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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

entire earth.’

Now Yahewh [the Hebrew God] came down to see the town and the tower that the
sons of man had built. ‘So they are all a single people with a single language!’ said
Yahweh. ‘This is but the start of their undertakings! There will be nothing too hard
for them to do. Come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so
that they can no longer understand one another.’

Yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped
building the tower. It was named Babel, therefore, because there Yahweh confused
the language of the whole earth. It was from there that Yahweh scattered them
over the whole face of the earth.
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The verse which most interested me suggested very clearly that the
ancient builders of the Tower of Babel had set out to create a lasting
monument to themselves so that their name would not be forgotten—
even if their civilization and language were. Was it possible that the same
considerations could have applied at Cholula?
Only a handful of monuments in Mexico were thought by archaeologists
to be more than 2000 years old. Cholula was definitely one of them.
Indeed no one could say for sure in what distant age its ramparts had
first begun to be heaped up. For thousands of years before development
and extension of the site began in earnest around 300 BC, it looked as
though some other, older structure might have been positioned at the
spot over which the great ziggurat of Quetzalcoatl now rose.
There was a precedent for this which further strengthened the
intriguing possibility that the remnants of a truly ancient civilization
might still be lying around in Central America waiting to be recognized.
For example, just south of the university campus of Mexico City, off the
main road connecting the capital to Cuernavaca, stands a circular step
pyramid of great complexity (with four galleries and a central staircase). It
was partially excavated in the 1920s from beneath a mantle of lava.
Geologists were called to the site to help date the lava, and carried out a
detailed examination. To everyone’s surprise, they concluded that the
volcanic eruption which had completely buried three sides of this pyramid
(and had then gone on to cover about sixty square miles of the
surrounding territory) must have taken place at least seven thousand
years ago.
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This geological evidence seems to have been ignored by historians and
archaeologists, who do not believe that any civilization capable of
building a pyramid could have existed in Mexico at such an early date. It
is worth noting, however, that Byron Cummings, the American
archaeologist who originally excavated the site for the National
Geographical Society, was convinced by clearly demarcated stratification

Genesis 11:1-9.
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20 Reported in Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, p. 199. See also The God-Kings and the
Titans, p. 54, and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, p. 207.

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