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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 and irrigation systems 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?

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