Lovingly dedicated to: my son Daniel, my mother Pauline and my father Bill. Earths Forbidden History Part One Searching for the Past By Maxwell Igan Authors Note The main goal of this book is to provide information to people, much of it that is sometimes quite well hidden. It is my sincere hope that everyone who reads this work will be inspired to question things; and to search out these, and other new truths and discoveries for themselves. When I first started this book, it was my desire to cover a really huge variety of topics and put a vast amount of ‘hard to get’ information all in one epic work. However, after several months of work the word ‘epic’ began to take on a new meaning for me and the sheer volume and intertwining nature of the text became far too cumbersome to be deemed in any way manageable in a single book and, though the information herein is still quite vast, I was forced to remove several chapters of work. Due to the detailed nature of the topics I sacrificed in this ‘slicing process,’ it is more than likely that each sliced chapter will now be further divided into smaller portions before then being expanded upon into a number of separate volumes to be released at later dates. The principle source of the Biblical quotations in this book is the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament from the 1992 Jerusalem Bible. This is because when all is said and done, all other version of the texts are simply the translations and interpretations of various individuals and ultimately it is what is written in the original Hebrew version that really counts. All English biblical quotes are taken from the King James Version. A full bibliography of other sources is also provided at the close of the book. I do not ask or expect anyone to blindly believe what is written within the pages of this book without investigating all the evidence for themselves, and in fact I very much urge you to do so. In the meantime however, I hope you find this book informative and enjoyable and I thank you in advance for taking this time to read it. Remember, the truth is always out there somewhere, and sometimes, right in front of us too, if we would only notice. - Max Igan “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 Earths Forbidden History Part1 Searching for the Past Table of Contents 1. Enigma & Conspiracy 2. Riddles from the Past The Piri Reis Map of 1513 The Orontius Fineus Map of 1531 The Bauche Map of 1737 The Franco Rosselli Map of 1508 The Mercater Map of 1538 The Egyptian Pyramid Aztec Earplugs? The Lost Necklace The Mysterious Metal Vase The Puma Punka Stone The Nasca Lines The Ica Stones Ancient Nanotechnology A 500,000 year old Spark Plug Stone Age Modern Hand Tools A Fossilized Human Handprint An Ancient Calculator? Baalbeck An Iron Pot in Coal Evidence of Advanced Medical Knowledge A Petrified Human Skull Ancient Electricity An Ancient X-Ray Machine A Fossilized Human Shoeprint The Dropa Stones A Fossilized Human Finger A Brass Bell in Coal The Rhodesian Man A Pillar of much too Pure Iron 2.8 Billion year old Metal Spheres The Crystal Skulls 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 shouldn’t exist Loose Ends 3. Of Lost Explorers and Ancient Mysteries A Lost Frontier Fawcett’s Tale Impossible Buildings Softening Stone with Plant Extracts 4. A Valley of Kings The Giza Valley Complex The Great Pyramid The Sphinx Investigations of the Facts The Date or not the Date? Stone Synthesis according to the Ancients Modern Techniques for Synthesizing Limestone 5. The Death of a God The Broken God A Dragon Whips its Tail Strange Connections Part Two: Investigation 6. The Lost Lands A Sunken World The Golden Empire Possible Physical Evidence Great Southern Land Tracing the Outline 7. The Case for Ancient Flight The Story of Icarus and Daedalus Babylon China India Egypt Columbia The Amazing Vymaanika-Shaastra 8. The Remapping of Prehistory Fact vs. Fiction? Door Number Three Wings in the Night The Dragons of St. George Gradualism vs. Cataclysm The Flipping of the Mill 9. The Tale of the Sumerians The Art of Translation In the Real Beginning The Epic of Creation Tales of Gods and Men After the Deluge The Downfall of Kings 10. The Maya The Story of the Maya The Luck of Cortez Quetzalcoatl Part Three: Analysis 11. Creation Connections Connecting the Dots Manco Capac & The Golden Wand The Lost Mines of the Gods 12. The Signs of War The Evidence for Ancient Advanced Weaponry Castles of Glass The Radioactive Skeletons of India The Shattered Desert Tektites The Harpoon of Horus The Mysterious Sinai 13. The Grand Deception The Cover Up in Motion A Mosaic of History The Politics of Control Of Hobbits, Dinosaurs & Alphabets 14. Forgotten Codes The Great Puzzle Science and Religion Divine Codes 15. Afterthoughts A God of Science & Numbers Our Newest Neighbor A New Doctrine Part Four: Appendices Appendix 1. A History in Myth Appendix 2. The Enuma Elish Appendix 3. The Mayan Calendar Appendix 4. The Hopi Blue Star Prophecy Sources List of Plates Prologue It has been often said that it is only by gaining a true understanding of the Earths past that we can ever hope to find the vital key to understanding its future and in turn, our own. Such notions have always caused mankind to ponder himself, our planet, the stars, the universe, and beyond, but much of this thought invariably returns to thoughts of the past and the nature of God. Mankind has always wondered such things and ever since the dawn of our recorded history there have been countless stories and legends to tempt the matter further: Myths from the depths of time that hint of other, far more Ancient civilizations, like ours in the 21st century or even better, that once dwelt in mysterious lands, some of which have long since disappeared beneath the oceans. In many of these ancient stories we read tantalizing and bizarre accounts of strange and unknown technologies, tales of ancient gods, flying craft and ancient foes waging great wars against each other, wars that were fought with fantastic and devastating weapons. Over the years a great number of scholars have attempted to dispel these tales as rumors and fanciful myths yet still the stories have persisted and in a strangely unnerving re-enforcement of them, we find, dotted across our planet, the remains of immensely ancient and enigmatic structures of unknown origin and even more bizarre things. Archeologists and explorers have uncovered amazing pyramids, megalithic stone cities and magnificent structures of intricate difficulty. Many of these structures are built in ways that are utterly unknown to us and even still defy our current levels of technical expertise. How did they get there? Who built them and what was their purpose? Do they all share a common link and if so, what is it? Strange and incongruous artifacts built by amazing and unknown technology that irrefutably dismantle the Academic presentation of our history have also been found in places where they simply have no place being, and there are curious stone Stele’s and cave paintings also depicting seemingly impossible scenes from our far distant past. So many of these types of things have now been recovered, from such a variety of locations, that they can no longer be simply classed as unusual artifacts and dismissed as ‘curious’. In recent years there has been a veritable storm of writers, almost reaching saturation point, warning of dire times to come, Global War, Massive Earth changes, Armageddon, the fulfillment of dark prophecies and a doom that has been long foretold that will soon descend upon our world. Let’s face it, it has always been easy to sell Doomsday; it has been done ever since man has lived within organized communities and there is always someone who is willing to listen. But is there any tangible evidence for these claims and in what form does it take? In recent years, startling new discoveries have been made and fresh evidence has been unearthed that may help us to answer many of these and other, even more profound riddles and perhaps shed the light that has been sorely needed to illuminate many other theories. Evidence that may now at last force us to re-adjust our mindset and radically rethink the way we have viewed the earth, our history and ultimately, our future. The information is as important to mankind as it is urgent but, in an almost unfathomable act of irresponsibility, it is still for the most part, being ignored by Governments and Academics, all over the world. The arguments and conclusions contained in this work are the accumulated result of over 25 years of investigation and personal research. Many of the arguments presented here are not new, but new discoveries however small, can at times reveal a new importance and add a new and significant relevance to old theories. Plus in order to see the larger picture, the many smaller pieces of the puzzle must first be put into order. One of the purposes of this work is to demonstrate that there is in fact, an abundant amount of evidence, much of it in full view, that proves beyond any shadow of doubt that there was indeed an advanced civilization that existed on this planet in ancient times, the traces of which can be found every where.