From Atlantis to the Sphinx: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World

s/t: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World Recent discoveries of ancient water damage to the Sphinx have thrown the scientific world into a tizzy with the suggestion that Egypt's legendary monuments might be thousands of years older than previously believed. In his astonishing new bestseller, Colin Wilson delves into these explosive new findings & takes us on a grand tour of the knowledge amassed by researchers over the centuries. He explores mysteries that have puzzled humanity since Plato: Was there an ancient civilization destroyed by a great catastrophe whose survivors built the Sphinx some 10,500 years before Christ? Did they possess a knowledge system that could orchestrate the transport of stones weighing thousands of tons, an accomplishment that still baffles modern engineers? Wilson's tour takes us to the cave paintings of the Cro-Magnons, the tortuous interior shafts of the pyramids, the Upper Amazon & the Gilbert Islands, touching on sources from Robert Graves's The White Goddess to the I-Ching, to get to the ultimate nature of human consciousness. "In this compelling book, Colin Wilson argue that thousands of years before ancient Egypt and Greece held sway, there was a great civilisation whose ships travelled the world from China to the South Pole (which was the free of ice), and whose advanced knowledge of science, mathematics and astronomy was passed on to descendants who escaped to Egypt and South America." "Yet the most important fact to emerge from these new discoveries is that the 'old ones' possessed a completely different knowledge system from ours. Compared with modern man, they were as alien as Martians. It was this knowledge system, argues Colin Wilson, that enabled them to move stones weighing a thousand tons, to drill a granite coffin with an accuracy that still baffles modern engineers and to hollow out stone vases whose long necks will not admit even a child's finger." "From Atlantis to the Sphinx sets out to reconstruct that ancient knowledge. In a fascinating exploration of the remote depths of history, here is a groundbreaking attempt to understand how these long-forgotten people thought, felt and communicated with the universe."--Jacket Inspired by the revelation that the Sphinx had been weathered by water and not by wind-blown sand and was, therefore, thousands of years older than the oldest civilisation known to man, Colin Wilson sets out to explore the remote depths of history. The compelling argument of this bestselling book is that, thousands of years before Ancient Egypt and Greece held sway, there was a great civilisation whose ships travelled the world and who possessed some knowledge system that offered a unified view of the universe, alien to modern man. In this fascinating exploration of the world at a time when, according to Plato, the 'lost civilisation' of Atlantis was destroyed, the author makes a ground-breaking attempt to understand how these long-forgotten peoples thought, felt and communicated on a universal plane. This work argues that a highly advanced knowledge system, developed by a pre-Ice-Age civilization, was passed on to ancient Egyptians by survivors. The book attempts to reconstruct that knowledge system, and try to understand how these "old ones" thought and communicated.