Prehistoric Civilization

There are many civilizations which existed in prehistoric times, and most of them are now lost to our knowledge and ken. Many of them were lost when the oceans rose during the melting from the last Ice Age. Some were just buried and have recently come to light. In this audiobook, we examine many of these lesser-known civilizations and cities and look at incredible extensions of how far back in history civilization actually goes.

Six thousand years before Stonehenge, people who hadn't invented farming built a temple — and then buried it on purpose. On a limestone ridge in southeastern Turkey, around 9600 BC, hunter-gatherers quarried pillars taller than a man and heavier than a truck, carved them in relief with foxes, vultures, snakes, and scorpions, and raised them into massive stone rings. They had no agriculture. No pottery, no metal, no writing, no wheel. By every rule of how civilization was supposed to begin, none of this could happen until farming produced a surplus and a settled population. At Göbekli ...

There is a country under the North Sea. Not a metaphor. Between Britain and the Netherlands, beneath an average of thirty meters of grey water, lies a real landscape — river valleys, lakes, marshes, oak and hazel woodland, hundreds of miles of coastline. For thousands of years after the last ice age, tens of thousands of people lived on it. It was not a land bridge. It was the richest habitat in northwestern Europe, and Britain was the peninsula on its edge. We know it existed because fishermen keep dredging it up. In 1931, a trawler working off the Norfolk coast hauled in a lump of peat ...

For thousands of years, the world’s oldest civilizations preserved accounts of extraordinary founders who came from beyond the established order. Oannes emerged from the waters of Mesopotamia bearing sacred knowledge. Naylamp and Tacaynamo arrived by sea and founded dynasties on the coast of Peru. Olosihpa and Olosohpa came by canoe and became inseparable from the rise of Nan Madol. The traditions of Quetzalcoatl–Topiltzin and Viracocha preserved the transformed memory of sacred rulers, predecessor powers, and the inheritance of an earlier order. The accounts of Cadmus, Pā‘ao, and ...

Before walls and laws, every choice is measured in hunger, fear, and winter breath. When a brutal winter kills his father, sixteen-year-old Koda watches Uluk take up the leader’s staff and hold their small tribe together with one rule: take only what you need, or the land will take everything. But winter is only the first enemy. As bears, bandits, and a bronze-armed warlord close in, Koda and his friends—sharp-eyed hunter Ayala and battle-scarred warrior Raka—fight to turn a wandering tribe into a walled village that can survive the next attack. Alongside Kaya, a calm and cunning ...

From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse This program is read by the author. Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America...

Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timms Edited by Atlantis Rising...

What If the Oldest Pyramid on Earth Wasn't in Egypt, but Hidden Inside a Hillside in Indonesia for 27,000 Years? Seismic scans found it. Five independent radiocarbon labs confirmed it. And the Indonesian government suspended all fieldwork in 2014 one year before the results could be published. In 2011, geologists at Gunung Padang expected a routine volcanic survey. Instead, electrical resistivity and seismic tomography revealed four distinct layers of construction beneath the surface terraces—columnar basalt columns deliberately placed, not naturally fractured. The deepest, a sealed 10x10...

From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. 

A fascinating look at archeological finds in Scotland, South Africa, and Malta that offer clues about ancient civilizations.

Calvin and Pudge Discover the Real Story of Unicorns Through History History believed in unicorns. Should we? Were unicorns ever real? Not the glittering kind from fairy tales — but something far older… and far more fascinating. In this children’s historical adventure book, Calvin and Pudge follow the legend of the unicorn across thousands of years. From prehistoric giants that may have walked alongside early humans, to ancient civilizations carving one-horned beasts into clay seals, to Greek historians, medieval kings, Arctic narwhals, and modern science — the mystery unfolds layer...

"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of most blessings. Money talks. Why does mine say goodbye?" Matt Howard When Matt inherits a house and five acres in the rugged Uinta Mountains, she plans to sell the property and end her current out-of-money experience. She loads the car with her massive dog, Zeus, and heads for the hills to check out possibilities. What she finds is an old Victorian house with a dead zone in the front yard, a cold spot in the hall, and a locked trunk, too heavy to move, in the bedroom. By the time she solves the mysteries, she is trapped ...

Jedidiah Huckleberry Smith spent his entire life searching for the raider who mutilated him as a child. Finally, giving up on a trail long grown cold, he leaves his outlaw past behind and starts over in a remote town in Wyoming. Now, teaming up with a beautiful but naïve paleontologist, they stand between his adopted town and its destruction by an army of barbaric prehistoric apes and dinosaurs. But Jed’s past has come back to haunt him. The man he searched for is discovered in a position of power, and Jed must choose...

What if humanity’s greatest story isn’t written in textbooks—but buried in ruins, myths, and maps we’ve forgotten to read? For centuries, we’ve been told a simple tale of progress: from primitive tribes to modern civilization. But scattered across the world are clues that refuse to fit the script—megaliths too massive for “stone-age” tools, myths that echo cataclysm and loss, and maps that depict lands long before they should have been known. In Before the Pyramids, historian and storyteller Eleanor Whitcombe takes you on a journey through these mysteries, weaving together ...

THEY TOLD YOU HISTORY WAS SET IN STONE. THEY LIED. Think you know how human civilization began? Think again. What if the most important chapters of our story didn't start in a textbook, but were buried in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, hidden deep beneath the Grand Canyon, or sealed inside a mountain in Pennsylvania? In Gods Among the Ruins, you’ll step past the "official" timeline and into a world of anomalies that mainstream institutions have struggled—or flat-out refused—to explain. Inside this forbidden archive, you will discover: The Grand Canyon Conspiracy: A massive ...

Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy present the anthropological, climatological, archaeological, geological, and genetic research supporting a hugely debated theory of the Black African origin of Egyptian civilization. Building upon extensive studies from the past four decades and their own archaeoastronomical and hieroglyphic research, the authors show how the early Black culture known as the Cattle People not only domesticated cattle but were also an advanced civilization.

In this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age “Terrific… Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways that empires, nations, and smaller sets of people have responded to their surroundings...

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating. Guns, germs, and steel might...

What if humanity is not the first? Beneath miles of ice, hidden in layers of stone, and encoded in the very DNA of life itself, there may be clues to civilizations that thrived long before us—and vanished without a trace. Before Humanity reveals the startling evidence that challenges everything we think we know about Earth’s past, and forces us to confront the possibility that we are only the latest in a cycle of rise and collapse stretching back millions of years. From rare-metal spheres embedded in ancient rock to strange isotopes resembling nuclear fallout… From mysterious ...

There are many civilizations which existed in prehistory, and most of them are now lost to our knowledge and ken. Many of them were lost when the oceans rose during the melting from the last Ice Age. Some were just buried and have recently come to light. In this audiobook, we examine many of these lesser-known civilizations and cities and look at incredible extensions of how far back in history civilization actually goes.