Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Did you hurt and damage and cause pain to others consistently out of wicked intent, not accidentally but deliberately causing pain? And there are human beings who do that. For the ancient Egyptians, that kind of behavior meant an introduction to Amit, the eater of the dead. And Amit is displayed in the judgment scene. He's a creature, part hyena, part lion.
And he sits there and certain souls do not go on. Their journey ends and it ends because of the choices they made during life and because they never took responsibility for what they did.
The beautiful art that they made. Yeah. The perfection of their geometry, their incredibly advanced astronomy. All of these things are the hallmarks of a very sophisticated, very advanced civilization. Sure, they didn't have iPhones, but…
Beautiful things.
Well, the answer is we don't know. We don't know. There's so much that we don't know. And it's that attitude towards the past, which I think would be more helpful, is that we have this mysterious... background to we human beings. As you said earlier, anatomically modern humans, we think that they first appeared about 300,000 years ago. Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, 310,000 years ago.
Now, I can remember a time not so long ago, back in the 1990s, when it was thought that the first anatomically modern humans were as recent as 50,000 years ago. And then they shifted it, new finds were made to 110,000 years ago, now 310,000 years ago. We don't really know how far into the past that goes. And we don't know about the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, who were also human beings.
Certainly they were human, the same species as us, because they could interbreed with us. You can't breed with another species. And that takes the journey back even further. And that's one of the reasons why I have a problem with the notion that civilization just emerges 6,000 years ago. Because we had the same kit, the same wiring, the same brains for at least 300,000 years.
And we weren't doing any of this stuff, apparently. I suspect we were, but it's not made the record.
It was bountiful.
It certainly did. The bounty, however, goes back much further. This is one of the reasons why I kept on trying to talk about the Sahara during the debate. This vast area, which frankly has not been studied properly by archaeology at all, hardly a fraction of it has been studied, this vast area I'm often accused of creating what they call a God of the gaps argument.
I'm saying you haven't looked enough in the Sahara. You haven't looked enough in the submerged continental shelves. You haven't looked enough in the Amazon rainforest. And the argument is that I'm trying to put my lost civilization into these gaps. But these are very special gaps. The submerged continental shelves were... Prime real estate during the Ice Age.
That was the place to be just as it is today, to be near coastlines. The Amazon rainforest was a bountiful place and the Sahara Desert was green and rich for thousands of years during the Ice Age with lakes, with rivers. It was the kind of place where a civilization might well have emerged.
No, it hasn't. It's too vast. It's too vast, and it's too expensive to excavate.
Nobody knows because it's not been investigated properly. It's a desert and it's had relatively little attention. We do know there's some amazing rock art from the upper Paleolithic in the Tassili in Algeria, in the Sahara. But not enough has been done.
This is the problem for me with saying archaeology has basically got the story of the human past nailed down, is that there's huge areas which have not been investigated. And I reject the idea that that is a God of the gaps argument because that's not why I'm proposing there was a lost civilization. And that's all I'm doing. I'm not insisting. I'm not demanding that people believe me.
I just want to inject this idea into the discussion so that it can be considered. Taken out of context was a little clip where you asked me during the debate, is there any evidence for your lost civilization in what they've found? And I said, in what they've found, no.
And then I went on to say, but that brings us to the point of what they've looked for and what they've not looked for, what they've found and what they've not found. That has been taken again and again as me saying that there's no evidence for my lost civilization.
Whereas what I'm actually saying is there's no evidence in what archaeologists have studied for a lost civilization because I'm not studying what archaeologists study. I am very happy to use material from archaeologists, and I could not do what I do if I didn't use material from archaeologists. It's a very important basis to my work. However, it's the astronomy. It's the astronomical alignments.
It's the precision. It's the precision of the Great Pyramid. It's the myths of a global flood. all around the world. It's a universal story of a massive cataclysm with a few survivors who bring their knowledge to others. This is one of the reasons why I think the Atlantis story, which Flint Dibble is so opposed to, deserves to be taken seriously. because it's part of a global tradition.
It's yet another flood myth, in fact. It's the story. It's just like those 150 or 200 other flood traditions that come from around the world. And it's not enough for archaeologists to say, oh, people experienced a little local river flood or there was a tidal wave that day. And so they decided that the whole world was submerged with water. That doesn't satisfy me at all.
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