[Our information is that the medieval death cult known as ISIL/ISIS/IS/DAESH is really practicing widespread looting of ancient sites and then destroying them to cover up their lucrative antiquities smuggling business. Sadly there are collectors out there who are buying these looted artifacts in the full knowledge that they are financially supporting this death cult. How sick is that? – Ed.]
“Bulgarian archaeologists say that they have found 60 houses from a Neolithic settlement, estimated to date back 8000 years, that were seven to eight metres high and that had streets between them.
The find was made near the village of Mursalevo, about 67km from Bulgarian capital Sofia, in the Kyustendil region in south-western Bulgaria by archaeologists working along the route of the Struma motorway being built to link Sofia to the Greek border.
According to archaeologists, the people who developed the settlement had a high level of culture, considering that it would have required strong social organisation to pre-plan the settlement.
Those who lived here are believed to have come from Anatolia (Asia Minor).”
“Graham Hancock, the famous author of ‘Fingerprints Of The Gods’ is all set for a 500-page sequel titled ‘Magicians of the Gods’ and in an interview recently he reveals that he has ‘smoking gun’ proofs to prove his 20-year-old claim about a comet wiping out an ancient civilisation and the proofs, we have come to know from his presentations and talks around the world, lay hidden in Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, India and quite a few other countries.
One of his ‘smoking gun’ evidence seems to be the sacred site dubbed Gunung Padang in Indonesia which means ‘Mountain of Light’ or ‘Mountain of Enlightenment’, in the local Sundanese language.
Gunung Padang was the site where blocks of columnar basalt were found scattered across five terraces, which he claims are the top of an ancient pyramid that dates back to 22,000 BC and earlier.
According to Hancock, main stream archaeologists carried out radiocarbon dating of the soil just a few meters deep and pegged the date as some 500 BC.
However, Dr Danny Natawidjaja, PhD, senior geologist with the Research Centre for Geotechnology at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences carried out radiocarbon dating of tubular drills that brought up cores of earth and stone from much deeper levels.
The radiocarbon dating yielded older and older dates – 3,000 BC to 5,000 BC, then 9,600 BC as the drills bit deeper, then around 11,000 BC, then, 15,000 BC and finally at depths of 90 feet and more an astonishing sequence of dates of 20,000 BC to 22,000 BC and earlier.
Pointing out Plato claimed that Atlantis was submerged by floods and earthquakes to ‘9,000 years before the time of Solon’ – i.e. to 9,600 BC, the end of the last Ice Age, Hancock notes that since the Greeks had no access to modern scientific knowledge about the Ice Age and its rapidly rising sea levels, the date that Plato gave are an uncanny coincidence.”
[I was delighted to read in this interesting article that Graham Hancock has returned to his original theme that a fragmenting comet destroyed the civilisations of the archaic world, a theory which he first posited in his now famous book ‘Fingerprints Of The Gods’ back in 1995, just a year after the fragmenting comet, P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, bombarded the
surface of Jupiter in July 1994, and in the updated edition published in 2001.
“The Apsara Authority has created a new ‘Visitor Code of Conduct’ for tourists visiting the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province in response to a spate of recent incidents in which tourists have taken nude photographs at the temples, broken statues, or otherwise acted inappropriately.
The new code informs tourists of the rules against smoking, touching monuments, entering restricted areas and wearing revealing clothing at the temples.
‘Any act of looting, breaking or damaging Angkor, or exposing sex organs and nudity in public area is a crime punishable by law’, it says.
According to Apsara Authority spokeswoman Chau Sun Kerya, the code of conduct will be translated into multiple languages and posted at the entrance to the temples, as well as distributed to hotels and guesthouses around Siem Reap City starting in July.”
[Well done Apsara Authority! The behaviour of some recent tourists has been disgraceful and totally disrespectful towards Cambodia’s cultural heritage – Ed.]
“The recent discovery of three leather polo balls said to be 2,400 to 2,800 years old in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China indicated that polo was being played in China 800 years ago or earlier than previously thought, archaeologists said.
According to an article published in China.org.cn, the leather balls discovered in the ancient Yanghai Tombs in Turpan were made of sheep skin and stuffed with scraps of leather and wool.
Each ball is about the size of a fist, with a red cross painted on the bottom, the article said. ”
“Peru was once ruled by the mighty Inca Empire, a civilization that achieved many impressive architectural feats.
The famous Machu Picchu, which was built by the Inca above a much older megalithic site, is one of the prime examples of their skill and ingenuity.
Nevertheless, Machu Picchu is not the only monumental site built by the Incas, as there were other less-known, but equally impressive places that they built.
One of these is Choquequirao (‘Cradle of Gold’), which still holds many hidden secrets as archaeologists have barely scratched the surface of what lays beneath the earth.”
[In October 1900, Captain Dimitrious Kondos was leading a team of sponge divers near the the island of Antikythera off the coast of Greece. They noticed a shipwreck about 180 feet below the surface and began to investigate. Amongst the artifacts that they brought up was a coral-encrusted piece of metal that later archaeologists found was some sort of gear wheel.
The rest of the artifacts, along with the shape of the boat, suggested a date around 2000 years ago, which made the find one of the most anomalous that had ever been recovered from the Greek seas. It became known as The Antikythera Mechanism.
In 2006 the journal “Nature” published a letter, and another paper about the mechanism was published in 2008, detailing the findings of Prof. Mike G. Edmunds of Cardiff University. Using high-resolution X-ray tomography to study the fragments of the anomalous Antikythera Mechanism, they found that it was in fact a bronze mechanical analog computer that could be used to calculate the astronomical positions and various cycles of the Moon – as seen from the Earth: – Ed]
Part of the Antikythera Mechanism
Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
2000-year-old analog computer recreated
More Antikythera Mechanism Information & Commentary:
“Graham Hancock’s multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth’s lost civilization.
20 years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light…
The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.
Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments.
Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.
At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.
The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth’s crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.
A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.
But there were survivors – known to later cultures by names such as ‘the Sages’, ‘the Magicians’, ‘the Shining Ones’, and ‘the Mystery Teachers of Heaven’.
They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning.
They settled at key locations – Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia.”
“The 2300 BC Event takes a new look at an old puzzle:
what happened at this date to cause the various advanced societies on the Earth to simultaneously collapse?
Civilizations in Anatolia and Greece, through Egypt and the Middle East, and eastward to India and Central Asia were at their height. The collapse of these civilizations due to earthquakes and climatic changes has been mirrored by similar interruptions on all continents, in the Arctic, and extending to the Pacific.
The discontinuities have long puzzled archaeologists and historians. New religions and accompanying mythologies appeared at this time in all cultural regions describing bombardment and flooding from the skies.
Strangely, the dominant aspect of the mythologies, however, is the observation and worship of a ring appearing to surround the Earth, oriented to the two Ursa (Bear) constellations.”
“Some time around 2300 BC the Eath encountered a dense clustering of space debris, the early Southern & Northern Taurid meteoroid stream. The result was an intense fall of meteoroids, some of them sufficiently large to cause surface destruction.
Simultaneous with the meteoroid fall was a huge downpouring of water which caused flash flooding. Extensive destruction and loss of life resulted. An astonishing aspect of the event was the formation of a ring surrounding the Earth, reflecting sunlight during the day, hiding some stars at night, and moving around the sky through a 24-hour period.
Following the ‘main event’, there were crustal movements which shifted the location of water sources, and caused earthquakes which destroyed settlements. Abrupt severe climate changes occurred.”
“The Northern/Southern Taurid meteoroid stream is identified as the specific meteoroid stream that the Earth encountered at 2300 BC.
The Earth’s encounter with a dense cluster of large objects would produce atmospheric phenomena very different from the pleasant and interesting night displays of meteor trails that are within our own experience.
The rain of objects would have generated extraordinary visual and auditory effects combined with ground vibrations; and under extreme conditions would bring about severe surface destruction and loss of life.
The overall event was associated by the people with powerful deities and formed the basis for major religions. The mythologies and traditions are, in large part, the residues of those religions.”
