well, i guess when you a certain age, you tend to become more 'certain' on things
i'd say i am less then 1% away from saying i am certain on something, not that it is really important or that anyone other then us geeks here would care.
they would have to find what is now a 'negative evidence' to the contrary to make me change my mind
this has NOTHING TO DO WITH ALIENS, or alien astronaut theory
totally terrestrial and human
i am near convinced that certain areas of our planet once were home to advanced civilizations.
duh? right?
well, not the 'advanced' that conventional fact admits to, but advanced and then lost
the areas i base on what is know and accepted as fact by archaeology whatever history (the written word) that has been found
these are--the nile valley and delta, the littoral of the european atlantic from the iberian penisula through france and into britain and ireland, the indus valley, the euphrates and tigris valleys, certai nareas of the black sea coast
of course this would include the following peoples-or more-
Egyptians, sumerians, the proto basque ppl of iberia and france, the pre celtic ppls of france, iberai, britain and ireland (the henge builders), the unkown ppls of the upper euphrates who built places like Golbeke Tepe (in syria) whose buildings are dated to be at least as old as the Pyramids and earlier eghyptian construction, the proto iranian ppls of the indus valley (mohenjo daro, harrapa) , and the unknown, maybe proto sycthian or very ancient greek ppls who populated the 'sunken lands' in the black sea who remains have been found recently by undersea exploration--the sites PRE DATE the last glacial meltdown,, another words they existed at some point during the last ice age!
of course there are a few other areas around the world, just limiting
i believe that the culture of Egypt existed from a time DURING THE LAST ICE AGE, the same with Sumeria and of course Gobelke tepe. the henge builders of europe/britain were seemingly not as advanced and seem to be a bit later in time, but still dated further back then conventional wisdom wants to allow--they know it, just do not know how to 'package it'
the civ's of the Indus-- If we want, lets leave out the writings of present day tech like atom bombs and flying vehicles that are in 'history (remember, actual history is the 'study of the written word' in any medium)' like the Mahabharata and other vedic and hindu texts. these texts are based on the oral traditions that were passed down for perhaps millennia before they were finally out to the written word sometime between 1,000 and 700 bc (range varies)
the physical evidence at Mohenjo Daro and Harrappa,thought to be contemporary cities. shows advanced knowledge of water distribution and sewage-they used closed pipes that were connected to almost every structure. the city was laid out in grid form,something not very much done until the much later advent of the romans-
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/mohenjo-daro/
and before the rise of these two cities? well, an area not far away as resulted in heavy reading of radiation. and yes, the 'experts' -stamped and accredited by accepted academia-all say that it does not exist because no one has done a research paper that has been peer reviewed!
"Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945."
http://www.indiadivine.org/8000-year-old-indian-city-irradiated-by-atomic-blast/
and just who would do the peer review? no one. no one who fears for losing their status or being kicked out of the 'clubhouse' (ala Daniel in stargate) JUST because some hack hasn't written an academic study that has been published and peer reviewed MAKE SOMETHING untrue or a non event. it just can't be controlled or fully understood, so it is 'debunked' and called hokum
before i get going and make this post TOO LONG, i'll just say that:
i believe that humans in these well watered and peaceful places were able to adopt agriculture and animal domestication and thereby, free time to think and invent, at A MUCH earlier time then conventionally held by modern science
that these areas came under attack--if they survived the ice cap melt that is--by ppls who were still nomadic hunters and more warlike from the north. i also blame these ppls for the 'invention' of things like fear and idolatry based and non nature based religions--but that is another story
the archaeological evidence gleaned through the study of where the items/cities/ bones and artifacts lay in the soil layer and carbon dating, cannot be ignored. no matter how much academia tries to get us to 'look the other way' the info is out there and it was obtained ,in many cases ,by members of that very same academia!
i firmly believe that 'flying machines' were entirely possible by these ppls. hey, make an airtight sack large enough-like stitched together animal skins treated with a lightweight oily substance, and you could make a hot air balloon--that flies, right? why most we be limited in our thinking to only accept that some french dude came up with a hot air balloon in the 18th cent.?
and the stories of humanity
look at how we still treat the ancient mythology of Greece and Egypt? we still make movies and write books on the stuff.
now consider how long ago these stories were written down by the greeks and egyptians and HOW LONG before that were they just oral history?
now consider the anceint sumerian epic of gilgamesh
http://www.ancient.eu/gilgamesh/
yes ,we know that the genesis stories of creation and the flood were 'lifted' from that book. these books are ascribed to have been written by the latter family of abraham- abraham being a exile from mesopotamia would have known these stories and passed them down to his children.
in gilgamesh look at the story of enkidu
enkidu was a "hairy wild man" who lived with a few others like him in the hills and woodlands outside of civilization
he is described as a 'beast' who only tamed after a temple prostitute was sent by Gilgamesh to win him to his side
so who was this "hairy, wild beast" who preferred to live with his ppl in the wilds away from the city?
well, the written version of gilgamesh is about 4000 yrs old (on tablets)
so how long was this a oral history before the invention of cuneiform writing?
the story bears the fractious nature of other stories that we know were oral only and then written after and could not be 'edited' for whatever reason--so it is known that it has been around for awhile before going into writing
how old? i believe that the story of enkidu at least, is a story based on generational memory of the last of the neanderthal--who we KNOW lived in the same places that were on the edges of Sumer--modern day northern iraq, syria, southern turkey, israel. that this story is at least 5-6000 yrs older then its written form
the description of Enkidu matches our thoughts when we think of neanderthal. brutish, hairy, 'cavemen' who probably avoided modern humans as much as possible. and, thanks to dna, we now know, did eventually mix with modern humans. is the story of enkidu and how gilgamesh battled him but could not beat him and then became good friends --after gil sent the hooker to him that is-- just an allegory for how human memory and passed down stories account for those 'bogey men'' who lived on the fringes and how they were eventually tamed and bred in when they could not be stamped out?
i think so
i leave it at that and hope someone has an opinion that is more then a sentence long
