| Before The Egyptians is an hour-long
65-part television series that explores and connects the global
migration of human civilization after the flood and prior to the
rise of the Pharaohs along the Nile. Archaeologists constantly
remind us the time before the Egyptians is prehistoric - a time of
"cavemen" - but this is not the case, as there were civilizations
around the world that inscribed and recorded their history - our
history - in stone long before, not to mention those left ignored.
Each week our engaging hosts travel to a new location and explain
its compelling affect upon the new history books.
Science also tells us today that in the wake of a rather rapid
meltdown - geologically speaking - of our most recent
Ice Age about 12,000 years ago, the oceans rose several hundred
feet and submerged existing coastal habitats. Perhaps there
was another catastrophic pole shift, an increasingly popular theory
to explain the upheaval or, as other researchers hypothesize, a
comet impacted the Atlantic ocean causing devastating tsunamis,
earthquakes and ice-melting volcanoes - augmented due to
heat-trapping soot landing upon the glaciers.
Assuming someone lived to tell that
tale, this event would explain - in terms of human evolution - the "list
of suddenlies", an abundant list of facts now accumulated from each
scientific discipline studying the changes that took place concurrently
around the world over 10,000 years ago.
Since moving out of Africa, modern
humans (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) have been evolving for over 140,000
years. Yet the evidence suggests they only moved into Europe
35,000 years ago; some theorists argue that we need to look
elsewhere to determine where on earth the tools and skills were
developed to successfully build cities and thus civilization.
The Mayan Long Count - one component of their famed Calendar -
comprises names for very long time spans. For example, the
Alautun references a period approximately 63 million years.
Our wandering ancestors were aligning
megalithic monuments, such as those located in England and Malta, at
least a thousand years before the Great Pyramid was built.
Moreover, fascinating "Stone Age" settlements, like the one found at
Skara Brae in the Orkneys, were carefully constructed long before Khufu
erected his Wonder of the World. These people talked. They
knew how to utilize a right angle, measure the changing positions of the
stars and planets over time, and ably cut and move multi-ton blocks of
solid rock.
The series will examine possible routes
taken by these prehistoric travelers, and look at who seems to have
influenced who. Ancient
potters across both the Middle and Far East were firing clay and
creating ceramics for commercial distribution seven thousand years
ago - indicating not only technology management but also financial
administration and thus class structure were already an accepted way
of life. We now know wine was stored in ceramic vessels over
8,000 years ago.
Interestingly, in Japan the Jomon had
kilns operating several thousand years earlier, yet a pottery factory in
production over 26,000 years ago was recently discovered in Eastern
Europe. Humans have obviously been exploring and exploiting for a
very, very long time; passion for power and wealth has driven
technological change over many millennia, but has always been tempered
by art and culture - and looking good....
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