Dead Men's Secrets
Tantalising Hints of a Lost Super Race
By Jonathan Gray
Chapter 7
SOMEBODY’S MISREADING THE TIME
Gentlemen,” she enquired, “would you please tell me how old these
are?”
The veteran Maori guide, Rangi, was conducting a party of Australian
geologists around one of New Zealand’s thermal attractions. She led them
to a volcanically formed protuberance and paused.
One learned member of the group gave the site a cursory examination
and stated that in his opinion the rocks were 50 millions years old.
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“That figure would be close.”
“What do you other gentlemen say?” queried the guide with a twinkle in
her eye that evidently passed unnoticed.
“Ten million years”…
“No, nearer to twenty million,” came the replies.
Whereupon the genial lady straightened herself, beamed at the three sages in
her inimitable style and said: “Thank you, gentlemen. Now let me tell you
something. I stood on this very spot just ten years ago and watched these
rocks being formed.”
MISREADING THE TIME can be downright embarrassing.
Particularly for a man professing to know so much.
Misreading the time concerning our own origin might even be
considered dangerous. Especially if it sets us on a false trail as to who we
are, our sense of purpose and what’s in store for us.
You will have noticed in the events of earlier chapters a time factor.
1. An original super civilization was annihilated and our planet swept
totally clean by a Deluge, about 3400 B.C.
2. The earliest postdiluvian nations sprang into existence ready made,
about 3,000 B.C.
3. Primitive cultures were offshoots from the civilized world of 3400 B.C.
and later; all societies had degenerated more or less.
Now, some dear person will refer me to “Stone Age” tribes like
Aborigines who have been in Australia for 20,000 years.
Have they???
The time factor is so important, that if we can go back without
interruption 20,000 years, then you can toss out almost everything we have
so far discussed.
The question is, HOW FAR BACK WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY
CAN WE GO? As far as dates are concerned, where does fact end and
speculation begin?
The answer is, ABOUT 3,000 B.C. And the reasons for my stating this
are compelling.
Yes, I know that much older dates have been suggested by historians.
For example we’re told that man already had a brain larger than ours 60,000
years ago and left drawings in 30,000 B.C. that would do justice to a modern
painter.
Now think about it. If this is so, then why would man have waited so
long to develop cities and the type of agriculture associated with them? We
should expect that those isolated civilizations which developed
independently would be somewhat spread out over this period. Even one
civilization from 20,000 B.C. would be strong proof against my account of
the worldwide Flood. But, I repeat, the oldest cultures on earth all go back
to about the same time—3,000 B.C.
What does the evidence show?
For one thing, the written records of no nation on earth are older than
about 3,000 B.C. That is generally agreed by historians.
But get this. Even modern dating techniques cannot take us back further
than about 3,000 B.C. Dr. W.F. Libby, a foremost authority on modern
dating methods, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on carbon- dating,
was shocked to discover this limitation:
“You read statements in books that such and such society or
archaeological site is 20,000 years old,” he noted. “We learned rather
abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known accurately; in
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fact, it is at about the time of the First Dynasty of Egypt that the first
historical date of any real certainty has been established.”1
Does that shock you?
Consider the much acclaimed carbon - 14 dating method. This is based
on the radioactive decay rate in organic matter. It is a fact that every living
thing absorbs cosmic radioactive carbon-14 from the atmosphere. At death,
this intake ceases and the radiocarbon in the organism begins to disintegrate.
The amount of remaining C-14 is used to calculate how long ago the
organism died.
The accuracy of this dating method has come under some criticism
lately. For example, a living mollusk from salt water can show age dates of
3,000 years (as though it had been dead for 3,000 years).
Under normal conditions, radiocarbon dating is reliable to about 4,000
years ago. Then the disparity runs wild. You see, this dating method
depends on the assumption that atmospheric radiation has remained
constant.
The trouble is that any traumatic environmental change occurring in the
past would have accelerated the decay rate, adding to “apparent age,” if
calculated on the assumption of uniformity.
Thus an upheaval like the Deluge would play immeasurable havoc upon
readings prior to about 3,000 B.C. It’s as simple as that.
Let’s not underestimate the impact of the Deluge. The thing to
remember is that this event was a universal catastrophe. It encompassed
epic changes: mountains rising and falling, tidal waves rushing faster than
the speed of sound, as well as thousands of Krakatoa's belching out dust to
darken the atmosphere for centuries. Anything that could happen did
happen. Seismic and atmospheric distortions persisted for hundreds of
years.
Get this. The earliest civilized cultures that can be dated go back no
further than the post-Deluge period.
CAVE CULTURES CONTEMPORANEOUS
WITH CITY CULTURES
And the same can be said for primitive men. Here are some bones found
in caves near Rochebertier, in France. How old are they? “Twelve
thousand years,” we’re told. But notice these script characters on them.
What nags at me is this. They resemble and in some cases are identical to
the script of Tartessus (of the period 2500 to 2000 B.C.). Are we to believe
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that a script, once developed, would remain relatively unchanged for 10,000
years? It does not happen. So what do the two scripts really demonstrate?
Just this—that the cultures must have been of the same period. Do you see?
The same is true of Paleolithic antler bones found at Le Mas d’Azil and
La Madelaine. These are inscribed with signs identical to Phoenician script
from about 2000 B.C.
And painted pebbles from Le Mas d’Azil are marked with signs and
symbols that were once predominant throughout the Mediterranean—again,
between 3000 and 2000 B.C.
What does this all mean? Simply that “Stone Age” and “civilized”
cultures existed at the same time! And, by the way, not 12,000 years ago.
Yet we are still asked to believe in a long progression, first from
caveman to Stone Age, thence to wandering hunters, to settled farmers, and
later to cities and civilization.
I feel sorry for the evolutionist, but that will not do.
There is enough evidence now to show that these groups existed
simultaneously, each aware of the other. On this point, ancient literature
agrees with the latest archaeological findings.
Just as even in today’s “Space Age”, there live “Stone Age” tribes on all
continents except Europe.
Concerning primitive people, Thor Heyerdahl, the “Kon-Tiki” explorer,
observed correctly that their intelligence is “exactly like our own “2
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In other words, ‘stone culture” implies neither “dim-witted” nor
“prehistoric.” There’s no 20,000 B.C. here.
DOES “APE-LIKE” MEAN “ANCIENT”?
I hear somebody asking, “But didn’t the first men look like apes?”
Surely the transition to our present appearance must have required hundreds
of thousands of years?
It is time for the truth. One thing you should know about discovered
specimens of the earliest men is that they look remarkably like us.
Here’s a short checklist:
Perfectly preserved bodies of “ancient” cavemen found near the Bay of
Biscay were almost identical to those of present-day man.
Fossil skulls characteristic of “modern” man have been found in
“ancient” strata in Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Ethiopia, Tanzania
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and the Middle East. In some places, fragments of modern man have been
found in strata below (hence “older than”) bones of “Stone Age” man.
Regarding a skull found in Kenya, evolutionist Richard Leakey wrote in
the June 1973 issue of National Geographic, “Either we toss out this skull
or we toss out our theories of early man…It simply fits no previous models
of human beginnings.” This skull “leaves in ruins the notion that all early
fossils can be arranged in an orderly sequence of evolutionary change.” You
have to admire the man for his honesty.
In Australia, an excavation produced modern man and Neanderthal
(“Stone Age”) man in a contemporary environment. “This raised the
disturbing possibility that there may have been no ancestor of man—that he
appeared fully formed.” The comment on this occasion came from A.A.
Abbie, at the time Professor of Anatomy and Histology at Adelaide
University. He added, “A Neanderthal man in modern dress would not
attract much attention today. It appeared that geologists and anthropologists
have wasted time looking for a ‘missing link’ between man and his ape-like
ancestors, which probably did not exist.”3
But haven’t there been “ape men”?
Yes, and quite simply, these were degenerates from the main stock, the
result of interbreeding from isolation. With such a limited gene pool, the
appearance of bad genetic traits increased considerably, producing birth
defects and physical mutations.
As to physical deformities, Harold G. Coffin, of the Geoscience
Research Institute in Berrien Springs, Michigan, U.S.A., has a point to
make. He refers to “the recent discovery that the classic descriptions of
Neanderthal man were based in large part on the (skeletal) remains of…a
man suffering from severe osteoarthritis.”4
Researchers Straus and Cove agree that this “arthritic old man…has his
counterparts in modern man similarly afflicted with spinal osteoarthritis. He
cannot…be used to provide us with a reliable picture of a healthy, normal
Neanderthalian.”5
Sir Ambrose Fleming asks: “Even if these fragments are of humans and
show unusual features, why should they not be examples of deterioration
rather than evolution?”6
Monkey-faced men? Today I saw one driving a bus. Arthritic spines?
The bottom line is, you cannot time-slot a man by his posture or by the
shape of his head. “Long aeons” ago has nothing to do with it.
WHY THE “LONG AGES” SYNDROME?
Most of us have seen those elaborate charts in books which show
geological ages, from the first simple life form to the emergence of man.
Millions of years are postulated. You have to admit, they look very
convincing to the point of being overwhelming.
Once again, I have news for you. With all due respect, these charts, so
painstakingly prepared, cannot be further from the truth. They are largely
hypothetical, you see; they assume the theory of evolution to be correct—
and build on that. They assume that the earth’s strata was deposited in a
uniform, steady fashion over a tremendously long period of time. They
assume that the uniform action of nature has never been interrupted by
catastrophe.
This assumption is called “uniformitarianism.”
Let me tell you how Dr. Henry M. Morris put these standard
evolutionary assumptions to the test. Dr. Morris set out to calculate the age
of the earth from various natural processes such as the uniform decay of the
earth’s magnetic field, the erosion of lands, and the gradual influx of
chemicals into the ocean. In fact, he compiled a table of seventy separate
natural processes of worldwide change. And do you know, the majority of
these chronometers yielded a young age. More importantly, the processes
showed extreme van-ability ranging all the way from 100 years to
500,000,000 years for the age of the earth.7
You realize what this means? Quite simply, it proves there is something
wrong with the basic premise of uniformity. Evidently nature has not
always behaved as it does now.
The other day my neighbor assured me that an orderly evolutionary
sequence spanning millions of years was indicated by the rock strata with its
“ascending” fossils. For example, coal beds were laid down 340 million
years ago, dinosaurs ruled from 130 to 65 million years B.C., and man
appeared just a million or so years ago.
I’ll tell you something. In most parts of the world this theoretical
sequence never occurs. Remains of marine and land animals arc mixed up
in every possible sequence. Human relics are found even inside coal beds.
As if that were not tricky enough, these remains of human origin sometimes
occur with or beneath the bones of dinosaurs. Can you see what’s wrong?
The evidence shows they were deposited at the same time—not millions of
years apart. The man and the dinosaur died together, you see. (And before
the coal was formed!)
Figure out what this does to the theory of evolution. For one thing, it
does not allow for the vast periods of time needed for the organic
evolutionary process.
The truth is, each successive layer of sediment with its dead bodies was
deposited wave upon wave by the Deluge and sorted further by local
currents.
Remains all over the world—often perfectly preserved—attest that
countless billions of creatures were buried suddenly and violently in a
water-borne disaster. Animals from different geographical zones and all
climatic areas of the world are found heaped together in one common
graveyard.
Sometimes lower strata contain fossils of smaller creatures, while in the
higher strata larger animals are found. This is a logical consequence of an
advancing global flood. Often the first to be engulfed were the smaller, less
mobile creatures, whereas larger animals escaped to higher ground, to be
overtaken later. These successive burials were accomplished within a year.
Think it through.
I’m not talking about the raw material of our planet, which is possibly
some 5 billion years of age. Life on earth is quite a different matter; this is a
recent event.
(Moreover, if we are totally honest about this, we should not ignore the
substantial new scientific evidence suggesting that even the earth’s raw
materials may be measured in terms of only thousands of years of age.)
In an interview with Science and Mechanics, July 1968, Immanuel
Velikovsky expressed surprise that the body, brain and mind of man, a
tremendously sophisticated biological apparatus supposedly spanning
millions of years of time, was able to produce a recorded history of only a
few thousand years.
Doesn’t it make you wonder? Could it be that man is not so old, after
all?
We speak of millions of years for terrestrial life only because evolution
demands that it be so. It needs the time. In other words, evolution has an
answer it likes, and is trying to make the questions, and the facts, fit its
answer.
The exaggerated time element must be rejected.
WE MUST REVISE PREHISTORY
Constant media bombardment has moulded our attitudes, until we
accept the evolutionary time viewpoint almost without question. Those who
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influence us try hard to ignore the real nature of their proffered sacred cow.
It is 100 percent speculation.
It is not within the scope of this work to present the growing mass of
scientific evidence for a dramatically ‘recent” time scale; this is reserved for
a subsequent book.
Does it really matter what we believe concerning our roots? It does,
very much.
By having lost our historical links to our early ancestors, we have lost
much of our heritage; and in rediscovering these links, we may begin to find
ourselves. As William Fix observes:
The question of our origin is of supreme importance: it is the basis of
our identity and destiny. The models with which we identify profoundly
influence our behavior: the man who believes he came from a beast may be
more inclined to behave like a beast. The image is not only degrading; it is
dangerous.8
So now, having swept aside the false, conventional view of prehistory,
with its idea of a lowly form of man living in caves, using stone tools and
incapable of producing the wonders of the past, we at last see a door
opening to us.
Now we are ready to conceive of that past as awesome and fantastic—as
it really was.
Well, almost. Two loose ends remain. One is the “space gods” theory.
Could intelligent man’s sudden appearance conceivably be the result of a
visit by galactic astronauts? Let’s see.
Chapter 8
DID SPACE GIANTS EXPERIMENT WITH US?
Erich von Daniken caused a sensation in the seventies when he claimed
that sophisticated ancient relics were the result of a space visit to earth.
Now it is time for the truth.
Von Daniken, like others, assumed that early man struggled for endless
millions of years as a primitive dumb and stupid creature, unable to
accomplish anything on his own.
Then we find man quite suddenly (in the last few thousand years)
nurturing a technology so intricate, so sophisticated, that it suggests
intellectual maturity from the start.
You don’t have to be smart to sense there is something wrong here. So,
faced with the new evidence of high technology in ancient times, and
realizing that man could not have obtained such advanced thinking
capabilities and complex technology simply by evolving from nothing, Von Daniken’s camp suggested that maybe galactic visitors were responsible.
These alien giants crossbred with primates to produce modern man, then left
behind artifacts from their visit.
Did they? You have to admit, it’s an interesting theory. Of the
following facts we can be sure:
1. None of the out-of-place artifacts is composed of material unknown
to earth.
2. Their technological makeup conforms with the development of our
own modern civilization.
3. Interbreeding would have been, we must face it, a virtual
impossibility. That’s right. Aliens, you see, would need a carbon based physiology. Not only that. These giants would need to be
physically adapted for entering the human female. But wait. Their
chromosomes would have to be interchangeable, even for artificial
insemination. Chromosomes and genes must both match up, which
is extremely unlikely and does not happen even between animals
and humans of the same planet!
4. And of course you realize that if these were to match, they would
already be of the same or closely related species—and man would
be already intelligent.
5. Still unresolved, the problem of the origin of intelligence is only
removed to another planet. You have to account for civilizations on
two worlds now, instead of one, and you still have to find out how
the first began. Now naturally, if evolution cannot account for it on
this planet, it is equally impossible to explain a more highly
intelligent man evolving on some other planet.
6. Memories of “gods” from the skies are explainable as the
recollection by primitive people of visits from contemporary
civilizations who had aircraft. Similar reactions have occurred in
our day.
With whatever good intentions, the “space gods” theory was born in
careless research; since then it has been perpetuated through the use of
faulty reasoning and sensationalism.
Its promoters are correct, however, on one point: Human intelligence
cannot be the product of chance evolution. Man did appear suddenly—at
the top, not at the bottom. Man is a created artifact, far more wonderful than
any computer. He was carefully planned and endowed with the gift of
language and the most amazing intellect, as well as a feeling for handcrafts
and technology.
And something else was implanted within man: both the capacity and
the need to communicate with his Maker, the prime Intelligence.
Consequently, there is a part of every person which is restless, seeking
unattainable goals, yet experiencing futility and emptiness until it finds
identity and peace with the Creator. And that makes all the difference.
One remaining question deserves an answer. If the early world was so
advanced, then why is there such a paucity of physical evidence?
Four reasons coming up: stay tuned.
Chapter 9
VANISHING EVIDENCE
Consider, for a moment, the awful possibility that your hometown was
forever wiped out. Can you imagine what future generations might
find?
Has it occurred to you that our noblest buildings today are scarcely more
than facades supported by thin tendons of steel?
Even with no disaster, our main cities would be little more than rubble
in a thousand years. Our motorways would be crumpled pieces of hardness
beneath vegetation. Our once complex railway network would be red dust
blowing in the wind.
Make no mistake about it. Few house chattels would survive the
corrosion of time. Generally, paper books cannot last more than a few
centuries (hence the need to recopy). Plastics will eventually disintegrate
when exposed for long periods outside. The same goes for everything
metallic. Yes, that’s right. Hair dryers, automobiles and carpets would be
reduced to dust, along with photographic plates and film.
What is more, all iron and steel buildings would rust and crumble to
earth. Nothing would be left except a few stone structures downtown and
maybe a few statues. Stone is the only indestructible material; it will
survive a dead civilization. Isn’t it ironic? Nature allows dressed blocks of
stone to survive, but not thick iron girders.
Probably there would not be one item left in the suburbs to show that
they even existed—except for the odd stone axe-head.
In the event of a total catastrophe, the survivors would be driven to the
countryside, to live primitively. They might, for a time, be able to salvage
and use certain elements of their civilized technology.
Eventually the last machine would break down, with nobody
remembering how to repair it. The transistors, toasters and x-ray machines,
though revered, would be useless.
To the grandchildren and their descendants they would become legends.
The “magic mirror” that could see events far away; the metal bird that could
fly above the clouds; the room that could move up and down inside big
houses—these would become “magical” myths of a people whose survival
instinct would direct them back into the rapidly encroaching forests.
Archaeologists 4,000 years later could claim that twentieth century man
was not yet familiar with iron. (If they found cassettes with tapes, these
would be a meaningless puzzle to them.) What do you think of that?
Texts speaking of gigantic cities with houses several hundred feet high
would be classed as myths.
Do you begin to see the picture? It is this very situation of meagre clues
that confronts us in relation to the original super world. I can think of four
reasons for this.
1. MOST PHYSICAL REMAINS WERE WIPED OUT
Numerous ancient cities now lie below ground level; many are covered
by desert sands or swallowed by dense jungle; while others still may lie
intact under the mile-deep ice of Antarctica.
On the other hand, exposed remains can disappear so fast. Take, for
example, the 4,000-year-old ruins of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia. As recently as
the sixteenth century there still stood immense walls with massive rivets of
silver in the stonework as well as lifelike statues of men and women in a
thousand animated poses. Even until last century, travellers could admire
and sketch imposing colonnades. Of these there is no trace today. The
Spaniards and more recently the Bolivian government plundered them for
building materials.
Again, many scale replicas of ancient apparatuses probably perished
when the Spanish conquistadors melted down all the gold artifacts they
could find in Central and South America.
The scale of destruction over the centuries will never be known.
2. MOST ANCIENT RECORDS HAVE ALSO BEEN
DESTROYED
The destruction of printed records has been much greater than was
originally thought.
The great library of Alexandria once contained one million volumes in
which the entire science, philosophy and mysteries of the ancient world
were recorded (including a complete catalogue of authors in 120 volumes,
with a brief biography of each author). In a single act of vandalism, Julius
Caesar destroyed 700,000 priceless scrolls. In the seventh century, the
Arabs completed the wipeout. Do you know how they did it? They used the
books as a fuel supply to heat the city’s 400 public baths for six months.
Totally destroyed also were the papyri of the library of Ptah in Memphis.
Carthage, with a library of 500,000 volumes, was razed in a seventeen-day
fire by the Romans in 146 B.C.
The library of Pergamos in Asia Minor (with 200,000 volumes) likewise
perished.
When the famous collection of Pisistratus in Athens was wiped out (in
the sixth century). surprisingly Homer’s writings escaped.
In the eighth century, Leo Isaurus burned 300,000 books in
Constantinople. In China, Emperor Tam Shi Hwang-ti issued an edict (213
B.C.) to destroy innumerable books.
Thousands of Druidic scrolls in Autun, France, on philosophy, medicine,
astronomy and other sciences, were obliterated by Julius Caesar. Not one
survived.
Much classical literature was systematically destroyed by the papal
Inquisition.
Spanish conquerors searched out and destroyed the entire Mayan
literature (except for four documents now in European museums). It was
related that Mayan scholars screamed in agony as they saw their life’s
purpose go up in flames. Some committed suicide.
The Council of Lima (1583) decreed the burning of the knotted cords
(“quipas”) on which the Incas had recorded their history and that of their
predecessors.
What a story of carnage, in which the greatest depositories of
knowledge from the ancient world are lost forever! (Yet somehow the
Indian books escaped.) Did you know that even of the Greek and Roman
literature, less than 1 percent has come down to us?
Is it any wonder we are ignorant of our early heritage? I agree with
Andrew Tomas that “we have to depend on disconnected fragments, casual
passages and meagre accounts. Our distant past is a vacuum filled at
random with tablets, parchments, statues, paintings and various artifacts.
The history of science would appear totally different were the book
collection of Alexandria intact today.” 1
3. EVEN WHERE NOT LOST, MUCH REMAINS A
MYSTERY
Undeciphered still are writings at Easter Island, tablets at Mohenjo-Daro
in Pakistan, and Mayan scripts. Some finds will remain unsolved forever.
There are no inscriptions awaiting us at Tiahuanaco or Machu Picchu.
Then there are many museum relics, whose significance may have
eluded us.
A methodical reexamination of pieces labelled “art objects,” “cult
objects” and “unidentified objects” would yield much new data. So would a
systematic exploration of museum vaults.
It is a well-known fact that museums are in the habit of “burying”
objects that do not coincide with current theories, or that are not beautiful to
look at. The vaults of the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of
Prehistory of Saint Germain-en-Laye are full of crates of incomprehensible
objects that nobody is studying.2
Could it be that many objects we have discovered had a purpose that we
do not yet understand? The ancients may have achieved results similar to
ours by quite different processes. (For instance, look at what happened to
German technology. It diverged tremendously from that of other countries
in just twelve years, from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was progressively
isolated from the rest of the world.)
Then again, is it possible that some of the antediluvian artifacts we have
found cannot yet be identified, simply because they are ahead of our
technology?
A point to remember. As any technology advances, its methods and
equipment do not become more complex; they become simplified. (Take,
for example, printed circuits, silicon chips.) Such equipment may not be
recognizable to a civilization of inferior knowledge.
The point is we may be looking at objects—quite exciting objects—
without recognizing them. Who would have expected that items in Baghdad
Museum, long labelled as “ritual objects,” would prove to be components of
batteries? Do you see what I mean?
4. OTHER RELICS STILL AWAIT DISCOVERY
Here is a tantalizing thought. Some authentic and incredibly ancient
documents are known to be safely locked away. We may never see them.
These forbidden treasures are known to be concealed in four places:
1. Catacombs beneath the Potala in Llasa, Tibet
2. Vaults in the Vatican Library, to which even the pope does not have
access
3. Morocco, where Muslim leaders are fiercely opposed to making
them public
4. A secret place known to a few initiated rabbis (believed to be in
Spain)
But this is not all. There must be numerous lost cities undiscovered.
Hold it, I hear you say. That’s overdoing things, isn’t it? An occasional
ruin, maybe, but numerous lost cities? There aren’t any unknown areas in
this day and age!
On the contrary, there are many totally unexplored areas left about.
Quite a lot of things occur in out-of-the-way corners of the world—and
some not so out-of-the-way—that most persons never hear of.
Still not explored from the ground are immense expanses of the interior
of Central and South America, New Guinea, Asia and Australia.
Although Europeans have lived and worked in India for some centuries,
building bridges, railways and modern cities, the jungles have scarcely been
investigated. There are remote villages that have never seen a white man.
In the trackless Central Australian desert, a structure from an unknown
civilization was discovered when vehicles from a nearby atomic test site
drove into it purely by accident.3
What you shall see in Part Two is just a hint of what still awaits us in
desert, jungle and ocean.
The largest unexplored jungle area in the world is the Amazon Basin.
This region is so little known that a river tributary 200 miles long was only
recently discovered—and then only by satellite. The Amazon system
comprises 50,000 miles of navigable “trunk rivers” and an estimated 16,000
tributaries. The jungle on each side of the rivers is almost totally
impenetrable, at least for a European. I know of settlers who have lived on
riverbank clearings for forty years and never ventured more than a mile back
into the jungle.
The Amazon contains some of the most solid jungles and hostile
environments to be found anywhere. Surprisingly, this now mysterious
region was once the center of a very intense and highly active population.
Large cities flourished here, with high volume commercial traffic to the
Andes.
Despite satellite technology, we face almost insurmountable problems in
locating any remains.
A pilot over the Amazon may spy towers, villages or ruins, pinpoint
them and report them. A few days later, someone setting out to verify the
data will find they have already vanished—swallowed again by the jungle
since that forest fire or whim of weather that exposed them.
Karl Brugger mentions that the “Transamazonica spur of the road
between Manaus and Barcellos on the lower Rio Negro, built in 1971, was
overgrown by tropical vegetation within a year. The technicians even had
difficulties locating the approximate direction of the road. It is not
surprising therefore that there are no more signs of ‘white cities.’”4
Again, there are vast stretches where the fog never lifts, and in others it
doesn’t clear until late afternoon.
There is an area in Eastern Ecuador from which natives have been
carrying out thousands of artifacts belonging to what they describe as giant
pyramids and immense deserted cities. But don’t get carried away. This is a
forbidden region; local Indians still massacre inquisitive outsiders.
Intruders in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil can expect a similar
welcome. Yes, believe it! Documented accounts are numerous. Once an
entire patrol of 1,400 vanished in the jungle without trace. This trackless,
unexplored “green hell” swallows visitors. The ruins clasp their secret.
Think of it. Five thousand years ago (when our forefathers were
supposed to be existing in caves or crude settlements) a highly advanced
culture reached over the whole globe—from Siberia to Antarctica, from
Greenland to Africa.
This super world vanished so completely we thought it never existed. It
is not unlikely a whole empire could disappear like this. The more advanced
the culture, the more easily it could vanish without a trace. If it were so
advanced, then its powers of destruction must also have been enormous.
More on that later.
What an epic! The wonder is that despite wholesale obliteration of
evidence, many thousands of pieces do survive—written records, oral
traditions and physical remains.
There now follow about one thousand of the more interesting exhibits.
Yet these can never be more than a tantalizing peep at this astonishing,
unknown world, shrouded in opaque clouds of mystery.
PART TWO
CLUES THEY LEFT BEHIND
In this section, each “island” paragraph clue is coded as
follows:
O -An Oral tradition
W -A Written or pictorial record
S -A currently or recently Surviving object
Chapter 10
Geographical—THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ADMIRAL OT
From the coffin came life…after 2,100 years!
It was May 1985. Chinese archaeologists had just cracked open a
Han Dynasty tomb in the Fenghuang Mountains. Beside the corpse were
containers of ancient seeds. “Let’s cover these with a damp cloth,”
motioned one of the men to his colleague. “We don’t want them to crack.”
For some days the partners excavated further, unaware that something
peculiar was happening. Until the lifting of the cloth; that’s when the shock
came. Still alive, would you believe, after 2,100 years, forty seeds had
sprouted into tomato plants.
But the implications went deeper. Until now, the tomato was held to
have been discovered, together with its native South America, only four
centuries ago—concomitant with the development of ocean travel. We must
now reexamine history.
Dead men do tell tales, you see. Tales of journeys long forgotten.
Stand by for adventure…—gigantic adventure.
Come with me now, far back into the center of the Great Unknown. Our
destination: a strange planet (albeit our own), 5,000 years in the past.
What is our purpose, our main objective? To unravel some
geographical mysteries:
1. Did ancient races have luxury ocean vessels equipped with
sophisticated instruments to travel the earth’s surface?
2. Could there have been global communication in the distant past
which equalled that of modern times?
Now I realize that an affirmative answer to either of these questions will
throw the whole of prehistory into confusion.
Ought we not to ask such questions? It seems to me that the classical
method of research into antiquity has gotten bogged down and therefore
cannot come to the right unassailable kind of conclusions.
I set before you a mere sampling of known discoveries. Make no
mistake. The implications arc dynamite.
SHIPPING SOPHISTICATION
ITALY
1 (S): Two Roman ships were found in the 1920s at the bottom of Lake
Nemi, and between 1927 and 1932 were restored, only to be destroyed by
German bombers toward the end of World War II.
These luxury cruisers contained accommodation for 120 passengers in
30 cabins of 4 berths each, plus crew’s quarters; were richly decorated with
mosaic-tiled floors; walls of cypress panelling; metal columns, marble
statues; and paintings in the lounge. There was a library; a ceiling sundial; a
salon where a small orchestra entertained the passengers; a large restaurant
and kitchen; copper heaters which provided hot water for the baths; and
modern plumbing, with bronze pipes and taps.
The underwater part of the hull was sheathed with lead, fastened with
copper nails.
EGYPT
2 (W): Egyptian open-sea ships were up to 350 feet long and 60 feet
wide, with as many as four decks.
GREECE
CHINA
3 (W): Ancient vessels from 250 to 600 feet long and capable of
carrying a crew of up to 600 were far larger than anything built by later
European explorers.1
GREECE
ROME
4 (W): Large luxury ocean liners over 500 feet long contained temples
and swimming pools; also dining halls of marble and alabaster.
SUMERIA
5 (W): An Akkadian dictionary of the Sumerian language contained a
whole section on shipping. It catalogued as many as 105 Sumerian terms for
various ships, by size, destination or purpose. A further 69 Sumerian terms
connected with the manning and construction of ships were translated into
the Akkadian.
UGARIT, SYRIA, 1400 B. C
6 (W): A catalogue of ships details the types and uses of cargo vessels,
passenger ships, fishing smacks, racing boats, troop transports and warships.
SUMERIA
7 (W): Ancient texts refer constantly to a type of ship used by the
“gods” called “elippu tebiti” (“sunken ship”—what we would today call a
submarine).
INDIA
8 (W): A 3,000-year-old document contains eight chapters of plans for
craft that could travel in the air, on water or under the sea.2
BRITAIN
CHINA
9 (W): Legends of sophisticated flying water craft come to us from
Britain and China.
NAVIGATIONAL ABILITY
GREECE
10 (S): Maritime computer: On Easter Day, 1901, divers working in a
very old shipwreck on the seabed off Antikythera Island, Greece, brought up,
among other relics (mostly statues), a metal artifact fused by the sea into a
lump.
The object collected dust for 50 years, until restored by acid baths.
It proved to be a bronze machine with complex dials, moveable pointers,
inscribed plates and a sophisticated system of interlocking gears (more than
twenty gear wheels, a differential gear and a crown wheel).
On one side was a spindle that set all the dials in motion at varying
speeds as soon as it was turned.
The pointers were protected by bronze covers on which long
inscriptions could be read.
It could work out and exhibit the motions of the sun, moon and planets,
calculate their positions, the movement of tides and the time of day. Signs
of the zodiac were included.
To use the computer, one could set a particular planet on the scale, turn
the gears for so many months or years and a number would show through a
hole in the case, telling you where the planet would be.
Here is first-class precision mechanics, as accurate as any that can be
made today.
This computer was used for navigation purposes; a mechanism for
checking one’s position at night. First century B.C., but doubtless of a much
older technology.3
As Dr. Derek Price, a Cambridge scientist, observed, “finding
something like this is like finding a jet plane in the tomb of Tutankhamen!”4
NORWAY
11 (W): Early sea travellers used a “magic stone” for all-weather
navigation, which was able to “find the sun, even when behind clouds and
fog.”
Pilots today have compasses with crystal polarization, capable of
finding the exact position of the sun when it is not directly visible. This
legendary “stone” was based on the same principles.
It was probably cordierite (from the magnetic rocks of Italy, Finland and
Norway), whose fine, clear crystals are better known as water sapphires.
Its most important quality is change of color, varying from yellow to
blue when the natural alignment of its molecules forms an angle of 90
degrees with the plane of polarization of sunlight.
These items of equipment were simply the result of a much earlier
technology—one anteceding both the Vikings and the Greeks.
CHINA
OLMECS, MEXICO
PHOENICIA
12 (W,S): Compasses.
EXTENT OF ANCIENT TRAVEL
That’s right!
There was a time when the whole world was known. Travel around it
was regular, safe and profitable.
Then most nations lapsed into a subsistence economy, the trade routes
dead and forgotten.
TRAVEL TO NORTH AMERICA
RECORDS OF OTHER NATIONS
13 (W): A Tibetan record of at least 300 B.C. contains a map of “a green
land lying far across the eastern sea” (i.e., the Pacific).
14 (W): Greek navigators spoke of islands in the “western sea” (i.e., the
Atlantic) with a great mainland beyond (America); also regions where “for
30 days on end, the sun sets for little more than an hour, and for several
months the night is faintly illuminated by the western twilight” (the Polar
regions); and “countries where there was a day for 6 months and night for 6
months.”
15 (W): Egyptian priests told the Greek Solon that the Atlantic “is a real
sea and the surrounding land may be most truly called a continent” (i.e.,
America).
16 (W): According to interpretations of texts by Plato and Diodorus,
Phoenicians traded with America around 1000 B.C.
17 (W): Seneca (first century) speaks of lands between the east coast of
Asia and the west coast of Europe (e.g., the Americas); he says that “one
day, vast new lands will offer themselves to human view.”
18 (W): Strabo (born c. 60 B.C.) writes of “other inhabited lands” and
says that “a huge continent will be discovered one day.”
MASSACHUSETTS
19 (S): An underwater rock carving in Lake Assawompset,
Massachusetts, was temporarily exposed when the waterline receded during
a drought in 1957. It clearly portrayed a ship of ancient Phoenician or
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Minoan style (suggesting it was incised when the sea level was lower, and
the level of in-shore waters corresponded).
TENNESSEE
20 (S): A stone found in 1885 near Morganton, Tennessee, bore an
inscription speculated to be recent Indian. However, when the stone is
turned upside down the letters spell a message in ancient Canaanite: “For
Jehu”—an example of an inscription having been looked at upside down for
almost a century!5
CANADA
21 (W): The Micmac clan of the Algonquian nation wrote in 2,000
characters of pure Egyptian hieroglyphics.
GENERAL
22 (S): Arab remains in America are fairly numerous.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
23 (S): A stone labyrinth with Minoan-like inscriptions and of a similar
construction to that of 3,500 years ago, stands at Mystery Hill, New
Hampshire.
IOWA
24 (S): An American “Rosetta Stone” called the Davenport Stele (found
1874, in the lower levels of an Indian burial mound) contains inscriptions in
three languages: hieratic Egyptian, Iberian Punic and Libyan.
Harvard professor Barry Fell, in America B.C., remarks that this stele is
genuine because neither the Iberian nor the Libyan scripts had been
deciphered at the time it was discovered.6
GREAT LAKES REGION
25 (S): Two-way trans-Atlantic trade around 2500 B.C. is indicated by
woodworking tools and fishing gear found in the Great Lakes area, and in
ground slate knives found in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries.
GENERAL
26 (S): Distinctive pottery of North America (1000 B.C.) closely
matches Baltic pottery of the same age.
GEORGIA
27 (S): Manfred Metcalf found a stone which bears a Phoenician script
used around 2000 B.C. (Columbus, Georgia).7
TENNESSEE
28 (S): In 1970, the Bat creek Stone from Tennessee was positively
identified as being of Hebrew origin; so was an amulet recovered from a
very old tomb.
Caches of coins dating from the Hebrew Bar Kokhba rebellion against
Rome in AD. 132—135 have been unearthed in Kentucky and Tennessee.
GEORGIA
29 (S): In 1973, Mrs. Joe Hearn was digging in her backyard when she
unearthed a metal tablet containing a cuneiform script called Classic Ur II,
which was in use in the Middle East 4,000 years ago.8
Similar authenticated finds are common all through the United States;
inscriptions on buried temples, on tablets, on gravestones and on cliff faces.
CENTRAL AMERICA
GUATEMALA
30 (W): The ancient Popul Vuh of the Maya speaks of a land “where
whites and blacks dwelt together in peace” (an unusual statement for a land
whose people are neither white nor black!)
MEXICO
31 (S): Sculpted heads dated from as early as 1500 B.C. show
unequivocally bearded Jews, African Negroes and other distinctive racial
types.
GUATEMALA
32 (W): In both the Mayan calendar and the Near Eastern calendar, the
same sequence of animal types is used in the same order to represent each
month. Even the origination date for these calendars is the same—
approximately 3000 B.C.
MEXICO
PERU
33
(S): Many finds in Mexico and Peru display Chinese and/or Buddhist
features.
MEXICO
34 (W): There are “oriental” aspects to Aztec religion and astronomy.
PANAMA
35 (W): Asian-sounding names are inscribed on an ancient
tomb.
MEXICO
36 (S): Similarly complicated rules were worked out for a board game
known as “pachisi” in Asia and “patolli” in Mexico.
SOUTH AMERICA
GENERAL
37 (S): Thousands of inscriptions on South American standing stones
and dolmens contain letters from early European and Mediterranean
alphabets.
(The same is true of weapons, implements and crockery found in South
America.)
ECUADOR
38 (S) Pottery 5,000 years old is almost certainly Japanese in origin.9
ECUADOR
39 (S): During my 1967 expedition to remote jungle villages in the
Amazon headwaters, I came upon Egyptian hieroglyphics on metal plates.
ECUADOR
40 (S): Every race in the world is represented in statuettes found in a
very ancient city on the seabed, just off shore, near Guayaquil. There are
Aryans, Semites, Caucasians and a race looking remarkably like modern
Japanese.
ECUADOR
41 (S): Artifacts found in caves deep in the jungle near Tayos include:10
• Several superb wood statues carved in the Pacific Oceanic
island style and depicting Negroid men and women
• A mahogany Adam and Eve with definite Semitic features
• Bronze images of Egyptian princesses and Assyrian gods
• A plaque of a Caucasian man writing with a quill pen
• Phoenician bronze calendars
• A large aluminum sheet depicting the Greek goddess Athena.
AMAZON JUNGLE
(ECUADOR)
42 (S): A plaque found in the Amazon jungle was carved in pure
Libyan—which was also spoken by the Zuni Indians of southwestern U.S.A.!
PERU
43 (S): An inscription discovered 150 miles from Cuzco relates that its
authors (from the era of Egypt’s first king Menes) had arrived from the
Indus Valley (Pakistan).
PERU
44 (S): Images of symbolic white, yellow and black men, as well as a
fourth race (unidentified); also animals from other parts of the world and
several figures resembling Egyptian sculptures, stand on the Plateau of
Marcahuasi.
PERU
45 (S): A piece of pottery found at Nazca bears the faces of five girls—
one white, one red, one black, one brown and one yellow. This indicates
that the Nazcans had knowledge of every racial group around the world, and
possibly even models to work from.
PERU
EGYPT
46
(S): Cotton-weaving looms in Peru and Egypt were almost identical,
even to the point of each having eleven working parts.
BOLIVIA
CANARY ISLANDS
SAHARA
ETHIOPIA
PHOENICIA
47 (S): Ideograms of the Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca region
exactly correspond to ancient signs in the Canary Islands, in the North
African Sahara, in Ethiopia, and among the Phoenicians, halfway around
the world.
BOLIVIA
48
(S): A row of stone sculptures embedded along a surviving wall at
the ruined city of Tiahuanaco, portray heads of virtually every known race
on earth, and some that are not identifiable.
BOLIVIA
EGYPT
49
(S): Copper trepanning instruments of Tiahuanaco (for opening the
brain) were identical to those used by the Egyptians—as were the methods
used!
PARAGUAY
EGYPT
EUROPE
50 (S): Inscriptions relating to Egypt have been found in some caves at
Teyucare. At Villarrica (further south) are carvings resembling Germanic
and Scandinavian runes.
ARGENTINA
51 (S): At the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a dagger and helmet were
found with inscriptions from the time of Alexander the Great.
ARGENTINA
52 (S): The old Irish (according to their legends) maintained a very
early connection with a “golden civilized race across the Western Ocean”—
and in the cordilleras of the Argentine, today, there is actually an Indian
tribe speaking pure Gaelic or Erse!
BRAZIL
53 (S): Near Manaus, over 600 miles inland, was found a pot buried
with an Arab inscription “sakad-bahar” (“riversea”), dated at 4,000 years
old.
BRAZIL
54 (S) Over 2,800 graffiti, some very ancient, have been found in Brazil,
many in the heart of the jungle or on mountaintops. There are “pre-Egyptian,” Phoenician and Sumerian scripts and hieroglyphics. (At least
2,000 photographs of these have been taken.) The earlier Indians had many
ancient traditions of an advanced civilization that flourished thousands of
years ago to the north and west of the central highlands.
BRAZIL
55 (S): Phoenician inscriptions have been found which give the names
and dates of the rulers of Tyre and Sidon.
BRAZIL
56 (S): In the province of Amazonas, the French engineer Apollinaire
Frot came upon an ancient carved rock hidden by dense jungle close to a
river, which recorded the journey of a proto-Egyptian priest to what is now
Bolivia. The inscription gave directions to silver and gold mines. Stage by
stage, such markers ran across central Brazil.
BRAZIL
57 (S): In the dead cities of the Matto Grosso are found the same names
of the zodiacal constellations that we use today!
BRAZIL
58 (S): Ceramics and ornaments found on the island of Marajo, at the
mouth of the lower Amazon, depict human faces from every race in the
world, and identical inscription symbols to those in ancient Mexico, China,
Egypt and India.
ASIA
KAZAKHSTAN
FRANCE
59 (S): Petroglyphs in Kazakhstan (over 3,000 years old) portray a
sorcerer casting a spell over a circle of beasts—remarkably similar to one in
the “Three Brothers” cave of France.
SIBERIA
MANCHURIA
INDIA
AFRICA
60 (S): Carvings resembling Scandinavian and Germanic runes have
been found.
INDONESIA
61 (S): Cloves from the Moluccas have been excavated in Syrian rubble
of 2500 B.C.
INDIA
62 (S): Artifacts and records show that the Sumerians sailed to both
Britain and India.
CHINA
63 (S): Peanuts (native to South America) have been dug up from sites
in China dated 2335 B.C.
GERMANY
CHINA
64 (S): Richly patterned clothing embroidered in Chinese silk has been
recovered from a “Bronze Age” Celtic grave near Hochdorf.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
65 (S): African Negro, Armenian, Phoenician, Egyptian and Greek
facial features are still identified among the indigenous populations of
Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
66 (S): Headdresses worn by chiefs and warriors of the same region bear
great similarities to the helmets of the classical Greek warriors of
Alexander’s time.
PACIFIC—ANTARCTICA
PACIFIC ISLANDS
AFRICA
67 (S): Rock engravings in the Southern Sahara area of Africa show
females wearing clothes and exhibiting tattoos similar to those 15,600 miles
away as the crow flies, in the South Pacific.
EASTER ISLAND
68 (S): An early stone carving clearly shows an ancient ship with three
masts—much larger than anything used by the islanders.
EASTER ISLAND
INDUS VALLEY,
PAKISTAN
69 (S): Wooden tablets bear hieroglyphics in detail similar to that used
in the Caroline Islands and also to the archaic Indian writing of the Indus
Valley, on exactly the opposite side of the world.
EASTER ISLAND
70 (O): Polynesians were aware of the treacherous passage beyond the
southern extremity of Cape Horn and of the Antarctic, “once inhabited by
several nations”; they remembered also that in the midst of Antarctica was a
mighty cliff of red rock.
(Remarkably, an identical landmark was recently discovered in
Antarctica’s heart; several hundred miles inland, it could not have been
observed from the coast. Nor could any Polynesian have traversed the white
continent in its present state to see that red cliff and tell about it.)
HAWAII
71 (O): Numerous striking similarities exist between the languages of
Hawaii and ancient Greece.
What happened to the records of such world-circling by ancient fleets?
FIJI
CAPE YORK, AUSTRALIA
72 (S): Cave art of a Mayan (Central American) character has been
found.
NORTHERN NEW GUINEA
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
CHINA
73 (S): Mayan jade artifacts have been discovered.
GILBERT ISLANDS
74 (S): Mayan blood groups and racial features exist.
NEW GUINEA
75 (S): Egyptian influence at least 2,000 years old is seen in many of the
native philosophies, rites and wooden carvings.
NEW GUINEA
76 (S):
Five structures identical to 3,000-year-old step pyramids in the
Middle East, exist in the eastern Sepik district.
OFF THE TIP OF NEW IRELAND
77 (S): Remains of an ancient sun worshippers temple of Egyptian
style, and an idol facing the rising sun, with features half-man half-bird,
were discovered in 1964 on New Hanover Island.
POLYNESIA
SOUTH AMERICA
78 (S): South American sweet potatoes called “kamar” were grown and
called “kumara” throughout Polynesia.
NEW ZEALAND
NORTH AMERICA
79 (S): The sailing vessels, lodges and totem poles of the Indians of
British Columbia and Alaska closely resemble those of the Maori.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
GREECE
SOUTH AMERICA
80 (S): A reed musical instrument of ancient Greece is virtually the
same as one played in the Solomon Islands and the Andes highlands of
South America. It possesses an almost identical structure; even the pitch is
the same.
AUSTRALIA
GENERAL
81 (W): In 338 B.C., Shi Tzu recorded the presence of pouched animals,
which were introduced to China about the time that Emperor Chao
despatched ships to a southern land called Chui Hiao to collect these same
creatures.
GENERAL
82 (W): Chinese records prior to 338 B.C. mention a great southern
continent on which dwelt fierce black people who used a strange weapon
(the boomerang).
GENERAL
83 (S): Archaeologists have unearthed carved stones in Persia depicting
world maps, including one describing a southern continent, dating back to
3000 B.C.
GENERAL
84 (W): The Egyptian explorer Khnumhotep returned with a wild report
of a “vast continent” where animals carried their young in pouches and the
natives threw a weapon that came back to the hand.
GENERAL
85 (S): Eucalyptus resin (obtainable only from Australia) was found in
the embalming of a woman of 1000 B.C. in the Jordan Valley.
GENERAL
86 (S): Chemical analysis of some Egyptian mummies has revealed the
presence of eucalyptus oil—indicating contact with Australia in the days of
the Pharaohs.
NORTHERN TERRITORY
87 (W): Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, wrote in his Spring and
Summer Annals (481 B.C.) of the observation of two solar eclipses, one on
April 17, 592 B.C. and the second on August 11, 553 B.C., on what appears
to have been the coast of Darwin, Australia.
AUSTRALIAN EAST COAST
TAIWAN
88 (W): A map in Taiwan Museum shows the southern coastline of New
Guinea, and Australia’s east coast to Victoria and Tasmania. It is 2,000
years old.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
89 (S): Aborigines of the Kimberleys of northwestern Australia greeted
the first white man with ancient secret Masonic hand signs; they also had
customs, religious features and words clearly of Egyptian origin, as well as
Middle East blood groups and racial features.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
90 (S): The Wandjina cave art of the Kimberleys shows people clothed
in garments unknown to primitive tribesmen, but like those worn by
Egyptian and Phoenician seafarers of 3,000 years ago. (The tribesmen say
that the people in the artwork came over the Indian Ocean.)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
91 (S): An inscribed bronze plate of Phoenician origin (dated from 600
B.C.) was found preserved in the tidal mud off the coast of northwestern
Australia, near Derby and close to a very ancient mine.
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
92 (S): A non-Australian man appears in rock images on a cliff west of
Alice Springs, Central Australia, wearing a miter of Babylonian or Egyptian
style.
NORTHERN TERRITORY
93 (O): Aborigines claim that an uninhabited secret city called Burrunju (once inhabited by gigantic white men) is even now concealed in the
northern hinterlands. It was a vibrant “place of much activity.”
NORTHERN TERRITORY
94 (S): Egyptian death beliefs and rites (including mummification) are
held by Arnhem Land and Torres Strait natives; the incisions and method of
embalming are identical to the practice of 2,900 years ago in Egypt.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
95 (S): The name Ot appears on what may be Phoenician carvings,
found near Adelaide in 1931. (Was this the same Babylonian admiral Ot
who went off to South-East Asia in 636 B.C. and disappeared?)
NEW SOUTH WALES
96 (S): Many strange symbols, ships and figures, of Egyptian,
Phoenician and Syrian style have been found carved on rocks along the
Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.
NEW SOUTH WALES
97 (S): A small axe blade of Middle East style, widely used by
shipbuilders 2,500 years ago, was found near Penrith, New South Wales.
QUEENSLAND
98 (S): Phoenician-style engravings were discovered on a marble slab in
North Queensland.
QUEENSLAND
99 (S): Also unearthed were:* A Ptolemy IV bronze coin (of 221 to 204
B.C.), near Baron Falls, North Queensland, 2 feet below ground in a rain
forest (c. 1910)* In the same district, a large rock of sandstone carved in the
form of a scarab beetle, a religious object of ancient Egypt.
QUEENSLAND
100 (S): In 1977, museum curator Rex Gilroy found in a mountain cave
on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, some Aboriginal paintings which
included 3,000-year-old Egyptian Masonic signs. (The identical detail of
the symbology could not possibly have been invented by the Aborigines
themselves.)
QUEENSLAND
101 (S): A statue of the Egyptian god Thoth in the ape form of pre-2000
B.C. with the papyrus flower, was found at Gympie, Queensland, in 1966.
Over the last century, this location has yielded a Middle Eastern spoon, an
Egyptian scarab beetle pendant, as well as numerous Phoenician and
Egyptian pottery fragments and drawings.
QUEENSLAND
102 (S): In the same district, a stepped pyramidal structure constructed
of crude lumps of stone, rises in bushland in eighteen terraces to a height of
104
100 feet. Another twice the size stands in dense scrubland near Sydney,
New South Wales. (As with the five similar structures in New Guinea, these
are identical to 3,000-year-old step pyramids in the Middle East.)
QUEENSLAND
103 (S): Ancient Aboriginal legends tell how people in large ships like
birds (the bird-headed prows of the old Phoenician triremes?) sailed into
Gympie (now 34 miles inland), dug holes in the hills, erected the “sacred
mountain” and interbred with local inhabitants. Interestingly, evidence of
ancient mining and smelting was recently found here.
*******
Fiction couldn’t challenge your imagination more. And yet here it all is,
fact after fact, story after story, about the lives and discoveries of a people
thousands of years ago.
Now naturally these exhibits will not be popular with some people. The
majority of the scientific community has greeted them with deathly silence
because of early indoctrination in evolution. It tries to ignore them for the
sole reason that it cannot explain them.
However, in this chapter we have begun to tie up the apparently
disconnected threads which stare us in the face—and make sense of them.
Undeniably, we are confronted with an incredible past, of which there
remains but an imperfect and diminishing echo.
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