Yea, the Greeks run this shyt as far as ancient civilizations go.
Their contributions to mathematics, philosophy, classical physics, government, military structure and tactics is
I put the Indus Valley Civilizations just below the Greeks.
But the Greeks...just in terms of philosophical development alone. I mean, wow.
Book: Good book to read he states large amount of sources from Spaniards of that time and etc...
"Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization.
"The Nazca Lines were the work of demigods and was here before we were" stated by the natives of that land.
Luis de Monzon was the first Spanish traveller to bring back eyewitness reports concerning these mysterious 'marks on the desert' and to collect the strange local traditions that linked them to the Viracochas. However, until commercial airlines began to operate regularly between Lima and Arequipa in the 1930s no one seems to have grasped that the largest piece of graphic art in the world lay here in Southern Peru
First pages of Chapter 5...
The last custodians of the ancient religious heritage of Peru were the Incas, whose beliefs and idolatry were extirpated and whose treasures were ransacked during the thirty terrible years that followed the Spanish conquest in AD 1532.1 Providentially, however, a number of early Spanish travellers made sincere efforts to document Inca traditions before they were entirely forgotten.
Though little attention was paid at the time, some of these traditions speak strikingly of a great civilization that was believed to have existed in Peru many thousands of years earlier.2 Powerful memories were preserved of this civilization, said to have been founded by the Viracochas, the same mysterious beings credited with the making of the Nazca lines.
1 See, for example, Father Pablo Joseph, The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru (translated from the Spanish by L. Clark Keating), University of Kentucky Press, 1968.
2 This is the view of Fernando Montesinos, expressed in his Memorias Antiguas Historiales del Peru (written in the seventeenth century). English edition translated and edited by P. A. Means, Hakluyt Society, London, 1920.
Fukk the book is on the website lol. I read the book and its amazing.
Fingerprints of The Gods
Wish I had known would of save 15 dollars from Barnes and Noble