The existence of this ancient transatlantic link has recently received dramatic confirmation from the hard sciences – from genetics, from forensic toxicology, and from geology. And it has been further reinforced by the discoveries of archaeology.
In 1992 A team of forensic scientists in Germany, led by Dr Svetlana Balabanova, discovered large traces of tobacco and cocaine, two American narcotics, in an Egyptian mummy. Further investigation revealed more in other mummies. Similarly, in 1998 a team of geneticists in America discovered a variety of west European DNA (haplogroup X) in Native American populations. Further research showed that this could not have been the result of recent intermarriage with Europeans, and the same gene was discovered in ancient Native American remains.
The discoveries of geneticists and forensic toxicologists added immense weight to the earlier (and largely ignored) discoveries of geologists and oceanographers – many from Scandinavia and Russia – which proved beyond reasonable doubt that there existed until geologically recent times a substantial island in the Azores region. The same scientists also found evidence that much of the now-submerged Mid-Atlantic Ridge of mountains had stood above the water as recently as the Pleistocene epoch.
All of this diverse material makes sense if the chronology of the ancient civilizations is adjusted – as Ages in Alignment proposes. The Pleistocene epoch did not precede the rise of the first civilizations by seven millennia, as the textbooks insist, but only by a couple of centuries. Furthermore, the civilizations of the New World arose at precisely the same time as those of the Old – so that the astounding cultural parallels between Old and New World cultures (seen for example in pyramid-building) are historically significant, as so many of the “alternative” historians have long argued. With the sinking of the Atlantic archipelago in the Early Bronze Age, the link between Europe/North Africa and the Americas was terminated, leaving the New World cultures “frozen” in time in the Early Bronze Age. And that is where they remained until the Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century.