I want to briefly present the information I have gathered on the subject of ancient advanced civilization, and give some links at the end of the article for you to refer to.

I found a site awhile back that has great underwater photos of some undeniably intelligently made structures off of the coast of Japan, (maybe look at it first to see what I'm talking about), it is:
http://www.eagle-net.org/phikent/japan/japan.html Needless to say those structures raise alot of questions, all of them important ones.

First, why hasn't this been widely publicized?

Why did I find this on the 'net and had never read about it in any magazines or seen it on one of the cable channels that are devoted to history/discovery/learning. There are tons of bunk shows like Ancient Mysteries, which give you the lite beer version of such subjects as the pyramids, Lake Titicaca/Tihuanaco, the druids etc... - take your pick, they all frustrate me at the lack of depth.

Second, how old are they?

The commonly held view is that sea levels rose 300 - 450 feet at the end of the ice age when alot of the ice at the poles melted, and those structures would not have been underwater 12,000 years ago or before the ice age ended.

(A good site to check out to see a map, printed in National Geographic showing a region, which the sites author proposes is a possible location of Atlantis underneath Thailand, and how much more land than today was above water at a date of around 11,500 b.c. is: www.atlan.org )

So as I was saying, the ruins have to be at least 13,500 years old, assuming that they were built immediately before the ice age ended. They were probably at least thousands of years old, because whoever built them had a pretty advanced technology similar to that of the culture that built Tihaunaco, so they didn't just appear immediately before the sea level rose with a completely advanced technology, build cities right on the shore, then get wiped out; we have got to credit them with having been around for a significant period of time before they built everything.

This would push the date back a bit more, to take a guess, 15,000 or 18,000 years b.c. I don't need to point out that those dates are far before the time when we were even supposed to have mastered the making of tools, or the art of writing. We were cave men? Apparently not.

Tihaunaco is supposed to be 28,000 years old according to some theories, and even people that don't agree on that date can agree that it's the oldest city on land because it is 13,500 feet above sea level. It's pretty big, and parts of the city go into Lake Titicaca, which became a lake when it was separated from the adjoining ocean when the Andes Mts. began to rise. The city would have been
built at a time when the region was at a much lower altitude and could not be otherwise for many reasons - agriculture and livestock would not do well at 13,500 feet, hence no one would settle there and build a huge city. The weight of the scientific evidence can only be ignored by science.

I say the same people built Tihaunaco and the Japanese underwater ruins a very long time ago, and were destroyed by a flood which would probably have been sudden rather than gradual. If it was gradual then they would have been displaced, not destroyed, and would have gone to build the same things elsewhere. This is not to say that they are not responsible for the world wide building of pyramids, and other wondrous ancient monuments.

An interesting theory, which I believe to be correct, is that the North Pole used to be in Hudson Bay, in the North of Manitoba, Canada, and the Canadian Shield region was supposed to have been gouged by a giant glacier which moved across, and receded in Northern Canada. A pole shift is probably what happened, it would explain why the ice caps melted quickly and flooded the Earth.

I believe this could was due to a large object striking the Earth and creating the Gulf of Mexico, putting a spin on the Earth's rotation, and placing the ice caps at warmer latitudes, melting them and destroying the ancient culture that existed at the time.

The Mayan writings such as the Dresden Codex and the Chilam Balam describe how the Mayans came to Central America from an island in the Atlantic called Aztlan, and from an continent in the Pacific called Mu. Plus, practically every culture in the world has accounts of a flood that are similar to each other, which lends more weight to the whole theory, - no, FACT of ancient advanced civilization.

Where do the majority of the large cities of today reside? On the edge of an ocean or a sea! That's the way it's always been, so if sea levels rose 300 - 450 feet 11,500 b.c. then the better part of any advanced civilization would have been submerged because they would have been on islands that are now underwater or fertile low lying valley regions like the Mediterranean used to be.

Maybe we can't decide where Atlantis is because it's essentially everywhere, submerged. Are the ruins off the coast of Japan Mu?

Another thing that bugs me is; Why are the age of remarkable sites like Tihuanaco approached the way they are when they are clearly sites which date to a time of which the history we know nothing? Maybe Tihuanaco was inhabited by people from Mu. Learn as much as possible about Tihaunaco, it's awesome. Someone needs a shoe in the pants here in North America to get going and report findings like this to the public, and raise awareness and interest. Maybe I should kick my own ass.

We were all taught about the Bering land bridge in school, over which the Aboriginal tribes in North America crossed from Asia, so that was land above water at one time. Another interesting thing I learned in school was that the Gulf of Mexico was formed by an impact of impressive size.

There is supposedly a 'highway', that is made of a tarmac-like material, that runs underwater off the coast of Florida to North Carolina, which if you search on Atlantis you're sure to come across the story. I would be really interested in knowing more about this, ideally - evidence, which is probably highly suppressed in the 'land of the free'.

Another really strange thing worthy of mentioning at this point is a web site with some photos of some really bizarre looking humanoid skulls. They were found by a guy named Robert Connolly in South America as he was gathering evidence on ancient civilizations. http://www.paradigm-sys.com/ae/library.html That is actually a pretty good site which also contains another enticing piece of evidence of ancient civilization, The Abydos Mystery, which shows an ancient Egyptian carving which had been underneath another plate that had broken away, and depicts several types of aircraft.

I think it may be reasonable to hypothesize that an ancient civilization existed that had mastery of flight, construction, astronomy, navigation, energy, agriculture and of course, the science of weaponry as written in the Indian texts, the Rig Vedas. (Rig Vedas describes how to build many types of aircraft, out of what materials, and what they use as a power source or fuel, and these writings are over 3,000 years old. They also describe extremely destructive weapons and the use of them against the 'Rama Empire', the location of which was between Pakistan and India. Two of the main cities of the Rama Empire which have been found are Harrapa and Mohendjo - Daro. CHECK ON THIS!)

Why not? If we just had a wild notion that there was an advanced culture thousands of years before the stone age without one shred of evidence that would be one thing, but there is tons of proof - it is the slant on the evidence at times which downplays it- we have to look for it though, because there is a penile mechanism controlling science, education and public awareness on these matters, to restrict our view.

Anyone who has ever read Genesis will remember this remarkable passage:
Genesis 6:1-4 "When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, My Spirit will not contend with with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be 120 years."

The Nephilim were on earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. In bibles other than mine I have seen them referred to as Giants. This seems to be loosely describing a population of people who were 'like gods' were mighty and of large stature that lived on earth, whom had intermarried with regular humans.

Were these people from advanced cultures of great antiquity that went to lands with people who were not advanced and intermarrying with them? Or were they not of this earth as described. I don't want to touch the issue of E.T. - it's beyond me.

I would like to see people find out as much as they can and post it to this site, David has given us a great opportunity to share information and I know that this is an important area of research. There are great people out traveling the world who have dedicated their lives to finding out the true nature of our past through evidence of lost civilizations. They deserve attention and support. Let's all try and dig up as much as possible and post it to this site, maybe we'll get our own little section going.

I really hope my article did not suck, because it is the first one I have ever written, but even more importantly I hope that I have provided some avenues to explore, and pool our knowledge.

Nothing is stronger than a body of evidence, fragmented evidence needs to be pieced together. One more site of mention is that of Team Atlantis, they have a way to join it cuz you need a password to get in. www.teamatlantis.com

Well I will write again, when I find out more, and learn how to write better.

Cheers,
Kelly