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Ancient Civilizations
The science of archaeology has helped humanity understand its ancient roots and origins of its civilizations.
Mankind started transitioning from a primitive, nomadic life, to a more settled, organized and civilized life nearly five hundred thousand years ago. Human civilizations began to develop in different parts of the world during similar time periods, though the earliest traces of civilization can be found in Asia and Africa dated a 1,000.000 year old.
Natural man from evolution made his appearance nearly 1 million years ago. Geneticists announced the results of their years-long efforts to establish when humans split off from the “common ancestor” they shared at some point with chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives. The uniformly accepted time frame of archeologists and anthropologists was between 5.0 million to 8.0 million years ago, so geneticists felt they could put a bracket inside that wide range by analyzing the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a statistically meaningful array of modern humans to determine which groups were the oldest, and then date those by counting mutations to their mtDNA. The Nephilim (Nodites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their children were the 'mighty men of old,' the 'men of renown."'
When the answer came in, everyone was flabbergasted. Human DNA history didn’t go back to 8.0 million years ago, or to 5.0 million years ago. It went back only a relative eye blink—to just 200,000 years! Something had to be wrong, hugely wrong, with such a recent date “if humans were no older than 200,000 years…”. That possibility sent shudders through every scientist forced to seriously consider it. It just had to be wrong. However, subsequent testing of the male Y chromosome showed it was unquestionably true. Is it?
Mankind started transitioning from a primitive, nomadic life, to a more settled, organized and civilized life nearly five hundred thousand years ago. Human civilizations began to develop in different parts of the world during similar time periods, though the earliest traces of civilization can be found in Asia and Africa dated a 1,000.000 year old.
Natural man from evolution made his appearance nearly 1 million years ago. Geneticists announced the results of their years-long efforts to establish when humans split off from the “common ancestor” they shared at some point with chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives. The uniformly accepted time frame of archeologists and anthropologists was between 5.0 million to 8.0 million years ago, so geneticists felt they could put a bracket inside that wide range by analyzing the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a statistically meaningful array of modern humans to determine which groups were the oldest, and then date those by counting mutations to their mtDNA. The Nephilim (Nodites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their children were the 'mighty men of old,' the 'men of renown."'
When the answer came in, everyone was flabbergasted. Human DNA history didn’t go back to 8.0 million years ago, or to 5.0 million years ago. It went back only a relative eye blink—to just 200,000 years! Something had to be wrong, hugely wrong, with such a recent date “if humans were no older than 200,000 years…”. That possibility sent shudders through every scientist forced to seriously consider it. It just had to be wrong. However, subsequent testing of the male Y chromosome showed it was unquestionably true. Is it?
Some of the major and significant ancient civilizations
1. Ancient Dalamatia 500,000 B.C. was situated in the Persian Gulf region of those days, in the district corresponding to later Mesopotamia, which was located just south of the present confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (http://www.sevenfoldtruth.com/urantia-clues.htm)
199,838 B.C. - A tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, sinking beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated.
2. Ancient Mu or Lemuria arose 78,000 – 24,000 years ago across a giant continent and lasted an astonishing 52,000 years. It was destroyed in earthquakes generated by a pole shift that occurred some 26,000 years ago. As predicted by the Mayans, and timed by their famed Calendar, the astronomical 26,000-year cycle signals an impending natural destruction of the earth again in 2012 and may indeed be the message that the ancients have tried to pass down ever since.
3. Atlantis/Poseid
Hundreds of readings discuss the lost continent of Atlantis - a civilization, which was one of the most advanced that the world would ever know. According to his readings, records of this society exist to this day in Egypt, the Yucatan, and near Bimini. In fact, the readings considered the Bimini Islands the remnant of a mountain range from this once-massive continent.
Essentially Cayce states that by focusing upon materiality and ignoring their true spiritual nature, the Atlanteans brought upon themselves a series of three cataclysms. The first, about 50,000 BC, destroyed their major power source. The second, about 28,500 BC, caused the continent to break into three smaller islands: Poseidia, Og, and Aryan. The third and final destruction - which is the one mentioned by Plato - occurred about 10,500 BC and caused the three islands to sink, forcing those who survived to migrate to other parts of the world.
4. First Garden of Eden 35,000 years ago (? present Cyprus – Syria)
was located on a long narrow peninsula — almost an island — projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, This Mediterranean peninsula had a salubrious climate and an equable temperature; this stabilized weather was due to the encircling mountains and to the fact that this area was virtually an island in an inland sea. While it rained copiously on the surrounding highlands, it seldom rained in Eden proper. But each night, from the extensive network of artificial irrigation channels, a “mist would go up” to refresh the vegetation of the Garden. http://www.firstlegend.info/gardenofeden.html
The coastline of this land mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great river that watered the Garden came down from the higher lands of the peninsula and flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the lowlands of Mesopotamia to the sea beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took origin in the coastal hills of the Edenic peninsula, and these are the “four heads” of the river which “went out of Eden,” and which later became confused with the branches of the rivers surrounding the second garden. (Urantia Book)
5. The Second Garden was relocated 100 years later to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (Urantia Book)
6. Ancient Adamsonite civilization about 34,500 B.C
This center of civilization was situated in the region east of the southern end of the Caspian Sea, near the Kopet Dagh. A short way up in the foothills of Turkestan are the vestiges of what was onetime the Adamsonite headquarters of the violet race. In these highland sites, situated in a narrow and ancient fertile belt lying in the lower foothills of the Kopet range, there successively arose at various periods’ four diverse cultures respectively fostered by four different groups of Adamson's descendants. It was the second of these groups, which migrated westward to Greece, and the islands of the Mediterranean. The residue of Adamson's descendants migrated north and west to enter Europe with the blended stock of the last Andite wave coming out of Mesopotamia, and they were also numbered among the Andite-Aryan invaders of India. (Urantia Book)
Archaeologist Victor Sarianidi is unearthing a chain of long-forgotten towns in Kopet Dag Mountains that rise up from the Turkmen plains to the Iranian plateau.
The unveiling of an old civilization calls into question conventional ideas about ancient culture, trade, and religion. Thousands of people lived in towns like Gonur (http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/merv/gonur.htm#gonur) with carefully designed streets, drains, temples, and homes. To water their orchards and fields, they dug lengthy canals to channel glacier-fed rivers that were impervious to drought. They traded with distant cities for ivory, gold, and silver, creating what may have been the first commercial link between the East and the West. They buried their dead in elaborate graves filled with fine jewelry, wheeled carts, and animal sacrifices. Then, within a few centuries, they vanished. Bactria is the old Greek name for northern Afghanistan and the northeast corner of Iran, while Margiana is further north, in what is today Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Through the region runs the Amu Dar'ya River, which was known in Greek history as the Oxus River. Western scholars subsequently used that landmark to dub the newly found culture the Oxus civilization.
7. Ancient Aroi Kingdom The Aroi allegedly built many of the megalithic pyramids, platforms, arches, roads and statues throughout the central Pacific. The Polynesians of New Zealand, Easter Island, Hawaii and Tahiti all believe that their ancestors had the ability of flight and would travel through the air from island to island.
When some of the more than 400 gravel hills on New Caledonia were excavated in the 1960s, cement columns of lime and shell matter were carbon dated by Yale and the New Caledonia Museum as having been made before 5120 B.C. and 10,950 B.C. These weird cement columns can be found in the southern part of New Caledonia and on the Isle of Pines.
A short distance off the coast of the remote Micronesian island of Pohnpei lays one of the greatest archeological mysteries in the world, the Lost City of Nan Madol. Built on an ancient coral reef and covering more than 11 square miles, this ancient city is made up of hundreds of artificial islets, intersected by numerous manmade canals. Even more curious, many of the city’s larger islands are connected by submerged tunnels. First discovered in the early 1800’s by European sailors, this baffling and immense megalithic stone city may contain evidence for the fabled lost continent of Mu.
The mysterious Nan Madol is built entirely out of gigantic magnetized basalt crystals, some weighing as much as fifty tons. In fact, the entire city contains an estimated 250 million tons of the prismatic basalt rock. How this city came into existence, continues to baffle archeologists, any conventional explanation for this massive construction (such as brute force) simply does not work very well. Native mythology suggests that the stones were magically flown...through the air and placed in the city...
8. Ancient India –Rama Empire The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago.
Fortunately, the ancient books of Rama Empire have survived, and they are now being translated. There is much to learn about this Northern India civilization. (Ramayana and Mahabharata)
The Vedas are perhaps the oldest written text on our planet today. They date back to the beginning of Indian civilization and are the earliest literary records of the whole Aryan race. They are supposed to have been passed through oral tradition for over 100,000 years. They came to us in written form between 4-6,000 years ago. The Vedas are divided into four groups, Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. Each group has an original text (Mantra) and a commentary portion (Brahmana).
Dwaraka one of the ancient city dates 1443 B.C. or roughly 3,400 years ago, ancient Vedic astronomical texts and present-day practitioners of the Vedic tradition assert that the current epoch of Kali-yuga began in 3102 B.C. Lord Krishna's disappearance and the subsequent submergence of Dwaraka occurred shortly before this date. Therefore, Dwaraka can be no less than 5,000 years old.)
9. Ancient China. It has the oldest surviving civilization in the world. Ancient China began between 500,000 and 5000 years ago. No single date marks the end of Ancient China.Also known as Han China, is said to have come, like all civilizations, from the huge Pacific continent Mu. The ancient Chinese are known for the sky-chariots, geomancy, and the jade manufacture that they shared with the Mayas. Indeed, the ancient histories of the Chinese and the Mayas seem indelibly linked
10. Ancient Uiger Civilization in the Gobi Desert. Though the Gobi is now a parched land-locked desert, these cities were once ocean ports. Vimanas and other advanced devices are said to have been in use in the Uiger area, and the famous Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich reported seeing a flying disc over northern Tibet in the 1930s. Perhaps the craft was an ancient Vimana coming from a still active city using Uiger technology that exists in Northern Tibet or the Gobi Desert.
Significantly, it is claimed that the Elders of Lemuria, known as the Thirteenth School, moved their headquarters prior to the cataclysm to the uninhabited plateau of Central Asia that we now call Tibet. Here they supposedly established a library and school known as The Great White Brotherhood.
The great Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu, born in 604 B.C., talked frequently of Ancient Masters and their profound wisdom. He wrote the famous book, Tao Te Ching, probably the most popular book ever written in Chinese. When he finally left China, near the close of his very long life, he journeyed to the west to the legendary land of Hsi Wang Mu. According to the Chinese, this was the headquarters of the Ancient Ones, perhaps the Great White Brotherhood and the Thirteenth School of Mu.
11. Ancient Sumerian Civilization
Around 6000 B.C., after the agricultural revolution had begun to spread from its place of origin on the northern fringes of the Fertile Crescent, Neolithic farmers started filtering into the Fertile Crescent itself. Although this broad plain received insufficient rainfall to support agriculture, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers watered the eastern section. Known in ancient days as Mesopotamia (Greek for "between the rivers"), the lower reaches of this plain, beginning near the point where the two rivers nearly converge, was called Babylonia. Babylonia in turn encompassed two geographical areas - Akkad in the north and Sumer, the delta of this river system, in the south.
The Sumerians were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. Eventually, all of these diverse writing systems, which encompass both logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic, and syllabic systems, became known as cuneiform.
Between 3500 B.C. and 3100 B.C. the foundations were laid for a type of economy and social order markedly different from anything previously known. This far more complex culture, based on large urban centers rather than simple villages, is what we associate with civilization.
SITCHIN'S explicative comparisons of similar but disparate mythologies provide a fuller understanding of world religions. Among other things, Sitchin's investigations indicate that there may be an outpost in orbit around Mars preventing current humans from getting there (a fact verified by both U.S. and Russian space probe problems in that neighborhood). But the primary focus of this impressive research is ancient Sumer. The decipherment of that culture's clay tablets, buried for millennia, reveals roots that stretch all the way back to 450,000 B.C. The reason Sitchin was motivated to learn to read cuneiform tablets was his initial curiosity as a boy concerning the meaning of "Nefilim", an enigmatic group mentioned in the Old Testament. Translated, "Nefilim" means "those who came down." "Came down from where" is the starting point that makes the Earth Chronicles better reading than any Sherlock Holmes mystery. In order to unlock the mystery, Sitchin takes on a journey all around the world to ancient cities and former civilizations.
RECENTLY, the Vatican has expressed interest in extraterrestrial life and the possibility that the modern-day UFO phenomenon may in reality be attempts at human contact by another "celestial race". Recent meetings between noted Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin and Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Prelate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Propagation of the Faith (official sensor of the Vatican) does indeed substantiate the claim that the Vatican has been monitoring the situation for many years and is now expressing official "Papal" interest. When asked by an Italian news crew for television if the Vatican has an official opinion on extraterrestrial contact, Balducci said: "There must be something in it." He also said that "extraterrestrials could be beings who are like us-more probably, beings more advanced than us...although in different proportions than human beings on Earth." A rather profound statement coming form the most powerful religious institution on earth eh? I suppose they see the truth coming, and seek to find a way to keep the "Masses" under their control when the truth is finally revealed. It amazes me that in this day in age, the deeply religious still deny anything scientific, which invalidates or contradicts the teachings of the Bible or any other religious doctrine (e.g., radiocarbon dating offering evidence that the Earth is older than the Bible claims). It also amazes me that the devout followers of the Catholic church can't see the hypocrisy.
Then, in Jan 2001, the Discovery channel aired a special where scientists now think the Sphinx could be as much as 10,000 yrs old! This corroborates Sitchin's findings that someone other than the Egyptians designed the Sphinx & Pyramids.
12. Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Some 60,000 years ago the Nile River began its yearly inundation of the land along its banks, leaving behind rich alluvial soil. Areas close to the floodplain became attractive as a source of food and water. In time, climatic changes, including periods of aridity, further served to confine human habitation to the Nile Valley, although this was not always true. From the Chalcolithic period (the Copper age, beginning about 4000 BC) into the early part of the Old Kingdom, people apparently used an extended part of the land.
In the 7th millennium BC, Egypt was environmentally hospitable, and evidence of settlements from that time has been found in the low desert areas of southern, or Upper, Egypt; remains of similar occupation have been discovered at Nubian sites in modern Sudan. Enough pottery has been found in Upper Egyptian tombs from the 4th millennium BC (in the Predynastic period) to establish a relative dating sequence. The Predynastic period, which ends with the unification of Egypt under one king, is generally subdivided into three parts, each of which refers to the site at which its archaeological materials were found: Badarian, Amratian (Naqada I), and Gerzean (Naqada II and III). Northern sites (from about 5500 BC) have yielded datable archaeological material of apparent cultural continuity but no long-term sequences such as those found in the south. A stone circle at Nabta Playa in Egypt’s Western Desert is thought to act as a calendar and was constructed around 7000 BC.
13. Tiahuanaco (also called Tiwanaku) is a mystery because of its age (estimated to be 17,000 years) and the peculiar stone technology. Today there is little doubt that Tiahuanaco was a major sacred ceremonial centre and focal point of a culture that spread across much of the region. The ancient people built a stone pyramid known as the Akapana.
14. The Mayans
It is believed the first humans reached Central America about 15,000 years ago. The first identifiable culture, Clovis, existed around 10,000 BC. Some stone tools dating back to 9,000 BC have been found in Guatemala. Around this time, the Fourth Ice Age was drawing to a close and the climate was gradually warming up enabling humans to begin eating more plants and less meat. This change was underway around 8,000 BC.
The period from 1500 BC to 300 AD is called the "Pre-Classic" period of Mayan culture. During this period the Mayan language developed. The Mayans experienced population growth and larger towns were constructed.
Meanwhile, the Olmec culture was developing in southern Mexico. The Olmec is viewed as the "mother culture" in Central America; They developed a system of writing, the long-count calendar and a complex religion. The Olmecs had a considerable influence on the fledgeling Maya culture. The Maya adopted many of the Olmec skills and practices and developed them further. It seems that the mixture of the Olmec and Mayan cultures touched off an explosion of cultural development. Archaeologists are not sure of the cause but from 300 BC to 300 AD, tremendous development occurred in architecture, writing, and calendrics throughout Mayan lands and the population increased.
15. Ancient Osirian Civilization
The Osirian civilization was one of the highly developed and sophisticated civilizations about 15,000 years ago. Much of the ancient world was civilized, and such areas of world as ancient India, China, Peru, Mexico and Osiris were thriving commercial centers with many important cities. It is said that at the time of Atlantis and Rama, the Mediterranean was a large and fertile valley, rather than a sea as it is today. The Nile River came out of Africa, as it does today, and was called the River Styx. However, instead of flowing into the Mediterranean Sea at the Nile Delta in northern Egypt, it continued into the valley, and then turned westward to flow into a series of lakes, to the south of Crete. The river flowed out between Malta and Sicily, south of Sardinia and then into the Atlantic at Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules). This huge, fertile valley, along with the Sahara (then a vast, fertile plain) was known in ancient times as the Osirian Civilization. (by David Hatcher Childress)
16. Ancient Arkaim Civilizationlocated south of Magnitogorsk in the Ural - mountains (Russia) is an ancient fortified settlement consisting of two concentric circular walls with an observatory at its center. It has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Although carbon dating of artifacts found there place it at 3500-4000 BC, its true history may extend much further back than this; some claim it is at least 12,000 years old. Ar-Ka means Sky, and Im means Earth. Arkaim is a door through which a person who lives, or is trying to live, in harmony with his conscience enters a world of peace and wonder. It is a place where the Sky touches the Earth. Many people who visit Arkaim are not always sure, at least at first, where earthly reality ends and heavenly reality begins.
Nevertheless, their faith is unshakable: Arkaim is a pathway to the Truth. Arkaim is thought of as a place where Earth touches the Higher Worlds so closely that a door between the two realities opens every now and then, giving us a chance to glimpse the unknown. Archaeological excavations indicated that the people, who inhabited Arkaim, represented one of the most ancient Indo-European civilizations, particularly the branch, which is referred to as the Aryan culture. Arkaim turned out to be not only a town, but also a temple and an astronomic observatory.
17. Gobekli Tepe there is temple ruins in Turkey could be 12,000 years old?! It seems that civilization keeps getting older and older. Göbekli Tepe, a Mesolithic archaeological site in southeastern Turkey, is at present the world’s oldest ceremonial center, its numerous T-shaped megaliths predating iconic Stonehenge by some 7,000 years. In fact, the site may even be centuries older than Jericho, located in Palestine near the Dead Sea, one of the world’s earliest settlements. “Göbekli Tepe is one of the most important monuments in the world,” said Hassan Karabulut, associate curator of Turkey’s Urfa Museum, in an article of the November/December 2008 issue of Archaeology magazine.
The site’s location is hardly a surprise since Turkey is the northern arc of civilization’s Fertile Crescent, where cities sprang up some 5,000 years ago. But the antiquity of Göbekli Tepe boggles the mind. This temple, ceremonial center or shrine, goes all the way back to the post-glacial period, when metal tools and pottery had not yet been developed.
1. Ancient Dalamatia 500,000 B.C. was situated in the Persian Gulf region of those days, in the district corresponding to later Mesopotamia, which was located just south of the present confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (http://www.sevenfoldtruth.com/urantia-clues.htm)
199,838 B.C. - A tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, sinking beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated.
2. Ancient Mu or Lemuria arose 78,000 – 24,000 years ago across a giant continent and lasted an astonishing 52,000 years. It was destroyed in earthquakes generated by a pole shift that occurred some 26,000 years ago. As predicted by the Mayans, and timed by their famed Calendar, the astronomical 26,000-year cycle signals an impending natural destruction of the earth again in 2012 and may indeed be the message that the ancients have tried to pass down ever since.
3. Atlantis/Poseid
Hundreds of readings discuss the lost continent of Atlantis - a civilization, which was one of the most advanced that the world would ever know. According to his readings, records of this society exist to this day in Egypt, the Yucatan, and near Bimini. In fact, the readings considered the Bimini Islands the remnant of a mountain range from this once-massive continent.
Essentially Cayce states that by focusing upon materiality and ignoring their true spiritual nature, the Atlanteans brought upon themselves a series of three cataclysms. The first, about 50,000 BC, destroyed their major power source. The second, about 28,500 BC, caused the continent to break into three smaller islands: Poseidia, Og, and Aryan. The third and final destruction - which is the one mentioned by Plato - occurred about 10,500 BC and caused the three islands to sink, forcing those who survived to migrate to other parts of the world.
4. First Garden of Eden 35,000 years ago (? present Cyprus – Syria)
was located on a long narrow peninsula — almost an island — projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, This Mediterranean peninsula had a salubrious climate and an equable temperature; this stabilized weather was due to the encircling mountains and to the fact that this area was virtually an island in an inland sea. While it rained copiously on the surrounding highlands, it seldom rained in Eden proper. But each night, from the extensive network of artificial irrigation channels, a “mist would go up” to refresh the vegetation of the Garden. http://www.firstlegend.info/gardenofeden.html
The coastline of this land mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great river that watered the Garden came down from the higher lands of the peninsula and flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the lowlands of Mesopotamia to the sea beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took origin in the coastal hills of the Edenic peninsula, and these are the “four heads” of the river which “went out of Eden,” and which later became confused with the branches of the rivers surrounding the second garden. (Urantia Book)
5. The Second Garden was relocated 100 years later to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (Urantia Book)
6. Ancient Adamsonite civilization about 34,500 B.C
This center of civilization was situated in the region east of the southern end of the Caspian Sea, near the Kopet Dagh. A short way up in the foothills of Turkestan are the vestiges of what was onetime the Adamsonite headquarters of the violet race. In these highland sites, situated in a narrow and ancient fertile belt lying in the lower foothills of the Kopet range, there successively arose at various periods’ four diverse cultures respectively fostered by four different groups of Adamson's descendants. It was the second of these groups, which migrated westward to Greece, and the islands of the Mediterranean. The residue of Adamson's descendants migrated north and west to enter Europe with the blended stock of the last Andite wave coming out of Mesopotamia, and they were also numbered among the Andite-Aryan invaders of India. (Urantia Book)
Archaeologist Victor Sarianidi is unearthing a chain of long-forgotten towns in Kopet Dag Mountains that rise up from the Turkmen plains to the Iranian plateau.
The unveiling of an old civilization calls into question conventional ideas about ancient culture, trade, and religion. Thousands of people lived in towns like Gonur (http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/merv/gonur.htm#gonur) with carefully designed streets, drains, temples, and homes. To water their orchards and fields, they dug lengthy canals to channel glacier-fed rivers that were impervious to drought. They traded with distant cities for ivory, gold, and silver, creating what may have been the first commercial link between the East and the West. They buried their dead in elaborate graves filled with fine jewelry, wheeled carts, and animal sacrifices. Then, within a few centuries, they vanished. Bactria is the old Greek name for northern Afghanistan and the northeast corner of Iran, while Margiana is further north, in what is today Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Through the region runs the Amu Dar'ya River, which was known in Greek history as the Oxus River. Western scholars subsequently used that landmark to dub the newly found culture the Oxus civilization.
7. Ancient Aroi Kingdom The Aroi allegedly built many of the megalithic pyramids, platforms, arches, roads and statues throughout the central Pacific. The Polynesians of New Zealand, Easter Island, Hawaii and Tahiti all believe that their ancestors had the ability of flight and would travel through the air from island to island.
When some of the more than 400 gravel hills on New Caledonia were excavated in the 1960s, cement columns of lime and shell matter were carbon dated by Yale and the New Caledonia Museum as having been made before 5120 B.C. and 10,950 B.C. These weird cement columns can be found in the southern part of New Caledonia and on the Isle of Pines.
A short distance off the coast of the remote Micronesian island of Pohnpei lays one of the greatest archeological mysteries in the world, the Lost City of Nan Madol. Built on an ancient coral reef and covering more than 11 square miles, this ancient city is made up of hundreds of artificial islets, intersected by numerous manmade canals. Even more curious, many of the city’s larger islands are connected by submerged tunnels. First discovered in the early 1800’s by European sailors, this baffling and immense megalithic stone city may contain evidence for the fabled lost continent of Mu.
The mysterious Nan Madol is built entirely out of gigantic magnetized basalt crystals, some weighing as much as fifty tons. In fact, the entire city contains an estimated 250 million tons of the prismatic basalt rock. How this city came into existence, continues to baffle archeologists, any conventional explanation for this massive construction (such as brute force) simply does not work very well. Native mythology suggests that the stones were magically flown...through the air and placed in the city...
8. Ancient India –Rama Empire The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago.
Fortunately, the ancient books of Rama Empire have survived, and they are now being translated. There is much to learn about this Northern India civilization. (Ramayana and Mahabharata)
The Vedas are perhaps the oldest written text on our planet today. They date back to the beginning of Indian civilization and are the earliest literary records of the whole Aryan race. They are supposed to have been passed through oral tradition for over 100,000 years. They came to us in written form between 4-6,000 years ago. The Vedas are divided into four groups, Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. Each group has an original text (Mantra) and a commentary portion (Brahmana).
Dwaraka one of the ancient city dates 1443 B.C. or roughly 3,400 years ago, ancient Vedic astronomical texts and present-day practitioners of the Vedic tradition assert that the current epoch of Kali-yuga began in 3102 B.C. Lord Krishna's disappearance and the subsequent submergence of Dwaraka occurred shortly before this date. Therefore, Dwaraka can be no less than 5,000 years old.)
9. Ancient China. It has the oldest surviving civilization in the world. Ancient China began between 500,000 and 5000 years ago. No single date marks the end of Ancient China.Also known as Han China, is said to have come, like all civilizations, from the huge Pacific continent Mu. The ancient Chinese are known for the sky-chariots, geomancy, and the jade manufacture that they shared with the Mayas. Indeed, the ancient histories of the Chinese and the Mayas seem indelibly linked
10. Ancient Uiger Civilization in the Gobi Desert. Though the Gobi is now a parched land-locked desert, these cities were once ocean ports. Vimanas and other advanced devices are said to have been in use in the Uiger area, and the famous Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich reported seeing a flying disc over northern Tibet in the 1930s. Perhaps the craft was an ancient Vimana coming from a still active city using Uiger technology that exists in Northern Tibet or the Gobi Desert.
Significantly, it is claimed that the Elders of Lemuria, known as the Thirteenth School, moved their headquarters prior to the cataclysm to the uninhabited plateau of Central Asia that we now call Tibet. Here they supposedly established a library and school known as The Great White Brotherhood.
The great Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu, born in 604 B.C., talked frequently of Ancient Masters and their profound wisdom. He wrote the famous book, Tao Te Ching, probably the most popular book ever written in Chinese. When he finally left China, near the close of his very long life, he journeyed to the west to the legendary land of Hsi Wang Mu. According to the Chinese, this was the headquarters of the Ancient Ones, perhaps the Great White Brotherhood and the Thirteenth School of Mu.
11. Ancient Sumerian Civilization
Around 6000 B.C., after the agricultural revolution had begun to spread from its place of origin on the northern fringes of the Fertile Crescent, Neolithic farmers started filtering into the Fertile Crescent itself. Although this broad plain received insufficient rainfall to support agriculture, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers watered the eastern section. Known in ancient days as Mesopotamia (Greek for "between the rivers"), the lower reaches of this plain, beginning near the point where the two rivers nearly converge, was called Babylonia. Babylonia in turn encompassed two geographical areas - Akkad in the north and Sumer, the delta of this river system, in the south.
The Sumerians were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. Eventually, all of these diverse writing systems, which encompass both logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic, and syllabic systems, became known as cuneiform.
Between 3500 B.C. and 3100 B.C. the foundations were laid for a type of economy and social order markedly different from anything previously known. This far more complex culture, based on large urban centers rather than simple villages, is what we associate with civilization.
SITCHIN'S explicative comparisons of similar but disparate mythologies provide a fuller understanding of world religions. Among other things, Sitchin's investigations indicate that there may be an outpost in orbit around Mars preventing current humans from getting there (a fact verified by both U.S. and Russian space probe problems in that neighborhood). But the primary focus of this impressive research is ancient Sumer. The decipherment of that culture's clay tablets, buried for millennia, reveals roots that stretch all the way back to 450,000 B.C. The reason Sitchin was motivated to learn to read cuneiform tablets was his initial curiosity as a boy concerning the meaning of "Nefilim", an enigmatic group mentioned in the Old Testament. Translated, "Nefilim" means "those who came down." "Came down from where" is the starting point that makes the Earth Chronicles better reading than any Sherlock Holmes mystery. In order to unlock the mystery, Sitchin takes on a journey all around the world to ancient cities and former civilizations.
RECENTLY, the Vatican has expressed interest in extraterrestrial life and the possibility that the modern-day UFO phenomenon may in reality be attempts at human contact by another "celestial race". Recent meetings between noted Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin and Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Prelate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Propagation of the Faith (official sensor of the Vatican) does indeed substantiate the claim that the Vatican has been monitoring the situation for many years and is now expressing official "Papal" interest. When asked by an Italian news crew for television if the Vatican has an official opinion on extraterrestrial contact, Balducci said: "There must be something in it." He also said that "extraterrestrials could be beings who are like us-more probably, beings more advanced than us...although in different proportions than human beings on Earth." A rather profound statement coming form the most powerful religious institution on earth eh? I suppose they see the truth coming, and seek to find a way to keep the "Masses" under their control when the truth is finally revealed. It amazes me that in this day in age, the deeply religious still deny anything scientific, which invalidates or contradicts the teachings of the Bible or any other religious doctrine (e.g., radiocarbon dating offering evidence that the Earth is older than the Bible claims). It also amazes me that the devout followers of the Catholic church can't see the hypocrisy.
Then, in Jan 2001, the Discovery channel aired a special where scientists now think the Sphinx could be as much as 10,000 yrs old! This corroborates Sitchin's findings that someone other than the Egyptians designed the Sphinx & Pyramids.
12. Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Some 60,000 years ago the Nile River began its yearly inundation of the land along its banks, leaving behind rich alluvial soil. Areas close to the floodplain became attractive as a source of food and water. In time, climatic changes, including periods of aridity, further served to confine human habitation to the Nile Valley, although this was not always true. From the Chalcolithic period (the Copper age, beginning about 4000 BC) into the early part of the Old Kingdom, people apparently used an extended part of the land.
In the 7th millennium BC, Egypt was environmentally hospitable, and evidence of settlements from that time has been found in the low desert areas of southern, or Upper, Egypt; remains of similar occupation have been discovered at Nubian sites in modern Sudan. Enough pottery has been found in Upper Egyptian tombs from the 4th millennium BC (in the Predynastic period) to establish a relative dating sequence. The Predynastic period, which ends with the unification of Egypt under one king, is generally subdivided into three parts, each of which refers to the site at which its archaeological materials were found: Badarian, Amratian (Naqada I), and Gerzean (Naqada II and III). Northern sites (from about 5500 BC) have yielded datable archaeological material of apparent cultural continuity but no long-term sequences such as those found in the south. A stone circle at Nabta Playa in Egypt’s Western Desert is thought to act as a calendar and was constructed around 7000 BC.
13. Tiahuanaco (also called Tiwanaku) is a mystery because of its age (estimated to be 17,000 years) and the peculiar stone technology. Today there is little doubt that Tiahuanaco was a major sacred ceremonial centre and focal point of a culture that spread across much of the region. The ancient people built a stone pyramid known as the Akapana.
14. The Mayans
It is believed the first humans reached Central America about 15,000 years ago. The first identifiable culture, Clovis, existed around 10,000 BC. Some stone tools dating back to 9,000 BC have been found in Guatemala. Around this time, the Fourth Ice Age was drawing to a close and the climate was gradually warming up enabling humans to begin eating more plants and less meat. This change was underway around 8,000 BC.
The period from 1500 BC to 300 AD is called the "Pre-Classic" period of Mayan culture. During this period the Mayan language developed. The Mayans experienced population growth and larger towns were constructed.
Meanwhile, the Olmec culture was developing in southern Mexico. The Olmec is viewed as the "mother culture" in Central America; They developed a system of writing, the long-count calendar and a complex religion. The Olmecs had a considerable influence on the fledgeling Maya culture. The Maya adopted many of the Olmec skills and practices and developed them further. It seems that the mixture of the Olmec and Mayan cultures touched off an explosion of cultural development. Archaeologists are not sure of the cause but from 300 BC to 300 AD, tremendous development occurred in architecture, writing, and calendrics throughout Mayan lands and the population increased.
15. Ancient Osirian Civilization
The Osirian civilization was one of the highly developed and sophisticated civilizations about 15,000 years ago. Much of the ancient world was civilized, and such areas of world as ancient India, China, Peru, Mexico and Osiris were thriving commercial centers with many important cities. It is said that at the time of Atlantis and Rama, the Mediterranean was a large and fertile valley, rather than a sea as it is today. The Nile River came out of Africa, as it does today, and was called the River Styx. However, instead of flowing into the Mediterranean Sea at the Nile Delta in northern Egypt, it continued into the valley, and then turned westward to flow into a series of lakes, to the south of Crete. The river flowed out between Malta and Sicily, south of Sardinia and then into the Atlantic at Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules). This huge, fertile valley, along with the Sahara (then a vast, fertile plain) was known in ancient times as the Osirian Civilization. (by David Hatcher Childress)
16. Ancient Arkaim Civilizationlocated south of Magnitogorsk in the Ural - mountains (Russia) is an ancient fortified settlement consisting of two concentric circular walls with an observatory at its center. It has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Although carbon dating of artifacts found there place it at 3500-4000 BC, its true history may extend much further back than this; some claim it is at least 12,000 years old. Ar-Ka means Sky, and Im means Earth. Arkaim is a door through which a person who lives, or is trying to live, in harmony with his conscience enters a world of peace and wonder. It is a place where the Sky touches the Earth. Many people who visit Arkaim are not always sure, at least at first, where earthly reality ends and heavenly reality begins.
Nevertheless, their faith is unshakable: Arkaim is a pathway to the Truth. Arkaim is thought of as a place where Earth touches the Higher Worlds so closely that a door between the two realities opens every now and then, giving us a chance to glimpse the unknown. Archaeological excavations indicated that the people, who inhabited Arkaim, represented one of the most ancient Indo-European civilizations, particularly the branch, which is referred to as the Aryan culture. Arkaim turned out to be not only a town, but also a temple and an astronomic observatory.
17. Gobekli Tepe there is temple ruins in Turkey could be 12,000 years old?! It seems that civilization keeps getting older and older. Göbekli Tepe, a Mesolithic archaeological site in southeastern Turkey, is at present the world’s oldest ceremonial center, its numerous T-shaped megaliths predating iconic Stonehenge by some 7,000 years. In fact, the site may even be centuries older than Jericho, located in Palestine near the Dead Sea, one of the world’s earliest settlements. “Göbekli Tepe is one of the most important monuments in the world,” said Hassan Karabulut, associate curator of Turkey’s Urfa Museum, in an article of the November/December 2008 issue of Archaeology magazine.
The site’s location is hardly a surprise since Turkey is the northern arc of civilization’s Fertile Crescent, where cities sprang up some 5,000 years ago. But the antiquity of Göbekli Tepe boggles the mind. This temple, ceremonial center or shrine, goes all the way back to the post-glacial period, when metal tools and pottery had not yet been developed.