This is just a note. The research is unlikely to ever happen. According to Peter Watson in The Great Divide, there are two brain mutations which scientists figure gave people an evolutionary advantage, but they don’t know what. And because these different genes somehow never made much progress in Sub-Saharan Africa, scientists are very wary…
Author: Robert Bast
Hiccups and Random Interruptions
Or, in Australia, hiccoughs. The central idea behind this website/book is that a rather cosy hunter/gatherer life in the east of the Mediterranean was dramatically interrupted by a meteor storm. This triggered new ways of living (survivalism) and religion. In an attempt to come up with a plausible rewriting of human history, there is a…
Boring, But It Was Rituals
I hate to say this – considering I am striving for new ideas and insights – but these all seem to revolve around commemorating and memorialising ritual spaces. Now, given that rooms and actual homes could just be where someone lived, and the person therefore could be the key – you then have to ask…
Undeciphered Scripts
Out knowledge regarding what happened millennia ago comes from what we have dug up, and stories handed down to us. They combine when we dig up ancient writing like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Linguists have done extraordinary work deciphering long-dead languages, but usually they need some luck, like the Rosetta Stone. And therefore there is…
Watchers in the 21st Century: The Saudi Royal Family
Why choose the House of Saud? Well, they have money and power, are into building big things that last, control a religion and too many world leaders avoid criticizing them. First, their background: The family goes way back – to 1446 – and family members are all descendants of Mani’ ibn Rabi’a al-Muraydi. Possibly (I…
Origin Story: An Evolving Hypothesis
The major downside of archaeology is the availability of evidence is limited to what has been found, and what can be found. For times before writing is known to have existed, we cannot know what people thought, for instance, so we rely on experts to make assumptions and educated guesses. Religion features heavily in those…
Tas Tepeler: Karahan Tepe
This excellent article by Sean Thomas published by The Spectator has a lot of new information. Graham Hancock made us well aware that Gobekli Tepe was only the beginning, and that is becoming more obvious with time. Locals have even found a t-shaped pillar embedded into a wall, treated like any old piece of rock…
Built to Last: The Pyramids
The Elders left us two very different things, which have lasted millennia. Pyramids of great size, so big that they should survive any cataclysm to some degree. And statues that might be telling us nothing more than that there were men around. The size of the pyramids means they will survive. The shape perhaps would…
Watchers in the 21st Century: The Safra Family
Important Note: This is pure speculation. I no nothing about this family aside from recently looking them up on Google and Wikipedia. I am not implying that I have special knowledge, or that they are anything other than regular (albeit wealthy) people. However if there were to be descendants of “The Watchers” around today, they…