archeology

• Siwalik Hills contain fossils closest to transition man

64:3.4To the east of the Bado­nan peo­ples, in the Si­wa­lik Hills of north­ern In­dia, may be found fos­sils that ap­proach nearer to tran­si­tion types be­tween man and the var­i­ous pre­hu­man groups than any oth­ers on earth.

• Eden under eastern end of Mediterranean

73:7.1Af­ter the first gar­den was va­cated by Adam, it was oc­cu­pied var­i­ously by the Nod­ites, Cu­tites, and the Sun­tites. It later be­came the dwell­ing place of the north­ern Nod­ites who op­posed co-op­er­a­tion with the Adamites. The penin­sula had been over­run by these lower-grade Nod­ites for al­most four thou­sand years af­ter Adam left the Gar­den when, in con­nec­tion with the vi­o­lent ac­tiv­ity of the sur­round­ing vol­ca­noes and the sub­mer­gence of the Si­cil­ian land bridge to Africa, the east­ern floor of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea sank, car­ry­ing down be­neath the wa­ters the whole of the Edenic penin­sula. Con­comi­tant with this vast sub­mer­gence the coast line of the east­ern Med­i­ter­ra­nean was greatly el­e­vated. And this was the end of the most beau­ti­ful nat­u­ral cre­ation that Uran­tia has ever har­bored. The sink­ing was not sud­den, sev­eral hun­dred years be­ing re­quired com­pletely to sub­merge the en­tire penin­sula.

73:7.2We can­not re­gard this dis­ap­pear­ance of the Gar­den as be­ing in any way a re­sult of the mis­car­riage of the di­vine plans or as a re­sult of the mis­takes of Adam and Eve. We do not re­gard the sub­mer­gence of Eden as any­thing but a nat­u­ral oc­cur­rence, but it does seem to us that the sink­ing of the Gar­den was timed to oc­cur at just about the date of the ac­cu­mu­la­tion of the re­serves of the vi­o­let race for un­der­tak­ing the work of re­ha­bil­i­tat­ing the world peo­ples.

• Sumerian tablets telling about Dilmun in museums

77:4.8The elab­o­rate rec­ords left by the Sume­ri­ans de­scribe the site of a re­mark­able set­tle­ment which was lo­cated on the Per­sian Gulf near the ear­lier city of Dil­mun. The Egyp­tians called this city of an­cient glory Dil­mat, while the later Adamized Sume­ri­ans con­fused both the first and sec­ond Nod­ite cities with Dala­ma­tia and called all three Dil­mun. And al­ready have ar­chae­ol­o­gists found these an­cient Sume­rian clay tablets which tell of this earthly par­a­dise “where the Gods first blessed man­kind with the ex­am­ple of civ­i­lized and cul­tured life.” And these tablets, de­scrip­tive of Dil­mun, the par­a­dise of men and God, are now silently rest­ing on the dusty shelves of many mu­se­ums.

• vestiges of Adamsonite headquarters in Turkestan

77:5.10This cen­ter of civ­i­liza­tion was sit­u­ated in the re­gion east of the south­ern end of the Caspian Sea, near the Kopet Dagh. A short way up in the foothills of Tur­kes­tan are the ves­tiges of what was one­time the Ad­am­son­ite head­quar­ters of the vi­o­let race. In these high­land sites, sit­u­ated in a nar­row and an­cient fer­tile belt ly­ing in the lower foothills of the Kopet range, there suc­ces­sively arose at var­i­ous pe­ri­ods four di­verse cul­tures re­spec­tively fos­tered by four dif­fer­ent groups of Adam­son’s de­scen­dants. It was the sec­ond of these groups which mi­grated west­ward to Greece and the is­lands of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean. The residue of Adam­son’s de­scen­dants mi­grated north and west to en­ter Eu­rope with the blended stock of the last And­ite wave com­ing out of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and they were also num­bered among the And­ite-Aryan in­vaders of In­dia.

• Eden under eastern end of Mediterranean
• remnants of second garden in Mesopotamia
• vestiges of Dalamatia under Persian Gulf

78:7.7The rem­nants of this, one of the old­est civ­i­liza­tions, are to be found in these re­gions of Mes­o­po­ta­mia and to the north­east and north­west. But still older ves­tiges of the days of Dala­ma­tia ex­ist un­der the wa­ters of the Per­sian Gulf, and the first Eden lies sub­merged un­der the east­ern end of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea.

• later vases often inferior to earlier

81:2.20These civ­i­liza­tions of the And­ite age can­not al­ways be traced by the stages of their pot­tery or other arts. The smooth course of hu­man evo­lu­tion was tremen­dously com­pli­cated by the regimes of both Dala­ma­tia and Eden. It of­ten oc­curs that the later vases and im­ple­ments are in­fe­rior to the ear­lier prod­ucts of the purer And­ite peo­ples.