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the National Enquirer. I would not even pin 10 per cent of the Third Secret he pre- sented as a fulfilled prophecy. Many of the facts about that event just do not match the prophecy. Agca's bullets wounded the Pope and two bystanders. No-one died, and no bishops, priests and laity were martyred as the prophecy demanded. As far as I know, Rome stood undamaged in 1981, and the scene of the assassination was not on top of a mountain but on the flat plain of the Vatican plaza. Beyond the interpretation of the Third Secret, there are a number of factual inconsistencies in Cardinal Ratzinger's past and current statements about it. It is a well-known fact among Fatima prophecy- watchers that the first line of the Third Secret revealed on 26 May is not the line proclaimed decades ago by Sister Lucia. A number of those who have seen the prophecy (among them the late Father Malachi Martin) describe a vision diametri- cally different in content than that present- ed on 26 May. Even the Third Secret's physical pages, offered as evidence at the news conference, are suspect. Up to 26 May, Cardinal Ratzinger officially agreed with other witnesses that Sister Lucia wrote the prophecy in 24 lines on a single page. Now Ratzinger presents a four-page, hand- written document of 62 lines! These and many other inconsistencies and prophetic stretches only add support to a growing belief that the highest echelons of the Vatican are involved in a cover-up. (Source: John Hogue, author of among those who explored the site, around "Messiahs: The Visions and Prophecies for 90 miles northeast of Bolivia's capital, La the Second Coming", "The Last Pope: The Paz. Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome", The Atahuallpa 2000 expedition— and "Nostradamus: The Complete _ backed by the international scientific group Prophecies", website www.hogueprophecy) Akakor Geographical Exploring, and fund- ed by ENTEL, a Bolivian telecommunica- ANCIENT TEMPLE DISCOVERED J tion company owned by the Italian corpo- BENEATH LAKE TITICACA ration STET—first made a trip to Titicaca stone anchor and animal bones are _ in 1998 to look at underwater caves and to A= the artefacts scientists say research diving techniques at high altitude. they have found beneath Lake Marco Antonio Simi, who was on that Titicaca in the Andes, in what they claim is expedition, said that the groundwork on a giant temple over 1,000 years old. pressure levels allowed the group to return After 18 days of diving below the clear this year. Most diving technology is based waters of Titicaca, scientists said on on ocean-bound dives, where pressure lev- Tuesday, 22 August, that they had discov- _ els are very different. ered a temple, a crop terrace, a pre-Incan The team was looking for an underwater road, a containing wall and a number of _ temple. ceramic artefacts on the lake's floor. "What they found was the beginning of "We've found what appears to have been _ what they were looking for," Simi said. a 200-metre-long, 50-metre-wide holy tem- The team made more than 200 dives into ple, a terrace for crops, a pre-Incan road __ water as deep as 65 to 100 feet (20 to 30.5 and an 800-metre-long containing wall," _ metres) and recorded their finds on film. said Lorenzo Epis, the Italian leader of the The expedition is to publish its full find- Atahuallpa 2000 expedition. ings in November and has plans to raise While a submerged city has not been more archaeological remains to the surface. found, Mr Epis said that the ruins appeared (Source: The Guardian, UK, 24 August 2000) tr ha 1 ANN ta 1 6NN e 1A Thaw thie ANCIENT TEMPLE DISCOVERED BENEATH LAKE TITICACA stone anchor and animal bones are among the artefacts scientists say they have found beneath Lake Titicaca in the Andes, in what they claim is a giant temple over 1,000 years old. After 18 days of diving below the clear waters of Titicaca, scientists said on Tuesday, 22 August, that they had discov- ered a temple, a crop terrace, a pre-Incan road, a containing wall and a number of ceramic artefacts on the lake's floor. "We've found what appears to have been a 200-metre-long, 50-metre-wide holy tem- ple, a terrace for crops, a pre-Incan road and an 800-metre-long containing wall," said Lorenzo Epis, the Italian leader of the Atahuallpa 2000 expedition. While a submerged city has not been found, Mr Epis said that the ruins appeared to be 1,000 to 1,500 years old. They thus predate the Incas and could point to the Tiahuanaco people who lived on Titicaca's shores before becoming part of the Inca Empire. Lake Titicaca, some 12,464 feet (3,800 metres) above sea level, lies on the border between Bolivia and Peru and is the highest navigable lake in the world. It has long been the sub- ~ ject of legends G about a lost under- water city, but there has been little research because of the logistical diffi- culties of diving at altitude. "T strongly sup- port the hypothesis that what was found by _ the Atahuallpa 2000 expedition are the ruins of a sub- merged pre- . Columbian tem- an extraterrestrial rr . . ple," said Eduardo lanet invading Pareja, a Bolivian scientist who was SYRIAN RUINS REVISE BIRTH OF URBAN CULTURE joint Syrian-American excavation A: has uncovered the ruins of a city dating back to around 4000 to 3700 BC, which suggest that the rise of urban civilisation occurred earlier than pre- viously thought—and before the invention of writing. Archaeologists from the excavation team found a protective city wall under a huge mound in a region of northeastern Syria known as Tell Hamoukar. Until the discovery last year, archaeolo- gists claimed that the only cities dating back to 4000 BC were in Sumeria, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in an area that is now Iraq. The discovery at Tell Hamoukar sug- gests that ideas behind cities may have pre- dated the Sumerians, according to McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, the joint partner in the excavation. "We need to reconsider our ideas about the beginnings of civilisation, pushing the time further back," said Gibson. Tell Hamoukar is located between the legendary Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is Syria today. In the earliest period "Hello, lam Zyrxxx. Iam one of an extraterrestrial race that travels from planet to planet invading and taking over carburetors." 68 + NEXUS OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2000