It’s no “Conspiracy” when all ancient cultural histories agree on prehistory, when all languages are mbedded with the same basic message, “do unto others…” when geophysics and hard archaeology meet and agree.
It is a conspiracy when the most important topic in modern history is not part of the public debate except on the Internet…
Instead most of the Third World on this planet has been engulfed by various forms of death and theft – of money, resources, identity, self.
Imagine the direction the human race could have taken if it were accepted as common knowledge that there have been predictable periodic cataclysmic volcanic and earthquake upheavals, which in all human folklore feature a destruction by fire (tectonic plate shifts causing major earthquakes, happening now) followed by a destruction by flooding (caused by the melting of 13 000 years of accumulated polar ice when it shifts to the equator)?
That both Islam and Chrisianity are branches of the Judaic Old Testament teachings?
Is it all true? Wikipedia sums up author Graham Hancock’s findings [yes, it's all true[ in his book, Fingerprints of the Gods: "The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization” first published in 1995, in which he echoes 19th century writer Ignatius Donnelly, author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), in contending that some previously enigmatic ancient but highly advanced civilization had existed in prehistory, one which served as the common progenitor civilization to all subsequent known ancient historical ones.
Supposedly, sometime around the end of the last Ice Age
this civilization ended in cataclysm, but passed on to its inheritors
and mathematics. [To the point where the width of the three sides
on the base of the Great pyramid’s three sides are almost identical.
Today, in 2014 we cannot build structures like that, although some
engineers have suggsted that
the huge slabs were poured while the rough liimestone was in a liquid state.
Most of [Hancock’s]claims are based on the idea that mainstream interpretations of archaeological evidence are flawed or incomplete
Basically, everything we think we know about human history, both geophysical and socio-cultural are based on assumptions that have been misinterpreted, leading to the erroneous belief that certain ancient structures were not built by men, but “Aliens” who still move among us in various disguises, stirriing emnity among us?.
All good ‘Conspiracy Theory” stuff, but on a preponderance of evidence put forward by Hancock, simply not true.
I like flying saucers, too, but have never even seen even a photograph of one that couldn’t have been photo shopped while it would be fairly dificult to make up repetitive star patterns and the precession of the equinoxes..
Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis or Muhyiddin Pîrî Bey also known as Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri; “Reis” being a military rank) was an Ottomanadmiral, geographer, and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470. He was executed in 1553.
He is primarily known today for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), a book that contains detailed information on navigation, as well as very accurate charts (for their time) describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea. He gained fame as a cartographer when a small part of his first world map (prepared in 1513) was discovered in 1929 at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. His world map is the oldest known Turkish atlas showing the New World, and one of the oldest maps of America still in existence anywhere (the oldest known map of America that is still in existence is the map drawn by Juan de la Cosa in 1500). Piri Reis’ map is centered on the Sahara at the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer.
But, being a Muslim, his work appears to be ignored by our culture except for a few academcs, Hancock included…
“Fingerprints” has been translated into 27 languages and is estimated to have sold more than three million copies around the world.
A second edition of the book was published in 2001, entitled Fingerprint of the Gods: The Quest Continues. It includes a new introduction and new appendices in which Hancock responds to some of his critics.
In 1959, Turkish army captain Llhan Durupinar discovered an unusual shape while examining aerial photographs of his country. The smooth shape, larger than a football field, stood out from the rough and rocky terrain at an altitude of 6,300 feet near the Turkish border with Iran.
Capt. Durupinar (being a follower of Islam, which is based on the Old Testament) was familiar with the biblical accounts of the Ark and its association with Mount Ararat in Turkey, but he was reluctant to jump to any conclusions. The region was very remote, yet it was inhabited with small villages. No previous reports of an object this odd had been made before. So he forwarded the photographic negative to a famous aerial photography expert named Dr. Brandenburger, at Ohio State University.
Brandenburger was responsible for discovering the Cuban missile bases during the Kennedy era from reconnaissance photos, and after carefully studying the photo, he concluded: “I have no doubt at all, that this object is a ship. In my entire career, I have never seen an object like this on a stereo photo.”
in 1960 LIFE magazine covered the story under the heading of Noahs Ark? That same year a group of Americans accompanied Capt. Durupinar to the site for a day and a half. They were expecting to find artifacts on the surface or something that would be unquestionably related to a ship of some kind. They did some digging in the area but found nothing conclusive and announced to the anxiously waiting world that it appeared to be a natural formation.
Most of the global media turned away from the find and it became a non-story.
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Outside of “Fingerprinits: only one film has made any major attempt to rationalize a periodic global fire-and-water cataclysm (every 13 000 years),
In 2009, Hollywood director Roland Emmerich, released his blockbuster disaster movie 2012 citing Fingerprints of the Gods in the credits as inspiration for the film. In a November 2009 interview with the London magazine Time Out, Emmerich states: “I always wanted to do a biblical flood movie, but I never felt I had the hook. I first read about the Earth’s Crust Displacement Theory in Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods but he failed to mention either crust or pole shifts, merely citing the book in its credits. We are never told where all that water came from, it was al “Tsunamis”.
I spent five years in various Universities including Notre Dame and, in retrospect, everything, like Emmerich’s Biblical Flood movie was “taught by the book”.
Innovation was only partially, encouraged in creative writing and theater. Curiosity I found being pushed once, by a Jesuit Priest who said that we should “question everything. Don’t doubt your Faith, but question it, for it was written by men”.
Those people are not stupid.
And when 100% of the pre-professional students they are teaching, including medical students who had never heard of Albert Schweitzer, and could only talk about the money to be made from doing plastic surgery on Hollywood stars, it kind of sets your values.
I also think the title and cover artwork on Hancock’s book is a publisher’s misdirection and misleading as it points the curious in the direction of Dainiken, Aliens and UFO’s rather than its content: an exhaustive and complete summary – and credible reasons for – all the geophysical anomalies on the planet that we not only don’t understand, but do not have the technology to copy!
But this kind of presentation is an obvious appeal to the “Aliens” theorists – image the surprise they find they’re reading a geophysical textbook. Accounts for the millions of sales!
Back to Wiki: “The book pivots on “fingerprints” of these civilizations, evidence of which Hancock finds in the descriptions of Godmen like Osiris, Thoth, Quetzalcoatl, and Viracocha.
These creation myths predate history, and Hancock suggests that in 10,450 BC, a major pole shift took place, before which Antarctica was farther from the South Pole than it is today, and after which it was moved to its present location.
After the next crust shift, where will your land end up?
Or do we somehow take geohistory accornding to Hancock as true and find a way to melt the poles before any crust shift?