Do you think such an advanced civilisation could have existed?

Question

Do you believe there once existed an advanced civilisation that possess advanced technology that has been lost? Some people believe there was such an advanced civilization that was somehow destroyed, perhaps Atlantis or perhaps the Great Flood. This civilisation would possessed advanced equipment such as jet planes, computers, spacecrafts, etc.

Do you think such an advanced civilisation could have existed?

Why do you think their advanced equipment was not left behind for us?

Answer 1

Let us imagine that there was a very ancient civilisation, dating back, say 150 million years.

First, they are unlikely to have been human. Being non-human, they might not have needed, or even thought about building large, indestructible edifices.

Their brain power would have permitted evolution without high levels of growth. There is a reasonably universal calculation, to assess optimum body size for optimum brain capacity. The standard ratio predicates a relatively high capacity brain to body index.

Therefore, their bones would likely be, like humans, quite delicate, in terms of seismic survivability........... so their remains would be quite rare to find............ after all, human remains seem to have a shelf life, in the ground, of no more than 3 million years. Even if we found such remains, HOW would we recognise them?

Now let us think about WHERE these civilisations might have sprung up. Once again we are back to common logic, which means communities grouping around water, food and communications resources. These tend to be along seismic fault lines and coastal areas............. and these all change dramatically over 150 million years!

Now think about the strange objects which have been unearthed from depths at which there should be no manufactured artifacts:

The strange metal boxes, dug up from a deep Welsh coalmine.

The ceramic vases dug up from an American mine.

Or, stranger still, the buried houses, uncovered in the Hucklehoven (Germany) open cast coalmines.............. some 400 ft below the surface............

I'd not write previous civilisations off.

Answer 2

Couple of things to throw at you...

I think you are looking at history with a modern perspective.

If there were advanced civilisations that existed before the Great Flood (there have been 3 in the last 12,000 years), how would they define 'advanced'.

What if their sole purpose of existence was religious worship (of some form) as opposed to the economic pursuit of the modern world?

The oldest buildings in the world, all have a religious and quite often astrological slant to them. Pyramids at Giza, the temples of Malta, heck, even things like Stonehenge.

In recent years, in NW India, they have discovered the remains of the oldest known cities as yet discovered. These vast cities are laid out in a structured way as opposed to have grown organically and randomly, yet the buildings are simple which seems to suggest a) purpose, and b) an even OLDER root civilisation.

If you add this to the fact that The Vedas (ancient Hindu religious teachings) were passed down orally and are probably thousands of years old, there is quite a good argument to suppose that those cities existed not for economic gains, but something else, most likely spirituality of some sort.

Think back to Ancient Egypt and you'll think of thousands of Egyptians living to do the bidding of their 'God-King' or Pharoah yeah?

My personal opinion is that these ancient civilisations had greater MIND control than we do today and utilised that along with a greater affinity to nature and so manipulated the world around them.

Answer 3

Yes.
Yes.
Because it was so long ago that nothing is left on the surface of the earth, but it is still at the bottom of the oceans, disappear into earthquakes, or covered by volcanoes lava. The Sphynx was buried under the sand. The Chinese army statues were buried under soil. The earthwork could only
be seen by plane. Books an libraries were burned, by hordes or by religious people, and so on. Temples were sacked. And we still discover things that we have no idea what they were for.

Answer 4

There was a civilisation that existed before Atlantis, it was called Lemuria, or to some it was simply Mu...
This civilisation fell into the sea about 1,000,000 years ago, I know a lot of people would scoff at that, but that is the information I have retrieved out of my reference books...
Blessings.. )O(

Answer 5

The destruction of the great library at Alexandria took care of the evidence you speak of. Jet planes, space craft, probably not. But advanced for that day and time most certainly.

Answer 6

i believe we are not a fraction of the way in our intelligence, in a thousand years we may have enough to answer most questions, we are really primitive yet and need to advance, a quick example, go back 100 years and look at our attitudes then, see what i mean.

Answer 7

We have bronze and copper artifacts from that time and yet no evidence of anything that we would call advanced science, if there was an advanced industrialised civilization from that time period we would have a huge array of mechanised artifacts.

Answer 8

Nope!
Because ALL inventions are the result of the amalgamation of other inventions and ideas.
And one civilization in one country would not have the resources to get to an advanced state, without leaving some traces of trade and contact.

Answer 9

I believe that there is an ancient civilisation buried under the Antarctic ice. It probably froze over gradually.

Answer 10

I think it is possible and I also think it might not have been lost or destroyed but maybe hidden from us.

P.S. I want a hover board!