New Claims Made for Atlantis in the Caribbean
Another controversial report for the finding of Atlantis has made the news; though, in fairness, it should be pointed out that no Atlantis claim was made by the new discoverers. The story which first appeared the Herald of Paris in December reported that anonymous researchers had found, in the caribbean, the underwater ruins of a city. Accompanying the statement were several grainy satellite photos which appeared to show a vast grid structure complete with a pyramid and other large structures beneath the water. The actual location was kept secret. Other media, including MSNBC, the Huffington Post, and Britain’s Daily Telegraph quickly jumped to the Atlantis conclusion. And though the Herald protested, the A-word remains linked to the report.
At this point it is difficult to either confirm or reject the validity of the claim. Other researchers who have pursued the possibility of lost antediluvian civilization in the region, when contacted by Atlantis Rising, expressed skepticism over the reality behind the latest report.
According to the Herald of Paris, the discoverers are trying to raise money to finance further explorations, which they say is not connected with the find reported a few years ago off the northwest coast of Cuba. That site, still not fully investigated, was said to be at a depth of over 2200 feet. This one appears to be in much shallower water.
Although some distance from the Bahamas, where recent discoveries by Drs. Greg and Laura Little and their associates have pinpointed ruins in locations which have been underwater since 10,000 B.C., the new site, said to be older than the pyramids, also seems to fall into a persistent pattern of claims for lost ancient civilization in the waters in the vicinity of the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach’s famed sleeping prophet, famously said the ruins of Atlantis were located in the area and predicted they would soon come to light.
Human Origins Pushed Back Again
Headlines concerning discoveries in ancient human development very often seem to include the phrase “much earlier than we thought.” Whether the discussion is about the last 20,000 years or the last couple million, new research pushes back the frontiers of theoretical ancient timelines. The latest examples come from the Middle East as well as Europe and Tibet.
Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior as early as 750,000 years ago—some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated by archaeologists has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. The discovery was made in excavations at the prehistoric Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site, located along the Dead Sea rift in northern Israel. Analysis of the spatial distribution of the findings there reveals a pattern of specific areas in which various activities were carried out. Such skills are thought to be unique to modern humans.
Researchers in the Languedoc region of France, after investigating a recently discovered cache of bones and tools, are now declaring that human ancestors were in Europe over one and half million years ago, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Meanwhile, recent genetic studies in China show that the ancestors of today’s Tibetans had settled the Tibetan plateau as much as 21,000 years ago—once believed to be about 10,000 years ago. Similar findings
are pushing back the frontier of human habitation in America many thousands of years beyond the so-called Clovis horizon of 12,000 years. In the Middle East, advanced human activity has been clearly documented at Gobeckli Tepe in Turkey to 10,000 years B.C., thousands of years before we are told we had graduated from the hunter-gatherer stage. There are many other examples.
All of this serves to widen the already immense time window of possibilities which would seem essential for the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, advanced and otherwise. While, at this stage, the ruins of such developments may remain undiscovered, the fact is that the main area where such remains might be found—beneath the sea—is still 97% unexplored.
Ancient Amazon Civilization Found
Despite long-standing rumors of ancient civilization in the Amazon basin, mainstream science has long insisted that there were no complex societies there before the arrival of Portuguese and Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century. Now, however, as large areas of the region are being deforested, signs of a vast ancient civilization are coming to light.
According to New Scientist.com some 260 giant avenues, ditches, and enclosures have been spotted from air in the border region between Bolivia and Brazil. Such discoveries have become commonplace as development rapidly expands.
The legendary British archaeologist and explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared, along with his son, under mysterious circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find what he believed to be an ancient lost city in the uncharted jungles of Brazil. Mainstream archaeology considered Fawcett a fool, but wherever he is now, he may be having a chuckle.
