Really what was wrong in the Earth 10.000-12.000 years ago?

[gold_fenix]

Rests of impresive civilizations of important advaces around the world hidden submerged in the sea with little information and almost suddenly dissapered, but modern archeology don't accept these cities as product of men, influence of catholicism?

[Osweo]

Rests of impresive civilizations of important advaces around the world hidden submerged in the sea with little information

Reminds me of this thread.

[W. R.]

The Great Flood, of course! Read Genesis for further informanion.

[gold_fenix]

Ruins of Yonaguni, ruins in South America, Tartessos, and the myths as Lemuria, Mu or Atlantis

[Magister Eckhart]

I'm not entirely sure how Christianity or Catholicism specifically somehow negates or challenges the notion of lost civilizations; it's more a matter of making historical facts correlate to the myriad theories out there. There are rocks at the bottom of the sea that lack explanation, and rather than admit ignorance, people come up with hair-brained explanations like aliens or some mythical disaster or whatnot.

There are actually scholarly explanations for most of this, especially the Atlantis myth. The problem typically is people taking mythology literally instead of understanding that myths tend to express something much deeper than what the words explicitly say. The reason why, by and large, archaeologists tend to dismiss all of the "lost continent" nonsense has more to do with the fact that Archaeology is a hard science, and there's nothing hard and fast about the "pavement stones" in the Caribbean or off the coast of Japan, and those represent the only significant evidence of human civilization under the sea (except sites on the former Mediterranean coast, but those have submerged within the last two millennia).

The question of ancient civilizations is a fascinating one, since they have left us no known written records to describe who they were or what the driving focus of their civilization was. However, answering serious questions with crack-pot answers does more to obscure than to clarify.

The Great Flood, of course! Read Genesis for further informanion.

You make jest, I think, but the Great Flood appears in a number of different myths and correlates with other myths from the area around both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean to describe major sea-level changes that did actually occur. The Zanclean Flood and the Undersea River of the Black Sea both point to major flooding before recorded history in the Mediterranean that the Great Flood myth might recall.

[Albion]

Rising sea levels flooded a lot of land around the world. The tales told by the survivors were blown out of all proportion as each generation exaggerated or misinterpreted the tales told to them by the previous.

Some examples of these floods are the Black Sea Deluge, the flooding of Doggerland (North Sea) and the Storrega slide which finished off Doggerland, made Britain and island and forced the survivors of Doggerland into Eastern England and the Netherlands.