A14: The Greatest Science Fiction Story ever - Sumer, Egypt, Maya

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Our sun has phases of intense activity followed by reduced activity ones. For example, during the last years the sun is increasing its activity constantly, therefore our planet is warmer and warmer. That is translated into increased meteorological activity, and we are going to see many more powerful storms, incredible rains, floods, quakes, tsunami waves, and ... more. Why more? Nostradamus tells us we are going to experience even more dangerous "things"; for example, terrible meteorites strikes, and even a shift in the poles' axis!

Oh, well; let's return to our historical topics. The last Glacial Age was ended sometimes around 17000 BC, and people started feeling a little better (warmer). They are in the Neolithic period, and they are far from being a civilized society. Anyway, we suspect in that period they started using the land for agricultural purposes, and that activity is very important: by staying for a longer period in one place, people began developing local cultures--societies!

The oldest civilization of our ancient history is described in the Indian Veda poems. "Veda" means KNOWLEDGE and that is a perplexing name for those ancient, religious poems. If you manage to strip the biased religious content of those poems, the resulting picture is just UNBELIEVABLE! Many historians consider the Veda poems are the oldest documents discovered, since they cover a period of time suspected to be anywhere between 15000 BC and 4000 BC. Other extremely important poems, Mahabharata and Ramayana, describe the same period of time, and their scientific revelations are beyond belief!

No modern Science Fiction writer has ever come not even close to the technological level described in those old poems, and that is despite their wild, pseudo-scientific imagination. The technologic level we have today is just Paleolithic in comparison to that of the "Sons of God" described in Ramayana. Please, make no mistake: we refer here to science not to religious miracles. Fact is, in all our books and in these articles we refer strictly to science and technology, and not to miracles, fantastic, illogic, or to fictional absurdities.

Just to present you a glimpse of the scientific level in the Veda poems, the "Sons of God" were traveling between stars faster than the speed of light using the "currents of space"--that is an incredible concept, isn't it? The Big Bang theory was presented there as a cyclic evolution of our Universe, but that was, of course, just a theory, 10000 BC years old--or possible 100000 years old, and not ours ...  However, the mysteries of the Universe will remain mysteries even after one million years of continuous, ascending, development. At the beginning of the 20th century some people have managed, somehow, to "discover" the Big-Bang theory and most scientists today agree with it, although the theory--as we know it--has "no head and no tail". Well! We will have to return to that foggy Big-Bang/Little Pop theory one day.

We want to point out again the Veda Poems were translated into English according to our power of understanding reality--which is mechanical. This is our actual level of scientific development: mechanic. Everything we know has to be explained mechanically, otherwise we cannot understand it--it doesn't make sense!

Anyway, a direct result of those old civilizations described in the Veda poems is the Sumerian one. That was the first, great, and THE most intriguing civilization of our ancient history. It appeared from nowhere--many consider they came from India--and their level of civilization was just incredible for those early days. We do have many data about Sumerian civilization, because they used to keep records on burned clay tablets. Their writing is unique, and nobody used it before or after they disappeared: it has been named "cuneiform". They were so advanced, 5000 years BC, that they afforded even the luxury of writing literature, although in those early days living was far from being easy. As for their high level of knowledge in mathematics, for example, that is ASTOUNDING!

Let's make a detour here. Allow us to mention that, about 8000 years ago, the beautiful Black Sea came to enrich the geography of our planet. Following a catastrophic quake, the Bosporus Strait has cut the great Alpine-Carpathian-Himalayan chain of mountains, thus forming the Black Sea in place of another interior sea similar, probably, to the Caspian one.

We are certain you are very happy to know the Black Sea is the youngest sea connected to the planetary ocean, and it is only 8000 year old! Besides, the places surrounding that little geographical jewel are really nice. We are going to hear many interesting things about this Black Sea in the near future, because there are lots of mysteries waiting to be discovered there ...

The Sumerians settled their city state Sumer close to the Baghdad city of our days. There they built their temples(?) named "ziggurats" and, frankly, we find their architecture very modern and stylish even for our days. At one moment in history, about 2000 BC, the Sumerian civilization disappears, and many consider they migrated into Europe. We doubt that very much because, even if they were forced into Europe, they went there not as a civilization anymore: they never built their ziggurat temples again, and they didn't leave any more written records. If you have the opportunity, study this Sumerian civilization: you will never regret it.

The next important step is the Egyptian civilization--also one of the most mysterious ones. They came into our History around 3100 BC, and they lasted until 332 BC. The Egyptian civilization continued centuries later, under a Greek origin Dynasty, but that was just agony. Again, the Egyptians had a unique style of writing, this time the pictographic one named "hieroglyphs", and they had advanced knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, and architecture. There are many things unclear about the Egyptians, and we are certain many more will be revealed in the future. Please investigate their use of electricity, and their knowledge about the Sirius binary star System--this is just a random highlight; there are, again, thousands other intriguing mysteries.

The most important creation of the Egyptian civilization is the Alexandria Pharos--in fact, it is improper to name it "creation of the Egyptian civilization" because it was built by the Ptolemy Dynasty in 307 BC, which was of Greek origin. Anyway, Pharos was one of the "Seven Wonders" of the Ancient World, and we consider it to be THE Greatest Wonder ever! We went over the Internet to find some data for our article about that Great Wonder, and we discovered hundreds of articles dealing with the construction of the Pharos, but nothing about the "real substance". Yes, Pharos was an impressive building, especially for those times, but its true value was the LIBRARY. The Alexandria Pharos was the first UNIVERSITY in our history, and it contained hundreds of thousands of very, very old manuscripts--some say there must have been there one million manuscripts!

All great philosophers and scientists of the ancient world went to the Alexandria Pharos University to complete their training by studying some of those great manuscripts. That Library was the greatest treasure our civilization ever had, and it contained secrets which we cannot even imagine today. It has been treasured and considered a sanctuary of intelligence for centuries, by everybody ...

According to the latest theories, Alexandria Pharos was burned down by the Christian priests during the crusade years, and they later blamed the Muslims for that unbelievable criminal act, because they were well aware of the enormous gravity of their crime. Unfortunately, they just got the taste for destroying the History of our Civilization, and they continued to do so. Anyway, it is possible it wasn't the Christians who burned the Pharos Library: it could have been an accident. It may be we will never know the truth for certain.

In China, separated by deserts, mountains and great distances, the Xia Dynasty marks the beginning of the unique and intriguing Chinese Culture in 2100 BC. On the American continents, other civilizations were developing cultures similar in mystery to the Egyptian ones: Olmec, Toltec, and later Maya. All three of them are worth a profound study, because they were incredibly advanced (better said, too advanced) for their time.

In fact, the Maya civilization was so advanced that Diego de Landa, the Bishop of Yucatan, had made it his "sacred duty" to burn all writings about the Mayan culture, and he worked diligently for thirty years, or something. Later, history tells us that he regretted his insane behavior and he wrote three books about the Maya civilization. Of course, his books describe ONLY the "normal" aspects of the Maya civilization, not the incredible facts ... That was the second criminal act of inestimable value committed against the History of our Civilization and against humanity but, unfortunately, again not the last one ...

Religious intolerance, no mater where it comes from, must be condemned and presented as a despicable example, in order to educate people to never repeat the crimes of the past. The Creator is only ONE; everything in the Universe is HIS CREATION, and ALL INTELLIGENT beings are HIS beloved children. We suggest you read MERCY to understand the psychological drive behind destruction.

Yeah, it may be you are wondering what are we doing here in these articles about history. After all, we are not presenting much historical data. Well, we need a time frame for our future articles; therefore we will come back later to certain moments in time, and to certain civilizations. Overall, we suggest here interesting topics: they are general-culture level information, and everybody should know these facts.

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First published on June 10, 2005 
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