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Places · Greece and RomeAtlantisPlato says a great island empire sank in a single day and night, and then his unfinished dialogue stops mid-sentence just as Zeus starts to speak. No Greek writer before him mentions Atlantis. So was it a warning parable, a memory of a real disaster, or something else? The sources point several ways.People · 20th-century American occultismDoreal and the "Emerald Tablets of Thoth"A teacher who founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver said he found emerald tablets at the Great Pyramid in 1925, written by Thoth, a priest-king fleeing Atlantis. Scholars call the book a 20th-century composition; he later moved followers to the Colorado mountains to wait out a nuclear war predicted for 1953. Who was he, really?Texts · Hermetic and Arabic alchemyEmerald TabletIn the oldest telling, the tablet is found in an underground chamber, held in the hands of an old man seated on a throne; its dozen or so lines, credited to Hermes, became the founding charter of European alchemy: "That which is below is like that which is above." The earliest known version is Arabic. Where did it come from?Objects · Sumer and Babylon; modern speculationNibiruIn Babylon, Nibiru was a name of the god Marduk, who "upheld the paths" of the stars. In modern lore, it is a hidden planet that would knock the solar system off course; the 3,600-year orbit people quote comes from a number unit, say Assyriologists. What did the Babylonians actually point at in the sky?Texts · India (20th century)Vaimanika ShastraIts author said the whole text came to him through psychic contact with a sage who lived thousands of years earlier, yet it was dictated in the 1910s and 20s, the era of World War I aviation. Presented as an ancient science of aircraft, it was tested by engineers in 1974. What did they find?People · Modern ancient-astronaut writingZecharia SitchinA single 4,300-year-old cylinder seal in a Berlin museum, VA 243, became the most famous piece of evidence for one man's claim that Sumerian gods were astronauts from a hidden planet. Cuneiform specialists say his translations are not supported by the languages or the texts. What did he say the seal showed?
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