Lovingly dedicated to:

my son Daniel,
my mother Pauline
and
my father Bill.

Earth's Forbidden Secrets

Part One

Searching for the Past

By

Maxwell Igan

Author's Note

If you are thinking 1 year ahead, plant seeds

If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree
If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.
- Chinese Emperor Kuan Tsu, 5th century BC

Earth's Forbidden Secrets

Part1

Searching for the Past

Table of Contents

1.

Enigma & Conspiracy

2.

Riddles from the Past

3.

Of Lost Explorers and Ancient Mysteries

4.

A Valley of Kings

5.

The Death of a God

Part Two:

Investigation
6.

The Lost Lands

7.

The Case for Ancient Flight

8.

The Remapping of Prehistory

9.

10.

The Tale of the Sumerians

The Maya

Part Three:

Analysis
11.

Creation Connections

12.

The Signs of War

13.

The Grand Deception

A

14.

Forgotten Codes

15.

Afterthoughts

Part Four

Appendices

Appendix 1.
Appendix 2.
Appendix 3.
Appendix 4.

Sources
List of Plates

Prologue

Part One

Evidence

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it

- George Santayana

Chapter One

Enigma & Conspiracy

To see the future you must look backwards

- the book of Isaiah

so

Chapter Two

Riddles from the Past

The Piri Reis Map of 1513

Fig.1

The Orontius Finaeus Map of 1531

Fig.2

The Bauche Map of 1737

without

Fig.3

The Franco Rosselli map of 1508.

Fig.4

The Mercator Map of 1538

Fig.5

The Egyptian Pyramid

so

Aztec Earplugs?

The Mysterious Metal Vase

The Lost Necklace

The Puma Punka Stones

The Nasca Lines

The Ica Stones

Fig.14

Fig.15

Ancient Nanotechnology?

A 500,000 year old Spark Plug

Stone Age Modern Hand Tools

Fig.26

A Fossilized Human Hand Print

An Ancient Calculator?

Fig.28a

Baalbeck

Fig.29

Fig.30 (man in back corner)

An Iron Pot in Coal

Evidence of Advanced Medical Knowledge

A Petrified Human Skull

Ancient Electricity

Fig.35

Fig.36

An Ancient X-ray Machine

A Fossilized Human Shoe Print

Fig.38

The Dropa Stones

A Fossilized Human Finger

Fig.41

A Brass Bell In Coal

The Rhodesian Man

A Pillar of Much Too Pure Iron

Fig.45

2.8 Billion Year Old Metal Spheres

The Crystal Skulls

Fig.47

Fig.48

The Nampa Image

The Dogon

The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica

The Lanzhou Stone

The Colorado Pavement

The Kentucky Pavement

A Fruit that Really should not Exist

Loose Ends

A Gold thread stuck in Rock:

A Much Too Old Screw:

A Very old Nail:

Bones Found in Rock:

Grand Canyon Mummies

Strange Skeletons:

The Salzburg Cube:

Chapter Three

Of Lost Explorers
&

Ancient Mysteries

A Lost Frontier
O

Fawcetts Tale

Impossible Buildings

Softening Stone with Plant Extracts

Chapter Four

A Valley of Kings

T
i

Fig.70

The Great Pyramid

The Sphinx

Investigations of the Facts

The Date or not the Date?

is

But
But

Stone Synthesis According to the Ancients

Modern Techniques for Synthesizing Limestone

Chapter Five

The Death of a God

The Broken God

The Dragon Whips its Tail

Strange Connections

Part Two

Investigation

Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth

is not beauty.

- Frank Zappa

Chapter Six

The Lost Lands

A Sunken World

The Golden Empire

Possible Physical Evidence

The Legend of Lemuria

Great Southern Land

Those Who Tell

Tracing the Outline

Chapter Seven

The Case for Ancient Flight

The Story of Icarus and Daedalus

Babylon

China

India

Egypt

Colombia

The Amazing Vymaanika-Shaastra

Synopsis of Chapter One

Chapter Eight

The Remapping of Prehistory

People call them Pterodactyls;

But that is because they are ashamed
To call them flying dragons, after Denying
So long that flying dragons could exist.
- Charles Kingsley (from the Water Babies)

Fact vs. Fiction

A

Door Number Three

Wings in the Night

The Dragons of St. George

Gradualism vs. Cataclysm

The Flipping of the Mill

Chapter Nine

The Tale of the Sumerians

The Art of Translation

Rakia

the Hammered Bracelet

you

In the Beginning

The Epic of Creation

Tales of Gods and Men

After the Deluge

The Downfall of Kings

Chapter Ten

The Maya

The Story of the Maya

The Luck of Cortez

Quetzalcoatl

Part Three

Analysis
When the going gets weird,
The weird turn ro.

Hunter S. Thompson

Chapter Eleven

Creation Connections

ti

Manco Capac & The Golden Wand

tools

Connecting the Dots

The Lost Mines of the Gods

Chapter Twelve

The Signs of War

The Evidence for Ancient Advanced Warfare

Castles of Glass

The Shattered Desert

The Radioactive Skeletons of Pakistan

Tektites

The Harpoon of Horus

The Mysterious Sinai

Chapter Thirteen

The Grand Deception

Facts are Stupid Things

- former US President, Ronald Regan

The Cover-up in Motion

A Mosaic of History

The Politics of Control

Of Hobbits, Dinosaurs & Alphabets

Fig.155

Fig.156

Chapter Fourteen

Forgotten Codes

The Great Puzzle

T

Science and Religion

Divine Codes

Chapter Fifteen

After-thoughts

In the < bsence of Evidence to the Contrary' the Simplest Solution is usually correct
- Occams Razor

<

A God of Science & Numbers

proves

all
all cultures

Our Newest Neighbor

A New Doctrine

 ducation is a privilege and not a

right!

competen

just.

Part Four

Appendices

Appendix 1

A HISTORY IN MYTH

Appendix 2

ENUMA ELISH
THE BABYLONIAN EPIC OF CREATION

Appendix 3

THE MAYAN CALENDAR

T

The Long Count:

Fig.110
The Haab or Vague Year:

The Tzolkin or Ritual Calendar:

The Calendar Round:

Appendix 4

THE HOPI BLUE STAR PROPHECY

T

This is the First Sign

This is the Second Sign:

This is the Third Sign:
This is the Fourth Sign:
This is the Fifth Sign:

This is the Sixth Sign:

This is the Seventh Sign:
This is the Eighth Sign:
And this is the Ninth and Last Sign:

These are the Signs that great destruction is here:

Sources
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