INTRODUCTION
I am a native Italian immigrated here to the US in the early 1960s. My early education was in Italy, but my high school and university studies were done in the US. I hold a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois; I am licensed in the state of California where I also hold a Real Estate Brokers’ license.
I have always been interested in archeology and geology and how ancient civilizations achieved and subsequently lost knowledge. Our recorded history points to a cycle. We have records of great civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. These civilizations held knowledge that was later lost due to wars, barbarian takeovers and natural events. The period we call “the dark ages” was merely 1,000 + years ago.
The renaissance was the beginning of a new knowledge cycle and much of what was known 3,000 years earlier, had to be re-discovered.
If in our very short history we can actually account for these knowledge cycles, then, since the earth is billions of years old, we can postulate that there have been countless cycles where ancient advanced civilizations lived and died thousands or even millions of years ago, never to be discovered due of the vast time span that destroyed any possible evidence of their existence; thus my idea of an ancient civilization and the discovery of a time capsule.
I believe this concept to be unique and original and I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I would like to thank all of the people that have helped me and encouraged me to finish this project.
Serafino Bianchi
