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HOW OLD IS LIFE ON EARTH?
Practically every year new discovers are made which continue to push back the dates of the beginning of civilization. The discoveries keep showing us that ancient man was more sophisticated than previously believed.

THE MYSTERIOUS TOMB OF OSIRIS by Sandy
More than 60 years ago, the famed Sleeping Prophet - Edgar Cayce - made a startling prophecy about a discovery that would occur around the turn of the 21st century. Has this recently occurred?

GENETIC FIND ROCKS THE TEEPEE by Graeme O'Neill
Could this "ancient one" have been an Atleantean?

INTERESTING: Australian scientists have helped identify 195,000 year old human skulls, the oldest fossils in the world. The 2 skulls, found in southern Ethiopia, are 40,000 years older than any other existing modern human remains. Scientists discovered the bones in 1967 but haven't dated them until now. Australian geochronologist Ian McDougall said volcanic ash around the fossils allowed the skulls to be aged. The findings are published in the Nature journal. (Melbourne Herald Sun, February 17, 2005)

INTERESTING: The Giza Sphinx near Cairo could be thousands of years older than the pyramids, two researchers have told the BBC. Egyptologist Anthony West and geology professor Robert Schoch claim the advanced erosion of the sphinx indicates it was built in a wetter period - 500 to thousands of years before the pyramids. (AFP, London, November 28 1994)

NEWS FLASH: A French scientist claims the fabled island of Atlantis lies off Gibraltar, just where the Greek philosopher Plato said it was. Professor Jacques Collina-Girard says the island was swallowed by the sea as the Ice Age ended. (Melbourne Herald Sun, September 21, 2001)