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.
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.
One of the most mysterious and revealing mythologies in prehistory comes down to us through the ancient cultures of Mexico. Ancient Apocalypse s1e2: Survivor in a Time of Chaos
A land of fertile valleys and simmering volcanoes. This is the Puebla region, east of Mexico City. ibid.
This hill isn’t the natural feature it’s often mistaken for. It’s the most massive monument ever built anywhere in the world … This is the Great Pyramid of Cholula … [and] rose to at least 213 feet, 65 metres … 400 x 400 metres at its base. ibid.
They were stunned at what they discovered inside … 8 kilometres of tunnels … The Pyramid of Cholula is simply the latest in a whole series of more ancient pyramids hidden beneath. ibid.
You start off with a place that for one reason or another is regarded as sacred. ibid.
According to myth, the Great Pyramid of Cholula was built by a race of giants. ibid.
Malta: It’s called Ggantija. And it certainly is a giant of a megalithic structure. For decades, it was thought to be the oldest freestanding monumental structure on Earth. Ancient Apocalypse s1e3: Sirius Rising
The construction of these walls required the lifting of hundreds of massive megaliths. Some weighing up to fifty tons. And what we see today is only roughly half of the temple’s original height. ibid.
Two connected temples with over-shaped chambers, their walls were painted red. And a series of altars where charred remains of animal bones were found, suggesting ritual sacrifices or feasting.
Ggantija isn’t Malta’s only megalithic temple. ibid.
How much more of Malta’s prehistory lies hidden beneath the waves? ibid.
The Bahamas. These are the Bimini Islands. Just under 60 miles off the coast of Miami, Bimini is separated from the mainland of America by a deepwater channel known as the Straits of Florida. Ancient Apocalypse s1e4: Ghosts of a Drowned World
A massive structure of carefully laid giant stones with every appearance of being a megalithic roadway or paved terrace. ibid.
In their excitement they announced to the world they had found the road to Atlantis itself. ibid.
The slabs are remarkably straight-edged and parallel. ibid.
This part of the Bahamas has been underwater for thousands of years. ibid.
To the ancients, stargazing would have been the greatest show on Earth. The most entertaining way to pass their long dark nights. Ancient Apocalypse s1e5: Legacy of the Sages
Ancient pyramids and temples all around the world connect sky and ground with precise alignments of the Sun, Moon and stars. ibid.
Gobekli Tepe: It shouldn’t exist. Archaeologists accept that it dates back to around 11,600 years ago, making this the oldest acknowledged monument structure on Earth. It’s a highly sophisticated, highly advanced megalithic site. ibid.
It’s older even than the invention of the wheel. ibid.
What is this place? … How ambitious and imposing it must have been in its prime. ibid.
Megaliths weighing up to ten tons … How these massive blocks were lifted and set in place nobody knows. ibid.
Symbols of animals are to be found everywhere at Gobekli Tepe. ibid.
How did a community of Stone Age hunter-gatherers succeed so brilliantly at building with megaliths at their very first attempt? ibid.
Up to 20 other stone enclosures inside the hill and up to 200 pillars. Most remain unexcavated. ibid.
In 2019 Turkish archaeologists began excavations at another site about an hour’s drive east, called Karahan Tepe. ibid.
There was no agriculture at Gobekli Tepe when it was built. ibid.
Around 10,000 years ago all the structures were buried, rapidly and quite deliberately at the same time. ibid.
When did humans first reach the Americas? Ancient Apocalypse s1e6: America’s Lost Civilisation
The discovery of much older archaeological remains. Fossilised human footprints have been found in the New Mexican desert that date to 22,000 years ago, the height of the last Ice Age. ibid.
The few sites that survive may be critical in establishing the possibility of a lost civilisation. ibid.
Poverty Point: An immense man-made earthen structure, today known simply as Mound A … part of a much larger ancient complex. ibid.
Ohio, a stunning example of an effigy mound. A gigantic earthwork shaped into the form of a living creature. In this case, a 400-metre long snake. It’s called Serpent Mound. ibid.
They practice censorship by ridiculing and insulting alternative ideas. ibid.
We have already seen such serpent imagery in ancient monuments all over the world. ibid.
Turkey’s Cappadocia region. There’s an ancient survival bunker deep underground. Built not just to shelter a few people but to shelter thousands … This is the story of Derinkuyu. Ancient Apocalypse s1e7: A Fatal Winter
One of the most remarkable large-scale projects humanity has ever embarked upon deep beneath this soft rock. ibid.
It’s an ant farm built human-size, with subterranean caves and tunnels extending over an area of four square kilometres. To keep it well ventilated, Derinkuyu has upwards of 15,000 air ducts connecting the upper levels to the surface. And more than 50 vertical shafts. ibid.
Which people? When? And why? ibid.
There are many cultures who used these tunnels over the centuries. ibid.
Here in Cappadocia, archaeologists have identified 36 such underground cities. And if we count the ones with just 2 levels, that number balloons to 200. ibid.
There was a period of great floods during the Younger Dryas, much resembling those described in myths. They’ve also noted that afterward, temperatures around the planet plummeted. A fatal winter indeed. And then there’s that detail linking the onset of the fatal winter to the arrival of a Great Snake out of the sky. ibid.
Serpent [comet] symbolism: A warning left behind by survivors … that one day a similar catastrophe would return. ibid.