TOP 10 ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
By
David Hatcher Childress
Like a real life Indiana Jones, maverick archeologist David Hatcher Childress
has taken many incredible journeys to some of the oldest and most remote
spots on earth. Writing prolifically of lost cities and ancient
civilizations, he has produced no less than six lengthy books (the Lost
Cities series) chronicling the dimly remembered glories of obscure locales
from the Gobi desert to Puma Punku in Bolivia, from Mohenjo Daro to Ba'albek.
We caught up with him shortly before taking off for New Guinea on yet another
archeological expedition and asked him if he would be willing to write an
exclusive for Atlantis Rising on the Top 10 Ancient Civilizations with
Advanced Technology. He agreed to dig through his archives and give us a
story. ED
1. ANCIENT MU OR LEMURIA
According to various esoteric sources, the first civilization arose 78,000
years ago on the giant continent known as Mu or Lemuria and lasted for an
astonishing 52,000 years. It is sometimes said to have been destroyed in
earthquakes generated by a pole shift which occurred some 26,000 years ago,
or at approximately 24,000 B.C.
While Mu did not reach as high a technology, supposedly, as other later
civilizations, it is, nevertheless, said to have attained some advanced
technology, particularly in the building of long-lasting megalithic buildings
that were able to withstand earthquakes. However, it was the science of
government that is sometimes said to have been Mu's greatest achievement.
Supposedly, there was one language and one government. Education was the
keynote of the Empire's success, and because every citizen was versed in the
laws of the universe and was given thorough training in a profession or
trade, magnificent prosperity resulted. A child's education was compulsory to
the age of 21 in order for him to be eligible to attend citizenship school.
This training period lasted for seven years; so the earliest age at which a
person could become a citizen of the empire was 28.
2. ANCIENT ATLANTIS
It is said that when the continent of Mu sank, the oceans of the world
lowered drastically as water rushed into the newly formed Pacific Basin. The
relatively small islands which had existed in the Atlantic during the time of
the Lemurian civilization were left high and dry by the receding ocean. The
newly emerged land joined the Poseid Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean to
form a small continent. This continent is called Atlantis by historians
today, though its real name was Poseid.
Atlantis is believed to have taken technology to very advanced stages, well
beyond what exists on our planet today. In the book A Dweller On Two Planets,
first dictated in 1884 by Phylos the Thibetan to a young Californian named
Frederick Spencer Oliver, as well as in a 1940 sequel, An Earth Dweller
Returns, there is mention of such inventions and devices as air conditioners
to overcome deadly and noxious vapors; airless cylinder lamps, tubes of
crystal illuminated by the night side forces; electric rifles, guns employing
electricity as a propulsive force (rail-guns are similar, and a very new
invention); mono-rail transportation; water generators, an instrument for
condensing water from the atmosphere; and the Vailx, an aerial ship governed
by forces of levitation and repulsion.
The sleeping clairvoyant, Edgar Cayce, in a reading spoke of the use of
aeroplanes and of crystals or firestones used for energy and related
applications. He also speaks of the misuse of power and warnings of
destruction to come.
3. RAMA EMPIRE OF INDIA
Fortunately, the ancient books of India's Rama Empire have been preserved,
unlike those of China, Egypt, Central America, Peru. Many of these ancient
nations are now either desert wastelands, swallowed by thick jungle or
literally at the bottom of some ocean. Yet India, despite devastation by wars
and invasion, managed to maintain a large part of its ancient history.
For a long time, Indian civilization was not believed to date from much
earlier than about 500 B.C., only about 200 years prior to Alexander the
Great's invasion of the subcontinent. In the past century, however, the
extremely sophisticated cities of Mohenjo Daro (Mound of the Dead) and
Harappa have been discovered in the Indus Valley of modern-day Pakistan.
The discoveries of these cities forced archaeologists to push the dates for
the origin of Indian civilization back thousands of years. A wonder to
modern-day researchers, the cities were highly developed and caused leading
archaeologists to believe that they were conceived as a whole before they
were built: a remarkable early example of city planning. Even more remarkable
is that the plumbing-sewage system throughout the large city is superior to
that found in Pakistan, India, and most Asian countries today.
4. OSIRIAN CIVILIZATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
It is said that at the time of Atlantis and Rama, the Mediterranean was a
large and fertile valley. This ancient civilization, pre-dating dynastic
Egypt, was known as the Osirian Civilization. The Nile river came out of
Africa, as it does today, and was called the River Stix. However, instead of
flowing into the Mediterranean Sea at the Nile Delta in northern Egypt, it
continued into the valley, and then turned westward to flow in the deepest
part of the Mediterranean Valley where it created a large lake and then
flowed out between Malta and Sicily, and south of Sardinia into the Atlantic
at Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules). When Atlantis was destroyed in a
cataclysmic upheaval, this cataclysmic change in the Atlantic slowly flooded
the Mediterranean Basin, destroying the Osirian's great cities and forcing
them to move to higher ground. This theory helps explain the strange
megalithic remains found throughout the Mediterranean.
It is an archaeological fact that there are more than 200 known sunken cities
in the Mediterranean. Egyptian civilization, along with the Minoan and
Mycenean in Crete and Greece are, in theory, remnants of this great, ancient
culture. The civilization built huge earthquake-proof megalithic structures
and had electricity and other conveniences common during the time of
Atlantis. Like Atlantis and Rama, they had airships and other modes of
transport, often electrical in nature. The mysterious cart tracks of Malta,
which go over cliffs and under water, may well be part of some ancient
Osirian tram-line, possibly taking quarried stone to cities that are now
submerged.
Probably the best example of the high technology of the Osirians is the
amazing platform found at Ba'albek, Lebanon. The main platform is composed of
the largest hewn rocks in the world, the famous ashlars of Ba'albek. Some of
the individual stones are 82 feet long and 15 feet thick and are estimated to
weigh between 1,200 and 1,500 tons each!
5. UIGER CIVILIZATION OF THE GOBI DESERT
Many ancient cities are said to have existed at the time of Atlantis and Rama
in the Uiger civilization of the Gobi Desert. Though the Gobi is now a
parched land-licked desert, these cities were ocean ports. Edgar Cayce once
said that elevators would be discovered in a lost city in the Gobi Desert,
and while this has not happened yet, it is not out of the question.
Vimanas and other advanced devices are said to have been in use in the Uiger
area, and the famous Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich reported seeing a
flying disc over northern Tibet in the 1930s. Perhaps the craft was an
ancient vimana coming from a still active city using Uiger technology that
exists in Northern Tibet or the Gobi Desert.
Significantly, it is claimed that the Elders of Lemuria, known as the
Thirteenth School, moved their headquarters prior to the cataclysm to the
uninhabited plateau of Central Asia that we now call Tibet. Here they
supposedly established a library and school known as The Great White
Brotherhood.
For instance, the great Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu, born in 604 B.C., talked
frequently of Ancient Masters and their profound wisdom. He wrote the famous
book, Tao Te Ching, probably the most popular book ever written in Chinese.
When he finally left China, near the close of his very long life, he
journeyed to the west to the legendary land of Hsi Wang Mu. According to the
ancient Chinese, this was the headquarters of the Ancient Ones. Could this
have been The Great White Brotherhood and the Thirteenth School of Mu?
6. TIAHUANACO
As in Mu and Atlantis, construction in South America was on megalithic scale
with polygonal construction techniques designed to make the massive walls
earthquake-proof. Earthquake-resistant walls were important all around the
Ring-of-Fire, ancient Mu.
Homes and communal buildings were built out of megalithic blocks of stone.
Because of the high regard the culture had for the well being of future
generations and the value they placed upon the gradual, sustained growth of
the community, structures were built to last for thousands of years. A house
built of cement, wood and plaster-wall will last a hundred years or so, if
kept up. Witness the megalithic construction of Egypt, Malta, Peru. These
buildings are still standing today. Cuzco, the ancient capital of Peru, which
was probably built before the Incas, is still inhabited today after thousands
of years. Indeed, most of the buildings of downtown Cuzco today incorporate
walls that are many hundreds of years old (whereas more recent buildings
constructed by the Spanish are already crumbling).
Only a few hundred miles to the south of Cuzco lie the fantastic ruins of
Puma Punku, high in the Altiplano of Bolivia. The ruins of Puma Punku, about
one mile from the famous ruins of Tiahuanaco, are massive megalithic
constructions that are tossed about like toy building blocks. What kind of
cataclysmic upheaval could have done such a thing? Here is the kind of
megalithic construction meant to last for thousands of years, yet, the
100-ton blocks have been torn asunder by mighty geological forces.
It would appear that the South American continent was suddenly and violently
thrust upward during some kind of cataclysm, most likely a pole shift. A
former sea-level canal can now be seen at 13,000 feet in the Andes Mountains.
As possible evidence for this scenario, many ocean fossils can be found near
Lake Titicaca. The lake is even inhabited by the only known fresh water sea
horses.
7. THE MAYANS
Mayan pyramids are found from Central America to as far away as the
Indonesian island of Java. The pyramid of Sukuh, on the slopes of Mount Lawu
near Surakarta in central Java is an amazing temple with stone stelae and a
step pyramid that would match any in the jungles of Central America. The
pyramid is in fact virtually identical to the pyramids found at the ancient
Mayan site at Uaxactun, near Tikal.
The ancient Mayans were brilliant astronomers and mathematicians whose early
cities lived in agrarian harmony with earth. They built canals and hydroponic
garden cities throughout the ancient Yucatan Peninsula. Some of the Mayan
glyphs were allegedly radionic-type insect control devices that broadcast an
etheric vibration of the targeted pest.
Edgar Cayce mentions the Mayas and their technology in one reading: As for a
description of the manner of construction of the stone: we find it was a
large cylindrical glass (as would be termed today); cut with facets in such
manner that the capstone on top of it made for centralizing the power or
force that concentrated between the end of the cylinder and the capstone
itself. As indicated, the records as to ways of constructing same are in
three places in the earth, as it stands today: in the sunken portion of
Atlantis, or Poseidia, where a portion of the temples may yet be discovered
under the slime of ages of sea water, near what is known as Bimini, off the
coast of Florida. And (secondly) in the temple records that were in Egypt,
where the entity acted later in cooperation with others towards preserving
the records that came from the land where these had been kept. Also (thirdly)
in records that were carried to what is now Yucatan, in America, where these
stones (which they know so little about) are now, during the last few months,
being uncovered.
It is believed that an ancient Hall of Records resides somewhere in the Mayan
region, probably beneath an existing pyramid complex, in an underground
tunnel and chamber system. Some sources say that this repository of ancient
knowledge is kept in quartz crystals that are of exceptional quality and
capable of holding large amounts of information in the similar manner as a
modern CD.
8. ANCIENT CHINA
Ancient China, known as Han China, is said to have come, like all
civilizations, from the huge Pacific continent Mu. The ancient Chinese are
known for their sky-chariots, their geomancy, and the jade manufacture that
they shared with the Mayas. Indeed, the ancient histories of the Chinese and
the Mayas seem indelibly linked.
Anthropologists makes a good case for a Taoist influence coming to Central
America by showing Shang dynasty symbols and motifs (the yin-yang is the most
famous, but there are many more) and then relating them to known Mayan art
and sculpture. Jade was of particular importance to the Shang Chinese. So
far, the source of Chinese jade has not been pinpointed. Much of it may have
come from Central America. Even the source of Central American jade is a
mystery; many ancient jade mines are believed to be still undiscovered.
Anthropologists suggest that Chinese voyages to Mexico, between 500-300 B.C.,
may have been related to Taoist trade in magic mushrooms or drugs of
longevity.
The ancient Chinese are often said to be the originators of every invention
from toilet paper, earthquake detectors, paper money, canons, rocket
technology, printing methods, and thousands of other clever and high-tech
items. In 1959 archaeologists in China discovered belt buckles made out of
aluminum thousands of years ago. Aluminum is generally processed from bauxite
with electricity!
9. ANCIENT ETHIOPIA & ISRAEL
From such ancient texts as the Bible and the Ethiopian book Kebra Negast, we
have tales of the high technology of ancient Ethiopia and Israel. The temple
at Jerusalem is said to have been founded upon three gigantic ashlar blocks
of stone similar to those at Ba'albek, Lebanon. Today, the revered Temple of
Solomon and Muslim Dome of the Rock mosque exist on this site, whose
foundations apparently reach back to the Osirian civilization.
Like much of the later Phoenician construction, the building at the Temple to
hold the Ark of the Covenant and the temples in Ethiopia are the last of the
megalithic stone constructions. The massive Temple Mount, built by King
Solomon on the ruins of earlier megalithic temple, was made to house the
ancient relic known as the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark of the Covenant is said to have been an electrical generator box
which housed several sacred objects, including a solid gold statue from
earlier cultures that is called the Holy of Holies. This box and gold statue
were said to have been removed from the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid
in Egypt by Moses during the period of the Exodus.
Many scholars believe that the Ark of the Covenant, as well as other ancient
artifacts, were actually electrical devices, some of which were worshipped in
temples as oracles. The Bible recounts how certain unauthorized persons would
touch the Ark and be electrocuted.
10. THE AROI SUN KINGDOM OF THE PACIFIC
The last of my list of ancient civilizations is that of the virtually unknown
ancient culture of the Aroi Sun Kingdom of the Pacific. While the so-called
lost continent of Mu sank over 24,000 years ago in a pole shift, the Pacific
was later repopulated by a racial mixture of all civilizations, coming from
Rama, China, Africa and the Americas.
An advanced island nation, with larger areas of land than are currently in
the Pacific, grew up around Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Ancient
legends in Polynesia attribute this remarkable civilization to the Aroi
Kingdom that existed many thousands of years before the European rediscovery
of the Pacific. The Aroi allegedly built many of the megalithic pyramids,
platforms, arches, roads and statues throughout the central Pacific.
When some of the more than 400 gravel hills on New Caledonia were excavated
in the 1960s, cement columns of lime and shell matter were carbon dated by
Yale and the New Caledonia Museum as having been made before 5120 B.C. and
10,950 B.C. These weird cement columns can be found in the southern part of
New Caledonia and on the Isle of Pines.
According to the Easter Islanders, the statues of the islands walked or
levitated in order to move in a clock-wise spiral around the island. On the
island of Pohnpei, the Micronesians claim that the stones of the
eleven-square-mile city were levitated into place.
The Polynesians of New Zealand, Easter Island, Hawaii and Tahiti all believe
that their ancestors had the ability of flight and would travel through the
air from island to island. Was this the Air Atlantis flight that stopped in
Malta, Ba'albek, and Rama destined for the remote but popular convention
center at Easter Island?
