Recordings › A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth · 17 Dec 2019 › Segment 5 of 6
Did ancient civilisations have knowledge that was later lost?
ka'bah ka'ba kaabah muftis dalil daleel adillah adilla proofLost ancient knowledge: the Younger Dryas, Göbekli Tepe, old maps and sites aligned to constellations
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth finds convincing the view that advanced ancient civilisations were destroyed around the Younger Dryas and left knowledge seen in old maps and constellation-aligned sites. He believes the Nabataeans built on earlier sites at Petra and set up devotion sites aligned to its constellation.
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Returning to Gibson, Mufti Abu Layth says ancient civilisations thousands of years ago knew more about the globe than people a few centuries ago, and that he buys into the view of writers such as Graham Hancock that advanced civilisations were destroyed in the Younger Dryas event. He finds this convincing because of sites such as Göbekli Tepe [?], archaeologically dated to eleven and a half thousand years ago, which hunter-gatherers could not suddenly have built. He cites maps by Ptolemy and others, and the fifteenth-century map of the Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis [?], drawn from over a hundred older sources, which he says shows Antarctica, not discovered until the 1800s, with rivers that have been under ice since the Younger Dryas, along with landmasses submerged since then. He says people knew how to navigate, lost the knowledge, and rediscovered it. He observes that the pyramids, Petra, Aztec and Maya sites and the Peruvian megaliths seem aligned to constellations, and believes neither the Nabataeans nor the pharaohs built Petra or the pyramids from scratch but inherited and built on earlier sites. Since the Nabataeans were a mercantile people trading as far as China and India, he suggests they set up devotion sites and temples aligned to the constellation Petra is aligned to.
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Mufti Abu Layth says he finds convincing the view that advanced ancient civilisations with knowledge of the globe were destroyed around the Younger Dryas, and that neither the Nabataeans nor the pharaohs built Petra or the pyramids from scratch but built on earlier structures.
“I don't believe the Nabataeans built Petra neither do I believe the pharaohs built the pyramids from scratch I feel that they built upon previous structures”
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the Kaaba was in sham but I believe that this was because it was the Shah mised Kaaba that the P because of the influence in fashioning it was so Shami it was referred to as the Shamy kaaba sham is the middle-eastern region like Damascus and Petra and these places Jordan and so on so okay so that's now with that understanding let's go back to the damn Gibson thing now I feel that you see we have to understand that historic civilizations and I mean
thousands of years ago I feel that they did have much more knowledge of the globe then people several centuries ago so I do feel that they were maybe certain advanced civilizations that were destroyed I do kind of buy in to certain people like people today we've got I've gone through some of these things actually today let me just check right ok it's not here but people like Graham Hancock and other people what they've
argued that the Younger Dryas incident most likely demolished these ancient civilizations that were quite advanced I do find that quite convincing and compelling especially with the temple archaeological sites like Rebecca Tepe which were which archaeologically are dated to eleven and a half thousand years ago it's impossible that hunter-gatherers just put their Spears down and built massive kind of establishments all of a sudden that just doesn't make any sense so we know this is what I feel that we I mean we definitely know from evidence like even taking a look at maps maps that ptolemy
maps that other people have maps that the race Pirie map or the Ottoman cartographer you know the person who drew maps and he says I drew this from over a hundred you know archaic sources now in on his map which is from the 15th century I believe there's Antarctica now Antarctica is not discovered till the 1800s by the Russians so but he draws it accurately and he also even drew the certain rivers which were covered by ice since the Younger Dryas so not to mention other landmass that's been underwater on other maps yet visible on these maps it's been underwater since
the Younger Dryas since 11,000 years ago so I feel that people knew how to navigate and then maybe certain civilizations it got lost to them and then humans rediscovered it you know in much more recent history so we see these ancient civilizations like the pyramids and Petra is one of the ancient civilizations the Aztec kind of civilizations the Mayans the the Peruvian kind of monoliths that we have all sorry megaliths all these things they seem to be aligned with constellations now I feel that you see
similarly Petra would have been aligned with constellations now I don't believe the Nabataeans built Petra neither do I believe the pharaohs built the pyramids from scratch I feel that they built upon previous structures because it seems that this they kind of inherited certain sites and built upon them just as the you know people in the Amazon built on the the kind of Olmecs and all these the the the prior civilization stuff they didn't come up with it so I
feel Petra was similar and it is aligned to constellations so it may have been that because the Empire had a mercantile people people that have trade that were going around that they traveled china they traveled to india they went to different places because they were trade specialists right now it may have been that they had set up certain devotion site certain temples in line with the constellation that petra is aligned to so therefore they had these devotion sites already set up to that constellation so it would be pointing
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