In the Amazonian Ecuadorian region called Morona Santiago there is a very deep cavern, known in Spanish as Cueva de los Tayos (Cave of the Oil birds). According to some researchers the true discoverer of the huge archaeological treasures of the Cueva de los Tayos was not the Hungarian Juan Moricz, but rather the Salesian priest Carlo Crespi (1891-1982), a native of Milan, Italy.

Carlo Crespi, who arrived to the Amazonian Ecuador area of Cuenca in 1927, was able to win the trust of the natives Jibaro, and so they did deliver to him, over decades, hundreds of fabulous archaeological pieces dating back to an unknown time, many of them made of gold or golden, often masterfully carved with archaic hieroglyphs that, to date, no one has been able to decipher.

From 1960 Crespi obtained from the Vatican the permission to open a museum in the city of Cuenca, where was located his Salesian mission. In 1962 there was a fire, and some pieces were lost forever. Crespi was convinced that the gold plates which he found and studied, were indicating with no doubt that the ancient world, especially the Middle East before the Flood, was in contact with the civilizations that had developed in the New World.

Certainly, the evidence that antediluvian people, and others people who lived after the Flood, especially from middle-east, may have visited the Amazon basin in remote times and left somewhere such wonderful art pieces, may be uncomfortable to the scientific establishment. Many historians have described Father Crespi as a juggler or just a visionary, who showed as genuine the gold plates that were just fakes or copies of other artistic Middle Eastern creations.

The question remains; why would a priest living in an obscure part of Ecuador bother to finance such an elaborate hoax? And it turns out, according to the adventurer Stan Hall, who pursued the Tayos Cave mystery for decades, that he had been exploring the wrong location. Just before his death he found out that the real cave he should have been looking for was called Tawas, and not Tayos…