{"id":198452,"date":"2025-04-10T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=7c9ed2fbf172f8672600a3123fef005d"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:49:48","slug":"the-forgotten-past-are-we-a-civilization-suffering-from-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=198452","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten past: Are we a civilization suffering from amnesia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again, discoveries emerge that challenge our understanding of human history, yet mainstream institutions often ignore or dismiss them. Case in point: Gunung Padang in Indonesia and G\u00f6bekli Tepe in Turkey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOSSxNsmx_NXecFsJbMVCiFJ4z1kCBYkAAbmFgo7IlWqzslBCgg9kdMndVUPhKS_fDA-Fk0XtxC8bxBOVj5_2DkpVirBBvBZwL8A2pZOoh91_Dbtx-XJBmfqZiEUNwud4F75VMf0f9bYevls9fSxjZqAENJ2ggPVnD01hTJK3GwA58EUPGmWWju6ejJ2Yd\/s640\/Gunung%20Padang%20%20Indonesia.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"360\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOSSxNsmx_NXecFsJbMVCiFJ4z1kCBYkAAbmFgo7IlWqzslBCgg9kdMndVUPhKS_fDA-Fk0XtxC8bxBOVj5_2DkpVirBBvBZwL8A2pZOoh91_Dbtx-XJBmfqZiEUNwud4F75VMf0f9bYevls9fSxjZqAENJ2ggPVnD01hTJK3GwA58EUPGmWWju6ejJ2Yd\/w640-h360\/Gunung%20Padang%20%20Indonesia.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Gunung Padang, a massive megalithic structure in West Java, sits atop an extinct volcano. New research suggests it could be the world\u2019s oldest pyramid, dating back 25,000 to 14,000 years ago, deep into the last Ice Age.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If accurate, this would place it tens of thousands of years before the Egyptian pyramids and older than G\u00f6bekli Tepe, the 12,000-year-old site in Turkey already known for defying conventional history.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Advanced scanning has revealed multiple layers of construction, some possibly as old as 27,000 years, with underground chambers still largely unexplored. And yet, despite the groundbreaking implications, Gunung Padang remains shrouded in silence.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Excavations have slowed. Access is restricted. Even more oddly, global policy organizations like the World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201cGlobal Shapers\u201d have ties to site oversight. Why would an economic think tank be involved in an ancient archaeological dig?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The mystery runs deeper than stone. It touches on power, control, and narrative.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If humanity was building advanced structures during or before the Ice Age\u2014long before agriculture, it rewrites everything we think we know: Who we are &#8211; Where we come from &#8211; What we\u2019re truly capable of.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Accepting this would force a total overhaul of textbooks, academic models, and career-long assumptions. Institutions resist this not out of malice, but self-preservation.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There\u2019s a deeper reason: that certain knowledge is intentionally suppressed, to maintain control, avoid disruption, and keep ancient technologies hidden.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because if ancient civilizations, eventually with the help of advanced extraterrestrial races, once building advanced structures, achieved clean energy, global cooperation, or cosmic insight and then lost it, we\u2019re not the pinnacle of progress.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If knowledge is power, then controlling history is the ultimate power, keeping us in the dark about our origins, like a civilization suffering from amnesia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/0zpVi1pE5zw?si=6sjWzTBTrMYiZ4Gb\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again, discoveries emerge that challenge our understanding of human history, yet mainstream institutions often ignore or dismiss them. Case in point: Gunung Padang in Indonesia and G\u00f6bekli Tepe in Turkey.&nbsp;Gunung Padang, a massive megalith&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[506,508,14005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancient-civilization","category-ancient-history","category-pyramids"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198454,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452\/revisions\/198454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}