Mysterious spheres that are not from this planet … Expedition off the coast of Papua New Guinea … ibid.
Harvard scientist finds alien artifacts at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. ibid. Earthcom article 2023
The spheres were found to contain extremely high levels of Beryllium, Lanthanum and Uranium. ibid.
University of Sheffield, England, 2015: Astrobiologist Milton Wainwright and his research team release scientific balloons 25 miles up into the sky. Once a balloon reaches its target altitude, a capture mechanism will collect samples of material within the Earth’s stratosphere. ibid.
‘A tiny sphere … Titanium and Vanadium … It was actually a shell that had now broken, and coming out of it was this strange ooze that they felt was biological in nature.’ ibid. comment
‘There’s no Earth material associated with them. And they are too large to be carried from Earth to these altitudes. They must be incoming from space.’ ibid. Dr Wainwright
Solid granite cut with laser-like precision. And accounts of astonishing technological capabilities. For almost two decades Ancient Aliens has travelled the globe, exploring towering megalithic structures, mysterious artefacts and stories of other-worldly beings. Ancient Aliens: Origins s1e1, History 2025
Ancient engineering was one of the first topics that we covered on Ancient Aliens. ibid. Giorgio
Did ancient civilisations really cut these massive stone blocks using just hammers, chisels and copper tools? ibid. narrator
Why would they want to use 100-ton blocks? ibid. Bauval
The only way they could have cut that thing is with a saw that was 35-feet in diameter. ibid. Dunn
The idea that Ancient Egyptians used giant saws provoked much resistance from mainstream archaeologists. ibid. Narrator
Puma Punku is an large temple complex located on a high plateau in Bolivia. Mainstream archaeologists date the site from approximately 200 B.C.E. The people who lived here had neither a written language nor the wheel, yet somehow they’ve built one of the world’s most complex structures. ibid.
Inside Boxes: ‘That is a hell of a piece of work.’ ibid. stone-mason to Giorgio
Where could the ancient peoples have developed such technology? ibid. narrator
Several hundred miles north of Puma Punku, Machu Picchu sits high atop the Peruvian Andes. Constructed by the Incas in the 15th century, his stone citadel was abruptly abandoned a century later. ibid.
Peru: Here is the high river valley among peaks towering over 20,000 feet the Inca established their capital city of Cusco, which thrived for over 300 years. ibid.
Puma Punku is unparalleled on Earth. ibid. Giorgio
The mysterious ancient ruins of Puma Punku. Spread across a desert plateau at an altitude over 12,000 the megalithic stones found here are among the largest on the planet. ibid. Narrator
The wooden-roller theory falls by the wayside. ibid. Giorgio
They were using these H-blocks for a mechanical purpose. Possibly to hold hinges for a door. ibid. Chris Dunn
Malta: Stone structures on the Maltese Island of Gozo are considered by archaeologists to be among the greatest achievements by ancient builders anywhere in the world. ibid. Narrator
Called the Hpogeum, a subterranean structure was revealed to be three levels deep, all hewn from solid stone. ibid.
Nan Madol: You have these giant basalt structures in the middle of nowhere in the ocean on tiny tiny islands. ibid.
The island of Pohnpei. Over 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, completely isolated in the Pacific Ocean, this Micronesian landmass is home to just 34,000 people, mainly farmers and fishermen. But there is one area of the island that is compeltely uninhabited, the lost city of Nan Madol. The native islanders believe this ancient site is cursed, and it’s also home to some of the most mysterious archaeological ruins in the world. ibid.
92 smaller manmade islands connected by canals … 92 islets built out of giant basalt columns. 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, now 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.
How did the Romans manage to defy gravity and make millions of litres of water flow uphill over mountains? How did the Ancient Egyptians carve massive granite obelisks thousands of years before the Washington monument was built? And why would the Roman army build their own mountain? Ancient Impossible s1e2: Moving Mountains
2,000 years ago it was Mission Impossible for the mighty Roman Army. They had to conquer this impregnable mountain fortress, surrounded by sheer cliffs, standing hundreds of feet above the Judean desert. ibid.
The Romans completed the wall around Masada in just a few days. But what they didn’t realise was how well stocked the rebels were. ibid.
If the Romans couldn’t starve the rebels out, they would take Masada by force. ibid.
Siege ramps have been part of warfare for thousands of years. ibid.
How do you get a thousand-ton obelisk on to a barge? … [A. Make it an axle] ibid.
Roman engineers kept the water moving through hills and valleys maintaining a steady gradient of less than one per cent. An astounding feat. ibid.
How did the Egyptians carve the world’s largest monument thousands of years before the Americans carved Mount Rushmore? How did the Romans build a dome bigger than the dome of the US Capitol building? And how were the massive stones of Stonehenge moved hundreds of miles across rugged terrain? Ancient Impossible s1e3: Monster Monuments
Over 3,000 years ago one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs created this impossibly vast monument to himself at Abu Simbel at an imposing location on the Nile River. To this day it is still the largest temple ever carved out of solid rock. ibid.
3,000 years ago at Abu Simbel in Egypt there was no dynamite or power drills. ibid.
Yet the Egyptians built this massive temple with little more than copper chisels. ibid.
‘Today, the great Temple of Abu Simbel looks like it’s always been here. It is a great testament to the ancient builders who constructed it, and to the modern engineers who moved it.’ ibid. Comment
Stonehenge in the southwest of England. Alongside the Pyramids, it’s one of the most iconic sites in the world. ibid.
Preseli, Wales: This is the place in Wales where the inner-circle blue stones at Stonehenge come from. ibid.
‘These stones from this quarry were transported well over a hundred miles.’ ibid. Comment
A 2000-year-old concrete dome found in the centre of Rome – it’s called the Pantheon. ibid.
The Egyptians built more than a hundred pyramids across their kingdom. ibid.