Euclid's Geometry
Is there room in the historical record for lost civilizations? Current accepted wisdom indicates traces of million year old upright species. Then, ten or twenty thousand years ago there are traces of primitive "neolithic" settlements. Then,
from six or seven
thousand years ago there are traces of several advanced civilizations. But what about three hundred thousand years ago, or seventy thousand years
ago. It seems to be there are large enough gaps someone could drive a truck into.
Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle as a young boy. In my great lost novel, Aristotle shares with him information passed down to him from
the earlier Greek philosophers Thales and Pythagoras and Plato, information about lost hidden knowledge.
A little known fact is that after Alexander has his first encounter with Darius King of Persia at Galgatha, he didn't immediately pursue him into
Iran. Instead he set his sights on another great and ancient civilization, one, unlike the Persians who managed to recover nicely under the Suicides, this
great ancient civilization he effectively destroyed. They were a seafaring race of traders called the Phoenicians and their capital was an island off
the coast of Lebanon called Tyre. Alexander had his army construct a spit all the way through the harbor to attach the kingdom to the mainland. Although
they attempted to negotiate, Alexander seemed intent on annihilation.
But even after he conquered and massacred the people of Tyre, apparently he didn't find what he was looking for. Perhaps the priests of the Phoenicians
revealed to him the secret location, or perhaps it was Aristotle, I haven't completed (or started really) my definitive legend, but the next thing
Alexander does is too crazy to make up. He takes his great army and, no he doesn't attack Persia yet, he marches all the way down to Egypt, all the
way through Egypt,
straight past the Nile, west up along the coast, and then heads due south, straight in to the Libyan Desert. I'm not making this up.
He makes his way to mysterious oasis deep in the middle of the desert, called Siwa.
Why on Earth did he choose to go to Siwa? How did he even know about the place? My theory is that he had heard about the existence of secret
ancient knowledge, either from Thales and Pythagoras, both Phoenicians who were said to have studied for years and been initiated into the mysterious
priesthood of Egypt, or by someone he tortured in Tyre.
Then Alexander rushes back to Persia and makes it all the way to India before getting himself killed by his own troops at a young age. He never makes
it back to Alexandria, Egypt alive, the city he founded on his way to Siwa, but it is my theory that his troops hauled something back from the Siwa oasis
that formed the basis of the mythical library of Alexandria, chests full of secret writing in a strange pictographic symbolic language.
Within a generation, credited to a single man about which we know absolutely nothing, was written a series of books called Euclid's
Geometry. It is my theory, and you heard it here first, that if anything Euclid was a translator. The complete works of Euclid's Geometry,
which have stood for twenty three hundred years unchanged as the basis of our most sacred, and one of our most important fields of study,
were (11:11) not the work of one man in one lifetime. Euclid's Geometry was found by Alexander the Great at the oasis of Siwa, deep in the Sahara
desert, and taken to Alexandria where it came to form the basis of all modern technology.
Thus indicating that ancient civilizations may well have existed, and might have
been pretty smart too.
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