Within the cuneiform records a King's List has been found. The Weld-Blundell prism speaks of a great deluge that destroyed a scientific civilization 241,000 years old.
Within the ancient text of the Torah lies a secret. It is a mystery revealed through numbers. The size of the Biblical Ark, the number of days Moses wandered in the wilderness, and Noah's great age all tell us a story. Word by word, number by number the mystery unfolds. Even the many Hebrew names for God tell the story.
The Great Giza pyramid has been built to endure a tidal wave. Did it already survive such a wave? Were they predicting another flood?
What happened to the Earth to make the ancient people believe something dreadful might occur again in the future? Scientists know the pole moves over very vast eons of time. Does the pole move more often than that? Does it move on its own? And what happens when it does? Have the ancient mages left us a record of a pole shift?
For the first time ancient monuments are deciphered in a way that allows us to understand a hidden message about the past and a dire warning about the future.
A journey of discovery lies within and our ultimate fate awaits....
~First Reads Winner~ I have to admit first and foremost that I am just your average, voracious reader. Not a professional reviewer by a long shot. So, that being said, I wrestled with how to review this. I want to encourage others to read and review as I am interested in what they thought of this book. It was deeply interesting, unusual, astounding, and words really don't describe it well. I read it quickly and couldn't put it down. It was a bit hard with the flow - due to incredible mathmatics - but that just made it even more amazing. I will be reading this again, and again to try and absorb it and gain deeper understanding of what this means. It's better than reading a compelling mystery, or fantastic fantasy because these are real places, with real people, from real events. Well, this probably makes you scratch your head and say huh? But that's ok. Thank you Mr Freeborn. I am already seeing things 'lining' up that aren't even in your book...or should I say in your book yet?
I really, truly believe in giving a book a fair shake, but this book is one of the most annoying I have read in a long time. Either the proofreaders are total morons, or the author decided to ignore people who should know better. The sheer number of grammatical errors (missing or incorrectly placed punctuation) and spelling mistakes (principal for principle, minora for menorah) were the final straw for me- it's the first book that I have not finished, and can't face finishing, in a very long time. The next-to-last straw (for me) was the extremely condescending tone- I believe that anyone reading this book will have done some basic research on the subject already, so does not need to be repeatedly lectured on things that have already been established in this book. I also feel that the rather odd "proof" is sometimes cobbled together so that it suits the author. Randomly floating decimal points? Randomly taking bits from various sources to cobble together an answer? I've read more books on ancient aliens and civilisations than I care to count, and this book really doesn't add anything to the subject except noise. I think the author tries too hard to "prove" his theories by juggling numbers around, and does not follow any reasonable, logical course.
Not my cup of tea, although others may disagree. I received this book as a prize in a give-away on Goodreads.
What to say about this book? The relatively high average rating is a sad comment on mathematical innumeracy in the world. The concept is that ancient people hid secrets in numbers and letter substitution. Could this all be numerology fluff? We'll as it turns out the ancient people hid a message.
Freeborn, substitute with the letters in the alphabet and you get (6),(18),(5),(5),(2),(15),(18),(14)
Now we just need to add in the numbers hidden in plain sight! 3= like the sides of a right triangle (chapter 1, not sure how ancient people made geometry facts) 0= circular like the earth 4= the four cardinal directions, before the earth rotates due to comets hitting Canada(last chapter) 2= the 2 poles of the earth -9= the nine planets, negative because we got rid of pluto -1= the moon's cycles, negative because the moon is at night 3= triune god's parts -6= the digits in the # of the beast, negative because the devil is bad
now, add Freeborns numbers to (3),(0),(4),(2),(-9),(-1),(3),(-6) and you get
(3),(18),(1),(3),(11),(16),(15),(20) You can translate this back to letters to see what the wisdom of the ancients thinks of Freeborn.
I enjoyed browsing through this book. Unfortunately much of it is beyond my capacity to understand. It is written like a university textbook which is fine if you have any knowledge of the subject. I find the concept very interesting and will continue to go back to this book to see if I can figure it out more.
Not the sort of book you can sit down and read straight through but rather the sort of book which reminds you of those TV shows where they chose random numbers and make them total another randomly chosen number there-by showing that numbers can be manipulated to show almost anything.
Thought it was an interesting theory. It is well researched and footnoted. I understood where he was trying to go with the math but it was not well explained and mind-numbing.