Mar 21, 2008
Mohenjo-Daro
Some have suggested ancient technology glassified these
Indus Valley ruins but electricity is a more plausible
explanation.
Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent region are thought to be the “birthplace”
of civilization and the central focus for human culture dating back to the
beginning of recorded history. No one knows for sure just how old the
generalized composite that we call “society” really is – both because of
archeological deficiencies and because of radiometric disconformity – but one of
the oldest sites is located in the
Indus Valley of Pakistan and appears to date from around 3000-2500 BCE.
There are many ways to date ancient artifacts and there are just as many ways to
interpret the results from those techniques. It is not the purpose of this paper
to address the difficulties inherent with using carbon 14, tree-rings,
stratiographic distribution, or any other methodology when attempting to place
artifacts or habitations within a chronological sequence.
Other articles have addressed
those issues, as well as
previous Picture of the Day discussions about radioactive decay rates and
how external, ionizing sources can change isotope ratios.
There is one intriguing aspect to Mohenjo-Daro that sets it apart from most
ancient ruins. It is the one anomaly among several at the site that has caused
some researchers to suggest that there might have been
forces unleashed in the past that are comparable to modern weapons. Walls,
pottery and other items found in the city have been turned into a kind of
ceramic glass, indicating that they were exposed to heat close to 1500 degrees
Celsius. Evidence of ionizing radiation has also been found in some of the
burial sites.
The oldest myths of the Hindu religion, itself one of the oldest religions in
the world, speak of gods flying in vehicles composed of dazzling light and
intricately carved platforms called vimanas, that waged war with one
another using energy beams of incredible power. In the Hindu religious text
known as the Mahabharata, there is a description of one such vehicle:
“Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities
of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of
the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten
thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron
Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire
race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
Many speculations have been forthcoming about what the vimanas were or
what the Iron Thunderbolt might have been. Some of the more imaginative
examples see UFO’s and alien spacecraft waging war against the backdrop of
primitive humanity, leaving behind a mythological image of gods and demons in
conflict. Since the old races were unable to comprehend the idea of technologies
on such a vast scale, the only alternative was to invest the phenomena that they
observed with divine power.
Rather than presupposing a visitation from a super race of extraterrestrials, it
is more probable that natural events – although orders of magnitude beyond what
we experience today – imprinted themselves on the psyches of our ancestors and
inspired the reports of gods in the sky.
Several past Pictures of the Day dealt with gigantic geological formations all
over the world and with craters exceeding 100 kilometers in diameter. In some
cases, the craters are associated with glass spherules or large chunks of pure
silica lying in broken pieces all over the desert floor. The fact that the
Egyptians considered the “desert glass” from the Great Sand Sea to be sacred and
used it to adorn their religious icons is significant because the vitrified
walls of Mohenjo-Daro are also said to originate in the wars of the gods, or
theomachia.
What could account for fields of broken glass shards like those in Egypt, large
sheets of glass like “Darwin
glass” from Australia,
vitrified stone walls in Scotland and the fused pottery and melted ramparts
of Mohenjo-Daro? In all these cases, it was probably gigantic plasma discharges
in the form of lightning bolts and electric arcs that melted the ruins and fused
the soils into glass. The timeframe is probably impossible to determine with any
accuracy at this late date, but it seems evident that humanity had reached a
high level of sophistication before being exposed to these cataclysmic events.
By Stephen Smith
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