Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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The fact that this is found all around the world to me is a memory of something that happened to our ancestors, something so traumatic, something so huge that it's been preserved better than almost anything else from our past.
Reichardt structure, Mauritania. I would not like to say one way or the other because I've not been there. I've not had boots on the ground there. I've not been able to look at it. Yes, it's very intriguing. Very.
Yeah.
Probably was, but you might have to go back many millions of years to get to that point. The honest answer to that question is I don't know. I'm open-minded on the Richat structure. It's something that I would like to study, but I have not had time to yet. Future work is something that I may study.
And after studying it, I may come to the conclusion that it's just a remarkable natural phenomenon of which there are many. Or I may come to a different conclusion. It depends what the evidence shows me. But I try not to spout off on things that I'm not personally acquainted with and don't really know about.
Troy, yeah.
Found by an amateur. Turns out to be a real place. I think the myths are the memory banks of our species. And I don't think archaeology takes them seriously enough. There's a tendency to just dismiss them as fantasies, as things that were made up by the ancients for some bizarre reason of their own.
But they're the memories we have from the time before writing, from the time before documents were kept. And they're a precious resource in understanding our past. So it's things like that. And then at the end of the day, to say, to twist what I said, that in what archaeologists have studied, there's no evidence from my lost civilization.
is completely wrong because I've written thousands of pages of books. This is one of the issues. Like in that debate, I was supposed to prove everything about a lost civilization. I didn't even come here to prove it. I came here to explain why I'm interested in it and why I want to share my interest. and my curiosity about the past with others.
But if I'm asked to prove it, I would say don't refer to what I managed to say during a three-hour debate. I'd say refer to the eight or so major books that I've written with thousands of pages and thousands of documented footnotes. That's where my argument is in place. And you'll find that that argument is not based on what archaeologists have studied.
It's based precisely on what they've not studied about the past.
Again, I will withhold judgment until I have my boots on the ground there and have a look at it. And even then, that might not be enough. I do know that the property owners there are doing a lot of ground-penetrating radar, and there may be results from that. But at the moment, I would not say that's definitely a man-made structure, nor would I say that's definitely a natural structure.
I would say that's an intriguing structure. But it is in the geological context where other things like that are found. If I were asked to put money on it. There it is. Yeah. Boy, that looks. I mean, it really is hard.
Oh, it does. It goes deeper. That's what the ground penetrating radar. How far? Is about 30 feet. 30 feet. In fact, I was yesterday. That looks so man-made. Yeah, it really does. When I look at that photograph, to me, that is a man-made structure.
But I realize now in the environment in which I live, surrounded by archaeologists who are extremely hostile to my work, that it's not in my interests to leap to a conclusion about anything before I've studied it. And I do intend to go to Sagewall. I was yesterday with Michael Collins, who's the guy who's done a lot of the Videography on sage wall.
He doesn't know whether it's natural or man-made either more work needs to be done But it's an intriguing issue and it may be part of the lost history of the Americas.
Yeah, what's going on?
Yeah. Or even earlier. Right.
Is it part of the lost story of the Americas? There's so much that's been lost, particularly in North America, with the massive destruction that took place during the 19th and 18th and early 20th century. It's reckoned that there were a million mound sites in North America. If you go back to 1500, there's about 100,000 left, which is a lot actually.
But most of them are massively destroyed and the other 900,000 disappeared. have gone, just plowed under, turned into farmland. And how much else of the prehistory of North America has been lost as a result of a process where, first of all, there was a conviction that the indigenous inhabitants had only been here for a very short time, whereas we now know they've been here for a very long time.
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