates.png`](/history/chronology/ancient-stargates/ancient-stargates.png) summary infographic, **Cabel Adams** synthetic-vintage source lane. **Status:** Open **Portal lineage:** [Stonehenge — Golden Age skyward port](/history/chronology/stonehenge-quantum-portal-golden-age-and-dark-ages.md) → early-1900s **ring rediscovery** (this hub) → [Philadelphia ship prototype](/events/philadelphia/the-philadelphia-experiment-was-not-time-travel.md) → [CERN buried ring](/science/cern_portal/page.md) **Related:** [Dead Planet Protocol](/timeline/evt-mars-surface-dismantling-dead-planet-protocol) · [Mars hub](/cosmos/mars/page.md) · [Part A — Out of This Door Might Come Something](/science/cern_portal/out-of-this-door-might-come-something.md) · [CERN–Mars gateway dossier](/science/cern_portal/investigations/cern-mars-quantum-gateway-investigation.md) --- ## Folder contents The site does not auto-list siblings when this page is shown; this block lists everything in this directory.