(Note:  On August 4, 1999, Ron died of complications due to cancer.  He was a valiant servant of the Lord that kept lecturing, even though in much pain up to the time he was taken to the hospital.  We greatly miss him, but the work he started is continuing with able-bodied helpers including his wife Mary Nell. )

    "A good evening to all of you.  Tonight you are going to hear a most fascinating presentation. Our speaker tonight is a personal friend who has traveled extensively and spoken in many places around the world.

    "Although he is not a professional archaeologist, a point brought out by his critics, he has had the unique experience of being led to his findings by more than human ingenuity and efforts.  After you hear what he has to say, I think you will agree that the evidence points to more than just human endeavor which has led him to every find he has uncovered.

    "His recent discovery of Noah's ark has gotten the attention of many people around the world.  The scientific data gathered from this site and the petrified remains cannot be refuted.  The 20/20 telecast had complete coverage of the event which happened in Turkey, the country which contains the mountains of Ararat.  The Turkish government recently dedicated this site as a national park and built a road and visitor's viewing center.

    "I have the distinct pleasure of introducing to you Ron Wyatt, part time Biblical Archaeologist and explorer. It is with the greatest pleasure that I introduce to you my personal friend, a humble man whom I greatly respect.

    Ron, we are most pleased that you would take the time out of your busy schedule to present to us your findings."
 
    Thank you Devon. It is indeed my pleasure to be here tonight.  What I want to share with you represents the burning passion of my life which I believe has been my life calling.  I take no credit for what I have found, but thank God for leading me to everything I will present to you tonight.

    I do not know why the Lord chose me for this task, but I am both humbled and honored to have had the opportunity to uncover these precious truths.  I have taken for my guide in these discoveries the Bible along with what I believe is an inspired book called Patriarchs and
Prophets, written by a lady, Ellen White, who lived in the mid 1800's, and who was obviously inspired from above.  I would like to first present to you what I have with God's help found.  After I talk to you about the findings I will run the video.  I will begin with Noah's Ark as that is the first project the Lord led me to.  First of all, the ark is not where most people think it is.

ARK NOT WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT:

    For years many people have believed that the Ark was lodged in a glacier, high up on the side of Mt. Ararat.  Many reported sighting have been claimed but never backed up with hard evidence.  This idea about where the Ark of Noah was, has recently been proven false by the
discovery of the remains of the Ark.

    The Bible is clear about where the Ark came to rest.  "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the MOUNTAINS of Ararat." (Gen 5:4)  The Bible states that the Ark came to rest on "THE MOUNTAINS" (plural) of Ararat, and not on the highest peak of those mountains called Mt. Ararat.

    "Experts have assumed and believed that the mountain called Ararat was the only place the Ark could have settled because it was the highest mountain in that region and therefore the first place to have exposed land when the waters receded.

    The Bible says that after the waters began to recede, that Noah sent out a raven and a dove to see if they could find land.  After 47 days, the dove returned with an olive branch in her mouth.  We know that the olive tree is not a high altitude tree; therefore the Ark had to
have come to rest much lower down than on the top of Mt. Ararat.

    Another fact precludes the Ark coming to rest on Mt. Ararat, and that is the number of volcanic eruptions that have taken place on that mountain which drastically altered its surface.  One of those was like the mount Saint Helen's eruption in Washington State, where the whole side of the mountain was blown out.  The Ark could not have survived this kind of activity.  It would have been blown to pieces and destroyed.

    Like evolution, this theory is another example of how preconceived ideas and teachings lead to false conclusions.  Dr. Bill Shea, an MD and archaeologist from the Biblical Research Institute in Silver Spring, MD, made the comment that, in his opinion, if the "Ark-shaped object" had been found on Mt. Ararat, he felt sure that it "would have been heralded far and wide as the site where the Ark had come to rest."

    This is the fact: The remains of the Ark are located at around 5,000 feet, "upon the mountains of Ararat," on a spot upon which occurred a mudflow of lava down an alluvial plain, in which the Ark was engulfed and carried to its present location at a lower level.

    Findings indicate that a 120 x 40 feet section of the bottom of the boat was ripped away, impaled by a large limestone outcropping as the rest of the boat was carried sideways down to its present resting place.

    It's length of 515 feet is consistent with the Biblical account which Moses (under inspiration) wrote.  Having been raised in Egypt, he used the Egyptian cubit of 20.6 inches.

PRE-FLOOD METAL PRODUCTION:

    Of great interest to me was the massive amount of strange looking "rock" found in this section of the bottom of the boat.  This was very similar to "rock" I had found just below the broken off section.  I believe this rock was ballast material placed in the hull of the Ark, and when that portion of the bottom was ripped off, a large amount of ballast spilled out.  Samples were taken to a chemist at Reynolds Aluminum and examined.  He said without qualification that it was metal production tailings or slag rock left over from smelting ore.  One sample contained over 84% manganese.  Another contained high concentrations of aluminum and yet other modules contained over 70% titanium, a metal which is the strongest and lightest of all metals, today used extensively in aircraft and space hardware.  This is very interesting, for the process by which titanium could be produced as a metal has only been known since 1936.  The Bible says in Genesis 4:22 "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah."

AN ANCIENT STELE:

    Above the area where this section of the boat was found was an ancient "stele" (A stone column with pictures engraved on it.)  This stele contained numerous inscriptions in what looked like three different forms of writing.  One segment of it was particularly legible.

    This was a scene depicting the unique ridge just above the site of the stele, and a mountain in the background.  In the foreground was a ship with 8 faces in it, and 2 ravens (one flying above the ship and one above the mountain.)

    The rest of the inscription featured several animals.  But the importance of this stele was that the shape of the boat was almost identical to aerial photos of the boat shaped object.  The 8 faces within the boat needed little explanation. But most important to me was that this stele was just beyond the site where I had found the 120 X 40 foot section which I believe to be a portion of the bottom of the ship. It appeared that the stele was marking the location of the original landfall of the Ark.

ANCHORSTONES FROM THE ARK:

    Also of interest is what I found in the surrounding countryside. Scattered all around the area are huge anchor stones with holes in the top for placing rope through, which probably was used to help stabilize the boat during the storm.  On some of these are crosses and pictures of eight people.  Although it is known that Noah probably did not carve these, it is evidence that many people of past ages recognized this place as the site of the ark's resting place.

NOAH'S HOUSE, VINEYARD, ALTAR FOUND:

    Other very fascinating things were found, like the walls of a rock house, which I am convinced is probably that of Noah and his family.  Its stone floor is set about four feet into the ground and the roof is gone.  Radiating out from the house are fences. The Bible says that Noah was a "husbandman," which is a person who grows grapes.  He even got drunk on some of the wine. (Gen. 9:20,21)

    Up in a mountain valley above the house is found an altar built of stone which has a 3 foot high step up to its top.  This would be logical for the people before the flood were of giant proportions.  There is a place where animals were sacrificed and a trough cut into the stone to
let the blood drain away.  Huge boulders were placed as a possible containment for animals which were to be sacrificed.

    A side note: The Lord instituted the system of sacrifices with Adam and Eve after they first sinned. He told them that the penalty for sinning was death. The life of the sacrificed animals would be a constant reminder of this. But of far more importance, this sacrificial system would point forward to the time when Jesus the Lamb of God would be sacrificed on the cross, to save not only Adam and Eve from their sins, but for everybody who would ever be born from their time to the end of the world.

    God told Adam and Eve that by following His instructions about sacrifices, and asking forgiveness when they sinned, they would not have to suffer the consequences or the dreaded eternal second death. The Bible clearly states that "The soul that sinneth, it shall die.  All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."  This system instituted at Eden was to be practiced until Jesus died on the cross when type met antitype. These ordinances at that time were nailed to the cross or done away with.  Salvation could only then be had by accepting Jesus' sacrifice instead.

    One of the most interesting feature of this site was what was in the front yard.  There were 2 large stones, one sitting upright and one lying flat on the ground.  I found two most exciting pictures carved on these stones.

    Across the top of each was an arc-shape; below this was a curly-cue which looked like an ocean wave, and atop it was a very simple boat-shape; walking away from this boat and wave were eight people. The first and largest was a man; next and second largest was a woman;
the next three were all the same size and all smaller than the largest woman, and they were men.  The last and smallest figures were three women.  It seems quite clear to me that these were iconographic representations of the eight survivors of the flood, all walking away
from the ship with a rainbow overhead.

    I wondered at the time what this all meant. When I studied these two large monuments more closely, I noted that on the one lying on the ground, the largest woman (who must have represented Noah's wife) had her eyes closed and her head tilted downward.  On the larger one
which was still standing, he saw that BOTH the 1st woman And the 1st man (Noah) had their eyes closed and heads tilted downward.

    Since these were in front of the house, I have concluded that these must be the actual tombstones of Noah and his wife.  The iconography showed that FIRST his wife died, and on her stone, only HER eyes were closed.  When Noah died, BOTH of them were represented as dead.

    As I continued my research, some well known scientists and people wanted to become involved with me.  One was John Baumgartner, Physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the very high-profile government facility in New Mexico.  Another was David Fasold (who died recently), world famous marine salvage and demolition expert.  Also James Irwin, former astronaut, who became a helpful allay but who is now deceased.  Together we used the latest of sonar sounding and recording devices, as well as super sensitive metal detectors with which we were able to map out the superstructure and framework of the boat.

    Most interesting of the findings about the ship was the extensive use of iron brackets and rivets, which would be logical to hold a boat of this size together.  This iron examined by John Baumgartner at Los Alamos, proved to be a very high grade iron which contained traces of
aluminum.  From the findings they were able to piece together enough information to construct a model of how the boat appeared.  It had huge anchor stones which are scattered all over the area many of them engraved with crosses from pilgrimages made to the area many
hundreds of years ago.

PETRIFIED WOOD--NO GROWTH  RINGS:

    We were able to see the discoloration of the petrified wooden ribs and cross members of the boat.  I took samples of the petrified wood to Galbraith Labs in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Analysis showed that the total organic carbon content of the sample indicated that it was indeed wood.  But the lack of growth rings puzzled some of us until we realized that before the flood there was no rain.  The Bible says the earth was watered with a dew.  Growth rings only come as seasonal rains come and go.

    Thus it is that the Lord has led and guided me in this most important of all archeological discovery of modern times.  I have no doubt this discovery was ordained by Him to be found as proof against the ideas that the Bible is a book of fables, including the account of the
flood.

    The verification that there was indeed a flood and that the remains of the Ark have been found and authenticated by many reputable sources adds yet another strike of the death knell to the theory of evolution, which has adamantly denied there was a worldwide flood, declaring that the story of Noah and the flood was only folklore.  Even though all folklore has a "flood' story, it could not be proven.  As God continues to lead men to more and more evidence, the case for
evolution grows weaker and weaker as you in this symposium are  finding out.

    I am convinced that the evolutionist and atheist will eventually have no recourse but to admit to the truth.  Anyone desiring to know more about the Ark and my findings can do so after the meeting tonight.  I have a supply of material about the Ark and my other findings out in the foyer.  All proceeds from the material goes to help me in my research.  A love gift would be greatly appreciated if you can afford one.

JONATHAN GRAY'S FINDINGS:

    Last week you had the privilege of hearing my good friend and colleague Dr. Jonathan Gray's presentation last week.  He and I have worked together on many projects, in fact he has been a great help to me with his background in Archaeology.  He has a TV series presenting his findings and experiences, several in fact that we worked on together.  He has brought to light, as you heard, many discoveries that have great implications.  If I overlap somewhat forgive me, but I want to show how what we have found all ties together.  What I will share with you can be found in Jonathan's book Dead Men's Tales.

    Ancient drawings and writings of the Mesopotamian region indicates that they were knowledgeable about, and had contact with ET's and space travel.  Many pictures of saucers, people in space suits have been found. Egyptians are known to have practiced electroplating,
for beads the size of grains of sand were engraved, and plated with gold.  Pictures show what appears to be light bulbs with filaments and multiple wires coming out the back.

    The Sumerian people who lived right after the flood and before the Egyptians were possibly the most advanced civilization of ancient times.  Author Zecharia Sitchin in the October-November issue of the "Nexus' Magazine, outlined the skills of the Sumerians.
 
    "The Sumerian civilization takes us back almost six thousand years.  I describe many aspects of this amazing civilization in my book The 12th Planet.  Without a precedent, out of nowhere, there sprang out a civilization that had great cities, high-rise temples, palaces, Courts of Justice, commerce, shipping, irrigation, metallurgy, mathematics, medicine; its people included kings and priests, judges and doctors, dancers and musicians.  And above all, a written languages, scribes, schools, a literature, epic tales, poems.  Every aspect of a high civilization that we can think of had its 'first,' its beginning, in Sumer.

 "But most amazing of all was the Sumerian knowledge in the field of astronomy. The astonishing fact is that all the principles of a spherical astronomy, which is the basis of modern astronomy, were inherited by us from the Sumerian's.  The concept of a celestial sphere, an axis, the plane of orbit, the circle of 360 degrees, the grouping of stars into constellations, the division of the skies into twelve houses of the odiac--even the pictorial depiction of the zodiacs and their names--everything you can think of we find in the Sumerian astronomical tablets.   

    "We learned at school that the first one to suggest that the Sun and not the earth was in the center of our planetary system was Copernicus in 1543.  Not so!  There have been found Sumerian pictorial depictions that not only show the Sun (not Earth) in the center--and show also all the planets we know of today (plus, as will be explained, one more).  In many astronomical texts there planets were listed, named and described, and called "members of the Family of the Sun," they made up, together with Sun and Moon, a family of twelve.

    "The familiarity of the Sumerians, thousands of years ago, with all these members of the solar system is astounding.  Until rather recently, we ourselves did not know that there were more planets beyond Saturn. Uranus was discovered in 1781.  It may tell us something about our ignorance when we realize that, when Botta and Layard were discovering in Mesopotamia the tablets with all this astronomical information, we did not even know of the existence of Neptune; for Neptune was discovered only in 1846.  And Pluto, the so-called outermost planet, was found not visually but mathematically only in 1930--less than fifty years ago.  And yet, as one planetary list after another establishes, the Sumerians knew it all.

    "Indeed, when the NASA spacecraft Voyager-2 reached Uranus in 1986 and sent back the first close-up photos of the distant planet, I literally jumped out of my seat and shouted: "But that is exactly how the Sumerians described it 6,000 years ago!'  And then, as Voyager-2 was due to encounter the even more distant Neptune in 1989, I wrote articles predicting that a bluish-green watery planet, with patches on its surface, will be found.  I knew it in advance because that was how the Sumerians described Neptune...." (October- November 1997, Nexus Magazine)  Sitchin goes to great lengths to show how the ancients had knowledge of space travel and that ET's were identified by the Sumerians as "Anunnaki."

    In my search for the tower of Babel, I tried to get some idea from what the Bible says and from evidence around that area how the earth was repopulated after the flood by Noah and his family. Jonathan's research was much help.  Findings indicate a very advanced civilization
that sprang up suddenly and existed at the same time as the earliest Sumer civilization which lived directly after the flood and was a result of the dispersion of the people from Babel.  Quoting from his latest monograph about Babel, he says:

    "This advanced civilization lived in the Indus valley in Pakistan.  The early Indus civilization was completely unknown until early in this century when the railroad was being built and workmen found the brick ruins.  When excavated, cities were found that were technologically advanced to the extent that they rivaled some of today.  Will Durant in volume one of "The Story of Civilization," said:

    "These discoveries establish the existence... during the fourth and third millennium B.C. of a highly developed city life; and the presence, in many of the houses, of wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate drainage system, betoken a social condition of the citizens at least equal to that found in Sumer, and superior to that prevailing in contemporary Babylon and Egypt...Even at Ur the houses are by no means equal in point of construction to those at Mohenjo-Daro." (pp 394-5).

    ''The ruins of Mohenjo-Daro are incredibly well preserved.  They were not only build of brick, they were built of baked or kiln-dried brick.  Unlike sun-dried brick they remain intact throughout rain, mud or whatever. But this may have been the reason that their civilization disappeared.

    "For a thousand years the furnaces burned, and the trees grew fewer.  A forest breathes, giving off water-vapor, which collects in the atmosphere and returns in the form of rain.  Remove the trees and the cycle is interrupted. In their lust for baking bricks, the Harappans (the name used by archeologists for these people) may well have turned their own valley into a desert.... Once there was a mighty civilization in that valley. Today there is a desert.'' (Empires in the Desert, page 99, Robert Silverberg, Chilton Books, Philadelphia, NY, 1963)  I have used this information to trace the probable migration of Noah's family from the ark site around Ararat in Turkey to Babel and then to the rest of the world. The following are some of my ideas.  I will be quoting from Jonathan and other sources as indicated.

EARLIEST PRE-PLANED CITY:

    When People set out from Babel, thy were equipped with great knowledge.  From Noah and his sons they had learned about cities and technology.  When they founded their own civilizations, they used that knowledge to plan their cities: "... Mohenjo-Daro.... is the earliest
preplanned city ever found anywhere in the world.  It consists like most Indus towns, of a large residential area at its lowest level overlooked from the west by a high citadel, a fortified and much smaller area.

    "Below the citadel, the city was carefully designed for about 40,000 people in a grid pattern apparently of 12 main earth-paved streets, each about 9-13 meters (30-45 feet) wide.  This street grid enclosed blocks of fairly even size, each block consisting of hundreds of houses very close together and opening off narrow lanes.  The lanes vary in width from about 1.2 to 3 meters (4-10 feet), and are built with frequent right-hand angle bends-probably as a break against the winds. Most of the houses excavated were quite spacious, with several rooms around a central courtyard, a well and stairs leading to an upper story." (Lost Worlds, by Alistair Service, Collins/London, 1981.

    Many of the accounts of these cities mention the fact that there are no doors or windows on the main streets, which is attributed to some sort of "wind control" or other such explanation.  But I suggest that this design was for protection from the wild animals that were reproducing far more rapidly than the human population.

ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, WATER MAINS, BATHROOMS:

    "But what was most amazing is the advanced design and construction of these cities: 'Some of the houses are so well preserved that they could be occupied today, and use made of the bathroom as well as the irrigation and drainage services.... For a primitive town, in fact, the city of the Indus lacked neither grandeur nor comfort. The principal avenues were sometimes over 35 feet wide, and some of them crossed the town from one end to the other.... their drainage system has been miraculously preserved and according to archeologists, is the most ingenious and complete systems known to antiquity.  The brick conduits, arranged under the streets, received the efflux from pipes placed in each house, and were linked to stone sewers.  At intervals these sewers were supplied with cesspools which were easy to clean, while it was only necessary to move a few bricks to clean out the small drains in the streets if they became blocked up.... They constructed a whole system of water mains which collected the water from the rain falling outside the city and distributed it via ingenious brick conduits which conducted it to wells in each house... These water mains fed the bathrooms. Each house possessed its own-and they were much the same as those still in use in India today...." (The World of Archaeology [Vol. 1], page 97-98, by Marcel Brion, Mac Millian Co., 1959.

    "'Noteworthy and recurrent features,' writes Mortimer Wheeler, 'are the insistence on water-supply, bathing and drainage.... In some houses a built seat-latrine of Western type is included on the ground or first floor, with a sloping and sometimes stepped channel through the wall to a pottery-receptacle or brick drain outside.  These brick drains are remarkably well made and cleverly designed.  Nowhere else in the ancient world-except in the palace of King Minos of Crete, at Knossos--is there the same modern approach to waste disposal." (Empires in the Desert, page 108, Robert Silverberg, Chilton Books, Philadelphia, NY, 1963).

    "I suspect that this advanced knowledge of waste-disposal, etc. came from one who had expert knowledge of the subject after living with seven other people over a year in a ship filled with animals of every kind.

    "In the well fortified citadel of Mohenjo-Daro is found an incredibly large grain storage bin.  'This is a very large building, 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, with walls 20 feet high.  This granary had 27 blocks with a recessed unloading bay for the carts bringing the grain.  The granary at Harappa, another Indus Valley city of the same date, was built in 2 rows of six split by a street.  Triangular ventilation shafts lined the back of the granaries.  Outside, there were 17 round platforms for workers to process, or pound, the grain into flour.'"

    "The people of this Indus civilization not only knew city planning and construction, they raised wheat, melons, barley, dates and cotton. They fished the river with nets.  They raised cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry.  Their craftsmen made statuettes and figurines of such quality that one would think they came from Greece over 1,000 years later. They fashioned elaborate jewelry of gold, silver, copper, shell and stone.

    "They had auger drills, as well as 'household utensils and toilet outfits; pottery painted and plain, hand-turned and turned on the wheel; terra cottas, dice and chess-men; coins older than any previously known;... faience work of excellent quality; stone carvings superior to that of the Sumerians; there were copper weapons and implements, and a copper model of a two-wheeled cart, which is one of the oldest examples of a wheeled vehicle; gold and silver bangles, ear-ornaments, necklaces, and other jewelry 'so well finished and so lightly polished,' says Marshall, 'that they might have come out of a Bond Street Jeweler's of today rather than from a prehistoric house of 5,000 years ago."  (Our Oriental Heritage, Vol. 1, page 395, of The Story of
Civilization, by Will Durant, Simon & Schuster, 1954).

    "They had lipstick, eye makeup which is still used today (kohl)  and perfume!:  'Near this, the first lipstick known to antiquity was found in the shape of a rectangular piece of red ochre, which elegant women  at this remote time already used to enhance the natural color of lips and cheeks.  This stick, one end of which is worn- to whose lips was it last applied five thousand years ago? - lay on a small low table beside vases of kohl, flasks of perfume, hairpins and bronze razors." (The World of Archaeology, [Vol 1], page 113, by Marcel Brion, Mac Millian Co., 1959).

    They even had cats and dogs within their cities which indicates that they were domesticated.  The proof of this comes from a brick found in the city of Chanhu-Daro which bears the footprint of a cat slightly overlapped by that of a dog.  When the brick was laid out to dry prior to going into the kiln, the cat must have whisked across the bricks at a high rate of speed, followed by the speeding dog, which is evidenced by the deep impress of their footpads.

    All this gives a whole new meaning to 'there is nothing new under the sun...'  This also applies to optical lenses and eyeglasses which have been found in Egypt, Nineveh, Nimroud (Nimrod), and Babylon. Pliny, (23 AD), Pythagoras (6 BC), Plutarch, and Archimedes all mention eye-glasses and magnifying lenses.  What the ancients knew and wrote about astronomy indicates they had to have had some sort of telescopes.

    Equally amazing is the feats of the ancient builders. In the edge of the mountains of Lebanon, over 2,300 feet above sea-level is Baalbek. Nothing is known of this site prior to the time the Romans came in and built magnificent buildings over the existing remains.  But it is the existing remains which are the most astounding ever found. The largest hewn stone on earth is found there.  It measures 68 feet by 14 feet.  Today, with our sophisticated engineering methods, it is
doubtful that we could even lift stones such as those of this size.  But these early builders not only chiseled out these 'humongous' blocks, they moved them!

    At Baalbek, which Jonathan may have mentioned to you, are ruins which the Romans much later built upon.  Three great stones in this foundation measure 63'x13' x10' and were placed above the sub-structure which measures 23 feet from the ground.  Whoever built this structure had engineering ability beyond our wildest dreams.  This is an example of the pre-flood knowledge passed from Noah and his sons to their descendants after the flood.  As time passed, man LOST much of this knowledge and ability.

OBELISKS OF ANCIENT EGYPT:

    Though constructed several hundred years later, the huge towers of rock erected by the ancient Egyptians is still a feat that has long puzzled the engineers of today.  There is one still in the ground which measures 137 feet tall and would weigh about 1,170 TONS, which was not finished because of flaws in the granite near its center.  Many theories have been set forth as to how these 'primitive' people were able to accomplish such astounding feats of engineering, such as the construction and erection of these obelisks and the pyramids, but the fact is that they did.

GEARS:

    If the knowledge of these puzzling discoveries which cannot be explained aren't simply put aside and forgotten, they are often considered freakish finds and are found only in sensational books which appeal to the tabloid newspaper set.  "Serious' scientists and scholars remain silent on them, unable to explain their existence.

    Such an example may have been mentioned by Jonathan last week.  'It is a find made in 1900.  In that year, a sponge diver found the wreck of a Greek ship from the 3rd century before Christ, laden with statues and other objects. One strange object was a bronze instrument
encrusted with calcareous deposits.  When it dried and the outer wood encasing split, it broke into 4 flat fragments which revealed parts of geared wheels. While it cannot be determined exactly what this device was used for, x-rays revealed more than 30 gears of various sizes
which meshed in parallel planes.

    "There is one mention in the ancient records of a device which may be similar.  Cicero and Ovid both wrote of an ingenious planetarium devised by Archimedes which simulated the movement of the sun, the moon, and 5 planets.  We'll probably never know what this device was or who made it.  But once again, we see that knowledge we think belongs to our time is only some of that which was long ago forgotten." (Mysteries of the Past, p. 157, by L. Casson, R. Claiborne, B. Fagan, W. Karp, Am. Heritage Pub, 1977.

ANCIENT DRY-CELL BATTERIES:

    "There have been numerous discoveries of objects which have been described as appearing to be dry-cell batteries.  One example is that found by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig.  While exploring an ancient site in present-day Iraq, he discovered a terra cotta vase containing an iron rod set inside a copper cylinder.  This idea that this resembled a battery was strengthened by the discovery of rods presumably corroded by acid (possibly vinegar or wine).  Yet, we think the battery was invented in about 1800 A.D." (Into the Unknown, The Readers Digest Association, Inc.) 1981.

    There have been many discoveries made of objects of advanced technology which could not be explained and were therefore forgotten.  But it only takes one to "upset the apple-cart."  Today, the "brilliant" scientists and scholars may tell the world that they have found "black
holes" and other discoveries which cannot be proven, but they should keep silent until they can explain the simple evidences which show that early man possessed vast knowledge and abilities that we have only recently "rediscovered." The evidence of man's history is plain to those
who will see.

    The discovery of these advanced civilizations shouts so loudly against the idea of man evolving from lower forms of life, as to leave the evolutionist with no logical recourse.  Man did not evolve but rather degenerated with each succeeding generation.

    NOT ONE OF THE MANY VERY ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS SHOW ANY SIGNS OF BEING INTELLECTUALLY INFERIOR TO US TODAY.  This begs the question about the so-called humanoids and the primitive tribes seen in the world today.  Where did they come from?  This is the most positive proof one can find of the degeneracy of human race who are the descendants of Noah and his family.  This is evolution all right, BUT IN REVERSE.

    In closing I would highly recommend to you, if you have not already purchased it, Jonathan Gray's book Dead Men's Tales.  I found it a gripping book which captures the imagination, bringing to light the most amazing and compelling hard evidence, supporting the creation
of the earth by divine fiat, and populated with beings of superintelligence and knowledge.

    Tonight I have shared with you what I believe the Lord led me to find.  I recognize that it is getting late, but for those who want to stay after we dismiss, we will play the video evidence of my research projects.  I thank you all for coming and listening patiently.  I bid you all God's speed.  Goodnight!

    "Thank you Ron for your inspiring and fascinating presentation. I would remind all that before we dismiss tonight, that next week our guest speaker will be Dr. Robert Gentry who will be introduced by his personal friend and author George Vandeman, retired speaker of the "It is Written" telecast. Dr. Gentry will present his startling discovery of how the rocks proclaim that the earth came into existence instantaneously. He calls his findings "Earth's tiny mystery."  His finding have yet to be refuted by the worlds leading scientists.  You will not want to miss what he has to say."