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the question is ancient ancient astronaut Sora our lost civilization
and and I think it's it's probably reasonably well known that I am an
advocate of the of the presence in our past of a forgotten episode of a lost
civilization far more advanced than historians could ever possibly have
imagined see we live in a world today where we have a highly technological
advanced society our own but we also coexist with hunter-gatherers there are
hunter-gatherers in lead Amazon who don't even know we exist
hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert in southern in southern Africa who are
living a a lifestyle that hasn't changed in 20,000 years
the notion of a high-tech civilization coexisting with hunter-gatherers
shouldn't be surprising since we ourselves are doing it and and I believe
that this was the case in remote prehistory during the Ice Age III
believe that there was an advanced civilization on this planet and it
coexisted with hunter-gatherers and when the Cataclysm came that destroyed that
civilization utterly there were survivors and some of them settled
amongst the hunter-gatherer populations which they may have already reached out
to before and attempted to start the process of civilization again and I
believe that a better explanation for all of the anomalies in the past that
intrigued us is a lost human civilization rather than the
intervention of of aliens because I honestly in my 25 years of exploring the
most extraordinary amazing and spiritually moving archaeological sites
I haven't seen anything that I would have to explain with the level of technology you would need to cross
interstellar space so that's my truth and that's where I come from when
fingerprints of the gods was published in 1995 I provoked a furious reaction
from mainstream archaeology they were deeply upset
that this book was there now I came to realize that actually my crime was not
that I had written the book but that the book by some extraordinary process
became successful that's what annoyed the archaeologists
how dare an alternative view of history be successful so I came in for a lot of
attacks and what I found is that the mainstream archeologists they have a lot
of friends in the media particularly in the science press and they just feed
them the line and the science press tends it out and one of the magazines
that really attacked me back then is a British magazine called New Scientist so
you know the basic message of fingerprints of the Gods is that
civilization is older and more mysterious than we thought so I was
quite happy really in 2013 to see this headline in New Scientist civilization is older and more mysterious than we
thought there there have been developments in the last 20 years which
have added great weight to the notion that we may have lost a whole
civilization and which archaeologists are scrambling to explain within their
existing model and paradigm shifts come about when new information is
forthcoming that simply cannot be explained with the existing paradigm and I believe we're coming close to that
situation with the lost civilization argument so a lot of what I say today
you'll find much more detail in my new book which is magicians of the gods it's
the sequel to fingerprints of the Gods written 20 years later and I want to pay
tribute to my my beautiful wife and companions lover without whom without
them I couldn't have done anything
and and her amazing photography and all the
risks that she's taken with me at the bottom of the ocean and the top of the
Great Pyramid and all the amazing places we've done thank you for something so you know we're all entranced by mystery
it is right and proper that we should be we see a mystery we want to get to the
bottom of it we like things to work out to be explained and undoubtedly there's
much in the past of humanity that provokes enormous questions about who we
are where we came from what what is our real story and you know when we see
engravings like this in the crypt at Dendera looks like some
kind of machinery and we confront the Great Pyramids of Giza with their
amazing precision the gigantic blocks of stone in some cases blocks of stone
weighing 70 tons that are lifted 300 feet into the air how do we explain all
of this we have a sense that that the people of the Old Kingdom in Egypt they were very advanced in many ways but
really could they have done all of this it asked me question about it
and it's easy to jump to the conclusion that it was aliens who did it when we
confront these huge blocks in the notion that they were all moved by you know by by teams of men shoving these 70-ton
blocks up ramps two miles long and I mean it's it's just there's something
missing in the picture and I understand why why there's an assumption that we must have been visited by some high-tech
alien presence so just a couple of little points I've obviously I keep an
eye on the ancient alien thing and I've noticed that that these objects in the
hands of these figures here at Tiahuanaco
several times and also similar objects in in Mexico have several times been
referred to as alien ray guns however they are not alien ray guns they're more
interesting than that actually what they are is snuff trays we still find them in
the Amazon today education is quite clear it's been done
by a phlebotomist manuel torres and there's really no doubt we're not
dealing with ray guns here but we are dealing with an insight into an ancient
civilization why did they value these substances and then not all megaliths are old in a big journey that Arthur and
I made around Indonesia we came across many existing megalithic cultures which
are still creating megalithic sites today this one that bore eparenting is
all of these megaliths some of which work by the way weighs 30 tons
all of them are erected as memorials to great men of the community and they were
all put up with in the last 200 years and they're putting them stuff up still
there was one put up just the year before we were there so I asked them how
they did it and III I know that there's lots of buffalos there and I said what
did you do did you get buffalos attached to the megaliths and kind of roll them
on rollers and they said no no no no no no we get together 300 men and we create
a road of rollers and we roll the the the marker along that and then
afterwards we sacrifice the Buffaloes and eat them and you know you can see
him shaping a megalith here and it's all it's all new so we don't need technology
to make megalithic sites and they are still being made in the world today
not everything that looks like an alien spaceship is an alien spaceship can you
see here this domed figure and then these Jets of fire coming out below it
this is a petroglyph from a mountaintop about 12,000 feet above sea level in in
Armenia I was very excited when I saw this particularly because the Armenian
friends who brought us there constantly see UFOs in that area as a matter of
fact we saw strange lights that night as well so I thought hey this could be
ancient testimony for the presence of aliens some kind of spaceship here
something perhaps beyond a high-tech human civilization but a flying craft
with Jessa Fyren and then you see if you look at it here you can see like a fleet
of them moving through the sky yeah then I hope it's clear on this side I
can't see it from where I'm standing but and and here again look closely you see
those bumps on the top and then this this double dome and four jets of fire
coming out I was pretty sure I was dealing with convincing images of alien
craft until I looked closer and then I found out what the image is really are
wrong and they're all over that mountaintop what they are in fact is
images of ID X's in some cases they don't complete the cab of the horn to
the tail in some cases they do but there's really absolutely no doubt that
that's what we're dealing with here not alien spacecraft so so just because
something fits into preconceptions that we have we shouldn't automatically
assume that that's what it is amend the whole question of barback I have to say this is this is the point where the
great faith that I had had in the researches of Zecharia Sitchin fell apart was when I visited Barbic for
myself in 2014 because Barbic is printed presented by zecharia sitchin as a a landing platform for the landing craft
of the Anunnaki or the Nephilim and the early craft was so heavy that the platform had to be made entirely of
gigantic megaliths weighing up to a thousand tons each it's the only thing
that could explain why a huge platform was built with 2,000 ton megaliths at
the time I I wasn't too concerned but that the technology described in
Zechariah sessions work was so similar to NASA technology in the 1970s at the
time that work was written but when I came to grips with Barbic I I found that
it's not at all as its presented in the 12th planet I'm sitting here in what is
called the the heart of the cellar of the definitely Roman temple of Jupiter
which stands on this site the site is older the Romans built
their temple on top of an older site but there is Bera the three that the six remaining columns of the 54 but once
surrounded the temple of Jupiter and you can see fallen blocks from the columns
of the top by the way on some of these pediments one over here in particular
that have come down the Romans were able to raise blocks of stone weighing 350 tons to a height of 70 feet above the
ground to give you a sense of those are those six columns there and this is the south side of the temple of Jupiter the
the six columns here the south side abouts the north side and that's the
west side what it turns out is that the temple of Jupiter the main platform that
I had read was made entirely of megaliths isn't made of megaliths at all
but megaliths are only found in the surrounding wall it's a very massive
wall but at no point is it part of the structure of the temple mound again
we're looking south now we're looking back towards the temple of bacchus I
love the fact that the Romans had a temple dedicated to some kind of altered
state of consciousness and now we're looking up towards the center of that
mound that we can see from the excavations that we are not dealing with
a megalithic site we are dealing with a site that is built almost entirely of
small blocks of stone okay but if we if we come up here again and we look north
that's down this side that's south this is north
if we look north we'll find ourselves looking down on an absolutely humongous
megalithic war and those blocks each of those weighs about 600 tons now let's
look again you see there's the platform that zecharia sitchin taught me was made
entirely of megaliths it isn't but here's the megalithic wall now he needed
to argue that this was made entirely of megaliths because he wanted spacecraft
to be on it but there are no mega lifts and
can you land the spacecraft on top of this wall I don't think so I don't think
you can but the wall itself is really intriguing let's continue I'm now coming
up to the south side of the wall you can see the scale of the blocks here and there I am standing one of them and the
whole south wall runs along there okay those are these huge 600 ton blocks
surrounding a platform made of much smaller blocks so again there's that
north side of the megalithic wall there's me for scale north side for
scale let's go now to the west side and that's where the mystery really
multiplies because on the west side these are the 600 ton blocks but they
put another course up there and that one weighs 900 tons there's three 900 ton
blocks here so closely fitted together that you can't get a piece of paper into
the joints that's really troubling what is this what are we looking at here
there I am I'm pointing up here at the southernmost of those three gigantic
blocks of the trilithon and here I'm sitting on the top of that block now
archeologists say that they have a killer argument to prove that the Romans
made everything at Barbic everything and that killer argument is in front of my
right foot in this picture a slightly darker piece of stone in the foundations
of this wall that's like the darker piece of stone turns out to be a
recycled Roman column drum without any doubt whatsoever and archaeologists say look we have a Roman column drum in the
foundations we have a Roman temple on top obviously the whole thing was made
by the Romans I don't think so what they're not taking account of is
the history of barback in the last 2,000 years Barbic was turned into a fortress
by the Arabs it became a center of many battles amongst others the Mongols attacked it with catapults throwing huge
rocks at the walls repeated attempts were made to undermine the walls to
cause the walls to collapse this is normal in medieval siege ii and i
believe what we're looking at here is a repair block that was put in place to repair the undermining that had been
done in relatively recent history i don't think it's a killer argument for
the roman construction of this megalithic wall at all and besides there
are the walls that we know were built by the arabs and they also contain recycled
column drums as you can see more closely here definitely built into an arab wall
same story at the bottom of this they've simply repaired a much older wall the
problems multiplied when we get to the quarry about a mile and a half away at
the quarry there are blocks of stone that way well over a thousand tonnes
this one is a thousand tonnes and a little bit more that's me on top of it
for scale somebody cut and hewed this and clearly
intended to move it because they did a very nice job of squaring it
and getting it right they actually separated it from the bedrock underneath
god knows how but there it is it's called the stone of the pregnant woman
across the road is another gigantic megalith presently being used as a
rubbish tip um this one has been calculated to weigh one thousand two
hundred and fifty tons let me tell you archaeologists have been working on this
site for a hundred years this is archeologists from the German
archaeological Institute but just last year just last year they discovered a
new mega lift in the quarry and it's this one this one here why didn't they
know it was there when they knew this was there well after a hundred years why
because it was covered by sediment completely covered by sediment and I
suggest that that is true of all of the blocks in the quarry I don't think the
Romans even knew they were there why because if the Romans went to all this
trouble to square off these blocks and they found they perhaps couldn't move
them there's no way on earth they would have just left them there that would be
a very unromantic thing to do they'd have sliced them up like loafs of bread
into smaller blocks they've already done much of the work and they would have
transported those blocks to the quarry the fact that these beautiful already quarry blocks were sitting there
untouched suggested me the Romans never knew they were there at all so and
that's the new was the new block of one thousand four hundred and sixty tons
it weighs presenting us with I think a substantial mystery but not a mystery
that I need aliens to explain if we go over it not far from Lebanon to to Giza
in Egypt we find of course the monuments of the Giza Plateau are absolutely stunning they're definitely situated on
a significant latitude is 30 degrees north that's that's one third of the way
between the equator in the North Pole I don't feel it's random there is a slight
error at a twenty fraction of a degree in that in that alignment and that's
often explained I think well but predicted by PSE smile
that that the bearing that did not take account of atmospheric refraction when
you take a bearing so but the perhaps that's the reason for the error but the other thing is that the Great Pyramid is
almost perfectly aligned to the spin axis of our planet almost perfectly
aligned to three North not magnetic north what you get on a compass is not
true north okay it's almost perfectly aligned of the error is only 360 it's of
a single degree now that is stunning precision on a monument with a footprint
of more than 13 acres which weighs six million tonnes and rises to 481 feet in
height but I would say that it's not ancient astronaut who's precise if you
can navigate to this pale blue dot across the vast reaches of space and you
take it upon yourself to build a pyramid for whatever reason you would get it
perfectly aligned to true north not three sixtieth of a degree off so I
think we're looking at human error but an incredible achievement nonetheless
something else when you take the height of the Great Pyramid and multiply it by
a specific number which is forty three thousand two hundred you get the polar
radius of the earth and when you measure the base perimeter of the Great Pyramid and multiply it by the same number forty
three thousand two hundred you get the equatorial circumference of the earth
Egyptologists know this but they say it's a coincidence course the pyramid builders had no knowledge that even that
the earth was a sphere nevertheless that never mind his dimensions but let's take them seriously for a moment if that was
the objective to create a scale model of a hemisphere on the earth on a scale of
one to forty three thousand two hundred they got really close average margin of
error is less than half of one percent again there's an error and I don't think
it's ancient astronaut precise but let's look at that number forty-three thousand
two hundred because it turns out not to be a random number but a significant
number and if you really want to know why it's a significant number go read Hamlet's Mill by Giorgio de Santa Jana
formerly professor of history of science at MIT and hearth of ambition I've I've
summarized it in fingerprints of the Gods quite extensively it's a very
important book and what they what they're saying is that there was a
vastly ancient knowledge of a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes
and they're saying that it was much much much much much more ancient than we have
been taught by historians this is the precession you if you see that little
rotating gift there that's what our earth does over a cycle of 25,920 years
so from that point it takes 12 and a half thousand years to get to there and another twelve and a half thousand years
plus twelve thousand eight hundred years to get to there twelve thousand eight hundred half a cycle 12800 the other
half cycle 25,920 if you'd like 26,000 years as the as the period of the full
cycle of precession because the earth is the viewing platform from which we
observe the Stars changes in orientation of the earth in space changed the star
field as we observe them particularly notable at the poles the North the pole
star is simply the star that the extended North Pole of the earth points
most directly at presently it's Polaris it hasn't always been Polaris because as
you can see the extended North Pole over the cycle of twenty five thousand nine
hundred and twenty years points at many different areas of space sometimes empty
space sometimes another pole star is close to the right point the other place
it's notable is at the horizon on the equinoxes many ancient cultures observed
the constellations of the zodiac these are the constellations on the path of
the Sun the Sun passes through the minocycline which we draw our horoscopes but the Sun also passes goes backwards
through that same cycle of the twenty five thousand nine hundred and twenty
year process of precession and it occupies each house of the zodiac on the
spring equinox for two thousand one hundred and sixty years that's thirty
times 72 because this process operates at the rate of one degree
every 72 years that's like holding your finger up to the horizon that's the change the width of your finger in a
human lifetime you need many years many generations to observe and understand
this process and certain numbers arise from it the heartbeat is the number 72
and what Santa Gianna and Vaughn - and are pointing out is that long before our
stalkers of Samus is supposed to have discovered the procession there are
ancient myths going back into the deepest history of mankind we can't put
a date on how old they are which are filled with processional numbers it's as
though somebody said we have to pass this knowledge down to the future the
way to do it is to incorporate it into amazing stories and those stories will
be told and retold down the generations and it doesn't even matter if the storyteller knows or not the scientific
information that he's passing on all he has to do is tell the story true and
there it is of Cyrus captured by Seth and his 72 assistants the doors of
Valhalla the number of stanzas in the Rig Veda
the number of syllables in the Rig Veda all of these are multiples of the number 72 and other complications 72 plus half
of 72 is thirties 36 plus 72 is 108 divide 108 by 2 you get 54 there's a
whole sequence of numbers they're connected in mythology to a whirling
churning system and they're always associated with a great flood and a
cataclysm this is what I can tell you about these myths Santillana Algren and
whoa - and trace the origins of the system to what they call some almost
unbelievable ancestor civilization of prehistoric antiquity but first dare to
understand the world as created according to number measure and weight
so let's go back this scale which gives us the dimensions of our planet is on a
scale that is defined by a key motion of the planet itself 1/2 43,200
I think that's an incredibly clever thing to do it's an incredibly clever
way to send a message to the future that we knew this
we knew the dimensions of the earth that we didn't do it on a random scale we did
it on a scale that's defined by a key motion of the earth itself the rate of
change one degree every seven to two years Santilli aanava' - a degree that
the system is expressed not only in myth but also in architecture you can find it
at cambodia here these figures on either side of this bridge they're churning the
milky ocean a beautiful metaphor for procession there are 54 figures on each
side 118 total these are processional numbers and we even do it today go to
the Hoover Dam there's a star map built into the Hoover Dam that star map freezes the skies above the Hoover Dam
at the moment of competin of the dam and this is intentional the artists who put
it there Oscar Hanson said that he believed that in remote ages to come
intelligent people with knowledge of procession would be able to discern the
astronomical time of the dams dedication now in a sense I mean who gives a damn when the Hoover Dam was dedicated but
what this does tell us is that it's not an outrageous idea to use the Stars to
pin a date you'd be wrong you've been lightly making a mistake if you tried to
pass that message to the future in a written document the document might
never survive the more they might not be able to read your script in 10,000 years
just like we can't read the Indus Valley script today so what you got to look for
is a universal language the language of the heavens and you're gonna lock it
into huge constructions on earth that may defy time and that way the message
will pass down the millennia a message that procession matters that it's
important so if we find such a dating mechanism at the Hoover Dam do we
perhaps find it at the greatest archaeological site on earth the Great
Pyramids of Giza I'm standing here on on top of the Great Pyramid of Giza and
that's the second pyramid which Egyptologists attribute to Khafre behind
me you can see that some of its original facing stones are are still in place at
this point I sometimes tell the story of my grandfather but if you've all heard
it I want okay so so that I have have climbed the Great Pyramid five times
three times illegally and twice twice legally this was actually one of the
illegal clients because this happened on the heed immediately after Ramadan and
there was 30,000 Chiron's having a party on the Giza Plateau and they just thought screw this we're gonna climb the
Great Pyramid so they climbed the Great Pyramids and the guards to go whistling
there was three or four hundred people up there
whistling come down come down and I suddenly realized what a great opportunity so we just joined the crowd
and went went up to the top and then that's when I actually is when I
realized what an incredible construction feat the Great Pyramid really is because
the biggest hazard with just two hundred people on the pyramid was people coming
up and down other people coming up the corner we were going up and it occurred to me if this were the case if there
thousands of workers on the pyramids as Egyptologists depict most moving blocks
of stone weighing tens of tons I think they'd have had lots of accidents and
I'm not sure we'd have a pyramid there if that was the way it was done
so anyway a lot of graffiti on top of the Great Pyramid and it so happens that
one step down from where I'm standing I found the name P Hancock 5th of April
1916 deeply inscribed I thought well that's interesting my grand that was
Philip Hancock and he was a minister of the church he was the chaplain with
British forces I knew he'd been in Egypt he was a
chaplain with British forces during the First World War
hmm I remembered he kept Diaries so let me go back to the hotel I phoned up my
dad and I said dad could you get grandpa's Diaries out and their little
Barry's about that high I said find the diary for 1916 turn to the 5th of April
just tell me what it says so I hear the page is rustling and then my dad comes on he sounds puzzled he
said grandma's just a single I'm here okay what does it say he said
climbed Great Pyramid today
so there it is then the majesty of the Giza Plateau to be on top of that
pyramid is like being on a flying carpet above the city of Cairo the majesty of the Giza Plateau off this is the second
pyramid and and off here down that cause where you can see possibly the Great
Sphinx just at the end of the causeway okay Great Sphinx of Giza dwarfed by the
scale of the of the pyramids in this green area this is the Nile Valley of
which Herodotus liked it rightly said that Egypt is the gift of the Nile
so we're overlooking the Nile Valley and this is the east direction and that is the south direction now here's a very
curious thing when you take account of this and you use modern computer
programs to wind back the skies we can all do it most of us have there's a
there are fantastic computer programs which will show you exactly how the sky
looked over any point on the Earth's surface at any time in the last hundred
thousand years it's really useful what happens is that when we go back to
twelve thousand eight hundred years ago this alignment holds true for about 1200
years at the equinoxes we feel as the Sun bisects the horizon the constellation of Leo this is the age of
leo is sitting above the Sun in line with the gaze of the Sphinx this lion
bodied monument and at the same moment that the Sun bisects the horizon the
three stars of Orion's belt and this of course is Robert Bauval amazing
discovery the three stars of Orion's belt align perfectly with the three great pyramids I think that what was
done here is what Oscar Hansen did at the Hoover Dam I think it was done on a
gigantic scale they used procession they told us they cared about procession by
building it into the scale of the Great Pyramid and they said this marks an
epoch and Battery Park I believe is the epoch that the age of the Egyptians
called Zep tepi the first time when the gods came to Egypt
so what could be so important why would they want to memorialize that date to
get into that we need to consider it another ancient adage which is as above
so below that we are not separate from the cosmos
we are part of the cosmos and events that take place at vast and remote distances from us in the cosmos may
implicate us directly this is the Milky Way as we saw the Milky Way is a
prominent part of the sky ground diagram I'm not saying they actually put the
Nile there by the way but I'm saying the site was chosen for that reason the
Milky Way here we are there's the Sun in orbit around the center of our galaxy
the Milky Way galaxy when we look up at the Milky Way that majestic vision in
the skies we are looking at this whole thing edge-on we're looking in from one
of the spiral arms edge on into the Milky Way galaxy that's where it makes
this band across the sky we are in orbit around the center of the Milky Way
galaxy the Sun and the entire solar system with it and that's a vast orbit
that takes hundreds of millions of years to complete and that whole whole orbit
does not always take place in the plane of the galaxy rather astronomers have discovered that
the Sun does a kind of diving motion up and down through the plane of the galaxy
a bit like a dolphin rising above the waves and sinking below the waves and
that these are separated by roughly 30 to 35 million year intervals these dives
through the Galactic plane and this has been connected to periodicity of impacts
of objects hitting the earth it seems that what happens is that this movement
through the Galactic plane destabilizes populations of comets in the very remote
distance and sends some of them winging in towards the inner solar system
there's two main populations of comets the closer ones are the Kuiper belt and
the ones we're interested here are in the Oort cloud where where there are
calculated to be trillions of comets some of them of gigantic size
and astronomers have worked out which comets come in from the Oort cloud and
it's very clear now that from time to time giant comets in the range of a hundred miles or more in diameter come
into the inner solar system where they then begin to fragment and break up
comets aren't just dirty snowballs they're chunks of rock bound together by
ice it's the binding by ice that eventually leads to them those chunks of
rock breaking up into multiple fragments here's Comet 67p very interesting comet
in its own right recently photographed by the Rosetta probe and you can see
it's not a dirty snowball this one is only a few kilometers in diameter five kilometers in diameter but giant comets
can exceed 200 kilometers in diameter and if just for fun we take this one and
scale it up to say 30 kilometers in diameter well that's what it would look
like over the city of Los Angeles so a 200 kilometer one could be really a
problem all right I'm showing you the picture of this
astonished looking dinosaur because he's witnessing the end of his world we all
know now that the dinosaurs were made extinct by a cosmic impact nobody's
disputing that anymore 65 66 million years ago at the cretaceous-tertiary
boundary the KT B as it's called there's something massive hit the earth and
caused a global Cataclysm it was long assumed to be an asteroid
but the story is interesting all around the world is a layer of soil at the
cretaceous-tertiary boundary which is filled with really weird stuff it
contains Trinitite that's the same as the melt glass that we get from nuclear explosions
it contains nano diamonds which are created in enormous quantities by the
fantastic shock and heat of these impacts it contains carbon micros
burials it contains evidence across vast areas of the Earth's
surface of subjection to temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees centigrade that
is the boiling point of quartz all these taken together are understood by science
to be proxies of impact they're evidence that there has been a huge impact and
that presence all over the world in this boundary should have been enough to
convince science that we were dealing with an impact they shouldn't have
necessarily required a crater as well over millions of years craters can
disappear but for a decade after lewis and walter alvarez initially disclosed this information that the dinosaurs had
been made extinct by a cosmic impact they were not believed and science said
utterly nonsense there is no such thing as cataclysms of this kind they never
happened never where the dinosaurs made extinct by that it must've been some
other thing and then they found the crater and the craters under the Gulf of
Mexico shakes blue crater and that actually settled the debate after that
the whole scientific community accepts they were wrong to persecute the Alvarez
father-and-son team and they were actually Alvarez as were right and there
was a giant cosmic impact and more research has been has been done now and the experts are now pretty sure that
that impact was caused by a comet rather than by an asteroid and the reason they're sure that is the exact nature of
the impact proceeds and also with a comet you get much more bang for your
buck comets are coming in at about seventy
thousand miles an hour we know what a small bullet can do to a human body
consider what a very fast-moving object a few kilometers in diameter can do to the earth the the result is almost
unimaginable but we don't have to imagine it really whether a comet or an
asteroid the outcome was the same the world was changed utterly by that event
the former of order of things were swept away in a new order began to emerge
that's why I'm showing you these pictures of hungry-looking dinosaurs and chickens because the dinosaurs became
extinct but their line did survive they downgraded and they became Birds so
today the descendants of the dinosaur lining
lewd the chickens this was an event that turned dinosaurs into chickens can you
imagine at the same time skulking in the primeval forests is this
little shrew like creature he's a member of the mammalian line and the mammals
are going nowhere while dinosaurs ruled the earth but with the dinosaurs gone hey guys let's get out there and the
mammalian line starts to evolve and 65 million years later meet your 65 million
year old mother we're all descended from that shrew a world changing event that
gave us the possibility to emerge onto the planet that changed everything
okay so nASA has to accept this now big cosmic impacts do occur but NASA likes
to be really reassured so what NASA tells us now is that impacts on the scale of the impact that made the
dinosaurs extinct only occur once every 100 million years what a relief the universe is run like a
Swiss clock it's organized by Germanic bureaucrats and exactly every hundred million years we have a big impact so if
that's the case they obviously don't interact with human history and we don't
really need to worry about it at all but forget it a number of astronomers do not
share NASA's anodyne view they include the late Sir Fred Hoyle Chandra
Wickramasinghe Victor Clube Bill Napier and many others
and their concern is with comets and they point out that there isn't a single
ancient culture in the world where the appearance of a comet in the sky was
regarded as good news the appearance of a comet in the sky by every culture
everywhere is regarded as bad news associated with disease of doom and
disaster as this cartoon illustrates is NASA being reassuring again they're
telling us what a meteor shower is we've all seen meteors but perhaps we don't
all know what a meteor shower is in that sense the fact sheet is useful a meteor
shower is the disintegrated debris of a former comet which is split
into multiple parts those parts have bumped against each other and we're left
with a cloud of debris spread out across the entire orbit of the former comment
as we pass through that as the Earth crosses that cloud shooting stars come
in and as that's it rightly says they're usually very small particle to Boulder
size and we don't need to worry about them at all we can just see beautiful
fireworks not all astronomers share this view here's the beautiful fireworks that
we saw in 1994 I don't know how many of you remember Comet shoemaker-levy 9 it
was big news at the time comet shoemaker-levy 9 broke up into more than
20 fragments glowing lethal fragments and those fragments hit the planet
Jupiter the total explosive power of the
shoemaker-levy 9 impacts was 300 Giga tons a Giga ton is equivalent to 1
billion tons of TNT the stockpile nuclear arsenal of the entire earth were
it to explode at once would be equivalent to just 6.4 Giga tons so this
is the moment to say thank you Jupiter thank you for being the giant guardian
of our planet thank you for protecting life on Earth were it not for Jupiter
and the other giant planets sweeping up the majority of comets that come into
the old inner solar system none of us would be here so this is typical
behavior of comets to break up into multiple parts and Victor Clube bill may
appear and others are drawing attention to a particular meteor stream the torrid
meteor stream which we pass through twice a year and they regarded as
extremely dangerous because it is the fragmented remains of a former giant comet we pass through it twice a year we
pass through it at the end of June that's called the beta turrets then we do not see the meteors because they're
coming in from the sunlit side of the earth and we pass through them at the
end of October early November and then we do see shooting stars some people
call them the Halloween fireworks each passage takes 12 days the earth is
moving at the rate of 2.5 million miles a day on its orbital path torrid meaty
stream is 30 million miles wide that's why it takes 12 days to pass through it
in it are a number of large objects and actually we've had a recent impact out
of the torrid meat history relatively recent happened in 1908 over an
uninhabited area of Siberia called Tunguska very fortunately an uninhabited
area this was a small object less than 200 meters in diameter it didn't even
hit the earth it airburst few kilometers above the earth it
flattened it flattened 80 million trees across more than 2,000 square kilometers
that's larger than the Greater London if this had happened over a major center of
population it would have been a cataclysm of unbelievable proportions we
would have suffered hundreds of thousands of deaths fortunately it
happened over an uninhabited area or perhaps in a way unfortunately because
we need the message that Tunguska sent us because this is not a problem that we
are helpless in the face of we could do something about this
there's the torrid meteor stream it includes three known comets a comet like
objects namely comet Encke II comet ol Giotto and comet Whitney key they're all
fragments of the former giant comet that made up the stream and we cross it twice a year okay and it's the remnant of a
giant comet the calculations are a comet that was at least a hundred kilometers
in diameter before undergoing fragmentation while the astronomers have
been looking up at the sky a whole other group of scientists have been looking
down at the ground and for a long period they didn't compare notes this team is led by James Kenneth he's a
marine geologist professor at the University of California Santa Barbara Allen West is a geophysicist richard
pryor stone is a staff scientist in the nuclear science division Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory James Whittaker's a geologist Albert Goodyear is an
archaeologist actually there's more than 30 scientists working in this team and
they have identified cataclysmic comet impacts on Earth twelve thousand eight
hundred years ago just yesterday in terms of the human story and they found
this out because they were intrigued by a mystery we know that the earth went through an ice age at the peak of the
ice age twenty one thousand three hundred years ago the northern
hemisphere northern Europe and North America were covered by ice caps that
were about two miles deep huge ice masses all that ice had formed because
water had fallen as rain and in the intense cold instead of returning to the
oceans through the rivers they frozen into ice caps as a result sea level was
four hundred feet lower at the peak of the ice age than it is today and ten
million square miles of land that are now underwater
prime beachfront property were at that time above water but here's the funny
thing the peak of the Ice Age twenty-one thousand three hundred years ago extreme
cold then the world starts to warm up it's quite a polite gradual non
cataclysmic warming but then suddenly twelve thousand eight hundred years ago after reaching this warming peak the
world plunges into a radical deep freeze where we've gone into intense cold as
cold as it was at the peak of the last ice age and that begins twelve thousand
eight hundred years ago and then for the next 1,200 years until eleven thousand six hundred years ago that freezing
condition is maintained and then suddenly temperatures shoot up again
making any talk of global warming today look you know like child's play by
comparison with what with what happened then so that's the mystery why this
sudden short shot deep freeze and why was there intense flooding right at the
beginning of it and intense flooding right at the end of it massive sea level rises this is the mystery no scientists
set themselves to solve they noticed that in exactly that period between 12
thousand eight hundred and eleven thousand six hundred years ago there
were extensive animal extinctions all around the world particularly in North
America a huge quantity seventy percent of the North American large mammal
general went extinct during that period North America was the epicenter of the
Cataclysm but it was global in extent and that the extinctions were found worldwide so they began to look at the
earth for the period between twelve thousand eight hundred and eleven
thousand six hundred years ago and this is what they found initially they
thought that the impacts were twelve thousand nine hundred years ago but
since then they've refined the date down and they're now certain that we're looking at twelve thousand eight hundred
years ago they found a layer in the soil exactly like the layer in the soil that
marks the Cretaceous tertiary tertiary boundary it's filled with the same
impact processes proxies that Trinitite the melt blast the carbons burials the
nano diamonds radium R and so on as a large platinum spike in the Greenland
ice cores at the same time here's the first paper but the team published don't expect you to read it by the way but I
want to make clear because a lot of this information has not reached the general
public I want to make clear that we're dealing with
absolutely mainstream science here this is this is not warm wool ooh this is not
fringe this is dead dead mainstream science oh this is a this is the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences it's the first paper published
by the team on the subject and the headline speaks for itself evidence for
an extraterrestrial impact twelve thousand nine hundred years ago that
contributed to megafauna extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling that period of
1,200 years between twelve thousand eight hundred and eleven thousand six
hundred years ago it's long been known that it was a problematic period that
geologists call it the Younger Dryas that's the name of it keep that name in
mind it's named after a particular kind of flower that flourishes in cold
conditions so the Younger Dryas cooling then the next paper Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences August 2009
Jacques synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments and
here we have evidence from Mexico evidence from the Greenland ice cores
evidence for the deposition of ten million tons of impacts burials across
four continents twelve thousand eight hundred years ago Journal of geology
this is September 2014 nano diamond rich layer across three continents consisted
with major cosmic impact twelve thousand eight hundred years ago at this paper
from 2015 I won't bore you with what a Bayesian analysis is but fundamentally
it's a statistical survey of all the sites from which they drew evidence they wanted to find out is it possible that
this evidence was laid down gradually if it was laid down gradually that we're
not dealing with the Cataclysm what they found out is that all of the material the nano diamonds the Carbon spherules
the melt glass were all created within a single 24-hour period a single terrible
day and night the primary impact impacts we now know we're on the north american
ice cap north american ice cap was still close to two miles deep that's why it's
been difficult to find craters as a matter of fact because the craters were
excavated in ice and the ice melted away all you have his shock effects on the
ground underneath but the evidence of the impacts has now been traced as far
east as Syria there were further impacts on the northern European ice cap god
knows what happened in the Atlantic Ocean it was a mess it was a global mess
and there was a huge spike in sea level rise at that time all of this is known
but scientists just as was the case with the KT boundary impact were reluctant to
accept that an impact occurred twelve thousand eight hundred years ago they
wanted to see a crater the specialist explained that the crate is difficult
because it all happened on ice you know how we find craters but then they did
find craters and as a matter of fact just beyond the edge of the former ice
cap these craters have now been discovered the chorus or crater the
bloody Creek structure the charity shell feature the kabocha terrain all of them
produced by these impacts twelve thousand eight hundred years ago so
really the case should be settled twelve thousand eight hundred years ago
multiple fragments of a giant comet impacted the earth impacts were
concentrated on the North American ice cap but the resulting climate disaster
was worldwide why did the world get incredibly cold suddenly at the beginning of the Younger Dryas
it's I I had more time I would show you the evidence of the flooding that
scarred North America the single largest flood that ever occurred on earth you
can see bits of it in the channeled scablands don't buy the ideology about
glacial lake Missoula this was a radical collapse of the ice cap caused by the
massive kinetic energy of comet impacts I don't have time to show you the North
American landscape but hey we're at North America we can all go to the Pacific Northwest the
channeled scablands in particular a lot of water went south of North America but
a lot of water went into the world ocean and there it cut the Gulf Stream dead it
stopped the dot the Gulf Stream running for more than a thousand years the Gulf
Stream is part of the global Meridian 'el overturning circulation of our planet that takes warm waters from
equatorial areas and brings them up to Arctic areas where they sink and then
again and it keeps the planet warm it's the central heating system those impacts
turned off the central heating system of the earth that's why we got radically
cold as that flood of icy meltwater poured into the world ocean what
happened at the end of the Younger Dryas eleven thousand six hundred years ago why did temperatures shoot up them why
was there more flooding the science on this is much less complete than the
science on the beginning of the Younger Dryas nevertheless an interesting
proposal put forward in the 1980s by Sir Fred Hoyle who was intrigued by that sudden rise in temperatures is that it
could have been caused by a comet impacted an ocean if the comet impacts
the ocean then in addition to gigantic tidal waves for which we have evidence
you also have a cloud of water vapour thrown into the upper atmosphere that
enshrouds the entire earth creating a greenhouse effect that accounts for the
radical warming maybe more was going on solar flares may have been involved too
we don't know we need to keep an open mind but one thing is for sure that there appears to be a connection with
this giant comet the comet that those astronomers have been studying and this
is the first paper that joins the dots this is the first paper where the
astronomers and the geologists start to compare notes and Bill Napier suddenly
realizes that the giant comet that they had calculated from the remnants in the
torrid meteor stream is the same comets that the geologists are talking about
fragments of which hit the earth twelve thousand eight hundred years ago and
furthermore that it's clear that there have been other impacts in the bronze
age and as I say most recently in 1908 so whatever it was that caused the
warming at the end of the Younger Dryas one thing is sure the Younger Dryas did
end abruptly eleven thousand six hundred years ago global temperatures soared the
remaining ice caps very rapidly collapsed into the sea there was a
dramatic pulse of sea level rise and geologists nominate that pulse eleven thousand six hundred years ago as
meltwater pulse 1b well here's the funny thing
Plato's date for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis coincides
exactly with meltwater pulse 1b now let's look at what Plato told us
about Atlantis Atlantis was an advanced civilization which achievements included
advanced architecture advanced agriculture advanced navigational and
shipbuilding and seagoing skills advanced social and political
organization Plato tells us that Atlantis was formerly a beautiful
culture dedicated to the nurture of spirits but as the millennia went by
Atlantis began to become corrupt powerful men took control their egos
were projected they wanted to extend the power of Atlantis around the world and
they attacked other parts of the world and sought to take them over they became
cruel and arrogant and am proud of their achievements in a ringing phrase Plato tells us that they ceased to carry
their prosperity with moderation so what the ancient Greece called hubris and the
punishment for hubris was always nemesis and the suggestion is that the universe
slap that Lantis down because of its hubris istic behavior if we could not
show slides of the room I would appreciate you story is prefaced with an
account of a celestial Cataclysm a variation in the course of the heavenly
bodies described by Plato as a mythical version of the truth and we learned that
in a single dreadful day at night Atlantis was swallowed up by the sea and banished and mankind had to begin again
like children with no memory of what went before now the date where to Plato
get the story from by the way Plato is the earliest surviving reference to
Atlantis every other reference to Atlantis depends upon Plato Plato said he got the story through his family line
from his ancestors so long one of the seven sages of ancient Athens
and the great and famous lawmaker so long visited Egypt in 600 BC and there in Egypt he was told the story of
Atlantis by the priests of the temple of Neath that's ice in the Delta
unfortunately a temple that is completely destroyed today and does not no longer exist
the priests pointed to writings on the walls and they said they told the story of Atlantis and its destruction by the
gods of this submergence beneath the sea and so Solon said when did this happen
when when was Atlantis destroyed and the priest said nine thousand years ago that
was in 600 BC 9,000 years ago in 600 BC is 9600 BC that's eleven thousand six hundred years ago
that's meltwater pulse 1b so you know if those of us who speak of Atlantis are always accused of being British
historian pseudo-scientists frauds Fanta cysts and so on and so forth
be oh they are kill just say yeah Plato just made the whole thing up well if
Plato made it all up he was astonishingly on the money with
the latest science on meltwater pulse one B could we shut the door please
another thing that archaeologists will tell you is that there's no mention of
Atlantis in any ancient Egyptian text that's true you cannot find the word
Atlantis in any ancient Egyptian text what the archaeologists don't usually
tell you is that you can find an account of a sacred island inhabited by gods
that was destroyed in a flood Cataclysm and that account is written on the walls
of the temple of horus at edfu in Upper Egypt not a very ancient temple this
temple dates to about 300 350 BC in the Ptolemaic period it's built on the site
of a former temple and archaeology has revealed that that former temple stood
on the site of an even older temple this is just the latest incarnation of a
series of temples going back into the pre-dynastic period the priests of the
temple of Horus Abed who inherited the archive of the former temples amidst
that archive were a group of documents written on animals ins that were falling
apart they become so fragile that the priests work in
that they would fall to dust so what they did was they took extracts from the
texts and they carved them into the walls of this temple very deep so that
they would never be excised and they are now called The Ed foo building texts and
they are found mainly between the inner and outer enclosure walls of the temple
and this is what they look like very beautiful mysterious texts and this is the story they tell they tell of a
former homeland of the primeval ones which was an island and they tell how it
was destroyed in a great flood and they tell how the primeval ones the gods came
to Egypt and established religion by building primeval mounds up and down the
land we're to understand that these gods are those who survived the destruction
of their former Island they came to Egypt and they set out a cosmic blueprint which would define the future
location of all sacred sites in Egypt and that the civilization that would
emerge in Egypt was to be an extension of the civilization of the survivors of
the former island of the gods there's a cosmic Cataclysm mentioned a snake called the great leaping one is
described as the chief enemy of the God that's interesting because comets are
often described in mythology as cosmic serpents or snakes
the assault causes the homeland of the primeval ones to be swallowed up by the
sea but first the island was pierced and the domain was split we read in the ed
pro texts the reason that there were survivors some of the gods were at sea
far away when the Cataclysm occurred they navigated back to the site of their
former Island and they discovered it completely gone just a sea filled with
mud and that's interesting because Plato's account says that to Leto says
that after Atlantis went down the sea was filled with mud so thick and deep that it inhibited navigation those
survivors of the primeval island of the gods
afterwards we're told they began to wonder the world and their purpose in
wandering the world was to reincarnate or or Ria's
establish or reconstitute or resurrect their lost former world to start
civilization again and I think the project was pursued not only in Egypt
but in many other lands particularly interesting is the site of Gobekli Tepe
in Turkey a site that archeologists are having great difficulty explaining here is gobekli tepe
and I'll tell you now although we'll go into more detail later but it is eleven
thousand six hundred years old it dates exactly from the end of the Younger
Dryas i'll tell you why we know that in a moment
it's a megalithic site on an enormous scale with these characteristic t-shaped
megaliths arranged in series of circles the bit we're looking at here is about the size of Stonehenge but there's much
more to it than that as I'll tell you in a moment now Stonehenge dates to about 4,500 to
5,000 years ago it's the creation of a Neolithic community in England who had
were already for thousands of years had been agriculturalists agriculture
generates surpluses in the way the hunter-gatherer communities do not and
when you generate surpluses you can afford to have specialists set aside
astronomers architects engineers who can develop specialist skills and it's
understood by archaeology that the emergence of megalithic architecture
about five thousand years ago is a lot as a result of first of all the economic
conditions being provided by agriculture but here in Turkey eleven thousand six
hundred years ago seven thousand years before Stonehenge
there was no agriculture beforehand the people were entirely hunter-gatherers and then suddenly this appears in their
midst and at the moment that it appears weirdly agriculture suddenly appears in
the same area having never been seen before
archaeologists are now defining that date 11600 years ago as I say they're
scrambling to catch up as the date for the invention of megalithic architecture
and agriculture at gobekli tepe so this hunt this group of hunter-gatherers they
woke up one morning and they had a magical inspiration they'd never worked
with megaliths before but they knew how to do it via they could cut the stones
they could move these 20-ton blocks they could erect them they could align them
perfectly to north and south the Beckley Tepe contains the world's oldest
north-south Alliance structure which you could only do with astronomy and at the
same moment they suddenly knew how to organize a labor force and just on the
site they decided to invent agriculture - I find that a very unlikely fairy story oh here I'm standing in the quarry
one of these t-shaped blocks this one calculated away 50 tons was left in the
quarry because a fault was discovered in it much of Quebec the kepi izella on a
more than human scale other megaliths are smaller richly carved with animal
figures again if I had time I would tell you more about this extraordinary
astronomical diagram on pillar 43 and enclosure D but I don't it would take me another half an hour to really give you
all of that so read the book
I'm here I am sorry Here I am with professor dr. Klaus
Schmidt who was the discoverer of Gobekli Tepe Klaus Schmidt of the German
archaeological Institute normally when I turn up at archaeological sites the
archaeologists run a mile sometimes I can almost imagine them making the side of the cross you know it's like a
vampire or I don't know a zombie has turned up on the site off they go Klaus
Schmidt welcomed me he knew exactly what I was I was he'd even read fingerprints
of the gods and to my surprise he said I'm gonna show you around and I'm gonna
show you everything you want to see you have access to every enclosure was stunning I didn't make a pre-arranged
but I just turned up at the site but that's what he did and he was very
generous with his time over three days unfortunately Klaus Schmidt has passed
away he died of a massive heart attack last year while swimming he's telling me
two things here he's pointing vehemently at the ground because he's telling me
that they've only excavated a tiny portion of Gobekli Tepe 50 times as much
as they've already excavated still lies underground they've mapped it exactly
with ground-penetrating radar there are hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of giant megalithic pillars still buried beneath the ground they don't know if they'll ever excavate them
worryingly this area is deeply insecure at the moment and they appear to be
running out of funds which is bizarre second thing Josh Smith is telling me is
that this this excavation has not revealed natural sediment this excavation has revealed deliberate
infill teams of people hundreds of them must be envisage with buckets filled
with rubble and stones which they then bring and they pour into the enclosures
until they completely cover the megaliths and they don't stop there they
then actually create a hill over the top of the whole site an artificial Hill and
that's what go Beckley Tepe means in the Turkish language it means potbelly
Hill and that's all anybody thought it was until Claire Smith are digging and revealed this extraordinary site and
it's because the site was deliberately buried after a thousand years of use
that we know exactly how old it is you see the problem with dating megaliths is
there are no techniques to directly date the cutting of a stone carbon dating
dates organic material stone is not organic so you need an organic material
that is in such close association with the stone you want to date that you can be sure the two are from the same period
and that's very difficult in most megalithic sites which have remained
open to the elements which have been used by later cultures where later
organic material can have been introduced and produce false the young
dates but in a sealed site like this a time capsule utterly closed off we can
be certain we're dealing with an eleven thousand six hundred year old site so rather than a sudden mysteriously
precocious invention seven thousand years ahead of its time this looks to me
much more like a transfer of technology from the survivors or lost civilization
who already knew how to work megaliths on a grand scale and who already fully understood agriculture there are other
sites now coming out of the woodwork this one's in the farmers backyard about
50 miles away from gobekli tepe you can see the t-shaped pillars sticking out of
the ground hasn't been excavated yet and weirdly the suggestion that knowledge of
Quebec the Tepe continued long after the burial of gobekli tepe itself perhaps there are many others of these circles
awaiting excavation you see gobekli tepe is part of the Mesopotamian region it
lies between the headwaters of those two rivers the Tiggers and the Euphrates and
from ancient Mesopotamia from 3500 BC we find this image do you see those
t-shaped pillars there yeah and this sense of a circle around them and more
of the t-shaped pillars over here it appears to be an image of a stone circle
like gobekli tepe on a 3,500 year olds 3500 BC Sumerian tablet at which time
gobekli tepe had already been buried for thousands of years so there's some
evidence of a continuation of a tree associating that ancient and mysterious
site now in Mesopotamia we have accounts of the seven sages the app Kowloon the
magician's of the gods who were the bringers and spreaders of civilization
and they're often in fact always depicted as bearded figures often
weirdly wearing a fish on their heads and and they all carry these cute little
man bags see they all carry these cute little man bags and we can even see some three-dimensional versions of the man
bags with our animal figures carved on them so it's interesting that you find the same man bag held in the same way in
Mexico associated with the oldest image of Quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent
also a bringer of civilization and weirdest of all those man bags appear on
top of pillar 43 in enclosure beard gobekli tepe where we know they're
eleven thousand six hundred years old I wonder if we're dealing with a badge of
office or something like a secret Masonic handshake the way that members
of a of a brotherhood spreading knowledge of civilization recognized one another nearby gobekli tepe is a
mysterious city called haram from where came a people known as the sapiens who
were renowned for their studies of the stars
oddly enough militant Islam in the early days allowed the sapiens to continue to practice their pagan religion it was
called a pagan religion by Islam but they knew there was something special
about the sabians and they left them alone and the temple of the Moon at
Tehran survived into the 12th century of our era that was its symbol the crescent
moon and the disc moon crescent containing the disc the same symbol is
found at gobekli tepe the crescent and the disc and oddly enough although Islam eventually turned
against the sabians and banned their religion and built a mosque on the site
of the temple of the moon the surviving minaret of that mosque is to this day called the astronomical tower let's
consider these Sabian's as carriers of a tradition
into from remote past into our age here stop it even poorer
one of those sabians and he's giving an impassioned defense of paganism I'm gonna read it to you who else have
civilized the world and built the cities if not the nobles and kings of paganism
who else have set in order the harbours and the rivers and who else have taught the hidden wisdom to whom else has the
deity revealed itself given Oracle's and told about the future if not the famous
man amongst the pagans the pagans have made known all this they have discovered
the art of healing the soul they have also made known the art of healing the
body they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with
wisdom which is the highest good without paganism the world would be empty and
miserable he was a great astronomer and earth
measurer like the other sapiens he developed trigonometry very early
trigonometry uses right triangles I'll explain why that's important in a moment
meanwhile we know that the Sabian's continued to make a pilgrimage to Giza
in Egypt right through to the 12th century of our era and here we have the
arab geographer Uchitel hamari giving the dimensions of the - of the
largest of the Giza pyramids in his geographical dictionary and he says to
both of them the sabians made their pilgrimage why were they making a pilgrimage there the great Egypt ologist
Salim Hassan looked into this and he says now of course these sabians were
star worshipers and if I guess rightly they derived their name from the Egyptian words sabar star the Sabian's
were followers of an ancient religion worshippers of the hosts of heaven the heavenly bodies whatever the origin of
their name may have been the fact remains that they fully recognized the
pyramids as being monuments connected with the stellar cult and revered them
as places of pyramid Dugger means this is fascinating because the knowledge
that the pyramids were connected to the stars had been lost to the world by then
Sabian's somehow knew it we've only recovered it in the modern age
their observations of the Stars would have made them highly aware of the
phenomenon of precession that is manifested at Giza and we've been
talking about the outside of the Great Pyramid let's go inside - the amazing
King's Chamber this granite rectangular room found in the heart of the Great
Pyramid an amazing place for meditation by the way except unfortunately the
Egyptian government has now banned meditation in the Great Pyramid you can
actually be deported from Egypt for meditating in the Great Pyramid bare
feet are also forbidden you'll be thrown out if you take your shoes off something
really weird is going on anyway it's an amazing room it's a geometrical room and
it contains a right triangle where the acute angle is 36.8 seven degrees then
you have a right angle here and then you have another angle at the top and it's
in the dimensions three four five it's what's called a 3 4 5 right triangle and
these triangles are used extensively in trigonometry astronomy and earth measuring now I'm a bit exhausted to go
into the details but that you can really down the screen that 3 4 5 right
triangle both in terms of 3 4 and 5 and in terms of the dimensions put in sacred cubits produces the number 216 which is
derived it's a multiple of 72 it's again there speaking of precession and in this
case they're using a right triangle to tell us a little bit more and here's the
weird thing archeoastronomy JQ jacobs has noticed
what nobody else had ever noticed before haram is not situated on a random
latitude iran is situated on a latitude 36 point 8 7 degrees north
that's the acute angle in a right triangle it can't be a coincidence that a culture that used right triangles in
its science is actually situated at a latitude defined by a right triangle and
you can see the the workings in this in this diagram and then something else really spooky gobekli tepe is located
exactly one one thousandth of the Earth's circumference north of Haran and
this really puzzles JQ jacobs he says even non Arceus understand
stratification and deposition basics deeper is older
Gobekli Tepe is 12,000 years old Herron is equated with Abraham a biblical fame
and with or of Samaria the civilized land and a cradle of civilization that
cradle and astronomy is presumed to be 4,000 to 5,000 years old not 12,000 Iran
is located at 3 / 4 8 n latitude a fixed parameter and gobekli tepe is at a specific latitude difference
north because the fixed parameter must come first the conundrum of course is that this precise 1/1000 circumference
latitude difference is either coincidence or ancient astronomy just
took a leap back to 12,000 years and I think that's what we're looking at here
ancient astronomy taking a leap back to 12,000 years and suddenly we realized
that Rebekah Tepe helps us to understand many other things like this megalithic
site discovered in 2015 at a depth of 40 meters beneath the Mediterranean it's
been under the sea for more than nine thousand three hundred years their holes
cut through the megaliths just as we find at gobekli tepe unfortunately the
reproduction here makes it a little difficult to see those holes before
gobekli tepe
it's in the Sicily Channel in the Mediterranean before gobekli tepe there
could have been no concept of a nine thousand three hundred year old
megalithic site and of course we don't know how long it stood there before the
Seas rose and covered it there could have been no such concept but now with
gobekli tepe we have to admit megalithic architecture was in the world a very long time ago and then let's consider
other megalithic sites possibly they've been radically misstated you know we're
looking here at some at the megaliths of menorca at the bottom of t-shaped
megaliths morphologically identical to the gobekli tepe megaliths but
archaeologists say the mint minakami glyphs are just 4,000 years old maybe
they're wrong maybe this is a false lee yong-dae
produced by introduced organic material from the later cultures that use that
site and if we look at the general appearance of Gobekli Tepe has a lot in
common with the megalithic temples of Malta thought to be five or five and a
half thousand years old again sites that have been open to the elements for
thousands of years that have been used by later cultures
I think archeologists have got the dates wrong I think we're going to find that
the Maltese temples are much much older than we've been taught and then let's go
to the other side of the world - Tiahuanaco it's weird that the same
iconography this age we recognize this as a letter H it's found all over
gobekli tepe god knows what it was to them but it looks to us like a letter h
weirdly that same eight shape turns up in hewn blocks at Tiahuanaco on the
other side of the world and Tiahuanaco is a site about which there has long
been argument over its antiquity archaeologists want II when I could to
be just a couple of thousand years old but maybe it's much much much older than
that so we're looking down on Tiahuanaco here Tiahuanaco is at 14,000 feet above
sea level by the way so you can imagine what we felt like in a little aircraft 4,000 feet above it with no oxygen and
the windows open we're looking down on the Capanna pyramid here ruined by
treasure hunters and here the Colossus here this huge rectangular enclosure the second enclosure within it and down here
down here in front the so-called semi subterranean temple okay now let's look
at this Colossus here which is supposed to be 2,000 years old what we note is
that actually there's at least two phases of construction there's a row of
megaliths run all the way around the walls you can see them here and then in
between them are a different kind of architecture in Thailand
I think the megalithic site is extremely ancient and I think the walls are much more recent
looking down again that's the Gateway of the Sun there the gateway of the Sun you
can just see it in the corner there and the Gateway of the Sun plays with the
Sun at tiahuanaco you only really notice this if you get there a particular times
of year particularly the solstices the gateway of the Sun plays with the Sun in
magical ways and here's the thing about the gateway of the Sun the Earth's axis
does as well as wobbling over 25,920 years it also has a little nod which
changes the obliquity of the Earth's axis and that change in the axial tilt alters the rising position of the Sun on
the solstices it turns out that the original geometrical layout of tihuanaco
was targeted to the Solstice Sun more than 10,000 BC 12,000 years ago so we're looking at a very ancient site upon
which later constructions have been built and this is often the case now
we're in the semi-subterranean temple and in there we find a bearded figure on
top of a column associated with the civilizing hero vera kochiya who came in
a time of darkness after a great flood bringing the gifts of civilization notice that he is prominently bearded a
kind of goatee chinstrap beard yeah up the side of the column is a serpent and on the very top of it you can hardly see
it in this lighting is a funny little animal well we've turned the animal on
its side and we've reproduced it down here that's the actual photograph and
there we've highlighted it that animal doesn't look like any known species of
animal in the Andes today but it looks a hell of a lot like toxoid on which went
extinct during the Younger Dryas between twelve thousand eight hundred and eleven
thousand six hundred years ago and very kochiya after he'd completed his
civilizing mission we're told that he left South America from the coast of Ecuador and crossed the Pacific Ocean
walking on the water so it's interesting that off that coast 6,000 feet underwater have been found
gigantic man-made columns sitting on the seabed
this is report is actually from the 1960s it has never been followed up are
we looking at something to do with the primeval homeland known across the
Pacific as Hiba a land that was submerged beneath the waves just like
Atlantis in remote prehistory well here we are in the Easter Island by the way
I'll be leading a group to Easter Island didn't December for a few days
fascinating place I've made many visits there haven't been back for a few years
really looking forward to getting back here at the the moai the big statues of
Easter Island the famous Ike iconic figures archaeologists tell us that they're about seven or eight hundred
years old not older than that and how do they base that on since they can't
directly date stone what they base it on is organic material found in these platforms which are called art so the
assumption is that the platform is of the same age as the statues but that
assumptions obviously wrong there's an Easter Island head built into this wall reused you see it there reused as a
building block bath alone tells us that the wall is younger than the statues an
old bit of statue was recycled and put into the wall so we can't trust organic
material coming out of these walls as giving us the dates of the moai and then
when we go to the rano raraku quarry this amazing volcanic crater we find
actually more than 200 Easter Island heads sticking up out of the ground is
two totally surreal place to go and we might be forgiven for thinking excuse me
we might be forgiven for thinking that they just got a few inches under the
ground but actually they go down 30 feet under the ground and this was revealed
by the excavations of Tor Hadar in 1987 as tor standing down there you can see
that this statue is covered by 30 feet of sediments and here's where my friend
and colleague professor Robert Schoch at Boston University professor of geology
comes in he's best known for his work on the Sphinx looking at this sediment shockers pointed out that it's actually
impossible on a tiny island like Easter Island to get 30 feet of sediment in
just seven hundred years you're looking at thousands of years of deposition of
sediment which strongly suggests that the moai are vastly older I was
privileged to know tour Heyerdahl he was a great man he was convinced that
Atlantis had existed and he passed away in 2002 if he were around today he would
be focusing big time on gobekli tepe because he was already aware of the odd
belts that are worn at Easter Island and that key guanaco by the figures and here
we find them at gobekli tepe and the way that the figures of the easter egg
fingers of the Easter Island figures meet over the belt is so similar to the
way that these arms and fingers meet in the gobekli tepe pillars because the
gobekli tepe pillars are all symbolic human beings they all have arms and
hands and of course the tradition is that civilization was brought to Easter
Island by seven initiated men who arrived by boat from the lost land of
Hiva and who established and laid out the islands future sacred architecture
look at these figures they don't just have giant chins
these are bearded men these are prominent beards that we're looking at
on the Easter Island figures and that surely must remind us of the bearded
civilize as the seven sages from mesopotamia the seven sages of the egg
protects the Seven Rishi's of Vedic tradition all around the world the same
ideas are connected to advanced astronomical and geodetic knowledge
including all skills necessary for planning and setting out of City
Quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent these bearded figures from Mexico and here we
are Osiris another bearded figure associated
with ancient Egypt and connected I believe to this time because Osiris
ruled in the first time in Zep tepi about for me as the epoch defined by the
sky ground correlation now as well as astronomy which dates the
first time to twelve thousand eight hundred to eleven thousand six hundred
years ago we have geology it's interesting
John Anthony West I want to pay tribute to John Anthony West an incredibly farsighted brilliant rogue Egyptologist
who has played a greater role than anybody else in bringing us the truth
about ancient Egypt John was struck by the erosion patterns on the Sphinx so he contacted professor
Robert Schoch at Boston University and he said will you come with me to Egypt
and look at this because I think this thing's has been subjected to a lot of
water weathering shock went there and he immediately realized this is his
speciality he immediately realized that the Sphinx had been subjected to at
least a thousand years of extremely heavy rainfall and you can see that in these deep vertical fissures in the
trench around the Sphinx you don't see so much on the body of the Sphinx because it was being repaired even in
the old kingdom but you see these deep vertical fissures which are caused by
rainwater flooding down over the edge and cutting these vertical grooves now
at the time Egyptologists just laughed at shock and West
they said it's ridiculous to suggest that the Sphinx could be 12,000 years
old if it was 12,000 years old why there would be other monuments that are 12,000
years old in the world and there are none so obviously you guys are full of
and the Sphinx is definitely just 2500 BC we're apologists know that well
they could say that in 1992 but they can't say it in 2016 they can't say it now that we have gobekli tepe
which is about 12,000 years old and if even it's close to the Sphinx if you can
make gobekli tepe you can certainly make the Sphinx suddenly emerging from the
earth is a whole different story of humanity and I'm going to close I'm told
I've only got a few minutes left I may run over I may run over slightly okay thank you
I think I need about ten more minutes uh-hum this is another site that I'm
just going to tell you briefly about this is gunam Padang on the island of
Java in Indonesia it's another site that's rewriting
history I'm there with geologist Danny Hillman
matter with Raja he's Indonesia's leading expert in megathrust earthquakes
he's a car Tech trained geologist very high-flying figure in the field he's
also very interested in archaeology and one day he found himself at this known megalithic site which is made of blocks
of columnar basalt now columnar basalt forms naturally but here it has been
used as a construction material and laid out in a site and the site's been known
since about 1914 to archaeology it's thought to be about 2,500 years old old
but not very old belly comes to the site as a geologist and he immediately
realizes something odd this site is on top of what is thought to be a natural hill okay and it's arranged in a series
of terraces on top of that natural hill but Danny didn't like the natural hill
looking at it as a geologist he felt very much that he was looking at her at
a pyramid okay with a megalithic site right on top so he wanted to check out
that hunch and he assembled a team of geologists with a fantastic array of
remote sensing equipment they used surface geology archaeology geomagnetic
survey ground-penetrating radar electrical resistivity seismic
tomography drill core sampling petrology etc etc I mean just every technique they
could bring to bear geologically on the site they brought it to bear they ran
lines all over the site they investigated in depth and the drill
cores going down deep into the what we now know is a pyramid pulled up fragments of worked stone associated
with organic material that could be carbon dated near the top the dates were
not controversial but as we go down further they get older and older there
are dates that go back more than 20 thousand years into the past
coming out of good and padang if something else that the remote sensing revealed there are three big
rectangular regular chambers inside this structure those are the three of them
there we really want to know what's in these chambers how could our curiosity
resist it particularly when we remember the Ice Age history of the Indonesian
region you see this was a continent sized landmass that was above water twelve thousand eight hundred years ago
there was no Malaysian Peninsula Malaysia was joined directly to Sumatra and Java to Borneo the whole thing then
merged on into the Sahul which was ancient Australia is a huge landmass it
all went underwater between twelve thousand eight hundred and eleven
thousand six hundred years ago leaving just the Highlands of Sumatra and Java
behind and that's where good and Padang is on those high lands that were never
flooded as an artist impression of gunung padang in its prime so Danny's a
political operator he got the former president of Indonesia on his side
archaeologist did not want him to excavate the site but the former
president said you go for it excavate that side they issued the presidential order Danny and his team began working
on August 2014 in October 2014 the presidency changed and the new man who
looks a lot like Barack Obama took over at exactly the time he took over
archeologists mounted an onslaught on Danny and his team they complained
bitterly that the budget was being given to Danny when it should be given to them
for their projects but of course there was no reason to look inside gunung padang their arguments prevailed with
the President and since October 2014 those excavations have been completely
stopped I spoke with that Danny just before coming here and he said it's the
same thing we're working at it we're doing our best we hope to get back in
there but right now they won't let us so you know I think archeologists have got
right in the last 9,000 years or so most of us working in alternative history
couldn't do our work without the meticulous groundwork done by
archaeologists I think they built a beautiful house of history unfortunately that house of
history it now appears stands on foundations of sound because
archaeologists is not even their fault they haven't yet taken into account the
extinction level Cataclysm that unfolded on this planet right in the backyard of
history right in the foundations of history and while we don't take that
into account we're obliged to contemplate the possibility that
everything we've been taught about the origins of civilization could be wrong
so what about the future of civilization this honestly is the last 10 minutes
maybe even 5 what about the future of civilization I don't want to spread a
message of doom and gloom here I want to give you quite a different message I think NASA's reassuring figure of a
hundred million year intervals between extinction-level events is complacent and irresponsible and I'm wondering who
it's serving you know NASA often makes reassuring statements that turnout on
closer examination to be based on incomplete data sets nASA says that none
of the asteroids or comets it's identified will come close enough to impact earth any time in the foreseeable
future quote all known potentially hazardous asteroids have less than an
odd point not one percent chance of impacting earth in the next hundred
years that's NASA in August 2015 whew we're safe well hang on the problem
is actually NASA hasn't got a clue how many potentially hazardous asteroids are
actually out there it can only report the number that it's seen so far and for those it's true there's very little
likelihood they're going to hit us but the problem is the unknown objects
that's what you really concern a scientists estimate that so far only 1%
of potentially hazardous asteroids have been tracked and identified leaving 99
percent more than a hundred thousand of them
still awaiting discovery and we know this to be true just last Halloween an
object that would have caused the Cataclysm on earth whizzed past between
the earth and the moon NASA only discovered it 20 days before
that passage too late to do anything about it had it been on an earth
impacting course and more and more scientists are beginning to realize that
this complacency is dangerous and that we may not live in a safe here but in an
era of enhanced impacts remember the torrid meteor stream that impact in
nineteen hundred and eight those astronomers have been working with
mathematician Emilio spetic Otto on everything that is known about the
contents of the torrid meteor stream and their calculations are that in addition
to the known large objects there are between one and two hundred asteroids
more than a kilometer in diameter orbiting within the torrid meteor stream
and amongst them they think there's one very large object of about 30 kilometers in diameter the nucleus of the original
comet which is now coated in tars and is virtually invisible to any form of telescope they say that this unique
complex of debris is undoubtedly the greatest collision hazard facing the
earth at the present time we pass through the torrid meteor stream twice a
year each passage takes 12 days that is a bit like strutting on a blindfold and
crossing an eight-lane interstate and twice a year and just hoping that you
don't hit any heavy traffic or if you do that it would be bicycles and
motorcycles rather than trucks their calculation is that the filament of the
torrid meteor streep remember it's 30 million miles wide containing these very big objects is going to be a filament
that we will be passing through in the next thirty years and we need to pay attention to this it is not necessarily
gloom and doom it's actually a matter of choice and a matter of money we already
have the technology to sweep our cosmic
environment clean we need not see the lights go out we
need not see the end of civilization on earth we have what it takes to make this
beautiful planet safe for us and our children and our children's children for
millions of years into the future but we're not doing it right now the global
community is spending roughly what it costs to run one McDonald's for a year
or looking out for asteroids and comets that might hit the earth because the big
bucks are going elsewhere the big bucks of course go into military expenditure
let's just invent ever more ghastly ways to murder one another on a massive scale
while ignoring the threat to all life on Earth that exists in the heavens it's
our choice we don't have to let this happen we should if we were
irresponsible species if we really cared we would be doing something about this
not making war on one another so NASA again this is a famous image the earth by night viewed from space and this is
Hong Kong just to give you an idea when we live in modern cities we can't even
see the sky the light pollution is so bad we forget there are stars up there
but when you look down on those brightly lit cities from space you see that the
Earth's lighting up like a golden jewels and we're looking at the northern hemisphere here Europe and North India
here and you can see how lit up it is and Masur announces this as a sign of
the triumph of technological progress that here we are in the technological
North lit up like a chain of jewels but look at Africa it's almost completely
dark because there's much less technology and electrification there and if we go to the other side of the world
there's North America yeah and then down there the Amazon basin completely dark
and in the Amazon basin as I mentioned there are hunter-gatherer tribes who don't even know we exist
now if hypothetically we don't take the necessary steps if hypothetically the
earth is bombarded again by more fragments about deadly comet if that
happens again if the disaster on the scale that happened twelve thousand
eight years ago happens again today humanity would certainly survive but not our
civilization our civilization is very fragile
we think it's strong we have amazing tech but really very few of us know how
to survive and we depend for our survival on the complex integrated
network that has been created over a long period of time we have many specialists but very few generalists we
really would be quite incompetent to survive a global Cataclysm of a kind who
would survive it would be the hunter-gatherers as they know how to
survive that's their daily business they it would it would hardly even affect them they would get through and ten
thousand years from now it would be there to send ensue carry the human
story forward into the future and might they not speak of a time when there was
once on this planet an advanced civilization with incredible powers they
could even send people to the moon they could fly around the planet they could
speak to one another on opposite sides of the earth but they became cruel they
became arrogant they began to project their power around the world they ceased
to wear their prosperity with moderation and the universe slapped them down let's
make sure we're not the next lost civilization
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