Proto- civilization
The theme of the existence of an early civilization turns up in many old myths and legends. If there is a grain of truth in these stories, where could it have been situated? The most well known is called Atlantis and is placed by Plato on an island in the Atlantic Ocean.
We have to ask ourselves whether we should put the Atlantis story among legends that will never be possible to prove, or did it really exist? If it existed, it had to leave some traces behind, if not material then certainly cultural ones which might be found in the first known civilizations. Therefore I reckon that we have a greater chance of finding proof of the existence of Atlantis in the history of the origins of the Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations, than in legends or megalithic sites difficult to pinpoint in time.
Extensive evidence exists that the founders of the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations were strangers to these lands. It is important to emphasize that both civilizations came into existence suddenly and that many elements, such as modern agriculture, new technologies, new architecture, advanced religious beliefs, new forms of management, education and the system of justice, were introduced in a very short space of time.
There is a significant resemblance between these two civilizations which could only result from the fact that founders of both these states obtained their knowledge from the same source.
We know that the founders who reached Sumer and Egypt possessed, right from the beginning, essential practical knowledge. Therefore it had to have been already applied earlier and probably came into existence in one place, rather than simultaneously in many different locations.
Egyptian god Horus (left) and Assyrian Winged Eagle-Headed Being (Genie) - Neo-Assyrian period, Mesopotamia;
This leads us to the conclusion that a long way from Sumer and Egypt there existed a proto-civilization whose achievements were taken over and assimilated by the founders of the first civilizations. We shall call this first civilization New Atlantis.
Location of New Atlantis
Archaeological discoveries show that Sumerians appeared in Mesopotamia, probably about 5,500 years ago. However it is not possible to establish where they arrived from. The Sumerian language differed from the tongue of the indigenous population. We can learn about their language from the tablets covered with cuneiform writing which originated about 3,000 years BC. The Sumerian language had an entirely different vocabulary, grammar and syntax to the languages of the local Semitic tribes.
According to Dell Hathaway Hymes, a well known anthropologist and linguist, there is no doubt that the Sumerian tongue belongs to the group of proto-Ural-Altaic languages, similar to the Finno-Ugric and Turkish languages. The results of his examination show that out of one hundred Sumerian common root words from the Hymes list, more than fifty percent also appear in Turkish and Hungarian.
The recent findings of the genetic examination of the world population confirmed that the groups speaking Ural-Altaic languages emerged about 12,000 years ago from eastern China and moved slowly west through the areas of Altai and the Caspian Sea to north-eastern Europe. Therefore a plausible area for the original homeland of Sumerians may be the part of Central Asia which is bounded by the River Irtysh in the east and the River Volga in the west. Only in this area, as the most likely original home-base for Sumerians, could they have had close linguistic contact with Ural-Altaic peoples.
If we take into consideration that the dwellings of Sumer, Egypt and the Indus valley civilizations were in a hot and dry climate, in the valleys of large rivers it is probable that the proto-civilization also existed in similar climatic and geographical conditions. A semi-desert area in the region of the Aral Sea with two large rivers would meet these requirements. Amu Daria flowing into the Aral Sea had enough water to irrigate fields and to support a large population. This hypothetical proto-civilization could probably have come into existence on their banks. Climate research results show that thousands of years ago this river was more abundant than at present, and that its branch also flowed into the Caspian Sea.
Greek sources mentioned the existence of civilizations in these parts of the world. The ancient Greeks believed that somewhere in the North or East was a land inhabited by Hyperboreans, a long-lived, clever, peaceful race living in prosperity. They also believed that Apollo and Artemis were gods in this faraway land. Some Greeks such as Aristotle considered that this land could lie in the regions of Scythia – present Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan or Altai. According to legends the Hyperborean land was hot and sunny, therefore could not be placed in the north. It is known that from this area originated the progenitors of the ancient Greeks, since the Greek language is related to proto-indo-European and Vedic and Sanskrit. The fact, that the concept of Atlantis has survived in the Greek tradition through thousands of years indicates Greek connections with New Atlantis.
Existence of an early civilization in this area is also mentioned by Chinese sources which state that
in the third millennium BC “Sons of the Heaven” spread all over the
world, propagating new beliefs and bringing new knowledge from their
base in the Karakorum mountains, in the western part of China, which is
not far from Amu Daria.
Sons of the Heaven?
Research conducted in the 1970s by Viktor Sarianidi, a Russian
archaeologist of Greek origin, indicates that in the area of Bactria at
the upper Amu Daria in the vicinity of Gonur-Depe in present day eastern
Turkmenistan, existed in the third millennium BC the very advanced Oxus civilization whose farming was based on irrigation.
This civilization knew writing and mastered bronze technology, and had
good relations with the civilization in the Indus valley. It is possible
that the Oxus civilization could be a continuation of the earlier civilization which existed in this area.
It is also noteworthy that, according to the Zoroastrian holy
scripture Avesta, Zoroaster, a creator of the first monotheistic
religion who lived in the region of Bactria, died in the Pamir Mountains
where Amu Daria has its source.
It might be worth mentioning that the lapis lazuli found in Sumer and in the early royal tombs in Upper Egypt came from mines in the area of Bactria which were already working in the 4th millennium BC.
The coming into existence of New Atlantis
Study of the Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations shows that right
from the beginning they possessed advanced knowledge of modern
agriculture, engineering, new technologies, new architecture,
mathematics, astronomy, new forms of management, and introduced new
advanced religious beliefs, education and the system of justice. Since this knowledge did not exist on Earth and there was not enough time to develop it, it is proposed that it had to be brought here by intelligent extraterrestrial beings. This hypotheses presented below is described in detail in my book We are not alone in the Universe*.
In order to initiate the further development of mankind, the
intelligent beings arrived on Earth and probably settled in Bactria, in
the region of the river Amu Daria. Here they established the
economic foundations of New Atlantis, securing the safe and stable
existence of the indigenous Altaic population, which used a
proto-Sumerian language.....>>>>>to be continued
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