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Paul Weinzweig, Partner, Advanced Digital
Communications, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: "IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN SAY ON THE RECORD
THIS MORNING THAT I CAN DO SOME KIND OF AN UPDATE?
For the record you can say that the Center for Marine
Archaeology and Anthropology at the Cuban Academy of Sciences is currently
analyzing video data which we have from the perimeter of the site from
megalithic stones. They are working on inscriptions that they have
detected on these stones and they are analyzing them at this
time.
WHAT ARE THE ESTIMATED SIZES OF THESE STONES?
The estimated sizes of these stones - they are roughly
about two by five meters. Very large stones. That's about six feet by
fifteen or sixteen feet, something like that (six feet on each of four
sides and sixteen feet high).
AND YOU MENTIONED POSSIBLY THE SAME KIND OF LOOK AS THE
PERIMETER STONES AT STONEHENGE? THAT KIND OF RECTANGULAR
LOOKING?
Yes, the same kind of stone that you see on Easter Island
and in Stonehenge. Very large and smooth and light colored that bear no
relationship to the surrounding ecology. And also there is evidence of
smooth cut and fit, that is one on top of another, as if the basis of a
pyramid or large building.
AND ON THOSE STONES, WHERE ARE THE POSSIBLE INSCRIPTIONS?
YOU KNOW, LIKE TOP OR BOTTOM OR MIDDLE OR?
They are not anywhere specific on the stones, these
inscriptions. They could be in the middle of the stones and various parts
of the stones across. One thing we found, the anthropologist found, was an
American cross. It's a Central American cross.
IS THAT WHERE TWO
LINES ARE CROSSED PERPENDICULAR TO EACH OTHER WITH ANYTHING SPECIAL ON THE
ENDS?
No. They are not two lines. They are two oval shapes
crossing each other.
TWO LONG OVALS CROSSING EACH OTHER THE WAY A CROSS
CROSSES?
Yes, The way a cross crosses, only the shape is not a
single line. It is a flattened circle.
DO THESE SO FAR FROM WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN ON THE VIDEO SEEM
TO BE INSCRIBED INTO THE STONE LIKE A QUARTER OF AN INCH OR HALF AN
INCH?
Yes, we can't tell really the depth. There is limited
lighting and limited perspective as well because of the - we had technical
problems with the ROV.
IT IS REALLY DARK AT A HALF MILE DOWN, ISN'T
IT?
Well, there is no light at all except for what we
provide.
SO YOU ARE LIMITED IN ONLY WHAT YOU CAN GET IN THAT LIGHT
IN FRONT OF YOU?
That's OK. We have good lighting now and we have a low
light camera to add to our two or three other cameras we have there as
well. To our zoom camera and we have several cameras that work down there
and we have good lighting.
There was a lot of debris in the water at that time,
created by a strong current, probably by plankton.
WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GO DOWN WITH ALL
THE CAMERAS FUNCTIONING?
Well, hopefully, if we get all our systems back together
within the next two months and we get a break in the weather.
AND THE MUSEUM THAT IS TRYING TO ANALYZE THESE CARVED
INSCRIPTIONS YOU HAVE SEEN SO FAR, HAVE YOU HAD ANY INDICATION THAT THEY
THINK IT MATCHES ANY KNOWN ANCIENT SCRIPT?
We don't have any conclusions yet. They are, the analysis
is still in process.
HAVE THEY MADE ANY COMMENT ABOUT THEM, THE SYMBOLS OR
CARVINGS?
Greek-like inscriptions.
GREEK LIKE?
Well, hieroglyphic-like inscriptions.
HIEROGLYPHIC LIKE EGYPT?
I said the lettering is Greek-like. Hold on just a
minute. Why don't you talk to my boss.
OK, I WOULD LOVE TO.
Her name is Paulina Zelitsky.
Paulina Zelitsky: Hi, Linda.
HELLO. I'M SO HAPPY TO MEET YOU ON THE PHONE.
Yes, thank you. I was overhearing my husband and I don't
want you to make any bad mistakes mixing Greek, because it is not Greek.
It has the same tendency, but it is not Greek. We don't know what it is
and scientists are trying to decipher it.
RIGHT. IT HAS SOME RESEMBLANCE IN LETTERING TO GREEK, BUT
IS NOT GREEK. AND THERE ARE SOME LIKE PICTOGRAPHS THAT WOULD FALL INTO THE
HIEROGLYPHIC CATEGORY AS WELL?
Yes, and symbols as well. There are different signs, more
like American nature, like they have found in Central America. Pyramids.
And strong delineation of the structures which suggest pyramidal type,
American pyramidal type, not Egyptian pyramidal type.
OK, YOU MEAN BY THE GLYPH SYMBOLS THAT WOULD BE FOUND IN
MESOAMERICAN PYRAMIDS?
Yes.
AND AN EXAMPLE IS THAT CROSS MADE OF OVALS CROSSING EACH
OTHER?
That's an example. That's correct. And that type of cross
is called an American cross. We find it in Cuba in a variety of caves and
on the island. They are very ancient, pre-Columbian, probably thousands of
years before Columbus. You know, Cuba has submerged three times in our
information of the islands.
OK, SO CUBA HAS GONE UNDER THE WATER THREE
TIMES?
Yes.
AND IN CAVES UNDERWATER AROUND THE ISLAND, THE AMERICAN
CROSS HAS BEEN FOUND CARVED IN?
Yes, and other symbology, other cosmic type depictions.
And you find this in Cuban caves around the island, not only in the south
but in the north. And those caves are underwater caves. One cave I know of
is on land and it has this type of symbology as well.
AND WHEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE STUDIED THE CARVINGS IN THE
CAVES ON CUBA, HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO MATCH THOSE SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS TO
ANY OTHER PRE-EXISTING KNOWN LANGUAGE?
They are trying to match it to Central American, but it
is distinctive on its own. It's very difficult to say that ancient
American symbology is identical to this. It is not identical. It's
similar, but not identical."
After hearing about the symbol of crossed ovals and
mysterious lettering, I began searching. I called the Archaeology and
Anthropology Department at the University of Pennsylvania which has one of
the finest collections of Olmec, Mayan and other Mesoamerican artifacts in
the world.
This weekend I spent several hours searching the
library's rare books of Mayan and Mesoamerican glyphs. I could not find a
single cross of ovals until I opened up a book called The Language of
the Sea Peoples. There in a section comparing hieroglyphs from the
Minoan island of Crete with hieroglyphs known as 'Linear C Language" used
by an ancient Minoan culture called 'Luwian,' I found it.

See crossed ovals next to 186/445 above
from The Language of the Sea Peoples ©
1992 by Fred Woudhuizen.
I ALSO FOUND A MORE COMPLICATED CROSSED OVAL SYMBOL IN
ASSYRIAN HIEROGLYPHS.
 Identified as Assyrian "solar cross" in
The Mammoth Dictionary of Symbols © 1996 by Nadia Julien.
I SENT BOTH OF THOSE SYMBOLS TO PAULINA ZELITSKY FOR
COMMENT. SHE E-MAILED BACK TWO COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS SHE HAD TAKEN INSIDE A
CUBAN CAVE THAT INCLUDED YET DIFFERENT CROSSED SYMBOLS WHICH YOU CAN SEE
IN MY EARTHFILES.COM REPORT.

Paulina Zelitsky wrote about the crossed oval symbol
above and spirals below: "The image is from the Cuban Isle of Youth and
restored by archeologists. But there are a number of similar (Cuban)
caves: one in Matanzas and one in Quanacabibe which were not restored. The
age of these nobody knows. But the scientific community believes they
belong to the 'Sea People.'
 Cuban cave photographs © 2001 by Paulina Zelitsky.
How would an ancient Minoan symbol end up a half mile
down amid other apparent megalithic structures off the western tip of
Cuba? I took that question to the Editor-In-chief of Ancient
American magazine, Frank Joseph. Frank has studied the end of the
Bronze Age around 1200 B. C., which was three thousand two hundred years
ago. He is also the author of a 1998 book entitled Atlantis In
Wisconsin. He has another new book about to be relased entitled
Edgar Cayce's Atlantis and Lemuria. That book will be in stores by
the first of December. And a third book to be released in 2002 is called
The Destruction of Atlantis. Frank Joseph has devoted more than two
decades to studying physical evidence of a global Atlantean culture which
he believes was destroyed in a worldwide catastrophe in 1200 B. C. that
ended the Bronze Age.
In the September/October issue of Ancient American
magazine, there is a brief article entitled 'U. S. Navy Atlantis
Cover-up?' It says that on September 7, 2001, a team from Spain and the U.
S. looking for oil have been "250 miles southwest of the Azores equipped
with bathescape and two submersibles researching a 90-kilometer ledge with
a central temple supported by three stands of nine pillars about 3 feet in
diameter supporting a flat stone roof about 20 feet wide and 30 feet long.
There are the remains of five circular canals and bridges, plus four rings
of structures like the temple in between. It is roughly 2,800 feet deep in
the Mid-Atlantic Trench and stable at this time." According to the
researchers, when they tried to send photographic images from the site,
their signals were jammed by a U. S. Naval exercise nearby, perhaps
inadvertently.
Frank Joseph and I are still trying to confirm this
report, but the depth of 2800 feet is around that half mile depth in the
Cuban site. This weekend I asked Frank about the crossed oval symbol in
the Linear C language of the Luwian.
Frank Joseph, Editor-In-Chief, Ancient American,
Archaeology of the Americas before Columbus, Colfax,
Wisconsin: "The Luwians were a peoples who lived
about the same time as the Trojans that lived in what is now Turkey. They
were either an ally of the Trojans, a close ally during the Trojan War and
before. Or else in fact, they were Trojans. Some Luwian script has
supposedly been found in Italy and they think that is an important link
between the Etruscans and Asia Minor, or what is now Turkey. And the
Luwians were maritime people, very proficient at sea.
AND THIS CROSSED OVAL SYMBOL OF THEIRS RELATED TO WHAT IS
LETTERED AS 'LU' IS ALSO GOES ACROSS ALL THE COLUMNS IN COMPARISON TO
OTHER LANGUAGES WHERE THE SYMBOL APPEARS TO MEAN 'STAR."
A star, yeah. But maybe. That "lu" that is repeated is
like they are identifying themselves, the Luwians. They might have called
themselves the "lu." It is very interesting. That whole cultural context
is Atlantean because the Atlanteans were plugged into the Trojans. The
Trojans themselves had a story of Atlantis. Their founder was Dardanus who
came from Atlantis. Elektra, when she was sinking into the sea.
This is highly complex, thinly woven stuff, you
know!!
CAN YOU PLEASE SHARE THE STORY FROM THE TROJAN POINT OF
VIEW ABOUT ATLANTIS?
The Trojans were a people who built their city around
3,000 B. C. And they chose that spot at the Dardanelles because it was a
very valuable place for trade between the East and the West. You had
access then to the Black Sea. Whoever controlled the Dardanelles
controlled trade. So Troy over time became a very wealthy city.
And the myth of Dardanos is that he was born on an island
far away to the West. And his mother was Elektra. Her father was Atlas,
the name of the island that Atlantis was on. She was the daughter of Atlas
and her mother was Clione.
Boy this is getting really...
WELL THIS IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT PLATO TALKS
ABOUT.
And Clione was the sea goddess who produced what is known
as the Pleiades. And Pleiades means daughter of Atlas which is Atlantis.
That's what Atlantis means, daughter of Atlas.
PLEIADES MEANS DAUGHTER OF ATLAS?
Pleiades means daughter of Atlas. It is a poetic way of
saying this is on Atlantis.
WELL, THE FACT THAT THERE COULD HAVE BEEN AN ATLANTIS
THAT HAD BASES THAT SPREAD ALL THE WAY FROM WEST OF THE STRAITS OF
GIBRALTAR THAT MIGHT HAVE INCLUDED THE AZORES, THE CANARY ISLANDS AND DOWN
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IS WHAT BEGINS TO EMERGE AS A GREATER
TRUTH.
Absolutely.
AND NOT ONE SINGLE ISLAND.
Right. Now, the relationship between Atlantis and Troy is
not the same as the relationship between say Atlantis and the Yucatan, for
example, where they had an allied kingdom. They really owned the Yucatan.
Or they would own parts of Ireland and Spain. That was really plugged in
tight to the Atlantean Empire.
HOW FAR BACK WOULD YOU PUT THIS SINCE PLATO SAYS GOING
THROUGH SOLON AND IN THE CRITEAS '9000 YEARS' AND THAT WOULD PLACE IT AT
ABOUT 11,500 YEARS AGO?
No, that's another story altogether. My colleagues and I
have worked very hard since the 1980s on these dates. And those dates are
a mistake, that was a mistake in translation. The Greeks used a calendar
that was very similar to ours. They used a solar calendar of about 365
days. A standard solar calendar. The Egyptians used a minimum of five
different calendars and their, including a solar calendar. Their priests
and holy places where they had the story of Atlantis which was at the holy
place called the Temple of Knife in Egypt. They used a lunar
calendar.
We concluded that the Egyptian priest, when he said 9,000
years, is talking about lunar years and not solar years. There is abundant
evidence to show that is exactly what he was saying. And the Greeks, when
they heard this, they thought solar years. So when Plato all of the
numerical values in the Criteas and the Timaeus are totally inflated
beyond reality. They do not work with the description that Plato gives.
Plato describes a late bronze age citadel or city.
There was a huge gap in knowledge between Plato's and
Solon's time and what happened in Atlantis. Because we now know that when
the Bronze Age stopped suddenly around 1200 B. C., that for the next 400
years at least there was a period of profound Dark Age. There was no more
writing. There was no more building of cities. The population of the world
had decreased phenomenally. There was widespread burning. The entire Black
Forest of Germany was incinerated. Every, not virtually, but every known
archaeological site in the Near East and Asia Minor were burned. It is now
understood that there was a major catastrophe of which Atlantis was only a
small part that whipped around the world in a band literally from about
Iceland to oh, say, the middle of North Africa. It affected North America,
went right through the Pacific.
There was a symposium of archaeo-astronomers back in
1997, not New Age people at all, in England, in which they found that
probably the greatest natural catastrophe human beings ever witnessed was
around 1200 B. C. And that was when two or more comets, including Haley's
Comet, converged in the skies over earth and showered the world with a
barrage of asteroids and meteors that pushed human beings to the brink of
extinction.
And Atlantis was especially hard hit because there are
two Swedish physicists, Thomas Larsson and Lars Franzen, who established
in 1997 that several asteroids - I'm not talking about meteorites -
several asteroids! collided in the eastern Atlantic precisely in the
location of Atlantis and that is why we can explain why an island the size
of Atlantis which was 6,000 square miles - it was not a continent, it was
a big island. And it was destroyed. If you have an island out in the
middle of the water and it's hit by several nuclear blasts at once, the
chances of that thing being around are slim.
AND WHAT YOU MEAN IS THAT THE IMPACT OF THESE BREAKING OR
COLLIDING ASTEROIDS WOULD HAVE BEEN EQUIVALENT TO ATOMIC BOMB FORCES
HITTING ON THE ISLAND?
Probably H-Bomb forces. And they didn't even have to hit
the island itself. The island was part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which is
a very unstable part of the planet geologically. You could have an
asteroid collision hundreds of miles away, but if it hit the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge - that's the end of that island.
SO, THE BRIEF ARTICLE YOU HAVE IN THE SEPTEMBER TO
OCTOBER ISSUE OF ANCIENT AMERICAN ABOUT A SPANISH OIL RESEARCH GROUP BEING
IN THE AZORES AND FINDING DOWN 2800 FEET NINE COLUMNS SUPPORTING SOME KIND
OF STONE SLAB ROOF....
Yeah!
THAT IT MIGHT LITERALLY CONNECT TO THERE HAVING BEEN SOME
KIND OF STRUCTURE THERE IN THIS 1200 B. C. TIME FRAME?
Yeah, I think so. It works out real well. Unfortunately,
I have not been able to verify that report anymore than you have seen. But
I would bet that it was part of the 1200 B. C. destruction because it was
so massive at that time. We know for example that many parts of the world
like Britain and Germany lost 9/10th of their population all at once. So,
we're dealing with a massive, almost an extinction, human extinction, in
various parts of the world all at the same time. And I think that's
entirely possible.
That would explain also perhaps how this structure now
found off Cuba is where it is. We understand that possibly that it was
part of a much larger complex. I'm beginning to think that what they are
finding there was much larger originally, and what they are finding now is
only a small part, a remnant, that was perhaps on a kind of shelf which
sank vertically. That is not impossible. Things like that have been known
to happen before in the Atlantic and that this part remained upright and
that's what they are finding."
One of the most mysterious cultures on earth are known as
the Etruscans. Twenty-five hundred years ago they lived in a region of
Italy known as Tuscany. No one knew who they were or where they came from.
The Etruscans were skilled sailors and craftsmen and they left behind
carved in stone blocks, columns and other artifacts a language that no one
has ever been able to translate. It resembles Greek, but is not Greek.

Etruscan lettering carved in stone from the book The Language of the Sea Peoples © 1992 by Fred
Woudhuizen.

Frank Joseph: "I haven't seen
what they found down there. It sounds like if it looks Greek, but isn't
Greek, that might be that it's Etruscan. I'm not saying the site
underwater is an Etruscan site. That's probably unlikely. The Etruscans
did not build things that look like Teotihuacan, that's for sure! But the
Etruscans, where did they get their written language? It's possible that
what we're looking at in Etruscan is a variation of the Atlantean
language. We don't know what the Atlantean written language looks like.
But it appears to be the precursor, not just of Greek, but other written
languages in other parts of the world. So, it's possible that if they look
to Etruscan, they might be able to see some similarities. That's not much
help though. Even if they identify it as Etruscan, they won't be able to
read it because the Etruscan written language as not yet been deciphered.
They've gotten some names off it and little snatches of things, but the
language itself is really bizarre because it is a Greek type written
language, but the language itself is more like Turkish or something. It's
really very perplexing.
The Etruscans are far more directly connected to Atlantis
because Plato in his discussion of Atlantis mentions the Etruscans
specifically as being an outpost of Atlantis, that the Atlanteans came to
western Italy and set up their estate there and sort of inter-married with
the people and created what became known as the Etruscans.
NOW FROM THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE ON ATLANTIS RESEARCH -
AND I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY YOU ARE CONVINCED THAT PLATO'S DESCRIPTION
AND HERODITUS OF THIS ATLANTEAN CIVILIZATION THAT IT REALLY DID EXIST.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ATLANTEAN CULTURE IN THAT PERIOD FROM 3,000 TO
1200 B. C. BASED ON WHAT YOU'VE STUDIED?
What I can tell you is that the Atlanteans who developed
on an island outside the Straits of Gibralter developed an extremely
powerful sea civilization. They were great seafarers. Plato described the
Atlanteans as great seafarers and great miners. And that works out
extremely well with the copper mining that took place in North America -
I'm not going to get into that, but there was a major copper mining
enterprise that involved a minimum of half a billion pounds of raw copper
being removed and disappearing during that time period. And I believe the
Atlanteans fit the bill for that.
AND THIS WAS THE 5,000 MINES OF THE NORTHERN PENINSULA OF
MICHIGAN THAT ARE EACH ABOUT 60 FEET DEEP?
Well, the average depth is probably like 20 feet deep for
the pit mines, but there were many pit mines that were excavated through
solid rock 60 feet down. So, whoever did that obviously had a technology
far beyond anything that was known to the native Americans at that time
who were not interested in anything more than float copper, copper they
picked up off the ground. But this is one of the great - I hate to use the
word conspiracy, but it certainly is suppressed evidence that American
scholars have known about for more than 100 years that there was a huge
copper mining enterprise in upper Michigan that lasted from 3,000 B. C. to
1,200 B. C. - those magic dates again - in which a minimum of half a
billion pounds of the world's highest grade copper was excavated and
disappeared.
Meanwhile on the opposite side of the world, the Bronze
Age erupts and bronze is only made through high grade copper combined with
zinc and tin. So, I think that what Plato was talking about are these
ancient copper miners who were able to mine through their tremendous
technological development and ship this huge prodigious amount of raw
copper to Europe where it became the merchants, the copper barons, of the
ancient world and that is what made them so phenomenally wealthy and
powerful.
WELL, AN INTERESTING POSSIBLE DISCOVERY IN THIS
UNDERWATER MEGALITHIC SITE THAT'S UNDER RESEARCH IS THAT IN SOME OF THE
SONAR DATA, NOT THE VIDEOTAPE, BUT THE SONAR DATA, THERE ARE SOME RETURNS
THAT SUGGEST THAT THERE MIGHT BE METAL, LIKE METAL ON THE TOPS ON SOME OF
THE OBJECTS. WOULD THE USE OF METAL AS SHEETING ON STRUCTURES BE SOMETHING
THAT WOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESEARCH ON ATLANTIS?
Well, now we are getting really close to the Atlantean
realm. Plato tells us that at the height of their prosperity to show off
their wealth, would actually sheet their outer walls of the city with
great sheets of what he called 'orichalcum.' Orichalcum means nothing more
than high grade copper which didn't exist in Europe in large numbers like
North America. So, here were people who used a design technique, an
architectural technique of including sheets of precious metal in their
walls and now we are finding this supposedly at a site underwater off of
Cuba. I would say now we are beginning to narrow in on a cultural
commonality.
 Map of Atlantis based on Plato's descriptions, published
in the New York American on October 20, 1912 from
Imagining Atlantis © 1998 by Richard Ellis.
FRANK, WHERE DO YOU THINK ALL OF THIS IS
HEADED?
I know exactly where it is headed. Some time this
century, the greatest archaeological find in history is going to be made
when identifiable remains of Atlantis are going to be found. And the
beginnings of that began in 1968 when they found the Bimini road or wall
or whatever they refer to it as. It's still highly controversial, but that
place has been thoroughly established as artifactual. The structure in
Cuba may be part of that. It's very possible it's part of it. they are
bread crumbs on the trail and the final discovery of Atlantis is going to
be made because the technology now for underwater research is developing
at such an extent they are turning the oceans transparent. And what's
under the oceans, what's actually hidden under the silt. And I think a lot
of Atlantis is not only buried under the water, but under the silt and so
on. That discovery is going to be made. That's where it's headed,
hopefully in our life time, but I would say definitely in the 21st century
Atlantis will be found. I am really confident that is going to
happen.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ACADEMIC WORLD THEN?
It is stood on its ear because the academic world has
been demanding for the last 100 years that anybody who believed in
Atlantis believes in fantasy, they don't know what they are talking about,
they are very unscientific. And beyond that, they say civilization just
began 5,000 years ago very slowly in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and
Euphrates. Well, all of that is going to have to be thrown out! We are
going to be looking at something completely different now. In other words,
all of the textbooks, our entire concept of where we came from is going to
have to be changed." |