What if we are not the first advanced civilization on Earth? What if the history we’ve been taught is only the latest chapter in a much older cycle?

There is a haunting idea hidden within ancient Sumerian records . . . that our civilization may not be the first — or even the second — but part of a long sequence of advanced societies that rose, collapsed and were forgotten.

We begin with a small clay prism in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford — the Weld-Blundell Prism — which records kings ruling for tens of thousands of years before a great flood swept the world clean. As the list continues, reign lengths shrink, lifespans shorten and something essential appears to be lost. Not abruptly, but gradually.

From there, we move slowly through global traditions that echo the same pattern - the Hindu Yugas, the Greek Ages of Man, worldwide flood myths, and the archaeological anomalies that challenge a strictly linear view of history. Across cultures that never met, the same story appears again and again — long ages before catastrophe, followed by rebuilding in a diminished world.