About the book: 2000 / In his book V. Yu. Koneles is a geophysicist, amateur astronomer, translator, regional expert of the Association “Ecology of the Unknown” "(Moscow), member of the International Society for UFO Research (ISUR), Atlanta, Georgia, USA - addresses the most mysterious pages of the most ancient chronicle of mankind. Using enormous historical material, the author comes to the conclusion that in the past (no later than the 15th–10th millennia BC) an unusually highly developed civilization existed on Earth, which possessed deep scientific knowledge and actively used technologies unknown to us. The author pays special attention to the Sumerian civilization - one of the most advanced civilizations of antiquity, as well as the most varied evidence of the role that “descended from heaven” played in the history of mankind».