Finally, two years since it was first instigated, a new website is being created to accommodate the next level of work that I’ve been quietly working on.
The current website was designed from a personal perspective and for the purposes of the first book. Now, after 7 years, it’s looking tired and simple and needs to be completely overhauled to incorporate the new articles that are being written.
Elements were added over the years – the ancient cities section was a huge undertaking – but what I intend to do next is on a much bigger scale than anything done before.
The new website will not have my name on it as we are going commercial!
There is a new idea in place that will make the website more visible to a worldwide audience, and I will be writing articles with a particular theme in mind.
Over the years I have identified a particular flaw in the world of archaeology and this is where the website’s focus will be taken, and therefore we are creating something quite “big” in that sense, rather than just a “website”.
The name of the website and its subtitle will show clearly what it is about. Included will be forums and a login page for members, and we (myself and my business partner and web developer) expect this site to not only be a commercial success, but will garner recognition in the academic world for identifying the flaw mentioned. The world of archaeology needs to change, and I’m going to change it!
It is not something that can simply be written as a peer-reviewed paper, it is something that needs to use already published material and then point out that particular flaw, over and over again, until the world of archaeology changes the way it promotes its own discoveries.
Much of the current website will be transferred to the new one. That is, the news articles and the ancient cities section, although they will only be a small section of the overall layout. Currently, only the previous twenty written articles are visible on the website, so we intend to make all of them visible. However, this is a massive job that I’m procrastinating over at the moment. There are more than 450 articles and each one would need to be lifted from the previous site, rewritten, edited, correlated against similar articles and then re-posted. This is something that would probably take years rather than months, so I’m having a rethink on how to approach that side of things. I would happily get on with it, but my priority right now is to get this book finished and published once and for all. However, the website should be up and running in a couple of months. The framework has already been completed but, again, the way it is formatted needs some serious thought if we are going to get it right.
Watch this space!
Egypt / Spain
Obviously he couldn’t see where he was going…
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/07/inenglish/1546880586_334568.amp.html
Greece
On a small islet, Dhaskalio, in the Aegean, archaeologists have been working for four years on what has turned out to be “the largest prehistoric marine transport operation that has ever come to light anywhere in the world”.
The date – 2200 BC.
This has profound implications for several reasons:
Firstly, during that time Greece was in the Aegean Bronze Age, also known as the Helladic Period, which dates from 3200 to 1000 BC approx. While the dates have fluctuated +/- 50 or 100 years here and there, the profound element is that these marble structures were built right at the end of the Early Helladic, which ended around 2100 BC. It was around 2200 BC – the time of the marble pyramid – that Greece saw huge changes in the influx of Indo-Europeans, and also bronze and copper tools.
Secondly, the first great culture or civilisation that appeared on the Greek mainland was that of the Mycenaeans, which rose to prominence with great fortified citadels at the beginning of the late Helladic, around 1600 BC. In fact, the Late Helladic period is also known as Mycenaean, the entire Helladic period ending when Mycenaean culture declined. It is clear that the Mycenaean civilisation was hugely influenced by Crete, and that much of their artwork was either imported from there or were replications of Cretan artwork. Therefore, the prevailing theory has been that the rise of mainland Greece was secondary to the Minoans, and that the Minoans were the first great civilisation anywhere in modern-day Greece.
Thirdly, and this is the big one, no one anywhere has found any organised structures such as these during the time period in question. Not only did this occur on a tiny island, but the organisation, engineering, and effort required to carry out such a monumental task suggests clearly that we are missing a huge part of Greek history. In other words, this site could not have been the first of its kind. The history changing element of this discovery is that these people, whoever they were, and according to the article, now shift the origins of ancient Greece history towards this tiny islet and away from Crete and the Minoans. Basically, a lost culture and an entirely new part of history has been discovered.
When you consider that Ancient Egypt was still in the Old Kingdom during this time period, or that Stonehenge was first built, one must ask pertinent questions about the level of artistry employed at this site. It’s one thing to build marble structures in the place where the marble is located, it’s another thing entirely to transport that marble across often dangerous seas to another location, and build structures there.
I could write an entire book about this issue so I’ll stop right there. If you know anything about history in that area, then you will understand how profound a change this brings to Greek history, and it now has to be reorganised and reinvented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greece-archaeology-keros-aegean-sea-bronze-age-dhaskalio-bible-pyramids-crete-milos-a8997666.html?fbclid=IwAR3lVTOaY0bal-B9cLVGBkLgYS3GTrPza6Kp1cybQks_7m_eQ8QaJ6WlWZw
England
At last, someone is thinking in the ways we need to start thinking about our ancient heritage. I have known for a long time that our ancestors were using technologies we do not use today, and sound frequency is one example.
Sometime around the early 1990s I was in the Land’s End Peninsula with my then girlfriend. We made frequent camping visits to that area, taking our bicycles on a train from Bristol and cycling around with our packs, as we felt a deep connection to our ancient past. Cornwall was the only place in England that the Romans never bothered with, and that’s why it still has that feel of ancient Britain.
One day, we had visited a small stone circle in an open field. There were only three standing stones left, the rest were either lying on the ground or were missing. A couple came along and we all got talking, and at some point one of the other three moved away from the group and was standing about ten feet away. Suddenly, I realised our voices were echoing, but how was that possible in an open field? We took turns to stand in a particular position and all agreed the voices were echoing, and yet we were all baffled as to how this affect could be occurring when we were standing outside.
That evening, I had realised that this was one of the reasons the circles were built, and that there was a lot more going on with them than just nuts and bolts science and ritual.
Thankfully, around that time, some people started carrying out research into the acoustics of burial chambers, and found a common frequency. The conclusion was that sound was an important element of their construction. I also believe stone circles have this attribute. We are still completely in the dark about their use, mainly because science doesn’t allow, or rarely allows, research outside the box, and that is why we are no wiser these days than a hundred years ago. But it’s been clear to me for many years that shamanic ritual, with or without the use of mind-altering substances, and involving chanting at a certain frequency, or the repetitive banging of drums, which still occurs with tribes all over the world, would allow the partakers to enter the “spirit realm”.
Only when science starts to get its arrogant behind out of its rigid way of thinking will we start to understand our past, and thus our ancestors. Until then, we will discover nothing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-48948623?fbclid=IwAR1opaYqACjpCtWqrlz7XZBt9tKCOBjdMyNQiSLniWeGxRlJLCBUJxs6k90
Guatemala
A massive city has been discovered by LiDar in Guatamala that shows the city was so huge it once had a population of millions. In a flash, that’s adding millions to the previously thought population figures.
Of course I am not surprised by this discovery!
The story of the Maya and its collapse has about as much credibility as the UK government carrying out its pledge to go through with Brexit.
Of course, they still continue to tell us the Maya were wiped out due to drought, a theory I find as believable as, er, the UK government allowing Brexit to go through.
That theory is a good one for the current lies we are being told – that of climate change. Since we’ve “discovered” climate change, archaeologists now use that term to explain why hundreds of civilisations disappeared, although prior to that no one knew. It’s a nice excuse when you don’t have the answers.
My response is this – the climate has been changing since the earth was formed, and will continue to do so until it ends. Previous civilsations were far more adept at adjusting to climate change than we are. The mystery of the Maya collapse has just become a whole lot more mysterious now several million inhabitants have been added to the population.
I don’t believe the Maya collapse theory and I never will. It’s just a conveniently packaged story that we can all relate to because it’s in the news a lot. Fake news, that is. Fake climate change that people with no brains just believe without thinking.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/03/scientists-discover-ancient-mayan-city-hidden-under-guatemalan-jungle?CMP=share_btn_link
South Africa
A 15th Century settlement that eventually grew into a city with around 10,000 inhabitants has been rediscovered in South Africa.
Although the site has been known about for a long time, and thought to just contain a few scattered settlements, LiDar has actually shown that it was once a relatively large city that covered an area 8 square miles (20 sq km).
https://www.africanews.com/2019/01/29/archaeologists-in-south-africa-discover-lost-city-using-laser-technology/
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45836912/south-africa-s-ancient-lost-city-of-kweneng-rediscovered-by-lasers