Our Unknown Ancient Past

The Pleiades is the most obvious cluster to the naked eye in the night sky. This Greek name, according to the Oxford dictionary, probably derives from plein ("to sail") because of the cluster's importance in delimiting the sailing season in the Mediterranean Sea: "the season of navigation began with their heliacal rising". The earliest-known depiction of the Pleiades is the Nebra sky disk, a Northern German Bronze Age artifact of 1600 BC. According to Greek mythology the Pleiades were seven sisters, whose father was the Titan Atlas. Those were Maia (mother of Hermes), Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope, the youngest of the Pleiades who faded away because she was becoming mortal as a result of having married Sisyphus. In my book I discussed how these seven daughters of Atlas "gave birth to prominent sons, others of which became founders of nations and others founders of cities", as Diodorus Siculus put it. I also noted the suspiciou

In my book, Our Unknown Ancient Past , I included the world map of Herodotus, a map based on the descriptions of the ancient Greek historian, in reference to Atlantis. There, one can see the Atlas Mountain-range in the north-western edge of Africa. I would now like to discuss this map further, as it contains more interesting information. First of all, you can see the Indus River on the far right. This is important, as ancient Greeks were not supposed to know about the Indus River at the time of Herodotus. Alexander the Great reached India, but that was long after the time of Herodotus. This is further proof that the old stories of Dionysus and Hercules campaigning up to India are more than just stories, just like I argue in my book. In fact India was known to the Greeks al least since the time of Homer, as the great poet tells of the Ethiopians of the far east, opposite to the ones of Africa, taking it clear he was talking about the people of India. Secondly, you can not help but not

"Destruction of Atlantis by a great earthquake and tsunami? A geological analysis of the Spartel Bank hypothesis", this is the title of a research paper by the Research Director of the "French National Centre for Scientific Research". Quite an eye-opener I would dare say, as the paper examines the geological plausibility of the Atlantis story, based on geological evidence. The paper starts by stating: "Numerous geographical similarities exist between Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis and a paleoisland (Spartel) in the western Straits of Gibraltar. The dialogues recount a catastrophic event that submerged the island ca. 11.6 ka in a single day and night, due to violent earthquakes and floods. This sudden destruction is consistent with a great earthquake (M . 8.5) and tsunami, as in the Gulf of Cadiz region in 1755 when tsunami runup heights reached 10 m. Great earthquakes (M 8–9) and tsunamis occur in the Gulf of Cadiz with a repeat time of 1.5–2 k.y., according

There was once an island right next to the Straits of Gibraltar, from the side of the Atlantic. That island sunk approximately 12.000 years ago, around 10.000 BC. And most importantly, all this has been scientifically proven. No, I am not talking about Atlantis, but rather about Spartel island . A paleoisland that sunk around the same time as Atlantis, which according to Plato was around 9.600 BC. So, at the same period with the sinking of Atlantis, we now know for a fact that there was another - smaller - island in the Atlantic, close to the Gibraltar Straits, that sunk. What an amazing coincidence to add to our pile of countless coincidences that prove Plato was telling the truth all along. Something major happened back then to sink Spartel and that same thing could very well have had the same effect for many islands in that area. The other interesting part with the story of Spartel island is that the water there is very shallow, as the island's highest peak is just 56 meters bel

Plato, in his story of Atlantis, says that ships from all over the world were visiting the busy port of Atlantis in order to trade. Skeptics find this idea of primitive seafaring absurd and, for them, it is one more reason why Atlantis could never have existed. Archaeological findings in the areas of Plakias and Preveli of Crete, attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis and Homo Erectus, show that these two species had reached Crete by sea 130.000 to 700.000 years ago . The Paleolithic positions which were investigated were in caves that at that time were coastal. It is worth noting here that Crete has been an island for the past 5 million years and it was also quite far from the nearest land. The sea level might have been lower back then compared to today, but the sea is so deep in that area that the change in sea level does not have such a great effect on the distance from Peloponnese (the nearest Greek mainland) to Crete. And while there are a couple of islands (Kythera and Antikythera) i

According to Plato, Athens was once very different than today, and even than his own time. He describes in Critias how Attica had a very different morphology 9.000 years before his time (thus around 9.500 BC). Here is the ancient text: "But because there were many cataclysms during the nine thousand years – that is how many have passed until today – the soil during those years and due to those events was moving away from higher grounds and did not accumulate on the ground, as it happens in other places, but it always slipped away in large quantities and disappeared into the depths of the sea. This way, as it happens on small islands, what is left, compared to what there was in the past, resembles a skeleton of a sick body, as the soil, being fertile and soft, was carried away and only the shallow crust of the earth was left behind. But during those ancient times our land, as it was still intact, instead of mountains and the nowadays dry lands had tall muddy hills, and those plains

  As a person I am always suspicious of coincidence. Whenever I hear this word, an alarm sets off in my head. In my book “ Our Unknown Ancient Past: Thoughts and Reflections on the Unexplained Mysteries of Prehistory ” I state that it cannot be a coincidence that Plato’s date of Atlantis’ destruction (9.600 BC) is spot on, coinciding with the abrupt end of the Younger Dryas (9.600 BC). Chances are that this is no coincidence, but what exactly are those chances? Here I would now like to elaborate on that.   Let’s agree that Plato being precise means that his date is plus/minus 100 years off from the actual date that the Younger Dryas ended. We could define this 200-year period to be even shorter but let us take the least favorable scenario. Now, there are 47 such periods within the range of 600 BC (when Solon heard the story of Atlantis from the Egyptian priest) up to 10.000 BC. Why take 10.000 BC and not 15.000 or 20.000? Well, Plato could have placed Atlantis even further back in

If you have read my book Our Unknown Ancient Past then you are aware of Genevieve von Petzinger's amazing work. If not, here is a short briefing: The Anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger spent many years in European caves, recording written symbols. After extended research, she tracked the origins of writing around 40.000 BC. In the image below you can see that most of those symbols are spread almost worldwide. Interestingly enough, we have another piece of evidence pointing to this date: the zodiac. According to Professor Martin Sweatman's theory, analyzed in his book "Prehistory Decoded", the zodiac has remained more or less unchanged for 40.000 years. In his pioneer work Professor Sweatman proved that prehistoric people were using the zodiac we are still using today. And let us not forget about the lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel , an extremely important prehistoric ivory sculpture that was carved out of mammoth ivory between 35.000 and 40.000 years ago. Expe

I just finished reading Martin Sweatman's Prehistory Decoded and I must say I am impressed. In his great book Professor Sweatman presents convincing evidence that the Sphinx in Giza was built around 7.000 BC. So now we have two serious scientists placing the creation of the Sphinx many millennia earlier than the conventional dating, both having reached this conclusion using completely different methods. Robert Schoch based his research on Geology. Martin Sweatman based his research on Archeoastronomy. What a shock - or I should say schoch - for mainstream scientists.