Graham Hancock

This reliance on experts, I get it. I would like the pilot of my plane to be an expert pilot. I don't want him to be an amateur. But I don't think that archaeologists and aircraft pilots can be compared in that sense. Archaeology is a much more interpretive discipline. An aircraft pilot is not really interpreting situations that much. He knows what to do in such situations.

Archaeologists are interpreting the past and yet they seem to get very upset by other interpretations of the past that are offered that don't agree with theirs. And this is the problem of expertise in our society. Yes, expertise is very important. It's incredibly useful. But we should not place all our faith and trust in experts.

Archaeologists are interpreting the past and yet they seem to get very upset by other interpretations of the past that are offered that don't agree with theirs. And this is the problem of expertise in our society. Yes, expertise is very important. It's incredibly useful. But we should not place all our faith and trust in experts.

Archaeologists are interpreting the past and yet they seem to get very upset by other interpretations of the past that are offered that don't agree with theirs. And this is the problem of expertise in our society. Yes, expertise is very important. It's incredibly useful. But we should not place all our faith and trust in experts.

We need to liberate our own consciousness and freely think about things and make our own decisions about things and resist experts.

We need to liberate our own consciousness and freely think about things and make our own decisions about things and resist experts.

We need to liberate our own consciousness and freely think about things and make our own decisions about things and resist experts.

Well, that was part of our adventure with season two of Ancient Apocalypse, was working with a really professional team in Brazil, led by an archaeologist, Marti Parsonen from the University of Helsinki, and a geographer from Brazil, Alceu Ranzi. Al-Sayyou, years ago, was the first person who noticed that there are these huge geometrical structures emerging out of the Amazon jungle.

Well, that was part of our adventure with season two of Ancient Apocalypse, was working with a really professional team in Brazil, led by an archaeologist, Marti Parsonen from the University of Helsinki, and a geographer from Brazil, Alceu Ranzi. Al-Sayyou, years ago, was the first person who noticed that there are these huge geometrical structures emerging out of the Amazon jungle.

Well, that was part of our adventure with season two of Ancient Apocalypse, was working with a really professional team in Brazil, led by an archaeologist, Marti Parsonen from the University of Helsinki, and a geographer from Brazil, Alceu Ranzi. Al-Sayyou, years ago, was the first person who noticed that there are these huge geometrical structures emerging out of the Amazon jungle.

And he noticed it on a flight on a commercial aircraft in an area that happened to have been cleared by local farmers for planting crops, that there was this massive geometrical earthwork there. And that – he actually coined the term geoglyphs for these because he compared them in some ways with the Nazca lines, which again are really only visible from the air.

And he noticed it on a flight on a commercial aircraft in an area that happened to have been cleared by local farmers for planting crops, that there was this massive geometrical earthwork there. And that – he actually coined the term geoglyphs for these because he compared them in some ways with the Nazca lines, which again are really only visible from the air.

And he noticed it on a flight on a commercial aircraft in an area that happened to have been cleared by local farmers for planting crops, that there was this massive geometrical earthwork there. And that – he actually coined the term geoglyphs for these because he compared them in some ways with the Nazca lines, which again are really only visible from the air.

You get suddenly this massive scope and extent of these things. And it's the same with the geoglyphs in the Amazon. And here's the thing. The ones we know about up till now, we largely know about them because of these tragic clearances of the Amazon rainforest, which is maybe a short-term economic gain but is long-term really not a very good idea.

You get suddenly this massive scope and extent of these things. And it's the same with the geoglyphs in the Amazon. And here's the thing. The ones we know about up till now, we largely know about them because of these tragic clearances of the Amazon rainforest, which is maybe a short-term economic gain but is long-term really not a very good idea.

You get suddenly this massive scope and extent of these things. And it's the same with the geoglyphs in the Amazon. And here's the thing. The ones we know about up till now, we largely know about them because of these tragic clearances of the Amazon rainforest, which is maybe a short-term economic gain but is long-term really not a very good idea.

But now with LiDAR, it's possible to find these things without damaging any rainforest at all. And we had a LiDAR expert with us. And you can fly LiDAR off a drone now. That's amazing. Yeah. It's incredible. It's a pretty hefty drone. But they can fly anywhere. And we found – I say we. It was actually the LiDAR expert who found –

But now with LiDAR, it's possible to find these things without damaging any rainforest at all. And we had a LiDAR expert with us. And you can fly LiDAR off a drone now. That's amazing. Yeah. It's incredible. It's a pretty hefty drone. But they can fly anywhere. And we found – I say we. It was actually the LiDAR expert who found –

But now with LiDAR, it's possible to find these things without damaging any rainforest at all. And we had a LiDAR expert with us. And you can fly LiDAR off a drone now. That's amazing. Yeah. It's incredible. It's a pretty hefty drone. But they can fly anywhere. And we found – I say we. It was actually the LiDAR expert who found –

He found, you can see the edge of the rainforest where the clearances stop and the rainforest hasn't yet been interfered with. And then he flies over there. And within a matter of hours, he's found multiple more of these structures.