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The Evidence for Ancient Atomic Warfare i i ehensi. > Glen Arm, Maryland, 1978. Continued from page 83 an incomprehensible language and 5. Welfare, Simon and John Fairley, Arthur C. wore clothing made of leather. Glen Arm, Maryland, 1978. 5. Welfare, Simon and John Fairley, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Wm Collins & Sons, London, 1980. 6. ibid. 7. ibid. 8. ibid. 9. Bord, Janet and Colin Bord, Mysterious Britain, Granada Publishing, London, 1972. 10. Edwards, Frank, Strangest of All, Ace Books, New York, 1956. 11. Keller, Werner, The Bible As History, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1956. 12. Sprague de Camp, L., The Ancient Engineers, Ballantine Books, New York, 1960. 13. ibid. 14. Collyns, Robin, Ancient Astronauts: A Time Reversal?, Sphere Books, London, 1976. 15. Bharadwaaja, Maharshi, Vymaanika- Shaastra, translated and published by G.R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979. 16. Noorbergen, Rene, Secrets of the Lost Races, Barnes & Noble Publishers, New York, 1977. 17. Brandon, Jim, Weird America, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1978. an incomprehensible language and wore clothing made of leather. Wilson told this story after a prospec - tor named White claimed he had fallen through the floor of an abandoned mine at Wingate Pass and into an unknown tunnel. White followed this into a series of rooms, where he found hundreds of leather-clad humanoid mummies. Gold bars were stacked like bricks and piled in bins. White claimed he had explored the caverns on three occasions. On one, his wife accompanied him; and on another, his partner, Fred Thomason. However, none of them [was] able to relocate the opening to the cavern when they tried to take a group of archaeologists on a tour of the place. enough to liquefy rock or metal. There are paving stones and houses torn with monstrous cracks... [as though they had] been attacked by a giant's fire- plough." These vitrified ruins in Death Valley sound fascinating—but do they really exist? There certainly is evidence of ancient civilisations in the area. In Titus Canyon, petroglyphs and inscriptions have been scratched into the walls by unknown prehistoric hands. Some experts think the graffiti might have been made by people who lived here long before the Indians we know of, because extant Indians know nothing of the glyphs and, indeed, regard them with superstitious awe. Says Jim Brandon in Weird America:" Piute legends tell of a city beneath Death Valley that they call Shin-au-av. Tom Wilson, an Indian guide in the 1920s, claimed that his grandfather had rediscovered the place by wandering into a miles-long labyrinth of caves beneath the valley floor. Eventually the Indian came to an underworld city where the people spoke Endnotes 1. Steiger, Brad and Ron Calais, Mysteries of Time & Space, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1974. 2. ibid. 3. Corliss, William, Geological Anomalies, The Sourcebook Project, Glen Arm, Maryland, 1974. 4. Corliss, William, Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts, The Sourcebook Project, About the Author: David Hatcher Childress is an explorer, publisher and author of more than 15 books on lost civilisa- tions and science, as well as on free energy, anti- gravity and UFOs. He is a regular speaker on the conference circuit and a sought-after guest on US radio talk shows and TV specials. His new book, Technology of the Gods, is reviewed in this issue. 84 - NEXUS To be continued next issue... AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2000