We often learn or discover something that shakes the very foundation of what we know. Sometimes people will try to conceal or hide these discoveries as upsetting our world view tends to make all of us uncomfortable. In this sense history is not only written by the victors, it is is also kept static by some people who would prefer certain discoveries never be shared. They would prefer we stick with the history we were taught.

I just wrote a post an hour or so ago about colonizing planets and getting off of Earth. That was partially inspired by an article I read earlier today.

I actually have been aware of Gobekli Tepe for a couple of years, and have even mentioned it in one of my @chaospoet poems that I wrote months ago.

This is one of those Archaeological digs that is causing many people to rethink many things about our past. If they do not rethink them then they would be forced to pretend that which they are unearthing does not exist. They need to apply a very liberal amount of mental white out so that this particular dig does not do this.

Yet it is not the only such site to do this... There are a growing number of odd discoveries that cause us to questions what we claim to know about our past. It is interesting that as we discover new things that effectively prove the written history is wrong I do not see the actual history books as being taught being rewritten or edited for accuracy. They still teach the same things and ignore anything that would show that world view as inaccurate.

This is a bad thing for our future. We should embrace and welcome facts. Our understanding of what the "truth" is should change with the discovery of new facts. If we do not do this then we simply are living a lie, and we are spreading and teaching lies.

An interesting NEW idea in that article about Gobekli Tepe above (it is clickable by the way) is this idea that a disaster related to passing through a meteor stream could explain a lot of the Ice Age about 11,000 years ago which killed off various species, and appears as though may have impacted human civilizations that were far more advanced than history likes to teach.

This is potentially important as we are supposedly due to cross through this meteor stream again around 2030. Is this another doomsday prophecy? Not at all. Just simple science and observation of our solar system. Will a doomsday event occur? That is not certain at all, but the Earth will be at an increased danger of impacts from the norm. No such impacts may happen, but they are more probable than during other times.

It would be nice if we have a larger presence outside of our planet by then either with drones, or human colonies. We may be in a position to do something or at least react to such events.

Gobekli Tepe is not the only discovery that has us questioning what we know about the past. There are many more.

A pretty obvious one is that they still teach Columbus discovering America which there are numerous sites that have been dug and found that prove the Vikings beat him to it. If you go with some of the other archaeology there is also some evidence that other cultures may have been here as well. At the very least we know the Vikings were here first. Yet, Columbus is still taught as though these discoveries did not occur.

Here are links to some articles on some other interesting discoveries and places that defy what we know of history(titles may be sensational clickbait and because I share them does not mean I agree with the speculation about these things):

This next one was from a time when supposedly man could not work this type of metal

Conclusion

There are probably more than a hundred enigmas out there probably several hundred. There are more speculations about what these enigmas are to go along with that. They go from early explorers being more adept than we historically give them credit for, to ancient aliens interacting with civilizations, to tales of Atlantis. There are also more humble speculations to try to explain it as offered by skeptics. At this point we do not know which is true, all we know is that the history we were taught is no longer accurate in many cases.