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ANCIENT MYSTERIES
Another view on the history of mankind
Dr. Bert Thurlings 2009
6 – March – 2009 Version 6
TRANSLATED BY MARC COSSETTE
Montreal - CANADA
This e-book describes the content of the (Dutch) book (consisting of 2 parts)
“Verborgen geheimen van de mensheid” (“Hidden secrets of mankind, Part 1 , and
Part 2” ISBN 90-5911- 7735)
e-book ANCIENT MYSTERIES B. Thurlings www.ancientmysteries.eu
© Copyright 2006
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There are strong arguments to the effect that the Great Pyramid –
which consists of more than 2 million blocks averaging 1 cubic meter
each - and the Sphinx were built thousands of years BC.
In this tour we follow a trail of ancient mysteries, which I have followed too, and
which I describe in a set of two (Dutch) books, "Verborgen geheimen van de
mensheid/ Hidden secrets of mankind". My questioning started while watching a TV
documentary about the age of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, in Egypt. It showed two
border science writers, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, claiming they had
uncovered evidence that this world wonder had been built in 10500 BC. The critic,
John Anthony, added to this that the Sphinx was at least 8000 years old. Since I
wanted to know more about this, I started reading everything on this topic that I
could find. From the one I entered the other, which led to me becoming aware of
the “mystery of the Egyptian
stones vases”, whose vases were
as yet untraceable. Thousands of
vases, made of the hardest rock
material, and thousands of years
old. And some of them still could
not be copied today. But where
are they now? On my search, I
had learned that there are also
pyramids in Greece, so I crossed
the Mediterranean sea and I went
there. After some wandering I
found Hellenikon, the best kept
pyramid - a small, strange sharp form and supposedly older than the Egyptian
pyramids. What message do we get here? Who ever found it necessary to build
pyramids here? I investigated further, and as I visited the old sanctuaries such as
Mycene, Assini, Tyrins and Epidaurus it became evidently clear: in the old days,
“ancient engineers” were at work here, and they had very sophisticated equipment:
Proof of this can be seen everywhere in the Peloponnesus.
Continuously puzzled I ran up against another mystery: these holy places would lie
on specific geometrical distances from each other, just like ley-lines in the United
Kingdom: circles, equilateral triangles, straight lines, Golden Section. It led me to a
fascinating study, which had surprising outcomes. But after this unintentional trip, I
continued my search for the mysterious stone vases and thereby unexpectedly ran
up against French research that had examined the possibility that granite and other
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It is rather unknown that there are also pyramids in Greece. Though
these are much smaller than those in Egypt, but probably much older.
hard rock in antiquity was not chopped away, but rather poured as we would do with
concrete today. The pyramids would then have been built in a completely different
way than traditional historians would have us believe. Still yet another study came to
light, which gave interesting information concerning the mystery of the stones vases.
For example, that absolutely no quarry in Egypt could be connected with the vases
which are found there. Imagine: thousands of years BC, impossible fabrication
technique and of quarries unknown! What does this indicate? Time to examine those
things up close, so I travelled to the big museums of London and Paris. What you see
is staggering: hard stone objects which still cannot be copied today, originating from
3600 BC! Next to these, all the
gold of Tutankamon is child's
play. Science is confused! Rightly
so, because evidence points at
the presence of intelligent
engineers who had extremely
sophisticated equipment - but
this could not be true, could it?
The National Museum of
Antiquities in Leiden, also has
"impossible objects" on display,
but does not dare to bring it in
the spotlight.
Now I started ‘to like the taste’ and wanted to have a look at those weird pyramids
for myself. After first visiting the ‘ancient atomic bunker’ Menga in Spain, a short
trip was made to Cairo, which brought a whole range of new insights. For example
that basalt was sewn in antiquity. I describe this tour as a “Magical Mystery Tour”
because of the many weird things that can be seen from nearby if you are
interested, and take the time. Standing in front of the Great Pyramid, one tries to
imagine how it was for the pharaoh Cheops to be the one to lay the first stone of this
huge construction. Because after that first block, 2 millions more followed, each
standing at roughly one cubic meter. But was it really Cheops, as we learn in history
books? Answering that question brought me to the safe-deposit box of a university,
to sift out an almost 200 years old diary. The conclusion that I was forced to draw
was simply dazzling! Cheops had nothing to do with the Great Pyramid! But likewise
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This hard rock object from ancient times challenges science: either
extremely advanced machinery was applied, or one was able to
make hard rock, soft. Both options are regarded by science as
absurd…
bewildering is pondering why absolutely no scientist what I here had done? Is one
frightened for the implications? It certainly looks that way. Even more so if we
examine what it is we actually know about the age of the Great Pyramid. Answering
this question brings us to C14-method, and what we learn there, you do not want
believe: the pyramids have an age which certainly is not congruent with the Egyptian
chronology. Does the entire Egyptology collapse? Is science afraid of the irrefutable
conclusion that the pharaohs had nothing to do the pyramids? And as if this is not
yet enough, another devastating attack on traditional history came from a
completely different angle: toxicology tests conducted by the Egyptian museum of
Munich on Egyptian mummies using extremely sophisticated methods showed
unrelentingly that in ancient
Egypt, tobacco and cocaine was
consumed. That is those
substances only occurrence before
Columbus in South America.
Transatlantic contacts? Science
does not want to agree, but the
hard proof is there!
You start getting the feeling that
our knowledge about antiquity is a
mash. That we are made to
believe something inaccurate. And
so I went to find out what the early historians had to say. I turned to historical
figures, such as Herodotus (+/- 450 BC), Berossos (+/- 270 BC), Manetho (200 BC),
and Josephus (+/- 70 BC), thus searching for the most authentic sources. That’s
when things were really bizarre. So strange that some of these first historians
themselves had great difficulty to describe what they were observing, in an
uncensored way: the `ancient engineers’ proved to be flying beings which had
created people for their own comfort, and which themselves could achieve enormous
age, often as many as thousands of years. “Why don’t you ever read about that?”, is
what you wonder about because it becomes clear: before modern times, which came
about some four thousands year ago, unequalled technical performances were
performed, which we still can admire today, but for which a technical ingeniousness
was necessary that is more advanced than what we have reached, even now. Who
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This is a cut mark from a saw, in one of the stones in the
basalt plateau at the east side of the Great Pyramid. However,
basalt is a very hard material, so how was it done?
then were those `ancient engineers’? Were they also active in other places on earth?
This was the next question to answer.
In my second book “Who helped man?" I try to answer this question and I go
searching in other areas of the earth, particularly South America where likewise
extremely sophisticated construction work stands, whose origins of which are
unknown. But closer to home, we can also find mysterious buildings: Malta has
many. Two small islands, strategically positioned in between Sicily and Africa, where
in distant antiquity, still before the Egyptians became active, these islands appear to
have been very crowded: mystic temples were erected with huge block of limestone.
And even more mysterious is the `built
in negative’ underground temple
Hypogeum Hall Saflieni: three stages
deeply chopped away in equal form as
the above-ground temples. Which idiot
was active here, 4000 BC?
In between Europe and South-
America in the Atlantic ocean, lies an
area where, according to the exact
report of Plato, Atlantis once was. It is
said to have been a huge island with
millions in population, since it is believed to have been able to maintain a 1 million
man army. The island vanished suddenly. According to Plato, in only 1 day and 1
night, it had totally sunk in the ocean. “Impossible!” science states, because there is
nothing on the ocean floor what looks like that. And Plato is specific as to when this
took place, viz. - converted - in 7910 BC. Such an enormous catastrophe would
certainly not have slipped the attention of the world’s population, and therefore we
must find mention of this in the mythologies of other peoples. And that certainly
proves to be so, beginning with the bible.
As we read this document as it is stated there, then we fall from the one
astonishment to the next. The god who appears as a Creator, appears not be alone
but has a lot of sons around Him. People seem be totally subordinate to the will of
this god family, and if you read carefully, there are even strong indications of
genetic manipulation: the maximum age, and the fertility age are adapted on specific
moments in time to keep the population increase, under control. One stands in awe if
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Malta has many mysterious buildings from distant antiquity.
Nobody knows who the builders were, or what the purpose of the
‘temples’ – since that’s how they are named – is. The most bizarre
is the underground temple Hypogeum Hal Saflieni. This is built
‘in negative’ and resembles the above-ground temples.
one realises what this means. Here too, flying-around-gods who divided the power
on earth among each other...and decided to decimate mankind by sending enormous
water floods over them.
But the bible is not unique in this respect. The deserts of Iraq have divulged, about
a century ago, truly ancient mysteries: thousands of clay tablets came to light and
told a similar story, of a god family that dominated the earth, that created people
for their own comfort, but the population explosion became so problematic that it
was decided to pour out, here too, a huge flood. These gods did not agree among
themselves, and fought each other with extremely sophisticated weapons (their
description immediately resembles nuclear weapons), but had enormous regret after
the great flood of what they had caused when they saw the masses of dead bodies
laying on the river banks. Afterwards, the gods again were in favour of people.
The realism of these old tales
from Sumeria takes one aback.
Even the scientist who was the first
to translate these old texts from
the cuneiform, could not believe
his eyes: beings of flesh and blood
who did all kinds of things human
did, but who were clearly superior
and had sophisticated weapons and
vehicles with which they could
move themselves in no time over
large distances. "What is going on
here?", "Do we have the right
picture of antiquity?", "Is there still something to find that could stand witness to the
destroying power of those sophisticated weapons?". I did not have to look for very
long. Not far away, in Scotland, we find this desired evidence. Here, are dozens of
destroyed buildings which, for lack of a better word, we will call fortresses. Most of
the ruins have been now overgrown and are hardly recognizable, but some are still
well accessible. However, the collapsed walls tell a remarkable tale: the stones have
melted under the influence of an infernal fire, vitrified and sintered together. But the
temperature which is necessary for this, can only be reached in special ovens, not in
open air. One only needs to look at what old mythology has to say about such an
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In Scotland, Ireland and Brittany there are buildings that have
collapsed as result of extreme heath. The stone has vitrified and
sintered.
event, and it is already clear: here too, flying-around-gods who fought each other by
fire and sword, and radiated each other's fortresses over large distances. Believe it
or not, but mythology is quite clear about this, and the vitrified fortresses can be
visited by everyone, even if archaeology doesn’t know how to deal with it. By the
way, there are many more vitrified buildings in the world, for example Borsippa in
Iraq. More about this in my second book.
In antiquity weird things happened, that may be clear by now. But if you go
further in these mysteries, you encounter also buildings that lie under water, as for
instance Gravinish in France. It is the trigger for a quest to the climate in antiquity
because wasn’t the sea level once much lower than now, because sea water was
locked up in the ice caps during the ice ages? But was the under water building then
built during the ice age? How fast
did the sea level rise after the ice
age? If you want to study that, you
encounter ice drilling in the pole
caps, studies on CO2,
displacements of the crust of the
earth, impacts of super comets,
tsunami's and world wide fires.
Antiquity seems to have been
infested by catastrophes, and only
the last five thousand years are
quiet - exactly the time that people start to manifest themselves. If you consider the
results of all modern research then it appears that a catastrophe as with Atlantis is
certainly possible, and moreover, it can be exactly dated. Also the Great Flood, that
occurs not only in the Bible, but also in many popular tales all over the world, can be
dated. I had not expected this type of outcome when I started my search.
If there is any area on earth where one catastrophe after the other must have
struck, is, however, South America. The west coast is one long volcanic area
because, as we know now, the Nasca plate under the Pacific Ocean moves
underneath the continental plate of South America. And particularly in this restless
area, we find the most fascinating construction works, erected with enormous stones
exactly fitting against each other. As if it were moulding clay. Sacsayhuaman,
Ollantaytambo, Tambomachay and many others: the most impossible constructions
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In Tiahuanacu en Puma Punke in Bolivia sharply cut shapes were
modelled in extremely hard rock. We can only guess who were the
‘ancient engineers’ that could make this.
have been put down here, a mastership and precision of which we cannot match
even now, despite all our sophisticated equipment. Closer inspection shows that
there are exact similarities with megalithic construction techniques in Egypt and
Greece, 12000 km away, 4000
years apart. How is that possible?
It becomes even more strange
when we visit Tiahuanaco and
Puma Punke in Bolivia, close the
Titicaca lake, and a one hour drive
from Paz. The sharply cut hard
stones that we find there cannot
be achieved without the use of
extremely sophisticated
equipment. Archaeology wants us
to believe that these ruins are no
more than two thousand years old,
but calculations of the astronomic orientation of the site tell another tale: Tiahuanacu
then proves to be 17000 years old. Naturally this outcome is too shocking to be able
to ever reach the history books. But the facts are there.
So here the Tour ends, of course with more questions than answers.
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“Verborgen geheimen van de mensheid”
Uitgeverij Aspekt 2007
316 p + 344 p
ISBN 90 5911 7735