“Could our ancestors have been more advanced than we think, before losing and eventually regaining everything in an infinite loop of enlightened eras and dark ages? Discover the holistic evidence behind mankind’s cyclical history.”  – W Cruttenden

It sounds like something out of a high concept science fiction novel: the thought of our ancient ancestors perpetually creating (and losing) anachronistic technology, ideas and civilizations in an endless rise-and-fall cycle.

Yet if today’s convergence of modern astronomy, archaeology and ancient history is correct, the notion may very well be true.

First, the historical argument: ancient cultures around the world spoke of a vast cycle of time with alternating Dark and Golden Ages; Plato called it the Great Year. Most of us were taught that this cycle was just a myth, a fairytale, if we were taught anything about it all.

But according to Giorgio de Santillana, former professor of the history of science at MIT, many ancient cultures believed consciousness and history were not linear but cyclical, rising and falling over long periods of time.

In their landmark work, Hamlet’s Mill, de Santillana and coauthor Hertha von Dechend, show that the myth and folklore of more than thirty ancient cultures speak of a cycle of time with long periods of enlightenment broken by dark ages of ignorance, indirectly driven by a known astronomical phenomena, the precession of the equinox.

Things get even more interesting when we bring in the scientific aspect. Or more specifically…

The two celestial motions that profoundly affect human life

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