Ben Van Kerkwyk is a researcher and creator of UnchartedX, a website and YouTube channel looking into ancient mysteries, presenting new ideas about humanity’s past.
Summary
While most people think that civilization started around 6,000 years ago, he says that this is probably not true because new discoveries point to the possibility of much more advanced societies.
His ‘Inheritance Model’ says that Egypt’s greatest successes were based on the knowledge and technology that the country received from a civilisation that was more advanced than its own. He suggests that instead of seeing history as a straight line, it might be better to think of it as a cycle, with unknown but advanced societies rising and falling over and over again.
Ben believes that new scientific evidence necessitates a change in the traditional understanding of human history.
If we follow the idea of an older civilisation, therefore, the Pyramids would have already been there before the first dynasty of the ancient Egyptians.
Christopher Dunn, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
