Civilization was destroyed at least once before

I have just thought about plate tectonics, anything on any seabed is going to go under the earths mantle eventually, so Atlantis has already, or 'soon' will, go under the mantle somewhere, so it will never get found, its all a matter of time.

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modern civilization...historical culture is pretty much as we have been taught...

the earliest metropolitan civilization came after agriculture became a regular science & was ordered, refined....

now the early account of Nimrod & Babylon might just be a 'Story'...but it was not too far from the truth....
Babylon or Sumer being the forefront of human's coming together in very large groups with a wide variety of specialities


the Vedas were likely highly stylized Tales of that pre-historic era that is conveniently shrouded in mystery & magic instead of technology... thats just a half-asked way of telling a narrative without giving a difinitive answer
~~~ just like the tale of Atlantis was...just a way of trying to explain a fictional world where magic & supernatural things were every day things.. like telepathy (instead of cell phones) ...like X-Ray vision (instead of CAT Scans...
like death-Rays (instead of LASER's ) ...like invisible guides (instead of GPS or nano-bots) the list goes on about humans or demi-gods had extaordinary super-human abilities before the fall-of-man


Mankind now needs Technology to address the lost abilities we had in those pre-historical times...[as the long winded version goes) of our collective fall from grace and a Utopian civilization back before the last ice-age began





finding, or not finding, ancient remnants of a past higher technology...is basically subjective

and is vaguely associated with the idea of Tabula rasa -
Merriam-Webster Online:
the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside
impressions. 2. : something existing in its original pristine state ...

For the record, I'm more on the 'visiting aliens' as a cause of high tech stuff in ancient legends.

If you wanted a resource from a planet, you'd probably not want to live on it as your physiognomy isn't going to be matched to the environment (too heavy, too cold, not enough of one gas and too much of another). much better to recruit the most intelligent locals (or even tweak them a bit) into a workforce or overseers with access to some of your tech.

The Angels in the old testament fit this description. One description tells of 200 of them sodding off to Earth to get laid.

Has a Stargate feel to it doesn't it?

Excellent thread as I've been recently entertaining more and more thoughts about advanced ancient civs. While daydreaming about it I thought "why stop at 10,000-100,000 years ago?" Earth is about 4.54 billion years old and dinosaurs died off about 65 million years ago so why couldn't there be an ancient civilization say 5-10 million years ago? Heck even 1 million years ago. That amount of time passing and climate shifts and change would wipe out just about everything. Of course there isn't any proof but it's fun to entertain such ideas given the huge time span that Earth has been around.