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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Praise
AUTHOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
POLESHIFT
INTRODUCTION
MEGALITHIC ASTRONOMERS
INTRODUCTION
STONEHENGE
TIAHUANACO
INTRODUCTION
LEY LINES
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
KING ARTHUR
ROBIN HOOD
DRACULA
INTRODUCTION
SCHLIEMANN’S TREASURE
INTRODUCTION
SOURCES
PICTURE CREDITS
Copyright Page
For Catherine ( James), Louise ( James), and Freya (Thorpe)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It would have been impossible to write a book of this scope without help
from many friends and colleagues. To them we extend our warm thanks, as
well as to those experts we contacted who were kind enough to respond to
questions out of the blue:
Philip Attwood—medallist
Ruth Baker—linguist
Andrij Cholij—film buff
Dr. Victor Clube—astronomer
Dr. Garmon Harbottle—archaeological scientist
Bob Forrest—mathematician
Dr. Nikos Kokkinos—ancient historian/archaeologist
Brian Moore—librarian
Dr. Robert Morkot—Egyptologist
Dr. Bernard Ortiz de Montellano—anthropologist
Dr. Dino Politis—archaeologist
Bob Porter—engineer/archaeologist
Andrew Rosenbaum—journalist
Robert Temple—historian of science
Allison Thorpe—environmentalist
Dick Vigers—TV producer
Special thanks have to go to Peter Koenig for his painstaking work on the
new illustrations; Leslie Primo and Nikos Kokkinos for taking photographs
on research trips (England and the Aegean, respectively); Richard Dean for
his usual and amazingly generous help in troubleshooting computer
problems; Phil Marter and Geoff Couling for their timely production of two
maps; Dr. Birgitta Wallace for her kindness in providing a selection of
Viking illustrations; author Francis Hitching for permission to reproduce
some of Ken Smith’s drawings from the World Atlas of Mysteries (1978), as
well as for setting Peter off (as researcher) in the mysteries field all those
years ago; Rosemary Burnard for her drawing of Quetzalcoatl; Haydar
Aksakal and the Alpinists club of Manisa for their extraordinary hospitality
and help in Turkey, especially in getting Peter and Nikos to the throne of
Pelops; Julie Clements of the Ashmolean for her kind help in finding
photographs; Sue Hutchinson of the Griffith Institute for finding us
photographs even when the institute was officially shut; the authorities of
Glastonbury Abbey for allowing us to spend hours photographing it from
every possible angle; and the Goulds for giving us access to Chalice Hill, a
great vantage point for Glastonbury Tor.
—BookPage
—Nature
—New Scientist
—Library Journal
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Rather than attempting perfect consistency in our spelling of non-European
names, we have used those forms which we feel will be most familiar to out
readers. While we have expressed serious doubts about the conventional
dates for the Egyptian New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 B.C.) and the Late
Bronze Age in the Old World (see our book Centuries of Darkness, 1991),
we have kept to generally accepted chronology for this book.
INTRODUCTION
After the publication of Ancient Inventions—which we’re pleased to say
was a great success—we were discussing another project when the idea was
suggested to us of writing a book on “Ancient Mysteries”—the unsolved
puzzles of lost civilizations and knowledge; the inexplicable monuments
and earthworks built by the ancients; the strange messages conveyed by the
world’s great legends; the riddles of early exploration; and even apparent
evidence of extraterrestrial and paranormal phenomena in ancient times.
There were scores of compelling subjects, yet our initial reaction to the idea
was mixed. The stores are already crammed with books on ancient
mysteries, even some with that very title, so why add to the agony?
On the other side of the coin are the ancient mysteries books written by
professional historians and archaeologists. Unfortunately, these are usually
sterile exercises in debunking, written with a closed rather than an inquiring
mind. Their authors easily fall into a lecturing mode, telling their readers
loudly and slowly that such and such is merely nonsense—a style
particularly common in America. Perhaps here the dividing lines between
conventional and unconventional views of the past have been drawn so
sharply because of the battle between evolutionists and “creation scientists”
over what should be taught in schools. Archaeologists have felt themselves
under attack, and have sometimes responded by trying to claim a monopoly
on the past. Those adopting this approach often belittle the interested but
“ignorant” layperson, arguing that discussion should be left to the
professionals. Theories developed by amateurs—or even academics from
different fields—are often rejected wholesale as “fringe” or “cult”
archaeology.
Books debunking “cult archaeology” also strongly imply that there are no
ancient mysteries left, the professionals having sorted everything out nicely.
Pat, rather than realistic, answers are freely offered. Discussions of the
controversial Vinland Map, for example, are often limited to the bald
statement that examination of the map with a light microscope in 1974
showed conclusively that it is a fake. This blithely ignores other scientific
examinations carried out subsequently that do not agree with the original
findings, ruining the neat story of the honest professionals triumphing over
the rascally hoaxer. The real story of the Vinland Map is far more complex.
Similarly, the immediate response to the seemingly outrageous claim that
the Dogon tribe of Mali have inherited accurate knowledge of the
movements of the stars in the Sirius system, brought thousands of years ago
by space-traveling amphibians, was that the Dogon must have picked up
such knowledge from western missionaries. The possibility that such
supposedly “primitive” groups could have actually taken a detailed interest
in the heavens was barely discussed, although there are indeed other
nonwestern observers who appear to have made remarkable discoveries
without the aid of telescopes. Again, the Dogon question is far more
complicated than the skeptics understand, part of the problem lying with the
research methods of the anthropologist who reported the Dogon beliefs
about Sirius.
On the historical side, the very existence, for example, of King Arthur,
famed in British legend, is still hotly disputed, with opinions ranging from
the simple assumption that he must have existed to the equally unfounded
assertion that he could not have. Exactly the same is true of almost all
legendary or semi-legendary people, events and even places, from the
Trojan War to the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Disputes rage
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