As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. Then, two things happened: either Chaos or Gaia created the universe as we know it, or Ouranos and Tethys gave birth to the first beings.
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Horatio Golf
Horatio Golf is an independent investigator of Ancient Civilizations, with emphasis on their culture and technology. Living in the U.S. since 1982, he has travelled throughout the Middle East, Asia and Europe in search of clues for a wider view of human history. Today he is back in South America investigating Inca and pre-Inca cultures in Peru and Bolivia and technological similarities found in the Middle East.
Horatio Golf es un investigador independiente con conexiones internacionales en el círculo de investigadores de civilizaciones ancestrales. De nacionalidad uruguaya y viviendo en los Estados Unidos desde 1982, ha recorrido muchos lugares del Medio Oriente, Asia y Europa en búsqueda de pistas en la reconstrucción de la historia humana. Nuevamente en Sudamérica, se enfoca en la tecnología de las culturas pre-Inca de Peru y Bolivia, en comparación con su contraparte en el Medio Oriente.
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