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Originally Posted by wheelbender6
I think the Ancient Civilizations Theory makes a lot more sense than the Ancient Alien Theory.
I read a book by Graham Hancock advancing the theory that Ancient Advanced Civilizations have risen on earth only to be destroyed by cataclysmic events (meteors, vulcanism, floods, etc) over and over.
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The generally understood thinking about civilization (i.e. large organized political/economic entities) is that it started about 5000 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates river system region, in what is now Iraq. This is when people went from being simply wandering hunter-gatherers and started farming. But more and more evidence is coming out that sophisticated civilizations existed far earlier.
-- A sunken city off the west coast of India, inundated when the last ice age ended approximately 10,000 BC.
-- The orientation of the Sphinx, astronomically aligned with the night sky at (again) 10,000 BC. The obvious water erosion on the area around the Sphinx, in an area that has not seen any significant rainfall for at least 7000 years. (The Sahara used to be very lush and fertile.) So the Sphinx is far older than the official, supposed time of the three major pyramids being built, around 2500 BC. (IMO this is completely wrong, for a number of reasons. The first of which is that the Egyptians of that time did not have the tools to cut the stones.) Looking at the Sphinx today, there is extensive repair done to it over the centuries, likely also due to erosion. The Sphinx was not always covered with sand since it was constructed.
-- Gobekle Tepe, constructed in Turkey about 10,000 BC.
-- Massive stone blocks we can't move even today, much less in Roman times:
-- A city under the Black Sea, which was created when the ice age ended in 10,000 BC:
-- The ancient Sumerians, etc:
Our history is far more interesting than the official narratives.