Atlantis and the Silver City (35 page)

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Drawings of two of the paintings in the hall of the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt. A group of electrical engineers examined them and claimed they clearly represented electrical equipment, insulators, and lamps. Inevitably, archaeologists disagree and say they are snake stones
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There are other genuine historical testimonies of “shining lamps” in ancient times, from Egypt to Jerusalem. Just one example is found in
the second century
A.D.
writing by Lucian of Samosata, which refers to a statue of a goddess in a Syrian temple as follows: “She bears on her head a stone called a lamp, and it receives its name from its function. That stone shines in the night with great clarity and provides the whole Temple with light, as with [oil] lamps. In the daytime, it shines dimly, but has a very fine aspect.”
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It has been conjectured that the batteries could have been used in the process of electroplating, since well-documented examples of the end products exist in several museums. Another suggestion has been that low-voltage batteries had medical uses such as for a quick temporary anesthetic. It is known that electric eels were used for that purpose.

A recent press report prompted my imagination to come up with another alternative use for those canals around the capital, but with the same result as Coghill’s suggestion. Researchers had found a way of generating electricity by simply exploiting the differences in the salinity of fresh- and seawater. I quote: “Stanford researchers have developed a rechargeable battery that uses seawater and freshwater to create electricity. Aided by nanotechnology, the battery employs the difference in salinity between fresh and seawater to generate a current. A power station might be built wherever a river flows into the ocean.” As discussed earlier, the Arade River is tidal as far as the west side of Silves with its remnants of ancient embankments, whereas the town was constantly supplied from the east with freshwater flowing down the river. Could those inner rings of water have been engineered to harness this natural rhythm of the incoming tide and outgoing freshwater? It could have operated with a simple system of tidal sluice gates. Perhaps boats only penetrated as far as the outer harbor, with access to the citadel only possible over the connecting bridges.

If the Atlantis rulers were generating some form of electricity, what were they using it for, apart from a little nighttime illumination? One of the most astonishing aspects of ancient records and legends about old civilizations is the life spans given for the rulers. You have to look no farther than the Bible for examples. Those old kings didn’t live for decades, but centuries! Historians just ignore this as though the records are not there. If they were about mother goddesses or phallic worship, they would embrace them without a murmer. (Not literally, I would hasten to add!) The historians
offer no logical explanations, other than that they are all exaggerations or mistakes due to different ways of calculating years. However, the records are far too frequent to dismiss in such a glib way; they have to be addressed. How come, thousands of years ago, life spans were so long for a select few; yet with all the advanced paraphernalia and drugs of our medical industry, only a very small minority of us makes it past ninety?

In 1987, Dr. Hulda Clark, an American, invented a machine now known as the “Zapper.” It followed much earlier controversial work in the 1930s by Royal Raymond Rife. The theory behind the inventions was that practically all diseases and ailments are caused by microorganisms or viruses, and a low-voltage current passed through the body, individually tuned to each virus, kills them. Increasingly, research is proving the virus part of this theory true. Recently there was a press report that fifteen percent of cancers are now proven to be caused by viruses. It is claimed that in 1934, in a landmark study, Rife used his machine to cure all of sixteen advanced cancer and tuberculosis patients given to him for the experiment. He was immediately attacked by the American medical authorities and industry on the basis that they could not duplicate his results. Presumably, he was not prepared to divulge information he regarded as his property. This hardly makes sense if he really did cure the sixteen patients, but one way or another his technology was suppressed. Today, thanks largely to the Internet, it has again become better known. His machine, and Dr. Clark’s more advanced model, allegedly work by passing a low-voltage current through the body at exactly the same frequency as that resonated by the pathogens. It destroys them but does not damage other body tissue. Thousands of these machines are now being used throughout the world, and they can be bought on the Internet for relatively very little.

Arguments, counterarguments, and conspiracy theories abound. Rife’s case has not been helped by charlatans who produced and sold machines claiming to mimic his discoveries but that in fact were useless. Court cases and prison sentences followed. I hold no brief for Zappers, although I admit that the explanation of the science behind them seems eminently sensible. The debate could easily be resolved if some openly monitored public trials were held involving people who are expert in pinpointing the virus responsible and in operating the machines. I have merely mentioned
the matter here as a possible example of simple alternative technology that could have helped those gods to live longer, and as a reason why they may have needed to generate electricity.

If so, it is likely that they would have kept it for themselves. Their subjects would have been in awe of their supernatural power that allowed them to live to such a trouble-free long age. Another recent media report, which some readers will also have seen, concerned our old friend DNA. Scientists have apparently discovered that after a certain age, something stops being renewed in certain specific DNA, and this is what kicks in the ageing process. Now they can turn their attention to reversing it. We are on the very cusp of being able to prevent our bodies’ deteriorating and ageing. Combine that with conquering disease, and we will have life spans of centuries as well, providing we are allowed access to it. Could the world cope with massive populations of multicentenarians? It would mean massive adjustments, and you can see why in ancient times it would have been limited to a very select few.

Did Poseidon and his fellow gods have the ability to manipulate DNA, whether it was for their own benefit or for creating subservient, god-worshipping races of humans? If so, they must have known all about it before creating their kingdoms and “peopling” them. They would have possessed some sort of technology—and, unless they were tapping into another power source undiscovered by us, they would have needed electricity for it.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

The Next Challenge

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his extremity of Europe—southwest Iberia—has long been overlooked when contemplating man’s ancient past. It is as though there has been a huge collective amnesia. This book, though, demonstrates how the key to unlocking a radically different perception of civilized, human activity in ancient times could lie in this very region.

The unearthing of the extraordinary facts relating to the 1755 quake, thought to have been between a hundred and a thousand times bigger than the one that flattened Port-au-Prince in Haiti in 2010, causing more than 220,000 fatalities, and at least as strong as—or even stronger than—that in Japan in March 2011, was one of the main elements in springing the lid on the Pandora’s box and prompted this investigation.

Geological research on the seabed in the Bay of Cádiz has confirmed that a quake of similar magnitude also occurred there at a time closely approximating the date given by Plato for the final destruction of Atlantis (9600
B.C.
). Since then, at intervals of 1,250 to 2,250 years, there have been more seismic upheavals of similarly gigantic proportions.

Scientists now have a much better understanding of how plate tectonics causes temblors such as these. The fault line in front of southwest Iberia is the site of a titanic struggle between the European and African plates.
They are inexorably moving head to head, resulting in enormous pressures that are suddenly and catastrophically released when one or both eventually submit and, in seconds, displace millions of tons of the earth’s crust. It is not only a disaster waiting to happen, but one that has occurred repeatedly over millennia! Indeed, at one stage the Atlantis coast could have extended to the point where the two great tectonic plates are currently battling it out.

The event that destroyed Atlantis could well have been triggered, and even dramatically magnified, by the huge quantities of meltwater now calculated to have been released from the ice caps at that time.

Many books have claimed to have discovered Atlantis somewhere else in the world, but most were prone to ignoring those clues given by Plato that did not support their theories. One example is the proposition about the Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Santorini. It is currently basking in a bout of publicity as a result of programs on TV and recently published books. Yet it meets few of Plato’s clues and falls woefully short on many others. Arguments continue to be paraded regarding alternative whereabouts of the Pillars of Hercules, while arbitrarily adjusting Plato’s timescale by a factor of up to ten, despite the theories being comprehensively discredited. Yes, Santorini blew up with an almighty bang, although Plato makes no mention of a volcanic eruption. Yes, it caused a huge tsunami and yes, the Minoans were undoubtedly a great maritime power; but their destruction happened around eight thousand years
after
the dates given by Plato for Atlantis. There is a possibility that their civilization was grafted from resurgent elements of the original Atlantis culture and that, in much earlier times, the island might have been an outpost of the Atlantis Empire. Samples of the ancient Iberian alphabet have been found on Crete, the main Minoan power base. That’s about as close to Atlantis as it could possibly have been.

Conversely, the exhaustive analysis of Plato’s clues detailed on these pages has revealed that the overwhelming majority point to southwest Iberia. None of the clues have been shirked or dodged, even if there wasn’t an immediate obvious explanation for a few of them. Incredibly, even the ancient capital Plato described in such exacting detail has been pinpointed. You can go and walk its streets today and gaze down over the surrounding
area from the current castle ramparts, imagining how it looked when surrounded by water and embankments, a hive of Atlantean activity.

The awesome Atlantis wealth is traced to the phenomenal amount of metals mined in the area for thousands of years. The mountains, the site of the great “bustling harbor,” and the huge sunken plain all exist. Even the approximate position of one set of unaccountable, submerged ruins is known. Conundrums that have baffled researchers for years have been resolved—the nature of the mysterious metal “orichalcum,” for example.

Plato’s vast Atlantis island-based empire has been reunified and all the dots joined up across the Atlantic islands to America. The pieces of the puzzle now fall into place.

What else might we learn? Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen give an indication of the riches that could await us. That ancient alphabet and the great white stone egg, with its enigmatic symbol, hint at something sensational about our past. Were the gods in possession of knowledge that we are only currently acquiring—the manipulation of DNA and the creation of life-forms? Controversial translations of ancient Sumerian text and Zulu legends support that hypothesis.

Thankfully for those of us fortunate to live in this small paradise, the next big seismic orgasm to hit southwest Iberia is not scheduled for at least a thousand years. If, however, appropriate research is undertaken, metaphorical quakes could soon be shaking the very foundations of current historical and archaeological thinking. This could yield huge bounty in terms of artifacts, as well as knowledge about this fabled civilization that, toward the end of the Ice Age, bestrode the Western world. This was but one part of a worldwide mix of civilizations whose existence is denied by the establishment—largely because they refuse to acknowledge the great age of many colossal remains. Even when extreme age is not a contention, in cases such as the ancient sites on the Mediterranean island of Malta and the odd pyramid in South America, they offer no credible explanation as to how they could fit into their configuration of history.