The Lost Civilization Enigma: A New Inquiry Into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History

The Lost Civilization Enigma examines archaeological controversies and presents evidence of prehistoric civilizations absent from recorded history. While school textbooks emphasize the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, recent archaeological findings at sites including Jericho and Gobekli Tepe in Turkey have been dated to 10,000 BC. According to claims made by ancestors, civilization extends back at least another 10,000 years. The book covers lost magnitudes of known cultures such as the Bosnian Pyramids and "Old Europe," the lost cities of South America and the Amazon being slowly rediscovered, and examples of lost technology including the Antikythera Device. It also addresses Atlantis as a real civilization. Philip Coppens analyzes the historical and archaeological record to demonstrate that substantial evidence supports civilization being far older, far more advanced, and far more special than currently accepted in mainstream accounts.