ANCIENT

Pre-modern contact

Sites, tablets, and contact claims from the deep past — megaliths, Anunnaki, Watchers, flood teachers, and the pre-biblical sky files. Archaeology first; the descent story is in the dossier.

157 files

• Great Pyramid, Giza

  Giza plateau, Egypt · Khufu · 6 linked

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  c. 2560 BCE

• Nazca Lines

  Nazca Desert, Peru · geoglyphs · 4 linked

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  c. 100 BCE–800 CE

• Göbekli Tepe

  Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey · Pre-Pottery Neolithic · 2 linked

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  c. 9500 BCE

• Puma Punku

  Tiwanaku, Bolivia · andesite and sandstone · 3 linked

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  c. 500–1000 CE

• Pakal’s sarcophagus lid

  Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico

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  683 CE

• Antikythera mechanism

  Antikythera wreck · Greek bronze gearwork

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  c. 100 BCE

• Baghdad Battery

  Khujut Rabu, Iraq · Parthian or Sasanian jar

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  c. 1st–3rd century CE?

• Sakwala Chakraya

  Ranmasu Uyana, Sri Lanka · carved ‘stargate’ · 1 linked

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  Anuradhapura period

• Vimana

  India · flying palaces, later ‘aircraft’ readings · 1 linked

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  Epic & technical Sanskrit

• Rapa Nui moai

  Easter Island · ancestor figures · 3 linked

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  c. 1250–1500 CE

• Diquís spheres

  Diquís Delta, Costa Rica · stone globes

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  c. 600–1500 CE

• Sacsayhuamán

  Cusco, Peru · Inca zigzag walls · 6 linked

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  15th century CE

• Quimbaya gold figures

  Cauca Valley, Colombia · tumbaga zoomorphs

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  c. 300–1550 CE

• Great Sphinx

  Giza plateau · Khafre, or not · 6 linked

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  c. 2500 BCE / older?

• Osirion, Abydos

  Abydos · Seti I temple annex · 6 linked

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  c. 1300 BCE

• Serapeum of Saqqara

  Saqqara · granite Apis sarcophagi · 6 linked

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  c. 1400–30 BCE

• Dendera reliefs

  Hathor temple · the ‘bulb’ scenes

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  c. 50 BCE–50 CE

• Abu Ghurab

  Sun temple of Niuserre · alabaster altar

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  c. 2400 BCE

• Bent Pyramid

  Dahshur · Sneferu’s angle change · 6 linked

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  c. 2600 BCE

• Unfinished Obelisk

  Aswan granite quarry

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  c. 1500 BCE

• Baalbek trilithon

  Lebanon · Jupiter temple podium · 1 linked

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  c. 1st century CE

• Stone of the Pregnant Woman

  Baalbek quarry · ~1,000 tons, still lying there · 1 linked

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  Roman / earlier cut?

• Derinkuyu

  Cappadocia · underground city · 1 linked

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  c. 8th–12th century CE / older cores

• Kaymaklı

  Cappadocia · twin underground town · 1 linked

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  Byzantine / earlier

• Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum

  Paola, Malta · painted underground sanctuary · 3 linked

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  c. 3300–2500 BCE

• Ġgantija

  Gozo · giantess temples · 3 linked

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  c. 3600 BCE

• Mnajdra

  Malta · solar-aligned temple · 3 linked

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  c. 3600–2500 BCE

• Ħaġar Qim

  Malta · façade of globigerina · 3 linked

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  c. 3600–3200 BCE

• Stonehenge

  Salisbury Plain · sarsens and bluestones · 4 linked

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  c. 3000–2000 BCE

• Avebury

  Wiltshire · the larger stone circuit · 4 linked

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  c. 2600 BCE

• Silbury Hill

  Wiltshire · the largest prehistoric mound in Europe · 4 linked

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  c. 2400 BCE

• Newgrange

  Boyne Valley · winter-solstice chamber · 4 linked

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  c. 3200 BCE

• Knowth

  Boyne Valley · the decorated sister · 4 linked

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  c. 3200 BCE

• Maeshowe

  Orkney · a chambered tomb with Viking graffiti

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  c. 2800 BCE

• Skara Brae

  Orkney · a stone village in a dune

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  c. 3100–2500 BCE

• Ness of Brodgar

  Orkney · a recently unearthed ceremonial complex

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  c. 3300–2200 BCE

• Callanish

  Isle of Lewis · a stone avenue to a circle

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  c. 2900 BCE

• Carnac alignments

  Brittany · kilometres of standing stones

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  c. 3300 BCE

• Gavrinis

  Gulf of Morbihan · a carved passage

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  c. 3500 BCE

• Dolmen of Menga

  Antequera · a cathedral of orthostats

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  c. 3000 BCE

• Karahan Tepe

  Şanlıurfa · Taş Tepeler sibling of Göbekli · 2 linked

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  c. 9400 BCE

• Nevalı Çori

  Euphrates · a T-pillar settlement now under a lake · 2 linked

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  c. 8500 BCE

• Çatalhöyük

  Konya plain · a packed Neolithic town

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  c. 7500–5700 BCE

• Jericho tower

  Tell es-Sultan · a stone tower before pottery

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  c. 8000 BCE

• Carahunge / Zorats Karer

  Syunik, Armenia · a field of holed stones

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  Bronze Age / claimed older

• Yonaguni

  Okinawa · a stepped seafloor

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  Holocene terrace / claimed city

• Gunung Padang

  West Java · a hill of andesite columns

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  c. 500 BCE / claimed far older

• Nan Madol

  Pohnpei · a city on a reef · 3 linked

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  c. 1200–1500 CE

• Haʻamonga ʻa Maui

  Tongatapu · a coral trilithon · 3 linked

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  c. 1200 CE

• House of Taga

  Tinian · latte stone rows

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  c. 1200–1500 CE

• Great Zimbabwe

  Shona capital · dry-stone walls and a hill

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  c. 1100–1450 CE

• Adam’s Calendar

  Mpumalanga · a stone circle in the claims literature

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  claimed very ancient / unproven

• Lalibela

  Ethiopia · churches from living rock

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  c. 12th–13th century CE

• Axum obelisks

  Tigray · granite stelae of a kingdom

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  c. 3rd–4th century CE

• Meroë pyramids

  Sudan · Nubian pyramids on a royal cemetery

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  c. 300 BCE–350 CE

• Piri Reis map

  Constantinople · a compilation chart · 4 linked

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  1513 CE

• Hapgood’s ancient maps

  Oronteus Finaeus / Buache · ice-free Antarctic claim · 4 linked

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  1966

• Bimini Road

  Bahamas · a seafloor pavement · 4 linked

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  Holocene beachrock

• Dwarka / Gulf of Khambhat

  Gujarat · a drowned city and a noisier sonar claim

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  historical city / claimed older

• Richat Structure

  Mauritania · the Eye of the Sahara · 4 linked

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  geologic dome

• Atlantis (Plato)

  Athens · a story in Timaeus and Critias · 4 linked

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  c. 360 BCE text

• Sumerian King List

  Mesopotamia · kings before the flood with impossible reigns

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  c. 2100 BCE copies

• Anunnaki / Eridu

  Eridu · first city in Sumerian memory · 6 linked

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  literary gods / c. 5400 BCE city

• Dogon Sirius claim

  Mali · a supposed secret about Sirius B

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  1950s ethnography

• Saqqara bird

  Saqqara · a wooden falcon that looks like a glider

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  c. 200 BCE

• Abydos ‘helicopter’

  Seti I / Ramesses II · recarved cartouche

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  c. 1290 BCE palimpsest

• Paracas elongated skulls

  Paracas Peninsula · cranial modification · 4 linked

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  c. 800 BCE–100 CE

• Crystal skulls

  Europe / Belize lore · modern lapidary

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  19th–20th century

• Ica stones

  Ica, Peru · engraved andesite with dinosaurs

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  1960s–

• Dropa stones

  Bayan Har Shan · alleged grooved discs

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  1938 story / later books

• Klerksdorp spheres

  Ottosdal, South Africa · grooved pyrophyllite balls

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  Precambrian nodules

• London Hammer

  London, Texas · an iron hammer in concretion

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  19th century find

• Teotihuacan

  Valley of Mexico · Street of the Dead · 2 linked

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  c. 100–550 CE

• Great Pyramid of Cholula

  Puebla · the largest pyramid by volume · 2 linked

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  c. 300 BCE–900 CE

• Olmec colossal heads

  Gulf Coast · basalt portraits · 2 linked

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  c. 900–400 BCE

• Tula Atlantean columns

  Hidalgo · warrior roof-pillars

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  c. 900–1150 CE

• Chichén Itzá equinox

  Yucatán · a serpent of light

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  c. 800–1100 CE

• El Mirador / La Danta

  Petén · a Preclassic Maya mega-city

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  c. 300 BCE–150 CE

• Tikal

  Petén · temple-pyramids above the canopy

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  c. 200–900 CE

• Izapa Stela 5

  Chiapas · the ‘Tree of Life’ stone

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  c. 300 BCE–250 CE

• Machu Picchu

  Urubamba ridge · an Inca estate · 3 linked

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  c. 1450 CE

• Ollantaytambo

  Sacred Valley · a terraced fortress of porphyry · 3 linked

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  15th century CE

• Coricancha

  Cusco · the Inca sun temple under a church · 3 linked

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  15th century CE

• Gate of the Sun

  Tiwanaku · a single andesite doorway · 3 linked

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  c. 500–900 CE

• Band of Holes / Monte Sierpe

  Pisco Valley · thousands of pits on a ridge

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  Inca period / unclear

• Caral-Supe

  Peru · a city as old as the pyramids, without ceramic pots

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  c. 2600–2000 BCE

• Chavín de Huántar

  Ancash · a labyrinth with a roaring gallery

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  c. 900–200 BCE

• El Fuerte de Samaipata

  Bolivia · a carved mountain

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  c. 300–1500 CE

• Poverty Point

  Louisiana · earthen ridges and a bird mound

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  c. 1700–1100 BCE

• Cahokia / Monks Mound

  Illinois · the largest city north of Mexico

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  c. 1050–1350 CE

• Serpent Mound

  Ohio · an uncoiling earth serpent

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  c. 300 BCE or 1070 CE (debated)

• Chaco Canyon

  New Mexico · great houses on a meridian

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  c. 850–1250 CE

• Mesa Verde

  Colorado · cliff dwellings

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  c. 1190–1300 CE

• Blythe Intaglios

  Colorado Desert · giant ground figures · 4 linked

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  pre-Columbian, age debated

• Atacama Giant

  Cerro Unitas, Chile · the largest geoglyph · 4 linked

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  c. 1000–1400 CE

• Amazon / Acre geoglyphs

  Acre, Brazil · geometric earthworks under the trees · 4 linked

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  c. 1–1400 CE

• Pedra do Ingá

  Paraíba · a gneiss wall of glyphs

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  undated rock art

• Serra da Capivara

  Piauí · rock shelters with deep dates

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  paintings c. 12,000+ BP

• Wandjina

  Kimberley · mouthless cloud beings

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  recent millennia / living tradition

• Gwion / Bradshaw figures

  Kimberley · elegant painted humans

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  possibly 12,000+ BP

• Tassili n’Ajjer

  Algeria · round-headed Saharan figures

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  c. 8000–2000 BCE

• Sego Canyon

  Utah · life-sized painted figures

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  Barrier Canyon style

• Kailasa temple, Ellora

  Maharashtra · a temple cut down from the hill

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  c. 8th century CE

• Mohenjo-daro

  Sindh · a planned Bronze Age city

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  c. 2500–1900 BCE

• Lothal dock

  Gujarat · a brick basin by a river

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  c. 2400 BCE

• Angkor Wat

  Siem Reap · a state temple the size of a city

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  12th century CE

• Borobudur

  Java · a mandala you walk

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  c. 9th century CE

• Sigiriya

  Sri Lanka · a palace on a rock

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  c. 477–495 CE

• Bosnian ‘pyramids’

  Visoko · hills promoted as pyramids

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  2005 claim

• Maoling / ‘white pyramid’

  Shaanxi · Han imperial mound, plus a UFO-era rumour

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  c. 87 BCE

• Watson Brake

  Louisiana · an earlier American earthwork

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  c. 3500 BCE

• Newark Earthworks

  Ohio · Hopewell octagon and circle

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  c. 100–400 CE

• America’s Stonehenge / Mystery Hill

  Salem, New Hampshire · a hill of chambers

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  colonial / claimed older

• Newport Tower

  Rhode Island · a stone rotunda

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  17th century (likely)

• Kensington Runestone

  Minnesota · a rune stone in the roots of a tree

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  1898 find

• Edfu building texts

  Temple of Horus, Edfu · Zep Tepi in stone · 3 linked

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  Ptolemaic, copying older myth

• Turin King List

  Ramesside papyrus · gods and spirits before Menes

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  c. 1200 BCE copy

• Osiris shaft, Giza

  Giza · a water-filled shaft on the plateau · 6 linked

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  Late Period / older cut?

• Ahu Vinapu

  Rapa Nui · Inca-like ashlar on Easter Island · 3 linked

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  c. 1200–1600 CE

• Anunnaki — the great gods

  Sumer / Akkad / Babylon · Anunna, Anunnaki · 6 linked

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  c. 2500–600 BCE texts

• Enki and the ME

  Eridu · civilizing decrees · 6 linked

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  c. 2000 BCE copies

• Enlil of Nippur

  Nippur · lord of the command · 6 linked

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  c. 2500–1200 BCE

• Ninhursag — humans from clay

  Sumer · the making of lulu

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  Atra-ḫasīs / Enki and Ninmah

• Igigi revolt

  The junior gods put down their baskets

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  Atra-ḫasīs I

• Apkallu — the seven sages

  Eridu · fish-cloaked teachers · 6 linked

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  c. 1800–700 BCE

• Oannes

  Persian Gulf · the fish-man who taught by day · 6 linked

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  3rd c. BCE report of older myth

• Adapa — the failed immortality

  Eridu to Anu’s heaven

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  c. 1400 BCE copies

• Nibiru / Planet of the crossing

  Babylonian astronomy · Sitchin’s twelfth planet · 6 linked

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  astral name vs 1976 book

• Utnapishtim / Ziusudra

  Mouth of the rivers · the man who did not die

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  flood survivor

• The Watchers — 1 Enoch

  Second Temple · Book of the Watchers · 8 linked

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  c. 300–100 BCE (older tradition)

• Descent on Mount Hermon

  Anti-Lebanon range · the oath of the 200 · 8 linked

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  1 Enoch 6

• Nephilim

  The fallen / the giants in the land · 8 linked

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  Genesis 6:4 / Numbers 13

• Azazel — the arts that were not to be taught

  Weapons, adornment, dyes, seeing-stones · 8 linked

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  1 Enoch 8

• Shemihazah and the two hundred

  Chief of the descent · 8 linked

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  1 Enoch 6–7

• Book of Giants

  Qumran · the children have names · 8 linked

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  c. 200–50 BCE

• Sons of God — Genesis 6

  The shortest contact paragraph in the Bible · 8 linked

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  Torah

• Jubilees — Watchers as teachers first

  They were sent to instruct, then they fell · 8 linked

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  c. 160 BCE

• Elohim and the Divine Council

  Most High divides the nations

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  Psalm 82 / Deuteronomy 32

• Ugarit — El’s mountain assembly

  Ras Shamra · the tablets under the tell

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  c. 1300 BCE

• Ezekiel’s wheels

  Kebar canal · merkabah · 1 linked

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  c. 593 BCE

• Elijah’s chariot

  East of the Jordan · taken, not buried · 1 linked

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  c. 9th c. BCE story

• Sinai — the mountain that smoked

  Horeb / Jebel Musa candidates

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  Exodus 19–24

• Pillar of cloud and fire

  The moving column that led the camp

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  Exodus 13–14

• Ark of the Covenant

  Gold box · seat · weapon · radio

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  late 2nd millennium tradition

• Anakim, Rephaim, Og

  Giants of the land · the dead kings who still sit

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  Numbers–Deuteronomy / Ugarit

• Jacob’s ladder — Bethel

  A stair between worlds, with traffic

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  Genesis 28

• Enoch walked and was not

  The scribe who did not die

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  Genesis 5:24 / 1 Enoch / 2 Enoch

• Thoth — measurer and scribe

  Hermopolis · the one who invented writing · 3 linked

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  Old Kingdom onward

• Pyramid Texts — the king becomes a star

  Unas pyramid, Saqqara · oldest religious corpus · 9 linked

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  c. 2350 BCE

• Osiris the civilizer

  He taught grain, law, then he was cut up · 3 linked

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  Plutarch / older Egyptian cycle

• Viracocha — the walking teacher

  Tiahuanaco to the sea · staff, pale, bearded in some versions · 4 linked

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  Andean cycle (Inca reports)

• Quetzalcoatl — the feathered instructor

  Tula / Cholula · wind, Venus, books, the exit east · 1 linked

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  Tollan cycle

• Saptarishi — the seven seers

  The seven who survive the flood with Manu

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  Vedic / Puranic

• Manu and the fish

  The first man is warned from the water

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  Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa

• Etana — the flight to heaven

  Kish · a king rides an eagle into the sky

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  c. 1900–1500 BCE copies

• Etemenanki — the stair of Babylon

  Babylon · house of the foundation of heaven and earth

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  c. 600 BCE rebuild (older foundation)

• Qumran — the Watcher library

  Cave 4 · Enoch as scripture · 8 linked

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  c. 250–50 BCE copies