{"product_id":"before-history-the-advanced-ancient-civilization-they-dont-teach-in-school-the-redacted-series","title":"Before History: The Advanced Ancient Civilization They Don't Teach in School (The Redacted Series)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe standard model of human history has a problem it cannot resolve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 290,000 years, anatomically modern humans produced almost nothing. Stone tools. Shell beads. Occasional ochre. Then, 12,000 years ago, on a limestone plateau in southeastern Turkey, hunter-gatherers raised pillars weighing fifteen tons each, carved with anatomical precision that required a lineage of stone-working practice no archaeologist can locate.\u003cbr\u003eThat site is called Göbekli Tepe. It is the oldest monumental architecture on Earth. And it is not the peak of an ancient civilisation. It is the beginning of something we cannot explain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a non-fiction investigation of the evidence the standard model leaves unaccounted for. This book examines eight independent lines of evidence: archaeological, mathematical, astronomical, geological, geographical, biological, textual, and architectural.\u003cbr\u003eAcross nine chapters, it asks one question with relentless honesty: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhat would the evidence look like, if a sophisticated civilisation had existed before the catastrophe at the end of the last ice age, and if the civilisations we know inherited fragments of its knowledge rather than developing all of it from scratch?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat this book is:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn evidence-first examination, not a sensationalist claim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBuilt on 75 peer-reviewed sources, every one of them tier-tagged for transparency: Mainstream Verified, or Present as Contested\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA series first volume in The Redacted Series, with Book Two examining what the world's oldest religious traditions remember about the same period\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten for the educated general reader who is tired of both academic gatekeeping and conspiracy-theory speculation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWhat this book is not:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is not a Graham Hancock book. Hancock is not cited.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt does not claim ancient aliens. It does not claim Atlantis as a literal place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt does not pretend certainty where the evidence does not support it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book examines Göbekli Tepe's astronomical alignments and the fox-snake-vulture pillar carvings that Sweatman and Tsikritsis argue encode the date of the Younger Dryas impact. It examines the Great Pyramid's geometric encoding of pi and phi to four decimal places, in a civilisation that mainstream Egyptology says could not yet write fractions. It examines Plimpton 322, the Babylonian tablet whose trigonometric ratios Mansfield and Wildberger published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistoria Mathematica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 2017. It examines the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, the ice core record, the Sundaland coastline that drowned at the end of the last ice age, and the precessional alignments at Giza, Angkor, and Teotihuacán.\u003cbr\u003eIt examines them with the discipline of someone who knows the cost of getting things wrong, and the hunger of someone who has spent thirty years asking why the standard answer never quite explained what was actually in front of him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImran Naqvi is a retired Pakistan Army officer (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, Military), a UN peacekeeping veteran of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an MBA from IBA Karachi, and a graduate of NUST in Electronics Engineering. He writes from Islamabad. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his first book.\u003cbr\u003eThe Redacted Series will continue with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore Religion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Book Two) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore Us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Book Three).\u003cbr\u003eThe next book in the series, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore Religion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, examines what the world's oldest authenticated traditions remember about the world that vanished — and what that pattern of independent memory reveals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBegin where the standard model ends\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912494440639,"sku":"3f1de166-d104-4025-ac7d-25ececcc7843","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/70b6bcaa1f11afa72317bb3b8f34a7d3.jpg?v=1785008649","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/before-history-the-advanced-ancient-civilization-they-dont-teach-in-school-the-redacted-series","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}