Could There Have Been a Civilization Before the Ice Age?
The idea of a “lost” pre–Ice Age civilization lives in a tense space between geology, archaeology, and popular myth. On one side is a plain fact: after the last glacial…
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The Hunt for Civilizations Lost Before History
Human civilization is usually introduced as a story that begins with the first cities of Mesopotamia and Egypt a little over 5,000 years ago. Yet the deeper record has become…
Younger Dryas Caused by Intense Volcanic Activity and Not Massive Meteor Impacts 13,000 Years Ago
Researchers have found that around 13,000 years ago, unprecedented volcanic activity caused the climate on Earth to cool down drastically, probably changing the history of early civilizations and cultures around…
Gobekli Tepe Symbols Reveal A Comet Bombarded Earth Around 13,000 Years Ago?
Göbekli Tepe, the early Neolithic stone-circle complex in southeast Turkey, has become a magnet for big claims. The most dramatic is that its carved symbols record a devastating comet event…
The case for the Younger Dryas comet impact that set Earth ablaze at the dawn of civilization
The Younger Dryas comet impact hypothesis presents one of the most dramatic explanations for a global cataclysm near the end of the last Ice Age. Around 12,800 years ago, a…