In 1976 Hall catalysed a landmark expedition to the Cave of the Tayos in Ecuador, involving a dozen institutions, joint special forces, and astronaut professor Neil Armstrong as Honorary President and participant. With a scientific framework installed he later turned to Erich von Däniken's report of a metal library allegedly found in the caves by Juan Moricz in the mid-1960s, something unacceptable within an orthodox view of global history and absence of any ancient script in South America.
The British-Ecuadorian Tayos Caves expedition of 1976 was essentially a scientific extension of the 'Moricz Expedition 1969' and the 'Moricz-Hall Stones Expedition' of 1975. Below are photographs of some of the locations and participants.
Tayos Expedition Photo Gallery
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Project 'TAYU WAA' – A Sleeping Beauty
"The most important historical task of this century is the regeneration of interest in ancient South America, especially the pre-inca Empire(s) of Tayhuantinsuyu, as the missing page of prehistory and motherland of global civilization."
Stan Hall
Here, in English, but with more ample documentation in the Spanish version, is proof of the Tayu Waa World Heritage efforts of Stan Hall, based on a 1976 Tayos Expedition recommendation that the Cave of the Tayos area be designated a National Reserve. In 1994 the General Environment Fund (GEF) in Washington acceded to funding Hall’s request for the provinces of Morona-Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe (50,000 Km2) to be part of a major Forestry Study. Later, however, a vital letter requesting from a sympathetic European Union funding for the more ample Tayu Waa project never left the desk of the Secretary of the Ecuadorian Commission for National Development. A princess of a project, taking years to mature, died for want of a simple signature.
