Tropical Stonehenge in the Amazon

It appears that the ancients in South America built a stone structure similar to the Stonehenge in England. This one is recently discovered in the jungles of the Amazon. I saw this in my local newspaper and online in "Did ancient Amazonians build a 'Stonehenge'?". The more archaeological discoveries that are made, it appears that ancient and lost civilizations had a lot in common on different continents.

This recent discovery is of yet another unknown civilization that existed in the Amazon. Carbon dating of the material will be done later this year. This will be interesting to see how old these structures are. There is speculation that they might be more than 2000 years old.

Dropa Stones

In the mountainous areas of Tibet, archaeologists have found these round stones with holes in the middle called Dropa Stones. They look like large modern day phonograph or floppy disks. There are neatly arranged lines on them that have been translated by Chinese scientists but have been banned from publishing their findings.

"The Dropa Stones" origins are unknown and believed to be from extraterrestrials or some unknown ancient civilization. Many of these stones have been found and are believed to be about 12,000 years old.

Until reading about it on the web, I have never even heard of this. The mysteries of the ancients ceases to amaze me. I find more and more information all the time in newspapers and online about lost ancient civilizations or discoveries of mythical cities that turn out to be real.

Ancient European Pyramids

I just saw this article posted on Slashdot about the recent discovery of an ancient pyramid in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This is the first pyramid found in Europe. You can read about it yourself "Experts find evidence of Bosnia pyramid".

This probably means that this pyramid was built more than 10,000 years ago. It was probably buried glaciers of the last Ice Age which is roughly around 11,000 years ago. This opens the question, "who built this pyramid?". The archaeologists, geologists, and scientists will be studying this discovery for years to come.

Some day, there will be a general acknowledgement by academia that human civilization is really 50-100,000 years old. The current academic notion that civilization is roughly 5000-6000 years old is starting to look a bit ridiculous. With all the archaeological discoveries in the past 10-20 years, the evidence is mounting and I suspect will soon become unrefutable that civilization is much older than what we are led to believe by academia.

Ancient Japanese Wooden Robots

The Japanese fascination with robots and miniaturization dates back thousands of years. The ancient Karakuri Ningyo tradition dates back over a 1000 years to ancient Japan. Wooden sculptures were created by craftsmen that had gears and moving parts to enact movement and pre-defined behaviors (like loading a bow and shooting an arrow) in a impressively precise manner.

I saw this on a Discovery Science Channel show about Japanese Robotic technology. This explains why the Japanese from a cultural perspective have advanced so far with robotics. The continuing societal fascination and social adoption of this technology dates back to pre-Industrial Revolution times.

Interest in this ancient Japanese technology has recently been increasing as advances being made today are becoming more commercial. I find it ironic that I had not heard of this technology until very recently myself. I suspect students of robotics probably have this in their history books. If not, then this is yet another ancient technology that has gotten lost in the shuffle and is resurfacing as new again. The phrase "That which is old is new" seems to be a recurring theme when dealing with the archaeology of ancient technology.

2400 year old Mayan hieroglyphics discovered

Our history books and everything we were taught about human history appear to be rewritten with each new archaeological discovery. I just read about the "Earliest Mayan writing found beneath pyramid" posted at CNN this evening (1/5/2006). This new discovery is roughly 300-400 years older than the oldest known Mayan hieroglyphics. I've always believed that human civilization is significantly older than what we were taught in our history classes.

I keep following these archaeological discoveries year after year and the age of human civilization and the capabilities of the ancients keeps growing. One day, the history books will be rewritten and put the ancients on their appropriate pedestals of accomplishment. For now, these discoveries and findings just continue.

The Baghdad Battery

I remember reading this various books about ancient technology and mysteries of the world. The Baghdad Battery is actually a functioning device. At the World Mysteries site are quite a few references to other ancient technology devices. The ancient battery is estimated to be over 2000 years old. Now why would the ancients need batteries if they did not have advanced technology. Maybe history has just censored or prevented us from knowing that the ancients knew.

As advanced as we are, maybe we are still chasing the technology that the ancients knew and we lost in the last few thousand years. It has taken us a few thousand years just to get back to the state where the ancients were a few thousand years ago.

The Antikythera Computer

This was the ancient Greek computer found by divers in 1900 near Crete. This device has gears and appears to be some form of computer. Here are a few sites that have additional information:

"The Antikythera computer"
Antikythera computer
Antikythera computer
The clockwork computer

Recent research has still yet to explain what the Antikythera device is. It is estimated to over 2000 years old. The best explanation accepted today is that the device with many gears was designed to calculate the motion of stars and planets.

Vimana

Vimana were ancient flying machines developed by the people of the ancient Atlantis and Rama empire. I first read about the Vimana in the book, "Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis"
by David Hatcher Childress, 1992. The book goes into quite a bit of detail concerning these ancient flying machines. There is quite a bit written about this ancient technology and which at many times sounds like the description of UFOs.

Ancient Chinese Pyramids

Here are a few articles on the web about ancient Chinese pyramids that rival the pyramids in the Americas and Egypt. Many are of unknown origin and the Chinese government has provided very little information about them.

• Chinese Pyramids


• Ancient Pyramids in China


• Sian (Xian) Pyramids


• "China's Secret Pyramids"

Looking at these published photos, they have a striking resemblance to pyramids in Egypt, Mexico and South America. An American astronaut during the Apollo program has taken pictures from space and even visited these sites in the Quin-Ling Mountains in China's forbidden areas with permission by the Chinese government. One of the pyramids is as big as Egypts Giza Pyramids around 300 feet tall. Very little information is publisehd about the Chinese pyramids. Maybe in the coming decades, the China's government will allow more research and exchange of information.

Here are a few more theories about the Chinese pyramids.

"Theories about the Chinese Pyramids - part 1"
"Theories of the Chinese Pyramids - part 2"

Ancient City underwater near Okinawa

In 1995, divers off the coast of Okinawa found what appears to be the ruins of an ancient civilization ("Japan's Underwater Ruins") about 40 feet underwater. Almost nothing is known about what, who, when of this civiliation except that it appears to be a lost civilization that spans Europe, Asia and South America. This is such a recent and unexpected discovery that archaelogical progress in the past 10-years has yet to yield much more. The article I found at Atlantis Rising Online has a decent description of these ruins.

Ancient Astronauts and Chariots of the Gods

I remember reading Erich von Daniken's book, "Chariot Of the Gods" as young kid. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time. I was always intrigued by the stars, archaeology, and the idea that aliens or visitors from other civilizations were here on Earth. It changed my view of the world and I read the book again later as a teenager a second time. I found an article on the Skeptic's Dictionary website which pretty much sums up the idea of ancient astronuants and references von Daniken's book. There is still a lot of controversy and mystery surrounding this hypotheses to this day.

Diamonds and Ancient Technology

I was just reading an article in this morning at USA Today about man-made diamonds which made me thing about the ancients and their technology. I keep wondering that the more we progress as a technological society, the closer we get to the level of the ancients of the last four great civiliations. We are supposed to be the fifth great civiliation. Maybe we are just discovering the knowledge and techniques that the great ancient civiliations (Lemuria or Mu, Osirians, Atlanteans, Rama etc...) already accomplished over 10000 years ago.

Edgar Cayce stated that the Atlanteans used crystals for power and other applications. The Lemurians or the Mu civilization is said to use crystals as storage of their knowledge. It seems that we are just beginning to acquire the knowledge to get the point where these ancients have already been.