Ancient civilizations. Y or N?

I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…

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So what happened to them? Where are they? Why hasn't more survived?

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Even the great pyramids in Egypt, as we're told are the burial chambers for the Kings, had no inscriptions of hieroglyphics inside. Nothing.

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False.

As is the bizarre premise that civilizations must somehow begin at an "advanced" stage in order to build anything, without any intermediate evolution.

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Gobeki Tepe in Turkey

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Shows that we don't know what we don't know.

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But how far back, and to what extent?

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We have no idea but it is much farther than most think.

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So what happened to them? Where are they? Why hasn't more survived?

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People have a hard time comprehending geologic time. 10000 years is nothing. Time is undefeated.

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the great pyramids in Egypt

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We have guesses, there have been cases where it has been found that early explorers research that much of the current beliefs are based on were faked/embelished on to receive funding.


This isn't a good forum to discuss this. You have people here that will question damn near everything including science, based on their political beliefs etc. but think questioning academia's version of what happened thousands of years ago makes you a lunatic.

LINK . . This is an interesting interview. It's 3 hours long.

I don't know, but I love consuming materials that investigate this question. So many peculiar things out there that seem to refute the consensus about the history of humanity. The precision and sheer magnitude of the great pyramids alone make me wonder what kind of tech they were working with that we have yet to discover. Or the evidence that the Sphinx was at one time surrounded by water. Gobekli Tepi is another one. Fascinating stuff.

I hope I live to see what's in (under?) Antarctica. There are ancient maps based on even older maps that not only show Antarctica way before it was officially discovered, but it shows lush, fertile land.

Let’s say we nuke the world and present civilization to the ground, which now isn’t out o the realm of possibility. Who has the best chance to survive, the strongest who are capable of finding ways to survive or the smartest who are more fragile. We’d likely lose most great minds.

Chances are the surviving humans will basically start from scratch and will take possibly centuries to even scratch the surface of where we are today.

It’s not far fetched to believe that more advanced civilizations existed and met an end many thousands of years ago and it has taken this long to come this far.


It’s just a thought, but maybe we aren’t nearly as advanced as we think we are…..

I am more interested in outward vs inward.

The reason I am skeptical of very ancient civilizations is population size. There just weren't enough people around back then to make constructing some large buildings worth the trouble. A teepee made of mammoth bones was good enough.

The Great pyramid took something like 20,000 laborers. They built dormatories to house all the laborers and archaeologists have found this evidence.

In the Paleolithic, all of Europe barely had 20k people living there. So where exactly were you going to get these laborers? The population in Africa or Near East was likely larger (better climate) but they were still hunter-gatherers who lived in small tribes.

The 12,000 year old sites in Turkey (they have now found several) were built right around the time agriculture was invented. Indeed, it is believed the first farmers might have lived in Anatolia/Turkey. So it's plausible they were settled at that time, were in the early stages of farming, and already were seeing a population growth.