Humanity is already so old that it forgot about its infancy, and the origin of man is shrouded in mystery.
According to generally accepted views, humanity was primitive in the past, and then began to develop, people emerged from a state of barbarism, became smarter and more capable. New data, however, suggest otherwise. Perhaps, at the dawn of history, mankind possessed highly developed science and technology, which significantly exceeds the ideas of modern people about the distant past.
This point of view is as old as history itself. The ancients spoke of the past as an era of prosperity. The account of Atlantis in Plato's Timaeus dialogue is the clearest evidence of a golden age.
Medieval manuscript "Timaeus" (Timeas) of Plato, Latin translation.
American Congressman Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (1831 - 1901) believed that Atlantis really existed and collected all available information about this ancient, powerful and advanced civilization.
In 1929, the mysterious 1513 Piri Reis map was found in Istanbul, showing the shores of Antarctica and South America with modern precision. This map revived the hypothesis of advanced ancient civilizations, giving it solid ground.
Archaeologist Brad Steiger, in his book Worlds Before Our Own, has presented new facts about the existence of early advanced civilizations. Steiger found that some high-tech artifacts were found in the lowest primitive geologic layers, while primitive ones were found in the upper layers.
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He called them "irrelevant artifacts." His book contributed to the emergence of a number of later works that challenged the prevailing view of the past of humanity.
If advanced prehistoric civilizations existed, what led to their death? There are basically two possible scenarios: either these people were so advanced that they destroyed themselves, or they were destroyed as a result of a natural cataclysm.
The evidence in favor of the second option is more substantial than the first. There are, however, some signs of ancient wars.
World map of Turkish admiral Piri Reis 1513.
Creation and destruction
“When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand melted and turned into green glass. Archaeologists excavated the ancient Euphrates Valley and discovered a layer of agrarian culture that was 8,000 years old, then an even earlier layer, then a layer of the caveman era. Recently they have reached another layer - molten green glass. (New York Herald Tribune, 1947)
Some scientists do not believe that ancient civilizations could have been destroyed by natural forces. They believe that the current features of the earth's surface have formed over millions of years.
Carbon dating is not completely accurate. This method assumes an established balance between the formation and decomposition of radioactive carbon in the earth's atmosphere. But the period of C14 formation is actually longer than the period of its decay.
Therefore, the amount of C14 in the atmosphere (0.0000765%) cannot be scientifically used as a criterion for dating fossils. In other words, we cannot know the age of the fossils by which we determine the age of the earth's strata. Thus, we do not know the actual age of the earth's strata.
It is generally accepted that the fossils of trees growing through several geological layers of the earth indicate that these layers belong to different historical eras.
However, these layers could have been formed in a short period of time, for example, as a result of rapid sedimentation (sedimentation of layers) caused by natural disaster, and not over millions of years, otherwise the appearance of fossilized trees would simply not be possible.
Myths and legends around the world speak of a worldwide cataclysm, or rather, a flood. Similar myths can be found in Africa, China, North America, Australia, Sumeria, in very distant cultures that had no way of contact with each other. There are over 500 ancient legends about a flood similar to the one mentioned in the Bible and the Koran. These are traces of a global collective memory of an event that happened in the distant past.
Flood myths exist in different cultures around the world.
Creation and destruction
“When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand melted and turned into green glass. Archaeologists excavated the ancient Euphrates Valley and discovered a layer of agrarian culture that was 8,000 years old, then an even earlier layer, then a layer of the caveman era. Recently they have reached another layer - molten green glass. (New York Herald Tribune, 1947)
Some scientists do not believe that ancient civilizations could have been destroyed by natural forces. They believe that the current features of the earth's surface have formed over millions of years.
Carbon dating is not completely accurate. This method assumes an established balance between the formation and decomposition of radioactive carbon in the earth's atmosphere. But the period of C14 formation is actually longer than the period of its decay.
Therefore, the amount of C14 in the atmosphere (0.0000765%) cannot be scientifically used as a criterion for dating fossils. In other words, we cannot know the age of the fossils by which we determine the age of the earth's strata. Thus, we do not know the actual age of the earth's strata.
It is generally accepted that the fossils of trees growing through several geological layers of the earth indicate that these layers belong to different historical eras.
However, these layers could have been formed in a short period of time, for example, as a result of rapid sedimentation (sedimentation of layers) caused by natural disaster, and not over millions of years, otherwise the appearance of fossilized trees would simply not be possible.
Myths and legends around the world speak of a worldwide cataclysm, or rather, a flood. Similar myths can be found in Africa, China, North America, Australia, Sumeria, in very distant cultures that had no way of contact with each other. There are over 500 ancient legends about a flood similar to the one mentioned in the Bible and the Koran. These are traces of a global collective memory of an event that happened in the distant past.
Flood myths exist in different cultures around the world.
As for its structure, engineers and scientists have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to build a pyramid of this size and with such stunning accuracy, despite modern technology.
Engineer Markus Schulte has calculated that the construction of the Great Pyramid would have cost approximately $ 35 billion.
Obviously, no one today is going to invest that kind of money in a colossal structure, unfit for habitation, and without any expected profit. Then the question "how was it built?" less important than the question "why was it built?"