The sudden disappearance of the Maya, has a special term in historical science called collapse. This romantic legend dates back to the middle of the 19th century, the time of the rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by the American John L. Stephens and the Englishman Frederick Catherwood. Since 1838, these explorers have been scouring the jungles of Central America in search of lost Mayan cities. The work resulted in two volumes of adventures written in 1841 and 1843. The authors describe in detail their travels to the Yucatan. The books were beautifully illustrated by Catherwood and introduced into the minds of people the image of a people fanned by myths and legends, which disappeared from the face of the Earth almost in one day. Unfortunately, this myth continues to exist safely today.
To understand the mystery of the life and disappearance of the Maya, it is necessary to abandon the established versions that arose in the 19th century and consider civilization in the context of the entire history of this territory. The Maya belong to a cultural area called Mesoamerica and extending north from the 21st parallel to Costa Rica, including central and eastern Mexico, as well as almost the entire territory of Central America, the isthmus of Tehuantepec up to the San José region in Costa Rica. The Mayan territory is just the same and is included in in full force to this conglomerate. Thus, the history of the Maya is inseparable from the history of the development and development of this region. If taken out of its given geographical and historical context, it appears to us mysterious and absolutely inexplicable. It turns out that in order to understand it, you just need to broaden your horizons.
Mesoamerica is a large multicultural territory, where for many years different peoples coexisted, each speaking their own language and each having their own culture. The peculiarity of the Mesoamerican civilization is that it came from the merger of the nomadic group of Nauas peoples and the indigenous sedentary population, to which the Maya and Otomis belonged. The Nauas, who did not have a settled habitat, scattered throughout Mesoamerica, crowding the local population and mixing with it. Ultimately, the nomadic people served as cement for constructing a single ethnic identity in this region.
For 3 centuries the Mayan culture developed under the shadow of Nahuas rule. The conquerors contributed to the flourishing of Mayan cities such as Copan, Tikal, Yaxuna, Yaxatun, Uxmal, Bekan to such an extent that some modern archaeologists, based on the results of excavations, believe that the first Mayan rulers were in fact from the Nahuas people. From 450 AD e. Maya culture is experiencing its highest flowering, little by little it is freed from the general Mesoamerican influence, discovering more and more new horizons in individual development. But only from the 7th century. AD the Maya have access to control and power. For two centuries from 650 to 850. n. e. there is a so-called technical progress: pyramids are being built, places of worship are being reconstructed, city streets are expanding, dwellings are being improved. Myriads of sculptors are racing to capture in stone the faces of the rulers during their lifetime, the nobility builds magnificent mausoleums. Ceramics reaches unprecedented perfection. Writing and art are developing, accessible, however, mainly only to representatives of the authorities. Each city cultivates its own, unlike others, architectural style. It seems that the cities are using all possible means to somehow stand out from the crowd and seize the long-awaited power and the right to be called the first among equals. Unfortunately, such a surge of cultural activity has led to a cultural imbalance. After 850, the Maya never again achieved such a flourishing.

This is the very first photo of the Mayan ruins. We owe it to the Frenchman Desire Charnay, who in 1859, together with the heaviest photographic equipment, entered the heart of Chichen Itza, abandoned centuries ago. The picture shows the facade of the Nonnes extension, almost completely hidden by the jungle.

A natural question would be: why did the Maya, practically assimilated and enslaved by a nomadic people, produce a truly unique cultural explosion in 600? Perhaps this is due precisely to the fact that the former Nahuas dynasties fell into decay, and indigenous people got the opportunity to take the reins of government? And, indeed, we observe that from the 7th century. the main cultures and peoples of central Mexico - Teotihuacan and Monte Alban disappear in almost one generation. The crisis of power or religious, the degeneration of dynastic families that owned the region for 18 centuries - perhaps all this together served as the basis for the Maya to come to the fore in the hierarchy of all the peoples of this region. Thus, the bipolarity of power (nomads - a settled population) is gradually disappearing, giving way to the Maya people, who originally lived on these lands. For the only time in their history, they are finally able to expand beyond their range and spread throughout central Mexico.
After only 200 years, the panorama changes dramatically. Starting from 850, all building activity stops. Stella, with chronological records of events, punctually built every 20 years, now appear irregularly, and then again disappear from use.
The last date known to us for the so-called "long reckoning period" was found on a stele from Tonina in Chiapas. On it is engraved: 10.4.0.0.0., which in our chronology corresponds to 909 AD. Some cities in the Central American Lowlands, in the heart of the Guatemalan Petén, were simply abandoned. What happened? It is from this question that all the incredible legends about the disappearance of the Maya originate.
One of the hypotheses, very fashionable in recent times in connection with the issue of global warming, - climatic. It was expressed at the end of the last century by Richardson B. Guillem. However, it seems to us very controversial. The essence of the hypothesis is that the Mayan peoples suffered a period of colossal drought that lasted a long time. The drought led to a shortage of the most necessary for food, which, in turn, led to a large mortality among the population. The author of this theory believes that the drought was caused not only by natural causes, but also was the result of human activities. The indigenous population increased, along with it, for the construction of new cities, deforestation intensified. The decrease in forest mass led to a decrease in precipitation in the region, which led to drought.
Further, the author of the hypothesis believes that the Maya from Petén, those who did not die on the spot, most likely went to the north of the Yucatan, or south to the Upper Lands of Guatemala, not so dry, where one could escape from hunger. However, let's take a look. Do not think that pre-Hispanic America did not know droughts at all and was not ready for them. Surely, it happened that the entire crop died due to lack of moisture. But the social system that developed at that time throughout Mesoamerica also suggested such an option. That is why the barns and attics in many of the cities found were literally filled with corn, which tends to last up to 400 years without any harmful changes. It was she who served as a means of subsistence in less productive years, when the main food supply was eaten.
Let's ask ourselves the question: is it possible that in Petan the drought lasted for 30 years, without giving a chance to harvest a single crop? The hypothesis itself, by the way, is based on the results of work carried out on Lake Yucatan by climatologists Hodell, Curtis and Brenner. The purpose of the work was to study the evolution of climate over a long period of time. Scientists have come to the conclusion that indeed the period from 800 to 1000 years. AD was drier than before and after. Recall, however, that this method is very well applicable for studying climate dynamics within millennia, however, in our case it cannot serve as relevant, since its error, and scientists themselves talk about it, is of the order of the 1st century. It turns out that we cannot say for sure whether the drought began in 700 or in 1100.
Geographic surveys also contradict the hypothesis of a drought that destroyed the Maya civilization. To begin with, we note the fact that the Yucatan peninsula receives a sufficient share of precipitation annually, approximately 1 m in the Mérida region in the north, 2 m in Flores, in the center and 4 m in the south in Petan. This is 6 times more than the annual rainfall in France. The territory of Mesoamerica is also very different, for example, from the desert and rocky southern coasts of Peru, where El Niño-like climatic phenomena seriously affect the population and crops. Based on historical and contemporary meteorological data, we can honestly rule out a period of unprecedented drought that hit the Mayan civilization in the Middle Ages. Also, if we look at a map of the central and southern part of the Yucatan Peninsula, we will find a rather significant system of rivers on it. Rio Motagua in the southwest, Rio Usumacinta in the southeast - two fairly strong rivers with many tributaries. In the east, from the Caribbean side, Rio Hondo and Rio Belize are navigable all year round; in the east, two rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico - Rio Candelaria and Rio Champoton. And, despite the fact that there is not a single significant river in the north of the peninsula, this large karst plateau is washed by a huge amount of groundwater located in various places at a depth of 2 to 75 m below ground level. All this fresh water quite accessible for use due to the numerous failures of the earth's crust, which received the Mayan name "dzonot", then passed into the Spanish "cenote", which means "underground lake". All settlements known to this day in the north of Yucatan are in close proximity to such underground lakes. In addition, the Maya built a large number of hydraulic structures: distribution and irrigation canals, drainage pits, reservoirs for storing rainwater, the so-called pans, at the bottom of which circular wells or dome-shaped pits lined with stones, called "chultun" were hollowed out. Among other things, the north and center of Yucatan include many lakes and lagoons, such as, for example, Peten Itza. None of the ongoing climate studies so far has shown that all of these water bodies have dried up at any time.
Ultimately, the mystery of the disappearance of the Maya crumbles to dust as soon as we begin to consider the history of this civilization in context. historical development the entire peninsula. It seems to us correct to believe that the Maya fell victim to the same nomadic Nauas people, who did not appear on the scene for almost 2 centuries. This time, the conquerors came from central Mexico, where the peoples from the central Altiplano, known in history as the Toltecs, come to power. The Toltecs took power from the Nahuas and created a kind of federal state that absorbed both the Nahuas and the Maya.
Most likely, the story developed according to two scenarios. Those cities that submitted to the new government without resistance were not destroyed, and then the period of their flourishing began again. This happened in most of the northern Yucatan, the city of Uxmaloua Chichen Itza remained intact, and the Upper Lands in Guatemala were not devastated. However, the Mayan centers were destroyed. Most likely this happened because the population did not want to submit to the nomads again. Initially, the names of the Nahuas warlords appear on steles. The general Seibal, for example, is depicted on the stele with a scroll in his hand, which means that the sculptor equated him with the Mexican "tlatoani" (chief of the city-state). Little by little the Mayan glyphs become less and less wordy. The general style of cities is getting poorer. Then the erection of steles stops: there are no more Mayan rulers, all of whose actions must be recorded for history. A massive outflow of the Mayan population from Peten begins to the north or south of the peninsula. According to estimates, only a tenth of the inhabitants decided not to leave their homes.

In Copan (pictured), as well as in other cities, steles were erected at the place of sacrifice. They were engraved with the date and the name of the ruler they represented. The last of the stelae, found at Tonin, confirms the abandonment of the city by its inhabitants in 909 AD.

Numerous destructions in Mayan cities testify that the new government did its best to suppress the resistance of the indigenous population, this is especially noticeable in Peten. The migration of civilians always accompanies the military victories of the enemy. Thus, we see that the Maya did not disappear overnight from the face of the Earth. The symbols of their civilization were destroyed: pyramids, palaces, stone scrolls, on which the Mayan conquests were inscribed. Between 850 and 900 the Maya are diligently assimilated by the entire population of Mesoamerica, now controlled by the Nahuas. From that moment on, the Mayan people are forced to disperse and mix with other peoples.
With the arrival of the Spaniards in America, the Mayan lands remain densely populated. According to our calculations, the entire population that spoke the Mayan language at that time was about 7-8 million people. It was the Maya who resisted the Spanish colonization for the longest time, to such an extent that the city of Taysal, dating back to the pre-Columbian period, existed almost in its original form along with the indigenous population until 1697.

The history of the Mayan civilization remains shrouded in mystery. But science has managed to figure out that many of the secrets are nothing more than a myth. The representative of the international publishing house National Geographic Michael Shapiro destroyed the legends.

1 Mayan Civilization Suddenly Disappeared

Just as the fall of the Roman Empire did not mean the end of the existence of Roman citizens, so did the disappearance of the Mayan state, which reached its peak in the 9th century. BC, does not mean that the indigenous population disappeared without a trace.

Today, approximately 40% of the inhabitants of Guatemala, about 14 million people living in southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, are descendants of the Mayan peoples.

The Mayas have endured five centuries of Spanish occupation, while maintaining their cultural traditions, traditional agrarian lifestyle and the custom of celebrating festivals.

More than 20 provinces of Guatemala are inhabited by individual Mayan peoples. Each of them has its own culture, clothing and language. So for thousands of years the Maya have lived outside their empire.

2. Maya did not believe in the end of the world

In the films about the apocalypse, we are told that the mayas prophesied. This moment fell on the year 5000 according to the Mayan calendar. But this is not true.

Representatives of the ancient civilization celebrated the beginning of the next cycle, which will come in 5125, just as we celebrated the onset of the new millennium. Not a single record has been found that testifies to the end of time. In any case, they hoped that new era mankind will enter the era higher consciousness, strengthening peace and a deep understanding of other peoples inhabiting the earth.

3. The ancient Mayans came up with the concept of zero.

The Mayan calendar is based on the value of zero. However, the idea of ​​zero is probably not a secret of the Mayan civilization. It originated in . And only in the IV century. BC. this invention became associated with the Mayan peoples.

The zero in civilization's writing was represented by a shell-like symbol. The Mayan numerical system was based on 20 factors. Their numbers consisted of whole units: 1, 20, 400, etc. To write, for example, the number 403, they used the unit 400, plus zero units 20, and three units 1. This is how the concept of zero arose.

4 Mayan City Stayed Underground

Major landmarks built by the Mayan peoples, like Palenque in southern Mexico and in the north, have been found during archeological excavations. Others remain buried underground. Mounds have been found in Guatemala that may have hidden great temples.

The least visited attractions are in El Mirador and Auxactun, north of Tikal in the jungles of Guatemala. In Belize, there are open ruins of Altun Ha, 30 km from Belize City

In all these places you can see the pyramids.

5. The Mayans invented saunas

This is really the secret of the Mayan civilization, the existence of which is difficult to argue. The ancient Maya used a steam room in a stone sain known as "temazcal" in the Yucatan Peninsula. Mayan saunas, "sweathouses", are still a popular holiday destination for tourists. They are offered to guests of hotels and resorts around the world.

The Mayan peoples built ancient cities from mud bricks. They were used for spiritual satisfaction and health. Steam was made by mixing water with fire. Sometimes leaves were added to the water. Sweat cleansed the skin and mind.

6 The Mayan Empire Was Destroyed By A Volcano

A number of volcanoes in Guatemala remain active. In the city of Antigua Guatemala, you can see the eruption of the Fuego volcano, throwing down columns of smoke and dropping fiery lava. Especially magnificent sight at night. Not far from Antigua, about 1.5 hours away, is the Razaua volcano, which has been erupting regularly for several years now.

In Antigua, there is a sale of one-day tours on foot walking a few meters from the lava.

7. The white-water rivers of the Maya were crossed by boats.

The secret of the Mayan civilization about the construction of reliable rafts has long been unraveled. Guatemala has created conditions for first-class boating in the Rio Cajabon. During the trip, you can get a lot of impressions and get to know the area where the ancient Mayans lived - the jungle on the banks of the river.

The Usumacinta River passes through the borders of Mexico and Guatemala. While walking along the river, the group stops to view the ruins of Piedras Negras.

8. Sports were popular in the Mayan civilization.

Ball courts have been found in cities. There were competitions among teams. The soccer ball was made from hard rubber. Some scientists believe that a human skull was placed inside the ball.

Cultural and entertainment events ended with human sacrifices. Probably, this fate awaited the losers. Tikal guides claim that the winner was sacrificed.

“It was considered an honor to die in Tikal,” local guides say.

9 Mayan Pyramids Are Built With Astronomical Events In Mind

It's no secret that the Mayans were experts in astronomy. Many structures such as El Castillo (Temple of Kukulkan) and the pyramids at Chichen Itza reflect astronomical events.

This secret of the Mayan civilization connects the history of the people with the neighboring state - ancient Egypt. , a shadow resembling a snake passes along the northern face of Kukulkan. This phenomenon is caused by the passage of a ray of the sun through the nine terraces of the building.

The El Caracol Temple at Chichen Itza is known as an observatory associated with the orbit of Venus. The main staircase is directed towards the northern part of Venus, and the corners of the building correspond to the position of the sun on the day of the summer solstice at sunrise and the winter solstice at sunset.

10 Nobody Knows What Caused The Decline Of The Mayan Civilization

From the end of the 8th to the beginning of the 9th century. BC. Mayan cities fell into disrepair. People died or went to other settlements. Culture, highly organized irrigation, agriculture, astronomy and building technology were forgotten. Why, no one knows the answer.

Scientists have put forward several hypotheses about the death of an ancient civilization:
Confrontation between the city-states of the Maya.
Overpopulation, which led to environmental degradation, soil depletion and climate change.
Strengthening the influence of the ruling class, the clergy and the ruling elite.

What actually caused the decline of an advanced civilization, archaeologists still find it difficult to say.

One of the most mysterious civilizations that existed on the planet is the Mayan civilization. The high level of development of medicine, science, architecture strikes the minds of our contemporaries. One and a half thousand years before the discovery of the American continent by Columbus, the Mayan people had already used their hieroglyphic writing, invented a system of calendars, were the first to use the concept of zero in mathematics, and the counting system was in many ways superior to that used by their contemporaries in Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece.

Secrets of the Mayan Civilization

The ancient Indians possessed amazing information about space for that era. Scientists still cannot understand how the Mayan tribes received such accurate knowledge in astronomy long before the invention of the telescope. The artifacts discovered by scientists raise new questions, the answers to which have not yet been found. Consider the most amazing of the finds related to this great civilization:

The most amazing feature of this architectural monument is the visual effect that is created 2 times a year, exactly on the days of the autumn and spring equinoxes. As a result of the play of sunlight and shadow, an image of a huge snake appears, the body of which ends with a stone statue of a snake's head at the base of a 25-meter pyramid. Such a visual effect could only be achieved by carefully calculating the location of the building and having accurate knowledge of astronomy and topography.

Another interesting and mysterious feature of the pyramids is that they are a huge sound resonator. Such effects are known as: the sounds of the steps of people going to the top are heard at the base of the pyramid, like the sounds of rain; people who are at a distance of 150 meters from each other at different sites can clearly hear each other, while not hearing the sounds made next to them. To create such an acoustic effect, the ancient architects had to make the most accurate calculations of the thickness of the walls.

Mayan culture

Unfortunately, one can learn about the culture, history, religion of the Indian tribes only from the surviving architectural and cultural material assets. Due to the barbaric attitude of the Spanish conquerors, who destroyed most of cultural heritage ancient Indians, there are very few sources left for descendants to gain knowledge about the origin, development and reasons for the decline of this majestic civilization!

Possessing a developed written language, during their heyday, the Maya left a huge amount of information about themselves. However, most historical heritage was destroyed by the Spanish priests who planted the Christian religion among the Indians of Central America during its colonization.

Only inscriptions on stone slabs have survived. But the key to deciphering the writing remained unsolved. Only a third of the signs are accessible to the understanding of modern scientists.

• Architecture: Maya erected stone cities, striking in their majesty. Temples and palaces were built in the center of cities. The pyramids are amazing. Without metal tools, the ancient Indians somehow amazingly created pyramids that were not inferior in their majesty to the famous Egyptian ones. The pyramids had to be built every 52 years. This is due to religious canons. A distinctive feature of these pyramids is that around the existing one, the construction of a new one began.
• Art: on the walls of stone structures, traces of painting and stone sculptures, mostly of a religious nature, have survived to this day.
• Life: the ancient Indians were engaged in gathering, hunting, farming, growing beans, maize, cocoa, cotton. The irrigation system was widely used. Some tribes mined salt, then exchanging it for other goods, which served as the development of trade, which was in the nature of barter. Stretchers or boats were used to move goods, cargo, and to move along rivers.
• Religion: Maya were pagans. The priests had knowledge in the field of mathematics and astronomy, predicting lunar and solar eclipses. Religious rites contained rituals of suicide.
• The science: The Indians had developed writing, had knowledge in the field of mathematics and, as noted above, had amazing knowledge in the field of astronomy.

Why did the Maya disappear?

The beginning of the Maya civilization dates back to the second millennium BC. The heyday of culture occurred at the end of the first millennium - 200-900 years. BC. The most important achievements are:

• Fully designed calendar that accurately reflects the change of seasons;
• Hieroglyphic writing, which scientists have not yet fully deciphered;
• The use of the concept of zero in mathematics, which was absent in other advanced civilizations of the ancient world;
• Use of the number system;
• Discoveries in the field of astronomy and mathematics - Mayan scientists were hundreds of years ahead of their contemporaries. Their discoveries surpassed all the achievements of the Europeans who lived in those days.

The civilization of the New World reached its peak without such important technical achievements as the invention of the potter's wheel, the wheel, the smelting of iron and steel, the use of domestic animals in agriculture and other achievements that gave impetus to the development of other peoples.

After the 10th century, the Maya civilization fades away.

Modern scientists still cannot name the reason for the decline of one of the greatest peoples of antiquity.

Exist several versions of the reasons for the disappearance of a great civilization. Consider the most likely of them:

The nationality was a group of disparate city-states, often at war with each other. The reason for the enmity was the gradual depletion of the soil and the decline of agriculture. The rulers, in order to maintain power, pursued a policy of capture and destruction. The surviving images from the end of the eighth century tell that the number of internecine wars increased. In most cities, an economic crisis developed. The scale of the ruin was so great that it led to the decline and further disappearance of the greatest civilization.

Where did the Mayan peoples live?

The Maya inhabited most of the territory of Central America, modern Mexico. The vast territory occupied by the tribes was distinguished by an abundance of flora and fauna, a variety of natural zones - mountains and rivers, deserts and coastal zones. This was of no small importance in the development of this civilization. The Maya lived in city-states such as Tikal, Kamaknul, Uxmal, and others. The population of each of these cities was more than 20,000 people. Consolidation into one administrative education didn't happen. Having common culture, a similar system of management, customs, these mini-states formed a civilization.

Modern Maya - who are they and where do they live?

The modern Maya are Indian tribes inhabiting the territory of South America. Their number is over three million. Modern descendants have the same distinctive anthropological features as their distant ancestors: short stature, low wide skull.

Until now, the tribes live apart, only partially accepting the achievements of modern civilization.

The ancient Mayan people were far ahead of their contemporaries in the development of science and culture.

They had excellent knowledge in astronomy - they had an idea about the movement pattern of the sun, moon and other planets and stars. Written language was highly developed exact sciences. Unlike their distant ancestors, modern Indians do not have any achievements in the development of the culture of their people.

Video about the Mayan civilization

In that documentary it will be told about the mysterious Mayan peoples, what mysteries they left behind, which of their prophecies came true, from what they died:

Archaeologist David Hatcher told what happened to the Maya and the Atlanteans.
Like Indiana Jones, solo archaeologist David Hatcher Childress has made many incredible trips to the most ancient and remote places on earth. Describing lost cities and ancient civilizations, he published six books: a chronicle of travels from the Gobi Desert to Puma Punka in Bolivia, from Mohenjo-Daro to Baalbek. We found him preparing for another archaeological expedition, this time to New Guinea, and asked him to write the following article especially for Atlantis Rising.

1. Mu or Lemuria

According to various secret sources, the first civilization arose 78,000 years ago on the gigantic continent known as Mu or Lemuria. And it existed for an amazing 52,000 years. Civilization was destroyed by earthquakes caused by the shift of the earth's pole, which occurred approximately 26,000 years ago, or in 24,000 BC.
While the civilization of Mu did not achieve as high technology as other later civilizations, however, the peoples of Mu succeeded in erecting mega-stone buildings that were able to withstand earthquakes. This building science was the most great achievement Mu.
Perhaps in those days there was one language and one government on the whole Earth. Education was the key to the prosperity of the Empire, every citizen was versed in the laws of the Earth and the Universe, by the age of 21 he was given an excellent education. By the age of 28, a person became a full citizen of the empire.

2. Ancient Atlantis

When the continent of Mu sank into the ocean, today's Pacific Ocean, and the water level in other parts of the Earth has dropped significantly. Small in the time of Lemuria, the islands in the Atlantic increased significantly in size. The lands of the Poseidonis archipelago formed a whole small continent. This continent is called Atlantis by modern historians, but its real name was Poseidonis.
Atlantis possessed a high level of technology that surpassed the modern one. In the book "The Inhabitant of Two Planets", dictated in 1884 by philosophers from Tibet to the young Californian Frederick Spencer Oliver, as well as in the continuation of 1940 "The Earthly Return of the Inhabitant", there is a mention of such inventions and devices as: air conditioners, for cleaning the air from harmful vapors; vacuum cylinder lamps, fluorescent lamps; electric rifles; transport on a monorail; water generators, a tool for compressing water from the atmosphere; aircraft, controlled by forces antigravity.
The clairvoyant Edgar Cayce spoke of the use of planes and crystals in Atlantis to generate tremendous energy. He also mentioned the misuse of power by the Atlanteans, which led to the destruction of their civilization.

3. Rama Empire in India

Fortunately, the ancient books of the Indian Empire of Rama have survived, in contrast to the documents of China, Egypt, Central America and Peru. Now the remains of the empire are swallowed up by the impenetrable jungle or rest on the bottom of the ocean. And yet India, despite numerous military devastation, managed to maintain most of its ancient history.
It was believed that the Indian civilization appeared not much earlier than 500 AD, 200 years before the invasion of Alexander the Great. However, in the last century, the cities of Mojenjo-Daro and Harappa were discovered in the Indus Valley on the territory of modern Pakistan.
The discovery of these cities forced archaeologists to move the date of the Indian civilization thousands of years ago. To the surprise of modern researchers, these cities were highly organized and were a brilliant example of urban planning. And the sewerage system was more developed than it is now in many Asian countries.

4. The civilization of Osiris in the Mediterranean

During the time of Atlantis and Harappa, the Mediterranean basin was a large fertile valley. ancient civilization, which flourished there, was the progenitor of dynastic Egypt, and is known as the Civilization of Osiris. The Nile previously flowed in a completely different way than today and was called the Styx. Instead of emptying into the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt, the Nile turned west, formed a huge lake in the region of the central part of the modern Mediterranean Sea, flowed out of the lake in the area between Malta and Sicily and emptied into Atlantic Ocean at the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). When Atlantis was destroyed, the waters of the Atlantic slowly flooded the Mediterranean Basin, destroying the large cities of the Osirians and forcing them to relocate. This theory explains the strange megalithic remains found at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
It is an archaeological fact that at the bottom of this sea there are more than two hundred sunken cities. The Egyptian civilization, along with the Minoan (Crete) and Mycenaean (Greece) are traces of one large, ancient culture. The Ossyrian civilization left huge earthquake-resistant megalithic structures, owned electricity and other amenities that were common in Atlantis. Like Atlantis and Rama's empire, the Osirians had airships and other vehicles, mostly electrical in nature. Mysterious paths in Malta, which are found under water, may be part of the ancient transport route of the Osirian civilization.
Probably the best example of the high technology of the Osirians is the amazing platform found in Baalbek (Lebanon). The main platform is made up of the largest cut rock blocks, each weighing between 1200 and 1500 tons.

5. Civilizations of the Gobi Desert

Many ancient cities of the Uighur civilization existed during the time of Atlantis on the site of the Gobi desert. However, now the Gobi is a lifeless land scorched by the sun, and it is hard to believe that the waters of the ocean once splashed here.
So far, no traces of this civilization have been found. However, vimanas and other technical devices were not alien to the Wiger area. The famous Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich reported his observations of flying discs in the region of northern Tibet in the 1930s.
Some sources claim that the elders of Lemuria, even before the cataclysm that destroyed their civilization, moved their headquarters to an uninhabited plateau in Central Asia, which we now call Tibet. Here they founded a school known as the Great White Brotherhood.
The great Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote the famous Tao Te Ching. At the approach of his death, he went west to the legendary land of Hsi Wang Mu. Could this land be the domain of the White Brotherhood?

6. Tiwanaku

As in Mu and Atlantis, construction in South America reached megalithic scale during the construction of earthquake-resistant structures.
Residential houses and public buildings were built from ordinary stones, but using a unique polygonal technology. These buildings are still standing today. Cusco, the ancient capital of Peru, which was probably built before the Incas, is still pretty populated city even thousands of years later. Most of the buildings located in downtown Cusco today unite walls that are many hundreds of years old (while younger buildings, already built by the Spaniards, are collapsing).
A few hundred kilometers south of Cusco lie the fantastic ruins of Puma Punqui, high in the Bolivian altiplano. Puma Punca is not far from the famous Tiahuanaco, a massive magalic site where 100-ton blocks are scattered all over the place by an unknown force.
This happened when the South American continent was suddenly subjected to a great cataclysm, probably caused by a pole shift. The former sea ridge can now be seen at an altitude of 3900 m in the Andes mountains. A possible confirmation of this is the multitude of oceanic fossils around Lake Titicaca.

Mayan pyramids found in Central America have their twins on the Indonesian island of Java. The Sukuh Pyramid on the slopes of Mount Lavu near Surakarta in central Java is an amazing temple with a stone stele and a step pyramid, the place of which is rather in the jungles of Central America. The pyramid is virtually identical to the pyramids found at the Vashaktun site near Tikal.
The ancient Mayans were brilliant astronomers and mathematicians whose early cities lived in harmony with nature. They built canals and garden cities in the Yucatan Peninsula.
As pointed out by Edgar Cayce, records of all the wisdom of the Mayan people and other ancient civilizations are found in three places in the earth. Firstly, this is Atlantis or Posidonia, where some of the temples may still be found under many years of bottom overlays, for example, in the Bimini region off the coast of Florida. Secondly, in temple records somewhere in Egypt. And finally, on the Yucatan Peninsula, in America.
It is assumed that the ancient Hall of Records can be located anywhere, probably under some kind of pyramid, in an underground chamber. Some sources say that this repository of ancient knowledge contains quartz crystals that are capable of storing large amounts of information, similar to modern CDs.

8. Ancient China

Ancient China, known as Hanshui China, like other civilizations, was born from the vast Pacific continent of Mu. Ancient Chinese records are known for descriptions of celestial chariots and the jade production they shared with the Maya. Indeed, the ancient Chinese and Mayan languages ​​seem to be very similar.
The mutual influences of China and Central America on each other are evident, both in the field of linguistics and in mythology, religious symbolism, and even trade.
The ancient Chinese invented everything from toilet paper to earthquake detectors to rocket technology and printing techniques. In 1959, archaeologists discovered aluminum tapes made several thousand years ago, this aluminum was obtained from raw materials using electricity.

9. Ancient Ethiopia and Israel

From the ancient texts of the Bible and the Ethiopian book Kebra Negast, we know about high technology ancient Ethiopia and Israel. The temple in Jerusalem was built on three giant blocks of hewn stone, similar to those found in Baalbek. Solomon's temple earlier and a Muslim mosque now exist on the site, whose foundations are apparently rooted in the civilization of Osiris.
Solomon's Temple, another example of megalithic construction, was built to contain the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant was an electrical generator, and people who carelessly touched it were electrocuted. The ark itself and the golden statue were taken out of the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid by Moses at the time of the Exodus.

10. Aroe and the Kingdom of the Sun in the Pacific

At the time when the Mu continent sank into the ocean 24,000 years ago due to the pole shift, the Pacific Ocean was later repopulated by many races from India, China, Africa and America.
The resulting Aroe civilization in the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia built many megalithic pyramids, platforms, roads, and statues.
In New Caledonia, cement columns have been found dating back to 5120 BC. before 10950 BC
The Easter Island statues were placed in a clockwise spiral around the island. And on the island of Pohnpei, a huge stone city.
The Polynesians of New Zealand, the Easter Islands, Hawaii and Tahiti still believe that their ancestors had the ability to fly and traveled by air from island to island.