Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
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And that led archaeologists to dive in on him, and there was a ganging up of archaeologists, and complaints were made to the peer-reviewed journal that published it, and finally they retracted his paper without any good reasons. I've got a major article by Danny on my website explaining what happened here. It's like... It's like we don't want too much attention brought to this. Let's crush it.
Let's crush it right now. The same thing is happening with the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. An enormous amount of attacks are being made on that hypothesis rather than considering it as an interesting explanation for the cataclysms at the end of the Ice Age. A lot of people are just focused on trying to destroy it in every way possible. And I can't help wondering.
Maybe there's some truth, deep truth to this, that there was a cataclysm, that there was an ancient apocalypse, something really horrific that happened. Maybe it's a cyclical disaster. Maybe it's coming around again. This is something that would lead any government to want to avoid panic, to suppress, to cover up these issues. So that would be the conspiracy theory.
I'm not saying I buy it, but I'm saying that it's possible.
That's also possible. That's also possible. But in their favor and to their credit, the excavation of that whole area around, not Gobekli Tepe itself, but other neighboring sites, Karahan Tepe is the best known, was Turkish archaeologists, it's interesting, are calling this now a civilization. They're calling it the Tas Tepeler civilization, the Stone Hills civilization.
And they're finding that the same iconography, the same building techniques, not quite on the scale of Göbekli Tepe, are repeated all across the region. They extend all the way down to the south of the Jordan Valley to Jericho. The ancient site of Jericho is part of that lost civilization. or emerging civilization that appeared at the end of the Younger Dryas.
Cyprus is another example I was mentioning about how it was settled in what appeared to have been planned, organized settlement events near the end of the last Ice Age. Again, you find that same iconography that you find at Gobekli Tepe turning up there. Which iconography specifically? The tendency to use T-shaped pillars, to use certain designs like a V-shaped necklace that
This kind of iconography and the structures, these circular structures, semi-subterranean structures that are so characteristic of Gobekli Tepe, they're found there as well. They're found all across the region. Jericho in the Jordan Valley is absolutely intriguing.
The massive tower there, which again dates back right to the end of the last ice age, a huge megalithic tower with the world's oldest known structure. megalithic stairway that runs up inside it. So what's emerging as a result, if Gobekli Tepe hadn't been found, none of this would have happened. But it's led to a widespread interest in the whole area.
So while excavation may have stopped at Gobekli Tepe or may have slowed down, it is continuing elsewhere across the region. And to be fair to archaeologists, we need to recognize that.
Yes. So far, the ones that have been found, Gobekli Tepe is unique. And I think it's clear now that Gobekli Tepe itself was the end of a process, not the beginning of a process. It was something that marked... It was a marker.
It was something that brought together the best of everything that they'd accumulated and created it in one place and left it there, finally at the end, burying it, sealing it as a time capsule, which then was untouched for more than 10,000 years before Klaus Schmidt opened it up in 1996. I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is. It's a time capsule.
It's a memorial to a lost time. And I think that what we're looking at in that whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely lost civilization. I think it passed on its cultural genes right there in that area of Turkey and down into the Jordan Valley and Cyprus. And not only there, also the Indus Valley civilization.
It's incredible iconography, which shows a man between two felines. It's a very striking image. You see a man and two tigers or leopards on either side of him. And he may be holding them apart. He may be gripping them in some way. What is this so Jamie can find it? You can find it on the Gebel al-Arak knife handle from Egypt.
You can find it from Saybuk, S-A-Y-B-U-R-K, in Turkey, the man between two felines. And you can find it in the Indus Valley civilization right across in Pakistan on these steatite seals that they used to make where, again, you see that same icon of the man between two felines. And it suggests that cultural ideas way back in the remote past were being spread around the world very, very rapidly.
Yeah, there we are. That's Harappa. That's from the Indus Valley civilization, man between two felines. What do you think that supposedly represents? Nobody knows what it represents, but what's intriguing is that it turns up in so many different places. But I'd like to find the... Just give me one second just to find something. I hope I'm online. Here I am.
Hang on, Joe. Bear with me. No worries. One minute. This is where I have to take my bloody glasses off.
Yeah.
This one, 12 feet high or something like that.
Jamie, could I get plugged into the HDMI?
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