Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.
For more than a century Antarctica has been treated as a blank space on the historical map, a continent defined by ice, isolation, and absence. Yet the deeper we look, the more that "absence" appears to be a constructed idea rather than a reflection of reality. Geological records show that Antarctica once held forests, rivers, and stable climates capable of supporting complex life. Ancient maps appear to depict its coastline without ice. And early civilizations around the world preserve myths of a distant progenitor culture that rose and fell long before their own.
This is the starting point of the Polar Nexus Theory, a framework that examines Earth's forgotten epochs by tracing the patterns that survive in archaeology, mythology, and scientific anomalies. Part I of this series explores one central question: did a civilization exist in Antarctica before the last global freeze, and if so, how did its memory radiate outward into the first human societies?
