"Ancient archaeology is one of the fields where two extremes of the human mind come to the fore. At one end of the spectrum there are the short-sighted and frightened cowards who react at things that may challenge their inner world with great stubbornness. At the other end there are the dishevelled dreamers that see in every little thing that cannot be explained immediately as prove of the existence of gods, ghosts, or travellers from outer space. Now this does not mean to say that there may not have been gods, ghosts, or travellers from out of space on earth, merely that the evidence has to judged by the usual scientific method, and not prejudged by one of the mentioned attitudes.
Archaeology is a science, so one might think that this matter would take care of itself. However, scientists are vulnerable to the same weaknesses as other human beings, see the description in Bad science; in our case of ancient archaeology, the list of fallacies in Bad Science splits the first attitude into numbers 18, 19, 23, and 25, and the second attitude in 4, 6, 7, 9 and 13.
Here we are going to apply the good method of doing science to the controversial part of ancient archaeology. The method is known well enough, see for an independent source see here, and an application by the author here. The first thing it requires is the possibility of thorough and repeated examination of its findings, preferably by more than one individual. To facilitate this, much of the information that is spread all over the web is copied and collected here. Having this information at the same place also makes it easier to see possible patterns, and to make inferences. Another important argument to make a separate website is that much of the material comes together with all kinds of theory that is only strenuously related to the known facts. In this collection, most of the theory is dropped, leaving the pictures, because pictures are by necessity of artefacts, which in turn satisfy the requirement of repeated examination.
Of course, at some stage theory becomes a necessity in order to systemize our findings. But systemization is possible only as a result of common traits the collected artefacts may possess. And this is a big challenge in archaeology, since the most exciting findings are exciting because they are rare. However: having found some example is an inspiration to look for more. If our theory says the “more†will look like this, and the “more†we find does indeed look like this, than obviously we’re on the right track. The author does give his own interpretation of the data available, but this is clearly separated, most of it having its own pages called 'analysis'.
Now, to get specific: the more exciting claims of the last decades are those of travellers from space by Von Däniken, and that of the antediluvian civilization. The latter is in fact a modern day continuation of the Atlantis theory, but the latter was a forbidden word for a long time, due to first process described above.
The ultimate proof of travellers from out of space is an ancient spaceship, and the ultimate proof of the antediluvian civilization is the find of correspondingly ancient city remains. The first has not materialized yet, but about the second one can have discussions.
Ancient city remains can be found all over the world, but since they are really ancient, what remains are stones. And stones are notoriously difficult to date, at least to date the time they were cut by hand or tool. So one has to revert to other methods. One of the really good methods is to link the artefacts with geological phenomena. If you find your ancient artefacts under water, you can link them to ancient sea levels, assuming the ancients did not have the capability of sustained underwater activity.
So the equivalent of the ancient spaceship is the ancient underwater city. Remarkably, several excellent possibilities have been found, most notable that being at Yonaguni Island, Japan. Following the method outlined above, the clues have been gathered on this website, so that everyone can make his own judgement.
Related subjects are other underwater finds which for ease of reference have been retained under their familiar names like "Binimi road", "underwater pyramids", "underwater cities", "Andros temple", while the author does not necessarily support the interpretations that lay behind these words.
The two major sources until now have been ordinary tourist sites in the case of the data from Peru, and for the underwater sites the diver teams of Greg and Lora Little, Graham Hancock and Santha Faiia, and Michael Arbuthnot (more on this here). At the moment of writing (June 2004), the site is still in development, so it may be useful to look again later. If you find other related interesting material and care to share this with others, or have comments of suggestions, please mail to the author.
Finally a remark with respect to the position of the sceptics. While a part of their position is validated by the demands of the good scientific method, some of them are plain silly (see here), or stubborn (see here). Here we have followed the scientific method to the best of our ability. Yet we get results that seem to confirm some claims made by the supporters of theories that say that there must have been ancient civilizations and relations between civilizations that are not part of the tree of civilizations known to regular archaeology. Where the sceptics lend from good science, they are also obliged to openly recognize results that are based on good science, or invalidate the claim to these results. As long as such a recognition is lacking, the sceptics show ill-faith to the method of good science, and the attitude of decency in general."
http://www.altarcheologie.nl/index.html?backgrounds/editorial.htm
Additional Ref./s
Flagstaff, Ariz. - A team of experts called in to examine strange debris at the bottom of the Grand Canyon discovered the wreckage of a UFO that crashed a mind boggling 4,000 years ago!
http://www.burlingtonnews.net/grandcanyon2.html
Ancient Sanskrit from India tell of UFO visit in 4,000 B.C.
"India, according to Dr.V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India's prestigious University of Madras, was alone in playing host to extraterrestrials in prehistory. Dr. Raghavan contends that centuries-old documents in Sanskrit (the classical language of India and Hinduism) prove that aliens from outer space visited his nation. "Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as 4,000 B.C., " The scholar says. "There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas (scriptures), Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text. "In the Mahabharata (writings), there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic weapon. And in the Ramayana (writings), there is a description of Vimanas, or flying machines, that navigated at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a great propulsive wind. "These were space vehicles similar to the so-called flying saucers reported throughout the world today."
http://www.ufoindia.org/article_sanskrittextspaceship.htm
Ancient Mayan Transport Vehicles
Were these paintings depiting some form of Ancient Mayan Transport Vehicles?
http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/transport.html
(Ancient Anomolies & Forbidden Archeology)
Could the Ancients Fly?
An Article In Issue Number 10 (Winter 97) By: David Childress
http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue10/ar10ancientavi.html
ANCIENT AMERICAN
* ISSUE #30... Egypt in illinois??
http://www.ancientamerican.com/article30p1.htm
Ancient Technology & Ancient Astronauts
Continuing with the many out of place artifacts that have been found around the world. *Saqquara Plane - Egypt *Gold Columbian planes *Sumerian Winged beings *Easter Island Strangness *Crystal Skulls *Dogu Statues *Dzopa stones *Pyramids of the World - Long before Columbus sailed to North America, this hemisphere may have been visited by other Europeans, ancient Romans, Chinese and Japanese & even the ancient Egyptians. Near Rio de Janeiro, high on a vertical wall of rock - 3,000 feet up - is an inscription that reads: 'Tyre, Phoenicia, Badezir, Firstborn of Jethbaal..." and dated to the middle of the ninth century B.C. In the Mayan ruins of Palenque, a stone sarcophagus was found that is very much in the style of the ancient Phoenicians. The Egyptians & Mayans were not the only pyramid builders There are many pyramids around the world, many of which are still un explored The Chinese have pyramids and The largest known pyramid is in China, but The government keep them secret.
http://www.geocities.com/jilaens/ancient.html
Archaeology Answers
Explorer and archaeologist Jonathan Gray shares his views that stemed from countless discoveries of artifacts that in his travels around the world he found things "that should not exist," which led him to conclude that previous civilizations were far more advanced than is generally thought. Two of these civilizations came to cataclysmic ends which left few remnants of their technology, in which he attempts to explain to us here..
http://www.archaeologyanswers.com
Atlantis Insights
Based on the book, "Atlantis: Insights from a Lost Civilization", By Shirley Andrews which combines information from scholars, scientists and psychics to describe the civilization of Atlantis on land in the Atlantic Ocean from 100,000 BC to 10,000 BC.
http://www.atlantisinsights.net
HUMAN HISTORY AND ANCIENT MYSTERIOUS FLYING MACHINES!
Early human technical civilization in the Indus Valley By: Ray Auxillou UHK
http://members.tripod.com/~speculation/mysteriousflyingmachines.html
Hidden Records - The Star of the Gods
By Wayne Herschel - A magnificent Christian secret is about to be revived. It is also found in the paintings of Poussin, Salimbeni and Tenier, and at the Rosslyn Chapel. It ties in with the Judas Gospel and the secret behind ALL the pyramids and Stonehenge. The key to decoding the star maps: A forgotten 4,000 year old coffin lid from a priestess of Hathor depicts the precise stars of the Pleiades in Taurus. Scholars have missed this 'hidden' evidence and presume the 'Bull's thigh constellation' to be the Big Dipper.
http://www.thehiddenrecords.com
Ian Gurney, "The Cassandra Prophecy-Armageddon Approaches."
Ian Gurney has studied theology and eschatology for the last thirty years and is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on the Biblical Books of Daniel and Revelation, together with the prophecies of Nostradamus and the Papal predictions of Malachy. He has written many articles over the years on "the end times" and has presented and produced numerous BBC radio programmes on the same subject. The end result of his research led Gurney to an astonishing conclusion that is currently shaking the theological establishment. Ancient prophecy and world events appear to be running in parallel, and mankind's destiny seems to have already been foretold.
http://www.caspro.com
Lost Civilizations and Hidden Mysteries
Jack Andrews – artist and explorer. Mr. Andrews has personal experience with the Grand Canyon area, having made over 21 hikes covering over 250 miles and maintains an avid interest in the "Lost City of the Dead in the Grand Canyon". As part of his lifelong background as an artist, Mr. Andrews has been doing 3D computer images for "Ancient American" magazine about the cave and may provide additional images for the "Rock Lake Research Society", which investigates the strange structures discovered beneath Rock Lake, Wisconsin.
http://www.gci-net.com/users/v/vrartist
Michael Cremo and Forbidden Archaeology Etc.
Here is the information that rocked the academic anthropology establishment in 1993. The human race is of a vast antiquity, stretching back for tens of millions of years right here on the Earth! From its initial release in 1993 to the present, Forbidden Archeology has shocked and delighted readers around the globe with a veritable encyclopedia of anomalous scientific evidence challenging the standard views on human evolution.
http://www.mcremo.com
Museum of Unnatural Mystery
The world of the unexplained is explored in minute detail on the web. Some of us hold out hope for Nessie, or the infernally elusive pirate treasure on Oak Island, and even a cavern lined with gold at Devil's Tower in Wyoming. And many of us want to believe that other intelligences directed certain constructions, and know the original use of the term 'foo fighters'. Of course, plenty of us find all of it vastly amusing. There's something for everyone here, well-written and researched. Exhibits include the Observatory, the Collection of Odd Archaeology, the Hall of UFO Mysteries, the Virtual Exploration Society, the Virtual Cyclorama, the Mad Scientist's Laboratory, where you can make hydrogen (careful!) and bend water, and the Unmuseum Store, stocked with videos and other items. The site loads with somewhat jarring music that may have you hitting the mute button, but otherwise, it's an enlightening destination.
http://www.unmuseum.org
Ooparts
Out of place artifacts
http://www.s8int.com
Peter Farley's "Who stole our history?"
Australian-born journalist, metaphysical researcher, and spiritual healer, Peter Farley is the author of the controversial new book, Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? The true history of the darkness and of the Light –Volumes 1 and 2 of which are now available. This book is the first to map out the history of alien interaction with the Earth, past, present, and into the near future. Extending the work of noted researchers such as Erich Von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin, the book explains for its readers the extensive repercussions this interaction has had on life on this planet, especially its formative role in the global conspiracy known as the New World Order.
http://4truthseekers.com/treeoflife
The "Device" ---A Caribbean Mystery.
The Papyrus of Ani in the Theban Book of the Dead depicts an ankh surmounting a djed pillar. The ankh has hands holding a large reddish sphere. In 1970 Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner and lecturer from Mesa, Arizona, made an extraordinary discovery 135 feet down near the Bari/Berry Islands in the Bahamas, 20 miles from the edge of the undersea drop known as the ‘Tongue of the Ocean’. He saw a pyramid “shining like a mirror†[Brown], about 120 feet high, though only the top 90 feet was visible above the sand...
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/jjdev01.htm
The Antikythera Device
At the western entrance to the Aegean Sea, midway between the islands of Crete and Kythera, rises little Antikythera. It was off that island in 1900 that a sponge diver found, on the bottom, the wreck of an ancient ship loaded with statues, amphorae, and other objects...
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/triton2.htm
The Atlantis Mapping Project
This site contains classified materials obtained by Author Thomas Greanias under the F.O.I. In the interests of National Security, the D.O.D. of the United States reserves the right to shut down this site at any "Time" ---Gen. Griffen Yeats, USAF
http://www.lantis.tv
The Stone Disks of Bayan Kara Ula
High in the mountains of Bayan Kara Ula, on the borders of China and Tibet, a team of archaeologists were conducting a very detailed routine survey of a series of inter-linked caves. Their interests had been excited by the discovery of lines of neatly arranged graves which contained the skeletons of what must have been a strange race of human beings; strange because they had unnaturally spindly bodies and large, overdeveloped heads. At first, it had been thought that the caves had been the home of an hitherto unknown species of ape. But as the leader of the team-the Chinese archaeologist, Professor Chi Pu Tei - pointed out, "Who ever heard of apes burying each other?" It was while studying the skeletons that one of the team stumbled on a large, round stone disc, half buried in the dust on the floor of the cave.
http://ddi.digital.net/~kenaston/Xian/BayanKaraUla.html
The Takeuchi Document
Old document handed down from the Takeuchis of Ibaragi Prefecture. It is said that the original was written on the skin of an animal. Around 2000 years ago Heguri, the ancestors of the Takeuchis, rewrote this in character and kana as ordered by the present emperor Yuryaku. In the Document there were over several thousand documents and wares like "Agatama" made of the bones of early emperors.
http://www.seafolk.co.jp/~enigma/e.takeuchi.htm
The World Mystery Research Center
The World Mystery Research Center is an international organization setup to explore the incredible mysteries on our planet that we believe will provide us with key information about humanity and the universe.- founded in January 2001 in both the United States and England . The Center was started through the efforts of R. "Joshua" Shapiro, a spiritual author, investigator and speaker. Sponsored By: VJ Enterprises 9737 Fox Glen Dr. #1K Niles, IL 60714 TEL : (847) 824-1822 website:
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/index.html
http://www.worldmysteryrc.org
