Grab some excavating tools, we are going on a dig of the mind…

With this past weekend being one that I could rest in a while and that I had nothing truly needing my attention, I was able to watch some documentaries and movies that have been on my queue. Archaeology has always been fascinating to me. Our history. A make up of different species around the world. Ones that are still encapsulated in the earth, under sand, rock preserved as well as they could be from times and centuries past. It can give you the tools to become lost in your own time and to put your life in perspective.

Surely, one day, if something catastrophic happened our bodies can be preserved enough to give the following species enough clues to think about where they might have come from - or to give them a window into our lives, culture and daily life.

Many different points of thought come to the forefront of my mind when watching documentaries such as the “Unknown” series on Netflix; there are different ones, “Cave of Bones,” “The Lost Pyramid,” “Cosmic Time Machine,” and “Killer Robots.” At this moment I have only watched “Cave of Bones” and “The Lost Pyramid.” Both titles do a decent job of engaging the mind and taking in what has been shown before you, about the doctor’s findings, and what else needs to be done to find the answers to the many questions and mysteries that they unearth. Did other species before us examine and display the findings of creatures prior - and because of an extreme catastrophic event completely wipe away all evidence? Who knows and when I pose those types of philosophical questions to those around me, they usually express that subject is too out there to contemplate and fear eludes. Perhaps I should save those questions for like-minded individuals. Are you a like-minded individual? Do you like to dabble in the pseudoarhaeological thinking for some fun? One of the most sought after discoveries for many archaeologists is finding a lost city, a meaningful artifact, a whole or partial pyramid, or even a lost civilization. One that seems a little far fetched but would change the context of our history all together would be findingAtlantis. The lost city of Atlantis is shrouded in doubt and many find that something like that couldn’t exist. But what if it did? What if those findings of a sunken city off the coast of Spain, in the Bahamas, or a Greek island of Santorini or Crete that had fallen and are remnants of Atlantis. Finding a species that hosted the technological advances that Plato’s dialogues mention would be incredible but I believe would possibly be too much for our current world to handle. The only thing we can do is to stay curious and explore our planet, with the respect it deserves. Believing we are the only intelligent species on this planet is arrogant, let’s stay curious instead.

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