[Music] hi there and welcome to a special episode of after school my name is ben and i produce the uncharted x youtube channel i'm a student and fan of history and for many years i've been dedicated to traveling and researching ancient sites and mysteries as well as the geological evidence for cataclysm in today's episode we'll explore some of the anomalies that don't fit into the mainstream story of our past and make the case for rewriting the very beginnings of our history i hope you enjoy the video when it comes to the realms of academia and science battles are fought whenever new ideas or new evidence emerges to challenge the mainstream understanding of the times bloodless wars but wars nonetheless are slowly waged across many domains of knowledge paper by paper and book by book at stake are the prizes the label of expertise the tenure of education and the authority that derives from establishment some of these disputes are precise using the scientific method of hypothesis experiment and result to produce concrete conclusions to unhorse old ideas and to move our understanding forward such as that which occurs in the disciplines of biology physics or chemistry for example other disciplines are less precise and rely on the interpretation of incomplete sets of evidence the weaving together of data and observation as happens in fields like archaeology or paleontology one battle that's been heating up considerably over the last decade is the fight for the foundations of human history itself i'm not talking about modern history or even what we refer to as ancient history at least as we know it in our textbooks today i'm talking about what happened before this the ground that the tail of our past is built upon and the basis for all of recorded human history and that is the timeline of our evolution as a species our rise from the stone age and into the era of civilization it is these older aspects of our past that seem to be in an ever increasing state of dispute the arguments being made are legitimate they are coming from many different vectors and many different disciplines of science many arguments are based on discoveries that have only been made in recent years and collectively they're making the case for a re-evaluation of the story of our past ever stronger everyone is aware of this story to a greater or lesser degree and in its most basic form it goes a little something like this a while ago we humans homo sapiens evolved and emerged directly into the stone age fiddling with sticks and rocks and contentedly hunter-gathering our days away it's here that we spend the vast majority of our time on earth tens if not hundreds of thousands of years then all of a sudden we get the bright idea to team up raise some forts build some walls create some gods and make some rules and then voila there's civilization the ancient sumerians kick us off then egypt babylon the greeks the romans the mongols china's great dynasties and all the rest soon we're playing with swords and castles and surfs and slaves now it's time to up our painting game and we have ourselves a renaissance someone observes that steam expands which is still the basis of our entire economy even nuclear power stations are just big kettles for boiling water and making steam expand we begin a love affair with gunpowder and money we put a meter on electrons and sell them to everyone and the industrial revolution begins the inexorable rise of modern technology then all of a sudden hello here we all are intangibly connected to this thing called the internet watching thousands of tiny flashing pixels on some device of unimaginable complexity while sipping a latte wearing sneakers and synthetic clothing in our paved over jungle and mostly doing so as if it was all perfectly normal the idea that we are all here as the direct result of an unbroken straight line of human progress coming from the stone age this is one of the foundations upon which our modern human identity is formed yet it's this very foundational concept that is under siege the evidence that our history is longer and much more complex just continues to stack up the narrative that this new evidence weaves is frankly alarming it tells a tale of unimaginable destruction a tale of the rise and fall of unknown yet undeniably mighty civilizations of advanced technologies that were created used and then lost to us a cycle of death and rebirth on a scale that is beyond anything contained within our current version of history a version that in the light of all this new evidence can simply be considered but the latest revolution of the cosmic hamster wheel of human civilizations let's put a few examples of this new evidence into some context here's a new scientist article from 2006 which was if you're a law like me and in complete denial about getting older shockingly 16 years ago now although you wouldn't know it from the music that i still listen to this article lays out the timeline of human evolution the mainstream story of history as it was taught in 2006 so let's make a graph and talk about us kids around 195 000 years ago we emerged onto the scene and into the stone age here we stay for many tens of thousands of years until we start eating mushrooms having visionary experiences drawing cave art burying our dead creating symbolic and abstract concepts also called the great leap forward which was some 50 000 years ago around the same time that humans first colonized australia then roughly 12 000 years ago and still globally in the stone age mind you modern humans finally reached the americas the stone age eventually comes to an end only a scant 6 000 years ago from now when the first true civilization that leads directly to us begins with the ancient sumerians in mesopotamia which was mostly in what's now modern-day iraq now let's look at some of the new evidence since 2006 and how it should be affecting this timeline a new find of human remains in morocco made us instantly more than 30 percent older than we first thought pushing the earliest date of our species back to some 300 000 years ago new dna evidence analyzed from neanderthal remains estimates our split with them from a common ancestor as far back as 800 thousand years ago not only that but discoveries of entirely new species of hominids like homo florences or the denisovans is proving that our origins as a species are much more complex than we had ever believed these hominids weren't simple dumb creatures and with fines like the dennis oven jade bracelet a 40 000 year old artifact that includes a drill hole indicates that they may well have been as intelligent organized and capable of understanding abstract concepts as our own species as our timeline extends further back it also means that we co-existed with our cousins for a very long time i believe there is much more to find here new archaeological work has smashed our understandings of human timelines in the americas with digs like the ceruti mastodon site in san diego or the bluefish caves showing that humans may well have been in north america as much as 130 000 years ago and was certainly here 25 to 30 000 years ago which is much longer than those dates claimed by the clovis first doctrine of archaeology that for so long has strangled open-minded research efforts in north america not only this but dna linkages between aboriginal australians and the natives of south america linkages that don't seem to exist in the peoples of central or north america is challenging the entire northern landbridge theory of the diaspora of humanity these findings suggest that large populations of people groups large enough to leave genetic indicators crossed the pacific ocean long before we were ever supposedly capable of such feats and when it comes to civilization the story gets even more intriguing with many new finds pushing our supposed start date back further and further we had first thought that civilization arose some six thousand years ago but the largest megalithic site in the world gobekli tepe in turkey is now known to have been deliberately buried some twelve thousand years ago likely after thousands of years of use the re-dating of the great sphinx in egypt by professor of geology dr robert shock indicates that this structure is at least as old as gobekli tepe some 12 000 years and it's possibly significantly older a massive man-made pyramid-like structure was recently discovered in indonesia at a site called gunan padang it has had carbon dating of organic remains that were pulled from chambers inside the structure that pushes the earlier start date of civilization possibly as far back as 25 000 years ago it's not just these new findings when it comes to the reasons for a re-evaluation of history there is a whole other category of evidence in this debate that category is that in many ways our current interpretation of history simply does not make sense when you take a close and careful look at it contradictions and mysteries abound in our story of history they attract the attention of interested and open-minded people despite the efforts of academia who in many cases just declare that no such mysteries exist these contradictions are often hidden in plain sight they're in our textbooks and they're in the astonishing megalithic evidence that is left to us in the ancient places of the world demonstrated nowhere better than those in egypt just consider the old kingdom period which according to egyptologists arose directly from the primitive stone age and whose people did not have the ability to quarry granite why then is the old kingdom so rich in incredible granite structures that have never seen their match since how did they build such massive granite artifacts and architecture without the ability to quarry or work this stone why were the huge megalithic pyramids like those at giza the earliest pyramids to be built and this is to say nothing of the mind-bending precision that is evident in this work from the oldest period of egyptian history precision that is found in the smallest of objects like the thousands of lathe turned exquisite stone jars to the largest of objects like the great pyramid which even today still ranks amongst the most precisely made structures on the planet when you look closely you will find the obvious signs and markings of advanced machining and tools tools that are not found in the archaeological record after the old kingdom egypt kept on building pyramids and they kept on making artwork but they never came close to reaching the same technical ability that they supposedly did in the very earliest part of their civilization ask yourself is this really how civilizations work do they peak instantly and then degrade over time another contradiction this time south america why are there three distinct styles of architecture present in peruvian ancient sites three styles that are wildly different in their technological sophistication why are these three styles always found in the same order with the largest and most difficult work at the bottom and oldest layers with the much cruder simpler stonework found on top all three styles are attributed to the inca alone whose civilization mighty as it was only existed for some 150 years does this look like the work of six or seven generations of the same civilization what can we make of the mysterious precision stonework of pumapunku and tiwanaku in bolivia or the cyclopean walls of saksayhuaman why do so many of these sites show evidence of massive destruction at some distant point in the past why does the megalithic architecture found all over the world from peru to easter island to egypt to turkey match so closely if it is from different civilizations that were separated by not only distance but also millennia of time [Music] why are we only now thanks to deforestation finding literally hundreds of huge geometric earthen shapes as well as the remains of entire cities in the amazon jungle what about the pyramids that are dotted all over china pyramids that nobody has been allowed to film let alone investigate for some 40 years none of these mysteries fit within our current story of history pyramid culture itself seems to be a constant across many parts of the world the largest and most famous pyramid of them all the great pyramid of giza has yet to give up all of its secrets despite our modern technology every aspect of its construction that we have managed to puzzle out from its precise alignment to true north and to celestial constellations its sacred geometry ratios that encode the very constants of nature to the fact that it is essentially an accurate scale model of the earth all of these attributes are like a message sent through time one that speaks to us of a deep understanding of the universe an understanding that must have existed far back in the distant past and an understanding and capability that we simply cannot attribute to what we currently know of the ancient civilizations in our textbooks why are there ancient maps like the piri ray's map or the oronto phineas map maps that show antarctica before it was even discovered parts of these maps the accurate parts were drawn from much more ancient source maps which like so many other ancient documents are now lost to us not only is antarctica shown on these maps but they accurately depict the coastline of antarctica that is under the ice a claim that was verified by experts in the us air force in 1960 several ancient maps show undeniable proof of advanced technology and mathematics in their projections and in their high degree of accuracy in longitude the measuring of distance to the east and west of the prime meridian and this is something that was only possible for us to do as a civilization in the 19th century around the time of james cook's second voyage of discovery because of the need for accurate chronometers which we simply hadn't invented up until that point i don't think that many of these contradictions nor these mysteries can be resolved from within our current paradigm of history nor can we truly attribute all of the megalithic work or the ancient high technology objects that are still left to us to what we know of the great the great yet primitive ancient civilizations that make up our orthodox version of history i love and i greatly respect our ancient civilizations but the reality is some of what we see was simply out of their technological reach this technological gap between what we know of ancient civilizations and what we see is attested to by so many professionals craftsmen builders and engineers experts who study these things in detail people who are far more qualified to offer opinions on ancient technology or engineering than the egyptologists or archaeologists who commonly deride such opinions but couldn't engineer the chair that they're sitting on when they do it there is however a key that unlocks these mysteries a solution that makes sense of all of these contradictions and this solution comes to us from adjacent scientific fields and from a series of discoveries only made in the last 20 years it's a huge clanger in the story of history it's something that fractures our established timeline and it destroys the premise of a single unbroken line of human progress since the stone age the very premise that the story of history is built upon it effectively wipes the slate clean and its impact is such that were we to be honest were we to be truly open-minded and receptive to new evidence we really should be rewriting the entire story of our history from the beginning this key is known to us today as the younger driest cataclysm it happened in the period around 12 900 years ago and it changed the surface of the earth evidence now shows that the planet was subject to an unimaginably violent series of cataclysms during this period these events ultimately led to the rapid melting of the continental glaciers with a series of catastrophically violent megafloods the signature of which is still writ large in the spectacular landscape of regions like the channeled scab lands up to 10 percent of the biomass of the planet was on fire and this period left a signature of destruction found in the strata layers of the earth at dozens of sites from north america to south africa the younger dryas ended the glacial maximum of the ice age it killed off fully half of the megafauna of the pleistocene up to 80 percent of all large animals in the americas these events and the melting of the ice sheets rose sea level some 400 feet to the current height that they are still at today this was a very very dark period for life on this planet and anything remotely resembling civilization likely living in the warmer coastal regions at the time would have been erased almost entirely supporting this point new dna evidence shows a huge genetic bottleneck and reduction in global population of people aligned with the younger dryers period the most important aspect of this to me the undeniable fact of this event is that despite our age as a species all of our recorded history all of our evidence for civilization all of it comes after this world ending cataclysm why do you think that is almost every ancient culture speaks to us of this tumultuous period with their origin stories and their symbolic religions they speak of cataclysm of destruction of flood and fire they speak of the world being destroyed by a war in the sky of their ancestors barely living through these events and later being forced to begin again they speak of gods of giants and of great civilizers with magical high technology-like powers who came from across the sea it's not just the evidence for cataclysm that we find in so many ancient tales there is another curious commonality between ancient myths and religions and that is that many of them consistently encode advanced celestial knowledge in their symbolic tales and this case has been made for many different cultures that span the entire globe as well as millennia of time it's the same information the same evidence of a deep understanding of the movements of the heavens [Music] this data is encoded into myth and religion even in some cases where these cultures themselves had no such knowledge our own religions our own modern day sun cults they also encode this celestial knowledge and they also speak to us of cataclysm of cosmic impacts and of world ending floods science is now backing up the truth that's encased in these legends and these religions and the truth of the younger dry's cataclysm over 150 peer-reviewed papers have now been published since the theory first emerged in 2006 and in recent years we've even found what may be one of the craters from this cosmic impact a massive gaping hole under the hirowatha glacier in greenland so it is from within this context the context of cataclysm and near extinction that the human timeline and the mysteries of the story of history can begin to make some sense it becomes a tale of inheritance of extended timelines of civilizations rising and falling a mighty global civilization that existed in the distant past a civilization that was struck down and swallowed by the earth or subsumed by the seas a civilization that left traces of its greatness in architecture and in artifacts it left legacies of its knowledge encoded into the cultures and religions of those people that eventually followed after all the ancient egyptians even called themselves a legacy civilization a legacy of what or of whom it is from within this context the context of a lost ancient high technology civilization that the contradictions evident in megalithic architecture could be explained and the enigma of obviously high technology objects could be fully investigated and solved yet despite this deluge of new evidence our tenured academics and the textbooks in the field of history are very slow to change if not outrightly hostile towards any new ideas in many ways the story of history is very similar to a religious dogma as ultimately it's just a story and its high priests of archaeology and egyptology only really derive their authority from the mainstream acceptance of this story if questioning this dogmatic version of history is heresy then this is a label that i happily accept and i consider this channel to be something of the modern day heretics toolkit many others are also on this path authors researchers fellow content creators and i think a slow awakening is actually happening as more and more people realize that it's high time we reevaluated and re-examined the story of our past you will find content on this channel that explores many aspects of this debate from the cataclysms of the ice age and looking at new scientific evidence to investigations of ancient sites and the search for evidence of ancient high technology my hope is to spread some awareness of this debate to get more people interested in uncovering our real history and above all to get people captivated by the true mystery and wonder that awaits those who wish to visit the astonishing ancient places that are still left to us around the world i want us to heed the warnings that are transmitted from ancient civilizations warnings that are indicated by the astronomical alignment of so many of their structures and written into so many of their stories we need to understand the dangers that lurk in the cosmic environment of our future as ultimately i believe that our priorities as a species need to change if we hope to survive in the longer term and eventually propagate ourselves into the stars thanks for tuning in to this episode of after school who i want to say a huge thank you to for their excellent work in this collaboration i'm ben from the uncharted x channel and i've been traveling researching and filming for many years now so if you're interested in the topics covered in this video i explore many of these mysteries in depth over at the uncharted x channel from new scientific work uncovering the cataclysms of the ice age to the evidence for lost civilizations and ancient forms of high technology i've also had the privilege to both travel with and interview many of the experts that work in these fields figures who should be familiar to after-school viewers guys like randall carlson and graeme hancock you can find those discussions on my youtube channel as well as on the uncharted x audio podcast the links to both of those are below i hope you enjoyed the video and many thanks for watching [Music] you
2022-03-02