Is our History Simply Wrong?

The so called Dendera Light Bulb

Recently we have seen how Carmen Boulter suggests Nefertiti travelled, with many Egyptian artefacts, to Turkey. In her next presentation, she is going to suggest a link to the fabled Atlantean civilisation. Gregg Baden presented information suggesting a Peruvian city and civilisation, entirely pre-dates that of Egypt.

Evidence of the age of civilisation is often measured in terms of objects (artefacts) But what if the artefacts were to suggest civilisation far pre-dating our accepted idea of the Earth's history?

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Out of place artefacts  (OOParts) cause problems for the consensus view of history.
So they are simply dismissed.
Here is how Rational Wiki does it:

An out-of-place artifact ... is a name given by creationists and woo-pushing fringe scientists for historical and archeological artifacts they feel could not have been created by a particular culture due to a lack of knowledge or materials

So this post will appeal to the woo-pushing fringe amongst us (or that part of you that wonders if people who contribute to RationalWiki would say that wouldn't they). Note that rational wiki tars anyone even pondering these anomalies as being "a Creationsit".

Gregg Braden's contribution to Gaia continues with a very interesting presentation pointing out serious anomalies that tend to be simply ignored. His Missing Links series can be found here.

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John Markoff, in the New York times has this to say of the astronomical instrument found off the coast of Crete, over 100 years ago:

Who made the famed Antikythera Mechanism, the astronomical calculator that was raised from an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901?
The complex clocklike assembly of bronze gears and display dials predates other known examples of similar technology by more than 1,000 years. It accurately predicted lunar and solar eclipses, as well as solar, lunar and planetary positions.
For good measure, the mechanism also tracked the dates of the Olympic Games. Although it was not programmable in the modern sense, some have called it the first analog computer.

There are a number of problems with this find. It shows a remarkable understanding of astronomy, not matched until the 20th Century. It also shows very sophisticated gearing and metallurgy, that is hard to explain in the era it came from.

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A small human image, skilfully moulded in clay, was found in 1889 at Nampa, Idaho. The figurine came from the 300-foot level of a well boring and dated to be of the Plio-Pleistocene age,

If that accurately dates it, then it is 2,000,000 years old.
Human beings have been on the Earth (we are told) for no longer than 200,000 years.

At the time, G. F. Wright noted,
"The image is about an inch and a half long; and remarkable for the perfection with which it represents the human form...

It was a female figure, and had the lifelike lineaments in the parts which were finished that would do credit to the classic centres of art."

"Upon showing the object to Professor F. W. Putnam," wrote Wright, "he at once directed attention to the character of the incrustations of iron upon the surface as indicative of a relic of considerable antiquity. There were patches of anhydrous red oxide of iron in protected places upon it, such as could not have been formed upon any fraudulent object."

Of course, the simplest response to a find like this is to say it is a forgery. and there have indeed been clever forgeries in the past, the Piltdown Man hoax being one of the most famous. But by taking all such finds and either saying they are forgeries, or ignoring them, we may be missing the possibility that life forms, as intelligent as we are, have been involved with Earth's history for much longer than we currently accept.

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Remarkable spheres of metal were found near Ottosdal,  in a mine in South Africa. As the coal could be accurately aged, the time the spheres arrived in their current location could be estimated.

They turned out to be 2.8 billion years old.

There has been great controversy over whether such perfect formed objects, with grooves, could have occurred naturally or have been produced by intelligences unknown.

Various theories about their natural production have been put forward, although all are highly speculative and certainly unproven.

However, the suggestion that they have a level of perfection that suggests intelligent manufacture, has been met with derision.

But, by assuming that such intelligent contact with Earth (or previous civilisation on Earth) is impossible) may be closing minds to a better understanding of our universe.

There is considerable speculation currently that NASA are quietly releasing images relating to what is called 'soft disclosure' that our history is very different to what we have been taught so far. And the flurry of interest in the Antarctic, right now, is raising a lot of speculation that dramatic finds will be announced there shortly.

We will cover breaking news on that, as and when (and if) it occurs.