EARTHQUEST NEWS
Newsletter from Andrew Collins. Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2001
Andrew Collins website [email protected]
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'LOST CITY' FOUND OFF CUBA - A SPECIAL REPORT
A 'lost city', that may be the fabled city of Atlantis, has been located
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off the coast of Cuba by a Canadian scientific research team, according =
to a recent report by a British press agency.In a release dated Havana, 14 May 2001 Reuters of London informed the =
world that Soviet-born ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky, the president of
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Canadian-based company Advanced Digital Communications, has detected 'a =
sunken city' in deep waters off the coast of the Cuban capital Havana.Satellite-integrated ocean bottom positioning systems, high precision =
side-scan double-frequency sonar and remotely operated robots have =
detected the presence of what are being described as 'shapes' that =
'resemble pyramids, roads and buildings'. Their regularity seems =
consistent with the idea that they represent an 'urban development' =
composed of 'symmetrical architecture'.Somewhat cautiously, Zelitsky speculates that the deep-sea city, which =
sits upon a huge land plateau lying in around 2,200 feet (700-800 =
metres) of water, belongs to 'the pre-classic period' of Central =
American history, and was populated by 'an advanced civilization similar
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to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan'.'It is stunning,' she said during an interview at her office at Tarara, =
on the coast east of Havana. 'What we see in our high-resolution sonar =
images are limitless, rolling, white sand plains and, in the middle of =
this beautiful white sand, there are clear man-made large-size =
architectural designs. It looks like when you fly over an urban =
development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings.'We don't know what it is, and we don't have the videotaped evidence of =
this yet, but we do not believe that nature is capable of producing =
planned symmetrical architecture, unless it is a miracle,' she added.Officially, ADC has avoided saying what exactly it might have discovered
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deep down beneath Havana Bay, admitting only that it was 'excited but =
reluctant to speculate until a joint investigation with the Cuban =
Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society takes place =
early this summer.'The discoveries came during deep-sea surveys made by Zelitsky aboard the
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Cuban vessel Ulises. However, the vessel's intentions had not been to =
uncover sunken cities. ADC is part of a joint operation set up with the =
Cuban government, and in particular its state partner Geomar, to survey =
Cuban waters for scientific purposes, including the location of the =
billions of dollars of bullion and lost treasure disgorged from sunken =
ships since the time of the Conquest.Over the past 500 years it is estimated that hundreds of vessels must =
have been lost in Cuban waters due mainly to bad navigation, piracy and =
the violent Caribbean storms that regularly plague this tropical region =
of the globe.A Toronto-based company, Visa Gold, which operates out of Havana's =
Marina Hemingway, claims already to have found some 7,000 objects from =
sunken vessels including jewellery, diamonds and pistols, said to have =
come from a brigantine called Palemon, lost off Cuba's northern coast in
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1839. Visa Gold's next target is the Atocha y San Jose, a Spanish =
vessel. It sank in Havana Bay in January 1642 after fleeing storms at =
sea.The reason for this sudden interest in Cuban coastal waters comes in the
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wake of Fidel Castro's government recognising for the first time that it
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does not itself have the ocean expertise or the inclination to conduct =
scientific research projects of this nature.'These projects are very important in helping us rescue things from =
history, which contribute to our national patrimony,' said Eddy =
Fernandez, vice president of Geomar. 'As you know, we have financing =
problems. This is a very expensive activity. They give us technology and
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financing. We provide historical and ocean expertise'.Companies like ADC and Visa Gold use Cuban divers, crews and low-tech =
equipment. Even the vessels themselves are registered to Cuba, and it =
was the crew of one of these, the Ulises, which has detected the =
underwater ruins in Havana Bay.TOLD YOU SO!
The implications of Paulina Zelitsky's discoveries of what is being seen
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as evidence of a deep-water city off the coast of northern Cuba are far =
reaching and quite extraordinary. In an on-line pole, conducted by the =
NBC home news service MSNBC, of the 1260 people who have voted so far =
(18.00 BST on 16 May) no less than 70 percent believed that the find =
'could be something big: Next stop, Atlantis'.It means that already NBC are considering the possibility that the =
sunken city could be linked with Plato's account of the lost city of =
Atlantis. This is good news for me personally as my book GATEWAY TO =
ATLANTIS, published in the UK last year, concluded that the most likely =
location of Plato's sunken empire was Cuba, the first time that this =
country had ever been linked directly to the mystery of Atlantis.I proposed that the evidence contained in Plato's works the TIMAEUS and =
CRITIAS hinted strongly that his concept of Atlantis was based on =
stories and rumours reaching the ancient world via Phoenician and =
Carthaginian mariners concerning the existence of Caribbean islands. =
Moreover, his description of Atlantis' great plain, said to have been =
3000 by 2000 stadia (552 by 368 kilometres) in size, matched very well =
Cuba's great western plain. Before the rapid rise in sea-level following
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the end of the last Ice Age this stretched southwards across the Bay of =
Batabano to the mysterious Isle of Youth.Although I speculated in the book - which has now been published in the =
USA, Italy, Holland, Germany and Portugal - that the Atlantean city =
might await discovery beneath the shallow waters of the Bay of Batabano,
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news that a sunken city may now have been detected off Cuba's northern =
coast is exciting news.In September 1972 American oceanic explorer J. Manson Valentine and his =
close associate Jim Richardson felt they had detected a mass of =
rectilinear and curvilinear features in shallow waters on the =
south-western edge of the former Bahaman landmass (known today as the =
Great Bahama Bank), facing out across the deep Old Bahama Channel =
towards Cuba. I pointed out as well that as early as the 1950s =
light-aircraft pilots had reported seeing what they described as =
underwater 'stonework' that was 'well within Cuban waters'. Similar =
sightings 'north of Cuba' of an alleged 'submerged building complex =
covering over ten acres' might even have convinced the Cuban government =
that a veritable city awaited discovery in its vigorously defended =
waters. There are, for instance, unconfirmed reports that this 'building
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complex' was explored with the assistance of Soviet submarines. Strange =
then that these recent discoveries of a sunken city in Cuban waters are =
being conducted by a Russian-born Canadian oceanographer.Among those who felt they had glimpsed the remains of a lost citadel in =
Cuban waters was Leicester Hemingway, brother of the writer Ernest =
Hemingway. During a flight into the country, Leicester noticed, beyond =
its northern coast, 'an expanse of stone ruins, several acres in area =
and apparently white, as if they were marble'. The exact location of =
these underwater features remains unclear, although they could well have
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been in deep waters north of the Cuban capital.Only time will tell whether the discoveries made by Paulina Zelitsky and
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ADC do constitute firm evidence of Plato's Atlantis, for if they do then
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it will fix, once and for all, its geographical location in the Bahamas =
and Caribbean, and not anywhere else in the world. However, the location
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of a lost city on a huge land plateau lying at a depth of around 700-800
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metres poses new problems for the Atlantis debate. Plato wrote that his =
Atlantic island empire was destroyed by 'earthquakes and floods' in 'one
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terrible day and night', post-8570 BC in the TIMAEUS and around 9421 BC =
in the CRITIAS. This time-frame corresponds with the cessation of the =
last Ice Age, when we know that the sea-levels began to rise fairly =
rapidly as the ice fields which had covered parts of North America and =
Europe for tens of thousands of years began rapidly to disappear as the =
climate changed.I have proposed that the mechanism behind Atlantis' destruction was a =
comet impact which devastated the eastern Atlantic coast of America, =
causing literally 500,000 elliptical craters, known today as the =
Carolina Bays, sometime around 9000 BC. Fragments of the comet falling =
in the Western Atlantic basin, north of the Bahamas, would have created =
tsunami tidal-waves perhaps hundreds of metres high. These would have =
drowned, temporarily at least, large parts of the Bahamas and Caribbean,
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as well as low-lying regions of the eastern United States.Myths and legends told by the indigenous peoples of the Bahaman and =
Caribbean archipelagos when the Spanish first reached the New World =
spoke of just such a cataclysm. They said that the waters suddenly =
rushed in and drowned a great landmass, breaking it up into individual =
islands. Although such a break up of the former landmasses of the =
Bahamas and Caribbean could not have been caused by tsunamis alone, the =
gradual rise in the sea-levels which followed this cataclysmic event =
would have drowned, more permanently this time, all low-lying regions =
creating the archipelagos we see today. Yet in the thousands of years =
which it took for the ice fields to melt in full, the sea-level rose =
only 300 metres. So any ruins lying in waters greater than this depth =
become more difficult to explain. Until we can ascertain the height of =
the sunken land plateau on which the alleged sunken city is situated, we
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can take the matter no further. Yet if it does lie in waters over 300 =
metres in depth, then Zelitsky's statement that it could belong to 'the =
pre-classic period' of Central American history, and was populated 'by =
an advanced civilisation similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of =
Yucatan', becomes totally inconceivable.The Teotihuacan culture, which thrived in Northern Mexico from around =
100 BC through till about AD 500, remains an enigma to Mesoamerican =
archaeologists. Its origin is unclear. What we do know is that legends =
once told by the Totonac peoples of eastern Mexico spoke of the founders
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of its sacred city of Teotihuacan, with its mighty Pyramids of the Sun =
and Moon, as having arrived on the Gulf coast from an island homeland =
which lay beyond the sea. Here was to be found Chicomoztoc, the Seven =
Caves, where the first humans emerged out of the darkness at the =
beginning of time. For many reasons, not least of all the appearance of =
sea-shells of purely Caribbean varieties carved upon the walls of the =
Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, the Teotihuacan culture saw their
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origins as connected in some way with the Caribbean. Moreover, in =
GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS I identified the original Seven Caves complex as the
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Punta del Este caves on Cuba's Isle of Youth, one of which, Ceuva # 1, =
has been described as a veritable Sistine Chapel of the prehistoric =
world. Many thousands of years ago unknown artists adorned its walls and
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ceiling with abstract petroglyphs of a blatantly celestial nature. Yet =
even so, any sunken city lying off the northern coast of Cuba, in =
hundreds of metres of water, must antedate the Teotihuacan culture by =
many thousands of years.If Zelitsky and her oceanographic colleagues are right in their belief =
that 'pyramids, roads and buildings' do lie at the bottom of Havana Bay,
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then it is clear that the prehistory of the Caribbean, and its influence
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on the rise of Mesoamerican civilisation, might have to be altered =
dramatically. Moreover, it could well be that at long last the mystery =
of Atlantis, mankind's greatest history enigma, is about to unfold in a =
most spectacular fashion.Sources: 'Looking for lost riches in Cuba's seas: Underwater surveyors =
say they may have found sunken city', Reuters report dated Havana, 14 =
May, 2001, MSNBC Home News to be found at =
http://www.msnbc.com/news/573489.aspCollins, GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS, Headline, London, 2000.
ATLANTIS - THE LOST EMPIRE
June 2001 sees the release by Disney of a film animation entitled =
ATLANTIS - THE LOST EMPIRE, with narration provided by actor Michael J. =
Fox, star of the BACK TO THE FUTURE films. To accompany its release =
Disney have commissioned the making of a documentary about the true =
location and meaning of Plato's Atlantis. It is to be screened in the =
States by the ABC network, and is to be shown world-wide in the months =
to follow, generally one week before the release of the film. More =
importantly, both myself and my theories on Atlantis feature heavily in =
this programme.I was originally approached to take part in the documentary some months =
ago, but nothing came of it. However, in late April I was approached =
again by the production company involved. Initially they were to =
dispatch a film crew to interview me at my home in Leigh-on-Sea, but =
after due consideration they decided to fly me out to Hotel Atlantis on =
Paradise Island in the Bahamas, where they were conducting a number of =
interviews during the first week of May. I thought about the idea for a =
moment, before reluctantly accepting their invite!It was not until I got out to the Bahamas that I found that the script =
was originally to focus on the idea that the ice-bound continent of =
Antarctica was ancient Atlantis. However, after reading the American =
edition of my book GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS, the producers decided to gear =
the whole programme around the idea that Atlantis lay in the Bahamas and
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Caribbean. More incredibly, in the final frames they are to use computer
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graphics to reconstruct Plato's plain and city of Atlantis over the =
western plain of Cuba!Also to be featured on the documentary, which will be screened in the UK
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prior to the release of the Disney film in July, is Boston geologist =
Robert Schoch, who talks about ice-age catastrophes and the Carolina =
Bays; ancient mysteries writer David Hatcher Childress, who will also =
argue that Atlantis was located in the Bahamas and Caribbean, and Taffi =
Fisher, the daughter of America's late great treasure salvor Mel Fisher.
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He, you will recall, from GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS claimed, shortly before =
his death in December 1998, that he had detected underwater =
archaeological features somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Moreover, he was
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confident that these were Plato's city of Atlantis. However, he stated =
also that he would only reveal the exact location of the features when =
the United States was on better political terms with the country in =
whose territorial waters the ruins had been detected, both by satellite =
imagery and sonar scans. In GATEWAY I suggested that the site in =
question lay close to Cuba, even though Mel had provided just enough =
information for me to pin down, almost exactly, the country and location
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in question (and it is close to Cuba). In the light of the recent =
discoveries off the coast of Cuba by Paulina Zelitsky and the ADC team, =
Mel's claims become more intriguing, since they suggest the presence of =
yet further underwater features of possible archaeological importance in
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the Caribbean Sea.Since I knew that Mel's daughter, Taffi, is to feature in the =
documentary I felt it was time to reveal to camera where exactly in my =
opinion the features could be found. This assumption was echoed by Garry
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Bormet, the producer of the documentary, and he hoped that Taffi would =
say the same during her interview. It would be improper for me to say =
here the exact location, especially in the knowledge that Taffi wriggled
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out of revealing the location during her own interview. All I can say, =
as I did in GATEWAY, is that in my opinion the location is not far away =
from Cuba. Keep a check on the TV programming to find out when the =
Atlantis documentary is to be screened in your country.PHOENICIAN SHRINE CLUE TO ATLANTIC JOURNEYS
Now on to other matters. A votive cave on the Mediterranean island of =
Gibraltar has provided vital clues that the Phoenicians ventured out =
into the Atlantic Ocean as early as the 8th century BC.Over the past 10 years archaeologists have unearthed several thousand =
items which show that the ancient religious shrine, which faces out to =
sea, was dedicated to Melkart, the Phoenician form of the classical god =
Hercules. It was found to contain 400 pottery jars, 25 blue, yellow and =
green glass perfume and ointment bottles, 10 finger rings and a large =
number of figurine pendants depicting representations of Melkart. In =
addition to these items, a selection of the votive pieces were found to =
depict Egyptian gods such as Bes and Horus, the infant son of Osiris and
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Isis.Since the cave is visible for up to several miles out to sea, =
archaeologists now believe that Phoenician vessels making Atlantic =
journeys would pause at Gibraltar - the traditional site of one of the =
Pillars of Hercules - to pay tributes to the shrine of Melkart. They =
would then continue their journeys to places such as Britain, the =
Baltic, West Africa and even the Canary Isles.Melkart was chief god of Tyre, the main port of the Phoenicians, on the =
Levant coast of Lebanon. It is thought that his veneration in Spain, and
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in particular the Phoenician and later Carthaginian port of Gades, gave =
rise to the myth that Hercules visited this port during the age of the =
gods.According to Greek mythology Hercules' tenth labour was to kill the =
monster Geryon, king of Gades, and steal his precious cattle. It was =
from the port of Gades in south-west Spain that Iberic-Phoenician =
vessels are thought to have left on their voyages of discovery to =
unknown Atlantic islands. Hercules eleventh labour was to steal the =
golden apples from the Hesperides, fabled islands, or nymphs, which lay =
across the ocean, and which, in all likelihood, were the Caribbean =
islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba.In one version of the story, Hercules went to Africa and demanded from =
Atlas three of the golden apples. Accepting the challenge, the giant =
unloaded on to Hercules his burden of supporting the heavens on his =
shoulders. Atlas then set off for the Hesperides and returned with the =
divine fruit. Hercules then tricked the giant into taking back the =
burden and promptly stole the golden apples, which had been cast to the =
ground. In another version, Hercules himself goes in search of the =
golden apples. On arriving in the Hesperides, he mortally wounds the =
dragon and steals away the precious fruit. Since the only place in which
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they could be preserved was the Hesperides, the goddess Athena returned =
the fruit to the garden.The story of the golden apples is a myth integrally linked with both the
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western limits of the known world and the outer ocean. It brings =
together Hercules, whose name is attached to the entrance to the =
Atlantic; Atlas, whose petrified form was seen as the mountain that =
bears his name in Mauritania, an ancient country of West Africa, and the
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Hesperides themselves, which were both nymphs of great distinction and =
islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean.These revelations come at the same time that evidence of a Phoenician =
presence on the Isles of the Canaries have come to light for the first =
time. According to the work of Pablo Atocha Pena, an archaeologist =
working on this subject in the Canaries, an inscription dating to around
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500 BC has been located there, confirming the presence of Semitic =
voyagers during this early epoch. It is only a short journey westwards =
using the Northern Equatorial Current to the Caribbean, lending weight =
to the theory that this group of islands might have been behind the =
classical accounts of journeys by Hercules from the Phoenician ports of =
Spain to the Hesperides.Source: Pena, Pablo Atoche, La Colonizaci=F3n Del Archipi=E9lago =
Canario: Un Proceso Mediterr=E1neo?, La Colonizaci=F3n Del =
Archipi=E9lago Canario: )Un Proceso Mediterr=E1neo?, 2000.PREHISTORIC CARVINGS FOUND ON THE CANARY ISLES
In addition to the work of Pablo Atocha Pena on Phoenician exploration =
of the Carnary Isles, news comes of the startling discovery on the =
island of Fuerteventura of stone carvings depicting zoomorphic, or more =
likely reptilian, heads. What is incredible about this discovery is that
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the pieces have been dated to 6000 BC by palaentologist Francisco Garcia
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Talavera of the University of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Why he should
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date them to this early time-frame is unclear, since the Canary Isles =
are conventionally thought to have been unhabited until the arrival of =
the Guanche peoples, most probably from West Africa, during the first =
millennium BC.Having seen the pictures in a recent issue of the excellent Italian =
ancient mysteries magazine HERA, I can say that they resemble the heads =
of the feathered serpents on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl in the ancient =
city of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico. Is it possible that the =
forerunners of the Teotihuacan culture were present in the Canary Isles =
thousands of years ago? I will bring you more on this story when I know =
more myself.Source: 'Mistero sotto la Sabbia', HERA, 15, March 2001, p. 11, cf. Mas =
Alla, no. 143..QUESTING CONFERENCE
This year's Questing Conference is to be held at Conway Hall, Red Lion =
Square, London WC1 on Saturday, 3rd November. We have switched the venue
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quite simply because the Institute of Education was uneconomical. What =
we want to do is give you the best possible extravaganza of alternative =
history, forbidden archaeology at the best possible price. Hence tickets
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for this year's event have been reduced from GBP28 to just GBP20 in =
advance, or GBP22 on the day. In addition to this, we have introduced a =
scheme where by you can purchase four or more tickets at a discount of =
10 percent.The line up is one of the strongest we have ever put together so far. =
Historical botonist MICHAEL CARMICHAEL, who last year presented a =
dynamic lecture on the importance of the blue water lily in Egyptian =
kingship and religion, will return to present a talk on the origins of =
alchemy. IAN LAWTON, co-author of the 1999 best-seller GIZA: THE TRUTH =
will present a lecture on the evidence for a world-wide high =
civilisation destroyed by a cosmic event before the end of the last Ice =
Age. ADRIAN GILBERT, co-author of the seminal classic THE ORION MYSTERY,
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will speak on the very latest developments concerning astronomical and =
celestial alignments at Giza. Writer and journalist DAVID ELKINGTON, who
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is the author of the recently published book IN THE NAME OF THE GODS, =
will present a lecture on the significance of acoustics and sonic =
technology to prehistoric cultures. He promises to bring along a special
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guest musician to demonstrate the power of acoustics. No names at this =
point, but be prepared to be amazed at his choice of guest. In contrast,
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CLIVE PRINCE and LYNN PICKNETT will lecture about their revelations =
concerning the mystical intrigue surrounding Rudolf Hess, Rosslyn =
Chapel, and the involvement in Hess's plight of the English royal =
family, as presented in their new book on the subject. I will introduce =
the day with a review of the latest findings in the alternative history,
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forbidden archaeology field, while my friend and colleague GRAHAM =
PHILLIPS will end the day with a presentation of a slightly different =
sort. I have asked him to tell us about his childhood exploits! It has =
to be heard to be believed!In addition to the above lectures, ROBERT TEMPLE, who delivered a =
lecture on his book THE CRYSTAL SUN at last year's Mysteries of the Past
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conference, has agreed to attend the conference if commitments allow. He
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has business concerns in China, and often these will mean that he is out
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of the country on a regular basis.As usual tickets are available either via credit card from Atlantis =
Bookshop on 020.7405.2120 (+20.7405.2120 outside of the UK), by post =
from the PO Box at Leigh-on-Sea, using the reply coupon which =
accompanies the conference flyer, or by purchasing them on the door.I really believe that we have created an event which is not only the =
best in the country, but also one which is admirably value for money, so
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support it if you can.The website contains further information on the various lectures as well
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as easy-to-follow details on how to obtain tickets. There are also =
answers to frequently asked questions regarding the conference. These =
include details of hotels and accommodation, and how to get to the venue
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from the nearest tube station. See you there.TUTANKHAMUN - THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY
In the last newsletter (sent out electronically) I told how I was =
writing a book about a local holy site known as the Running Well, =
following a self-published booklet I did on the same subject back in =
1983 entitled THE RUNNING WELL MYSTERY. Well, I'm afraid that this =
venture has had to be shelved for the moment, due to the foot and mouth =
problem in the UK and, more importantly, a contract I now have to write =
a book on the mysteries of Tutankhamun. It is to be written with Chris =
Ogilvie Herald, the co-author with Ian Lawton, of GIZA: THE TRUTH, who =
has been working hard on this subject for several years. I cannot say =
too much at this time, other than to say that it is going to be very =
controversial indeed. So if anyone has any unpublished stories regarding
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the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon,
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etc., Chris and I would be pleased to hear from them.ANTIQUARIAN BOOK LIST
From time to time my friend and colleague Richard Ward and I produce an =
antiquarian book-list under the name ABC Books. These were printed up =
and dispatched to everyone on the postal mailing list. The last one was =
some three years ago now. However, we gave up this idea when we realised
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that the costs were beginning to out way the sale of the books, plus I =
ran out of time to do it on a regular basis. Yet with the advent of =
on-line book services, we have decided to resurrect the idea and sell =
the books either through the website or via the electronic mailing list.
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So if you are registered in this way, you should hopefully receive a =
copy of our latest book-list which includes over 160 books. The service =
is world-wide, enabling people anywhere to order books either via email =
or by telephoning the book-list hotline. If you have not received a =
book-list, log on to the website and click on the section marked ABC =
Book-list to see if we have that enigmatic book which you have been =
trying to track down for years, or one which will enlighten you further =
on your specialist subject of interest.THE GROUP WITH NO NAME
Several rumours on the internet have been spread about a new cabal of =
authors of the alternative history, forbidden archaeology meeting =
clandestinely at a London hostelry each month to discuss matters of the =
day. Names banded about have included Adrian Gilbert, Ian Lawton, Chris =
Ogilvie Herald, Clive Prince, Lynn Picknett, David Elkington and myself.
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There are suggestions that they are planning to take over the world, or =
something to this effect!The truth of the matter is that these meetings, under the banner of the =
'group with no name', are merely to attempt to bring together =
like-minded individuals to discuss research topics which are of interest
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to us all. So far the meetings have been restricted to a few selected =
individuals, but later on they are hopefully to expand into full-blown =
lectures with a small audience. Subjects debated so far have involved =
the very latest news on the age of the Sphinx (as given by Chris Ogilvie
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Herald) and the evidence for a pre-Ice Age civilisation by Ian Lawton, =
who is currently writing a book on the subject. There are no plans to =
have the talks published as research papers, although what I can say is =
that new information of this sort enables authors of this field to =
update their own knowledge of the subjects under question, and this can =
only benefit the public as a whole.Further news on the development of the group will be given on the =
websites of the individuals involved, as well as on THE DAILY GRAIL at =
http://www.dailygrail.com , so watch out.UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
In the Spring 2000 issue of EARTHQUEST NEWS I reported on the upcoming =
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES exhibition which was to be held at Linz, Austria, in =
July 2001. It was to feature some 300 out-of-place artefacts of a =
palaentological and archaeological interest from around the world, =
including many of the objects previously featured in the works of =
ancient mysteries author Erich von Daniken. The venue has now been =
changed to the Vienna Arts Center, Schottenshift, Vienna, and the dates =
for the exhibition are now 22 June to 23 September 2001. Admission on =
the door is ATS 130. There is to be a conference to start the =
exhibition, which will include Michael Cremo, Neil Steede and myself. =
This is to take place on 22 and 23rd June and the location is the =
Gartenbaukino, Vienna. The entrance fee is ATS 380 per day. Tickets can =
be reserved by emailing [email protected] or faxing +43.1.5333782.=20Organiser Klaus Dona has promised the appearance of over 360 artefacts =
from all over the world including inexplicable pre-Columbian artefacts =
from Colombia, Equador, Peru, Mexico, as well several crystal skulls, =
the glider found in a tomb at Saqqara in Egypt, various objects from =
Sierra Leone, two inscribed stones from the site of Yoniguni in Japan =
and objects from the controversial Burrows Cave in the United States. =
More significantly, the exhibition will present a fossil of a human hand
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in rock that is over 65 million years old and contains an Ammonite of =
the Jurassic period! If you don't believe me visit the UNSOLVED =
MYSTERIES online www.unsolved-mysteries.net. Hope to see a few of you =
there. Should be a good show.
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