Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world• Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago• Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture• Explores the Denisovans’ extraordinary advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, and celestially-aligned architectureIce-age cave artists, the builders at Göbekli Tepe, and the mound-builders of North America all share a common ancestry in the Solutreans, Neanderthal-human hybrids of immense sophistication, who dominated southwest Europe before reaching North America 20,000 years ago. Yet, even before the Solutreans, the American continent was home to a powerful population of enormous stature, giants remembered in Native American legend as the Thunder People. New research shows they were hybrid descendants of an extinct human group known as the Denisovans, whose existence has now been confirmed from fossil remains found in a cave in the Altai region of Siberia.Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication. Examining evidence from ancient America, the authors reveal how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of the Adena mound-building culture, explaining the giant skeletons found in Native American burial mounds. The authors also explore how the Denisovans’ descendants were the creators of a cosmological death journey and viewed the Milky Way as the Path of Souls.Revealing the impact of the Denisovans upon every part of the world, the authors show that, without early man’s hybridization with Denisovans, Neanderthals, and other yet-to-be-discovered hominid populations, the modern world as we know it would not exist.Andrew Collins is a science and history writer, who has been investigating the origins of human civilization for over three decades. He is a noted explorer and the co-discoverer of a massive cave complex beneath the Giza plateau, now known as “Collins’ Caves.” He is the author of several bestselling books, including From the Ashes of Angels and Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods. He lives in southeast England.Gregory L. Little, Ed.D., is the author of over 30 books, including Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds and Earthworks. His research has been featured on the National Geographic Channel, MSNBC, Discovery, and the History Channel. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

An ancient mystery, an astounding discovery, a medicine man with magical powers--a girl, her brother, and an intriguing island boy on a perilous trek through the jungle . . . The Mystery of the Ancient Stone CityThirteen-year-old Sidney Jacobsen thought that when she flew to a remote Pacific island to live with her family for a year, she would be living in a beautiful native-style home in a tropical paradise. She also wanted to solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time--who built the ancient, enormous stone city of Nan Madol on the island, over a thousand years ago? Giants? Powerful creatures from another planet?To her dismay, when Sid, her father, and her eleven-year-old brother Peter arrive on Pohnpei, they find that the conditions are more horrifying than they'd ever imagined, and that Nan Madol is off-limits to outsiders. Frightening intruders are sent by the Nanmarki, the King of Nan Madol, to scare Peter and Sid away from the mysterious ruins of the stone city. Then fourteen-year-old islander Jabro takes them on a boat trip that turns into a struggle for survival in the jungle. When they enter the forbidden and sacred burial ground in the stone city, they make a thrilling discovery. Challenged by physical threats as well as their own doubts and fears, the three adventurers must now find a way to return to their island home, while mustering the courage to keep secret the amazing discoveries they have made at Nan Madol.Christine Z. Mason has served in the Peace Corps, teaching Art and Photography at the Community College of Micronesia on Pohnpei, Eastern Caroline Islands, the setting for The Mystery of the Ancient Stone City. She is a former attorney and currently a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels for adults: Boundaries: A Love Story and Weighing the Truth. She lives in the Santa Cruz mountains in California.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

REVISED & EXPANDED Edition 2017: Includes Controversial New Images from the NASA Curiosity Rover * 166 Black/White photos (66 in color, Kindle edition only)- Why has NASA not announced to the world the greatest scientific discovery ever made in the history of space exploration?Do you want to know what has REALLY been discovered by the Orbiters and Rovers on the planet Mars?While scientists spend billions of dollars confirming that microbes live in the Martian soil, people sitting at home on their computers studying the Mars images, are making far more astounding discoveries...they have found the possible archaeological remains of an extraterrestrial civilization!M J Craig is a writer, researcher and composer living in Wiltshire, England. He's involved in projects that seek to establish a more enlightened civilization in our world.His first book "Secret Mars: The Alien Connection" was published in 2013, with a revised and expanded edition published in 2017, including a German translation ("Geheimer Mars: Die außerirdische Verbindung").Hard to believe? Well, this challenging book invites you to take a look at the astounding pictures yourself and make up your own mind... SECRET MARS presents over 100 incredible images taken by American and European spacecraft that reveal possible evidence of a civilization that once lived and may still live, on the planet Mars...powerful evidence that scientists are ignoring!SECRET MARS reveals the shocking reason why NASA are forbidden to tell the world about what has been found..."All I'm saying is take a look at the strange geometrical objects in these pictures from Mars. Most of them may just be odd-looking rocks, but if just ONE of these is artificial and it doesn't say 'Made by NASA' on it - then we may be looking at archaeology from an ancient Martian race." - M J Craig, author of Secret MarsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

First, there was Communion, the biggest best seller about alien contact ever published. Now, after 33 years of having what he calls "the visitors" in his life, Whitley Strieber returns with a new vision of contact that has the power to change the world. The strange entities he wrote about in Communion have been in the lives of the close encounter witnesses now for a generation, but they have remained hidden from most of us. They are ready for that to change. But it's up to us.From A New World:As science advances, we are finding that the universe is far larger and more complex than we ever imagined, and mysterious beings like our visitors, which we dismissed as imaginary, are turning out to be real. This is calling to all of us to find a new life - a new world - in which they play a part.As we are coming to realize that they are real and here, we also find ourselves asking the question that Col. Philip Corso asked so long ago when he found himself facing them: "What's in it for us?"They want to join us. They need us, but more importantly, we need them - their wisdom and their insight into the peril of our world and how to ensure our future.Dare we open our door to them?My most recent book is the Afterlife Revolution. After my beloved wife Anne died in August of 2015, she returned to me in an ingenious and convincing way. I began to commune with her, and the Afterlife Revolution, which is about an entirely new way of looking at life and death, arose out of that communion. My grief at her loss has transformed into a warm and deeply satisfying new form of love.I publish both fiction and nonfiction. My most famous works of fiction are the Wolfen, the Hunger, Warday (with James Kunetka), Superstorm (with Art Bell), Majestic and the Grays.My best-known works of nonfiction are Communion and the Communion series: Transformation, Breakthrough, Confirmation, the Secret School and Solving the Communion Enigma. I've also published the Key and Super Natural: a New Vision of the Unexplained with Rice University Religion Chair Jeffry J. Kripal, and many other books.My website is Unknowncountry.com and I'm on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

The Hopi of the Desert Southwest are known today as superb sky watchers and dry farmers, but long ago they were also accomplished sailors. This book explores the tribe's links to the South Pacific, Easter Island, Egypt, India, and Mayan Central America, where psychic Edgar Cayce claims a lost Hall of Records awaits discovery. Other topics include: hourglass symbols, lunation triangles, Ant People, Birdman, the Dogon of Africa, Lascaux, Orion the Hand Constellation, and the cosmic Kundalini quest to the heart of the Milky Way. "Gary David, whose work on the archaeoastronomy of the Southwest is of the first importance, generously shared his extensive knowledge and insights with me on a journey through Arizona and New Mexico."-Graham Hancock, America BeforeFrom Chapter 1: The Road to OrionIn the spring of 1997 I embarked on a research and writing quest that would last to this day. That fall I would turn 45, and my midlife crisis involved a change of literary partners: from poetry to nonfiction. I had been living with my family in northern Arizona for a few years, and had begun to explore the incredibly complex and intriguing Hopi culture, as well as their ancestral rock art in the region. During a drive to the reservation in order to watch the katsina (kachina) dancers, those bizarre, multicolored masked spirit messengers, I had an epiphany of sorts. I had recently read Robert Bauval’s book The Orion Mystery, which basically posits that the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau corresponded to the belt stars of Orion. Up ahead on the lonely, arrow-straight road going north lay the three primary Mesas upon which the Hopi had lived, grew food, prayed and performed religious ceremonies for over a millennium. What if, I idly imagined, that triad of flat-topped mountains where the Hopi had constructed their stone and adobe villages were also an “Orion Correlation”? I put those wispy daydream clouds in the back of my mind and proceeded to experience the peaceful but pragmatic Hopi themselves.After witnessing a number of sacred katsina dances of inestimable power and beauty, I returned home and got out a map of Arizona and a sky chart. What I found astounded me! There was a Hopi village or ruin site corresponding to each major star in the constellation—not just the belt stars. Not only that, there appeared to be an inter-relationship between the ancient villages, separated by many miles, that were aligned to sunrise and sunset points on the horizon at the summer and winter solstices. Perfectly projected upon the high desert, Orion also incorporated what I came to call a “chakra line,” running down the middle of the constellation’s terrestrial configuration. It stretched from southwestern Colorado to the mouth of the Colorado River and contained more that a dozen villages or ruins. In addition, the template also encompassed the spectacular Ancestral Puebloan “star city” of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico—the largest groups of ruins in the American Southwest corresponding to Sirius, the brightest stellar body in the heavens. As we shall see, many vistas full of mystery and majesty unfold on the road to Orion.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

The Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into understanding the secrets of consciousness, ancient history, and the very nature of reality itself. Be prepared to question the world you live in and everything you thought you knew about the universe, human origins, and the lost civilizations of the past. Discover thought-bending evidence from some of the oldest text ever written and learn the reasons why their content eventually became suppressed and hidden from most of society. Conspiracy theories or conspiracy facts, you decide what's real based on the evidence. Once you read The Stage of Time, your perspective on reality may never be quite the same way again. This book includes: Details about the ancient civilizations that once existed around the world and the events which led to their disappearance. Translations from ancient texts that include: The Atrahasis, Enuma Elish, Sumerian King List, Eridu Genesis, Code of Hammurabi, Emerald Tablets, and more. The eagle and the serpent, cataclysms during the last ice age, and the influences of the Anunna. Secrets of consciousness, reincarnation, spirituality, and life in the universe.Matthew LaCroix is a passionate writer and researcher who grew up in the outdoors of northern New England. From an early age, a strong connection back to nature was established and built into the morals of his life. His persistent yearning for adventure led him into profound, life-changing experiences that inspired him to write for local and national magazines such as Backpacker and AMC Outdoors.While attending Plymouth State University, he published his first book at the age of 22 and began studying history, philosophy, quantum mechanics, and superstring theory. His focus became uncovering and connecting the esoteric teachings from secret societies and ancient cultures that disappeared long ago in our past. At 32 he published his second book; “The Illusion of Us”, which combined years of research to discover the truth about history, human origins, as well as the fundamentals of consciousness.In 2019 he released his third book entitled; “The Stage of Time”, which represented a compilation of ancient texts, spiritual wisdom, and theoretical physics, combined together to find answers to some of our most difficult questions. From understanding the complexities of reality to lost history, and the identity of the gods of antiquity, no stone is left unturned in the endless pursuit of truth.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Hidden Stonehenge is the remarkable chronicle of one man's thrilling quest to solve a profound archeological mystery. On the remote plains of southern Alberta sits an ancient temple older than England's Stonehenge by some 800 years. Yet, like Stonehenge, it features a built-in calendar of astonishing accuracy. Incredibly, 5,000 years ago, Britons and Plains Indians were making precise astronomical observations at these two sites. Follow Professor Freeman as he explores the astonishing implications of his discoveries.Gordon Freeman was born in Canada and was introduced to Stone Age artifacts at the age of six, when his father collected stone projectile points and tools from the prairie after dry winds had blown away tilled soil. In 1980, Freeman discovered an ancient Sun Temple in southern Alberta and has studied it ever since. He has an MA from the University of Saskatchewan, a PhD from McGill, and a DPhil from Oxford.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago.Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing implications for the history of mankind.Lloyd Ryan has a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi (1989). He's done folklore research on the neighbor Canadian islands in Newfoundland.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

In this fully revised and updated edition, the bestselling authors of The Templar Revelation present new and compelling evidence linking Leonardo da Vinci with the forgery of Christianity's most famous relic. For centuries the Turin Shroud was believed to be Christ's authentic burial cloth, miraculously imprinted with his image -- but in 1988 carbon dating revealed it is a medieval- or Renaissance-era forgery. However, authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince realized that the 1988 discovery prompted even more questions:The image seems to be a photograph -- so could the Turin Shroud actually be the world's first photograph?If the face of the man on the Shroud is not Jesus', whose is it?Who had the sheer audacity to create what would become an infamous relic of Christianity, faking even Christ's holy, redemptive blood?Whoever did this was not only a genius but also a heretic....After more than a decade of research, Picknett and Prince have accumulated evidence that shows not only was the forger of the Turin Shroud none other than Leonardo da Vinci but also that he used his own face for that of Christ. The Turin Shroud is, among other things, a five-hundred-year-old photograph of Leonardo da Vinci. Could Christianity's greatest relic in fact be an attempt to undermine the religion itself?In this revision of their 1994 book, London-based writers Prince and Picknett jump on the Da Vinci Code bandwagon by claiming that the face on the Turin shroud is not Jesus but Da Vinci himself. Based on their research into the carbon-dating of the Shroud and their own re-creation of the circumstances under which the Shroud could have been created, they conclude that the Shroud is man-made, comes from no earlier than the 14th century, and that Leonardo (whom they claim invented photography) used photographic technology for the basis for the painted image. For their research, the authors compared Da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundi with the image on the shroud and found that it matched up perfectly with the man on the Shroud. While the authors can provide no proof that Da Vinci used his face as the model for the face on the Shroud, their research claims a never-before acknowledged connection between Leonardo and the Shroud. Unfortunately, the authors’ fast-paced and detailed detective work results in little more than speculation about Da Vinci’s relationship to the Shroud. Only slightly provocative, the book tediously searches for new clues in an old case now shrouded in indifference.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Gunung Padang is a megalithic site located in Karyamukti village, Cianjur regency, West Java Province of Indonesia, 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of the city of Cianjur or 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Lampegan station. It has been called the largest megalithic site in all of Southeastern Asia, and has produced controversial carbon dating results which, if confirmed, would suggest that construction began as far back as 20,000 BCE.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danny_Natawidjaja2/2Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.