Mystery of Mysteries

‘…Tunnels and labyrinths have played a mysterious part in ancient civilisations in the regions of what may wrongly be called the older worlds of Asia, Europe, and Africa. Who can say what the ancient priest-emperors of old Peru knew of, or had inherited, from these vanished civilisations which are not even a name, or more than a faint and ghostly shadow? Helena Petrovna Blavatsky The idea of an ‘Inner World’ or ‘Hollow Earth’ is not a new concept. Renowned authors such as Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, who penned the classics, ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ by Verne, and the Pellucidar series ‘At the Earth’s Core’ by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the mid-nineteenth century. Strangely, there was a glut of publications around the time Jules Verne published ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ in 1864, relating to an inner world, which continued through the end of that century.