Gotta contradict you on the glass. Nuclear glass is generally yellowish green by all accounts I've read.

As for the other corrections, you've inspired me to recheck my sources so I wont be responding immediately.

From reading your link about OKLO reactions, I gather that they produce enriched uranium, and that the process lasts about a million years.

The finds in the great lakes area were dated as being only in the 10s of thousands of years old, and they contained depleted uranium in all but two cases. They do not seem to fit the description of an OKLO reaction.

EDIT:
I googled "Mahabharata" + "fraud", as well as "Iron thunderbolt + hoax". I have found assertions of your point, mostly blaming nexus for starting this, and apparently assuming that all versions online are derived from Nexus' version. Unfortunately nobody has seen fit to provide evidence rather than pointing a finger at Nexus, so i'll have to actually find a translation of the Mahabharata. I can't say I'm too happy about having to read (or at least skim) such a large book, but that's the price you pay for being quick to believe what you read online.

I went back and reviewed my earlier postings as well. I never claimed that all or even many ancient civilizations had pre-historical nuclear wars, nor did I say that the stories I cited were certainly nuclear in nature (although I did venture a wild guess in one case only- the pyramid war). I was answering a question about which cultures I am aware of that have ancient stories of a huge war. If you respond to my actual statement, you can't include Egypt in your list. Egyptians believed in a war between Osiris, Horus, and Set. There was supposed to be a Sumerian story about a war between Enki and Enlil but a few of my favorite online encyclopedias know nothing of this, and have corrected errors in the source of that story, so I must conclude that the war story is a hoax or a bad interpretation

I'll check out the native american angle later.

I have to say, I'm glad to get some good direction on this subject for a change. It would be sorta nice if you'd spell it out for me instead of just inspiring me to spend hours double checking details in the encyclopedia, but at least I learned something new.
I'm amazed by the fact that it's often harder to establish the truth as a fact than it is to establish a myth as such. The fact that true events will generally be accompanied by evidence, which can be misinterperted, or some of which may appear contradictory, gives truth a disadvantage against neatly self-contained stories with false bibliographies that the average person will be unable to verify. In the case of the "pyramid war" story, I could find no evidence of absence until I realized that the page promoting that story had gotten Enki's origin wrong, which lead me into seeing a wide gap between the story and the ecyclopedia entry on Sumerian mythology.

[Edited on 3-6-2004 by The Vagabond]

this is very possible....the government could be testing bombs that can warp to places instead of cruising towards the target....some of the bombs were lost in the warp and ended up in ancient iraq....maybe there is another earth similiar to ours and they fired a nuke at our younger earth which was not so developed yet.....or maybe somebody traveled back in time with high tech stuff and made a nuke....

Then the Lord rained upn Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the pain and all the inhabitants of cities, and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of pain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Is the fire that rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah a missile or bomb? Isn’t the total devastation described by the author reminiscent of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki? Doesn’t the smoke of this explosion remind you of the mushroom cloud created by an atomic bomb?

The inevitable question is why extraterrestrials would want to destroy a corrupted earthly city. If my assumption is correct, the answer would most likely be connected to alien intervention in our genetic development.
Perhaps their intervention included safeguarding their genetic handiwork. That is, ensuring that no undesirable genetic strains or mutations occurred. It it is clear that many residents of Sodom and Gomorrah practiced acts that were considered deviant, most notably homosexuality. But could they have become genetically polluted by homosexual acts? Of course not. But some researchers suspect that they went beyond homosexuality. Way beyond. I’ve read translations of ancient documents that reports sexual acts as deviant as bestiality in some places, including Sodom and Gomorrah. If those reports are correct, genetic pollution could indeed have occurred, because mankind was said to be at a phase in the genetic intervention process when humans and lower species of animals could produce offspring together. Those same documents allege that many of the old myths and pictures that show human-animal hybrid creatures were therefore to be taken literally.

I had seen one time before where this could have been caused by a massive electrical surge released by the earth. Potentially at the time of a magnetic reversal. It was compared to what happens when a high voltage charge was applied to sand and the areas the wire touched turned to glass. If a large charge was released could it not cause areas to turn to a glass like surface?

this topic caught my eye a bit ago...I thought it seemed somewhat irrational...till I did some research...Now it seems that there is A LOT that is kept from us about ancient civilizations that we diddn't know before.

well i really hate to burst bubbles but Fuel air explosives FAE's create mushroom clouds Look up MOAB the level of destruction is nearly the same but its non nuclear and furthermore a college student can build a Nuke but without specific knowlege of the physics involved he or she couldn't make it do Crack off

a Fuel air explosive however is very simple its aerosolized fuel that is then lit nasty boom big destruction tends to flatten areas like a hydrogen bomb
it is far more likely that someone discovered how to make a fuel air explosive than a nuke the ancient Greeks had flamethrowers the FAE isn't that far ahead of that

furthermore a college student can build a Nuke

Correct but not completely. The theory is well known, the actual making of the bomb components requires a high tech machine shop, the ability to process radioactive materials - and depending on which design is used, handling high exploses very carefully, plus electonic knowledge.

One can see the problems Iran and North Korea are having and the problems the South Africans, Isrealis and others have had in bringing a weapon into the world.

It is thought high tech countries like Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Germany etc could build a uranium bomb in six-nine months and a P warhead in about double that time. H bombs a few years.

Howdy CC

I don't think Byrd posts here much anymore but you can find her at the Hall of Ma'at.

Yep there was a war it just had a lot of mythological stuff added into it-like Homer adding in gods in Illaid

"Technology" is a modern interpretation of what was then, not technology but magic. Magic is not technology.

Unfotrunately nothing has ever shown up to support the idea of a previous technological society.

There are vitrified areas in very ancient (pre-history) urban centers in the Indus Valley (India/Pakistan), Sinai desert peninsula (Egypt) & if memory serves me correctly, Peru/Bolivia?
Strange how it is the very ancient "lost" civilization areas that display these anomalous (SP?) features, ie. vitrified/melted/fused sand/rock/soil/pottery/brick.
The past is NOT as reported!

Originally posted by virricocha
There are vitrified areas in very ancient (pre-history) urban centers in the Indus Valley (India/Pakistan), Sinai desert peninsula (Egypt) & if memory serves me correctly, Peru/Bolivia?
Strange how it is the very ancient "lost" civilization areas that display these anomalous (SP?) features, ie. vitrified/melted/fused sand/rock/soil/pottery/brick.
The past is NOT as reported!

Vitrification has always been a problem for me.

Silica melts at about 3002° F ( 1650(±75) °C ). And though Propane and Wood both get to about 3590° ( 1977°C ) in the flame... you have to maintain that temperature for a while to get the sand grains to start to melt into a glassy substance. Yet there have been reports of entire cliff faces that have been vitrified.

One of the many things that make you go "Hmm....."