Jonathan Gray's Archaeology

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Jonathan Gray has put out an e-book called Dead Men's Secrets.

November 23, 2005
HAVE YOU EVER ALMOST CRASHED?
I did.

"We're going to CRASH!" the lady screamed.

"Hope not," her husband replied. "My souvenirs are in the cargo hold."

I looked out. On both sides of the plane pressed steep Andean mountains, ominously close. It seemed that any second the wingtips of our DC3 would scrape them. Next to me a Peruvian man looked about to faint. My stomach was in the back of my throat. It was a great comfort to know that (a) this aircraft was a second-hand cast-off from some North American airline and (b) crashes were not uncommon in these parts.

I was now gasping for breath. The Peruvian lay back with his eyes shut tight. His knuckles were white as he gripped the seat rest. A rocky spur raced toward us. The plane dipped its wing. The oxygen masks popped down. I ravenously grabbed mine and sucked in deeply. Above us, two miles high in the clouds, stretched Lake Titicaca And a Pacific SEAPORT THAT HAD BEEN THRUST 12,000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. Titicaca. At 12,000 feet altitude, it is the highest navigable lake in the world.

But did you know that 4,000 years ago Titicaca was on sea level?

MOUNTAINS RAISED 'RECENTLY'

It is popularly speculated that mountain uplifts occurred over millions of years, until about a million years ago. But listen to the eminent geologist Bailey Willis, regarding the Asian mountains: "The great mountain chains challenge credulity by their extreme youth." (Bailey Willis, Research in Asia. II, p.24)

On the former surf line of the raised beaches at Valparaiso, Chile, now at 1,300 feet, the seashells are not even decayed - a clear indication of a "recent" up thrust. Geologist J.S. Lee reports convincing evidence that "the mountain ranges in western China have been elevated since the Glacial Age." (J.S. Lee, The Geology of China, p.207)

In Kashmir, Helmut de Terra found deposits of a sea bottom at an elevation of 5,000 feet or more and tilted, at an angle of 40 degrees. And the shock is that:
"These deposits contain Paleolithic ["Old Stone Age"] fossils." (Arnold Heim and August Gousser, The Throne of the Gods, An Account of the First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas, p.218)

Thus, the change occurred in human times, "however fantastic changes so extensive may seem to a modern geologist." Citing extensive evidence, Immanuel Velikovsky concludes that "the great massif of the Himalayas rose to its present height in the age of modern, actually historical man. . . With their topmost peaks the mountains have shattered the entire scheme of the geology of the 'long, long ago'." (Velikovsky, Earth in Upheaval, p.76)

A shock indeed! It can be demonstrated that the mountain chains of the Caucasus, China, Tibet, the Rockies, the Alps and the Andes all rose to their present heights in historical times. We have the same late dating from all parts of the earth.

THE ANDES RANGE

At 11,500 feet, a curious whitish streak runs along the side of the mountain range for over 300 miles. It is composed of the calcified remains of marine plants. This shows that these slopes were once part of the seashore. In fact, many lakes up in the Andes region are completely salt. One such lake is Titicaca. A watermark of salt along the lake shore now runs at an angle to the water level. Originally it must have been horizontal. Clearly the land was not only thrust up to its present altitude, but was tilted in the process. Not only is the water saline. On the beach of this lake high in the mountains, there are seashells as well as traces of seaweed. The lake must have been a bay or inlet of the sea.

Even today, various sea creatures (including sea horses) survive in the lake. Today this lofty, almost sterile region is capable of sustaining only a scant population. Yet here we are confronted with a colossal mystery. Traces of a huge city lie at the southern side of the lake.

In the fifteenth century, Spanish conquistador Cieca de Leon reported his astonishment at seeing ancient gateways hewn from solid stone 30 feet long and 15 feet high and pivoting.

These ruins of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, are extensive. It is obvious that a great city once existed here. But here is the mystery. At an altitude of 13,000 feet, maize will not bear fruit. Yet endless agricultural terraces, now abandoned, rise as high as 18,400 feet above sea level, and continue up under the snow to some unidentified altitude. Such an abundance of cornfields must have supported a huge population. The region is too high and too barren to do this now.

Could the site once have been lower? You see, if the Andes were 2- to 3,000 feet lower than now, maize would ripen around Lake Titicaca and the city of Tiahuanaco could support the large population for which it was evidently built.

ONCE A SEAPORT

But here is an even greater surprise the remains of an ocean quay. That's right, an ocean quay. It suggests that the city, when built, was at sea level - 12,500 feet lower! The remains near the stadium of Tiahuanacu show five distinct landing places, harbors with moles and a canal which heads inland. The docks are vast - and one wharf is big enough to take hundreds of ships. So we're faced now with a sea harbor at 12,500 feet altitude and 200 miles inland! Staggering, isn't it?

Well, someone says, perhaps these gigantic docks were intended for ships on Lake Titicaca. Good try. But I'll tell you why not. You see, they face in the opposite direction from the lake. Not only that, the mooring rings on the stone piers were so large that they could only have been used by ocean-liner sized vessels. This place - I tell you - was a seaport on the Pacific coast. AND IT WAS THRUST, SO TO SPEAK, TWO MILES INTO THE SKY! Now, how about that?

You've probably heard it said that mountain making took "long ages". That in the case of the Andes (the second highest mountain range on earth), it occurred more than a million years ago. Well, I'm sorry to be a spoil sport. But the change in altitude occurred AFTER the city was built. I would suggest about 4,000 years ago. And since only a few intermediate surf lines can be detected, the elevation could not have proceeded little by little.

The explorer Colonel H.P. Fawcett, who traveled this region early last century, was persuaded by the evidence that Tiahuanaco had been destroyed by the terrible seismic upheavals which accompanied the raising of the Andes to their present height. (Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett: The Travel Diaries and Notes of Colonel H.P. Fawcett)

And I believe he got that right.

WORK INTERRUPTED

There is some evidence that the monoliths of the city were not entirely finished when the catastrophe struck and suddenly raised the whole city and lake 12,500 feet. Cast-down builders' tools were found in the ruins when the Spaniards came upon the place in the 16th century. The heaps of blocks of masoned stone bear evidence of sudden abandonment men fleeing for their lives, taken by surprise.

After the disaster, the populace lay buried in gullies that had become mass graves, covered by silt. Fragments of skeletons, both of animals and men, lay scattered among the ruins. Jewels, pottery and tools were found mixed in utmost confusion. This massive uplifting exposed a continental shelf which is now the desert lowlands of Peru and northern Chile.

WITNESSED BY SURVIVORS

In the traditions of the Ugha Mongulala tribe of the western Amazon jungle, the South American continent was "still flat and soft like a lamb's back, the Great River still flowed on either side." But then came a cataclysm: "The Great River was rent by a new mountain range and now it flowed swiftly toward the East. Enormous forests grew on its banks In the West, where giant mountains had surged up, people froze in the bitter cold of the high altitudes." (Karl Brugger, The Chronicle of Akakor, 1977)

Upswellings of other mountains may have been as violent. These were never forgotten by the inhabitants. For example, the Washo Indians of California say their ancestors witnessed the uplifting of the North American sierras from the plains. Various other tribes of the Americas likewise recall in their oral history the memory of new mountains being raised and others flattened. (Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, p.102)

RELIEF FROM STRESS CONTINUES

After the Great Flood of 2345 BC, t took the earth's crust millennia to settle down. During the tectonic adjustments, lava continued to flow. Isolated areas of land were submerged or raised thousands of feet. Today these effects are being felt only to a comparatively minor degree. Still, it should be mentioned that even in modern times, the ocean has been known to raise or lower its islands or its depths, as much as thousands of feet. No need to invoke long evolutionary periods.

THE EARTH'S SURFACE CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY.

There are many recent examples of rapid up or down thrusts. LAND RISES 4,000 FEET - JUST LAST YEAR During the earthquake which occurred off the northern tip of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, the sea bottom in the Straits of Malacca uplifted almost 4,000 in only about 3 minutes.

The US-based National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyses spy satellite imagery and produces maps and charts for the Defense Department, was reported to have received information that one area of the Straits of Malacca, which separates Malaysia from the Indonesian island of Sumatra had its depth cut from 4,060 feet to 105 feet.

In another affected area, a merchant marine ship logged that the depth was cut from 3,855 feet to just 92 feet. (Star newspaper, Kuala Lumpur, January. 13, 2005, quoting a report in the shipping journal Portsworld)

The US Navy reportedly sent two ships to re-chart the waters. Sonar images from British navy ship HMS Scott showed the massive uplift of a large area 10 kilometers wide and up to 1.5 kilometers high (4,800 feet plus).

November 10"So you think they were smart, eh?" said Martin.

"Who?"

"Man and women of ancient times, of course."

"Definitely."

"No, no no! It's CAVE man to CLEVER man. And you and I are the peak of evolution - clever man and woman. You and I are so much cleverer than our ancestors."

"How did you work that out?"

"My teacher said so. Compared to us, the ancient Egyptians (and other ancient races) had primitive tools, primitive methods and primitive ideas. We are the best. We are the superior ones. Pat yourself on the back."

I had to smile. Some of our mainstream scholars don't suffer from an overdose of humility!

Anyway, Martin and I sat down and surveyed the real evidence. It showed NOT evolution, at all, but devolution. The human race lost it and we're just coming back up (and in danger of annihilating ourselves, as well!).

FROM SUPERIOR TO INFERIOR

Historically, wherever we look, regression is evident. If there be any doubt, take these twenty-three examples. Skim through, if you wish. There's quite enough to prove it.

Digging to the lowest depths, archaeologists repeatedly come upon a city complex architecturally superior to later cities on the same site.

The medicine of ancient Egypt was, generally speaking, far superior to that practiced in Europe during the Middle Ages. Pre-Incan medical surgery was superior to that of the Peruvian Inca.

The oceangoing vessels employed by the ancient explorers were large, strong and immensely superior to the craft possessed by medieval Europeans.

The earliest ancient maps were drawn with the greatest precision and superior to later navigational charts.

It can be demonstrated also that many languages have suffered degeneration.

Ancient set building stones are much larger and more difficult to transport than those of subsequent cultures.

In dynamic realism, the masterpieces of the Cro-Magnon cave artists of Altamira (Spain) and Lascaux (France) were superior to the paintings and sculptures of later civilizations.

Roads: Britains prehistoric Icknield Way (running 200 miles, in places as wide as a four-lane highway) is superior to any road constructed by the later Romans.

Mathematics: Whereas very ancient cultures knew about zero (the secret ingredient in advanced mathematics), frequently, as decadence occurred, they forgot it. The Babylonians, for example, wrote it as a blank space a practice which eventually disappeared. The same retrograde process occurred in China.

Astronomy: Originally, constellations took the form of animals, making it easier to remember and identify them; however, as civilization retrogressed, they actually became animals, heroes or gods.

Scientific compasses, which pointed due north and south, were later preserved as magic, through which Chinese necromancers told fortunes.

Crete: The earliest Cretan empire was more culturally advanced than the empire which followed it (featuring running water, the most modern bathroom facilities, tinted-glass goblets, glazed dinnerware and elaborate dress styles).

Canary Islands: Considerable cultural deterioration operated until (by the time the Spaniards discovered them in the fourteenth century) warfare was being waged with stones and wooden weapons. They preserved the memory of a great civilization of cities, but were no longer capable of constructing anything more than simple huts.

The Pacific: On most islands of Polynesia and Micronesia are remains of cities, temples, harbors and statues, whose size and elaborate architecture indicate a civilization incomparably more advanced than exists there today.

Pakistan: The lowest strata of the remains of layers. Later the quality of the commercial seals fell off sadly. The soapstone was replaced by common clay; and crude geometric shapes replaced the lifelike engravings. Highly glazed ceramics were supplanted by plain clumsy pots. The city's systematic plan gave way to shabby structures and mere hovels at the topmost stratum. From a high early peak of technology, it then progressed no further. Everything was done in imitation of the old techniques. Even the bricks were inferior.

Central America: The present-day descendants of what was once the greatest empire in the Americas (the Maya) are mere jungle savages, unable to read or write their ancestors' hieroglyphics; unable to construct large buildings, much less whole cities.

Egypt declined from technical sophistication to a vague shadow of its former glory. Earliest pyramid construction was superior to later pyramid construction; succeeding pyramids are clumsy imitations. Even construction methods changed (from levitation science to build the Great Pyramid in the Fourth Dynasty, to a balance of levers and pulleys a thousand years later in the Twelfth Dynasty). The workmanship level of jewelry as well as architecture was higher in earlier periods (everything being more perfectly made and more beautiful). On top of that, later generations suffered a decline in lifestyle.

Sumeria, extensive and all-encompassing, was in many respects more advanced than the cultures which followed it.

Greece: A city of the third millennium BC now at the bottom of Lake Copias (the legendary Copae destroyed by Hercules?) possesses a titanic complex of rock-hewn passage modern Greece.

Bulgaria: Grave excavations at Karanova have revealed an extraordinarily rich and complex technology of 3000 BCfar in advance of later achievements in Europe.

Peru: Pre-Inca buildings and art were of a much higher level than those of the Incas. Furthermore, while more recent Spanish buildings collapse today in earthquakes, both the Inca and pre-Inca constructions survive them intact.

Easter Island statues of more recent times appear to be imperfect copies of the first creations. (And they have suffered most from erosion, whereas those from the archaic period have remained intact.) Again, the earliest settlement on the island was more remarkably developed than its two later successors.

Do you see? it is not at all obvious that mankind is progressing; historically, degeneration has been the trend. Okay, this will probably trigger a few irate responses from some folk. But putting prejudice aside, and focusing on pure evidence, what can one say? You and I can be proud of our ancestors. We could learn a few tricks from them.

October 27

Bert's heart almost stopped. "Hey, you guys, look at this!" He stood there, staring, his eyes roving above him, and all around. Over a mile below the surface, the machinery had broken from solid coal, clear into a huge open space.

"IMPOSSIBLE" DISCOVERY

As the other men came running, he blurted out, "What IS this?"

"Seems like we've run into an air pocket," answered Frank.

"I know that," retorted Bert, "But look!" He pointed to the ceiling above. And all around. "Am I seeing right?"

"What in the world" One of the other miners broke off mid-sentence. The others gasped.

"Those look like people!" exclaimed another.

"They ARE people!"

"They're so HUGE!"

"How did this happen? What are men doing inside coal?"

"And they've even turned into coal."

The men cast their eyes over the whole scene. Yes, these were real human bodies; not just skeletons, these were bodies with noses, fingers, everything. They were on the floor, in the sides, and in the ceiling of the air pocket.

"Man, but this is impossible!" yelled Frank. "However did this happen?"

"Hmm" mused a miner known as Jake. "It reminds me of what I heard about the Great Flood. Whole forests of trees were swept into gigantic heaps; and houses, people the whole works. Could this be evidence of that event?"

"This had to have been violent," said another. "Slow, gradual accumulation, as evolution theory has it, doesn't make sense. Whatever did this was enormous, and violent!"

"We've got to report this," said one of the others.

EMBARRASSING TO CERTAIN PEOPLE

One thing was certain. These coal miners in West Virginia had broken through a coal seam into an air pocket. The only explanation that made sense was that trees, men and all had been swept together by some force. And that force had to be water. What was now an air pocket must have been a water pocket that day, while the mass of trees was being swept thousands of feet deep.

So the miners reported the discovery. And you know what? Don't be too shocked! Immediately the area became a place of restricted access. Authorities rescinded the permit of the mining company to operate there. The spot was then permanently flooded and filled with silt. Soon a dam was built over that very piece of ground and the locality has now become a reservoir. A discovery threatens the established scientific theories. And heavy machinery is brought in to build a dam over the site. How convenient!

Who gave directions to cover up this discovery? What is so threatening about the concept of catastrophe? How deep is the swamp of lies, cover-ups and deceit in the scientific world? In case you didn't know, a great number of highly qualified scientists have completely rejected the evolution theory. By a conservative estimate, in the United States alone, this amounts to tens of thousands. You ask, why do evolutionary scientists dismiss the Great Flood? Here's the answer. It's for philosophical reasons and not on objective reasons based on geological or ancient historical data. Often, their furious rejection of any alternative theories to evolution seems almost pathological.

In all fairness, I shall state that thousands of scientists are people of integrity. Please get that clear. And they are caught up in a system that they believe is as honest as they are. They (as do we) take it for granted that what they've been taught is true and that the scientific Establishment is run by men who are all clean and honest.

But it's time for us to wake up. It's time to face the truth!

You have no idea of the depth of corruption at the top, nor of the extreme measures taken to block the truth. Or how many scientists are fired when they renounce evolution. It is not surprising that evidence is frequently destroyed.

THE FLOOD PROVIDES BETTER ANSWERS

If the global Flood really occurred, there be:

Thousands of feet of water-deposited sedimentary rock layers covering most of the planet

Evidence that many creatures have become suddenly extinct from the event

Buried remains of all manner of life forms found mixed up in the sedimentary layers

The discovery of human remains (artefacts, footprints and skeletons) at many different depths in the Flood-produced coal and rocks.

And this is precisely what IS found! If a Great Flood buried all life in one enormous disaster (and some later smaller disasters), THEN THE EVIDENCE FITS.

Most stratified rock is the result of debris laid down by water during catastrophe. Contrary to what we've been told, none of this strata is conclusively proved to be millions of years old. Most of these earth layers were not deposited slowly, over ages. Most of the strata was laid down, along with human remains, during the Great Flood. I said, most. Some remains which have been attributed to the Great Flood, are, rather, evidence of significant but lesser catastrophes since the Flood.

You'd better start getting used to the idea. There is overwhelming evidence that men and women, coal, trilobites and what have you, were deposited by some tremendous catastrophe - together.

October 13"Jenny!" I exclaimed, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Her eyes opened wide. "What do you mean?"

"Well, you had this information and you didn't even mention it?" I dropped the magazine in front of her. "You've been sitting on this for a whole week. It's explosive. The whole world has to be told."

"Oh, that," she yawned. "Dinosaurs they don't really interest me."

"But do you know what this means? Dinosaurs were alive just recently. It knocks the evolutionary time scale to bits!"

"What? Are you serious?" She picked it up again. "I need to read this more carefully."

PROTEIN STILL IN DINOSAURS

"Yes," I said, "Dinosaur bones have yielded the protein osteocalcin. Since long chains such as proteins naturally fall apart, such a discovery supports a 'recent' age for these fossils. (New Scientist, October 31, 1992, p.18)

In 1961, a petroleum geologist discovered a large bone bed in northwestern Alaska. Among these were bones of duckbill dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs and large and small carnivorous dinosaurs. At the time, William Clemens and other scientists from the University of California and Berkeley and the University of Alaska were quarrying the bone bed. It took 20 years for scientists to accept that these were dinosaur bones. An initial announcement was printed in 1985 in Geological Society of America abstract programs vol.17, p.548.

Already in press at that time was an article describing the site and the condition of the bones: Kyle L. Davies, "Duckbill Dinosaurs [Hadrosauridae, Ornithischia] from the North Slope of Alaska", Journal of Paleontology, vol.61, no.1, pp.198-200) Now, here is the problem: these bones are still in fresh condition. They are not fossilized. Is this because they were preserved by cold? Not at all. It is standard geological interpretation that even after the dinosaurs died out, the entire planet was much warmer. These developments are certainly food for thought. It is undeniable that fresh dinosaur bones have been found. Items have appeared in the secular literature saying exactly that. It is also evident that preservation in the fresh state for even one million years is highly unlikely. The obvious conclusion is that these bones were deposited in relatively recent times.

This bone bed is stunning evidence that the time of the dinosaurs was not millions of years ago, but perhaps only thousands. It is time geologists recognized the implications of their own data.

UNFOSSILIZED BLOOD CELLS

Real blood cells in dinosaur bones? With traces of the blood protein hemoglobin? Preposterous! that is, if you think these dinosaur remains are 65 million years old or more. Okay, let me share with you another discovery.

In the United States in 1990, the bones of a beautifully preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton were unearthed. When these were brought to the Montana State University's laboratory, it was noticed that "some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized." ( M. Schweitzer and T. Staedter, 'The Real Jurassic Park', Earth , June 1997 pp. 55-57)

Mary Schweitzer and her co-workers took turns looking through a microscope at a thin section of this dinosaur bone, complete with blood vessel channels. She says: "The lab filled with murmurs of amazement, for I had focused on something inside the vessels that none of us had ever noticed before: tiny round objects, translucent red with a dark center. Then a colleague took one look at them and shouted, 'You've got red blood cells. You've got red blood cells!'"

Schweitzer says, "I got goose bumps. It was exactly like looking at a slice of modern bone." She confronted her boss, famous paleontologist 'Dinosaur' Jack Horner. "I can't believe it," she said. "The bones, after all, are 65 million years old. How could blood cells survive that long?" "How about you try to prove they are NOT red blood cells," responded Horner. So she tried. And the verdict? "So far, we haven't been able to."

The evidence that hemoglobin (the protein which makes blood red and carries oxygen) has indeed survived in this dinosaur bone casts immense doubt upon the 'millions of years' idea. Here is that evidence:

The tissue was colored reddish brown, the color of hemoglobin, as was liquid extracted from the dinosaur tissue.

Hemoglobin contains heme units. Chemical signatures unique to heme were found in the specimens when certain wavelengths of laser light were applied.

Because it contains iron, heme reacts to magnetic fields differently from other proteins - extracts from this specimen reacted in the same way as modern heme compounds.

To ensure that the samples had not been contaminated with certain bacteria which have heme (but never the protein hemoglobin), extracts of the dinosaur fossil were injected over several weeks into rats. If there was even a minute amount of hemoglobin present in the Tyrannosaurus Rex sample, the rats' immune system should build up detectable antibodies against this compound. This is exactly what happened in carefully controlled experiments. Evidence of hemoglobin, and the still-recognizable shapes of red blood cells in unfossilized dinosaur bone, testifies strongly that this dinosaur did not live and die millions of years ago. The process of biochemical decay starts soon after death. These cells should long since have disintegrated unless they are just a few thousand years old.

It hasn't been so long!

September This may astonish you. In fact, my colleague Chris just stared. He was in shock. "Well, that's another popular myth blown away!" he exclaimed. "When will our school systems learn to teach the truth?" asked Betty.

In that hot, dry desert we had just discovered something that almost about blew off our socks. You want to know? The Great Pyramid was not built the way we were told. Not at all. In fact, the construction speed used back there in ancient Egypt was superior to ours. Do you know, the Great Pyramid was erected at an incredible speed. In school I had been taught the traditional line that it took 100,000 slaves 20 years to build the Great Pyramid. And that the method used was a ramp up which the heavy blocks were dragged by ropes.

Oh, come on. Recent evidence suggests that this enormous structure may have been built in a fraction of the time generally assumed. In fact, it may have been built in 4 years by just 4,000 workers, laboring only 3 months a year! An inscription in the Pyramid of Snofru (Sneferu), which is two-thirds the volume of the Great Pyramid, shows it took only two years to construct. By similar methods, the Great Pyramid would have been completed in as little as four years. Furthermore, excavations at the Great Pyramid have uncovered only 4,000 laborers huts, which in no way could have housed 100,000 workmen.

The problem that emerges for conventional historians is how only 4,000 men could build the Great Pyramid with 2,300,000 blocks in just four years, during just three months each year, if wooden sledges and barges were used. This is a technological feat beyond comparison in the modern world. The supposition that enormous manpower, inclined planes and rollers were used, must be discarded. If we are to believe in the use of wooden sledges and barges, mathematicians tell us that 26 million trees would be required just to fashion the necessary number of sledges and rafts more than Lebanon or the ancient world could have supplied in the twenty years we are told the job took.

Two tomb paintings of the Twelfth Dynasty which show sledges and barges being employed to transport a few statues were concerned with methods used, not in the Fourth Dynasty (when the Great Pyramid was built), but a thousand years later in the Twelfth Dynasty. Hieroglyphics from the different dynasties indicate a decided decline in the technology and life-style of Egypt after the time of the Great Pyramid. This is supported also by the funerary texts in the Book we are familiar, was but a vague shadow of the super-great early Egypt.

Something else. To handle or move one of the blocks might require a thousand hands (500 men), for whom there would not have been room around the stone.

(Assuming the use of primitive methods, the block must still be handled, even if only to pass ropes under it, or to load it onto a barge.) Furthermore, engineers have estimated that a ramp to service the Cheops pyramid would finally have had to be a mile long, with a volume of masonry four times greater than the pyramid itself.

No, that's not how they built it. Of course not!

September MYSTERIES...Would YOU like solve one?

Stonehenge, WHAT is its special secret? And the Great Pyramid. Are you ready for a treat today?

DID YOU KNOW?...

Fact 1: The ancient calendars had a 360 day year. That's why the earth was divided into 360 degrees. The ancient Chinese calendar was 360 days long. So was the Babylonian. And the Roman. And the Mayan. And the Indian. And the Egyptian. All had a year of 360 days. But later, every nation changed its calendar. This rearrangement of the calendars in antiquity has long been a puzzle to scholars. Why did ALL those ancient nations change their calendars from years of 360 days to 365 < days?

Hey, wait a minute, you say. Did they all make the SAME original mistake? All of them? And then they hall had to change it?

DUMB AT FIRST _ THEN GOT CLEVER?

My neighbor Rob Payne thought he had come up with the answer. "Oh, I can explain that," he said. "The ancients first proposed a rough system of yearly count, and later, when their mathematical knowledge increased, they refined it." Nice try, Rob.

Except we've now discovered that those ancient peoples were already excellent astronomers and mathematicians yes, even when they created the 360 day calendar. For example, the Maya have left us some of their calculations. They computed the synodal period of the moon as 29.5209 days, as accurately as we can calculate today with our sophisticated equipment. Their degree of accuracy would surely not have been less for the year. Now let me ask you: Why would so many cultures in such widely scattered regions of the world all have made the very same mistake for the length of the year, and then all rectify it in the same way?

Fact 2: GREAT PYRAMID

ASTRONOMICALLY ALIGNED

I know some folk like to think the Great Pyramid of Egypt is much older. But realistically, there is good reason to believe that it was built within a few hundred years after the Flood. The Great Pyramid accurately stands in the centre of the land surface of the earth as it NOW exists and must have existed at the time the pyramid was built. It could be called a huge planet marker, a giant survey post. It marks both the longitude and latitude at which there is more land and less sea than at any other meridian on earth.

Evidently the builders were well acquainted with the exact amount of land on the surface of the earth as it existed AFTER the Flood (not before), as well as its geographical distribution.. This suggests that results of the post-Flood global survey were already in. It would also explain why the NEW LENGTH OF THE YEAR was also incorporated into the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The external features, dimensions and units of this pyramid together give precisely and accurately every essential value of the earths PRESENT motions and orbit not the PREVIOUS one that existed before 2345 BC.

For example, intentionally or by accident, the circuit distance around its base, measured direct from corner to corner, is 36,524.22 primitive inches. This is exactly 100 times 365.2422 - the value in days of our solar year. Even though the calendar was still 360 days long. This is so astonishing, we must take off our hats to those early post-Flood scientists. They were ahead of us in many ways. There was no rough count; it was precise to the ten thousandth of a decimal point.

Fact 3: "A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORLD"

A tablet discovered at Tanus in the Nile Delta in 1866 reveals that in the ninth year of Ptolemy Euergetes (c. 237 BC), the priests at Canopus decreed that it was "necessary to harmonise the calendar according to the present arrangement of the world." The reason the ancients gave for the re-calculated calendars was not that they were in error, nor that they had improved on more primitive techniques. It was that there was a "changed order of things." And with each passing century, the calendar misalignment had become more pronounced.

The nations that sprang up after the Flood with a ready-made culture, inherited their knowledge basically from the world that was wiped out at the Deluge. They continued where Noah left off. They inherited, along with everything else, the antedeluvian (pre-Flood) calendar of 360 days. Was there, at the time of the Deluge, a change not only in the planets axis, but a change in its orbit, which in turn caused the lengthened year? It does bring to mind that curious biblical reference to the Creator, who was believed to "move the earth out of her place." (Isaiah 13:13) It would certainly clear up a lot of mystery about Stonehenge, also.

FACT 4: STONEHENGE TO RECALCULATE

EARTH'S POSITION (among other things)

The precision of Stonehenge is astonishing. Consider the heel stone. This heavy boulder had to be set in a hole in the ground exactly in the right position. If placed too high, it would need to be taken out and the hole deepened. If too low, it would once more have to be shifted. Even if it had been dropped into precisely the right position, its 35 ton weight might well have made it settle lower. Nobody could know for sure how much it would eventually settle. Such accuracy applied to every stone that was positioned.

Some of the fallen stones were re-erected in 1958. Extremely powerful cranes were used. Yet, even with this modernequipment, it proved impossible to align or set them up as accurately as had the ancient builders! Gerald Hawkins, on the basis of computer syntheses of a great many measurements at Stonehenge, suggests that Stonehenge was, in fact, a computer for measuring all the relationships between earth, the sun and the moon. (Gerald Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded. Souvenir Press, 1966) by the pillars all played an intricate role.

Experts have long puzzled over the 56 Aubrey holes. Hawkins suggests they could have functioned as a computer, this way: If one stone was moved around the circle by one hole each year, then all the extremes of the seasonal moon and eclipses of the sun and moon at the solstices and equinoxes, could have been foreseen. If six stones, spaced 9,9,10,9,9,10 Aubrey holes apart, were used, each of them moved one hole counter-clockwise each year, amazing powers of prediction could result. With 6 stones (3 white, 3 black), the Aubrey hole computer could have predicted - precisely - every important moon event for hundreds of years. The terrestrial axis is currently inclined at 23 degrees.

The early Greek philosophers viewed this tilt as an "irregular condition," and not something that had been fixed since the beginning. Anaxagoras wrote: "In the beginning the stars moved in the sky as in a revolving dome, so that the celestial pole which is always visible was vertically overhead; but subsequently the pole took its inclined position." The Northern Hemisphere sun moves from a maximum a -23 degree extreme southern declination in winter. The moon does a reverse move - north in winter, south in summer. The moon also has a more complicated relative motion than the sun; it has TWO northern and TWO southern In an 18.61 year cycle, it varies so that its far north and south declinations move from 29 degrees to 190 to 290 again. This difference is due to the combined effects of the earth's tilt and precession of orbit. The Stonehenge complex was precisely aligned to EVERY ONE of these movements. With the 18.61 year cycle, the only way to attain accuracy with whole numbers is by the sequence 19-19-18, which, added together, make 56 - the number of Aubrey holes!

Amazing but true. Stonehenge is a brilliantly designed and constructed astronomical device, WHICH COULD CALCULATE EVERY POSITION of the sun and moon. And why all this? The Great Flood, we should consider, had a great deal to do with the construction of this and other precise stone structures. It appears that Stonehenge was built to determine the new orbital position and thus the new length of the year, as well as the new axial position of the earth, following the catastrophe. If indeed the earth had been jolted abruptly from its original orbit, such a jolt would also have severely affected the moon. If the moon was on the side away from the sun when it happened, a change of our orbit away from the sun would have brought the moon closer to earth. The original shorter-year calendar (360 days) suggests that the earth was slightly closer to the sun. The original ancient lunar month was 36 days, which implies that the moon orbited the earth at a greater distance. The jolting of earth would have reversed this - the earth now being further from the sun would make a longer year; and the moon in orbit nearer to earth, a shorter month. The truth is that REVISED ANCIENT CALENDARS REFLECT THIS CHANGE.

Stonehenge and its counterparts were built, I do believe, to re-evaluate the length of the year and the lunar month. Similar stone computers covered the whole of Britain and western France. They formed, possibly, a huge complex, with Stonehenge as the central unit, against which the findings of all the others were correlated. And after their purpose had been accomplished there was no further need for them, and they were left. That answers another question that has puzzled scholars. Why, after the final phase of Stonehenge was completed, was the site abandoned for many centuries - until the Druids began to use it as a gathering place? The answer makes perfect sense. It was built to perform certain specific functions. Its purpose was accomplished. It was needed no more.

A GRADUAL PROCESS

The re-evaluation of the length of the year and the lunar month would ultimately lead to a revision of the ancient calendars. This was not accomplished overnight. A young lady emailed me concerning a television program she had just seen. "It mentioned a stone in England, at a place called Ilkley, with a carving on it similar to a swastika," she reported. "They said that the carving was very ancient - and that only three such carvings existed in the world. I think one was in Italy. The point they made was that geographically the three locations create an exact equilateral triangle." When you consider it, the fact of three stone carvings similar to each other, which are located to create anexact equilateral triangle, does make a lot of sense.

You see, after the Great Flood, when the surface of the earth was so much altered, so was the earth's orbit. This naturally affected the length of the year. So surveying parties went all over the planet, to re-map the world and to re-calculate earth's relationship to the sun, moon and other objects in the sky. Triangulation of reference points, using three locations on earth would have been a part of this procedure.

Stonehenge and other sites served a common purpose. The three special stones the lady mentioned were very likely positioned as part of this mapping process. And new calendars would be an eventual result.

August Lost people.. Would you like to find them? They are out in the desert if you know where to look! Amazing secrets still awaiting discovery.

DRAGGED BY CAMELS

Take, for example, the Sahara. In historical times, well watered lands extended for hundreds of miles west of the Nile, into Sudan and Libya (now desert). In 1954, Theodore Monod traversed a region represented on the maps as a huge blank area. For 1,050 miles across the southwest Sahara, he was by day lashed by fiery sandstorms, at night exposed to biting cold.

Frequently Monod and his companions walked all day in order to spare their riding camels. At times they were so exhausted that they held on to the tails of the camels and let themselves be dragged along. The march lasted 1= months. En route, Monod made some sensational discoveries. He found vast dried lakes in the interior of the Sahara, with the remains of ancient fishing villages along their shores. Thousands of bone harpoons lay strewn about in the desert sand. The dried lake bottoms were covered with the bones of hippopotamuses, fish and crocodiles. In November, 1981, enhanced radar photographs from the space shuttle Columbia revealed under that desert, the beds of buried rivers and tributaries (some as large as today's Nile), which once flowed south and west into a basin that may have been as large as today's Caspian Sea. That was the situation for centuries after the famous Great Flood. Rainfall continued to be heavy.

Even 2,000 years ago, the Roman geographer Strabo described the land west of Alexandria as "this lovely land of Mareotis, full of villages and splendid churches; so abundant is the soil that the vine is produced and is of such quantity that it is racked and kept that it may grow old." The region is now a barren wasteland.

WATER OVER MUCH OF AFRICA

The Sahara was at first part of the ocean. Later it comprised a group of fertile regions around a vast inland sea, which, as it diminished, remained a green area. At the beginning of Egyptian history, there was an immense marsh, which also virtually covered Egypt. The present Lake Chad is probably a vestige of it.

ANCIENT MAP HOLDS SURPRISES

The Piri Reis map, copied from earlier maps first drawn thousands of years ago, shows lakes, rivers and cities there. Even 2,000 years after the Great Flood, North Africa was the granary of Europe, a well-watered fertile land. Vast wheat fields and dozens of Roman towns and cities sat in this region. The ruins of these cities lie buried under shifting desert sands today.

At that time, the drying out was already under way. The old Spanish geographer, Pomponius Mela, around 45 AD, wrote that "here, far inland in Numidia, was once sea where now are barren and sandy plains." He also spoke of old anchors fixed in rocks. (Harold T. Wilkins, Secret Cities of Old South America. Kempton, Ill.: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998, p.427)

Modern expeditions in the Sahara have found drawings of numerous types of animals, as well as an abundance of ancient man-made implements. Sophisticated cave paintings in Algerias Tassili Mountains depict men and animals in a land of lakes, rivers and trees. (This advanced art is often defaced or drawn over by later, more primitive artists.) At one spot between Sebha, the modern capital of the Fezzon, and the oasis of Ghat on the Algerian border, are 700 miles of tunnels (in places less than 20 feet apart). Considering the 100,000 graves found in the wadi, the region must have been populous.

SHIP AND SKELETONS IN DESERT

L. Taylor Hansen mentions the remains of massive port cities existing in the Sahara! (Hansen, The Ancient Atlantic. Amherst, Wi.: Amherst Press, 1969) She also says: "During the Middle Ages a ship was found not too far from the Draa Depression [the present border of Algeria and Morocco, just east of the Atlas Mountains] in which skeletons of the rowers were lying with the chains still around their bones. The Arabs, I understand, charge a very high fee to take you there. It still must be in existence." (Ibid.)

In the late 1950s or early 1960s, a wealthy American couple, the Johnson's, were in the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert near the border of Egypt and Libya. In passageways running underground from the temple of Agourmi for some two miles to Djebel Muta, they came upon an ancient picture gallery. In this now parched region, everywhere was pictured water and ferny forests. There were paintings of buffalo, an elephant pulling fruit from a tree, crocodiles in the water, birds nestling in trees, and some other strange animals peeping through the shrubbery. Also, there were paintings of a city on the shore of a sea, with many square-sailed ships about. The quays were wide and well-made, apparently of stone. Mrs. Johnson related that their Arab guide, for a high fee, took them to "ancient stone quays stretching way out into the desert sand." (Ibid.)

FERTILE LANDS DRIED OUT

Analysis of excavated pollen shows that initially cedars, lime trees, oaks, maples, pines and elders thrived there. As the climate dried, cypresses, olives and junipers joined the pines and oaks. Eventually, however, acacias and grasses struggled to survive. People deserted the area as the Sahara dried out into desert. The Sahara region is now as barren as the surface of the moon.

Where the street-like canyons of the Tassili plateau open into plazas filled with quaint rock pillars, you will still find a few gnarled trees clinging to life. A mere 50 or 60 of them. Their seeds will not grow in the present climate of the desert. But these mighty cypresses still live on, perhaps 3,000 or 4,000 years old dating to that remote period when the region was fertile. Along with California's sequoias, these are among the oldest living organisms on earth. In the depths of the canyons they have survived the change of climate. Also, high in the mountains of the desert, are a few fish, living in waterholes where once a river flowed south. As the desert advanced, the river dried out, trapping the fish. Isolated for thousands of years, they are comparable to the fish trapped in the North American deserts. (Uwe George, In the Deserts of This Earth. Trans. From the German by Richard and Clara Winston. London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1978, pp.29-30)

Over the past 80 years, an area as large as Britain, France and Germany has been lost to this creeping desert. This desert expands southward into Africa at a rate of 4= miles (7 kilometers) per year. And a great sea of sand is moving eastward toward the fertile Nile delta at about 8 miles (13 kilometers) a year. As late as 1955, acacias were flourishing around Khartoum. Today these popular dry-zone trees, which can survive on only a few inches of water a year, are found no closer than 54 miles south of the Sudanese capital. Across the African continent are found dry lakes and shrunken lakes. Lake Victoria was 300 feet higher than it is today. Lake Chad possesses neither tributaries nor outlets. It is just a huge puddle of trapped water, left behind by the famous Great Flood.

July 21, 2005
Talk about being in the wrong places!

What are boats doing on mountains? I have actually walked on the wreck of one such ship, 6,000 feet above sea level! It gives you a weird feeling. And pyramids buried under the ground? But before we get into that, I have an apology for you.

FIRST, THE APOLOGY

Well, I picked the wrong opening story to introduce my last newsletter to you. A news story had gone out from those respected worldwide news services, Reuters and AAP. It told of a snorkeler being burned in a forest fire. Well, apparently this particular event did not happen. Because I am very particular about only sharing the absolute truth with you, I habitually check my sources as thoroughly as possible. Yet, despite our best efforts, occasionally our filter system may allow something to slip through. But when it does, we shall sound the alarm to you.
So may I thank the reader who alerted me to this one, even though that story was only told as an opener. The facts in the email itself are physically confirmable, have been checked and cross-checked, and found to be accurate.

NOW: AMAZING THINGS IN UKRAINE

The following information came initially from a contact named Al. He wrote:

"I want to share with you a story my late grandfather told me many years ago. I live in Canada now, but originally I come from the Crimea. The Crimea is currently part of the Ukraine, though it belonged to Russia for about 200 years before Ukraine's independence. All my ancestors lived in the Crimea for centuries."
The Crimean peninsula is a fascinating place in terms of ancient history and archaeology, and was invaded and inhabited by all sorts of tribes and nations, from Cimmerians, Greeks and Romans to the Genoese, Kumans and Osman Turks.
"What my grandfather told me has stuck in the back of my mind since I was a small boy. He told the same exact story to my mother, his daughter, when she was little. My grandfather was a taxi driver for at least 30 years and he often took passengers to other towns all over the Crimea, so he saw and heard a lot of interesting stuff in his lifetime."
I must mention at this point that the Crimea is a mountainous country, with a range of mountains stretching along the South Coast, that creates a very picturesque backdrop for the world-renowned resort city of Yalta. The highest peak is Mt. Ai-Petri itself (1234 m).

MOORING RING ON A MOUNTAIN

"What my grandfather told me is that somewhere near the peak of Mt. Ai-Petri, there is a very old, huge, rusty mooring ring protruding out of the rock. It is a ring that was used to tie mooring ropes of seafaring ships. He told us that in ancient times the level of the Black Sea was where the mountain peaks are now."
You can imagine what a fascinating mystery that was for a child.

UNDERGROUND SPHINX AND PYRAMIDS

"Also, a few years ago a number of ancient subterranean pyramids (7 in total) were discovered just outside of my hometown, Sevastopol. The researchers have also found an underground sphinx facing east, and radiation levels are way over normal."

Thanks, Al.

PYRAMIDS IN ITALY

We have also learned of pyramids discovered near the town of Montevecchia (40 kilometers from Milan), in Italy. The discovery was initially made by satellite. These are the first pyramids ever discovered in Italy. Their dimensions are quite impressive. The highest pyramid is 150 meters tall. They are stone buildings, as recent excavations have proved. However, they are now completely covered by ground and vegetation, so that they now look like hills. The inclination degree of all the three pyramids is 42/430 and their alignment is very similar to that of the Egyptian pyramids. Their age is still undefined although they are surely older than 3,000 years. Nothing was found nearby which may help to date the structures.

MINER DISCOVERS 29 PYRAMIDS IN JUNGLE

A friend of mine has spent 2/3 of his life in the forests and jungles around the world. He has degrees in 3 disciplines: forestry, agriculture and pulp & paper (and further wood processing), also C.Sc. In 1981, Jerry and several friends -inventors - built a unique craft and went mining for 9 months to South America.

Unbelievable deposits! Their craft was capable of carrying up to 3 tons of weight. After losing the craft with 2 of the friends in it (under strange circumstances), Jerry spent the next 3 months alone in the jungle area. He found 29 pyramids, he believes (12 of them have been discovered by satellite since). He did not keep exact track of it after a while, since he was not looking for them. He entered those that he could. He noted how tough it was for one guy to survive there even 2 weeks. I can personally relate to his comment that "I still do not know how I made it." Neither he nor his companions encountered hostile tribes but he knows they are there. They know that when white men encroach on their territory it means a big trouble for all of them. It is estimated that 150 million natives perished over the past 200 years (according to secret reports by Brazilian and Peruvian governments) the greatest genocide in "historic" times!

PYRAMIDS IN CHINA

The tallest building in the world until this century (and still the most massive structure earth) is an ancient pyramid 120 stories high! To see this, we would need to go to China, to the north-western province of Shensi. It can be found on a long, desolate, flat stretch of land about 40 miles west of the ancient capital Sian-fu, on an old dirt-road caravan trail that crosses from Peking to the Mediterranean. About 2,000 feet at the base, it rises (according to one estimate) some 1,200 feet high.

In Dead Men's Secrets, I mentioned seven of these pyramids, flat-topped, with three carved giants resting along the outer edges. Further discovery has now revealed that there are more than 20 pyramids in that area. The four faces of the pyramids are, like so many ancient structures, aligned to the compass points. Traces of color remain on the sides, indicating the colors that were given to each side: east ~ aqua green; south ~ red; west ~ black; north ~ white; and on the flat tops, traces of yellow.

A pair of American adventurers who roamed Asia between the two world wars, R.C. Anderson and Frank Shearer, were shown these pyramids. (Anderson visited Egypt's pyramids in 1970 and believed himself to be the only man living to have seen both the Chinese and the Egyptian pyramids.) In 1946, a U.S. Army airplane crew rediscovered and photographed these pyramids from the air. Place 26 skyscrapers the size of the Empire State Building and you have the volume of the largest Shensi pyramid.

A report in Nexus, October-November 1995, referred to two other travelers in 1912, Fred Meyer Schroder and Oscar Maman, who gathered information about these same pyramids, "mountains as high as the sky". The largest would have a volume 20 times as large as the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt.

"The sides are now partially covered with trees and shrubbage," they reported. "It almost looks natural hill. We rode around the pyramid, but did not discover any stairways or doors."

A US Air Force map of the area, compiled using satellite photographs, shows no less than 16 pyramids. This part of China (anciently called Sian-Fu, but now known as Xian) was the heart of the ancient Chinese empire. In October 1994, Hartwig Hausdorf climbed one of these pyramids and was able to count 20 more pyramids in the immediate vicinity.

LOCALS KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THEM

This really flabbergasted him, because no one knew of their existence. Says Hausdorf: "China has still a lot of mysteries even the local population quite often isn't aware of them. It's a small miracle I received the go-ahead to enter some "no go" areas. I was, in fact, the only one who was granted such favors. I assume there are two reasons for this. I regularly visit China with a group of tourists. In 1993, I became acquainted with Chen Jianli, an avid researcher of his country's past.

He assured me he would try and open a few doors inside the Chinese Ministry of Tourism. In fact, in March 1994 I was able to visit some former "no go" areas in the Shaanxi province. I passed around some copies of my German book, Die Weisse Pyramide (The White Pyramid) to the right people. I talked to archaeologists who at first denied any pyramids, but finally recognised they did exist.

OFFICIAL DENIAL

It was that month (March, 1994) that Hausdorf met with Professor Feng Haozhang, Xie Duan Yu and three colleagues. They denied the existence of the pyramids, until Hausdorf showed them three photos of three different pyramids. At this, they "caved in". The following October, they gave Hausdorf permission to enter some other "no go" zones.

So at last, after many decades of rumor, photographic evidence was now available. Says Hausdorf: "Most scientists denied the existence of pyramids in China. If any scientist still clings to that, show him my photographs."