I began to deal with the mystery of the disappeared ancient libraries after I was faced with numerous facts of the mysterious disappearance of information from the many books of ancient authors I read.
In principle, reading the books of ancient authors resembles some kind of fantastic detective story. Waiting on the next page for a description of the disclosure of some next mystery or riddle described by the author, you suddenly discover with disappointment that the narration was interrupted and the author already reports on other events that have little to do with previous information.
At first, it was annoying and seemed like an accident. But when trying to find traces of this information in other sources, the same thing was found, as if someone deliberately removed this information from all sources.
It was only later that the realization came that it was a deliberate, systematic and long-term action associated with a censorship ban on certain knowledge. And these gaps, oddly enough, concerned the mystery of the Earth's global catastrophes, the most terrible events in the history of mankind.
The paradox was precisely that, according to all logic, this information should have been preserved in the most careful and reverent way, for the benefit of future generations.
Even later, the realization came that, unfortunately, it was this information that shed light on the natural scientific reasons for the emergence of modern world religions, and that is why they were so carefully withdrawn from world history.
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And this was the reason not only for the removal of information from individual books, but also the reason for the tragic death of the gigantic libraries of antiquity, storing entire layers of the history of human civilizations. And all this is only so that the monopoly on this knowledge belongs only to a small stratum of society.
This is what I would like to talk about, carefully avoiding accusations against anyone, remembering that "the past can never be predictable" and "no one can consider himself happy until his death."
In ancient history, many large libraries are known that were collected by the rulers of the great ancient states in order to preserve the most valuable information from the knowledge accumulated by previous civilizations for the benefit of future generations. However, the vast majority of books from these archives are now considered to be irretrievably lost.
Tablet from Tel Amarna.
To clarify the fate of these books, we have to make a small survey about the fate of the most famous book depositories, only in some places supplying it with our own commentary.
Our story should begin with the famous Tel Amarna archive, accidentally discovered by local fellahs during predatory excavations in the village of Tel Amarna, which spontaneously arose on the site of the new capital of Egypt built by Akhenaten as the center of his new religion, the city of Akhetaton.
However, numerous boxes found in a stone underground book depository, filled to the top with clay tablets with hieroglyphic signs, contained only business records and correspondence between the princes of Western Asia and the rulers of Egypt in the period between 1400-1360. BC.
It can be assumed that after the death of Amenhotep the Fourth (Akhenaten), when his name was deleted from the official history of Egypt and erased from all inscriptions, his archive also underwent a thorough revision and tablets that had already been discarded by the priests did not contain any information about his new religion. based on the events of the Cretan cataclysm.
Akhenaten.
The most interesting thing is that later, several attempts were made to revive the elements of his solar religion, modifying them to suit their needs.
Here, for example, what Flavius Josephus writes about the religion of the Essenes: “Until sunrise, they abstain from all ordinary speech; then they turn to the sun with prayers known to ancient origins, as if asking for its ascent. " And here is the testimony of Philo of Alexandria about them: in the morning "they get up, turning and turning their eyes to the east, and as soon as they see the rising sun, stretch out their hands to the sky and pray for prosperity, truth and foresight." (On the contemplation of life, 89). And here is an excerpt from a letter from the governor of Bithynia Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan about the investigation of the guilt of the early Christians: “They argued that all their fault or delusion was that they gathered on the set day before the dawn of the sun, sang, alternatingly, Christ as God and swore an oath not to commit crimes, but to refrain from theft,robbery, adultery, violation of the word, refusal to issue a power of attorney”.
Meanwhile, I have already written that the “area of Aha”, on which Pharaoh Akhenaten built his capital, is still an object of worship of Muslims, one of the most numerous and revered religions in the modern world.
Therefore, from the point of view of the past centuries, it is completely unreasonable to consider Pharaoh Akhenaten as a heretic.
Ashurbanipal.
Among the ancient collections of cuneiform clay tablets, collected in huge libraries, should be noted the Hittite archive of clay tablets (modern village of Bogazkei), as well as the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669 - 633 BC) in Nineveh.
It had up to 20,000 tablets and was housed in the giant palace of his grandfather Sennacherib.
Even more impressive is the Nippur (present-day Khuffar village) library of clay tablets, numbering up to 60,000 clay tablets stored in 70 large rooms, among which the legend of the flood was discovered.
Unfortunately, despite the huge number of surviving tablets, all of them were significantly damaged by time and people. But they served as the prototype for the creation of huge collections of books.