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Buried Worlds: A Fast History of Lost Civilizations and the Search for a Vanished Past

Buried Worlds: A Fast History of Lost Civilizations and the Search for a Vanished Past

Hillman, Jonathan C.

Paperback

Series: Fast History

General World History

ISBN13: 9798189340949
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There's a story that's been told for over a century: that a single advanced global civilization once existed, was destroyed in a sudden catastrophe, and secretly seeded Egypt, the Maya, and everyone else who came after. It's a great story. It's also almost entirely fiction - and its real origin is even stranger than the myth itself.

Buried Worlds traces that myth back to its actual source: a 2,400-year-old philosophical allegory by Plato, a 19th-century Minnesota congressman with a taste for grand theories, a mystical movement that invented a sunken continent from scratch, and - at its darkest point - a Nazi research institute hunting for proof of racial origins.

But this isn't just a myth-busting book. It's also a tour through the real archaeology that's stranger, and far more impressive, than the legend: Göbekli Tepe, a temple complex built by hunter-gatherers before agriculture existed. The Antikythera mechanism. Real lost cities, genuine out-of-place artifacts, and the flood story nearly every culture on Earth remembers in some form - for real, explicable reasons.

Thirteen chapters trace where the lost-civilization myth came from and how it's been tested against evidence, again and again, and found wanting. Seven more cover the real discoveries that don't need a myth attached to be worth your attention - including the women archaeology wrote out of its own history, and the amateurs who, on rare occasion, turned out to be right.

Fast, clear, and honest about where the evidence actually points - this is lost-civilization history for people who want the real story, not the campfire version.

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