Our Unknown Ancient Past

  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...

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...

As we know, Plato places the destruction of Atlantis at 9.600 BC. This specific date happens to also be the abrupt end of Younger Dryas. Although this is direct, there is another hint given by Plato which places the end of Atlantis to the end of Younger Dryas. Plato tells us that sometime after the defeat of the Atlanteans at the hands of the Athenians, Atlantis sunk to the sea within a terrible day and night of earthquakes and floods. The Atlanteans were not however the only victims of this catastrophe, as the entire Athenian army was lost under the waves. So the same catastrophe affected in the same way two rather distant areas of the earth, Atlantis being on the Atlantic Ocean just outside the straits of Gibraltar, and Athens being in the east Mediterranean. This implies that this catastrophic event affected a large part of the globe. And what event could have had such widespread effects? Precisely, the end of Younger Dryas. So if someone wants to argue that the date of 9.600 BC was...