How long has modern man existed? How old is our civilization? Very inconvenient facts that science has to hush up
For more than a century now, scientists have been tormented by the question of how old is humanity on Earth? At different times, religions, science, and philosophy tried to answer it. Thus, even in the most ancient religions there were always myths about the creation of people by gods. And often even specific dates for this event were named.
Tribe of Israel
Christianity gives a fairly accurate answer to the question of how old humanity is. According to the Bible, the first people were Adam and Eve, created in the image and likeness of God.
It is curious that Christians were not the first in this field. Almost all the stories included in the Old Testament are retellings of ancient Shemitic myths. And the Jewish Torah, unlike the Vatican, does not hide the true age of the creator’s favorite brainchild: approximately 7,000 years. 70 centuries of development from a carefree life in the Garden of Eden and the invention of the plow to the first atomic bomb and space communications satellites.
From Rurik to Peter the Great
You don't have to open the Bible to find answers to eternal questions. We are all accustomed, when talking about Russian or world history, to use the terms “Nativity of Christ” or “our era”. 221 BC, 988 AD... However, this chronology was adopted by the standards of the planet quite recently. Only in the 4th century. The Roman Empire officially switched to a new calendar tied to the birth of the new Messiah - Jesus. Russia made this transition only in 1701, by order of Peter the Great. How were the dates before these events designated? Let's open the most famous chronicle of Ancient Rus' - “The Tale of Bygone Years”.
The date given here is startling: summer 6370. According to the Christian calendar, this is 861 years. There is something to think about. Our ancestors counted time from a point distant from our days by more than 7 and a half thousand years. This is the time of the emergence of ancient civilizations. More precisely, this is the period about which we have the first more or less reliable information. Meanwhile, the dates on ancient manuscripts indicate that already at that time the Slavs had a level of development high enough to understand the need to number years and store information about them.
Evolution to replace divine will
For a long time, religion has been one of the main sources of human knowledge about the world. Divine intervention was explained as everything from natural disasters and annual agricultural cycles to Athens' victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis. However, over time, the forces of religion became insufficient to explain all the mysteries of the world. No matter how many years humanity has lived, it still always strives to learn more than is known now, to open new horizons. In the Middle Ages, this thirst for knowledge manifested itself in a fierce struggle between the emerging sciences and the Christian Church. Copernicus, Galileo, Giordano Bruno - without these names there would be no modern astronomy, physics, chemistry and geology.
The mystery of human origins was considered one of the most pressing for researchers around the world. For many centuries, no one in the Christian world thought to challenge the version of the creation of Adam and Eve. However, in the 19th century, enlightened society was literally blown up by the scandalous book of the English naturalist Charles Darwin.
His “Origin of Species” forced a completely different look at the question of how many years humanity has existed, and forever separated believers and materialists into warring camps. Thus, Darwin compared several tens of thousands of species of animals, plants and birds in his work. He was able to prove that the similarities and differences of living beings in different parts of the Earth are associated with natural selection, during which, century after century, the individuals most adapted to the conditions survived. He created the theory of evolution. And he smashed to smithereens the statement of the Old Testament about 7000 years of existence of the world and humanity. Natural selection, in his opinion, takes hundreds of thousands of years, which means that the information in the Bible is fundamentally incorrect.
Monkey relatives
In 1974, archaeologist Yohannas, during excavations in Ethiopia, discovered fragments of a skeleton that could well belong to an ancient ancestor of modern man. The skull, several ribs and vertebrae had a clear resemblance to humans, but their owner clearly stood at a lower stage of development than modern inhabitants of the Earth. Scientists named their exhibit Lucy. Research has shown that the age of this find is approximately 3.5 million years! Thus, the age of the mythical Eve increased 500 times.
Discovered in Africa, the species was named Australopithecus, which means “southern man.” For a long time it was believed that he was the most ancient among human ancestors. However, in 2000, an even more shocking discovery followed. In the African state of Chad, the skull of a humanoid teenager was discovered, whose age was almost 8 million years. This species - Sahelanthropus - has further complicated the debate over how old humanity is. If we accept the reality of the existence of a Chadian boy as truth, then the origin of the paintings on the rocks depicting mammoths and smilodons - ancient saber-toothed tigers - becomes clear. Humanity really lived next to these giants. And it turned out to be powerful enough to win the competition for the survival of the species.
Club and stone or plow and sword?
The dispute over how old humanity is has divided the scientific world into several irreconcilable camps. Among them, two stand out, which converge on the idea of the evolution of our species, but diverge on the definition of the starting point. If we count the age of the human race from the moment when the ancient monkeys first came down from the trees and picked up a stick and a stone, the date is the same. If we take the appearance of “homo sapiens” as the moment of the origin of our history, then the total number decreases by a couple of hundred times. In this case, it does not matter how many years humanity lives on earth, what is important is when it began to actively organize its world.
The first modern man, who has the same skeleton as ours, who knows how to make fire and uses tools familiar to us, was discovered in France, near the village of Cro-Magnon. The age of this find is 40,000 years. The Cro-Magnons sewed clothes from animal skins, made needles, spears and knives from stone, had fairly developed painting abilities and believed in the afterlife. It was with the emergence of this species that the Paleolithic, that is, the ancient Stone Age, began.
Nature's joke
Proponents of the anomalous theory of the emergence of man claim that the age of our species is about 15 million years. It was at this time that there was a sharp leap in the evolution of many species of the animal world. According to enthusiasts, the cause was a change in the radioactivity of the sun or the destruction of the earth's crust above uranium deposits. As a result of this catastrophe, the ancient inhabitants of the planet received radiation damage, which pushed evolution along the path of development of upright walking and intelligence in monkeys. To the deep regret of fans of this hypothesis, it does not stand up to any scientific testing.
Children of another star
There is another theory that is condemned by modern history and archeology, but which, nevertheless, can well answer the question of how old humanity is. It is called paleovisit and comes from two Latin words: “paleo” - “ancient” and “visit” - “advent”, “arrival”. According to it, people are the descendants of aliens from another planet who arrived on Earth in time immemorial. Scientists were prompted to this idea by the hieroglyphs on the walls of ancient temples, in which, if desired, one can see quite modern helicopters and spaceships.
There are many variations of alien anthropogenesis. Starting from the ideas that we are all descendants of shipwrecked spacemen, to the theory of life-forming radiation that comes from space and forces life on young planets to develop according to a strictly defined scenario. If we take the last idea as a hypothesis, then the age of the human race may exceed hundreds of millions of years.
What does the unofficial science say?
Not all available archaeological discoveries appear in school textbooks. Some discoveries are so shocking that the leaders of the scientific world prefer to consign them to oblivion so as not to destroy the entire modern picture of the world. And, nevertheless, some archaeologists argue that the age of humanity is disproportionately greater than not only the 7 thousand years indicated in the Torah, but also the official date of the appearance of the Cro-Magnon man. 40,000 years, they argue, is only part of the life of the humanoid race, and part is not the largest. Thus, excavations in South America gave science several unique finds. Diorite jars from an extinct city of the Olmec Indians are one of them. Radiocarbon dating showed that the age of these stone vessels is about half a million years. However, the material from which they are made is considered one of the most durable on Earth, and even modern technology has difficulty processing it. Really, 500 thousand years ago the Indians were already so developed that they mastered this difficult task?! This is hard to believe, especially looking at the Indian villages lost in the jungle, some of which, such as the Yanomami, are still at the level of the late Stone Age. However, you can't argue with the fact. And then, after all, the Mayan Indians were able to create star maps without electronic telescopes 5 thousand years ago.
Eternal mystery
So, how old is human history? The real story, and not the one from which, as Kozma Prutkov aptly said, you cannot remove all the lies, otherwise there will be nothing left at all. Maybe 40 thousand. Perhaps 8 million. It is quite possible that there will be more. I would like to believe that our descendants will finally be able to answer this eternal question.
Scientists confidently say that almost 4 billion years ago our planet was just a rotating block of stone. It took almost a billion years for life to emerge, and for bacteria and algae to emerge and leave their ghostly traces in the ancient rocks. Again, huge periods of time passed in sleepy oblivion, and then the simplest worms crawled out of biological hibernation.
In general, life seemed quite content with the primitive.
Suddenly and unexpectedly everything changed. Around 530 million years ago, life expanded beyond its modest rural boundaries. It literally exploded in an incredible, unprecedented, inexplicable way - an event that is now called the "Cambrian explosion." This changed the history of the Earth forever. In a burst of biological ingenuity, the Earth was covered with creatures that first swam in the sea and later crawled, walked and moved across the land. The land has transformed from a quiet village street into Piccadilly Circus at rush hour. And the clock dial invariably showed lunch time.
During this "explosion" all known species of complex animals and plants suddenly appeared. But the strange thing is that among the early fossil evidence no traces of their development are found. All emerge fully formed, fully developed, fully functioning, with sharpened teeth and gleaming scales. No one knows who or what released them into the wild. And for what…
And having received such a push, life no longer reversed its movement.
Over time, dinosaurs began to rule the Earth. The earliest of them appeared 190 million years ago, giving way to the giant monsters of Jurassic Park: in fact, they ruled for almost 125 million years. However, despite the seemingly inviolable nature of their monarchy - and at a time when the world was doomed to forever remain a Jurassic experimental site - another mysterious event occurred. Dinosaurs suddenly went extinct about 65 million years ago. Nobody knows why. Maybe someone didn't need dinosaurs anymore.
This rather unexpected disappearance gave early mammals a chance to spread widely, filling empty ecological niches. Extremely important for humans is the supposed evolution during this very period of one of the branches of mammals, namely primates - monkeys. For if man evolved from primates, as they would like us to think, then the shape of our body began to count from that time.
Sixty-one million years later - just under 4 million years ago - the first traces of what is believed to be the first man appear. Apes or ape-men came down from the trees, so we are told, to begin a new life on two legs, prowling for food across the vast expanses of the African savannah. But tool making, one of the defining characteristics of humanity, had yet to happen; archaeologists indicate that the earliest use of simple tools made from fragments of stones began approximately 2.5 million years before our time.
Our culture is even younger. It is believed that it began its history some 10 or 11 thousand years ago, cultivated in the first settled agricultural communities of the Turkish highlands. Even later, metal began to be used; it took perhaps another 5 thousand years. And now we are able to transport this metal even to Mars.
According to current scientific theories, man and civilization constitute only a tiny fraction of these hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history. To suggest - in the face of seemingly unshakable geological and archaeological evidence - that human artifacts and material culture could have existed long before the last 2.5 million - or even 4 million - years is to expose oneself to complete ridicule.
But is the accepted version of the past really so unshakable?
Is it really consistent with all the data? Does it provide a satisfactory explanation for all the artifacts recovered from the earth?
The truth is, no.
Early in 1848, in California, forty miles northeast of what is now the city of Sacramento, a carpenter was constructing a sawmill powered by water. The stream that was supposed to turn the sawmill wheel drew its water from a nearby river. However, the stream turned out to be too shallow, and so the carpenter dug it out, deepening it, trying to get the wheel to rotate more freely. One morning he discovered - at the bottom of a stream - several gold nuggets, which the running water had exposed overnight. He tried to keep his discovery a secret, but, as often happens, he failed to do so. Soon, an endless influx of gold miners began - the Californian “gold rush” broke out.
Within six months, more than 4 thousand people abandoned all their work and began to dig up the surrounding area. The territory in which the search for gold was carried out quickly expanded into hundreds of square miles around the original site, and the number of gold seekers itself grew to more than 80 thousand people, half of whom arrived by sea - to San Francisco, rounding Cape Horn, others by land - along the California Way. In both cases, it required enormous effort from them.
The gold rested in rivers that originated in the Sierra Nevada mountains, carrying their waters through the central part of the Great California Valley and emptying into the ocean near San Francisco. Mining soon evolved from simply washing gold-bearing rocks in a pan and sifting them through a sieve into a more complex mechanical operation. Cordons were built to create high-pressure streams of water that could be used to wash away entire mountain slopes to reach the gold underneath. Water and stones were forced through troughs through a series of sieves of different sizes, which separated the heavier pieces of gold. And the washed rock was always carefully examined; every particle of gold meant money, and it was precisely for the sake of it that all these efforts and expenses were made.
It soon became clear, however, that the main source of this precious metal was in deep layers of sand, the beds of once very ancient rivers, which were located hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth. In some places they were exposed by deep ravines cut by modern rivers, sometimes reaching a depth of 2 thousand feet or more. Prospectors began to mine horizontally in the slopes of rocks or deep under steep mountains in order to clear access to these layers of gold-bearing sand. But the work was unbearably hard: the sand turned out to be firmly hardened, like concrete, and in order to break it, it was often necessary to resort to explosions and work with a pickaxe.
Prospectors found gold; but along with it they also discovered many unusual artifacts and human remains. In the gold mining camps, rumors began to spread about a long-lost civilization that had existed in the area millions of years before, which served as the source of these remains. Some gold miners began collecting these artifacts: skulls, bones, stone spear and arrowheads, knives, mortars and pestles, stoneware, ladles, fluted stone hammer heads, and other remains of cultural activity.
Rumors of strange discoveries even spread across the Atlantic. In December 1851, the London Times published the story of a prospector who dropped a piece of gold-bearing quartz. A rusty but completely straight iron nail was firmly immured in the cracked rock.
In the decades that followed, so many extraordinary artifacts were discovered that professional organizations began to take an interest—or at least felt they had to do something to counter what they saw as outlandish speculation about humanity's past. .
In 1880, Harvard University published a monograph by one of its professors (who was also the State Geologist of the State of California) devoted to some of these finds. On January 10, 1888, a report was read at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute in London. Then, on December 30, 1890, a report on this topic was submitted to the Geological Society of America, and in 1899, America's most authoritative scientific organization, the Smithsonian Institution, reviewed and critiqued everything that had been found up to that time.
A Smithsonian review noted that most of the finds appeared to be sand deposits that were between 38 and 55 million years old. However, it was also noted that many artifacts appeared either as a result of mining near the surface of the earth, or as a result of erosion of rocks.
Therefore, Smithsonian experts quite rightly pointed out that many of the discovered artifacts could well belong to later Indian cultures: they were either buried in deep graves, or in ancient times they fell into karst caves or sinkholes, and over the centuries they were covered with a thick layer of pebbles. It is certainly true that some of the human remains found showed chemical changes that are consistent with this explanation. It is also true that sluicing with subsequent erosion of the rock formation, being a completely destructive action, removed the entire thing. Artifacts located near the surface were thus mixed with what was located in the deeper, and therefore older, layers of rock. For prospectors, who were usually not known for their ability to perform rigorous scientific analysis, everything they found was related to ancient gold deposits. Clearly they could be wrong in many cases.
In this, experts from the Smithsonian Institution found a scientifically acceptable and, in general, true explanation for the appearance of man-made artifacts of enormous age in the vicinity of rock formations. This review - along with other very similar reviews of its kind - achieved the desired result: any hint of a challenge that these artifacts might pose to academic science was nullified. But at least the Smithsonian experts were honest: they agreed that their explanation did not fit some of the artifacts. They were referring to those objects that were discovered in deep strata - often hundreds of feet below the surface of the mountains. They recognized that such artifacts were in a very difficult category to identify and were not easily explained in the traditional way. However, they avoided further consideration of this issue.
And it's a shame. For, as we will see, it is hardly possible to obtain more convincing evidence of the existence of an ancient culture than these artifacts.
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Most modern scientists try to limit the history of the development of human civilization to just the last few millennia. Before this time, according to their ideas, there was a long and all-encompassing Stone Age. Maybe everything would have remained the same if not for the discovery of such ancient points of history as the city of Jericho in Israel and Chatal Guyuk in Asia Minor. It was they who caused the shift in the beginning of human existence by four to five thousand years.
At the same time, modern science takes into account only those documentary evidence that were considered a century ago, while completely ignoring the evidence that makes it possible to calculate the history of the development of civilization on our planet in tens of thousands of years.
One of the most prominent historians was George Sincellus, who lived and worked at the turn of the eighth and ninth centuries after Christ. For many years, this scientist conducted sermons in the lands of Palestine, in 784 - 806 he served as personal secretary to the Patriarch of Constantinople Tarasius. After the death of the patriarch, Sinkella entered a monastery, where he devoted himself almost entirely to writing. His most famous scientific work can be considered the monograph “Selected Chronography”. In the process of creating this book, the works of many ancient authors were used, among which are Josephus, Manetho, and also the famous Babylonian priest Berossus, whose works are distinguished by a large amount of unusual information.
George Sincellus was so highly erudite that he even allowed himself to convincingly accuse Eusebius of Caesarea, the recognized father of church history, of falsifying the Egyptian historical chronicle. Sinkell in his writings wrote that the Egyptian people have a plate, which they call the “Old Chronicle,” which describes three dozen dynasties that developed over 113 generations over 36.5 thousand years. The first three dynasties, in his opinion, were the princes called Aurites, Mestroenes and Egyptians. Sinkell writes that the Chronicle provides information that Hephaestus did not have a specific time, since he ruled both day and night. His son Helios ruled for thirty thousand years, Chronos with 12 gods ruled for 3984. They were followed by eight demigods who reigned for 217 years.
There is also evidence of the philosopher Simplicius of Cilicia, one of the founders of the school of Neoplatonism, founded and active in Alexandria. He was known for his serious approach to facts and his extremely business-like nature. According to him, the Egyptians carried out calculations in the field of astronomy for 630 thousand years. But even if we were talking not about years at all, but about months, the figure still turns out to be very impressive - approximately 52.5 thousand years.
There are other similar evidence. Thus, Diogenes Laertius, a famous historian and philosopher of late antiquity, who was distinguished by a sharp mind and an equally sharp tongue, made the assumption that in Egypt astronomical calculations were carried out almost 50 thousand years earlier than they began to do so in the time of Alexander the Great. And Martian Capella, a famous encyclopedist writer who worked in the first half of the fifth century, was sure that representatives of the Egyptian people had been conducting secret studies of the stars for more than 40 thousand years and only then presented their knowledge to the world.
Zodiac as proof of antiquity
Even the evidence of Manetho, whose teachings on dynasties are considered the cornerstone of the development of the modern study of Egyptian history, suggests that the beginnings of Egyptian civilization go back centuries and that it is much more ancient than is generally believed.
Some passages survive from his book entitled "History of Egypt", in which the historian states that the first man, or God, who also became known as the discoverer of fire, was none other than Hephaestus. He had a son, Helios, whose heir was Sosis, then the rulers of Egypt were Kronos, Osiris, Typhon, and after them Horus. These were the first Egyptian rulers. Then the royal powers passed continuously from one to another for almost 14 thousand years, right up to Bidis.
Then, over the next 1255 years, Egypt was ruled by various gods and demigods, and in 1817, power fell into the hands of yet another royal family. Then came the kings from Memphis, who ruled the country for 1790 years, and then 10 more kings ruled for 350 years. After this, for almost 6 thousand years, Egypt was ruled by the “spirits of the dead.”
A clear indication of how the stars were aligned some 90,000 years ago is the image of the zodiac that adorned the ceiling of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. Moreover, it was so beautiful that by order of Napoleon (during his Egyptian expedition), this ceiling was removed and transported to France, and a plaster copy was left in its place.
According to British ufologist Raymond Drake, the symbols of the astrological zodiac may indicate that human history has gone through three and a half large cycles, each of which is equal to 25,800 years. And even despite the fact that the temple in which this zodiac was created was destroyed long ago, thanks to the efforts of people who wanted to preserve evidence of such deep knowledge of the ancients, the image of the zodiac was captured in copies.
Ninety thousand years - this shocks modern scientific minds, because it has already become commonplace that the history of human civilization is estimated at approximately 4-5 thousand years. And this is not the only evidence. Similar images of the zodiac were found in Indian northern temples and on clay tablets in Babylon.
Royal lists
It is also known that among the Semitic pastoral tribes who lived in the first half of the first millennium BC on the outskirts of Babylon and were called “Chaldeans”, so-called royal lists were also found, in which very, very ancient dates were present. As these lists indicate, the history of the development of the Sumerian civilization, which preceded the Babylonian one in Mesopotamia, begins with the creation of man.
The Bible mentions 10 forefathers, starting with Adam; the Sumerians called them the most ancient kings, and just as in the Holy Scriptures, there were 10 of them. The biblical forefathers were known for their longevity, although if we compare them with the Sumerian gods, their life expectancy is not so long. One of these lists claims that there were eight kings in total, but they reigned for approximately 241.5 millennia. The second indicates that 10 rulers reigned for 456 thousand years. Then the flood happened. However, thanks to the efforts of one of the surviving righteous people, human civilization was able to be reborn. At this time, a new royal dynasty arose, numbering 33 kings, who were perceived as gods and demigods. It was they who reigned over the next 24.5 thousand years. Then several more little-known royal dynasties were in power. And only then does the history of development begin, which is perceived by modern science. The starting point is considered to be the death of the epic king named Gilgamesh at the very beginning of the 16th century BC.
Was humanity alone?
Very interesting evidence about the history of the development of human civilization can be found in the mythology of the Aztecs and Mayan tribes. They mention not one, but several civilizations, which is reflected in theosophical teachings. In one of the original Aztec cultural monuments - the Codex Vaticanus - it is said that the first race on the planet was represented by giants, but they died of starvation.
The second humanity died from a huge fire. However, part of it managed to escape by creating tunnels and chambers underground. The veracity of this theory is proven by numerous underground branched structures that are found not only in the Sahara or India, but also in South America and Western Europe. There are traces of such structures in Russia – in Karelia.
The third civilization was represented by intelligent monkeys who died from some incomprehensible disaster.
The fourth civilization was somewhat reminiscent of modern people, but all its representatives drowned during the Great Flood.
And only the fifth race lives and develops to this day. There are other similar documents dating back to the Aztecs - the Telleriano-Remensis and Rios codes. They talk about four civilizations, although in a slightly different sequence, each of them existed for approximately 4-5 thousand years. Another interesting fact is that in addition to the usual, traditional chronology for us, both the Aztecs and the Mayans also used the so-called sacred years, each of which had its own duration: katun - 20, baktun - 400, pictun - 8 thousand, and alautun - 64 million years. So, for starters, it would be nice to understand exactly what years these tribes are talking about. Of course, such dates are shocking, so modern science prefers not to take them into account.
But perhaps it is still necessary to take them more seriously, especially since this is hinted at by quite numerous ancient artifacts found in various parts of our planet.
If we talk about the species homo sapiens, that is, “reasonable man,” he is relatively young. Official science gives it about 200 thousand years. This conclusion was made based on a study of mitochondrial DNA and famous skulls from Ethiopia. The latter were found in 1997 during excavations near the Ethiopian village of Herto. These were the remains of a man and a child, whose age was at least 160 thousand years. Today, these are the most ancient representatives of Homo sapiens known to us. Scientists have dubbed them homo sapiens idaltu, or "oldest intelligent man."
Around the same time, maybe a little earlier (200 thousand years ago), the ancestor of all modern people, “mitrogondrial Eve,” lived in the same place in Africa. Every living person has its mitochondria (a set of genes transmitted only through the female line). However, this does not mean that she was the first woman on earth. It’s just that in the course of evolution, it was her descendants who were most fortunate. By the way, “Adam,” whose Y chromosome is present in every man today, is comparatively younger than “Eve.” It is believed that he lived about 140 thousand years ago.
However, all this data is inaccurate and inconclusive. Science is based only on what it has, and more ancient representatives of homo sapiens have not yet been found. But Adam's age has recently been revised, which could add another 140 thousand years to the age of humanity. A recent study of the genes of one African-American man, Albert Perry, and 11 other villagers in Cameroon showed that they had a more “ancient” Y chromosome, which was once passed on to his descendants by a man who lived approximately 340 thousand years ago.
Almost every one of us has heard about UFOs at least once, but not everyone knows about such a category as unidentified fossil facts (artifacts). They are found at enormous depths of cultural layers of the earth. Artifacts manifest themselves at levels at which, according to today's ideas, not only humans, but even primates should not.
answering the question “how old is humanity?”, in school textbooks they confidently wrote that it is forty thousand years old, but the first creatures similar to humans appeared more than two million years ago. Such figures were obtained by scientists in 1967. However, over time, various evidence began to appear that the age of humanity should be calculated in millions of years. For example, in California, a site of prehistoric people was discovered at a depth of seven meters. Traces of fire and parts of rough stone tools were examined. The result amazed the expedition: the age of the site was determined to be 200 thousand years.
Then, scientists L. Leakey discovered the skull of Zijantropus and various stone tools, the analysis of which indicated that their age was more than two million years. I was looking for an answer to the question “how old is humanity?” another expedition. Its participants were lucky enough to find artifacts in Ethiopia that allowed them to conclude that this age can be safely pushed back by 4,000,000 years.
If you delve deeper into the problem, it will become clear that the development of mankind dates back to an even earlier period. For example, a jaw bone was found in Kenya that belonged to our distant ancestor who lived 13 million years ago! The resulting facts tell us about individuals. However, there is also data that concerns entire individual civilizations. They eloquently indicate that they are much older than previously thought.
Near Mexico City, while exploring, scientists decided to guess how old humanity is. In ancient times, its predominant
Part was filled with lava erupted from a volcanic crater. As it turned out later, it was created over five million years, although it was believed that there were no civilizations at all in this region at that time. As we see, this is direct evidence of the existence of organized life. With the help of various modern measurements, it was determined that a person left this structure back in 2160 BC.
It is also interesting that a date dating back to 12,042 BC was carved on one of the walls in Central Africa. In addition, records from later dates were discovered. Excavations prove that there were also developed civilizations near this region, for example, where Peru is now located, bas-reliefs were found with strange creatures depicted on them. According to experts, this civilization existed 20,000 years BC. And how much information has been published about the mysterious Hyperborea, the Arctida continent, our Aryan ancestors, who lived, according to our contemporaries, 18 million years ago!
Unfortunately, modern science takes into account only documentary evidence that answers the question of how old humanity is. But besides them, there are also unconventional, difficult to explain sources (ancient manuscripts, legends, maps of continents from the 15th century, unexpected finds in recently inaccessible places). These evidences and facts also make it possible to establish the true age of humanity. As we see, the Earth is reluctant to part with its secrets.