“The city was laid out as a square, its length equal to its breadth. The angel measured the city with a rod and it was 12,000 stadia in length and breadth and height. He measured its wall, and this was 144 cubits [...]
Strange Artifacts
Official position of science presents the picture of the past in which humanity started from primitive beginnings, and steadily progressed upward in the development of culture and science. However many unearthed “out-of-place artifacts” create obvious contradictions to the conservative picture of antiquity. They don’t fit the established pattern of prehistory, pointing back instead to the existence of advanced civilizations before any of the known ancient cultures came into being.
