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.
At sites all around the globe we’ve seen what I believe after the fingerprints of a lost civilisation dating back to the last Ice Age. Ancient Apocalypse s1e8: Cataclysm & Rebirth
Many of them tell the same basic story. ibid.
The wonders of the Channeled Scablands … it’s so enormous … The Falls are just one section of a monstrous ravine ... What really happened here? ibid.
An apocalypse on a scale that’s almost impossible to imagine today … The violence arrived. ibid.
The biggest flash flood in human history … much like the ones described in myths around the world. ibid.
‘There was a peak of platinum and iridium.’ ibid. scientist
A brief intense storm of debris that the Earth ran into … the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. ibid.
An immense global cataclysm around 12,800 years ago. An apocalypse big enough to have obliterated almost all traces of an advanced civilisation of the Ice Age. ibid.
And what we discovered changed my vision of the past for ever. BAM: Builders of the Ancient Mysteries, Amazon Prime 2020
A minuscule island lost in the middle of the Pacific ocean: Rapa Nui, Easter Island. ibid.
The people from Rapa Nui are believed to have sculpted about 1,000 volcanic stone giants. ibid.
There’s strong similarities in the style between Ahu Vinapu [precise giant stones] and the structures instigated by the Incas of Peru. ibid.
Peru: Civilisation had been there for a very long time. ibid.
Machu Picchu: What surprised us was at the heart of the site built in a totally different style: huge andesite blocks, a very hard stone, had been assembled with precision, without any seal, stone against stone. ibid.
Bihar Area, India: 7 caves entirely excavated from massive granite blocks spread across 2 main sites … These are unique because of their precision. ibid.
From Easter Island to India via Peru we can see two very different styles. The work that is the most ancient is also the largest and most precise. ibid.
Why the need for accuracy? ibid.
‘The oldest material at Gobekli Tepe is the best. Did they wake up one morning with some magical inspiration?’ ibid. Graham Hancock
Let’s go from Easter Island taking a 30 degree orientation, and draw a line about 100 kilometers wide. The strip passes through Nazca in Peru and Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco and Naupa Iglesia; it crosses the Atlantic to go over the sacred caves at Tassili N’Ajjer in Algeria, then through the Oasis of Siwa, by the Giza Pyramids in Egypt, over Petra in Jordan, Ur in Iraq, Persepolis in Iran, Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan, Khajuraho in India, Pyay in Berma, Sukhotai in Thailand, Angkor Wat and Preah Vihear in Cambodia, all likely to be connected a long time ago. And then over to the little known island of Aneityum in New Calodonia, then Easter Island. ibid.
Nobody was surprised to see the Golden Ratio showing up again. ibid.
These sites are built in the most earthquake-sensitive areas. ibid.
What is the importance of the Precession of the Equinoxes? ibid.
Huge machines cutting through solid rock. The transportation of multi-ton stone blocks. Modern aircraft carrying millions of people each day around the world. And space shuttles sending humans to the stars. Examples of modern technology or evidence that these incredible achievements actually existed on Earth thousands of years ago? Did ancient man possess knowledge far beyond that of our own century? And if so, from where did it come? Ancient Aliens s1e1: The Evidence, History 2010
‘There has been a forgotten episode in human history. And we are a species with amnaesia.’ ibid. Hancock
Ancient Alien theorists believe past civilisations possessed these same advanced technologies. They cite a number of cultural myths that describe sky people coming to Earth in fire-breathing dragons or metallic-looking machines as proof of extraterrestrial visitation. ibid.
Legends of air travel [India] are also found in ancient Africa and the Middle East. ibid.
In the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet describes a flying chariot containing wheels within wheels and powered by angels. ibid.
‘Scientists feel uncomfortable with the lost civilisation precisely because the evidence for it is so ambiguous … It’ll take much more evidence before it is widely accepted.’ ibid. Hancock
Ancient alien theorists do not believe extraterrestrials built these amazing monuments but instead provided technological knowledge and/or tools to our ancestors. ibid.
The 3 largest manmade stones in the world are found at the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek in Lebanon. Each weighs an estimated 1,000 tons. A nearly quarry contains an even bigger stone, known as the Stone of the Pregnant Woman. This giant rectangular block weighs an incredible 1,200 tons. To move it today would require the strength of 21 cranes. ibid.
If ancient civilisations did not possess modern mechanical equipment, how did they move and lift mega-ton stones? Were they given a technical helping hand by extraterrestrial visitors? ibid.
How did prehistoric civilisations cut such intrically designed patterns into solid granite? ibid.
‘The ruins we find at Puma Punku are simply extraordinary.’ ibid. Georgio
But how could ancient peoples have developed such technology? ibid.
‘So the precision on the inside of the granite boxes in the Serapeum I would say within two-thousands of an inch. Which is incredible.’ ibid. expert
Was the purpose of the Great Pyramid to produce hydrogen? ibid.
Ancient monuments deep underwater. A once thriving metropolis. Now half a mile under the sea. Lost cities submerged for thousands of years. Ancient Aliens: Underwater World s2e3, History 2010
Are underwater monuments examples of mankind’s earliest civilisations? Or is there evidence of skills far beyond that of primitive man? And if so, where did they come from? ibid.
What evidence lies deep underwater? ibid.
The legend of the lost city of Atlantis ... Across the Atlantic lies the island chain of the Bahamas. Just south-east of Florida. Here in 1968 Archaeologist J Manson Valentine believed he’d found part of Atlantis when he discovered an unusual rock formation off the coast of North Bimini Island. ibid.
Cuba ... Symmetrical stone structures deep below the water. Remarkably, they were over a half-mile down. ibid.
Yonaguni, Japan: this small island is at the westernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago ... A massive complex of stone formation hidden just sixty feet beneath the surface. ibid.
Is it a coincidence that the Earth’s twenty-fifth parallel north cuts through both the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon’s Triangle? ibid.
But could as ancient astronaut theories believe these strange Dogu figures really be a primitive interpretation of a space suit or a diving suit? ibid.
Off the coast of India – In 2001 researchers from India’s Oceanic Institute detected anomalies on the Gulf of Khambhat. The images revealed an enormous network of stone buildings now shrouded in mud and sand, and covering an area of five square miles. ibid.
Some believe a link between the submerged ruins and extraterrestrials can be found in another set of texts known as India’s Sangam literature. ibid.
The Andes Mountains, Peru. Here at an elevation of 12,500 feet lie the dark waters of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable body of water in the Earth. In August 2000 an Italian team of divers and archaeologists launched an underwater investigation of the legendary lake. There submerged under one hundred feet of water the team uncovered traces of a paved road, a stone terrace and a wall nearly half a mile long. ibid.