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In addition to monumental structures indicating an advanced global civilization are numerous other "out-of-place artifacts" ("ooparts"), including Babylonian "batteries" and objects depicted on a mural at Denderah that look like glass tubes with "electric eels" inside them, leaving one to wonder if these devices could have been used for lighting in caves, tombs, pyramids or other buildings. The Ashoka Pillar in India is an enormous lingam made of iron and "expertly welded." Of the pillar, Jochmans says, "The mystery is that any equivalent mass of iron, subjected to the Indian monsoon rains, winds and temperatures for 1,600 years or more would have been reduced to rust long ago."36 From a shipwreck in Greece of the first century BCE comes a navigational device or "astrolabe," which "calculated the annual movements of the sun and moon." Miniature model airplanes have been found in both the "old" world and the "new," and legends of diverse peoples speak of "flying machines." There are also the fabulous drawings at Nazca and elsewhere that can only be seen from above. Also in Peru have been found 50,000 engraved stones that "show people, extant and extinct animals, star maps, the star ring of the zodiac, and maps of unidentified land areas. The people are shown hunting or struggling with a variety of monsters that resemble brontosaurs, triceratops, stegosaurs, and pterodactyls, which properly belong to the Mesozoic era [225-65 million BP]. Even more surprisingly, human beings are portrayed as having domesticated animals that appear to be dinosaurs and are using them for transportation and warfare. People are shown using telescopes, looking at the stars, and performing surgery."37 Although these baffling stones have been attacked as modern frauds, which some admittedly are, mention was purportedly made of their existence by a 16th century Spanish priest who sent some of them to Spain. In addition, the oxidation of the engravings would appear to demonstrate that many of the stones are at least several centuries old, dating to a time when neither native Americans nor anyone else were supposed to know about such things. In Central America, another technological anachronism appears in massive spheres almost perfectly round. In another apparent anachronism, pictures of horses and asses are frequently found in Mexican hieroglyphs,38 even though the Americas were wiped clean of such fauna 12,000 ago.
The Enigma of North America
In the analysis of the ancient advanced global civilization hypothesis, North America still seems to remain part of the old paradigm with few signs of any advanced culture or outside influence, other than in legends. However, this perception is incorrect, as, in reality, North America was inhabited by one or more advanced cultures who did indeed leave their traces, traces sometimes so obliterated that they are certainly of a very profound antiquity. In actuality, it will come as a shock to many that the United States has numerous ruins and earthworks so old that the natives encountered by Europeans had no idea who built them. As Keel relates:
[The experts] tell us that North America was uninhabited by anyone except Indians before the Europeans arrived. They overlook all the stone towers and structures found all over this continent (including miles of paved roads) when the Pilgrims arrived. Fort catalogued all kinds of metal objects from swords and axes to coins that have been found and dated as preColumbian. Somebody was mining ore and coal in this country, and pumping oil in Pennsylvania before Columbus set sail. Rather than tussle with the problem of identifying those mysterious North Americans, the archaeologists have chosen to ignore these artifacts.39
J. Churchward relates the writings of Kentucky historian George Ranck as saying that under the modern city of Lexington is the "dead metropolis of a lost race . . . that these remains of a great city and a mighty people did