Graham Hancock

So when I see this kind of complicated image turning up all around the world, I can't help feeling that there's a remote common source, which is sharing. It's not each culture representing or influencing the other. It's a remote common source that they all share.

From Tiwanaku in Bolivia.

From Tiwanaku in Bolivia.

From Tiwanaku in Bolivia.

Well, it looks like two felines that he's holding apart. Right, but what are those things that are dangling down? I absolutely have no idea, and I'm not sure if anybody else does, although I'm reminded in that one of the handbags that we see in some of the figures from ancient Sumer.

Well, it looks like two felines that he's holding apart. Right, but what are those things that are dangling down? I absolutely have no idea, and I'm not sure if anybody else does, although I'm reminded in that one of the handbags that we see in some of the figures from ancient Sumer.

Well, it looks like two felines that he's holding apart. Right, but what are those things that are dangling down? I absolutely have no idea, and I'm not sure if anybody else does, although I'm reminded in that one of the handbags that we see in some of the figures from ancient Sumer.

Again, I don't know and I don't think anybody does.

Again, I don't know and I don't think anybody does.

Again, I don't know and I don't think anybody does.

It's a spiral of mystery. I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

It's a spiral of mystery. I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

It's a spiral of mystery. I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

It would be nice if there were written records from Tiwanaku, which told us what it was about, but unfortunately there aren't.

It would be nice if there were written records from Tiwanaku, which told us what it was about, but unfortunately there aren't.

It would be nice if there were written records from Tiwanaku, which told us what it was about, but unfortunately there aren't.

So what I'm saying is we're seeing a sudden emergence of something that is being recognized as a civilization in Turkey just immediately after Göbekli Tepe, around the time of Göbekli Tepe. And we're seeing it in the Jordan Valley, and we're seeing it in the Indus Valley, and we're seeing it in South America as well. The same iconography keeps on repeating, and I don't think it's a coincidence.

So what I'm saying is we're seeing a sudden emergence of something that is being recognized as a civilization in Turkey just immediately after Göbekli Tepe, around the time of Göbekli Tepe. And we're seeing it in the Jordan Valley, and we're seeing it in the Indus Valley, and we're seeing it in South America as well. The same iconography keeps on repeating, and I don't think it's a coincidence.

So what I'm saying is we're seeing a sudden emergence of something that is being recognized as a civilization in Turkey just immediately after Göbekli Tepe, around the time of Göbekli Tepe. And we're seeing it in the Jordan Valley, and we're seeing it in the Indus Valley, and we're seeing it in South America as well. The same iconography keeps on repeating, and I don't think it's a coincidence.

I wouldn't be surprised if they have. Villa Hermosa, the sort of central of the Olmec area, is a very highly populated area. It's been heavily developed. The areas where LIDAR has been used in Mexico and Central America and Guatemala has been finding thousands of Mayan ruins that nobody knew were there before, again, under the jungle canopy.