Kind of source · not a judgment

Modern Interpretation

Interpretation by historians, archaeologists, scientists, theologians, researchers, or other modern scholars.

This label does not say the claim is true or false. It does not rank the record. A claim with no label is unclassified, not rejected.

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Interpreter · not a tradition
Immanuel Velikovsky
A 1950 argument that myths of catastrophe are the record of recent planetary encounters, above all a cometary Venus.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Charles Hapgood
A historian’s case that the crust has slipped over the poles, and that certain Renaissance maps preserve an ice-free survey of Antarctica.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Robert Bauval
A modern comparison of the Giza pyramids with Orion’s belt, dated by him far earlier than the Fourth Dynasty.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
John Anthony West
An independent writer’s case that the Sphinx enclosure was weathered by water long before dynastic Egypt, and that Egypt was a symbolist sacred science.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Robert Schoch
A geologist’s argument that precipitation weathered the Sphinx enclosure, and that the monument’s core is older than the Fourth Dynasty date.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Rand Flem-Ath and Rose Flem-Ath
A 1995 argument that Plato’s Atlantis was Antarctica, moved to the pole by a displacement of the crust.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Andrew Collins
A British writer’s joining of Enochic Watcher traditions to the origins of civilization, and of Göbekli Tepe to a stellar scheme of his own.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Robert Temple
A 1976 argument that Dogon knowledge of Sirius and its faint companion came from ancient nonhuman teachers and is tied to Egypt.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
David Hatcher Childress
A catalog, not one thesis: lost cities and traces of advanced ancient technology argued across many regions.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.