When
the two civilizations met in 1519, the first thing that the Aztec Emperor
Montezuma told the European conquistadors was that the founders of
Mexican civilization had come from across the Atlantic Ocean from Tlillan Tlapallan,
“Black Land, Red Land.” Although it has escaped
notice until now, this was the name of an actual country in that direction, Egypt, which was known to its
inhabitants as Kemet Deshret, “Black Land, Red Land.”
Exodus Lost tells the
extraordinary true story of the Hyksos, who conquered Egypt, invented the first
alphabet, and established a network of
maritime trade that expanded the bounds of the known world. Forced to flee an
Egyptian insurrection circa 1500 BC,
the Hyksos disappeared from history.
Just after this, an immigrant population is seen to arrive in the archaeological record of San Lorenzo on the Gulf coast of Mexico. At this one site, they introduce the region's first large stone
monuments, aqueducts, pyramids, calendar, writing system, and magnetic compass. Exodus Lost shows for
the first time that each of these innovations bore the distinctive cultural
fingerprints of the Hyksos, even including that same proto alphabet.
Along the way, individual chapters
present new revelations about mythology, pyramids, the alphabet, the Bible
(including the first archaeological confirmation of a major Bible story), and
several of the ancient world’s most remarkable rituals, ushering the reader on a voyage of intellectual discovery through the foundations of Western and ancient Mesoamerican civilization.