However the very fact of ancient lore, and the remarkable way in which civilisation appear to have erupted circa 5000 BC, as if ready made, and the bizarre array of artefacts from all over the world of such high technological achievement but which date from the period of around 20,000 to 9000 BC or before suggest that this is the only part of the story. In other words our great libraries and civilisations of (relatively recent) antiquity are a restart, a recommencement of civilisation which went before and was almost eradicated from the planet.

Such a hidden in tradition is certainly part of what is called the Great Work, genetic folk memory, the Akhashic records, and so on. There are simply too many singular items of evidence to imagine that a written cultural tradition of some sort did not exist long before Sumer. It is also seen in the art work of the early Europeans - the quality of which seems to go backwards after nine thousand BC before attaining and then eventually going beyond what had been achieved before.

1. the events or cataclysm eradicating our early development was of such a terrifying nature as to have traumatised the human species. This is not unlikely. Most humans to a greater or lesser extent- blackout unpleasant memories which can only be reached by deep regression therapy. And whilst we as a species today are reluctant to recognise and face up to the horrendous vulnerability of our own existence, our ancestors had the courage to record the facts and the events of the cataclysm which destroyed the early libraries (e.g. the Deluge/creation myths.

The Roman historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century ce, has something to say on the subject of a prehistoric cultural lineage for the ancient Egyptians. Possibly drawing from a local tradition he says:

The second was a line of what are described as 'Horus' Kings (which may refer to the founding of civilisation and the beginnings of society) extending for a further 23,200 years. The final period, according to the Turin papyrus, was the time of demi-gods. According to Manetho, the Pre-Dynastic Pharaohs went back some 13,777 years. He gave the combined dating for the Horus kings and demi-gods a further 15,150 years. Thus depending on which source you consult according to the ancient Egyptian library records the foundation of their culture commenced somewhere between 9,000 and 37,000 BCE.

The fact that even the Great Pyramid at Giza, which according to modern historians is only supposed to date from approximately 2,600 BC, can contain such a remarkable wealth of a mathematical, astronomical, and the geophysical information (it not only contains the value of pi, and is aligned with Sirius, but it's dimensions accurately describe the major measurements of the Earth) indicates that there was an immense scholastic tradition in Egypt by 2600 BC. Even if we were to assume that ancient Egypt like the Druidic priesthood relied to a large extent on oral tradition, the fact of architectural construction, mathematical ingenuity, and astronomical prediction and calculation, indicates a library tradition to both compute, research, and convey lore, knowledge and wisdom from generation to generation.

The priests told Solon that there had been many disasters of mankind from various causes, and that man "had had to begin all over again as children". Charles Berlitiz in his book 'Atlantis' (1984) comments that in speaking of periodic catastrophes the Egyptian priests stressed to Solon that they based their knowledge upon hand written records of important events that happened many thousands of the years before Solon's visit to Sais:

To understand the reality of our origins and the complexity of our development, we must turn aside from one point linear year history and the mind-set of steady and irrevocable evolution of the human condition. If we do so it may be possible to construct from the bones of the fragments of the artefacts and monuments which remain an indication of the ancestors which gave rise to the explosion of human civilisation as if from nowhere in the period around 3,100 BC E. In just 100 years the megalithic civilisation of Ireland and Britain, other parts of the western European seaboard port of Europe, as well as that of Egypt, Minos and Sumeria area exploded into existence without any apparent precursors. By the time of their construction all of their monuments employed sacred geometry and highly sophisticated astronomy. These sciences do not evolve in a vacuum or out of the blue. Neither does it develop in one hundred years by a mere guesswork using immense labour to construct gigantic edifices in stone (at huge costs in terms of human time and energy and materials) which may or may not work. Edifices which even using modern machinery would be immense undertakings, and in some cases actually quite impossible. The choice is that either our ancestors possessed a mental capacity and brain development far in excess of our own in order to orally record, translate, transmit and accurately maintain the extensive wealth of information, calculation, science, and knowledge etc from generation to generation without distortion, or they possessed a library tradition via a scholastic priesthood and methods of cipher and transmission which we do not credit them with.

There can be no doubt that the disciplines of memory retention were more specifically taught and used than they are today. An ancient legend in Egypt relates the story of a king who forbade the use of writing because ancient lore and the practice thereof would become neglected as men would forget the reasoning of their ancestors and the skills to use their inheritance. On the other hand it is also clear that a highly developed system of observation and construction had arisen and that there was likewise a vast panoply of religious and cultural lore and a priesthood to maintain this knowledge. Priesthoods then however may be more likened to a combination of librarian-shaman-counsellor-scientist. The narrow divisions of our own society being less intrusive.

Whether there was an actual "library" (as in the much speculated 'Hall of Records' various avant garde Egyptologists are searching for around the Giza plateau) or whether this 'Library' was a combination of text and memory guarded by librarian priests we as yet do not know. Certainly there seems to have been a very well established library and record system in prehistoric Egypt and any remnants of such a system or even remains of a physical library will hold invaluable implications for our understanding of human and Earth history.