This is what I do for a living mate. The more you learn about ancient societies, the more you learn that they were much more complex than the layman generally thinks. It's amazing that they could build things like pyramids without modern machinery but it's amazing because they found ways to do it without that machinery.
I'd have said this is what's happening. We're constantly changing the way we view things and coming up with new answers. Ideas about certain things have already changed during the short span of my career. It's just that academia has long since moved past the ancient super society theory, for the reasons I said previously. There definitely is knowledge that's been lost and not yet found again though.
We are down a rabbit hole. Where did the knowledge come from, that was here thousands of years ago? How was it lost? Knowledge of what / whom? Rhetorical questions really, but fascinating answers (when they are discovered)
Aliens for me. Isnt machu picchu linked to the pyramids of Egypt and giza etc?!?! All these areas depicted aliens too, whether in stone or drawings. I'd guess every God, in every religion in the world is a ****ing alien. What really gets me is the engineering to build and place the really important stuff like pyramids to a mm. Also the precision of the stone work is absolutely insane, we've literally just invented laser cutters that do similar jobs to what they were doing 1000s of years ago! The world also went to **** after being so far advanced for years. Probably when the aliens ****ed off
is there truth in the story of the great flood in the Old Testament? Not the Noah’s Arc bit, but that there in fact was a great flood which wiped out the civilisations which existed at that time? Could that be when the knowledge was lost?
It's not that there's one set of knowledge that's been lost. It's more that as certain societies collapsed a portion of the knowledge that they held was lost to us. Including how and why they did certain things. As for Noah's arc, there's no evidence for a world-wide flood but there was probably a localised event that inspired the story. There is an historical core truth to many if not all bible stories but you have to remember that they are very old stories (particularly in the old testament) when people understood the world in a very different way.
Younger Dryas? About 14000 years ago? My understanding it was a period of mass climate change, which resulted rising sea levels in some areas. If so land masses would have been lost to the sea and perhaps spawned some of the flood stories that appear around the world? Could civilisations have went with the land masses? Probably where atlantis went During the younger dryas I believe species of megafauna were lost, such as giant sloths and mammoths. Maybe my giant theory holds up a bit
