Massive Discovery Hints at a Lost Global Civilization Wiped Out by a Mysterious Flood

Daily Galaxy ^ | September 01, 2025 | Melissa Ait Lounis

[Windcatcher]

I’m glad someone pointed that out. Evidence of arsenic poisoning has been found at ancient sites where copper was smelted.

[Red Badger]

I heard he sells flood insurance....................

[SunkenCiv]

Sez here, as a sulfide and oxide it has been known and used since antiquity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic#History

As an impurity it has been sneakin’ up and killin’ people for a long long time.

If memory serves, the first sculpture from platinum (or rather the four platinum metals, which are generally found together) was accomplished using arsenic to keep it pliable while it was being hand-shaped. The sculptor just had to avoid the toxic clouds that drifted off the work.

Artists, where would we be without ‘em. 😊

[ro_dreaming]

I remember reading about a worldwide flood, too. I don’t think it was 20,000 years ago, however.

[Eastern Shore Virginian]

But the insurance companies said it was all wind damage so it’s good.

[Pocketdoor]

A curved wall like the takes only one course of brick... Uses less brick than a straight wall. A straight wall would need to be thicker otherwise it would fall over. The technique is still used today.

[Wuli]

There is a TV show that plays on the History Channel called “Ancient Aliens”.

The people who appear as hosts of the show and the guests they have take the theoretical position that many things that archeology has found that appear to more advanced than possible in the civilizations said to have made them are things either made by “ancient aliens” or using technology “ancient aliens” gave or left them.

Where I contend that long before the last ICE age and leading up to the Biblical time of Noah, that there were advanced human civilizations around the world, more advanced than what modern archeology notes as the “ancient” civilizations it claims to have discovered.

I believe that contention is simply not noted in the Bible specifically because as far the human history remarks in the old testament are Middle Eastern in origin and have little to say about people and places beyond the Middle East - because they were not known to the ancestors or descendants of Abraham (born in what is known now as Iraq).

[Red Badger]

They knew of India, but not much further east, and of Egypt and not much further west, and Ethiopia and Sudan and not much further south.............

[bitt]

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[Wuli]

“They knew of India, but not much further east, and of Egypt and not much further west, and Ethiopia and Sudan and not much further south.............”

The old testament script that knew that which Middle East people knew, but nothing distinct beyond a certain radius - not most of Asia, not most of Europe north of the Mediterranean, not most of Africa south of “north Africa” (on or connected to the north Africa lands along the Mediterranean or the Red Sea), nothing of the Americas, nothing of the arctic circle. Yet in all those places there were and hand been human civilizations.

[Bob Ireland]

***As Rocky and Bullwinkle said, “Rue Brittania”***

"Britannia waives the rules!"

[Red Badger]

People didn’t travel much in those days and those that did, usually merchants, sometimes didn’t come back, having fallen prey to thieves, and highway men or warrior tribes.

And when they did come back, they told tales of far away place that many discounted as fantasy.

I remember reading a story of sailors that had travelled to India and came back and told of WOOL that grew on TREES. Europeans didn’t believe such tall tales.

Of course the sailors were talking about cotton plants..............

[daku]

…” Only a small number of human skeletons have been recovered from the lower layer, leading Schmidt to speculate that people may have fled before the flood reached the city “ …

Apparently a bit more advanced than some of our contemporaries

[tired&retired]

This sounds like the research work of Immanual Velikovsky.

Ages in Chaos is a book by the author Immanuel Velikovsky, first published by Doubleday in 1952, which put forward a major revision of the history of the Ancient Near East, claiming that the histories of Ancient Egypt and the Israelites are five centuries out of step.

[Doctor Congo]

Serpentine walls are self supporting.
Straight walls are much more prone to falling over.
IIRC

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The stories of Atlantis may well be true. How advance were they? Were they equal to our civilization?

[Max in Utah]

Here's some hard (very hard) evidence of amazing ancient machining:

The Tiny Ancient Artifacts Changing History! Ancient Egyptian Hard Stone Vases

I was a machinist for over 20 years and then did tool and fixture design for nearly 30 years following that, so I have some background to go by.

These Egyptian stone vases are remarkable for their precision of form in such hard and difficult materials. We could make such objects today but it would be an expensive and lengthy struggle to do so. Bottom line IMO is that the creators of these artifacts must have used precision machine tools to produce them, probably using diamond-tipped cutting tools.

[Trump_Triumphant]

A flood? I wonder where that came from?

[Savage Beast]

It's tantalizing, yes. It's also true, I think. Human beings are not going to bump around in the woods for 200,000 or 300,000 years without forming civilizations and developing some kind of technology et al.

I definitely believe the Vedic tales are basically and perhaps totally true, and I think that Vedic wisdom, e.g. the Bhagavad Gita, is a treasure bequeathed to us from the Vedic Civilization.

I also cannot imagine how the ancient Peruvian walls could have been constructed without some kind of vitrification or the structures of Puma Punku have been constructed without the technology of some advanced civilization.

Maybe the metals were recycled. Certainly gold and other precious metals would have been confiscated, but it does seem, to me, that some remnants would have remained. Out of place artifacts offer explanations, maybe all the explanation needed.

I appreciate your wise responses to my questions.

[abigkahuna]

What should be considered an advanced civilization? Of course going to the moon would be considered advanced. But anything above hunter-gatherer should be considered advanced—right?

I also think that “technology” could have had a different path than what we proceeded on post Younger Dryas...Use of sound is the method that I prefer that we humans once used, but I could be way off.

I think Graham Hancock would also believe that advanced civilizations of the past do not include ancient aliens, nor spaceships or crystal lasers—but more mundane aspects of civilization like maybe sweage disposal or running water or even time keeping, or alphabets—things like that...

Veliokovsky (sic) as well as Hancock spoke of the collective amnesia. The works of Randall Carlson regarding the Day of the Dead touches upon this as the entire world has such a holiday in the same time period of the calendar that speaks of a great calamity. (https://sacredgeometryinternational.com/cosmic-lessons-the-day-of-the-dead-part-3/)

Underwater archeology is what Hancock says should be the next great thing in terms of discovery as Oceans rose some 100m following the glacial melt 12Kya. Coastlines were extended some distance if not miles into the today’s oceans and we do know that peoples lived along coasts where food gathering was easier.

There is much to learn still about our past and it would be egotistical to insist that we are the bees knees. Remember—when civilization was destroyed—all the inventions to date were also destroyed as well as the knowledge to make them. Think arrow heads...to good ones have been found up to a certain date...then blank—then shoddy arrow heads were found...why? Because those that had not hunted needed to hunt and had not the skills to create the perfect heads-—

Think about it. a wheeled cart. All the carts have been destroyed, as well ascart-makers. The next carts produced are based upon memory as a child on how they may have looked, thus the new creations are not as good as the former, older ones. That is when one knows that a prior society has been destroyed—the new stuff is not better than the old...

It is all fascinating indeed.