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Because if you look at Europe during the Ice Age, and I'm talking about a lost civilization of the Ice Age,

Northern Europe and North America were absolutely inhospitable wildernesses during the Ice Age.

They were frozen, they were dry, and they were dangerous.

And they were not the places that people would go.

People naturally gravitated south towards the equator, towards the tropics.

That's where I would expect to find traces of a lost civilization, and that's where I do find traces of a lost civilization.

You don't really find – I've never reported anything about the UK, for example, in my books.

We have Stonehenge.

We have Avebury.

We have these stone circles, but they're not old enough.

That was the time when the UK started to get warmer, and it's the same with the rest of northern Europe, and it's the same with the northern part of North America.

You have to go down to the southern part of North America.

You have to go into Mexico.

You have to go into South America to really find an environment during the Ice Age

that would have nurtured a high civilization.

And there's a lot of speculation as to why they weren't able to cross the Bering landmass too, right?

Well, again, this is an area where there has been a narrative that archaeology has sought to impose upon us.

And this was this was called the Clovis first idea that there was a people who archaeologists called the Clovis people.

We don't know what they call themselves in North America and traces of their characteristic tools, particular sort of fluted points,

arrowhead spear points, turn up from about 13 ,400 years ago and end abruptly 12 ,800 years ago.

And for a long time, with the beginning of the Younger Dryas, and for a long time, archaeology maintained that this Clovis culture, so -called Clovis culture, we don't know what they call themselves,

were the first Americans, and that there were no human beings in the Americas before 13 ,400 years ago.

And bit by bit, the New evidence has come in

which has forced archaeologists screaming and tearing out their hair to back away from the Clovis first paradigm and admit that actually, yes, there were people here before that.

But even then, they're reluctant to go very far back.

We've recently had these footprints in White Sands in New Mexico, 23 ,000 years old or so.

That's largely being accepted now.

But there are much earlier dates.

There's 130 ,000 years ago from the Cerruti Mastodon site near San Diego.

So the Sphinx is supposed to have been built 4 ,500 years ago.

But as you know, Robert Shock and I and many others are convinced the Sphinx is much, much older than that, that it goes back 12 ,000 plus years.

And this is based on geological evidence of heavy rainfall, which is another interesting thing about the climate and the environment of that area,

that we think of it as being desert.

But at one point in time, it wasn't.

Well, this is one of the reasons why I'm

so frustrated by archaeologists claiming that they could know there was no lost civilization

when they've done so little work in the Sahara.

When the Sahara was, in a number of occasions during the Ice Age,

incredibly fertile, very, very nurturing environment with huge river systems running through it and lakes.

It's not disputed that that was the case.

It was a kind of environment that would have nurtured human civilization.

And we really can't write off the possibility of a lost civilization until we take a much closer, much more detailed look at the Sahara.

Of course, that's expensive.

And then Egypt itself is in the Sahara.

Didn't they find fossilized whale bones in the Sahara?

Yeah, that would go back a lot further.

That would go back to millions of years to a time when the oceans were different, perhaps even hundreds of millions of years.

So Sahara at one point was an ocean.

As many places were.

Pretty much anywhere where you find limestone was once covered by ocean.

The world has changed.

The world is constantly changing.

It's like it's like one of those magic kids toys

that we pull pull a lever and it wipes out the diagram you just made Yeah

It just keeps on the world keeps on recreating itself

and we human beings make our journey through this through this changing world

And we we try to fix it

and say this is how things were this is how things will be

and it never cooperates with us It's just incredibly fascinating

that the timeline when you go beyond the traditional timeline

And you get back into where you

and Robert Schock have speculated the age of the Sphinx Now

you're talking about a completely different environment of lush rainforests and many many many resources Absolutely, we're talking about a completely different Sahara,

which and Schock's evidence is of a thousand years of heavy rainfall That's what the Sphinx bears witness to

that it was already there When the rains of the Younger Dryas

and the Younger Dryas affected the Sahara with heavy rainfall just as further north it changed the climate

and made it much colder in the Sahara it became much wetter

and it's that period of rains that

that are the most likely culprit for weathering the Sphinx in the way it is

but it could have stood there for thousands of years before

that there's also very clear evidence that the face in the Sphinx is much younger right no doubt about that whatsoever.

The first problem is the ancient Egyptians were masters of proportion.

The ancient Egyptian art is rightly world famous for its quality, and they didn't get things out of proportion.

They wouldn't make that elementary error when they create this giant statue, carving it out of solid bedrock.

But the head of the Sphinx is way too small in relation to the body.

It looks like the head of a pin.

It doesn't fit with that 270 70 foot long, 70 foot high body.

It looks very much as though the Sphinx once had a much larger head.

Can you show us a photo of it, Jamie?

It's also much less weathered, right?

And it's much less weathered.

And this is, again, where Egyptology tries to attach the Sphinx to a particular period.

Egyptology claims that's the face of Khafre, who was the successor to Khufu.

It doesn't look like any statues, known statues of Khafre that I can see, but let's know.

It is called the Nemes headdress.

It's the classic headdress of an Egyptian pharaoh.

Not, in my view, Khafre, but the headdress of an Egyptian pharaoh.

But it's on a head that is way too small by comparison with the body.

And both Shock and I and John Anthony West, Manu Seifzada, who's another excellent researcher in this field,

we all feel that the Sphinx was almost certainly a complete lion at one point.

It was a lion with a huge mane, and that that head sticking up above the plateau got very heavily eroded.

And by the time the ancient Egyptians inherited it, they decided to improve it a little bit, to cut down that heavily eroded head and put the head of a pharaoh on it.

Does it have the same sort of sophisticated proportions where they're perfect left and right as some of the other statues do, which is another incredible mystery?

That when they look at the measurements of these immense statues somehow

or another they're completely symmetrical on both left and right side Completely symmetrical

I'm actually not sure whether that's the case with the Sphinx I wouldn't be surprised

because I have no doubt whatsoever

that the head of the Great Sphinx was carved by the ancient Egyptians Who made those who made those statues?

But the question is what was it carved from?

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What was it cut down from right?

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So the geology the the precipitation induced weathering is one of the evidence pieces of evidence for a much older Sphinx.

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But the other thing is the astronomy, the fact that the Sphinx is an equinoctial marker.

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You know, if you stand looking due east at Giza or anywhere in the northern hemisphere,

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on the spring equinox, there's three key moments of the year, four actually.

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There's the winter and summer solstice, and there's the equinoxes, the spring and fall equinoxes.

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On the summer solstice, the sun rises far to the north of east.

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On the winter solstice, It rises far to the south of east, but on the equinoxes it aligns perfectly due east

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And that's what the sphinx is it's aligned perfectly to due east

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and it's gazing at the horizon

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And then we come to this contentious issue of who discovered those zodiacal constellations

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Because the sphinx twelve

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and a half thousand years ago was gazing at dawn on

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the spring equinox at the constellation of Leo In other words

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this lion monument on the ground was looking at its own celestial counterpart in the sky Egyptologists dismiss

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that they say the

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that nobody had any idea of the constellations until the Greeks I just think they're I think they're wrong

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so astronomy and

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Geology together

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Combine to invite us to consider the possibility that the Sphinx may be much older than

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4500 years old right I mean if you I know you know that oh yeah, that is a crazy theory that sounds so It sounds completely wackadoo

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But then when you have it laid out to you Christopher, what's his last name done?

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My podcast a few weeks.

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I just had him a couple weeks ago.

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I just had a brain fart the his depiction of

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The mechanisms that would be involved in turning this

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Giant structure into some sort of a power plant you hear about you wait a minute.

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Yeah, whoa Yeah, it makes a lot of sense and him

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and I have very similar theories on how the power generation occurred

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and i believe that the nile you know

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when it used to run up close to the pyramids

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and the water would run underneath the pyramid and

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that would create something called physiostatic electricity as it ran underneath

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that magnetized crystal granite those ions would pour up into the

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chamber move up the grand gallery where there used to be resonating rods

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but you can see the slots where the rods used to be they're removed now

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but the slots are still there then it would be pushed into the king's chamber where it would be amplified

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and some type of fusion would take place then forced up through the apex, and then the crystal granite obelisks around the region would capture that ambient wireless electricity.

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And then if you had something called a jet, which looks like a Tesla coil, you can capture that energy and you can transfer it into a device for gold electroplating,

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for any of the electrical tools you need, like some of the tools they had to have used to create some of these incredible works of art.

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We can see the tool marks, so we know they had the tools.

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But they had wireless electricity way back then.

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The interesting thing about the Amazon, Joe, is it's been.. grievously misunderstood over the years

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and fortunately archaeology is beginning to come to terms with it

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there was agriculture in the Amazon going back a very long

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way going back at least 10 ,000 years maybe maybe further

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and we we may have discussed this before

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but there's this there's this curious soil that exists in the Amazon that they call terra preta or Amazonian dark earth

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recent investigations have shown without doubt that it's man -made

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and deliberately man -made not an accidental result of refuse tips

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but a deliberate attempt to make the Amazon fertile

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and how do they know that it's deliberate

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because they find in it the same ingredients

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and amongst the amongst those ingredients are always broken bits of

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ceramics that's one of the odd things they seem to be

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part of what makes it work really ceramics ceramics in mixed

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in there with with dung with with human refuse all deliberately put in there, not an accidental dunk heap,

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but a place that human beings said, we're going to make this ground fertile.

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Because rainforest soils are not particularly fertile.

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The fertility of the Amazon comes entirely from the fall of leaves onto the soil.

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It re -fertilizes itself.

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But to grow crops on the Amazon is a very different prospect.

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And this is where Terra Prata really comes into its own.

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And I've been standing in a pit with an archaeologist there, a Terra Prata pit, and you You can see this beautiful, rich soil, and it is a mystery.

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It constantly replenishes itself.

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It never gets used up.

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Settlers seek it out, seek out areas of terra preta, and it fits with this notion that no longer a notion,

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it's a fact, that there was a population of millions in the Amazon 10 ,000 years ago, and they were living a highly productive, sophisticated life.

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They were using agriculture.

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They also gardened the Amazon.

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The hyper -dominant trees in the Amazon are all food -bearing trees.

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The Brazil nut tree, for example, which is a huge, tall tree, is a food -bearing tree.

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And they exist in far greater numbers than they should do if they develop naturally.

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Humans manipulated the Amazon and made it serve human needs thousands and thousands of years ago.

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And then we have these enormous structures that are appearing in the Amazon, which are being referred to as geoglyphs geoglyphs.

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They call them geoglyphs after the Nazca lines, actually.

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The Nazca lines in Peru are huge ground images, sometimes geometrical in form, sometimes showing animals or birds or spiders,

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other creatures, often actually showing Amazonian animals.

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But in the Brazilian Amazon, in the state of Acre,

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as a result of clearances of the Amazon that have been done for farming purposes.

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There's this rush to just cut the Amazon down and replace it with cattle ranches and soybean farms.

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Those clearances have revealed something that again, according to the old view of the Amazon, shouldn't be there, which is gigantic earthworks,

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huge ones, a bit like the henges in Europe, enormous embankments, ditches, and in geometrical forms.

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So you You get enormous squares, enormous circles, you get a circle within a square.

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They keep repeating these geometrical images, and they're thousands of years old.

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When we were down there just recently, we had a local LiDAR guy working with us.

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These days, you don't have to even use an airplane to find things with LiDAR.

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You can fly LiDAR off a drone, and flying his drone within a mile of known structures that are outside the rainforest now,

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he found two more huge geoglyphs under the rainforest canopy, which will be investigated.

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And this is bizarre and puzzling.

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They reckon, the team working on this, that's Marty Parson of the University of Helsinki and Alsea Ranzi, who's a Brazilian archaeologist and geologist,

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they reckon that there's thousands of these things still under the rainforest canopy, and there's a huge untold story.

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So one of the places I would cook for a lost civilization is the Amazon rainforest.

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So the Atlantis one So the Rishat structure.

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I was wondering if you saw those videos.

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Yeah No, that was that was a big one that I saw

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because I've been fascinated by the concept of Atlantis You know ever since I had these conversations with Randall Carlson

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and Graham Hancock about the Younger Dryas impact theory and this concept that somewhere in the roughly around 11 ,000,

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12 ,000 years ago, we were hit by a series of comets.

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And it's pretty evident that that's a fact.

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If you do the core samples of the earth, they find this nuclear glass all over the earth that exists in that time period.

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And it seems like something happened that reset civilization.

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And there's very little evidence of advanced civilizations before

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that up until recently up until the last couple of decades they started uncovering things like gobekli tepe

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and all these other structures that are clearly from more than 12 000 years ago

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and they're really complex and really large with enormous stones

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and it sort of caused people to rethink the history of the earth

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and the history of human civilizations and atlantis has always been the big one

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that has been the one that everybody talked about was this incredibly advanced civilization

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and no one can figure out where it is.

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Or if it was real.

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I think that Atlantis, because surely that wouldn't have been necessarily the name just through the change of language over, let's say, 12, 13 ,000 years ago, which would be the timeframe.

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So surely there would be several different changes of language, but I think it represented a civilization that was doing great things.

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They were more global than what many people think would be possible.

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Atlantis was said to be a kingdom made up of – or an empire, excuse me, made up of ten kingdoms.

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And then there was the lost city of Atlantis, which was the capital, which was said to be made up of concentric circles, two of water, three of land.

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And essentially that they were obliterated by a cataclysm as passed down by Plato, although it's worth mentioning that Plato got the story of Atlantis from Solon,

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who was his uncle separated by six generations.

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But what most people don't realize is that Solon had traveled to Egypt, and so it's the ancient Egyptians is where that tale comes from,

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which makes it even more bizarre because I would argue that the most spectacular ancient civilization is the Egyptians.

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I mean, no disrespect to the Romans.

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It's hard to deny.

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Right?

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I mean it let me just say

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because I want to on this podcast encourage people to travel

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to Egypt it Joe you got to go I really want to a friend of mine just went

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and she got back

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and she was telling me incredible things about it Jamie we

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pull up the photos of these concentric circles tell him yeah

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the wrist shot r -i -c -h -a -t It's worth mentioning

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that yeah in the first couple I just want to say

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it's a wrist shot I used to call it Rick hot I was mispronouncing it, but let me ask you this Joe real quick

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When you saw my video was that the very first time you had ever seen this thing before yeah, that's the thing So many

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when I first saw this I was like what the fuck is

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that by the way you see that white all those white blemishes Uh -huh, that's salt this was under the ocean

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and people let me just say you mentioned Randall Carlson

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and Graham Hancock I love them and I know for sure

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that they don't particularly think this is the site for a few different reasons

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So let me say there's absolute doubt even I am not

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a hundred percent certain I'm not even a percent certain

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that lenses existed What I am certain is

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that humans were doing spectacular things in a civil is you know A cataclysmic event happened called the younger Dryas

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and reset something for somebody.

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Is there a natural?

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Explanation for this formation.

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Yes.

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So what so let me say

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that it is considered to be a mysterious They don't they're not a hundred percent certain of it.

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However, the consensus is that it was a volcanic dome that had risen and collapsed multiple times, like 100 million years ago, allegedly.

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I don't, I say allegedly, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with that.

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I'm just saying I would like to know where sometimes they get these figures from.

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Like explain to me why it was 100 million years ago and not 99 or 98, because here we are talking about how crazy things changed in just the last 12, 13 ,000 years.

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So when they throw around these numbers, you know, One million years in itself is an incredibly long period of time, but getting back to your question

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Some had originally thought

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that maybe was an impact site from a crate from a you know an asteroid or perhaps

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But there's no evidence for it like there's none of the

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nanobot The problem is is there's these concentric circles the way I like that.

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I've never seen anything I mean, obviously I'm not an archaeologist, but I've never seen anything like this in

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I mean if you study structures that are like man -made structures I've never seen anything like this that humans have made,

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but I've definitely never seen like— Go to that one where your cursor's on, Jamie.

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Yeah, please.

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So is this— You want to see some—all right.

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What is this?

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Okay.

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Okay, one step at a time because we also have to take into consideration that people are just listening.

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So kind of describe what we're looking at here.

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Okay, so what you're looking at is approximately 250 miles inland in the total barren desert of Mauritania, Africa.

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So the Western Sahara.

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But this image looks like—why is it blue?

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That's just showing you the— What it used to look like?

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No, this is what it looks like right now through—I forgot what you call this type of animation, but it's essentially a satellite imagery

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that they enhanced in order for you to see the difference in elevation and the actual structure to itself.

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Okay, so if there was water in this area, you would see it this way, that it would be these concentric circles that are raised above the water,

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and then the water would be inside of it like that.

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Well, just to clarify, this particular image, no, this is not trying to represent water.

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So that blue is actually picking up on salt.

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Salt.

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All that was salt.

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But, I mean, it used to be underwater, right?

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It's salt because it was underwater.

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That's what I believe, and that's what makes the most sense to me.

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Others will disagree, and let me tell you why.

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It is currently 1 ,200, 1 ,300 feet above sea level.

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It's 250 miles inland.

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And so some people say this was never under the ocean, at least not for the last tens of millions of years, is what the scientists claim.

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I argue that since the salt is still there, and not only that, Jamie, If you go to the other images that show you more of the white,

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the one that you were previously on, the one to the middle to the left right there.

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So those areas with the most white blemishes happen to be the areas that are the lowest in elevation, which to me tells me that saltwater had settled there.

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But not only that, Joe, Atlantis was said to be, like we said, you know, multiple rings of, you know, water and land.

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However, it was said to open to the sea to the south.

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And what you're looking at here, the south, so this is oriented north, south, east, and west.

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What do you see to the south?

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And especially if we could get another.

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This is a very flat area that looks like it's the lowest elevation.

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Like, around it looks like it's higher.

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I mean, it's hard to tell from this image.

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Jamie, will you Google map it?

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Just type in, even if you went to Mortania, so you could see this from space.

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Astronauts use it as a locator, and they weren't really familiar or aware of it until the Gemini missions in the early 1960s.

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So if you go to like if you just go to Google Earth, you could you'll be able to find this quite quickly It stands out

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and it's why they call it the eye of Africa or the eye of the Sahara All right, so just pan out a little bit and it'll provide us with a much keep going

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All that all

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that white is salt Archaeologists should not seek to isolate the story of Atlantis from other flood myths

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and traditions all around the world And that's a problem too I mean, we have hundreds of myths and traditions from countries all around the globe

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Which speak of a great global cataclysm a huge flood often wildfires

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Destruction of human beings and

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and of animals a few survivors who seek to restart civil

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It's a global story not a not a single story told by Plato

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and I mean if you hear the same story from so many different cultures At what point in time do you go?

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Maybe there's something to this.

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I mean, it's just very strange to try to deny that again We have this with the physical evidence.

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Yeah, especially with the physical evidence and it's interesting with the physical evidence like

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like Gobekli Tepe Which is eleven thousand six hundred years old.

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I mean it used to be argued Robert shock

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and John Anthony West work on the great sphinx suggesting

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that the Sphinx could be 12 ,000 plus years old it used to be argued

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that was impossible because there was no other site anywhere in the world no other megalithic site of the same age.

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And then we discover Gobekli Tepe, and it's 11 ,600 years old.

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Now, if you can make Gobekli Tepe with its 20 -ton megaliths, beautifully carved representations of human and animal figures in those pillars, if you can do that,

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you can cut the Great Sphinx out of bedrock as well.

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There's no reason to dismiss the geological evidence of the Great Sphinx anymore.

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But instead, what archaeology is doing is trying to finesse Gobekli Tepe.

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They're trying to say, oh, there was this gradual buildup to Gobekli Tepe.

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And they now talk about people who they call the Natufians.

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Again, we don't know what they call themselves, who were predecessors of Gobekli Tepe around 14 ,000 years ago.

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And they show things that look like a tiny little stone wall that they built.

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The sort of thing that you can find, a dry stone wall that you can find anywhere in Wales to this day, you know.

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And this is supposed to be a prequel to Gobekli Tepe.

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I'm sorry, you just don't start off making dry stone walls

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and then wake up one morning and create 20 ton megaliths in huge stone circles

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Perfectly astronomically aligned as we have at Gobekli Tepe.

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Not only that, but how?

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Like what did what did they do?

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How are you even where are you getting those 20 ton megaliths from?

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How far do they have to transport?

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In the case of Gobekli Tepe, not far.

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How far?

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Oh, hundreds of meters.

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I've stood on top of one

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megalith that they partially cut out of the bedrock with the t -shape

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but then they found a fault in it and they left it there it would have been a 30 -ton

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megalith they clearly intended to release it from the bedrock

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but it had a fault so they they left it alone the quarries

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that the issue of the quarries for the rock at Gobekli

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Tepe is not too big a problem with the transportation of

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those even the transportation you get enough people working together

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and they can and they can move large stones there's that that's that that's not in dispute, but that's where the question comes.

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How do you get enough people together?

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How do you have the organizational skills?

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Where do you have the mindset that plans something like this at the beginning?

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And that is the problem that is not answered in the case of Gobekli Tepe, that happening suddenly.

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And what were they using for tools?

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They're supposed to have just been using stone.

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There's not supposed to have been any metals at that period.

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Not even brass?

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Not even brass, not even copper.

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I have...

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I have a complicated view on Gobekli Tepe.

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Let's say it's my hypothesis.

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It's not a fact.

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I don't claim this is a fact.

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I think that what we're looking at at Gobekli Tepe,

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there's no doubt that the population around Gobekli Tepe were all hunter -gatherers when Gobekli Tepe started to be made.

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And that's the weirdest thing of all, because previously archaeology always used to say hunter -gatherer cultures did not have the manpower,

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did not have the organizational skills, could not generate the surpluses that would allow people to specialize in architecture and engineering and astronomy and so on.

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So it used to be said that hunter -gatherers couldn't do that.

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Now archaeologists have backpedaled on that and they're saying, well, yeah, clearly hunter -gatherers did it.

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The funny thing is that during the 1 ,000 years that Gobekli Tepe functions, and it runs from roughly 11 ,600 years ago to,

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say, 9 ,600 years ago, 10 ,600 years ago, during those 1 ,000 years,

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the population of Gobekli Tepe transitions from being hunter -gatherers to being agriculturalists.

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So we see two new ideas suddenly appearing at Gobekli Tepe, enormous megalithic architecture and a shift from hunter -gathering to agriculture.

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And what Gobekli Tepe looks like to me is a transfer of technology,

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that people who already knew how to work megalithic architecture and align it precisely to the risings of particular stars,

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for example, Sirius, came to Gobekli Tepe at a time of chaos and cataclysm in the world.

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And they sought to introduce a new way of thinking.

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I think Gobekli Tepe was created as a project to mobilize the local community, to give them something to work on, to bring them together.

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And it's not an accident that during that thousand years they transitioned from hunter -gathering to agriculture.

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I don't see massive technical complications in creating Gobekli Tepe except those very precise alignments

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but what I do see is a sudden appearance of something that shouldn't have been there and that and that requires explanation.

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Well if you look at the tablets again they talk about this war right

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and this war that occurred there's a lot of wars obviously

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but this one particular war it seems like the same one

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that damaged the area

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or the region of the Giza Plateau also Mohenjandar in the Indus Valley up there by Pakistan

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and the reason why it's interesting is

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if you look at the war in the text

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and then go to those areas it looks now almost you

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can begin to see oh wait a minute it looks like

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war mohenjandaro indus valley the buildings turned to glass the sand turned to glass

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and the bodies are still laying in the street right now today holding hands never been scavenged by animals

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so wait a minute where is this mohen jendaro are there photos

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that we can look at oh yeah look it up mohenjandaro

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indus valley dead bodies still laying in the street thousands of years later

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and nobody just they just lay there no one's covered them up nobody's covered them up yeah

394

when you put a geiger counter over them higher than background level radiation really yeah

395

and if but aren't stones higher than background level radiation some stones are some stones are especially like diorite

396

and uh crystal granite

397

but these bodies these are just bones how come they're higher

398

than background level i can't wait to see this why haven't

399

i ever heard of this mohan jendoro m -o -h -e

400

-n there you go whoa yeah this is evidence of a nuclear war

401

or nuclear go back to the other the one that one there?

402

That one's insane.

403

Yeah.

404

There's bodies that are sitting on the edge of steps next to their own buildings that they lived in.

405

The building is turned to glass.

406

That's 3 ,000 plus degree temperature weapons fire.

407

So there's a bunch of people that seem to die all at once, just scattered around?

408

Yeah.

409

And what's the conventional explanation for how these people died?

410

They have no idea.

411

They have zero idea.

412

The only thing that you can...

413

That was just a couple, Jamie go to the other just the Mohan Jandara mythical mass massacre Yeah, so that they think it's a massacre.

414

Do they there's there any Just laying there laying there and the bed building those stones are vitrified, which means 3000 plus degree temperature.

415

Oh Shit, what kind of you know, what could have caused that level of temperature?

416

Energetic release Well, it could have been a low atmosphere asteroid.

417

It could have been you mean just like that's Tunguska yeah, it could have been a little but then their bones would have been splattered apart

418

and broken up into pieces good call Yeah, that's good call.

419

Yeah, because They don't seem to be broken apart.

420

No, they're not broken apart right that impact would have shattered the bones

421

and spread them out over Right without impact even

422

if you just look at the one that burst in the atmosphere in Tunguska It just flattened trees flattened everything.

423

I think it's some insane like a million acres or something crazy.

424

That's incredible The Tunguska explosion that that one's yeah, so those bodies would be toast because the trees were ripped apart The buildings would have been flattened.

425

The legs would have flown off.

426

There's no way They would just be laying there like that.

427

That's interesting and they don't seem to be like chopped up No, did they have any evidence of stab wounds or anything on them?

428

They don't have any evidence of any injury of any kind of attack or any cutting or like swords or anything.

429

They just all got cooked.

430

Right.

431

And then in the tablets, it says that the evil wind moved over to land after they released these weapons.

432

And then Enki goes to his father.

433

I mean, yeah, Enki goes to his father anew and says, hey, can you stop the evil wind?

434

Because he had fallen in love with some people, you know, and down there.

435

And he's like, there's nothing I can do.

436

He said, get in your sky ship and forebode.

437

That means get the hell out of here.

438

And he said that people's hair was falling out.

439

Their eyes were bleeding.

440

Their nose were bleeding.

441

Their fingernails were curling off.

442

That sounds like radiation sickness So you think it's radiation sickness

443

that did this to all these people or was it an impact that did this all these people?

444

Nobody nobody nobody knows, you know, but they're they're not blown apart, right?

445

They're not blown apart.

446

It seems like whatever wherever whatever struck

447

or whatever energetic weapon it was It could have been not

448

might not have been a weapon whatever it was It seems like

449

that shockwave reached them at some point and whatever was in that wave Just killed everybody.

450

That's what it did.

451

Yeah And they just don't know what it is today.

452

How does a conventional?

453

Archaeologists describe it.

454

They just say it's a massacre.

455

They just call it a mythical massacre, and they stay away from it

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Joe Rogan's Best Ancient Civilization Podcasts”. This video has 455 sentences and 5883 words to shadow. The speech runs for 31:02. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
civilization noun	/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/	An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical…
hunter noun	/ˈhʌntɚ/	One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
enormous adjective	/ɪˈnɔː.məs/	Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
statue noun	/ˈstæt͡ʃu/	A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
archaeology noun	/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
bone noun	/boʊn/	A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
argue verb	/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/	To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
incredibly adverb	/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/	In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
agriculture noun	/ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/	The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.
radiation noun	/ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/	The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.
massacre noun	/ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/	The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity…
fertile adjective	/ˈfɝːtəl/	Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
shock noun	/ʃɔk/	A sudden, heavy impact.
explanation noun	/ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/	The act or process of explaining.
electricity noun	/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/	Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go back verb	To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
blow apart verb	To destroy (something) by explosion or figuratively similar disasters (e.g. a scandal for a company).
break apart verb	To dismantle something into its base components.
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
cut down verb	To cut downward.
fall out verb	To come out of something by falling.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
fly off verb	To flee rapidly; to run away.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What do you see to the south?
I mean, it's hard to tell from this image.
How do you get enough people together?
How do you have the organizational skills?
Let's say it's my hypothesis.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to run · used to be · used to look
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've never reported · has been · has come
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were frozen · was called · being accepted
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who archaeologists · rainfall, which is · those who made

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 78 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, myth /mɪθ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, megalith /ˈmɛɡəˌlɪθ/, megalithic /ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, radiation /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, elevation /ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/
Long words — get the stress right: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, archaeology /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, agriculture /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/, radiation /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like civilization, hunter, enormous.

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