Ancient Mysteries

ANCIENT MYSTERIES

Another view on the history of mankind

Dr. Bert Thurlings 2009

6 – March – 2009 Version 6

TRANSLATED BY MARC COSSETTE

Montreal - CANADA

This e-book describes the content of the (Dutch) book (consisting of 2 parts)

“Verborgen geheimen van de mensheid” (“Hidden secrets of mankind, Part 1 , and

Part 2” ISBN 90-5911- 7735)

e-book ANCIENT MYSTERIES B. Thurlings www.ancientmysteries.eu

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There are strong arguments to the effect that the Great Pyramid –

which consists of more than 2 million blocks averaging 1 cubic meter

each - and the Sphinx were built thousands of years BC.

In this tour we follow a trail of ancient mysteries, which I have followed too, and

which I describe in a set of two (Dutch) books, "Verborgen geheimen van de

mensheid/ Hidden secrets of mankind". My questioning started while watching a TV

documentary about the age of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, in Egypt. It showed two

border science writers, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, claiming they had

uncovered evidence that this world wonder had been built in 10500 BC. The critic,

John Anthony, added to this that the Sphinx was at least 8000 years old. Since I

wanted to know more about this, I started reading everything on this topic that I

could find. From the one I entered the other, which led to me becoming aware of

the “mystery of the Egyptian

stones vases”, whose vases were

as yet untraceable. Thousands of

vases, made of the hardest rock

material, and thousands of years

old. And some of them still could

not be copied today. But where

are they now? On my search, I

had learned that there are also

pyramids in Greece, so I crossed

the Mediterranean sea and I went

there. After some wandering I

found Hellenikon, the best kept

pyramid - a small, strange sharp form and supposedly older than the Egyptian

pyramids. What message do we get here? Who ever found it necessary to build

pyramids here? I investigated further, and as I visited the old sanctuaries such as

Mycene, Assini, Tyrins and Epidaurus it became evidently clear: in the old days,

“ancient engineers” were at work here, and they had very sophisticated equipment:

Proof of this can be seen everywhere in the Peloponnesus.

Continuously puzzled I ran up against another mystery: these holy places would lie

on specific geometrical distances from each other, just like ley-lines in the United

Kingdom: circles, equilateral triangles, straight lines, Golden Section. It led me to a

fascinating study, which had surprising outcomes. But after this unintentional trip, I

continued my search for the mysterious stone vases and thereby unexpectedly ran

up against French research that had examined the possibility that granite and other


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It is rather unknown that there are also pyramids in Greece. Though

these are much smaller than those in Egypt, but probably much older.

hard rock in antiquity was not chopped away, but rather poured as we would do with

concrete today. The pyramids would then have been built in a completely different

way than traditional historians would have us believe. Still yet another study came to

light, which gave interesting information concerning the mystery of the stones vases.

For example, that absolutely no quarry in Egypt could be connected with the vases

which are found there. Imagine: thousands of years BC, impossible fabrication

technique and of quarries unknown! What does this indicate? Time to examine those

things up close, so I travelled to the big museums of London and Paris. What you see

is staggering: hard stone objects which still cannot be copied today, originating from

3600 BC! Next to these, all the

gold of Tutankamon is child's

play. Science is confused! Rightly

so, because evidence points at

the presence of intelligent

engineers who had extremely

sophisticated equipment - but

this could not be true, could it?

The National Museum of

Antiquities in Leiden, also has

"impossible objects" on display,

but does not dare to bring it in

the spotlight.

Now I started ‘to like the taste’ and wanted to have a look at those weird pyramids

for myself. After first visiting the ‘ancient atomic bunker’ Menga in Spain, a short

trip was made to Cairo, which brought a whole range of new insights. For example

that basalt was sewn in antiquity. I describe this tour as a “Magical Mystery Tour”

because of the many weird things that can be seen from nearby if you are

interested, and take the time. Standing in front of the Great Pyramid, one tries to

imagine how it was for the pharaoh Cheops to be the one to lay the first stone of this

huge construction. Because after that first block, 2 millions more followed, each

standing at roughly one cubic meter. But was it really Cheops, as we learn in history

books? Answering that question brought me to the safe-deposit box of a university,

to sift out an almost 200 years old diary. The conclusion that I was forced to draw

was simply dazzling! Cheops had nothing to do with the Great Pyramid! But likewise


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This hard rock object from ancient times challenges science: either

extremely advanced machinery was applied, or one was able to

make hard rock, soft. Both options are regarded by science as

absurd…

bewildering is pondering why absolutely no scientist what I here had done? Is one

frightened for the implications? It certainly looks that way. Even more so if we

examine what it is we actually know about the age of the Great Pyramid. Answering

this question brings us to C14-method, and what we learn there, you do not want

believe: the pyramids have an age which certainly is not congruent with the Egyptian

chronology. Does the entire Egyptology collapse? Is science afraid of the irrefutable

conclusion that the pharaohs had nothing to do the pyramids? And as if this is not

yet enough, another devastating attack on traditional history came from a

completely different angle: toxicology tests conducted by the Egyptian museum of

Munich on Egyptian mummies using extremely sophisticated methods showed

unrelentingly that in ancient

Egypt, tobacco and cocaine was

consumed. That is those

substances only occurrence before

Columbus in South America.

Transatlantic contacts? Science

does not want to agree, but the

hard proof is there!

You start getting the feeling that

our knowledge about antiquity is a

mash. That we are made to

believe something inaccurate. And

so I went to find out what the early historians had to say. I turned to historical

figures, such as Herodotus (+/- 450 BC), Berossos (+/- 270 BC), Manetho (200 BC),

and Josephus (+/- 70 BC), thus searching for the most authentic sources. That’s

when things were really bizarre. So strange that some of these first historians

themselves had great difficulty to describe what they were observing, in an

uncensored way: the `ancient engineers’ proved to be flying beings which had

created people for their own comfort, and which themselves could achieve enormous

age, often as many as thousands of years. “Why don’t you ever read about that?”, is

what you wonder about because it becomes clear: before modern times, which came

about some four thousands year ago, unequalled technical performances were

performed, which we still can admire today, but for which a technical ingeniousness

was necessary that is more advanced than what we have reached, even now. Who


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This is a cut mark from a saw, in one of the stones in the

basalt plateau at the east side of the Great Pyramid. However,

basalt is a very hard material, so how was it done?

then were those `ancient engineers’? Were they also active in other places on earth?

This was the next question to answer.

In my second book “Who helped man?" I try to answer this question and I go

searching in other areas of the earth, particularly South America where likewise

extremely sophisticated construction work stands, whose origins of which are

unknown. But closer to home, we can also find mysterious buildings: Malta has

many. Two small islands, strategically positioned in between Sicily and Africa, where

in distant antiquity, still before the Egyptians became active, these islands appear to

have been very crowded: mystic temples were erected with huge block of limestone.

And even more mysterious is the `built

in negative’ underground temple

Hypogeum Hall Saflieni: three stages

deeply chopped away in equal form as

the above-ground temples. Which idiot

was active here, 4000 BC?

In between Europe and South-

America in the Atlantic ocean, lies an

area where, according to the exact

report of Plato, Atlantis once was. It is

said to have been a huge island with

millions in population, since it is believed to have been able to maintain a 1 million

man army. The island vanished suddenly. According to Plato, in only 1 day and 1

night, it had totally sunk in the ocean. “Impossible!” science states, because there is

nothing on the ocean floor what looks like that. And Plato is specific as to when this

took place, viz. - converted - in 7910 BC. Such an enormous catastrophe would

certainly not have slipped the attention of the world’s population, and therefore we

must find mention of this in the mythologies of other peoples. And that certainly

proves to be so, beginning with the bible.

As we read this document as it is stated there, then we fall from the one

astonishment to the next. The god who appears as a Creator, appears not be alone

but has a lot of sons around Him. People seem be totally subordinate to the will of

this god family, and if you read carefully, there are even strong indications of

genetic manipulation: the maximum age, and the fertility age are adapted on specific

moments in time to keep the population increase, under control. One stands in awe if


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Malta has many mysterious buildings from distant antiquity.

Nobody knows who the builders were, or what the purpose of the

‘temples’ – since that’s how they are named – is. The most bizarre

is the underground temple Hypogeum Hal Saflieni. This is built

‘in negative’ and resembles the above-ground temples.

one realises what this means. Here too, flying-around-gods who divided the power

on earth among each other...and decided to decimate mankind by sending enormous

water floods over them.

But the bible is not unique in this respect. The deserts of Iraq have divulged, about

a century ago, truly ancient mysteries: thousands of clay tablets came to light and

told a similar story, of a god family that dominated the earth, that created people

for their own comfort, but the population explosion became so problematic that it

was decided to pour out, here too, a huge flood. These gods did not agree among

themselves, and fought each other with extremely sophisticated weapons (their

description immediately resembles nuclear weapons), but had enormous regret after

the great flood of what they had caused when they saw the masses of dead bodies

laying on the river banks. Afterwards, the gods again were in favour of people.

The realism of these old tales

from Sumeria takes one aback.

Even the scientist who was the first

to translate these old texts from

the cuneiform, could not believe

his eyes: beings of flesh and blood

who did all kinds of things human

did, but who were clearly superior

and had sophisticated weapons and

vehicles with which they could

move themselves in no time over

large distances. "What is going on

here?", "Do we have the right

picture of antiquity?", "Is there still something to find that could stand witness to the

destroying power of those sophisticated weapons?". I did not have to look for very

long. Not far away, in Scotland, we find this desired evidence. Here, are dozens of

destroyed buildings which, for lack of a better word, we will call fortresses. Most of

the ruins have been now overgrown and are hardly recognizable, but some are still

well accessible. However, the collapsed walls tell a remarkable tale: the stones have

melted under the influence of an infernal fire, vitrified and sintered together. But the

temperature which is necessary for this, can only be reached in special ovens, not in

open air. One only needs to look at what old mythology has to say about such an


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In Scotland, Ireland and Brittany there are buildings that have

collapsed as result of extreme heath. The stone has vitrified and

sintered.

event, and it is already clear: here too, flying-around-gods who fought each other by

fire and sword, and radiated each other's fortresses over large distances. Believe it

or not, but mythology is quite clear about this, and the vitrified fortresses can be

visited by everyone, even if archaeology doesn’t know how to deal with it. By the

way, there are many more vitrified buildings in the world, for example Borsippa in

Iraq. More about this in my second book.

In antiquity weird things happened, that may be clear by now. But if you go

further in these mysteries, you encounter also buildings that lie under water, as for

instance Gravinish in France. It is the trigger for a quest to the climate in antiquity

because wasn’t the sea level once much lower than now, because sea water was

locked up in the ice caps during the ice ages? But was the under water building then

built during the ice age? How fast

did the sea level rise after the ice

age? If you want to study that, you

encounter ice drilling in the pole

caps, studies on CO2,

displacements of the crust of the

earth, impacts of super comets,

tsunami's and world wide fires.

Antiquity seems to have been

infested by catastrophes, and only

the last five thousand years are

quiet - exactly the time that people start to manifest themselves. If you consider the

results of all modern research then it appears that a catastrophe as with Atlantis is

certainly possible, and moreover, it can be exactly dated. Also the Great Flood, that

occurs not only in the Bible, but also in many popular tales all over the world, can be

dated. I had not expected this type of outcome when I started my search.

If there is any area on earth where one catastrophe after the other must have

struck, is, however, South America. The west coast is one long volcanic area

because, as we know now, the Nasca plate under the Pacific Ocean moves

underneath the continental plate of South America. And particularly in this restless

area, we find the most fascinating construction works, erected with enormous stones

exactly fitting against each other. As if it were moulding clay. Sacsayhuaman,

Ollantaytambo, Tambomachay and many others: the most impossible constructions


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In Tiahuanacu en Puma Punke in Bolivia sharply cut shapes were

modelled in extremely hard rock. We can only guess who were the

‘ancient engineers’ that could make this.

have been put down here, a mastership and precision of which we cannot match

even now, despite all our sophisticated equipment. Closer inspection shows that

there are exact similarities with megalithic construction techniques in Egypt and

Greece, 12000 km away, 4000

years apart. How is that possible?

It becomes even more strange

when we visit Tiahuanaco and

Puma Punke in Bolivia, close the

Titicaca lake, and a one hour drive

from Paz. The sharply cut hard

stones that we find there cannot

be achieved without the use of

extremely sophisticated

equipment. Archaeology wants us

to believe that these ruins are no

more than two thousand years old,

but calculations of the astronomic orientation of the site tell another tale: Tiahuanacu

then proves to be 17000 years old. Naturally this outcome is too shocking to be able

to ever reach the history books. But the facts are there.

So here the Tour ends, of course with more questions than answers.


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“Verborgen geheimen van de mensheid”

Uitgeverij Aspekt 2007

316 p + 344 p

ISBN 90 5911 7735

Ancient Mysteries

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