"The Tartaria Mystery: Uncovering History's Greatest Hidden Civilization"

'The Tartaria Mystery: Uncovering History's Greatest Hidden Civilization' by Everhart Clare (2025 Independently Published)

"What if everything you've been taught about human civilization is an elaborate deception? Journey into the heart of history's most compelling enigma, a lost empire so advanced, so magnificent, that its very existence challenges everything we think we know about our past. The Tartaria Mystery invites you to explore a world of architectural marvels, suppressed technologies, and earth-shattering discoveries that have been hidden from public view... until now. Prepare to Discover: The truth behind the mysterious "mud flood" that may have buried an entire civilization; Breathtaking architectural wonders that defy conventional historical explanation; Evidence of advanced free energy technology that could revolutionize our understanding of ancient capabilities; The fascinating connection between Tartarian star forts and lost knowledge; Archaeological findings that mainstream historians don't want you to know about."

This is another of a tedious run of pseudoarchaeology books  that is merely a reworked compilation of one of the internet's wierdest (and most incomprehensible) tropes under the guise of "suppressed history." By weaponizing the classic "everything you've been taught is a lie" guff, the text immediately alienates genuine scientific enquiry in favour of disruptive and mind-addling conspiratorial sensationalism.

The foundational claim of a globally dominant, technologically advanced "Tartarian Empire" completely lacks any corroborating stratigraphic or textual evidence. Instead, the narrative misinterprets early modern maps, transforming a standard geographic regional label into an imagined lost civilization.

Furthermore, invoking a cataclysmic "mud flood" to explain architectural basements reveals a profound ignorance of basic urban stratigraphy and architectural history. Real-world archaeological findings demonstrate that these buildings were simply constructed with intentional English basements or affected by standard urban grading changes.

The book’s sensationalized promotion of "free energy tech" embedded within star forts pushes the narrative entirely out of historical debate and into science fiction. In reality, star forts are well-documented military defensive structures designed specifically to counter gunpowder artillery, not act as wireless power stations.

Framing the consensus of mainstream historians as an active deception is a manipulative tactic designed to bypass the rigorous demands of peer review. True archaeology relies on falsifiable data, peer-reviewed analysis, and the proper contextual and source-critical examination of sources such as physical artefacts rather than algorithm-driven confirmation bias. For a serious discipline dedicated to uncovering the actual human past, books like this offer nothing more than a fantastical distraction from real historical achievements.

US Conservative "christian" on Getting the Right Date: Getting the Date Right

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What happens when an "archaeological" team
(I use the term loosely in the case of @noahsarkscans) chooses their spokesperson by how decoratively her blonde hair cascades and how many Christian colours makeup she uses rather than knowledge of dating techniques.  Dr Cenker Atila's "Durupinar Noah's Ark Scans" project has done some boreholes and got some samples they say is "wood" from some layers or other of this site. After (one hopes) getting the required export licences, they have gone for C14 testing at four labs:

1) "The official Turkish lab"

2) "One here in Switzerland" (export licence)

3) "One in Florida" (export licence)

4) "Maybe a fourth one, I see in the news about a French lab..." (export licence)

There is a very revealing dialogue here. There seems to be no official statement by Dr Attila himself. 

Andrew Jones: And so, you know, the with carbon 14 you if you get  the same results from all four labs, that's really exciting news because just one, uh okay, it's great, but you want to  back that up with another independent lab from the first results. And so, we're, you know, doing four of them. 

Lauren Witzke: Yeah. And a lot of people have a lot of spec.. like uh skepticism around carbon 14 dating because you know it's like "oh I  sent this and they said it was millions and millions and years old" and they just like automatically assume that everything's millions and millions of years old.* Well Dr. Dr. Cenker Attila told me that there is [sic] ways to calibrate it so to make sure that they get that date accurate and when we have it sent to four different labs I mean one of them's got to get it right, right you know and I am interested to see what the different lab results come back if any of them come back millions and millions of years old.** Dr. Cenker did tell me he believes that the wood is about uh it's a little over 4,000 years old. He said  just based on his examination of it.*** Um, now we won't know for sure until the lab results come back, but that is why we sent it to four different places, three  or four different places because of the skepticism around carbon 14 dating. Um, and a lot of these I don't even think the labs know what they're studying. We didn't tell them, "hey, this is Noah's ark. Like, tell us like...."; they have no idea what they're looking at. Yeah, they have no [snorts] idea what they're looking at. [...] 

Andrew Jones: The professor found these in one area when he..... So, it's about 8 to 9 m down, about 30 ft , and it was on the west profile side. So, and he says it's 1 to 2 m in. But, uh, in fact, he's going  back soon. He said he thinks he can get some more samples. Oh, this is great. [...] 

Host: "what what could another explanation be for this wood if it's not the Ark?"

I guess they do not teach much about radioactive decay in US schools.

 

What Ms Witzke said:

* "a lot of people have a lot of scepticism around carbon 14 dating" only among thicko US Young Earth Creationist/ Biblical fundamentalists. Because absolute dating methods based on radioactive decay [and indeed the very existence of certain long half-life isotopes in themselves] push the ticking clock back well beyond the date the Pentateuch assigns to the beginning of Everything. Their scepticism is born of ignorance and a failure to see the so-called "Books of Moses" for what they quite clearly are when seen in context.  

** "I mean one of them's got to get it right" Radiocarbon dates cannot be treated the cherry-picking way Lauren Witzke and Andrew Jones assume, if there is statistically significant variation you cannot simply accept the one that fits your preconceived notions and ignore the rest  

"if any of them come back millions and millions of years old" if you read books that say a Jewish sky-god created everything in six days (including the urethra - anyone who's had a kidney stone will immediately reject the idea of "intelligent design") then you might not be aware that C14 dating has an upper limit beyond which the results are not worth trying to get (40k years or so as I recall). NO C14 dates will be "millions of years". Sheer invented nonsense showing the amateurism of the people involved here. 

 

*** "Dr. Cenker did tell me he believes that the wood is [...] a little over 4,000 years old. He said  just based on his examination of it".  I certainly hope our archaeological colleague said no such thing and he is being grossly misquoted here. Since such statements make him look foolish, one wonders why he's not releasing his own statements. On the other hand, if he (a classicist and pottery specialist) did say what Witzke reports, it would explain a lot that is puzzling about this project. 

**** "about 8 to 9 m down [...] on the west profile side [...] 1 to 2 m in" (sic). This it seems can only refer to the bloke hammering a tube (one presumes) into the vertical cliff on the west side of the site. No contour map of the surface relief or profiles have been published, even at this late stage of the project, but to judge by the height of the man on the ladder, the cliff itself must be c. 8m tall here, so the tested samples were taken from "1 to 2 m in" from the base. But it is precisely here that there is a semi-conical talus layer ... material that has come down from above, burying whatever was lying there - such as [for example] fallen trees. The Durupinar team need to immediately clarify the PRECISE stratigraphical context of the samples (and doing a fake 'blind test' - not telling the laboratories that information will potentially hamper the pre-clean process). 

Hammering away blindly like a mad thing

A cynic however might observe from the way this group releases "information" to their audience that getting some tempting half-results that "we need more money to be able to take better samples and get better dates" might be the aim here all along. This whole "project" looks less like real research and more like a fundraising drive by the self-appointed "Guardians (sic) of the Ark". In which case, why would a Turkish university archaeologist be lending his name to it? 

The 'Cart Ruts' of Malta

 

Malta’s famous cart ruts, deep parallel grooves carved into the limestone, have puzzled people for years. Fringe theorists call them prehistoric, made by "ancient high technology", evidence of the wheel or long lost machines in Ice Age Europe, traces of an alleged prediluvian civilisation. Others see them as the work of later ancient societies. A detailed study by archaeologist Joel Grima from the University of Malta, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports and discussed in a recent Ancient Architects video, takes a close look at 2,628 of these ruts. Using digital surveys, excavations and careful analysis, the research points to most of the network forming during Phoenician, Punic and Roman times.

Great Zimbabwe

(Robin Des Taxes 🇫🇷) The largest city in sub-Saharan Africa that existed before colonization was the capital of Great Zimbabwe, built between the 11th and 15th centuries: it reached a height of 11 m.

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US Noah and the Anti-Vaxers

 

US Christian-nationalist Noah and the Turkish-led expedition to investigate the Durupinar formation have some strange bedfellows: 

Days of Noah @DiedSuddenly_ 4:49 AM · Oct 31, 2026

For years, Died Suddenly has stood against the mainstream COVID-19 narrative, questioned the safety of experimental vaccines, challenged powerful institutions, and given a voice to those who felt silenced.

We've spent years asking difficult questions, exposing uncomfortable truths, and refusing to look the other way. But what we’re witnessing today goes far beyond COVID-19.

We're watching the moral foundations of Western civilization deteriorate before our eyes.

The destruction of the family. The corruption of our institutions. The erosion of faith. The normalization of immorality. The rejection of biblical values. A culture increasingly disconnected from God and the principles upon which our civilization was built.

And as we look at the world around us, one question becomes increasingly difficult to ignore:
Are we living in the Days of Noah?

In Matthew 24:37, Jesus warned:
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”

Scripture describes a world consumed by wickedness, corruption, and spiritual blindness. A civilization carrying on with everyday life, unaware of what was coming.

Today, the parallels are impossible for us to ignore.

That's why Died Suddenly is becoming THE DAYS OF NOAH.

Our mission is expanding.

We'll be examining the cultural and moral decline of Western civilization, the forces reshaping our society, biblical history and archaeology, end-times prophecy, and the growing conflict between faith and the modern world.

In November of last year, our team felt called to join forces with Noah’s Ark Scans and help share their work with the world. What began as a mission we felt compelled to support has grown into a worldwide event, drawing attention to the search for answers about one of the Bible’s most extraordinary accounts.

We'll continue questioning powerful institutions, investigating controversial subjects, and covering the stories others refuse to touch.

But our focus is now on something much bigger than a single crisis.

Because the greatest story of our time may not be what's happening in the headlines, but what those headlines reveal about the times we're living in.

The name is changing. The mission is growing.

Welcome to THE DAYS OF NOAH.

Exposing the Darkness. Understanding the Times. 37.9K Views 

For those isolated from US-crazy by virtue of having an IQ higher than a newt and having gone to a proper school (thus being able to think and fact-check), here's a bit (edited) of what Wikipedia has to say:

"Died Suddenly is a 2022 American anti-vaccination film directed by Matthew Skow and executive-produced by Stew Peters, a far-right and alt-right anti-vaccine activist. It promotes false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and Great Reset conspiracy theories. The film was released on Rumble and Twitter on November 21, 2022. On May 30, 2023, Peters released a related film, Final Days, on Twitter. [...] In late 2021, videos spread on Facebook and Instagram that baselessly claimed 62% of those who receive the mRNA vaccine develop blood clots, and that Pfizer's vaccine creates clots "in a minute or two". [...] Stew Peters is an American far-right media personality who is known for promoting COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories. He has referred to the vaccine as a "bio-weapon", claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the deaths of people, and has called for "the people in our government responsible" to be "put on trial and executed". [...] Peters has previously produced the anti-vaccine film Watch the Water, which purports that COVID-19 vaccines are derived from snake venom in order to transform people into "a hybrid of Satan". The main narrative of [Died Suddenly] is that the COVID-19 vaccines have supposedly caused otherwise healthy individuals to "die suddenly" en masse from excessive blood clotting caused by the spike protein produced by the mRNA vaccine..."

There's more. Now, my question is whether Turkish University archaeologist Associate Professor Cenker Atila (Department of Archaeology at Sivas Cumhuriyet University) leading the 2026 Durupinar expedition has been appraised of this.

 

Biondi's "Romanian Sphinxes"

In an interview (SCIENCE IS NOT A GODDESS TO BE GIFTED 2/11/2026) on the weirdo Italian 'Expedition' channel, host Nicole Ciccolo speaks with Filippo Biondi. The conversation primarily focuses on the retraction of a peer-reviewed paper regarding discoveries in the Great Pyramid Giza, where Biondi plays the victim and ascribes tyhe issue to "the defensive reactions of the scientific community" (in facyt the paper is simply bad and shgould never have been accepted for publication in that form). They then go on to discuss Biondi's ongoing and future archaeological radar scanning projects globally in Romania and under the Chinese pyramids (3:02). Presumably this will be after teh FULL publication of teh Khafre Project results. Describing his fieldtrip to Romania, Biondi has this to say:

"It was a wonderful experience with the archaeological team from Romania, whom I greet. They were present at the conference we held in Bologna, and right there I was asked if I wanted to participate in a measurement campaign on the Carpathian plateau where these Romanian sphinxes are located. I went there in person, took a tour, and then conducted a study inspection right where these rocks clearly recall the shapes of human faces, but with a Neanderthal or Underworld profile. With these Neanderthal profiles, it was a truly touching and unique experience, and I recommend everyone to go there. It was beautiful to go and observe firsthand some primordial monuments made by men, albeit Neanderthals, who lived there at that time. Basically, it turned out to be a very interesting unit to carry out, and we want to see if we can do some scans there too to discover what could be underground. Otherwise, there are other aspects, but this is very interesting" [AI translation from Italian transcript].

The sites to which they refer are presumably the well-known Romanian tourist-scam attractions.

The first of these would probably have been the Bucegi "Sphinx" (Sfinxul din Bucegi), a famous natural  rock formation in the Bucegi Natural Park, Bucegi Plateau (Prahova/Dâmbovița County) Bucegi Mountains of Romania at an altitude of 2,216 metres. This is a lump of rock approximately 8 metres tall and 12 metres wide. Its current shape was formed naturally over millions of years through wind-driven ice and sand abrasion, freeze-thaw cycles, and differential weathering of alternating conglomerate and sandstone rock layers. When viewed by the weak-minded from a specific angle, the rock profile closely resembles a human face with distinct eyes, nose, and lips, earning its nickname in 1935/1936. It is claimed that local folklore links the formation to ancient worship of the supreme Dacian god Zalmoxis. Unsubstantiated pop-culture legends claim the plateau acts as an energetic earth chakra, contains a hidden secret base or library guarded by an energy field, or was shaped by ancient civilizations or extraterrestrials.

The photos layer of Google Earth [45° 24′ 29.88″ N, 25° 28′ 13.08″ E] can be used to see what this lump of rock looks like from other sides, seen NOT "from a specific angle", and you can judge for yourself how much it looks like somebody has been sculpting the site into a sphinx and how much this is tourist-trap flim-flam. 

Apart from this, others are claimed. There are several other natural rock formations across Romania that have been dubbed "sphinxes" due to pareidolia (the human tendency to see faces in random shapes) and wind erosion. While none are as famous as the Bucegi Sphinx, they carry similar local folklore.

• The Topleț Sphinx (Sfinxul de la Topleț): Located in Caraș-Severin County near the village of Topleț, this megalith lies in the Cerna Valley. It is a massive block of rock that, when viewed from the correct angle, strongly resembles the profile of a stern human face staring across the valley.

• The Stănișoara Sphinx (Sfinxul din Stănișoara): Found in the Căliman Mountains (part of the Eastern Carpathians), this formation is another byproduct of volcanic rock weathering. It has a distinct anthropomorphic look that frequently attracts hikers.

• The Piatra Arsă Sphinx (Sfinxul de la Piatra Arsă): Located on the same Bucegi Plateau but further along towards the Piatra Arsă meadow, this lesser-known rock formation is often overlooked by tourists rushing toward the main Sphinx.

• The Sphinx of Solomon's Stones (Sfinxul de la Pietrele lui Solomon): Located right on the outskirts of Brașov in a popular gorge area, this geological formation features limestone crags shaped by water and freeze-thaw cycles that resemble a human profile.

• The Maramureș Sphinx (Sfinxul Maramureșului): Situated in the Gutâi Mountains near the famous "Rooster's Crest" (Creasta Cocoșului), this is a volcanic rock structure sculpted by alpine winds to mimic a human head.

Some references:

Discover Romania (Romania travel tips), ' The Sphinx and Babele: Romania's Mysterious Rock Formations High in the Bucegi Mountains' (nd).

Romania Tour Store, 'Fascinating mysteries of the Sphinx from Bucegi Mountains' October 15, 2017.

Poppyoana, ' Bușteni, Romania: The Mountain Sphinx - Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation' Atlas Obscura October 19, 2017.

Durupinar "Wood Found!!!!!"

 

Back on the Durupinar project fundraiser, a wide-eyed Kezia McGarvie  ( Oct 28) excitedly but somewhat prematurely reveals after the end of the fieldwork: ' BREAKING: WOOD RECOVERED FROM THE NOAH'S ARK DURUPINAR SITE'.

In a major development in the search for Noah's Ark, project lead Dr. Cenker Atila has confirmed that multiple pieces of wood have been recovered from the Durupınar formation in eastern Turkey. The fragments are damaged and charred, raising fascinating questions about what happened at this site thousands of years ago. The samples are now in the laboratory for carbon-14 dating [...] While laboratory testing is still needed to establish their age and significance, this is an exciting new chapter in the investigation.

According to the internal biblical chronology, Noah's Flood occurred in the year 1656 AM (Anno Mundi), so by the most popular rendering to 2348 BC (equivalent to 4298 Cal BP). That is Early Bronze Age, just after the disappearance of The Kura-Araxes Culture in the general region of the Durupinar site (no need to mention the absence of evidence of flooding as the cause of that collapse about a century earlier).

Typically, for such an amateurish project, more details are available, not from an official press release by the excavation's director, but in the form of video shorts, some made by the project's PR team, and many (several dozen already) derivative ones made by other content creators. In one of them, Noah's Ark Researcher Reveals BLACKENED WOOD Found Underground! (@proofinthedirt 30/10/2026) isan interview with Andrew Jones, the head of "Noah's Ark Scans"

"The wood that was found earlier this summer, the professor [Atila] kept it quiet just to make sure that the site was secure and people would not dig up more, you know, so that he made that decision, ah, but we now decided to announce it now, because we're about to send.. we actually have... some of it has already been sent off to a lab, but another lab in the US is about to test it, and so the professor said, yeah, go ahead, tell everyone we found wood. And so, there's charred blackened wood, and also uncharred wood that has been found inside the site, and when you are looking at the site, it's about 8-9metres down and at least a metre or so in, and we're looking at the west side.

The way he refers to this does NOT sound like it came from the boreholes, but the rather inexplicable coring method employed on the side of the site where (what seem likely to be) soil samples were taken by pounding a steel tube into a cliff from a ladder (in the screenshot it seems the guy relegated to this role could not always keep the hole level...)...

Bozo hammering away, no measuring equipment or recording media in sight*

It is difficult to see how ANY stratigraphical observations can be made of the stratigraphical context of any samples retrieved by such crude methodologies, which just represent destruction of context without producing information.

Elsewhere, the manky stuff represented as wood in the official team's film certainly does not look like charred wood (charcoal) in the photo, nor really is there any way of identifying the black stuff as "wood" (looks more like a coprolite to me - Noah's Ark Poo). In any case, and wood found loose in a core is useless without a context, does it come from a lake silt layer and its wood that fell into the lake, is the wood in fact nothing more than the roots of a socking-big Holocene or recent tree? Is it earlier material that became incorporated into the mass by means of mixing when the Telçeker mudslide occurred? Once again, the excavators (I use the term loosely) failure to establish the underlying geology BEFORE they began doing the archaeology (and interpreting the bits and bobs they find) is methodologically utterly unsound. Shame on you Professor Atila. 

Notes

* Note several metres-thick, apparently homogeneous, very dark grey loam layer at the top of this section. Looking at the aerial shots, I think the team really needs to examine the possibility that the bank forming an amygdaloidal enclosure around the site is the rampart of an earthen enclosure of some kind, for example a cattle pound, with an entrance in the middle of the west side. The wood they have found could relate to that site, until the existence of such an enclosure has been disproven.