Indeed it seemed to me then, as I overlooked the mathematical city of the gods from the summit of the Pyramid of the Moon, that our species could have been afflicted with some terrible amnesia and that the dark period so blithely and dismissively referred to as `prehistory' might turn out to conceal unimagined truths about our own past. “Not for the first time I felt myself confronted by the dizzying possibility that an entire episode in the story of mankind might have been forgotten. Egyptian civilization was not a `development', it was a legacy.” The answer to the mystery is of course obvious but, because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom considered. There is no mistaking the process of `development'. John Anthony West, an expert on the early dynastic period, asks: How does a complex civilization spring full-blown into being? Look at a 1905 automobile and compare it to a modern one. These implications are startling, according to a number of more daring thinkers. 7 The majority of Egyptologists will not consider the implications of Egypt's early sophistication. “What is remarkable is that there are no traces of evolution from simple to sophisticated, and the same is true of mathematics, medicine, astronomy and architecture and of Egypt's amazingly rich and convoluted religio-mythological system (even the central content of such refined works as the Book of the Dead existed right at the start of the dynastic period). Even the very earliest hieroglyphs were stylized and conventionalized and it is clear that an advanced cursive script was it common usage by the dawn of the First Dynasty.”įingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization Far from being mere pictures of objects or actions, this written language was complex and structured at the outset, with signs that represented sounds only and a detailed system of numerical symbols. Soon after that date, quite suddenly and inexplicably, the hieroglyphs familiar from so many of the ruins of Ancient Egypt begin to appear in a complete and perfect state. For example, remains from the pre-dynastic period around 3500 BC show no trace of writing. Technological skills that should have taken hundreds or even thousands of years to evolve were brought into use almost overnight- and with no apparent antecedents whatever. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced society appears to have been so short that it makes no kind of historical sense.

“Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed.

Finger prints of gods