These catastrophes may well have played a decisive role in the destruction of earth's ancient predecessor cultures which existed prior to 10,000 BC -- predecessor cultures which may have achieved tremendous levels of sophistication, both spiritual and technological. The existence of such predecessor cultures is amply supported by archaeological and megalithic evidence found literally around our globe -- as well as by the undeniable evidence of a common system of celestial metaphor which can be shown to be operating as the foundation for the world's ancient myths and scriptures from cultures worldwide, and which can already be seen to be fully developed in the earliest extant texts we know of from the civilizations of ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, and ancient India (thus indicating an origin which precedes all these oldest known cultures).
During the week, I had the opportunity to meet and spend some time with the brilliant documentary film-maker Ben van Kerkwyk of UnchartedX. If you have not yet viewed his extensive collection of video documentaries, you are in for a treat! I have embedded two representative videos here to get you started.
Above is a recent video from UnchartedX published on 21 April of this year, examining the "Incredible Precision Stone Jars, and other unsolved mysteries of Saqqara!"
In that video, Ben examines the evidence that finely-crafted stone jars, vases, and bowls discovered in Egypt display clear signs of precision machining and the use of high-powered lathes, not possible to create using hand tools or even manually-powered wheels (including those turned using a strong bow)!
As part of that examination, Ben draws on the analysis which was begun by the famous English Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942), who perceived that some of these artifacts, fashioned out of extremely hard stone, must have been made with "a true turning" using a lathe and could not have been produced by rubbing with abrasives, as there are bowls and fragments in which Petrie perceived that a bowl had been "knocked off its centring, recentred imperfectly, and the old turning not quite turned out," resulting in "two surfaces belonging to different centring, and meeting in a cusp" (see discussion around 17:38 in the above video).
To put this observation into perspective, Ben notes at approximately 15:38 in the video that:
The great pioneering Egyptologist Flinders Petrie was the first to truly analyze the mechanical methods involved in the creation of such objects. When we speak of Petrie, bear in mind that our own mechanical industry in our civilization was only in its infancy during his time, which was around the mid-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. It was only at this point, roughly a hundred and fifty years ago, that our civilization had developed enough capability to put these artifacts into context and begin trying to understand the technology that these artifacts represent. If that fact doesn't mess with your noodle a little bit, I really don't know what would.
The implications of Petrie's observations, published almost 140 years ago in 1883, have yet to be fully explored by conventional academics, and remain largely unknown to the general public -- but they clearly demonstrate that our current understanding of human history is gravely flawed and in need of radical revision. You can find the entire volume of Flinders Petrie's Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883) online at archive.org.
Ben then brings in the contemporary analysis of author and researcher Christopher Dunn, a manufacturing engineer with fifty years of experience, primarily in the aerospace industry. Chris Dunn's website can be found at Gizapower.com. Ben cites analysis from Chris Dunn showing that some of the machining found on certain fragments could not have been produced by manually-powered machinery but rather suggest some type of high-powered rotating tools.
Ben shows that the evidence points to the conclusion that these and other high-precision, finely-machined artifacts found in Egypt are actually pre-dynastic, and may have been prized and revered by the dynastic Egyptians themselves as remnants of an even more ancient predecessor culture. This conclusion absolutely rocks the conventional historical paradigm to its foundations -- and explains the reluctance of conventional Egyptology and conventional academia to apply rigorous analysis to the artifacts which Ben is describing and showing in his videos.
Another UnchartedX video exploring other evidence from Egypt which points towards the same paradigm-shaking conclusion, published in January of this year, is entitled "The MOST precisely-made granite object of Ancient Egypt -- and why it's NOT geopolymer!"
That video is embedded below:
These and other videos, along with the ongoing work of Chris Dunn and other contemporary researchers examining evidence both newly-uncovered and long-since-discovered, provide powerful archaeological arguments for the existence of a predecessor culture which predates the earliest civilizations recognized by conventional historians -- a culture with technological capabilities so advanced that humanity only developed to the point of being able to appreciate them within the past 150 years, and may still not have developed to the point where we can easily duplicate them.
It was an honor to meet and get to have some conversations with Ben this week while exploring the catastrophic geology of North America. I look forward to future events with him and hope you will check out and consider supporting his work.
Below is a photograph of me and Ben along with Russ of the Brothers of the Serpent podcast, atop one of the enormous boulders above the Spokane River, at Riverside State Park and the "Bowl and Pitcher" trail. For perspective on the tremendous size of these great rocks, see for example these photographs on Wikimedia Commons, such as this one in which a person can be observed sitting on top of a boulder on the left side of the image, and this one in which two standing persons can be observed on top of a boulder on the right side of the image.
