Frank Joseph - Ancient High Tech: The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations

ANCIENT HIGH TECH

Based on extensive research including the latest findings, Frank Joseph delivers in this book a comprehensive overview of our ancient ancestors remarkable achievements, much of them lost to the sands of time. Frank Joseph once again shows why he is a leading expert on ancient civilizations with this impressive book backed up by plenty of evidence. Who would have thought that many of the modern conveniences we take for granted were also enjoyed by our ancient ancestors?!

DAVID P. JONES, EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF NEW DAWN MAGAZINE

Frank Joseph is an utterly brilliant, fearless explorer of our ancient hidden past. His books are peerless, mind-bending trips of discovery into the scientific genius of civilizations that once ruled the planet. His dedication to revealing our true historykept hidden from us by orthodox, grant-fueled science and those who control our worldis unfailingly inspiring. In this, his newest work, he once again guides us on a breathtaking, dazzling journey into the reality of the advanced science and incredible technologies our forebears discovered and used to make their civilizations thrive.

JEFF RENSE, HOST OF THE JEFF RENSE PROGRAM

Impeccably researched, Ancient High Tech transports the reader back through history to the remarkable technological achievements of various ancient civilizations around the globe. From the earliest attempts at aviation to refined structural engineering to sophisticated healing therapies, Frank Josephs comprehensive investigation illustrates that early cultures were much more advanced than generally believed. Each of the progressive societies mastered various forms of technologies and each suffered a similar fate: they collapsed. Perhaps Ancient High Tech is a compelling reminder and warning that technology does not make a civilization superior.

BRIT ELDERS , CEO AT SHIRLEYMACLAINE.COM

Frank Josephs new book on the amazing technology and early breakthroughs of ancient civilizations is a wonder to behold. It includes mind-blowing tangible proof in pictures of physical artifacts that depict everything from ancient heat rays to Byzantium-era hand grenades and early creations for human flight. When the world entered the dark ages of collapsing civilization in both the West and the East, so much of the scientific, technological, and early medical knowledge of the ancients was lost. Frank helps locate the missing pieces for us. Explore this amazing book and its fascinating author at your earliest convenience.

VON BRASCHLER, AUTHOR OF SEVEN SECRETS OF TIME TRAVEL

Frank Joseph is an author of incredible talent and research ability. He is able to find information about topics that no one else can. His writing style is so engrossing, entertaining, and just enjoyablean excellent way to present research to the general public. I strongly recommend Ancient High Tech and any of his other books. Frank Joseph is one of my favorite authors, and I always look forward to a new book of his.

JOHN DE SALVO , PH .D., DIRECTOR OF THE GREAT PYR A MID OF GIZA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION AND AUTHOR OF THE LOST ART OF ENOCHIAN MAGIC

With Ancient High Tech, Frank Joseph has once again created an exceptionally interesting and informative story of our highly advanced ancient ancestors. This book adds significantly to the evidence for advanced sophistication of our ancient ancestors. A master of in-depth research and fact gathering, hes helping us see our ancient past in a new light one book at a time.

ANDR E L. CUENOD, AUTHOR OF AWAKENING: A JOURNEY OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Frank Joseph can be controversial, but he is never anything less than thought-provoking. Written with a discerning eye and a global perspective, when he delves into a topicbe it an Aztec death whistle or the electromagnetic properties of Egyptian pyramidsyou are guaranteed a fascinating journey into the past.

DAVID GOUDSWARD, AUTHOR OF THE WESTFORD KNIGHT AND HENRY SINCLAIR

INTRODUCTION

Ahead of Their Time... and Ours

History, then, should be written in that spirit, with truthfulness and an eye to future expectations, rather than with adulation and a view to the pleasure of present praise. There is your rule and standard for impartial history! If there will be some to use this standard, it will be well, and I have written to some purpose.

LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA, THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA, 170 CE

The first modern, self-igniting match was invented in 1805 by Jean Chancel, a Parisian chemist. Yet, identical sulfuric matches were in common use among Babylonians thirty-six hundred years before.

The flat surface of an ancient temple wall is sculpted in relief with the roughly twenty-inch-high image of a man in Hindu garb seated on a bicycle. Clearly depicted are standard handlebars, saddle, wheels, spokes, and frame, with a pedal mostly obscured by the riders left foot. No text accompanies the relief (fig. I.1). The carving appears in Panchavarnaswamy Temple, located in southeastern India, which is cited by name in the Thevaram, a seventh-century text written in the ancient Tamil language. Far earlier, the Greek traveler and geographer Claudius Ptolemy personally visited Panchavarnaswamy in about 150 CE, although its construction could be much older.

In any case, the relief sculpture is not a modern addition. Only normal repairs, no renovations or new artwork, were undertaken at the temple in recorded history, according to Indian researcher Praveen Mohar. He also points out that the anomalous bike rider could only have been carved when the stone on which he appears was horizontal, before subsequently being installed to its present vertical position when Panchavarnaswamy was being built millennia ago. Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant in Baden, Germany, was supposed to have built the first bicycle in 1817. Yet his invention was preceded by nineteen hundred years or more in ancient India.

Figure I.1. The Panchavarnaswamy Temple bicycle. Photo by Bongan.

In 1999 archaeologists excavating a newly opened Aztec burial site in Mexico City uncovered the remains of a decapitated twenty-yearold sacrificial victim clutching baked-clay objects, one in either hand. Dated to circa 1450 CE, they were small whistles of a kind never before encountered anywhere. When blown, their loud sound was indistinguishable from a man screaming in terrible agony. Since their discovery, many similar so-called death whistles have come to light across Central America (fig. I.2, p. 4). Remarkably, no two are identical. They generate the realistic shrieks of men, women, or children; each one is unique, as though re-creating the voices of particular individuals. Other Mesoamerican whistles reproduce the sounds of jaguars, birds, and a variety of jungle animals with uncanny accuracy.

Scientific laboratory research into these wind instruments reveals their subtle, interior construction, but precisely how the little sound chambers are capable of making such loud, lifelike humanand animallike cries has not been determined.

A couple of these instruments we found were broken, archaeologist Paul Healy told the Associated Press, which was great, because we could actually see the construction of them, the actual technology of building a sound chamber out of paper-thin clay. Still, [the source production of] their exact sounds will likely remain a mystery. Originally, the whistles may have emitted terrifying sounds to fend off enemies, much like high-tech crowd-control devices available today.