Michael A. Cremo, also known as Drutakarma dasa was born in July 15,
1948 in the United States. In 1966 he entered the School of
International Affairs at the George Washington University in
Washington, D.C., in preparation for a career in diplomacy or one of
the intelligence services. But in the turmoil of the Vietnam War era
and the counterculture revolution of the 1960s, he left the university,
heading for Prague to take part in the Czechoslovakian independence
movement.
By the time he arrived in Europe, the Russia and the Warsaw Pact had
invaded Czechoslovakia, so he headed further East, a journey that
eventually led to his becoming a disciple of Krishna guru Bhaktivedanta
Swami and a student of the ancient Sanskrit writings of India. It was
in these writings that he encountered histories of a human presence on
this planet going back millions of years.In 1984, he and Richard
Thompson, inspired by their studies of the Sanskrit histories, began
work on their monumental Forbidden Archaeology, which documents
evidence for extreme human antiquity. Published after eight years of
research in 1993, it quickly became an international underground
classic, and has for years been a bestseller in the archaeology
category on Amazon.com, world's largest internet bookseller.Michael A.
Cremo has become an internationally known expert on the history of
archaeology and anomalous archaeological evidence for extreme human
antiquity. He is research associate in history of science for the
Bhaktivedanta Institute, and is a member of the History of Science
Society, the Philosophy of Science Association, the World
Archaeological Congress, and the European Association of
Archaeologists. His most recent scientific publication is "Puranic Time
and the Archaeological Record," presented at the World Archaeological
Congress 3, 1994, and now included in the proceedings volume Time and
Archaeology, edited by archaeologist Tim Murray for Routledge (1999).
His latest book, Forbidden Archaeology's Impact, documents the
sometimes explosive reactions of orthodox scientists to his work.
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