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.
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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.
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(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
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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
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(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
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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
1 (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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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