In 1922 Egyptologist Howard Carter made the archaeological discovery of a lifetime – the undisturbed tomb of an ancient Pharaoh. Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy, Channel 4 2013
There has never been a discovery like it, not before, not since. On 26th November 1922 after five long years scouring Egypt’s legendary Valley of the Kings, British Egyptologist Howard Carter and his aristocratic backer Lord Carnarvon broke into the tomb of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun in Colour, BBC 2020
The discovery was captured using amateur films and early newsreel for the cinema, along with thousands of high-quality black and white photographs. ibid.
‘Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist: strange animals, statues and gold. Everywhere the glint of gold. I was struck dumb with amazement.’ ibid. Howard Carter
In all there were four shrines each within the next. ibid.
Egypt: the richest source of archaeological treasures on the planet. Beneath this desert landscape lie the secrets of an ancient civilisation. Egypt’s Female Pharaohs, National Geographic 2021
Canopus, the glorious city of Cleopatra lost for over a thousand years. It was a city gleaming with treasures and rich in wonders. Famous for its lavish rituals and infamous for its earthly pleasures. But Canopus vanished without a trace and was lost for centuries. Revealed: Cleopatra’s Lost City, Channel 5 2021
Cleopatra’s lost city has been found, an ancient Egyptian Atlantis found submerged beneath the waves. ibid.
Graham Hancock: Ancient Apocalypse: The Most Dangeorus Show on Netlix (2022). Prebunking Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse season 2 in the Americas with Professor John Hoopes, interview Archaeology with Flint Dibble, Youtube 1.57.03
I want the main antagonist and that’s John Hoopes from the University of Kansas. ibid. Hancock
Archaeology is a journey of discovery. We’re constantly learning new things. But it’s one in which we also gain an appreciation for what archaeologists do, and what the data tells us, and the evidence tells us, which is constantly being expanded upon. ibid. Hoopes
Fluted Clovis and Fishtail Projective Points from Costa Rica. ibid.
Underwater archaeology needs more funding. ibid.
A C Roosevelt: The Amazon and the Anthropocene: 13,000 years of human influence in a tropical rainforest. ibid.
The story of the Americas is how people adapted. ibid.
There is a lot of diversity early on. ibid.
You do exacavations at the site of the rock art. ibid.
Ideally, multiple lines of evidence … Archaeology is multi-disciplinary. ibid.
We’ve known about many of these places for over 100 years … It’s not a new discovery. ibid.
That’s what archaeologists do – we record the evidence of the past in a way that we are creating data that other people can use. So this ‘discovery’ trope! ibid.
Machu Pichu: And the way that it looks is thanks to archaeologists. ibid.
There’s been a lot of discussion online about megalithic architecture of the Incas … This is amazing stonework … The artefacts that we find around these are Inca artefacts … It was not done with lasers, it was not done with ancient high technology, it was done with a lot of elbow grease, a lot of hard work … A labor tax that provided an unlimited amount of unskilled labor … This is done through massive organisation of human labour – that was the technology, how labor was organised, not coming up with lasers. ibid.
The power of labor orgnisation! ibid.
We’ve seen these tropes again. These are being revived in the context of a new Netflix series which is going to say that in fact, you know, that there were ancient civilisations in the Americas … ibid.
Explorers Enter Jungles To Seek Lost White Race: Fawcett Party Will Pose as Gods to Overawe Savage Natives; Heat Kills River Fish … ibid. newspaper
Fawcett was also deluded by fake artefacts. ibid.
There were large settlements in the Upper Xingu, Brazil … A lot of the Amazon was occupied by people who were farmers. ibid.
Blowing us away with how large these populations were – that’s one of the main things that come from these LIDAR surveys. ibid.
We do care about astronomy! ibid.
The subject that I’m investigating is human pre-history. Ancient Apocalypse s1e1: Once There Was a Flood, Graham Hancock reporting, Netflix 2022
My suspicion is humans are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten something incredibly important in our own past. And I think that that incredibly important forgotten thing is a lost, advanced civilisation of the Ice Age. ibid.
I’ve spent decades searching for proof of this lost civilisation at site around the globe. ibid.
An advanced human civilisation much older than our own, lost to history … New discoveries keep on pushing that horizon back. One such discovery has been made here in Indonesia. On the most populated island, Java, about four hours south of Jakarta, near the village of Karyamukti. ibid.
What if an advanced civilisation flourished here in Indonesia during the Ice Age? ibid.
Because Gunung Padang is like no place on Earth … You see these blocks scattered across the mountain. Oddly hexagonal stone slabs strewn about everywhere. Thousands of them. It’s quite a spectacle. ibid.
These rocks have been cut, repurposed as building materials and placed by human hands. ibid.
Traces of structures show up all over the hill … on carefully laid out terraces. ibid.
‘This site consists of two cultural layers.’ ibid. archaeologist
The entire hill is ringed by retaining walls of columnar basalt. ibid.
At least three large rectangular chambers. One around 10 metres down, perhaps an entrance hall of some kind … A third chamber between 20 and 30 metres deep. ibid.
Core drilling: Those sections had been laid out 11,500 years ago. ibid.
Around 100 feet or so he [Dr Hillman] hit the earliest layer of construction … as far back as 24,000 years ago. ibid.
What happened was a literal great flood. ibid.