 Re: scarey thought
no its not new, and one of the forerunners of the idea is erik van daniken
http://ez2www.com/go.php3?site=book&go=0425151301
"Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Daniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it... * An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid
* Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts
* Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins
* A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica
* A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes
Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization."
you might find this interesting as well, the director of the movie stargate got his inspiration from this book, chariots of the gods.
a far less controversial theory is that of graham hancock.
his work is based on the fact that mankind has a hidden past, one in which man was more technilogically advanced than he is now.
http://www.grahamhancock.com/
hancocks theories get a lot of play on the discovery channel, based a lot on common sense instead of what we think we know of the past, one of them is the disputed age of the sphinx and the pyramids in egypt, which literally have no hieroglyphics, except those that were added years after the contstruction of each, which is contrary to egyptian architecture which adorned their buildings with hieroglyphs.
carbon-14 dating puts construction anywhere from 2500 to 10,000 years ago. 2500 years is the accepted date because it falls into our line of thinking of the past.
there is a rock circle on an island in the atlantic, it extends into the ocean with the rocks furthest out completely submerged. scientists attribute it to 5,000 years old, but have no explanation of how the rocks were erected in place underwater, without diving equipment.
5,000 years fits our way of thinking, carbon-14 itself says it is older, 10,000 to 20,000 years old, but 5,000 is the accepted age, geologists agree that the last time the area was above water was at the end of the last ice age, 17,000 years ago, which agrees with the carbon-14 dating, but not our "accepted" knowledge of the advance of man.
if these were isolated incidents, easy to dismiss, and since nothing ABOVE land has yet been found to contradict these small anomalies, science is discarded and educated guesses that fit our perception are the norm.
unless you look underwater...
"Between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, terrible things happened to the world our ancestors lived in. Great ice caps over northern Europe and north America melted down, huge floods ripped across the earth, sea-level rose by more than 100 metres, and about 25 million square kilometres of formerly habitable lands were swallowed up by the waves."
"In 1997 a chain of mountains almost 2000 kilometres long and more than 3000 metres high was discovered in the South Pacific. Nobody ever knew the mountains were there before because they are under water - as, in fact, is 70 per cent of the earth's surface. Marine archaeologists -- who are looking for targets much smaller than mountain-ranges under the sea -- can therefore be forgiven for finding just 100 submerged sites more than 3000 years old in the past half century. Even at the crude mapping level, it is one of the absurdities of scientific priorities that we now have a better map of the surface of Venus than we do of the 225 million square kilometres of our own planet's sea-floor.
On land it is obvious that archaeology still has much more work to do before it can honestly claim to have fully understood (rather than merely theorised about) the process by which the great civilisations of ancient history arose. Vast areas of the earth's surface - the Sahara Desert, for example (which was green for 4000 years at the end of the Ice Age) - have hardly benefited from the attentions of archaeologists at all. And even in countries like Egypt which have been intensively excavated for more than a century new discoveries can still be made that call established views and chronologies into question.
In December 2000 excavations at Abydos in Upper Egypt by a University of Pennsylvania/University of New York team demonstrated that the intriguing religious practise of boat burial - for example the so-called solar boat of Khufu buried on the south side of the Great Pyramid of Giza - is very likely to have predynastic origins. A fleet of 14 boats found buried at Abydos a decade ago were originally assigned to the mortuary complex of Pharaoh Khasekhemwy of the Second Dynasty (circa 2675 BC). However, after thoroughly examining one of the boats (a sophisticated narrow-prowed "sewn" boat about 23 metres long made of wooden planks lashed together with rope), the excavators now believe that "the ships were buried some centuries before Khasekhemwy's enclosure was built. The fleet may have been intended for use in the afterlife of a much earlier pharaoh, perhaps even Aha [circa 2920 BC], the First Dynasty ruler of Egypt..." http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/abydos.html If this is the case, since the boat-burials at Abydos are far from being the work of beginners, then it seems obvious that the practise -- and the entire wonderful religious apparatus that goes with it -- must predate the First Dynasty.
But by how much?"
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