I hope it is not off-topic here. The below topic is related to what Graham Hancock and others proposed, i.e. a cataclysmic pole-shift event that destroyed a worldwide advanced civilization about 12,000 years ago.
@EthicalSkeptic in X claims that he had cracked the mystery of Gobekli Tepe inscriptions. Worth a read.
Gobekli Tepe is the most important archaeological discovery in the world in recent times. The discovery challenges the traditional narrative of societal progression, showing that complex social organization and monumental building could occur even before the development of agriculture. The most important point is that it dates back around 11,000 years. Both the above points support Graham Hancock's theory that the survivors re-created the much earlier civilization.
The present mainstream narration is that the cataclysm didn't happen at that time, and what Graham says is a pseudo-science and that basic civilization started roughly around 14K years ago.
Before giving the excerpts from the writings of @EthicalSkeptic, some background information is given below.
In his famous book, The Fingerprints of the God, which sold about 5 million copies worldwide, he thoroughly discusses the battle between the geologists divided into two camps, gradualists and cataclysmists, the plenty of scientific evidence for cataclysm,
plenty of supporting evidence of cataclysm in ancient culture throughout the world, interpretation of the inscription on Gobekli Tepe etc. Can anyone who has read the book provide an interesting summary here? To me, it is a must-read amongst 10 books. I'm too lazy now; I hope I can write a summary here later.
A few interesting info from Graham's book is given below.
1. The book starts with a letter from a USA naval organisation that confirms that the land shown beneath the Antarctic ice cap, as shown in the very ancient Piri Ries map, is accurate. In modern times, it was mapped by ice-penetrating radar. Also, as per mainstream narration, Antarctica was fully covered with several km thick ice for several lakhs of years. Map-making requires very sophisticated knowledge. Also, Graham quotes Vedas, which mentioned a previous land of sages where the sun shone for about 6 months. He also describes the killing of the demon Vritra by Indra, after which ice trapped in the Himalayas began to flow to the Indian plains.
2. The ancient saying, 'Sky fell,' which is a popular expression even today, is most likely an observed phenomenon. When a sudden pole shift happens the moon+star or Sun will appear to fall to the horizon.
3. In his book Fingerprints of the Gods, he quotes the contents of another book, Hamlet's Mill, by Giorgio de Santillana. In that book, they point out that throughout the many ancient societies, there is a story with the same theme in which a structure goes astray from its axial rotation. Graham or Giorgio pointed out that ancient India, too, has such a story. It is the Samudra Manthan. What the story means is that there occur periodic dangerous axial shifts that can cause catastrophic destruction.
https://x.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/188 ... PfYXQ&s=19
Some excerpts given below.
I count myself among those deeply disappointed by the decision of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in cooperation with the Turkish Government, to effectively halt fundamental, independent, and scientifically motivated excavation efforts at Göbekli Tepe.
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In Exhibit A below, the reader can observe how the nine iconographs carved into Pillar 43 correspond strikingly well to the nine asterisms I have identified from the sky field map shown below right (produced using Starry Night Pro 8.1.0). The carvings on the stone align precisely with the Sanliurfa night sky as it would have appeared around 14,800 BCE. Four birds, including the Condor, two snakes, a scorpion, a dog, and what may be a headless frog (?) all align exactly with the star formations visible in the heavens at that time.
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Our broader hypothesis, which I refer to as the ECDO Earth Cataclysm Theory, accommodates these symbols as representative of the rising and setting of the sun, both before and after the depicted cataclysmic event (a true polar wander). This is reinforced by the employment of the ‘H’ symbol prominently and in suggestion of ‘alignment’ on Pillar 30 (see image to right) on the north side of Enclosure D. This is the same pillar which bears the transverse ‘sighting hole’ for (in its original position) tracking the position of the summer solstice of the rising sun.5 It is clear therefore, that the ‘H’ symbol represents the azimuths of the rising and setting Sun. The vertically oriented snake below the ‘H’ symbol on Pillar 30 represents the seasonal meandering of the Sun’s rising (vertical snake) azimuth.
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Figure 1 – A rare and robust aurora borealis is interpreted as flames burning in the Sanliurfa, Turkey night sky above Göbekli Tepe. The 11 boxes represent true north, and five points of bearing to either side thereof, constituting the west-to-east (and corresponding 3 tepes) horizon-range over which these flames spread in the Pillar artist’s night sky.
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This is very similar to how crude bearing points of steerage work at sea.
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Figure 2 – The ‘handbags’ are postulated to be three Taş Tepeler tepes (west, north, and east per the bearing boxes) or hills which were hollowed out as habitations to withstand a cataclysm. The torrent from that cataclysm is inscribed above the tepes. We postulate that the flat areas on the right of each tepe represents the Edin Plain or valley of Paddan Aram in Figure 3 below. The three animals represent horizon asterisms in the direction of each tepe itself.
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This event precedes the Holocene Stabilization and set of chaotic events therein (see Figure 4), with the observed aurora borealis and the potential impact of extended circumstances surrounding events such as the Younger Dryas or Meltwater Pulse 1A or 1B possibly being involved in the iconography (annotated as ‘torrent’ in Figure 2).
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Figure 4 – Postulated timeline of cataclysmic-related events involving the Younger Dryas, MWP 1A, and MWP 1B.10 The reader should note the 6° C jump in global temperatures during the Bølling-Allerød rapid warming onset (12,700 BCE). This naturally caused warming was 7.5 times faster than our current rate of climate warming.
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) discloses the full insight of Quantum Mechanics in 60 seconds at Yale University in his Physics 201 lecture.