Our Unknown Ancient Past

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.

While reading Martin Sweatman's book " Prehistory Decoded " I found out that professor Sweatman supports, based on his theory which does make sense, that the Gobekli Tepe pillars were created in 11.900 BC, on the onset of the Younger Dryas. He reached this conclusion because the drawings on those pillars seem to be pointing to this date. However, the older parts of this site have been dated to 9.600 BC. So what is going on? Were the pillars created in 11.900 BC and were placed in their slots more than 1.000 years later? This does not make much sense. This will only make sense if there are even older parts of this sites are ever discovered. This dating (11.900 BC) also comes in contrast with Graham Hancock's theory which I share, that an advanced civilization was destroyed at the end of the Younger Dryas (9.600 BC) and with its dying breath, through its survivors, this civilization transferred part of its knowledge to the people who built Gobekli Tepe. No doubt, accord...