About the book: 2009 / Alexander Nikonov has a rare and amazing ability to show a variety of phenomena (physical, biological, social - any that are somehow related to Civilization) from an unexpected side, making the reader shudder at the scale of the worlds opening before him and think... Analyzing and comparing both widely known and completely new facts for readers from different fields of knowledge (mythology, ancient maps, pyramids, geology, natural disasters) , the author, as always logical and convincing, paints an amazing picture: 12 thousand years ago on Earth there was a developed civilization with technologies at the level of the 18th century. And disappeared - due to a global catastrophe. Knowledge was lost, only random “emers from the torch of reason” remained. And humanity learned everything anew... And, of course, Nikonov cannot help but destroy a number of established historical myths along the way. So, reader, welcome to the antediluvian…