Those ancient cultures are consistently being under rated in regards to their knowledge. Manchu Pichu drawings, Nazca lines, Bagdad battery, Skull surgery by the Egyptians that not even modern laser surgery can recreate, pyramids, astrological clocks that show detailed knowledge.. across the board, around the world, signs of ancient knowledge that should not be there according to modern "history" experts.

Consider this; If the modern world were to meet some catastrophic distaster, societies shut down in an irrecoverable manner. What would be left in 4000 years? What would the archeoligist of the time find of us? A bit of technology here, a bit of it there, or even in 10k years even worse. How long to rediscover the basic roots of technology that are currently being forgotten today?

Put in terms of welding, and just a matter of 500 years, could your future generations at the time reconstruct the circuit boards found in modern welders? how about reconstruct the coatings, filler material, wires, or cast the parts out of your SA-200? Where and how many people have this kind of knowledge documented for future generations, much less the inherent skills needed to pass along, and a willing generation to learn them?

Could just be those archeological discoverys are from a far distance civilization who lost their knowledge. Bits and pieces passed down from generation to generation until lost in time, and the rest lost in time totally until someone "discovers" it again.

Knowledge is built on knowledge, lose the root of that knowledge, and you are at risk of losing it.

food for thought,
Gerald

the epic can actualy explaine some anomilies of the solar system.
In the creation epic Enuma elish, written around 2000 BCE, their descendants started to irritate (disrupt her orbit?) Tiamat (early earth)and Apsu (mars?) so they decided to kill their offspring. Ea discovered their plans and he managed to kill Apsu while the latter was asleep. Tiamat flew into a rage when she learned about Apsu's death and wanted to avenge her husband. She created an army of monstrous creatures, which was to be led by her new consort kingu (the moon), who is also her son. Eventually, Tiamat was defeated by the young god marduk, who was born in the deep freshwater sea.
Marduk cleaved her body in half, and from the upper half he created the sky and from the lower half he made the earth. From her water came forth the clouds and her tears became the source of the Tigris and the Euphratus. Kingu also perished, and from his blood Marduk created the first humans.
Now look at the earth IMO it looks like  either ½ a water planet of ½ a earth planet.
From the bible " the earth was void and without form and the spirit of god hovered over the face of the deep........
dead mars
odd moon size destroyed on the dark side with no motion....
just a thouhgt.......
the more i look at it there are some interesting things about it.
MDK

"None have persuaded me in their particular direction, I think they're all mostly the same. Take a little something good from each one, they all have great ideas."

Jenn,
I agree with you on this. Truth is truth. No matter who say it mickey mouse or jesus

When I was a teenager, my friend and I were out riding our bicycles on the back roads in the warm Summer night air(early morning hours) and I saw a orange ball zing overhead that seemed to me to be the size of a house. It lit the whole area like it was daytime. I just knew somebody, somewhere would have seen it besides us...but not a peep, nothing in the morning paper, nothing on the evening news...nothing. It was so large that I was sure that it hit the ground without burning up completely.