LOST CIVILIZATION [2f]
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here at the Minnesota Historical Society are housed boxes upon boxes of notes, letters and research material detailing evidence of an antediluvian, or pre-flood, civilization. The collection is the culmination of an exhaustive search for proof of a prehistoric civilization, conducted by the 19th-century U.S. senator. Ignatius Donnelly.
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“Ignatius Donnelly was a very interesting person. He was a U.S. congressman. Um, he was a writer. He was a cryptologist. And in 1882 he came out with his most famous book, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. What he did was to propose the existence of a mother civilization, a lost civilization that existed at the time of the last ice age.” – Andrew Collins (Author, Gateway to Atlantis), |
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“Ignatius Donnelly was fascinated by the story of a lost civilization that was destroyed over 10,000 years ago. He looked into all kinds of scientific anomalies at the time, including the extinction of mammoths and other animals. Stories of a civilization within the Americas and in the Atlantic.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
In his writings, Donnelly concluded that not only did a lost civilization actually exist, but that it was destroyed due to a meteoric-type event that shifted the earth’s axis in the distant past. Donnelly believed that remnants of this civilization could be found in the Americas and the ultimate evidence would be located underwater in the Caribbean. He was convinced that when Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain in 1492, he knew this as well.
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“The explorer Christopher Columbus, before his epic journey to the New World, was very much aware of the stories of a lost civilization. It was something that was discussed in the various European cults at this time. Ancient mariners, the voyagers of the past, had maps which showed different areas of the earth, which they could not know anything possibly about because they hadn’t been discovered at that time, and were probably accessible to people like Christopher Columbus, before his journey to the New World.” – Andrew Collins (Author, Gateway to Atlantis), |
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“There were legends in the Middle Ages that there was a land and a continent across the Atlantic. And early maps started showing before Columbus, even a large island in the Atlantic, which they called Antillia. Columbus, on his first journey to the New World, as he neared the Caribbean, he started seeing weird lights in the sky. So, you have to wonder: were extraterrestrials purposely trying to help Columbus? Perhaps some of the knowledge that he had of maps, and that he was really going to find land across this ocean, had been assured to him.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
Could Columbus have been purposely guided to this area not only by ancient maps of unknown origin, but also by extraterrestrial beings? Although the secret maps and charts of Christopher Columbus have been lost, scholars attribute them as having been a key source in the creation of one of history’s most enigmatic maps. The Piri Reis map has been dated to 1513 AD, but what it illustrates suggests geological knowledge that was unknown until our modern age.
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“A Turkish seaman, an admiral, painted the map. His name was Piri Reis. Now, if you see the map, you see the coastline of the southern part of France. Then you see Spain. Then you see what is today’s Gibraltar. Then you see a part of Africa. On the other side, you see a coastline of South America, but what is important, on the bottom of the map of Piri Reis you see the coastline of Antarctica. Now, this coastline is covered today with ice and snow. So, somebody must have mapped this before the Ice Age.” – Erich von Däniken (Author, Chariots of the Gods?) |
The continent of Antarctica was discovered in 1820, over 300 years after Piri Reis drew his map. And scientists have proposed that the Antarctic coastline has been obscured by ice for at least 6,000 years. Could it be that the original source for the maps of Columbus and the Piri Reis map predates our recorded history? If so, has evidence been left behind on Earth to assure that we can piece together the truth about a lost civilization? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes and claim further proof may be found underwater in the Bahamas.
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