The Secret History of the World

I watched "10,000 BC" today. It is a movie from 2008 that didn't really get glowing reviews if I remember correctly. The movie is a presentation of the "secret history" of the world, which is really pretty interesting because the "secret history" seems to be the "official history" of many influential people and organizations. It's the history you didn't learn in school.

A quick recap if you haven't seen the movie: some raiders abduct several people from a remote primitive settlement for slavery. (It's very much like the beginning of "Conan the Barbarian" (1982), because Conan the Barbarian is telling the same story.) The raiders take their new slaves to someplace that looks Egyptian and puts them to work building pyramids. The raiders are brutal, and they are really slaves, too--they're the drones of the secret overlords of the pyramid construction project who demand god-like status from the slave population. Eventually, though, the good guys show up and save the slaves and kill the evil king.

The most interesting line in the movie is around the 1hr:04min mark where a slave boy asks who these overlord people are. He gets a response, "Some people say they came from the stars. Some people say they came from an island that sank beneath the waves (Atlantis)".

There are dozens of movies and TV shows based on this theme. The director and writer of "10,000 BC" was also a creator of the "Stargate" series, which is really just the same story.

The secret history is really about the pre-historic origin of man, and the subsequent fall out. Either the Pyramid came from space, or from Atlantis. There was a struggle with actual humans, and it is still going on today.