the lack of a living ecosystem, many
things would probably protrude from where they had buried them. Where
they had tried to dispose of them. Vegetation that would usually decay over the
years, leading to groundcover, would be absent. There would be no floods to
push soil over the ruins, because the oceans were dry. No trash build up, no
volcanoes to spew their ash, no one to come and build over what they had left.
From recent pictures of Mars’ surface, their attempts had decidedly failed.
Something up there was stubbornly staying visual. But until someone got up
there, no one could say for certain what it was. Well, except for me.
But
as an archaeologist and anthropologist, Sabir thought finding evidence of the
migration in writings and artifacts the best course of action. He didn’t
believe there was such a thing as out-of-place artifacts (OOPArt). Although the
term OOPArt was not a phrase back when he left his notes, and usually now only
used by those that
push ancient astronaut theories, I knew that’s what he meant, and I agreed with
him. After having translated
the AHM manuscripts, I guess technically, he and I both were ancient astronaut
theorists. So, why not use the term?
Dr.
Sabir believed that everything was in its place. How improbable, he wrote, is it
that they left something behind? Not very. Apparently they hadn’t completely
hidden their remains on Mars. Good chance, he thought, that they didn’t hide
them all that well here on Earth either.
He
thought that man had already discovered a few. The 10,000 year old petroglyphs
in Val Camonica, Italy. The Inca’s ancient airplanes found in the coastal
regions of South America, or even the 20,000 year old drawings from the caves
of Pech Merle in France. All over the world there was evidence that they had left
behind. Some folks believed it meant that prehistoric man was in awe of some
sky dwellers that flew spacecraft. Only problem with that theory was that the
people here on Earth were never in awe or reverence of the “aliens,” because
they had been the ones that came down in those spaceships. The reason they drew
those petroglyphs, made cave drawings, and made the airplanes was probably
because they were just depicting their history.
And
certainly there were probably manuscripts hidden or buried that told more of
the story of our migration. But who knew where to look? I had spent a lifetime
searching for ancient biblical artifacts. Now what? Should I be a Martian
archaeologist? Looking for ancient artifacts from Mars? Dr. Sabir thought there
would be clues. Clues leading us to the answers.
God
I hoped not.
I
don’t want to have to go around figuring out clues. I am no good at that. I
just needed something that would tell me what I needed to know. I’ll dig for
it, translate it, but please, God, don’t let me have to piece clues together.
That
reminded me about the Book of Enoch.
Dr.
Sabir thought that the Book of Enoch held clues and could be used as proof of
the existence of man on Mars. The book was a non-canonized text of a man who
lived probably six thousand years ago. Enoch’s genealogy could be found in our
Bible. The book was found in Cave 2 at Qumran and was a part of the Dead Sea
Scrolls’ excavation. The AHM manuscripts I ultimately translated were found in
Cave 4. It wasn’t an unreasonable assumption since they were found so close
together that the Book of Enoch would have something to do with the AHM
manuscripts. If one manuscript about man’s origin was kept by the Essenes and
hidden away in the caves, it was likely that others would be too.
The
Book of Enoch did describe ‘other worldly’ events, but most scholars believed
that those events had to do with God. No one equated the Book of Enoch with
anything but the Bible. Except, of course, the alien astronaut theorists. Everything
they saw proved that there were extraterrestrials. Not that they ever said the
ancient astronauts were from Mars. But the fourth planet in
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