Message #44020

[Jitendra Hydonus]

“Until the beginning of the 19th century,” writes professor Morris Jastrow, Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria were little more than names. The spirit of skepticism which accompanies the keen desire for investigation led scholars to question the tales found in classical writers about the Babylonians and Egyptians and hence gave impetus to actual archaeological research. Egypt so far has received the lion’s share of archaeological attention and has yielded,  through the Tutankhamen, Giza Pyramid and other excavations, enough evidence of the splendor of the Egyptian past to warrant a radical change in modern historical attitude. But India, China, Mongolia the American Continents and other sites of ancient civilizations are still largely unknown and untouched archaeological gold mines. Until they have been explored and excavated for the evidence of their bygone culture, the present dogmatic opinion of the modern historian concerning the role these lands have played in the story of mankind is not only premature, but utterly worthless. Future archaeological research in these countries will reveal the unsoundness of the present day historical view of the past.

~ Tara Mata (Laurie Pratt) circa 1933