Evidences that advanced human civilization existed more than 10,000 years ago

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 · 11 Aug 2024

According to official science, the earliest civilizations emerged around 5000 years ago in the Mediterranean basin, particularly in Mesopotamia. But is this truly the case, or was there a previous civilization about which we still know nothing?

If we truly want to discover the era when gods (the beings with superior knowledge who were later deified) physically lived on Earth, we would need to undertake ambitious archaeological expeditions to find evidences, but lacking archeological finds (objects, constructions, bones, ...) we can at the moment only limit our analysis to the limited available data.

However, there are several clues that suggest this ancient civilization may have indeed existed!

Herodotus of Halicarnassus and the Egyptians

Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( 484 - 425 BC)

The first hint is provided by Herodotus of Halicarnassus, an ancient Greek historian who lived between 484 BC and 425 BC. In his work "Histories," a collection of nine books, he discusses ancient history up to the Persian Wars. The second book of this collection, which is of interest for our research, discusses the Egyptian civilization and their knowledge.

Herodotus states that what he writes is merely what he heard from the Egyptian priests, without additions, with at most some personal commentary, but clearly specified.

The first clue is in the passage:

"The Egyptian Hercules is certainly an ancient god; as they themselves recount, between the reign of Amasis and the time when the original eight gods became twelve (Hercules, according to them, was one of these twelve), 17,000 years had passed."

Thus, wanting to trace a hypothetical timeline of civilization, we learn that from when the 12 Egyptian gods made their appearance, originating from the previous eight, to the reign of Pharaoh Amasis I, a total of 17,000 years had elapsed. Amasis I was a pharaoh of the 18^th dynasty who lived around 1550 BC, so it appears that these so-called twelve gods lived in Egypt around 18500 BC.

Continuing with the reading of the text, after naming the first human king who ruled unified Egypt, the priests list a series of other kings who succeeded in that land:

"The priests then listed from their book the names of another 330 kings; among so many generations, eighteen were of Ethiopian origin, the rest were all Egyptians, including the only woman."

According to the knowledge of the priests of the time, Egypt had seen about 330 pharaohs reign. Calculating an average of 30 years per reign gives a total of 9,900 years. Starting from the era in which Herodotus writes, the first human king of ancient Egypt reigns around 10300 BC (very approximate calculation). But if we continue with the reading, we discover that Herodotus himself gives us an even more precise date, thanks to further Egyptian information:

"They explained to me that from the era of the first king to this priest of Hephaestus, the last reigning, 341 human generations had passed, and in such a long span of time the same number had been the high priests and the kings. Now, since three generations make up a century, 300 correspond to 10,000 years; the remaining 41 (beyond the 300), correspond to 1340 years; well, in 11,340 years, - they claimed - no god had shown himself in the form of a man; and nothing similar had ever happened before nor happened after, among others who became kings of Egypt. Moreover, they said that in this long period the sun had four times moved away from its usual course: twice it rose where it usually sets and twice it set where it usually rises. During this period, Egypt did not suffer any alterations, neither in agricultural produce nor in phenomena connected to the river, nor regarding diseases or deaths."

So, we learn that as long as the gods lived on Earth, Egypt experienced a golden age with no diseases, famines, or poverty. Then around 12,000 BC, the deities disappeared. That date marks the end of the last reign with a divine ruler, Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, and begins the era of human rulers, leading to decline, kingdom division, wars, poverty, and famines.

Then the same priests lead Herodotus into a hall of the temple and show him statues representing the 341 successive priests.

Herodotus wrote:

“They led me into the vast inner hall of the temple, and one by one, they showed me the colossal wooden statues present there, as many as I have already mentioned: indeed, each high priest erects his own statue in that hall.”

But more importantly:

“They claimed that each statue represented a ‘pyromis’ born from another ‘pyromis’; they showed me all of them, 345, excluding any relation to gods or heroes. In short, such were the figures depicted in those images, they specified, and quite different from the gods. Before them, all the rulers of Egypt were gods, lived among men: a god took power in turn. The last to rule over Egypt would have been Horus, son of Osiris, and the Egyptian equivalent of the Greek Apollo; Horus had ended the reign of Typhon, reigning last. Osiris in the Greek language would be called Dionysus.”

The Egyptians emphasize that the priests were "Pyromis" and had nothing to do with the gods. The gods are something else. Pyromis means "a beautiful and brave man," a kind of idol, a myth to emulate, but nothing divine.

The 12 Gods of Olympus

In a further passage Herodotus confirms the previously mentioned dates. As if to avoid any misunderstanding, he provides more data that confirm the calculations:

“Among the Greeks, the most recent gods are considered to be Heracles, Dionysus, and Pan, whereas among the Egyptians, Pan is the oldest and belongs to the group of the first eight gods; Heracles, on the other hand, is among the second group of gods, called the twelve, and Dionysus in that third series originating from the twelve. I have already specified how many years, according to the Egyptians, have passed from the era of Heracles to that of King Amasis; from Pan, they say it has been more, from Dionysus less, and they calculate 15,000 years from him to the reign of Amasis. The Egyptians declare they are sure of this information because they constantly keep count of the years and record them in writing.”

So if 17,000 years had passed from the appearance of the 12 gods to the reign of Amasis, then 15,000 years had passed from the divine reign of Dionysus-Osiris. Even more time had passed since the reign of Pan. If, as we had previously calculated, the appearance of the 12 Gods was to be traced back to 18,500 BC, then the reign of Osiris would be dated at 16,500 BC, while that of Pan reign even before 18,500 BC.

Herodotus often uses the names of Greek deities to indicate the Egyptian ones because he too understood that their origins were the same.

To understand who Pan and Hercules are, one must refer to the iconography of these deities. Pan is the god of all living beings, with a human body but goat head and legs, which resembles the representation that the Egyptians made of the god Amon, later associated with Ra, probably the Sumerian ANU.

Thus, it is likely that in 18,500 BC, the reign of the 8 primordial gods, including Amon-Ra, ended, who then passed the control to the 12 gods of the second generation, including Hercules.

Hercules (or Herakles) in turn was the god of strength and of traders and merchants, difficult to match in the Egyptian pantheon, is likely to be identified with Ptah, one of the creator gods according to the inhabitants of the Nile valley.

Finally, if we must date, as was our goal at the beginning, the era in which gods physically ruled the land of Egypt we must go back even further than 18,500 BC.

The Sumerian Kings

The Sumerian King List is an ancient document, written in Sumerian language and available in 16 different versions, which lists a series of Kings and Dynasties that reigned over Mesopotamia.

The Sumerian King List

The list begins with the Protodynastic I period, namely the dynasty of the rulers who reigned before the great flood. These were semi-divine sovereigns, children of the Sumerian gods.

The units of measurement of the time are the "sar" (3,600 years) and the "ner" (600 years).

The reigns are extremely long compared to human standards.

After kingship descended from the heavens, the kingdom was established in Eridu. In Eridu, Alulim became king and reigned for 28,800 years.

Then we have the kings of the Protodynastic II period, i.e., the rulers of various cities, dynasty by dynasty.

If we consider the longest reign, that of Kish, we discover there are known kings that every archaeologist recognizes as having existed: Etana and En-Men-Barage-Si.

En-Men-Barage-Si is believed to have died around 2680 BC. Etana, on the other hand, is placed between 3000 and 2700 BC, but this seems rather strange considering that the list of kings of Kish presents as many as 10 sovereigns between Etana and En-Men-Barage-Si: 10 kings reigning in just 20 years makes an average of 2 years per reign. It becomes more plausible if we consider 3000 BC.

The problem is that the list assigns excessively long reigns to each king to make the numbers add up. Therefore, the date of life for Etana of Kish probably needs to be moved back (it cannot be moved for En-Men-Barage-Si since there are historical findings about this king and it can be asserted that he really died between 2650 and 2680).

If we add up all the reigns of the kings from the Protodynastic II period starting from En-Men-Barage-Si backward, we would find that the first postdiluvian king, Jushur, began his reign in 17,355 BC. According to the Sumerians, this date should also correspond to the time of the universal flood.

If we include in the calculation the kings that reign before the Protodynastic II period, we have at least 300,000 BC !!!

Egypt and Giza

Giza houses four huge pyramids, but despite all the studies conducted and the excavations carried out, many questions remains with no answer. Who created these structures? Why? How? But most importantly, when?

The Pyramids

According to official science, pyramids were built by Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. According to unofficial science, by someone else much earlier. How can this be asserted?

The pyramids of Giza.

There are no inscriptions inside the pyramids (except for the clearly fake ones inside the "Khufu" Great Pyramid), which is highly unusual, considering that all Egyptian monuments were always covered with hieroglyphs and inscriptions. Furthermore no document attests to their construction; there exists a Sumerian coin that depicts a real pyramid, suggesting that the Sumerians already knew about their existence.

Many theories have been proposed, the most probable of which involves the alignment of the structures with the Orion's Belt. Three stars of the aforementioned constellation, indeed, placed over an aerial photo of the Giza plain, match perfectly with the three pyramids. But is this possible?

According to some, yes, it is possible if the pyramids are dated back. To when then? Well, with current computerized astronomy programs, we can determine the time when Orion's Belt would have been visible at night over those lands: the answer is between 14,000 and 12,000 BC.

Outside of this interval, the constellation disappears from the Egyptian celestial view.
So, were the pyramids built during that period?

The Sphinx

The Sphinx, the largest monolithic statue in the world, is located near the three pyramids. It has the body of a lion and the head of a man. Official science claims it portrays Pharaoh Khafre: because it resembles him, because it has the headdress of a pharaoh, and because there is a temple nearby with the statues of Khafre. But is that enough?

The Sphinx

Indeed, the temple could have been built centuries later. The head is disproportionately small compared to the body, and it is unclear why such a big mistake would be made by masterful builders like the Egyptians. Unless one accepts that the head was originally different and was later modified to the current smaller size.

Furthermore the vertical erosion seen on the Sphinx could only have been caused by abundant rainfall. But if the Sphinx was really made during the Khafre reign (2630-2510 BC), it could not have undergone such erosion since by around 1450 BC (approximately), Thutmose IV had already restored it and freed it from the sand because was almost completely buried in. There wasn't enough time for such erosion.

Erosion on the Sphinx.

And then, when would these copious rains have occurred in Egypt? Only from a certain period onward: that is, before 10,500 BC, after which the territory became more or less as we know it today.

Another clue might be provided by the very existence of the Sphinx itself. It is a lion, and its head was probably that of a lion, too. It is oriented so as to face the sunrise in the east. Considering that the sun always rises within a constellation and that the precession of the equinoxes changes this constellation over time, wouldn't it be possible that a lion-shaped statue watched the sun rise in the corresponding constellation? When could this have happened?

According to many calculations this could have occurred between 12,000 and 9,500 BC.

During that period in the Age of Leo, a huge lion gazed at the sun rising in the house of Leo. Evocative, isn't it?

The Djed

The Egyptians were one of the most "loquacious" peoples of antiquity. Each of their temples, architectural works, and monuments was literally plastered with inscriptions that recounted everyday life events, heroic deeds, and history. Their writing used hieroglyphics, which have greatly captured the human imagination. Among the various hieroglyphs, one in particular interests us this time: the Djed.

The Djed Pillar Symbol

For those who may not know, the Djed is a recurring figure in Egyptian representations. Its unclear function has given rise to numerous theories about its meaning. It consists of a vertical column with a varying number of horizontal bars at the top. Also called the spine of Osiris, as many believe it represents the god's vertical column, and is a symbol of royalty and divinity. Pharaohs almost always depicted a Djed near their names.

But our theory is different: the Djed as a counter of eras. Zodiacal eras, to be precise. What makes us think this? Firstly, the fact that there are various versions, with the number of horizontal levels varying—sometimes 3, usually 4, once only 5.

Starting our research, we find hundreds of Djeds, all with 4 levels, which at first glance suggest a standard hieroglyph. Then, Djeds with only 3 levels are found, and all are older than the previous ones (these are never later than the first dynasty; I found a stele from the second dynasty of the pharaohs Seth Peribsen and Seth Kashakemui with a Djed at 4 levels). Thus, up to about 3000 BC (or shortly thereafter), these objects have 3 levels, then they change to 4 levels. There is a change, an evolution, but due to what? This is suggested by the unique artifact, the only existing Djed with 5 levels, never found before. It is housed at the Louvre, features 5 horizontal bars, and is from the Roman era, thus no earlier than 400-300 BC, as Roman influence was minimal before that date (Egypt was conquered in 30 BC).

What significant event occurred (twice!) in this period that would cause the change in Osiris's backbone? It wasn’t easy to understand for the first proposer, but the answer was the zodiacal era.

In the Roman era, the Age of Pisces had just begun (remember Jesus-Fish?) - 5th level. Before this, it was the Age of Aries (Statues of Amon Ra at Karnak with the head of a ram) (remember that an age lasts on average 2160 years, but each age has a different length depending on the size of the constellation in the sky, some last longer, some shorter) - 4th level. Before Aries was the Age of Taurus (Crete with the Minotaur, Hathor in Egypt, the golden calf in the Bible) - 3^rd level. And thus, we have reached the third level of the Djed.

But then we become curious and want to know: where do we end up if we go back to the origin of the Djed? Well, we find that by removing a level and reaching the 2nd, we are in the Age of Gemini. Remaining with only one level, we are in the Age of Cancer. But whoever conceived this calendar wanted to indicate a passage, "I have lived through the change of an era!", thus they were already there when the Age of Cancer arrived. In fact, removing the last level leaves only the stem of the Djed: we are in the Age of Leo. The beginning of everything.
So, another signal that brings us there?

But when was this Age of Leo??
Based solely on the findings of the Djed, I tried to calculate the dates of the various ages. I obtained these results:

note: all dates in the table can vary by a few centuries.

Additional Clues

• In Tiahuanaco, the pre-Inca city on Lake Titicaca, several fragments of pottery and the friezes on the famous Gate of the Sun depict heads of ELEPHANTS, TOXODONS, and other mammals that became extinct in South America between 12,000 BC and 10,000 BC;
• In the same Tiahuanaco, the Kalasasaya temple is aligned according to the path that the sun followed more than 14,000 years ago, according to studies by Professor Arthur Posnansky in the 1930s;
• The temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak in Egypt is aligned according to the skies of 12,000 BC, as found in studies conducted in the 1920s;
• The adventures of Prince Rama, in India, narrated in the Ramayana, are dated to 15,000 years ago, which is 13,000 BC.