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Reset Theory
Also called: Civilizational Reset Theory · Earth Reset Theory
The claim that civilization has collapsed and restarted from scratch several times over.In this narrative it is the name given to whatever swallowed Tartaria.
Established facts
Around 1200 BCE, several eastern Mediterranean civilizations collapsed at roughly the same time.Historians call this the "Late Bronze Age Collapse." Drought, war, and the breakdown of trade networks are cited as combined causes.It is settled archaeology that Angkor Wat and the Maya cities were abandoned gradually.Gradual decline, rather than sudden catastrophe, is the standard archaeological explanation.
Buried windows read as proof that an old civilization was swallowed.
In this narrativeMultiple resets
Humanity is said to have been reset at the civilizational level several times over thousands of years1.Tartaria is claimed to be one of those resets1.The history, religion, and state systems that came afterward are read as devices for hiding the previous civilization1.The work of restoring historical texts is read as actually having been a work of deletion1.Fair photographs and demolition records are cited as evidence of erased traces1.
In this narrativeThe nuclear-war branch
Some trace the cause of the reset to an ancient nuclear war1.Vitrified sand near Mohenjo-daro is cited as evidence1.It is a soil layer melted glassy by high heat1.Some claim certain soils show elevated radiation levels1.This is read as evidence that something at the level of a nuclear weapon was used in ancient times1.
In this narrativeWhy this story pulls people in
Distrust of textbook history is what pulls people toward this theory1.The sheer scale of grand old buildings delivers a visual shock1.It also plays on the fear that government and academia together are distorting the past1.YouTube and TikTok algorithms keep recommending more sensational content1.
In this narrativeWhere scholarship draws the line
Experts point out that the ancient-nuclear-war theory has no decisive evidence1.Vitrified sand can also be explained by meteor impacts or lightning strikes1.The standard account of civilizational decline is gradual decline, not sudden collapse1.Drought, epidemic, war, and resource depletion are cited as combined causes1.
Connected concepts
- Tartaria →Tartaria is the first vanished civilization named by reset theory.
- Mud Flood →The mud flood is named as the specific method that triggered the reset.
- New Chronology →Fomenko's New Chronology is the earlier theory that doubted the whole of history, before reset theory.
- Ancient Astronauts →The story of a super-ancient civilization that started a nuclear war meets the ancient-astronaut hypothesis.
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