New Evidence Lost Civilizations Really Existed

I have often wondered why man has existed on Earth for perhaps a half million years and we've only risen to be a highly technological civilization in the last two hundred.

Here is an interesting article that gives some background on research being done that points to the strong possibility that humans developed high civilization tens of thousands of years ago and it was wiped out, leaving the remainder of humanity the long task of rebuilding.

A few intriguing quotes from the article,,,,,

'"Everything we’ve been taught about the origins of civilization may be wrong. Old stories about Atlantis and other great lost civilizations of prehistory, long dismissed as myths by archaeologists, look set to be proved true.'~ Danny Natawidjaja, PhD, senior geologist with the Research Centre for Geotechnology at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences."

"Since 2011, Dr. Natawidjaja and his team have worked on a geological survey site in Indonesia about 100 miles from the city of Bandung."

"What Natawidjaja discovered at Gunung Padang was astounding. The hill was actually not a natural hill but a 300-ft high step-pyramid. And what’s even more controversial is that the structure was much older than anyone imagined. Natawidjaja radiocarbon dated the terrace structures at around 500 to 1,500 BC, similar to previous estimates. He also used tubular drills to bring up cores of earth and stone from various depths underneath the surface megaliths. As the drills dug deeper, Natawidjaja continued to discover that the columnar basalt structures extended far beneath the surface and yielded much older dates. At depths of 90 feet and more, the material was found to be 20,000 BC to 22,000 BC years old. Using radiocarbon dating, Natawidjaja and his team proved that man-made megalithic structures and hence a prehistoric human civilization existed well into the Ice Age."

And if you have two and a half hours to spare, here is a video that talks about the man-made structures of the southern coast of Japan, that have been submerged for at least ten-thousand years.