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Subject: Information From A Reader. June 19, 2007.

I once posted some information about Death Valley and the following

person added some more information to it.

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On Apr 23, 5:10 pm, "john f winston" <johnf...@mlode.com> wrote:

Subject: Beautiful Death Valley. April 21, 2007.

Actually it's not all that great but I have been in it two or more

times. Be sure and don't go during the middle of the summer because it

gets pretty hot, sometimes over 130 degrees or more.

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From: Jonathan Gray

ARCHAEOLOGY NEWSFLASH 73

Kenneth, this news is from Jonathan Gray -

http://www.beforeus.com

Oh no, not toilet water... please!

When Toowoomba City Council began talking about recycling sewage

water for drinking, things had to be bad.

Australia was in its worst water shortage in decades. Even before

the dry summer began, one town reported its reservoir was almost

empty.

People were asking, What is happening here? Why is this young

country experiencing water shortages? Must we expect this to get

worse?

In outback Queensland, a seven year old suddenly ran indoors to

her mother, screaming in fright. Raindrops were falling - and up

till now this child had never seen rain.

If the truth were known, people on most continents are facing

growing shortages of useable water.

Dick and I lay back on the deck soaking up the sunshine. The topic

turned to water.

"You would have loved it," crooned Dick. "One of the lushest spots

you could find."

"Where?" I asked.

"Death Valley."

"Oh, come on, Dick. That's one of the most h-llish, desolate places

on earth!"

Dick waved his arm. "Jonathan, did you know that Death Valley once

contained a hundred mile lake? It was a green paradise.

(JW That is correct. The Rangers at the Furnace Creek Ranger

Station in Death Valley say that the area was covered with a lake

many years ago.

There is a story that we have an area half way up the sides of the

Panamint Mountains where a the openning for boat launching openning

can still be found half way up the mountain and you can look down

on the Ranger Station from there. It would be of interest to me

if someone would go the the Ranger Station and look up on the

mountain to see if there is still a water level that can be seen

today where the water used to be. Do we have any takers?)

"And here lived a race of giant men and women. These people enjoyed

palatable foods - taken from the local lakes and forests."

"How do you know?"

"There is fossil and skeletal evidence to prove it."

Well, this sounded so far out, I just had to get to the truth of the

matter.

So would you like to know what really turned up? Okay, here it is.

In that same valley lie the ruins of a city more than a mile in

length. And the streets are still traceable, running at right angles.

There are stone buildings reduced to ruins by the action of some

great heat that passed over. All the stones are burnt, some of them

almost cindered, others glazed as if melted.

You will find further mention of ancient cities in this region,

which is now desert, in my book Dead Men's Sec-ets.

North America, has, of course, quite a number of ancient dried up

seas, which have turned to desert.

And - are you sitting down? - this may rock you!

Ships have actually been found, stranded in these deserts. Indian

and Spanish legends also speak of such ships - left behind when the

inland seas dried up.

Over centuries of time, it seems, the rainfall decreased, and

widespread forests gave way to grasslands.

Year by year, the imprisoned water bodies dwindled.

Finally, the dry-out broke the grass cover, exposing the soil to

wind action. And it appears that terrible dust storms arose at this

time.

And so desert conditions gradually crept over this early dominion

of man.

Just a word about that wild region at the head of the Gulf of

California.

Described in 1850 as "a day's march from San Diego", were

discovered seven lofty pyramids within a mile square.

There were also massive granite rings, dwellings, blocks of

hieroglyphics and ruins reminiscent of ancient Egypt.

This once fertile, bustling land of people has now become an

unpeopled, thirst-stricken and heat-crazed land.

The process is still occurring.

So much fertile farmland has had to be abandoned for lack of water along

the interstate highway between Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, that by the

latter half of the twentieth century dust storms were frequently sweeping

across the road.

I understand that the state had to install expensive warning lights to

tell motorists of dust storms ahead.

But this trend of a world drying out from the flood puddles" of an

ancient cataclysm, left its marks not only in North America.

The same scenario is repeated in South America, Asia, Africa and

elsewhere.

Australia, a very flat continent, is now mostly dry. Traces of salt

pans and rivers that dried up thousands of years ago indicate that it

was once green, its climate mild.

LOST CITY IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA

The Australian aborigines speak of an ancient city hidden in the remote

hinterlands of northern Australia.

According to the Australian Weekend News, three men made it through the

remote outback to visit the ruins of this alleged city, known as Burrungu.

They reported ruined walls, stone houses, wide courtyards, and stately

arches that look down upon statues set along tree-shaded streets.

Legends of the aborigines tell of wh-te men living in the city thousands

of years ago.

"They were so tall they needed very big buildings," the natives claimed.

"The city is taboo. It was once a place of much activity."

From a plane I have gazed down upon the sand dunes of this wasteland.

Satellite pictures of sand dune patterns indicate that a sea larger than

America's Lake Superior existed in Central Australia. Today's salt lakes

were once part of this sea.

The dunes were formed as it progressively shrank and the climate became

arid.

In December, 2003, Australian antiquities researcher Gilbert Deem told

me: "We have sites to investigate around the perimeter of the old

inland sea in central Australia. We have some amazing; stuff from there."

He noted the many references to the inland sea in the early history of

Australia.

About 3,000 years ago, the Phoenicians were mining in central Australia,

accessing via two entrances: one near Broome and the other in the Gulf of

Carpentaria.

There was once a strait called "the north-south passage", which ran from

the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north to the vicinity of Spencer's Gulf in

South Australia.

S-CRET ORDERS

"This was the one that [the British explorer Flinders and the Frenchman

Baudin went looking for when they met at Encounter Bay," said Gilbert.

"Flinders had secret orders to find the passage, as the British East India

Company was looking for the old strait mentioned on the Phoenician charts

which were used by Columbus, Cook and the early Australian navigators.

"They knew exactly where they were going.

"The Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and French (all expanding their empires)

had the same maps.

"It is also on record that a Captain Williamson, an American whaler,

sailed through the passage - and that was only 'recently.'"

The British East India Company was interested in it, as it was a much

more viable alternative (than to navigate through the Great Barrier

Reef) to access the Spice Islands, Timor Sea, etc.

The early Australian explorers went searching for the inland sea as

well.

Charles Sturt's journals are a brilliant read. He concludes that the

inland sea must have only recently dried up and had been the subject of a

great cataclysm as the top section of vegetable matter still stank.

He found a bank of sea shells - there are drawings in his books - that

was 300 feet thick.

Also there are many Phoenician petroglyphs in central Australia which

are high above the land line now. They trace back to the inland sea levels

when they were much higher.

Even today, in central Australia, when the monsoons come the old basin

is exposed and it is possible to navigate from north to south within the

continent.

"There are many maps of Australia which show the inland basin and the

outlines of the passage," said Gilbert. "It's all there."

In Western Australia, the east-west road from Esperance to Ravensthorpe

dips down periodically to traverse numerous wide, dry watercourse beds,

carved out as the inland sea drained to the Southern Ocean.

Australia's giant animals suddenly became extinct as the freshwater lakes

quickly dried and the surrounding grazing lands became arid.

A ONCE FLOODED LAND DRIES OUT

In a nutshell, then, this is the picture.

At the termination of the cataclysm which ancient civilizations spoke of

as the Great Flood, large amounts of water were stranded in the interior

basins.

Such bodies of trapped water existed all over the planet. And rain

continued to be abundant.

As man spread out to repopulate the globe, cities sprang up where there

was water.

John Winston. j...@mlode.com

Theres ancient stone buildings here in NewZealand,the native people

the Maori talk of how w-ite people once lived with them and built the

stone buildings-Maoris never built in stone and only left Hawaii for

NZ (Aoteroa) some 1500 yrs ago.

John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com