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In 1953, American professor Charles Gebgot published an article in which he claimed that another civilization had existed on Earth long before humans. This idea seemed completely implausible. However, the CIA later classified parts of this work. But would the secret services hide something that lacked a single drop of common sense? Were they really afraid that the scientist's thoughts might turn out to be the absolute truth? After all, the age of our planet is more than 4.5 billion years, while the species homo sapiens arose only 300,000 years ago.
Do we really believe that over such a long period of time, Earth could not have become home to anyone other than humans? Well, the latest discovery in this area will definitely shatter your confidence. From this video you will learn what IQ dinosaurs really had, how mushrooms would survive a nuclear apocalypse, and most importantly, whether another civilization could have flourished on Earth millions of years before the emergence of humanity. Let's find out. Our history has many blank spots that scientists only speak about in general phrases. One such paradox is the construction of the pyramids. Researchers assure us that at that time people were engaged only in primitive gathering.
But who then created all these monumental complexes? This is the Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico. This is the tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, Egypt. And this is the Kohker sanctuary, which you can visit in Cambodia. But they are all built according to the same principle, and at completely different times. And some common features of such monuments make us question all of human history. Often the stones in their walls are fitted so tightly that not even a human hair can fit through the joints. And all this without any bonding solution. Walls with similar masonry have been found near the city of Cusco in
Peru, as well as in Greece, Japan, and even on Easter Island. Although many of these locations are separated by entire oceans. It seems as if all these monumental complexes were created by representatives of the same culture, much more advanced than the people at that time. Of course, now such a theory seems completely fantastic, but will we ever be able to discover traces of an ancient civilization if we don't even start looking? At least, this is the view held by leading astronomer at the University of Pennsylvania, Jason Ride. One of the most mysterious phenomena of ancient times remains the
incredible technical achievements of the Inca civilization. In 1829, traveler Charles Mason found the remains of the ancient city of Harappa in what is now Pakistan. The planning of this settlement would amaze even the best architects of our time. In Harappa, all streets were built according to the same pattern: from north to south and from east to west. This was necessary in order to provide the townspeople with running water. Judging by the finds of archaeologists, many residents of the historical capital had their own swimming pools. Moreover, they were built taking into account the smallest technological features.
Ancient builders coated the bottom of pools with resin to maintain tightness. Fresh water was constantly supplied to such baths through special pipes, and dirty water was removed through carefully designed gutters of the drainage system. And all this at a time when other peoples could only build a hut. But such pools were simply impossible to build without special devices. It turns out that representatives of the Inca civilization were able to work with complex iron tools long before the rest of the world did. Interestingly, scientists were able to find confirmation for such a bold theory in 1936, and in a completely different territory. During excavations near the village of Saqqara in Egypt, archaeologists discovered so-called sarapeums,
huge granite boxes for funerary ceremonies. Egyptologists claimed that the boxes were made during the 18th Dynasty, that is, between 1550 and 1300 BC. But in those days, the Egyptians practically did not use metal tools. How did they manage to create granite boxes with perfectly right angles and incredibly smooth and thin walls? In addition, scientists found mysterious, repeating marks and strange grooves on the walls of some of the boxes. Wait, we've seen something like this before. Modern drills leave the same grooves. Perhaps the development of the ancient Egyptian community was aided by representatives of another, more advanced civilization, who at that time already knew how to
work with complex mechanized equipment. But why do we still know so little about such a progressive culture? Why haven't people found any solid evidence that another advanced civilization existed on Earth in ancient times Astrophysicist Adam Frank and climatologist Gavin Schmitt may know the answer to this question. In 2017, these scientists tried to imagine what would remain of our own civilization if one fine day we all simply disappeared. The answer seemed obvious. Without people, giant metropolises would continue to stand, except they would be covered with a thick layer of moss. And if some civilization was already building something similar to humans, we would have definitely discovered it long ago. In a pinch,
archaeological excavations would help us, but after several hundred years of searching, people have still not been able to find any historical skyscrapers. So, they just never existed? Isn't everything so obvious? According to Frank and Schmitt's findings, our own cities will disappear from the face of the earth in just 10,000 years. All that will remain of them are huge stones scattered randomly, and that doesn't say much about the level of development of our civilization, does it? It turns out that archaeology can only help us with the search for the most recent evidence, but the more time passes, the further underground all the traces go. And in the end they just turn to dust. Even from
the Neanderthals, who lived only a few tens of thousands of years ago, little remains. But what if someone built an entire society on our planet long before that? You're probably already getting ready to write about plastic, because it takes much longer to decompose than organic materials. If there really was an advanced civilization on Earth before us, it would definitely leave behind similar waste. However, researcher Alan Wiseman argues in his book A World Without Us that if humans were to stop all activity right now, the lion's share of all our plastic debris would eventually decompose under the influence of ultraviolet radiation and bacteria in just
20,000 years. And if, for example, a past civilization were wiped out by a global cataclysm, traces of its existence would disappear even faster. Although individual survivors could have moved to a new territory and then transferred their knowledge to other cultures. Perhaps this is how the ancient Egyptian and Inca civilizations reached such heights. The problem is also compounded by the fact that less than 3% of the Earth's surface is currently inhabited. The past civilization could have occupied an even smaller area. And even if it left behind waste that looked like plastic, it's now even harder to find than any specific grain of sand on an entire beach.
It turns out that if a billion years ago the same society as ours existed on Earth, we would hardly find any evidence of it. But why are we so sure that ancient creatures were like us? 4.5 billion years ago, when the Earth was just forming, the climate was much more extreme than today. At that time, our planet was periodically bombarded by meteorites and comets, and the air consisted mainly of water vapor, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and methane. None of the species we know would survive in such conditions, but perhaps they would be the ideal environment for completely different creatures.
Max Bernstein, research manager at NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, believes that a civilization in such a climate would be like a network of intelligent crystals. After all, other creatures may not have even the most fundamental things in our understanding: reproduction or metabolism. The main minimum criteria for the functioning of life can be considered the ability to accumulate energy and transmit information from generation to generation. But the specific methods can be anything . In this case, some minerals were able to develop an entire society without the help of DNA molecules. As a crystal grows, new atoms appear layer by layer on its surface in a specific sequence. If a small crystalline leaf breaks off from it
, it will retain these properties. It's very similar to the birth of a new organism, is n't it? Moreover, after such a civilization, there would really be no traces left. So, is it better for us to stop searching altogether, or do humans still have a chance to find their prehistoric predecessors? Would an advanced civilization leave no clues at all? Adam Frank and Gavin Schmitt are convinced that there is something we should still be looking for. Yes, physical evidence is indeed very short-lived. But what about the indirect impact on our planet? After all, even if complex structures and mechanisms have long since broken down into atoms, these atoms ultimately influenced the composition of the Earth's crust. Schmidt and
Frank suggested that any industrial civilization required energy to exist, even if that culture developed millions of years ago. This means that any ancient industrial society, like ours, would have made extensive use of fossil fuels, at least in the early stages of its development. After all, in order to build solar panels or hydroelectric power plants that do not produce waste, you first need to create mechanisms for such construction. And for this, additional energy sources will definitely be needed: oil, coal, or at least a large amount of wood. Such energy-intensive industrial processes, and especially their waste, have definitely left physical and chemical traces in the bowels of our
planet. Roughly speaking, we need to look not for ruins but for historical factories. And the emissions from such production. Schmidt compares it to looking for fingerprints during a crime investigation. After all, in this case, we first try to collect as much information as possible and only then go looking for the killer. So why not use this same method in the search for an ancient civilization? First, we should pay attention to the large accumulation of radioactive elements in atypical places, because it is very unlikely that they ended up there on their own. Oddly enough, this brings us back to the mysterious Inca civilization. During
excavations in the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India, archaeologists discovered a whole layer of radioactive dust. But the incredible finds didn't end there. In 1977, researcher David Davenport began excavating the ruins of Mohenjo Daro, a great Inca city. Soon the scientist found a hole there with a diameter of 50 m. All the stones inside it seemed to have melted and turned into a glassy mass. But this could only happen at very high temperatures, from 1500°C onwards. It seemed as if a nuclear explosion had thundered on the territory of the Inca civilization even before our era. And, oddly enough, ancient legends only confirm such a bold guess. The Mahabharata is one of the greatest epic works of Indian literature,
which has immense cultural significance not only in India itself, but also in many other parts of the world. And it contains descriptions of a powerful explosion, as bright as 10,000 suns, which could destroy entire nations. In addition, the consequences of such a detonation were described in detail. Those who survived lost their nails and hair, and the land and food became contaminated. Very similar to the consequences of the nuclear disaster in Hiroshima, isn't it? However, even if the Inca civilization was so advanced that they were able to create nuclear weapons as early as the third millennium BC, they were still human. But what about
human societies? Oddly enough, there have been other periods in the history of our planet that may indirectly indicate intelligent intervention. We are now living in an era of hyperthermia. This is a sharp increase in temperature in many parts of the globe caused by human activity. But 56 million years ago, something similar was already observed on Earth. Then the temperature rose so much that an average of 20° Celsius was recorded at the poles. Of course, this could not have been caused by excessive industrial activity. Could she still do it? Scientists now believe that cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, were to blame. After all, during that period, their population in the world's oceans increased
several hundred times. But exactly how cyanobacteria managed to influence the climate remains a mystery. Perhaps they became merely products of another's life. a much more developed society. Crystalline civilization still seems like a too-fantastic theory to many scientists. But even they do not deny that billions of years ago our planet could have been ruled by other organisms that are well known to us. So can people underestimate the abilities of those they still encounter every day? In 2000, Japanese biologist Toshiyuki Nakagaki decided to conduct an interesting experiment.
He placed a sample of mold fungus at the entrance to a maze used to test intelligence and memory in mice. At the other end of the maze, he placed a sugar cube. And after a few hours, the scientist could not believe his eyes. The mushroom seemed to smell sugar and began sending out its threads in search of it. Cobwebs forked moldily at every intersection of the maze. And those of them who got stuck simply turned around and started all over again. Soon the mushroom had already wrapped itself around the long-awaited piece of sugar. That is, the intelligence of mold literally turned out to be higher than that of some animals. According to the most conservative estimates, there are
about 160,000 strains of mushrooms on Earth. For millions of years, they have quietly evolved in the harshest conditions and are now capable of changing the environment no worse than sophisticated human technologies. Thus, in Chernobyl, where radiation levels are still high in some places, researchers discovered a flu capable of feeding on radioactive waste, while cleaning the space around it. We consider ourselves the crown of evolution. But how many of you are capable of improving the world just by your presence? Moreover, a few years ago, while studying the Amazon rainforest, a group of Yale University students discovered a fungus that
may well feed on plastic waste. The observation turned out to be quite unexpected. It's just that the fungus completely ate the container in which the students placed it for further study. But if a civilization of intelligent fungi really existed on Earth millions of years ago, what might it have looked like? What we usually call a mushroom is actually just the tip of the iceberg. Much more interesting is the mycelium itself. A network of thin spider webs that covers almost our entire planet. In 10 cubic centimeters of soil, you can find 8 km of its threads. That is, the mushrooms that appear from the ground are just the fingertips of these webs, the tools with
which the organism spreads its seeds. There is now a widespread belief among scientists that the mycelium not only transmits food and chemicals, but also an intelligent and self-learning communication network. At the same time, mushrooms do not have any central server. Each web is independent, and the information it collects can be transmitted along the mycelium in all directions. Oddly enough, this scheme is suspiciously similar to the model of the modern Internet. It turns out that all this time, people have had an incredibly advanced communication system under their feet, and we haven't even paid attention to it. In ancient times, such a mycelium could not only promote the development of other
organisms, such as cyanobacteria, but also cover up its own traces. If smart fungi once produced plastic or even radioactive weapons, they have long since disposed of this waste themselves. So, people really won't be able to find any evidence. But who said that only one civilization could have developed on Earth before us? Perhaps a new society arises on our planet every few tens of thousands of years. Moreover, people were able to find some clues. In 1970, the so- called Selorians, fantastic humanoid lizards, appeared in one of the episodes of the cult television series Doctor Who. According to the plot, they were the first intelligent beings on Earth. Of course, at the time this concept was just innocent fun, but eventually it had
very concrete scientific justifications. We've all seen the huge fossil remains of dinosaurs, but do we know how they actually lived? For many years, the scientific community believed that dinosaurs were extremely cruel and stupid animals. After all, according to an analysis of the skull of the huge stegosaurus, the brain was no larger than a walnut. However, recent research shows that we may have been wrong all this time. In 2021, paleontologist Diego Paul proved that most dinosaurs were much smarter than we think. Thus, representatives of the Mayasaurus species returned to the same nesting site every year. That is, they at least had enough intelligence to remember this place and appreciate its favorable characteristics.
Most likely, the Maevrys even learned to distribute responsibilities. Males protected the females as they incubated their eggs, while juvenile dinosaurs scouted the area for food. And this is much more complex behavior than that of creatures with a walnut instead of a brain. After analyzing this data, researcher Lori Marino concluded that most dinosaurs were more like intelligent birds than slow lizards. Have you ever seen a crow or parrot distract a person to let another bird steal a few snacks? Believe me, they are capable of more than that. Surprisingly, birds also have small brains compared to the rest of their bodies. Birds need this to fly. They simply won't be able to lift their heads if they are
too heavy. However, the neurons in their brains are much more densely packed, and one gram of brain contains several times more nerve connections than mammals. That is, a small brain could not prevent dinosaurs from building an entire empire. After all, the brain of modern man is not much different from the brain of primitive people, but that hasn't stopped us from launching spaceships. So why do we underestimate ancient lizards so much? This is a troodon. A species of small dinosaurs that scientists consider to be among the most intelligent. Some researchers even suggest that they bred larger dinosaurs as livestock. That is, they have at least developed to the level of an agrarian society. Oddly enough,
their physique is most reminiscent of human nature. Perhaps they were the real Selorians who created an advanced civilization long before humans appeared on Earth. What do you think?
