Chapter TwoRiddles from the Past
It all started for me when I was a young child and I saw a picture of the Great Pyramid. I was
told right then that no-one really knew how it was done and in that moment I was hooked on our
mysterious past.
From that moment, all interest in comic books was gone and for hours I would pore over my
mother’s encyclopedias. I couldn’t understand much of the text, but the pictures of Dinosaurs and
ancient and mysterious megalithic structures absorbed me totally.
Where do they come from I wondered? Does mankind really have an unknown history that has
been lost or forgotten? Could there really have been an advanced civilization in far ancient times,
before our recorded history? The questions and debates on the issue have raged for years. When
asked, most scholars will tell you that it’s a nice idea, but fanciful at best and there is really no
hard evidence to show that such a civilization ever really existed. However, many others will
argue that there is actually a significant body of evidence that does exist that simply cannot be
explained away. So what are the realities? What kind of evidence are we talking about? Just a
bunch of weird cave paintings and esoteric theories by strange people, or is there something more
tangible?
To be perfectly honest about it, anthropological evidence, however convincing, is always
circumstantial, while legends and myths without evidence are questionable at best and naturally
open to individual interpretation, so we must look for further corroboration. When we do, we find
that there is in fact, a large and ever growing body of hard physical evidence that goes a long way
towards disproving what we have been led to believe. This evidence tells us that either the history
we are taught of the earths is wrong, or the history we are taught of mankind’s development is
wrong – or both.
The reality of this is fast becoming far too great to deny and still more evidence to re-enforce
the conclusion is being found ever more frequently. So the obvious conclusion that we’re faced
with here is that the academic community is either completely stupid (which is doubtful,) or quite
simply not telling us the truth! Maybe they’re just waiting for the right moment...
But before we try and find where the answers to our puzzle may lie, let’s investigate what kind
of body of evidence for an Ancient civilization of advanced technology actually does exist, in
what form it takes and whether we are presented with anything that truly cannot be explained.
And as you will see, the evidence that our entire history is wrong is indeed quite vast and comes
in a great variety of forms. But to start with we can examine some of the tantalizing Ooparts