Luke Caverns
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1,858 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
Luke Caverns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've seen it on YouTube. Yeah.
There was a lot of things that he wasn't familiar with, like Zep Tepe. It's either the Turin or the Turid Kings List, which talks about the pre-dynastic, like, semi-mythological kings going back, you know, tens of thousands of years.
You know, how was he the former head of the Ministry of Antiquities and Culture? How are you not familiar with this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was having a conversation with, like, my mentor, Dr. Ed Barnhart. He's a friend of Graham. He was one of Graham's guest experts on season two of Ancient Apocalypse when he went to the Maya realm. He and I were talking this morning, and he was like, he's like, you know, it's become a battle of, like, who has this right to talk about these things, you know?
Does the fact that I have a degree in anthropology, that's what gives me the right to have... more of an opinion on somebody else, that's kind of what it's become. And it's like one side is accosting the other over their fascinations and their interests and the fact that they're able to make a living from the things that they're fascinated about and talking about it.
And it feels like academia has become bitter because being in the academic world is a very rough and jaded place. And a lot of young aspiring archaeologists who existed, who maybe would have had an approach like me, but existed during this time where you could only... have your pursuits if the university signed off on it, right?
But now universities are like ideologically captured and every little thing that you do has to be aligned with the university. And so all of your fascinating ideas that you have in your mid-20s, you know, to your mid-30s when you're young and able to go off into the jungle and find something, they all get shut down by people who had their ideas shut down.
But now it's like it's the Wild West where you can have somebody like me or whoever, put together an expedition and, you know, I legally cannot start digging up the ground and excavating things, but I can go and document things and survey things on my own, you know, with local permission, whatever.
Oh, well, I mean, yeah, if I got permission, but I mean, you would be, it would be next to impossible for me, for somebody like me to do that.
Oh, well, you would have the local universities there who also have their own high credentialed people who are going to – if I don't come in with a PhD, I'm never going to go get a PhD. But if I don't come in with something like that, then I don't have the experience. I don't have the authority to be able to do something like this, and they would never trust me to carry out like a good excavation.
Right, not damage anything. Yeah, yeah. So they would never trust that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gnarly, man.
It's gnarly, man. Yeah, so much of Egypt is gone. And this is why I don't think that, you know, like I love the mystery of the ancient world and why I'm so baffled when people want to immediately shut anything down. Because of the amount of history that is lost to us is completely baffling. You know, Egypt has been getting looted
We know for the last, let's say, 3,000 years at least, foreign nations have been coming in and raiding Egypt and taking the artifacts out. And so, you know, so much of the artifact record is lost. And I think that the real problem is the confidence with which somebody like Zahi speaks.
It's okay for you to have your perspective and the way that you view the ancient world based on the data that's been available to you. It's okay to have your opinions. But when you're so confident about your opinions that you then begin to chastise other people, put them down for it, and then go the next mile and start making accusations of them being a racist and things like that.
That's really not good.
I really did not like the letter that they wrote to Netflix to try to get season one taken down of Ancient Apocalypse. And, you know, they sometimes they'll rebuttal and say, oh, well, you know, I never blatantly called him a racist. Like, well, OK, even if you didn't blatantly do it, you insinuated it and you were OK with insinuating it.
And some of these people exist in a realm where in their little bubbles where they throw around the word racist all the time. And then when they get to the wider world where the rest of us exist, they find out very quickly that none of we don't throw that term around lightly and accuse people of these things.
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