About the book: year / Since Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, scientists have developed various evolutionary theories of the origin of man. According to the current version, humans like us, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 100,000 years ago. But Forbidden Archaeology by Michel A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson is replete with evidence that demonstrates the existence of people anatomically similar to modern humans long before that. This evidence became known only recently. Previously, they were ignored, hushed up or forgotten, simply because they did not fit in with the currently generally accepted point of view on the origins and ancient history of man.