Ancient World Review

Turbowolf Interviews Graham Hancock: Episode 2

"In this episode Graham & the band discuss the mystery of the possible survival of death by human consciousness, the ancient Egyptian quest for the immortality of the soul, the encoding of advanced scientific information in ancient myths, some of the evidence from ancient Egypt and the Andes for the existence of a lost civilisation, and the danger, unless we change our ways, that our own civilisation could become the next Atlantis." Don Jenkins, Turbowolf manager. First episode can be found here.

Turbowolf Interviews Graham Hancock Episode 1

Graham Hancock, I think, is the best of the "alternate archaeology" writers. He's generally dismissed by mainstream authorities as a "pseudoarcheologist," rightly so, perhaps, but he's done a lot of interesting research into lost civilizations and ancient mysteries, and his books are well written and entertaining.

Hancock's definitely unconventional, arguing, for instance, that humans have been around for much longer than currently believed and that there was a very ancient, technologically advanced "mother civilization" that existed as far back as the Paleolithic. I can believe that human society is older than anyone currently suspects, but when Hancock starts speculating, for example, that the Ark of the Covenant could have been a form of ancient technology, he loses me completely.

I do agree with him when he argues against "...an entrenched belief system about the human condition and about our collective past in which modern advanced civilization is seen as the product of thousands of years of linear social and technological evolution--'onwards and upwards'...from stupid old cave men to smart old us." (Source: The Official Graham Hancock Website) For what it's worth, I don't buy that, either.

Note: Turbowolf is a UK rock band.

Neolithic Tunnel Network Discovered In Europe

"Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed." (Source: Mail Online)

"German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch said evidence of the tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over the continent.

"In his book - Secrets Of The Underground Door To An Ancient World - he claims the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original tunnel network must have been enormous."

Submerged Ruins of "Atlantis" Found In Spain

"A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain." (Reuters)

"To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.

The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site."

Mystery of the Canary Islands

Similarities between the pyramids, bas reliefs and religious symbolism found in Egypt, Peru, Polynesia and the Canary Islands suggest that all of these civilizations, at least in their earliest stages, may have been originally founded by a very ancient Indo-European culture which migrated all over the planet.

The Ruins Of Pumapunku In Bolivia

This video is from a History Channel program on Ancient Aliens, but it's still a good introduction to Pumapunku, one of the most mysterious archaeological sites in the world. Pumapunku was supposedly built by the Tiwanaku Culture, a Stone Age, pre-Columbian people who also built the site at Tiahuanacu--estimated (by some) to be over 17,000 years old, which would make it the oldest city on the planet. Mainstream archaeologists still can't explain the sophisticated construction techniques used at Pumapunku. Maybe the place WAS built by aliens. Who knows? Personally, I think that if the construction techniques were beyond the capabilities of the Stone Age Tiwanaku, then it's more likely that Pumapunku was built by a more advanced culture yet to be discovered.

Japan's Mysterious Underwater Megaliths