Civilizatii stravechi si (unele) disparute

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Informatii organizate pe regiuni geografice, cu descriere, curiozitati si poze, ale civilizatiilor trecute? antice, unele poate disparute...
AFRICA
   ANCIENT EGYPT 160 FILES
   DOGON - NOMMO - SIRIUS
   NUBIA 3 FILES
ALASKA
  ESKIMOS
  INUIT
AMAZON TRIBES 8 FILES

AMERICAS 2 FILES
   CLOVIS PEOPLE
ANCIENT CHINA 34 FILES
ANCIENT INDIA 26 FILES
ANCIENT JAPAN 21 FILES
AUSTRALIA 20 FILES
EASTER ISLAND
  RAPA NUI - MOAI - RONGO RONGO TABLETS - CANNIBALISM
NEW ZEALAND
   THE MAORI
EUROPE
   BARBARIANS
   BYZANTINE EMPIRE
   CELTS
   FRANCE - MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY
   GREECE 147 FILES
   OTTOMAN EMPIRE - TURKEY - SULEYMAN
   ROMA PEOPLE - GYPSIES
   ROME 122 FILES
   VIKINGS

KOREA

MESOAMERICA
   AZTEC CIVILIZATION 10 FILES
   INCA CIVILIZATION 24 FILES
   MAYAN CIVILIZATION 16 FILES
   OLMEC CIVILIZATION 2 FILES
   TOLTECS 1 FILE
   PYRAMIDS OF MES0AMERICA

MESOPOTAMIA - MIDDLE EAST 43 + FILES
  SUMER 31 FILES
  PERSIA 6 FILES
MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES
   ATLANTIS 25 FILES
   LEMURIA - MU
   PHANTOM ISLANDS
NATIVE AMERICANS 50 + FILES
RELATED TOPICS
   CALENDARS
   CREATION
   DOUBLE-FEATHERED CROWNS
   EARTH'S HISTORY VISUAL RECORDS - ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS
   GODS AND GODDESSES 40 + FILES
   LANGUAGES & WRITING SYSTEMS
   MYSTERY SCHOOL TEACHINGS - SECRET SOCIETIES
   MYTHOLOGY
   PALEONTOLOGY
   PYRAMIDS OF THE WORLD
   RELIGION
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O alta colectie de informatii concentrate despre civilizatii si "ramasite" ale acestora.
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Scotland

Orcadian stones

The megalithic stones of the Orkneys are one of the most enigmatic monuments of Europe. But why are such gigantic structures found here?

The sacred island of the Moon

Loch Maree, in Scotland's Wester Ross, was a key religious centre in both pagan,

Iona, the sacred island

Iona, a small island off the west coast of Scotland,

Glen Lyon: the valley of the Sun God

Glen Lyon, in Pertshire, is currently one of the most remote locations in Scotland,

Kilmartin: the original Scottish capital
Kilmartin Valley is remote, even by Scottish standards,
The fairies of Doon Hill
Doon Hill and the Old Kirk in Aberfoyle, will forever
The Scottish Grail castle ?
Can parts of the Grail mythology, specifically those

Egypt
The North-South Divide: the mirror of Egypt

Throughout its history, Egypt retained its specific
Dogon Shame
Modern research has shown that the Dogon did not
Giza's Wall of Crows

Giza boasts the biggest ancient sculpture, t

On the wings of a kite

How were the pyramids built? How were ob...

China

China's Great Pyramids Controversy

The existence of pyramids in China was a co

The Stone Discs of Baian-Kara-Ula

Did aliens crashland on Earth? The story of th...

France

The treasure trove of the Knights Templar

Were the treasures of the Knights .

Dynamite, Father de Coma and his abbey

Another enigmatic priest, this time in th
Counting stones

Thousands of megaliths are aligned in n

Greece

The Heights of Athens

Athens is not only the capital of Greece, i
Know Thyself

Delphi was one of – if not the – most impor

Egypt: origin of the Greek culture

Greece's culture lies at the origin of western civilisation.

Crete: isle of the dead?

The Greek island of Crete is home to the "Minoan" civilisation.

The Phaistos Disc: roll 'em

The enigmatic Phaistos disc has been interpreted in so many
The wheels of Greek astronomical science

The Antikythera device is an oop-art: an out of place-artefact.

Greece (& Bosnia)

Europe's pyramid history unveiled
In recent years, two pyramid complexes hav
Malta

Island of the Giants

In the middle of the Mediterrean Sea are three small islands, which contain some of the oldest and most enigmatic megalithic monuments found anywhere... So much so that they have been incorporated in Greek myths and local legends.
Belgium
Wanted for theft: Nostradamus
Professor Rudy Cambier came to an astonishing revelation when he read Nostradamus' quatrains: they were not written in French, but in Picardian, the language of the area he grew up in, and a language he knew pe

England
Prehistoric Lakeland
In what is now a primary tourist destination, the British Lake District

Anglesey: Druid's island

On the Welsh isle of Anglesey, the Druids made their last stand against the Roman invaders. Was it evidence of the sanctity of the island, parts of which are known as "Holy Island"?

Dracula in England

Just over a century ago, the novel Dracula was published, written by the Irish author Bram Stoker. It created a widespread interest in vampirism. But what was Stoker's inspiration?

Fairy dust: the Cottingley fairies

In 1983, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths stated that back in 1917, they had perpetrated a majestic hoax. Their world famous photographs, showing the girls in the company of fairies dancing around them, were paper cut-outs, supported by hatpins. It had fooled both sceptics and believers.

The Hitching Stone

An enigmatic boulder on the moors of Yorkshire reveals an intriguing mythological dimension, which is now mostly forgotten.

Mother Shipton: prophetess or witch?

Mother Shipton's Cave and the nearby Petrifying Well in Knaresborough is England's oldest tourist attraction. The story of the prophetess seems to be too good to be true – and seems to be just that...

London's Celtic "heritage"

From the 18th century onwards, a "Druid history" of London was slowly discovered – or imagined – on London's landscape. It reached a climax with the English mystic William Blake, who transformed it into a sacred site – the Heavenly Jerusalem.

Royston Cave: creating a medieval magical centre

The underground cave of Royston, sitting as it does at the crossroads of the town, has created a lot of interest and controversy. Is it, as some suggest, a medieval Templar church or is it instead one part of a larger pagan landscape, whereby a sacred centre was created?

Hell, no damnation

The Hellfire Caves are located just outside of West Wycombe. Built around 1750 by the second Sir Francis Dashwood, the Earl of Rosse (1708-1781), they are an intriguingly named site... named after the Hellfire Club, founded by the same earl... and for more than two centuries linked with an awful lot of intrigue...



Ireland

The Irish stellar giants

In the west of Ireland, the area of Knocknarea and Carrowmore forms an enigmatic but incredibly old sacred landscape, which archaeology has only recently begun to understand.

Croagh Patrick: Transforming the Green Serpent

Nothing seems to be more Irish than St Patrick. Nothing seems to be more Christian than the life of this saint. But at the same time, it are his legends that provide an inroad into the way Ireland was before and at the time of Christianity's arrival.

The centre and divisions of sacred Ireland

Ireland has maintained its sacred division of the land into the 21st century, though the site of Uisneach, from which the land was divided, is not the best known feature or most widely visited site of the island. But together with the other sacred sites, it continues to reveal insights into the pagan organisation of the land.

Newgrange: empowering the salmon of wisdom

Newgrange is considered to be the most complex megalithic site in Ireland – and Europe. But despite the enormous focus on its solar display, little else is known about the framework in which the site was developed.



United States

The Burrows cave: African gold in Illinois

The story of the Burrows Cave is a story about archaeology, but also of human behaviour. It is the story of an alleged cave containing the tomb of an African king, having reach America (Illinois) in the first century AD – and the subsequent controversy the artefacts from this cave were able to make.
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Copper: a world trade in 3000 BC?

Europe's economy between 2000 and 1000 BC stood and fell with copper, used for the creation of bronze. At the same time, large quantities of copper were mined in America, though no-one seems to know who was using it. A question of a world economy, and supply and demand?

Canyonitis: Seeing evidence of ancient Egypt in the Grand Canyon

Is there, within the Grand Canyon, an enigmatic system of tunnels that is evidence of an ancient Egyptian voyage to America? Is it all bogus? Or is the truth most likely somewhere in between?



Mexico

Christians don't worship here any more...

The village of San Juan Chamula, in the mountains of Chiapas, is a Mayan village, masking as a Christian community... but Christian it isn't...

Mayan Magic

The Yucatan with its Mayan temples and pyramids is a magical land. But what these buildings reveal, is that the Maya seem to have placed major emphasis on magic.

Rebuilding creation

Like so many other cultures, the Mayan religious centres were designed along the principles of sacred architecture, which retold the story of creation.

Orion's Image

The New World equivalent of the Gizeh pyramids may well be Teotihuacan, even in as much detail that its layout also mimics astronomical information, even that of Orion's Belt.



Guatemala

The Stone Head

A photograph of an enigmatic head in the Guatemalan jungle is one of those discoveries that quickly achieved notoriety, and equally fast disappeared from the radar. Still, further efforts should perhaps be made to further the cause of this enigma.



Ecuador

The Quest For The Metal Library

A system of tunnels and caves beneath Ecuador and Peru is reputed to hold an ancient treasure-house of artefacts including two libraries, one containing inscribed metal books and the other storing tablets of crystal.



Peru (and Amazon)

Jurassic Library

According to geological evidence, the Age of Dinosaurs and the Age of Man are separated by roughly 60 million years. That has not deterred the dream-spinners of Hollywood from supposing that dinosaurs survived into the present (The Lost World), or that they can be genetically recreated (Jurassic Park). other movies in this genre have played with the idea that, somehow, man and the dinosaurs may have co-existed.

Viracocha's Voyage

The Sacred Valley of Cuzco, incorporating Ollantaytambo & Macchu Picchu, is more than a collection of impressive monuments: it is the backdrop of the story of the civilising creator god, Viracocha.

Caral: the oldest town in the New World

The pyramids of Caral presented a veritable breakthrough for the New World. Their dating: 2600 BC, older than the pyramids of Gizeh...

Nazca: Airport of the Gods?

The Nazca lines have been an enigma and centre of controversy since von Däniken made the lines world famous in the late 1960s. Though the controversy has continued, largely undetected, some intrepid researchers and scientists have most likely been able to answer the enigma.

Fake Porn

The Peruvian Ullo temple with its giant phalli seemed to good to be true – a largely intact temple in which a cult of fertility had survived the onslaught of Christianity?

Terra Preta

In the depths of the Amazonian basin, a specific type of soil is found that is known to be of human origin – but which modern science has so far been unable to reproduce. It seems to have been "primitive man's" attempt to terraform the Amazon into fertility.

"As we walked through the tunnels of gold..."

The story of a golden city in the Amazon intrigued the Spanish conquistadors. Since the 1970s, an underground system of tunnels containing gold if not alien artefacts have reignited interest if not imagination and lies. More than thirty years on, is there an underground realm?



Chili (Easter Island)

The stone heads of Easter Island

The stone heads of Easter Island have cast an almost magical spell on those who have seen them. Though often eyeless, they still gaze along the shores of the island. What were they build for and who were the artisans of these mysterious creations?



Israel

Found: one Ark of the Covenant?

Just before the First World War, a team of European explorers went to Jerusalem, to dig for the Ark of the Covenant...an expedition that has largely been forgotten, though it was one of the most intriguing ever.



India

Best Evidence?

Are the Indian remains of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, their sudden abandonment and the apparent discovery of an ancient site with a layer of radioactive ash the best available evidence for the possibility that our ancient ancestors possessed a highly advanced technology – which might have included atomic warfare?



Films (& TV)

Star Wars: Beyond the Force

Star Wars is considered to be one of the all-time favourite series of movies. But beyond this theatre success lies one of the most intriguing use of hero mythology and archetypical casting that Hollywood has ever seen...

The Wicker Man: the Return of the Pagan World

The Wicker Man is a remarkable story of the duality between the Christian and pagan ways, set against a Scottish background. In recent years, the story of the movie itself has been used as the struggle between the old Christian establishment and the reintroduction into Western society of "pagan movies", of which The Wicker Man was one of the most shining examples.

The Ninth Gate: The Ninth Gate Opens

The Ninth Gate is the movie version of The Dumas Club, a book in which the quest for raising the devil is interwoven in a rich decor of esotericism and ancient books - some of whom indeed set out to awaken the devil - or lead him back to Hell?

The Matrix trilogy: Matrix Constructs

The Matrix trilogy stands as one of the classic movies that redefined film-making, both technically and script-wise. It carefully played and transformed symbolism, hiding it behind a layer of "kung fu fighting", which at the same time made it more accessible to an entire generation of filmgoers.

Dune: The Sands of Time

A desolate planet, Dune, holds the key to a spice, which is able to bend space and time. But this is merely one aspect of the vast Hermetic canvas that Herbert painted in his novels.

Stigmata

An atheist woman suddenly displays stigmata, setting an inquisitive priest on a quest to discover lost gospels. Hollywood brought together various trends into one novel mixture.

Meet Joe Black: Death visits Earth

Meet Joe Black uses the classical mythology of Death as an entity and an Otherworldly realm, but has turned the imagery upside down. Rather than a hero's descent to the Underworld, Death ascends to Earth...

Twin Peaks

In 1990-1, the question of who killed Laura Palmer caught the television audience by storm. The answer was to be found in a bizarre, other dimensional reality.



Biographies

The automatic writings of Jung

Carl Gustav Jung is notorious for being more "liberal" in his psychology than his friend Freud. But what is less known, is that Jung was more of an alchemist and Gnostic, then a psychotherapist.

With his head in the stars

Carl Sagan led a controversial life. Forever in search of life in the universe, he was nevertheless adamantly opposed to "pseudoscience", such as UFOlogy and crop circles. Sagan was no stranger to controversy... and in the end became a controversy himself.

The Hyper-dimensional ambassador

Terence McKenna was for some more guru than a man whose lifestyle had been moulded by very deep experiences of an alternative reality. For the rest of his life, he would strive to bring awareness of that dimension to our reality.

Mr. Mack goes to the UFO convention

Harvard Professor John Mack was what many people believed the phenomenon had always been lacking: a big-time professor who spoke up for the reality of the phenomenon. Nevertheless, his message was more complex...

Michael Scott: the Scottish wizard

Scott, "the Wizard of the North", is credited variously as Scotland's first scientist, alchemist, sorcerer and astronomer. He is also one of Scotland's forgotten geniuses. Who is the man behind the myth?



General

The Song of Poliphili

Apart from Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, another international bestseller, The Rule of Four, has used an enigmatic Renaissance document that in the end may be far more intriguing than any of da Vinci's paintings ever may be.

Cave paintings: entrancing the Otherworld

New research is showing that the cave paintings, most tens of thousands of years old, are the earliest religious expressions of the vision quests of the shaman-priests.

Prehistoric "plane" flies !

Three Germans have created a scale model of the enigmatic "insect", identified by Erich von Däniken as an airplane.

The rise of the Watchers

The Watchers: legendary angelic creatures mentioned in ancient documents - but apparently also the identity of the grey alien beings of modern UFO abduction. A study in parallels - whether genuine or mythical...

Food of the Gods ?

Are mushrooms the real food of the gods? Does it contain a hallucinogenic substance that was known and used by ancient cultures and its priests to gain access to the World of the Gods?

The alternative conquest of the Moon

Man officially set foot on the Moon for the first time in July 1969. Or if you believe we never went to the moon: it is promoted that we officially set foot on the Moon for the first time in July 1969. But there have been stories that extraterrestrial beings had already been to the Moon, or had a basis there... and even that we ourselves went to the Moon long before Neil Armstrong.

Casting Stones

The "megalithic civilisation" in Western Europe is still a civilisation that is ill-understood, if only because it has suffered from decades of scientific neglect. At present, some of the answers about the monuments they left behind is becoming clearer, but questions remain as to who this civilisation was, and what became of them.

Atlantis = Cyprus ?

The lost civilisation of Atlantis has been located virtually anywhere in the world... and some have even gone as far as space... Researcher Robert Sarmast has now concluded that the lost civilisation must have been located near Cyprus... and he may be right.

Tweet tweet: the language of birds

The "bird language" or "Green language" is an intriguing system of codes, practiced by some traditions. But what lies at its origins – and could its origin actually not be a language, but what many termed the original method of communication?

Art of Memory

In the modern age of books and internet, it is difficult to get beyond the printed word; science has little faith in oral communication – you might think that with Instant Messaging and text messaging, there is an actual conspiracy against speaking... We have thus lost an entire field of knowledge, one of which is the so-called "art of memory".

Fire, the John Gesture

In 1997, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince introduced the so-called "John gesture": a specific pose painted by Leonardo da Vinci. They were at pains to clearly identify the symbolism of the gesture, but with a little help of Hermetic magic...

The Shepherds of Arcadia

Poussin's painting has been identified as a cornerstone of the enigma of Rennes-le-Château. What if the painting has a stellar connection, that might indeed shed light on the true motivations of the painter?

Lots of skulls, no bones

Crystal skulls – rightfully – speak to the imagination. The most famous of them all is the so-called Mitchell-Hedges skull, whose history is as appealing as its beauty. But are some of these skulls and their stories to good to be true, or has no-one uncovered their truth yet?