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Dead Men's Secrets 
Tantalising Hints of a Lost Super Race 
By Jonathan Gray
Chapter 11 
Astronomical
—SECRET PLANET—ARE 
WE IN FOR MORE SURPRISES? 
As I first researched this, Earth’s unmanned spacecraft Voyager II was hurtling beyond Uranus toward the planet Neptune for a rendezvous in 1989. On August 24 that year (yes, the exact day was known), it was calculated to swing around past Neptune, then head off out of the solar system forever, into unknown deep space. 

Was it as recently as the nineteenth century that most people thought the earth we live on was flat, center of the universe, surrounded by a distant vault of fixed stars? And that the planets and sun moved around us? That’s right! “The earth cannot be a ball,” said one prominent scientist, “otherwise the people on the lower half would fall into the void.” Even the great Kepler not so much earlier had said there were only 1,005 stars. 

So long did ignorance prevail that we assume it was always so. 

Now enjoy the taste of a surprise! Contrary to history as we know it, in that remote period we call “prehistory,” there subsisted an embarrassing wealth of astronomical knowledge. And may I suggest that the more one looks into it, the more one feels that a race of scientific giants has preceded us. 

The conclusion is unavoidable that the astronomers of Babylon, India and Egypt either possessed sophisticated instruments themselves, or they were the custodians of a prehistoric science—that of a Mother Civilization.  

Even later, among the classical Greeks and Romans, there were sages who still had access to a body of knowledge extending back into the dim past. 

The nations with particular knowledge cited below were not alone in possessing this. Such a science must have been universal at first, but remember, the surviving evidence is fragmentary. 

THE EARTH 
EGYPT 
CHINA 
ENGLAND 
GUATEMALA 
TIAHUANACO, 
BOLIVIA 
GREECE 
INDIA 
SUMERIA 
BABYLON 
ASSYRIA 
HITTITES
ASIA MINOR 
THE BIBLE 1 
1 (W): The earth is a sphere, surrounded by the heavens. 

The Sumerians, for example, identified, named, and grouped the constellations of both the northern and southern skies to the South Pole (i.e., the complete skies of a global, not a flat earth). Egypt’s pyramid builders could project maps from spherical to flat surfaces, which shows they knew the earth to be round. They calculated the shape and size of the earth far more accurately than anybody before the mid-nineteenth century. 

CHINA 
GREECE 
2 (W): The earth is slightly egg- or pear-shaped. (And modern science agrees. Our distorted sphere is a little pear-shaped, with a bulge in the Southern Hemisphere.) 

INDIA 
CHINA, 1600 B.C. 
GREECE 
ROME 
THE BIBLE 2 
3 (W): The earth floats in space. 

EGYPT 
GREECE 
CHINA 
INDIA 
THE BIBLE3 
4 (W): Earth spins on its axis in 24 hours. 
• “The circuit of the earth”; “the earth in its courses” (NesiKhonsu Papyrus, Egypt—1000 B.C.) 
• “The seeming rotation of the stars is due to earth’s revolving on its axis.” (Greece—2000 B.C.) 

BABYLON 
EGYPT 
INDIA 
GREECE 
5 (W): Earth revolves around the sun. 

GREECE 
6 (W): The orbit of the earth is elliptical (oval-shaped). “The earth revolves in an oblique circle while it rotates at the same time about its own axis.”4 

EGYPT 
INDIA 
GUATEMALA 
CHALDEA 
ENGLAND 
GREECE 
7 (W): Size of the earth: 
• A circumference difference from our modern calculation of only 225 miles—Egypt 
• Diameter computed to be 7,840 miles, compared to our calculation of 7,926.7 miles—India5 

GUATEMALA 
8 (W): The weight of the earth 

BABYLON 
EGYPT 9 
(W): Exact length of the year: 
• Earth’s solar year is 365.2420 days—Guatemala (whereas we know it to be 365.2422 days) 
• The annual movement of the sun and moon determined to an error of less than 9 seconds of an arc—Babylon 
• The exact length of the solar year, the siderial year, and the anomalistic year, seems likely to have been clearly understood— Egypt6 

GREECE, 2000 B.C. 
10 (W): The seasons are caused by the earth’s rotation around the sun along the ecliptic. 

GREECE 11 
(W): An awareness of the torrid, temperate and frigid zones existing on our planet. 

THE MOON 
INDIA 12 
(W): The distance to the moon is 253,000 miles. (By comparison, we calculate the maximum distance to be 252,710 miles.)7 

GREECE 
CHALDEA 
INDIA 
CHINA 
13 (W): The moon’s light is reflected. “The moon illuminates the nights with borrowed light.”8 

GREECE 
14 (W): The moon circles about the earth.9 

ENGLAND 
THE ARABS 
15 (W): The path of the moon is an ellipse, varying closer or further from the earth. 

ENGLAND 
THE ARABS 
16 (W): A variation exists in the moon’s motion (an irregularity caused by differences in the sun’s pull at various points of the moon’s orbit). (This was “discovered” only by precision instruments in the seventeenth century!) 

MEXICO 
17 (W): The length of the moon’s cycle calculated accurately to within 4/10,000 of a day! (Duration of the lunar month is 29.53020 days, according to the Copan Maya; or 29.53086 days, according to the Palenque Maya. Actually, we calculate it at 29.53059 days.) 

GREECE 
18 (W): Eclipses (solar): “It is the moon that darkens the sun.”10 

GREECE 
CHALDEA 
19 (W): Lunar eclipses: “it is the earth’s shadow that falls on the moon. 11 

BABYLON 
ENGLAND 
20 (W): Accurate forecasting of eclipses to fractions of a second of an arc: 
• The present methods of calculation established in 1857, included an error of 7/10 second of an arc in estimating the movement of the sun. Babylon’s calculation was 2/10 second nearer the truth. 
• The maximum amplitude of the moon’s wobble, which occurs immediately before the season of lunar eclipses, was observed— England 2000 B.C. 110 (To predict an eclipse, however, three checkpoints at 120 degrees longitude distant from each other must first be established, and information communicated from each of them.) 

ENGLAND, 2000 B.C. 
21 (W): There is a 56-year cycle to moon eclipse patterns.12 

BABYLON 
CHINA 
GREECE 
ROME 
22 (W): The moon exerts an attraction on earth’s tides. (Only 300 years ago, Kepler was criticized for this same conclusion.) 

PYTHAGORAS, GREECE 23 
(W): The moon has a 2-week-long day (fifteen times longer than ours). 

CHINA, 1700 B.C. 
24 (W): The lunar month has a precise length of 29.5305106 days. (Our modern calendars are only 8/100,000 more accurate.) 

GREECE, 500 B.C. 
25 (W): “The markings on the moon are shadows from high mountains and deep valleys.” 

CHINA 
SUMERIA 13 
PLUTARCH 
26 (W): The moon is dreary and cold wastelands. 

THE SUN 
PLUTARCH 
27 (W): The distance to the sun is 804 million stadia (91.4 million miles—almost the figure we accept today). 

CHINA, 1st cent B.C. 
28 (W): The stars, sun and moon all float in empty space. 

GREECE 
29 (W): The relative sizes of the sun and moon understood. 

GUATEMALA 
30 (W): Our sun is moving through space, carrying our family of planets along. It is circumnavigating a Central Fire (“Mya”) near the Pleiades. 

GREECE 
31 (W): Solar parallax (the apparent displacement of the sun amid the stars because of the movement of the earth on its orbit) understood. (This was not noticed again until 1670.) 

THE PLANETS 
MEXICO 
32 (S): The planets are globular in shape. (The Aztecs had a ball game to simulate this.) 

GREECE 
EGYPT 
33 (W): The order of the planets in distance from the sun, listed correctly. 

BABYLON 
SUMERIA 
ASSYRIA 
GREECE 
34 (W): The planets revolve around the sun. 
• “those that are shepherded” (by the sun)—Sumeria. 

ASSYRIA 
35 (W): Mercury: 
• Is the fastest-moving planet. 
• Its orbit is warped. 
• Its surface is mercilously baked by the sun.  

BABYLON 
36 (W): Venus: A knowledge of Venus’ moonlike crescent phases (“the horns of Venus”), similar to those of the moon. (However, this is invisible to the naked eye!) 

GUATEMALA 
37 (W): The transit of Venus across the solar disk. 

GUATEMALA 
38 (W): Venus’ “evening star” pattern is repeated in an 8-year cycle. (It is true that Venus makes 13 revolutions of the sun for every 8 that our earth makes.) 

GUATEMALA 
39 (W): A year on Venus is 584 days long. (Our modern computers agree—placing it at 583.82 days!) 

ASSYRIA 
40 (W): Venus: 
• Has a diaphanous gown of clouds 
• Its surface is hellish. (True. We know today that there is sulfuric acid in its atmosphere.) 
• Though beautiful with its clouds, it is very destructive. (In fact, the atmosphere is so dense it has easily crushed every earth probe sent to the surface.) 

GUATEMALA 
41 (W): Mars: The length of its year accurately predicted. 

SUMERIA 
GREECE 
42 (W): Mars’ two moons and their distance from that planet. 

ASSYRIA 
43 (W): Mars: 
• After long hope, it is a disappointment, with no life as on earth 
• Its surface is broken 
• There are four great volcanic “boils” present 
• These “boils” caused the nearby valley “tears” 

GUATEMALA 
44 (W): Jupiter: An accurate awareness of the number of years and days it takes Jupiter to circle once around the zodiac. 

MAORIS, 
NEW ZEALAND 
45 (W): Jupiter’s bands (invisible, except by telescope). 

ASSYRIA 
46 (W): Jupiter has a ring, like Saturn, but not nearly as spectacular as those of Saturn. (And yes, a single faint ring around Jupiter was confirmed by the Voyager I fly-past in 1979!) 

ASSYRIA 
47 (W): Jupiter “rages,” like the sun. We have now found that Jupiter’s interior is much hotter than had been estimated, and it spews deadly radiation out into space. Jupiter wallows in a seething mass of hydrogen and helium gas clouds, forming a turbulent atmosphere. Some planet! 

“Tornadoes and cyclones whirled across its surface. Perhaps they’ve raged non-stop for thousands of years.” So reported the Australasian Post of May 10, 1979, concerning Voyager I’s discoveries in March of that year (emphasis is mine). 

“The first sensation was when Voyager 1 detected and reported a blinding light above it—so strong that it appeared to sensors to be even brighter than the sun as seen from earth…it is an aurora which engulfs the whole of Jupiter.” 

Jupiter sends out ray particles. “Jupiter is the largest producer of rays in our system.” (The same Australasian Post article) 

BABYLON 
DOGONS, 
MALI 
48 (O,W): Jupiter’s moons (again, invisible without a telescope). 

DOGONS, 
AFRICA MAORIS, 
NEW ZEALAND 
ASSYRIA 
49 (O,W): Saturn has glorious rings. 

BABYLON
ASSYRIA 
50 (W): Saturn’s moons. 

ASSYRIA 
51 (W): Saturn: 
• Is very large 
• It is squat (with a smaller diameter from pole to pole than across the equator) 
• It gives off more heat than it absorbs from the sun and thus keeps its moons warm 
• Saturn’s chief moon will give up “treasures to all”; it is a “blessed” place 

In the Talda Makan Desert of Western China, Dr. Irwin Wilson came upon tablets in the Assyrian script. When translated, these were found to contain an ode to the planets. And what a shocker it is! 

A published copy of this translation came to my attention in May 1980.14 

At that very time the Voyager I space probe, having left the vicinity of Jupiter, was now racing toward Saturn, nearly a billion miles from earth. 

The tablets gave information which, if correct, should see some startling discoveries when the spacecraft arrived six months later. 

Among other things, we should expect to find heat radiating from Saturn and a moon offering treasures. Not until Voyager I reached Saturn in November, could the incredible accuracy of these ancient claims become apparent. 

Within the space of a few dramatic hours, discoveries were made that shattered numerous modern theories. “Voyager had something for everyone” (Melbourne Age, November 17, 1980), and the main moon Titan unexpectedly revealed a nitrogen-dense atmosphere, like earth’s.15 

Suddenly watching the twentieth century catch up with this document was exciting. 

SUMERIA 
ASSYRIA 
GREECE 52 
(W): There are further planets beyond Saturn. Zecharia Sitchin refers to a Sumerian celestial map with the comment: “If this…had been discovered and studied two centuries ago, astronomers would have deemed the Sumerians totally uninformed, foolishly imagining more planets beyond Saturn. Now, however, we know that Uranus and 115 Neptune and Pluto are really there. Did the Sumerians imagine the other discrepancies, or were they properly informed?”16 

ASSYRIA 
53 (W): Uranus (the next planet out from Saturn): 
• Is tipped on its axis. 
• Presents the poles to the sun. 
• Has a set of rings, but light.

Absolutely correct! The Uranian axis, unlike that of any other planet, is tilted an exceptional 82 degrees, so that it lies very nearly in the plane of the planet’s orbit. Thus, and only on Uranus, each pole in turn faces toward the sun. And on January 24, 1986, Voyager II confirmed that there were, indeed, eleven faint, dark rings around Uranus. 

SOUTHERN AFRICA 
GREECE 
54 (W): Uranus regularly covers (i.e. eclipses) its moons in its course around the sun. 

ASSYRIA 
55 (W): Neptune (the next planet out from Uranus) is eclipsed by another planet. (And it is a fact that during its revolution around the sun, Pluto actually comes closer to the sun than Neptune, eclipsing it!) 

SUMERIA 
56 (W): There is one more planet beyond Pluto. (An old map showed the sun and eleven planets, counting the moon, all by size.) There is now good reason to believe that this “secret” planet does exist. 17 

On December 31, 1983, scientists announced their belief that they have located a body in orbit beyond Pluto. 

DOGONS, 
MALI 
57 (O): Our solar system is part of the Milky Way. 

COMETS AND METEORS 
BABYLON 
GREECE 
58 (W): Comets move in orbits, like the planets. (Magnificent reasoning, since comets do not carry identification plates.) 

GREECE 
59 (W): Meteors frequently fall to earth.18 (This was considered nonsense until modern times.) 

BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM 
CHINA 60 
(W): The blue of the sky is merely an optical illusion. 

INDIA 
GREECE 
61 (W): The universe is infinite. The distance to and between the stars is “immeasurable.” 

DOGONS, 
MALI 62 
(O): The stars are much more distant than the planets. 

INDIA 
GREECE, 5th cent. B. C 
THE BIBLE 19 
63 (W): The stars cannot be numbered. 

GREECE 
64 (W): The stars are blazing suns like our sun, and some of them are larger than our sun. 

SUMERIA 
GREECE 
65 (W): Each star is the center of a planetary system. On June 13, 1984, Dr. Hartmut Aumann announced to the American Astronomical Society that forty nearby stars show excess infrared emission, suggesting that they may be orbited by solid material, or even planets. 

Six months later, Professors Donald McCarthy and Frank Low from the University of Arizona claimed to have actually discovered a planet moving around the Van Biesbroeck 8 star in the Ophiuchus constellation some 21 light-years (125,000 billion miles) from earth. It had a mass thirty to eighty times that of our Jupiter. 

Credit for this first-discovered planet outside our solar system was counterclaimed by Professor Robert Harrington, of the Washington Naval Observatory, who said he saw the planet eighteen months earlier, with two other astronomers. 

GREECE 66 
(W): Each star rotates on its axis. 

INDIA 
GREECE 
THE BIBLE 20 
(W): There exist “other earths” with inhabitants. 

GREECE 
68 (W): The Milky Way is a huge number of very distant stars scattered throughout space. (And we reached this conclusion less than two centuries ago!) 

DOGONS, 
MALI 69 
(O): The Milky Way is of a spiral-like shape. (A fact not known to astronomers until well into this century.) 

MEDITERRANEAN AREA 
70 (W): The “tenth star” of the Pleiades constellation (not visible to the naked eye) was known. 

BABYLON 
GUATEMALA 
71 (W): The “Scorpion” constellation was so called because it has a “tail,” a comet within the constellation. (But this can be seen only with a powerful telescope!) 

EGYPT, 1000 B.C. 
SUMERIA 
DOGONS, 
MALI 
ITURI PYGMIES, 
ZAIRE 72 
(O): Details concerning the “dark” companion of the star Sirius A: 
• Digitaria is a white star, but invisible 
• It has an elliptical orbit around Sirius A 
• Even the position of Sirius A within this ellipse was known 
• It revolves around brightly shining Sirius once every 50 years 
• It is also the heaviest star (i.e., very dense) 

Powerful telescopes and calculations have confirmed every detail as true. 

Sirius B, as we call it, is totally invisible to the human eye. It orbits Sirius A, the brightest star in the sky. 

It was not seen through a telescope until 1862, and it was not possible to capture it on a photograph until 1970. This dark star has a gravity 100 million times greater than that of earth. Its density is so great that a cubic meter weighs around 20,000 tons. 

Thus the Dogons, though today an illiterate and primitive society, preserve a remarkable body of astronomical learning. 

INSTRUMENTS 
ENGLAND 
73 (S): Astronomical clocks: The central axis of Stonehenge was constructed to correlate exactly with sunrise in midsummer. It is a 56-year stone calendar, as well as an observatory—a giant astronomical calculator. (Eclipses were predicted by moving three black and three white stones around certain six holes yearly in the 56-hole Aubrey Circle.) At least 600 sites operated in similar fashion throughout the country. 

TIAHUANACO, 
BOLIVIA 74 
(S): A calendar which gives the equinoxes, the astronomical seasons, the positions of the moon for every hour, as well as the moon’s movements, taking the rotation of the earth into account.  

SOMERSET, 
DORSET 
AND OTHER SITES IN ENGLAND 
75 (S): Mysterious labyrinths which took the form of astronomical maps. 

EGYPT 
76 (S): Many early Arab writers claimed that the Great Pyramid was built as an observatory. The gallery designs could have enabled the recording of the precise movements of heavenly bodies and the compilation of a comprehensive star map, since all the major stars in an 80-degree arc passed the end of the gallery opening. 

GUATEMALA 
77 (S): Domed observatories with a more exact orientation than those of seventeenth century Paris. 

MEDZAMOR, 
ARMENIA 
78 (S): A three-story observatory oriented to the south, where the stars are most numerous. 

GUATEMALA 
79 (W): Calendars more accurate than ours: The Maya calculated 365.2420 days to a year; our Gregorian calendar calculates 365.2425 days to a year; actual, is 365.2422 days to a year. (The Mayan year was accurate to nearly 1/10,000 of a day.) 

PLANETARIUMS (IMMENSE AND SMALL, MECHANICALLY REVOLVING) 
SICILY 
80 (W): Machines imitated the universe, following a star in its orbit and making eclipse prediction possible. 

CHINA 
81 (W): A globe with metal rings representing the paths of the sun and other bodies, was powered by a water clock. 

CHINA 82 
(W): A three-foot high device with stars, sun, moon and planets fulfilling their periods. The stars were luminous in the dark and faded in the 120 light. The central earth globe was continually revolving by a mechanical device and was accurate. 

PERSIA 
GREECE 
ROME 83 
(W): Other devices in Persia, Greece,and Rome. 

GREECE 
84 (S): A complex astronomical computer embodying precision mechanics, as accurate as anything that can be made today.21 

WRITTEN RECORDS OF TELESCOPES 
Galileo conceded that the ancient world had scientific instruments such as telescopes, but today’s conventional science will not hear of the suggestion. Very well, then. But how shall we regard the following? 

SICILY 85 
(W): Instruments “to manifest to the eye the largeness of the sun” were used by the inventor-scientist Archimedes.22 

GREECE 86 
(W): “For studying sky details.”23 

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT 87 
(W): A device “to detect distant ships.”24 

PERU 
88 (W): The word “quilpi” in the Quiche (Inca) language had the meaning of concave or convex mirrors or glass pieces, spy glasses or spectacles; in summary, “an optical instrument for looking into the distance.” 

GUATEMALA 
89 (W): The Popol Vuh records that the ancients could “see the large and the small in the sky and the earth.”25  

ICA, PERU 
90 (W): An engraved stone shows Indians squat, gazing at the heavens through telescopes. 

BRITAIN 91 
(W): Telescopes were used. 

ROME 92 
(W): Nero used a telescope made of emerald lenses to watch the Roman games. 
Is that enough? 

In Chapter 15 I shall detail for you some actual discoveries of machine cut lenses and reflectors of the utmost precision (which are the elements of the astronomical telescope). 

That is the ultimate proof. 

Chapter 12 
Cosmology—
TRAVEL FAST AND LIVE LONGER 
American scientists spent two weeks flying around the world in jets equipped with atomic clocks. 

Their object was to confirm a prediction of Einstein’s special theory of relativity that time on a moving object slows down the faster the object moves. They did. And it does. 

This time dilation effect is now an accepted scientific fact. Astronauts flying at close to the speed of light would age more slowly than their friends on earth. The reason is that the space traveller’s heartbeat, the decay of the cells of his body and his other physiological processes would slow down. 

Scientists can calculate accurately the extent to which time would slow down on a spaceship travelling at close to the speed of light. Time would appear to pass normally, yet in just a few years the travellers would reach the most distant stars. 

After twenty-one years on the spaceship, they could be in the heart of the Milky Way—while on earth 75,000 light years had passed! 

But notice. The theory of relativity (of space and time) was apparently known to our early forefathers. 

Lucretius, Heraclitis and Zeno each postulated aspects of this principle. It was also known in India. 

A Japanese love story incorporates the fact of time dilation in space travel. The Island Child went into the skies for 3 years, but found on his return to his earthly home that 300 years had passed there.1  

The Slavic version of the Book of Enoch (reflecting very ancient origins) narrates the story of a space trip which for the hero lasted only a few days, while on earth whole centuries passed.2 

The Vision of Isiah (second to third century A.D.) speaks of a space trip to heaven. When told it was time to return to earth, the traveller asked in surprise. “Why so soon? I have been here only two hours.” The angel replied. “Not two hours but 32 years.” Isiah now feared he would suffer old age and death if he returned, but he was assured that upon his return to earth he would not have aged.3 

These ancient people were not hallucinating. If our astronauts could travel close to the speed of light, they would experience a comparable shrinkage of time. This we now accept as scientifically valid. 

Modern science is today stumbling upon discoveries known to an ancient forgotten science. Take these, for example: 

INDIA 
(W): The law of gravity.4 

WORLDWIDE 
2 (S): Terrestrial magnetism. 

PYTHAGORAS, GREECE 
3 (W): The law of the force of attraction. 

INDIA 
4 (W): Cosmic rays.5 

INDIA 
5 (W): Radiation of atomic particles.6 

INDIA 
6 (W): The kinetic nature of energy.

7 PHILOLAUS, 5th cent. B.C. 
7 (W): Antimatter. 

LUCRETIUS, 1st cent. B. C 
8 (W): The uniform speed of bodies falling in a vacuum. 

CELTS, 
BRITAIN 9 
(S): Perishables are preservable in a vacuum. 

INDIA 
10 (W): Fractions of seconds (the measurement of 1/300 millionth of a second). 

THE MAYA, 
GUATEMALA 
INDIA 
11 (W): The use of astronomically enormous multiples of numbers: 
• Units were devised to incorporate unwieldy numbers into simple terms. A kinchiltun equalled 57,600,000. An alautun equalled 23,040,000,000 days, or 63,123,000 years. 
• The kalpa is a period of 4.32 billion years.8 (Similarly, today’s astronomers have developed a numeral system to cope with the vastness of space. The distance between stars is measured in light years, and the distance between galaxies is frequently measured in parsecs, a unit composed of 3.26 light-years.) 

EMPEDOCLES, 5th cent. B.C. 
12 (W): Light requires time to travel. 

EGYPT 
13 (S): “The word ‘pyramid’ has the literal meaning of ‘measure of light.’” Is it coincidence that “the vertical height of the Great Pyramid, when the structure was intact, was 483 grid feet, which is the square of the reciprocal of the angular velocity of light”?9 

EUCLID, 3rd cent. B.C. 
14 (W) The principles of light refraction and magnification. 

KANADA, OF INDIA 
15 (W) Light and heat only different forms of the same basic substance. It is worth noting that current scientific concepts of the universe are literally atheistic, that is, without a God In contrast, the sophisticated cosmology of all ancient nations recognized a Creator at the center. 

Chapter 13 
Mathematical—
WHO BEAT OUR COMPUTERS? 
At a brisk four miles per hour, what distance can you stride in one second? Precisely seventy inches. In that same second, you can blink your eyes six times. All considered, little can be achieved in a mere second. 

Then what, possibly, could a man do in three one-hundred millionths of one second? And why on earth should one wish to measure it? Our predecessors did, indeed, measure something that occured in that brief fraction of time. They recorded it. 

Let’s say that the accuracy of the ancients to the point of infinitesimal fractions is enough to make even the most die-hard skeptic stop and think. 

The construction of the Great Pyramid was perfectly square to within 3/10,000 percent. The enormous blocks were fitted together with an accuracy of 1/100 inch. 

The solar year in Mexico was pinpointed to an accuracy of 1/20,000 day. The lunar month was calculated to as close as .00027 day. 

Indian measurements of time spoke of the “kashta,” equivalent to 0.00000003 of a second. 

But more astonishing was the discovery on the mound of ancient Nineveh in Assyria of numbers with fifteen digits—something that cannot be registered by any computer—a calculation with the final result in our notation of 195,955,200,000,000. (Even the oft-quoted Greeks never arose above the figure 10,000. Anything beyond was considered infinite.) 

The gap between rich knowledge and poor instruments in antiquity has baffled many a scientist. 

How is anyone going to explain these and many other puzzles to us? Behind this mathematical knowledge can be dimly discerned a distant epoch in which a vanished race might have attained a high degree of technology. And after the instruments had gone, the knowledge lingered. Even the fragmentary records at our disposal firmly establish that the ancients possessed advanced mathematical skills. 

INDIA 
MEXICO 
BABYLONIA 
CHINA 
PERU 
1 (W): The use of zero, upon which all mathematics and science operates. For the purpose of advanced mathematics, zero is the secret ingredient. Without zero, involved calculations are difficult. The most ancient cultures utilized it, yet often, as cultural decadence occurred, they forgot it. 

MEXICO 
EGYPT 
PERU 
2 (W): Decimal system. 

BABYLONIA 
UR, 
CHALDEA 
3 (W): Geometry: Euclid’s classic triangle problems were studied 1,700 years before Euclid was born, as was Pythagoras’ theorem (on an inscribed tablet) 1,500 years before Pythagoras. 

ENGLAND, 2000 B. C. 
CARNAC, FRANCE 
4 (S): Geometric harmony in buildings embodied near-perfect Pythagorean triangles. 

EGYPT
5 (S): The dimensions of the Great Pyramid’s “King’s chamber” incorporate the 3 by 4 by 5 and 2 by 5 by 3 triangles commonly ascribed to the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, who lived 2,000 years later. 

EGYPT 
6 (S): Egyptian art and architecture point to the fact that they understood the phi ratio. Apart from the natural aesthetic quality of the phi proportion, it “allowed the builders to construct a scale model of the Northern Hemisphere.”1 

BABYLONIA 
INDIA 
7 (W): Algebra: Exact tables in algebra helped astronomers work out the position of celestial bodies at any time. 

EGYPT 

8 (S): The Great Pyramid’s proportions incorporate a value, accurate to several decimal places, for the sophisticated concept of π (Pi π is the fractional figure by which a circle’s diameter is multiplied to determine its circumference.) 

ENGLAND Also known in 
GREECE 2nd cent. B.C. 
9 (S): Knowledge of trigonometry is reflected in the construction of the exact correlations of Stonehenge. 

INDIA 
10 (W): Square roots used. 

UR, 
CHALDEA, 2500 B.C. 
11 (W): Thc cube root known and utilized. 

MEXICO 
12 (W): Logarithms. 

EGYPT 
13 (W): A special hieroglyphic sign for a million. (Not until the seventeenth century did the modern world gain any conception of millions in mathematics.) 

EGYPT 
MEXICO 
INDIA 
14 (W): Calculations in microfractions. 

BABYLONIA 
GUATEMALA 
15 (W): Large numbers manipulated by the use of reckoning tables. 

BABYLONIA 
EGYPT 
CHINA 
16 (S): One of the world’s first calculating machines, the abacus, was a manually operated digital calculating device with extreme precision (embodying 15 digits). 

Chapter 14 
Metallurgy—
THE SAD FATE OF THE GOLD GARDENS 
When the Spanish conquerors entered Peru, they came upon an island near Puna on which was a royal garden so astonishing it might have come out of a fairy tale. 

Every living thing was reproduced in gold and silver models. Trees, even to the roots, and lesser plants with leaves, flowers and fruit fashioned in natural size and style; some ready to sprout, others half-grown or in full blossom. 

Golden birds sat perched on silver trees, as if singing, while others were flying and sucking honey from flowers. 

Whole fields of maize were imitated—roots, stalk, flowers and cob; the beard of the husk in gold, the rest in silver. 

Other plants were similarly treated—a flower or anything of a yellow tint in real life was done in gold, the other parts in silver. From the trees hung nuggets of fruit. 

Nothing remained uncopied: rabbits, foxes, mice, lizards, lions, tigers, stags, snakes. All were set in their natural surroundings to enhance reality. And as if that were not enough, golden butterflies flitted around in the breeze. 

Life-size fish, ropes, hampers, baskets, bins and even wood piles for burning were all fashioned in gold and silver, soldered together. 

Such gardens, would you believe, graced all royal residences throughout the land. 

The others were disassembled before the treasure-lusting invaders could reach them. So carefully were these artifacts hidden, that they have never been found. 

Regretfully, most of that upon which the invaders did lay their hands was melted down for shipment to Europe. 

So vanished an unbelievably precise metal technology. 

But the Incas were heirs to a much earlier culture…As I see it, the evidence for an advanced knowledge of metallurgy in the remote past is irrefutable. 

The following examples are but representative. 

Wait for the surprises… 

COLUMBIA, 2000 years ago 
EZION-GEBER, ISRAEL, 3000 years ago 
NORTHEAST SIBERIA, 3000 years ago 
TIAHUANACO, BOLIVIA 
SPAIN, 3000 B.C. 
1 (S): Smelting of metals (blast furnaces). 

USA—9000 degrees C. 
PERU—1773 degrees C. 
2 (S): Other super-heat furnaces. 

STEEL 
MEDZAMOR, ARMENIA, 2500 B. C 
3 (S): A steel mill with 200 furnaces (about the oldest factory known): The workers wore gloves and covered their mouths with protective filters— just as they do today. 

VARIOUS PLACES 
4 (S): Steel objects found: 
• Cube: Austria (pre-Flood) 
• Ingot: India, 4th cent. B.C. 
• Nails: Britain (pre-Flood) 
• Tweezers: Armenia, 2500 B.C. 
• Reinforced concrete: U.S.A. 
• Shield: Ecuador 
• Wheel rim: England, 100 B.C. 133 

BRONZE 
SUMERIA 
EGYPT 
CENTRAL AMERICA 
SOUTH AMERICA 
THAILAND, 3000 B.C. 
5 (S): Bronze at the start. 

Bronze is a hard alloy made of copper with the addition of 1/10 part tin.1 It should have taken ages to discover that the addition of 1/10 part of tin to copper creates a better metal. But copper artifacts in our museums are few. Bronze seems to have appeared suddenly and spread far and wide in great profusion. Everywhere—including the Americas—the alloy appears quite suddenly. 

CHINA 
CANAANITES 
6 (S): Hardening of bronze to the strength of high-grade steel (harder than we can produce)—we still do not understand this technique. 

IRAN 
7 (S): Bronze works of art containing arsenic (a complicated procedure). 

ROME 
8 (S): Valves (up to 80 lb) made of a zinc-free, lead-rich anticorrosion, antifriction tin bronze. 

ALUMINUM AND PLATINUM 
CHINA, 297 AD. 
9 (S): An aluminum belt (85 percent pure); aluminum metal ornaments (almost pure).2 

PAKISTAN 
10 (S): An aluminum cup and thimble. 

ECUADOR 
11 (S): An aluminum harp, box and other objects.3 

ECUADOR 
12 (S): Rolls of intricately figured sheet metal in rolls 15 to 30 feet long, composed of smaller 4-foot sheets artfully riveted together (of gold, a unique untarnished silver, and an unknown alloy with the appearance of shiny aluminum).4 

All of these are ancient aluminum artifacts. 

However, aluminium was supposedly not discovered until 1803 and not obtained successfully in pure form until 1854. It is very difficult to isolate, from bauxite, as a pure metal without using a lot of electric power. 

PERU 
ECUADOR 
13 (S): Ornaments and other objects of platinum. 

ECUADOR 14 
(S): Alloyed platinum and gold objects. 

PERU 15 
(S): A 25-foot-long sheet of “white gold” (an alloy of platinum, gold and silver) was found by the Spaniards. 

Europeans did not learn how to alloy this hard, very high melting (1773.5 degrees C.) mineral until 1804. 

It requires either a high-heat furnace and forced-air pumps or, alternatively, powder technology only used in space technology since about 1966! 

OTHER METALS 
BACTRIA, AFGHANISTAN, 2nd cent. B. C 
16 (S): Nickel-content coins (of a metal which can only be extracted from its ore by complicated procedures!). 

EGYPT 17 
(W): Noncorrosive iron (“arms which did not rust”): Such instruments were reported by the Arab historian Ibn Abd Hokm to have been buried in vaults. 136 

Fig. 14-1 Sheet metal wall-covering in rolls, twenty to thirty feet long. This aluminum-like metal is artfully fabricated from four-feet-wide sheets jointed with rivets. Excavated in Ecuador. (Photo Richard Wingate.)  

CHINA 18 
(S): Iron farm implements that were not rusty after 2,000 years in wet soil, were recently dug up.5 

MEHRAULI, near DELHI, INDIA 
19 (S): Ancient castings of LARGE pieces: The Ashoka Pillar (1,500 years old) is a column of cast iron 6 tons and 23 feet 8 inches high—a huge casting job, with hardly a trace of rust. 

Here is testimony to a sophisticated unknown science. (Iron that was 1,500 years under tropical heat and monsoon should have corroded and long ago.) This is pure iron, which can be produced today only in tiny quantities and by electrolysis. 

KOTTENFORST, W. GERMANY 
20 (S): An iron pillar much older, likewise weathered, but with very little trace of rust. 

MOCHICAS, PERU 
21(S): Alloys of gold, silver and copper worked by processes not yet discovered. 

ECUADOR 
22 (S): A steel-hard copper wheel Numerous artifacts recovered from ancient mounds in Michigan, U.S. A were likewise made from chilled, or hardened copper by a method long lost to mankind. 

CENTRAL AMERICA 
23 (S): Metal thread manufactured by extrusion. 

EGYPT 
24 (S): Jewel-headed drills that required tremendous pressure. 

PERU 
25 (S): Precision-drilled quartz jewelry, requiring a complicated process, possible today only with high-speed drills. 

CATAL HUYAK, 
TURKEY 
26 (S): Drills capable of boring a hole finer than the thinnest needle.6  

EGYPT 
27 (S): Copper-headed chisels that were tempered in some manner unknown today. 

IRAQ 
EGYPT 
28 (S): Bronze or copper saws hardened with silica set with jewelled teeth. 

CENTRAL AMERICA 
PERU 
INDIA 
TIAHUANACO, 
BOLIVIA 
IRAQ 
29 (S): Soldering and welding (including soldering with a 60:40 lead-tin alloy, comparable to the best solder we have today). 

GOLD AND SILVER 
TIAHUANACO, 
BOLIVIA 
30 (S): Silver plating, embossing, filigree, damascening. 

U.S.A. 
31 (S): A silver inlaid floral-pattern jar (pre-Flood).7 

ECUADOR 
32 (S): Silver that does not tarnish, even to this day. 

EGYPT 
PERU 
BULGARIA, 3000 B.C. 
33 (S): Gold or copper wire. 

MYCENAE, 
GREECE 
CRIMEA 
EGYPT 
GUATEMALA 
34 (S): Gold death masks, reproducing precisely the wearer’s features. 

COSTA RICA TO PERU 
35 (S): A gold plating technique that required fewer operations than our present-day method. 

EGYPT 
36 (S): Gold hammered into leaves so thin that 367,000 made a pile only 1 inch high. 

PERU 
CHINA 
37 (S): Thread of gold and silver, used in stitching. 

PERU 
38 (S): A fine net of gold; also cloth made of gold CRETE, 1500 B.C. 

CRETE, 1500 B.C. 
39 (W): An intricate honeycomb of gold. 

EGYPT 
40 (S): Tiny objects of gold—so light in weight that one might suspect they were made by the ultramodern process of galvanoplasty. 

ECUADOR 
CRETE 
GREECE TROJANS, 
GREECE SUMERI ETRUSCANS, 
ITALY 
41 (S): Granulation of gold: 
• Ornaments made from tiny grains of gold half the size of a pin head, sometimes interspersed with even smaller, hollowed out granules 
• The same technique for the mane of a lion barely half an inch long; and the feathers and wings of a duck 1-1/4 inches 
• And for the wings of a screech owl and the warts of a toad about 1 inch long 
• The same technique for tiny purses and earrings 
• And for other objects These can be appreciated only by studying them through a strong magnifying glass. 

COLOMBIA 
BABYLON 
PERU 
TIBET 
42 (S,W): Statues and monoliths (up to 90 feet tall) totally covered with gold or silver. 

PERU 
MEXICO 
43 (S): Solid gold and silver life-size statues. (One image of solid gold inlaid with emeralds and other gems covered a total wall of 50 feet! When struck by the rays of the real sun, this false sun brilliantly illuminated the interior of the building. It also caught the moonlight.) 

LIMA, PERU 
44 (S): The temples of Pachacamak were fastened with gold nails that were found to weigh a ton. 

An abundance of precious metals in earlier times enabled many items in common use to bear an aesthetic superiority to our own. Thus we see finely worked gold and silver furniture, eating utensils, garden tools and even footwear. There were bathtubs of gold and silver, fed by water pipes of silver and gold. 

The early Greeks recorded that ships calling at Tartessus found silver so plentiful that on the return journey they substituted silver anchors for their leaden ones. Montezuma of the Aztecs never ate twice from the same gold or silver plate! The value of the gold used in the construction of Solomon’s Temple and its contents was, at current exchange rates, in excess of 3 billion dollars! Whatever happened to all the gold? 

Perhaps some of it may yet be found. Two ancient copper alloy scrolls discovered in a Jordan Valley cave have become a focal point of suspense. It is now confirmed that they constitute a treasure list, hastily prepared thousands of years ago when Jerusalem with its temple was under siege. Sixty-one hiding places are listed. The scrolls not only itemize in detail the temple vessels concealed in a given location, but provide detailed descriptions of those locations. Of course the passage of time has served to obliterate many of the old landmarks. 

However, our concern has been more with the high technology of our early ancestors. Did you notice several particulars in which ancient 141 metallurgy remains in advance of our own? (Item nos. 6, 17—21, 27, 32 and 35) 

It seems certain that metallurgy declined and became forgotten; we are still attempting to rediscover its secrets.

Chapter 15 
Glasswork
MICROSCOPE ON A SEXY SPIDER 
Leaping lizards! What do you make of that? Shall we bank for another run?” 

The Peruvian fliers could scarcely believe their eyes. 

Spread out below all over the desolate Nazca plateau was a mass of geometric patterns and giant pictures of birds, animals and people as far as the eye could see. 

These ground-drawn objects were so enormous that they could be seen only from a plane. Small wonder that they were not discovered until that day in 1939. 

Fashioned by an unknown pre-Inca culture, and covering an area of thirty square miles, they are still unexplained. 

We have no idea how, working from the ground, anybody could execute such figures in perfect proportion. They can be observed successfully only from a thousand feet in the air. 

One of the drawings depicts a spider; it has one leg deliberately lengthened and extended, and at the tip there is a small cleared area. 

Only one spider known uses the tip of its third leg in the precise manner shown in the drawing—the Ricinulei. It inhabits caves deep in the Amazon jungle. 

This spider is recognized by scientists for its unique method of copulation for which it uses that extended leg in the described manner. It is an extremely rare species. 

Now for the incredible aspect: this spider’s mode of reproduction can be observed only with the aid of a microscope! 

The question is, how were these artists able to find and then observe their tiny model—unless we concede that they inherited a knowledge of science equalling our own? Including the use of the ground optical lens microscope? 

Turning, therefore, to glasswork, we find ourselves treated to more surprises from the ancient world. 

Yet NOTHING is incredible any longer. The word “impossible” should have become literally impossible for us. 

CHINA before 2500 B.C. 
ASSYRIA (IRAQ), 2700 B.C. 
MEDZAMOR, ARMENIA, 2500 B.C. 
1 (S): Making of glass. 

HAIFA, ISRAEL 
2 (S): A glass block weighing 88 tons. 

There are only two masses of glass larger than this. Both are the casts for the huge mirrors of the Mount Palomar telescopes. 

We’re told, of course, that ancient man was “backward”. 

I hope my curiosity will be pardoned: I have a question. How did those early races develop the enormous amount of heat necessary to melt the ingredients into this enormous mass of glass? 

Obviously, this block is inexplicable except with reference to a super technology. 

POMPEII, ITALY 
3 (S): Shatterproof glass in sheets. 

ATHENS, GREECE 
4 (W): Spheres of glass. 

ROMAN EMPIRE, 1st cent. A.D. 
5 (W): Pliable, unbreakable glass. 

EGYPT 
6 (W): References to unbreakable glass appear constantly in Arab legends of the secrets of antiquity, as well as a mention that the Pharos lighthouse (44 stories high) was set on solid blocks of glass. 

ROME, ITALY
 7 (W): A theater with a whole floor of glass. 

ROME 
8 (S): Glass vases, goblets, and the like, and “chalises of gold” (a thin sheet of gold covered in glass). 

CRETE 
9 (S): Tinted glass goblets and glazed dinnerware. 

EGYPT, 3000 B.C. 
10 (S): Glass miniatures, which are among the most astounding achievements in the history of glassmaking. 

ZIMBABWE 
AYMARAS, PERU 11 
(S): Crystal birds made with exquisite workmanship. 

THE USE OF OPTICAL LENSES IMPLIED 
MEDZAMOR, ARMENIA, 2500 B.C. 
12 (S): Steel tweezers have been found, like eyebrow tweezers, that enable chemists and watchmakers to handle micro objects which they cannot manipulate by hand. The manipulation of such microobjects implies the use of microscopic lenses. 

EGYPT 
ROME 
ECUADOR 13 (W,S): 
• A version of the Iliad written on parchment so small that it could be rolled into a ball and stored in a walnut 
• An ivory-carved chariot which could be covered by a fly’s wings 
• A seal containing fifteen figures in an area of 1/3-inch (7 millimeters) radius 
• Rings still existing (Khufu, from 500 B.C.; and one acquired by Michelangelo, about 2,000 years old), bearing inscriptions too small to be seen with the naked eye 
• Minute bead particles, each smaller than the head of a pin, and many elaborately engraved, chased, welded together and pierced 

(No artist without an optical lens could have produced any of these.) 

ECUADOR 14 
(S): Wood carvings, baked brick tablets and metal plates, each showing male sperm cells—which can be seen only by a microscope.1 

GROUND OPTICAL LENSES AND MIRRORS DISCOVERED 
MYSORE, INDIA 
15 (S): Mirrors with two reflections. 

MEXICO 
16 (S): Highly polished circular magnetic mirrors, ground to the precision of optical lenses. 

OLMECS, MEXICO 
17 (S): Miniscule concave mirrors. 

SEABED, ECUADOR 
18 (S): A convex obsidian lens 2 inches in diameter, which functions as a mirror and reduces but does not distort the reflection—so precisely made that the reflection of the face shows the tiniest hairs. 

PERU 
19 (S): Concave mirrors. 

LIBYA 
20 (S): Lenses found in tombs. 

BRAZIL 
TIAHUANACO, 
BOLIVIA 
CRETE 
21 (S): Lenses and reflectors have been found also in South America and Crete. 

NILE VALLEY, EGYPT 
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA 
NINEVEH, ASSYRIA 
22 (S): Spherical crystal lenses of the utmost precision (obviously machine-cut). 

CARTHAGE, 
TUNISIA 23(S): A convex lense the size of a button, of perfectly cut rock crystal. 

BRITISH HONDURAS 
24 (S): A crystal skull recovered in 1924 from jungle ruins possesses eye sockets with ground lenses. Light is ingeniously channelled from the base of the skull by means of “light pipes”, then concentrated through a set of concave and convex lenses, which focus the light rays directly into the excavated eye sockets—evidence of an advanced understanding of the use of light. (More on this in Chapter 23.) 

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1 comment:

Biggdrum said...

And they say today's human race is advanced. HA!

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