One thing that everybody seems to get upset over is lost information. Sometimes it can be very aggravating. You do a lot of work and all the data from what you did, gets erased or written over, of course we are talking about using computers in this instance. I remember, when somehow, I managed to not only lose the data I needed, but also the backup data, because it became corrupted. If humans had longer life spans, many of them would probably be upset at how we managed to lose all traces of some of the civilizations that have lived on this earth. Some people ask us how we know that a civilization could be lost, if there is no trace? This is a very good question and we have to base the answer on what history has shown us. We have found many lost civilizations in the last few hundred years and it seems that as we get more technologically advanced, we are finding lost civilizations more quickly. This is due to some of the advanced satellites that we have orbiting the earth and the increase in computing power, among other things.

Sometimes nature plays a role in finding lost civilizations. Catastrophes can hide all evidence of a once proud race. One of the things that people don't realize about global warming is that it has the capacity to destroy things like frozen mummies, that are just waiting to be discovered. Some races were nomadic and didn't leave buildings behind like the ancient Romans and Greeks. One of this type of civilization was the ancient Scythians or Scyths. They were horse-riding nomadic pastoralists that were originally from Persia, which is now Iran. They dominated the area of the Pontic Steppe and were finally conquered by the Sarmatians. So how do we know that they even existed? We can thank the Greek historians for this information. The most famous Greek historian of them all, Herodotus, mentions them in one of his works. Unfortunately the name Scythian has been used very loosely over the year, to describe other races also. It is believed that the original Scythians extended back to 1,000 B.C. Twenty-six hundred years ago, a man believed to be a Scythian, was shot with a viciously multi-barbed arrow and took a time to die. This guy was found in a grave, but the area has a history of frozen mummies being found. These people sort of faded out of existence around 100 A.D. and we would have never known about them, if it was not for historians, mummies and graves.

Some civilizations may have left a clue of their existence behind, but it may have become mixed with the ruins of other past civilizations, that built in the same area. There are quite a few that believe that the famous Sphinx is just such a relic. This theory goes in many different directions. One theory states that the Sphinx and Pyramids were not built by the Egyptians at all, but by a far more ancient race and that that race may have been far more advanced. Another theory is that the ancient Egyptians decided to build the pyramids near the Sphinx, because they had worshiped it and it had been left by some prior civilization and that area was considered holy. There are sub-theories, as I like to call them. My favorite is that the Sphinx has a room under the paw and in it are the documents from Atlantis. To prove their point, the people that believe in this theory, point to the fact that the Egyptians are digging like mad under the pyramids and possibly under the Sphinx. Another thing that they point to are the water stains on the pyramids and Sphinx, as proof that they were there during the last flood that happened over 10,000 years ago. Are they right, or is there some other explanation for all this? In order for some of these theories to be valid, we would have to accept the fact that some of the evidence pointing to the fact that the pharos built the pyramids, is faked. This would have to include graffiti that was found in the pyramids that supposedly talks about how it was built.

 

Was there a lost race that had built a large city on the island of Cuba? Cuba would have had to have been a lot bigger then, because the ruins are now in Cuba's territorial waters and are resting about 2,200 feet down, of course every time you find something like this, someone has to suggest that you found Atlantis. The reason that this is believed to be a sunken city is the fact that it is very symmetrical. It just looks like a city would look, if you were looking down at it. A mini sub dove the area and the scientists came back and stated that they saw what looked like a city center, but they just don't want to say that yet, until there is more proof. One Cuban geologist stated that there were some extremely peculiar structures down there. It is said that there are structures down there that are pyramids, roads and other structures in this sunken city. I hope you don't mind me calling it that? Some European archaeologists are saying that the whole thing is only a bunch of limestone formations. Others are saying that this opinion is rubbish. One archaeologist stated that he has worked for over 30 years in the trade and has never seen anything like the sunken city before. The curious part of this whole thing is that even if this is a natural site, that would change the way we think the land looked in the Americas. Another archaeologist stated that, "It looks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings." Do we have a lost civilization near Cuba, I guess only time will tell?

You never know where some satellite is going to find evidence, or suspected evidence of ruins. Google Earth has turned up some strange stuff on this subject, for example Pas de la Rouqe, shows what seems to be an ancient wall. Interestingly the road that goes past the wall, goes from Rennes Le Baines, home of the Roman thermal baths to Mt. Bugarach. Did the Romans build a wall for protection? Signs of masonry were found in the area that used the same type of construction as Stonehenge. Also found in the area were strange lines that seems to repeat the same angle, over and over. On top of all this, some of the stones in the area seem to show that a paint had been applied to them to create various colors. The wall itself goes up to the top of the very long hill, Pech de la Roque. The date the wall was constructed has not been determined. When we look at photos from satellites of different areas in South America, you sometimes find very enticing photos of what could be structures. An example of this is one photo that shows all sorts of triangles and what is believed, could be large Megalithic structures. These areas appear raised and are above the surrounding landscape, leading to this conclusion.

We have to keep in mind that some of the lost Mayan cities have been seen by satellite, so satellites are a great tool for finding buried structures and cities. It just might turn out that satellites that will have new capabilities, will discover even more ruins.

We tend to think of development, traveling in a straight line from most primitive to most advanced. So far, most of the things that we have found, lead us to believe that this is true, but wait one second, maybe that isn't all that was being found. Archaeologists are just like the rest of us when it comes to ridicule. It is said that if they find something that doesn't fit into the accepted pattern of things, they just don't reveal it. As most of us know, there have been findings that have been reported from time to time, that skeptics call frauds. One of my favorite finds was the rock that contained a capacitor inside of it. We are talking about a rock that had to be extremely old, that maybe even predated the so-called appearance of man. We don't even have to go that far back to find unexplained technology. Just look at the ancient mechanical computer that was found on the wreck of an ancient Greek ship. It worked on gears and plotted the planets. The computer is known as the Antikythera mechanism. The problem was that brass gears, the types that appear in clocks, were not supposed to have existed until thousands of years later. Another find was a sort of spark plug found inside of a rock, a rock that was over 1,000,000 years old. This object is known as the Coso Artifact. The Salzburg Cube is another unexplainable object that was found in a block of coal in 1885. Inside the coal was a machined cube with perfect edges, again this defies definition. When a skull was found of a Neanderthal man in Rhodesia in 1921, it sparked a lot of controversy. It seems that it showed that the Neanderthal man was shot through the head with a bullet or some similar projectile. This could be the strangest find of all, since we thought we knew for sure, that modern humans only came along near the end of the Neanderthals existence on earth. They had been here about 500,000 years before us, so this would seem to indicate that either some men became advanced very fast, there were older races around that were far more advanced than now thought, that aliens did it, or that some of the Neanderthals had guns. Almost all these theories see ridiculous, except for the one that states that the earth may have had older, more advanced races.

The problem with that theory is, where is the evidence? Where are the structures? Why wasn't this technology passed down to the rest of us? Could it be that there was an advanced race and they were located on some area of the earth that suffered an event that was so terrible, it sunk their land, or maybe they even destroyed themselves unintentionally with such a powerful weapon that nothing was left, it just all disentgrated?