poddys/ancient history

The complex network of stones, hill forts and earthworks allowed travellers to trek hundreds of miles with 'pinpoint accuracy' more than 5,000 years ago, amateur historian Tom Brooks says. The grid covered much of southern England and Wales and included landmarks such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, claims Mr Brooks, a retired marketing executive of Honiton, Devon.

What is also interesting is that from the works of Zecharia Sitchin (I forget which book), the landmarks of the ancient world, from the Great Pyramid, to Delphi, to Jerusalem, Ur, Babylon etc, are also in alignment, but on a much larger scale.

I agree that the ancients would have made use of signposts to aid navigation, and indeed the whole of England was later covered by a series of beacon towers to help warn of an invasion, however the fact that these and many other structures are in alignment points to their having more advanced knowledge than we traditionally expect them to have.

I still have a theory that post ice age, the remnants of what were previously more advanced civilizations were recovering and rebuilding, and although their means were primitive, they had some advanced knowledge passed down through the centuries.

This is very cool.

This is a very detailed and useful, plus a lighthearted look at the gods of old from many cultures around the world.

The lost city of Petra has always amazed me

Evidence from around the world suggests that the further you go back in time, the more man knew about science and the stars. I am convinced that there were earlier civilizations, but either the great flood or last ice age or other calamities erased virtually all of the evidence. Zecharia Sitchin has a lot to say about this in his books squidoo.com/zechariasitchin [squidoo.com/zechariasitchin]

Interesting article about the Great Pyramid Of Giza.
Zecharia Sitchin has a lot to say about it's history too in his book "The Wars Of Gods And Men" see squidoo.com/zechariasitchin [squidoo.com/zechariasitchin]

This is a very interesting article on the existance of scientific information in ancient times that has only just been re-discovered in our modern age.

With my beliefs that advanced civilizations did exist prior to Egypt and Sumeria, this just adds fule to these theories about man's most ancient past.