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One new discovery after another has been over and over again plunging a hardto-accept idea
into scientist minds: there might have been an evenmore advanced superprehistoriccivilizntion
in theremote past
Discovery One: Kept in TopkapiPalace, Istanbul, Turkey is a unique ancient map, which
Was first discvered in the l8 th century On the map, only the Mediterranean area is accurately
mappedwhile otherplaces, such as America and Africa, are wellout of shape.When studying in a
dceper way, however, the scientists were amazed at finding the ancient map was actually a
bird's-eye mapCompared with the pictures of the earth taken by the Apollo 8 spacecraft, the
Turkey map is exactly the repeat of them and the deformable boundaries of America and Afrca
agree well wih hose of the ApolloSs picturesToscientists astonshment,the mapeven describes
the complex landforms of the Antareticcovered with severa-kilometer-thiek ice, which isas likc
as two peas with the map made by the l952 Antarcticexpedition with the help of the sonic echo
soumderButthe oldmapwasmade in the remoteancient times'
Discovery Two: On the Lake Titicaca Plateau of South America lies the ruins of an ancient
city, at thecentre of which sands ahuge redsandstone statue Printed on it is a complete starmap
with hundreds of signsThrough years of study, scientistsfimally decoded the map and signs This
is a starmap descrbng the stary sy 27, 000 years ago The sigs record the extremely deep
astronomicknowledge, whichiseven beyond the modempeople's understandng
Discovery Three: In 1921, people happened to find an ancientNiedman's skull inZambia,
AfricaIntherghtof the skull here isan edge-smoohroumdhole, whichscientists have decided
onlyabullet canmakeButtheancient Niedpeople lived abou 70, 000 yearsago,when mankind
issuppdtohavejustleamt touse axes
Was therereally a prehistoricsupercvilization? Godknows!
1. TheTukey map was ma