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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And you discover more things like that, like how we were talking about earlier where you were saying, you know, a smoking gun for... A civilization existing in the Americas 12,000 years ago would be, well, what if one of those meteorite fragments just destroyed a city, right? Well, at Giza, we actually have something that's sort of similar to that. The construction of mencaras.
So, you know, you have... You have the Great Pyramid, you have the Second Pyramid or the Middle Pyramid, and then you have Menkaure's Pyramid. Well, you have the Mortuary Temple, you have the Long Causeway, and it goes down to the Valley Temple. That Valley Temple there, during its construction, destroyed a worker's village.
There's like these rubbish pits that are just – they pretty much just picked up the city and dumped it off to the side. Right. as they're building that causeway and as they're building that valley temple. And so when they go through the, when they go through the rubbish, they find these, they find these seals with a cartouche and a cartouche is like the encircled sacred name of the Pharaoh.
And they only find the two previous Pharaohs, which are Khufu and Khafra. Mankara doesn't appear on there anymore. And so it shows that the city was destroyed during the creation of that valley temple. And it's, you know, I learned that in some obscure textbook that, you know, I would have never guessed 10 years ago that I would read. I picked it up in Luxor while I was in Egypt.
And, you know, become more exposed to information like that. And slowly my view on things starts to change. But at the core of where I started in this journey was reading Graham Hancock. And so that sense of wonder has never left me. Although my perception of archaeology has become much more dialed in as time has gone on. But I still keep that wonder of,
uh, and, and excitement about things that we don't understand, like how these vases could have been made, how they, you know, I, I got to see the unfinished obelisk in Aswan in Egypt, you know, 1200 tons made out of solid red Aswan granite. Um, And it's just, I mean, that's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
And, you know, the peculiar thing is, you know, they have to free out the bottom of that whole obelisk. And then what you don't see in a lot of photos is right behind it to get to the Nile, they have to clear out the whole granite outcropping that is, you know, just the same size, much bigger actually than the obelisk. They have to clear all that out.
And clear out this causeway and pull that obelisk down into the river where they're going to load it onto a barge and take it 500 or 300 miles where it's going to go. These things, a lot of these things are still unexplainable. But for me, as time has gone on. the magic was really instilled in me from reading things like Graham Hancock.
But over time, like I was saying, my views have become more dialed in. And for me, it's not really a question of timeline now, more so a question of technique or if we want to call it ancient technology.
And so that's why I think that Graham Hancock, give credit where credit's due because none of anything that I'm doing now, maybe I wouldn't be doing any of it had I not read Fingerprints of the Gods.
right you know here's a here's a funny sequence of just what he was talking about involving luke you know you are you were inspired by these sort of things when luke and i first met we were one of our first conversations were about you know i'm really still ignorant about how to do this whole thing how to do the podcast and social media thing and so luke tells me
You know what's really hot on the Internet right now? A search word that's again and again is the Olmec. And that interest in the Olmec came from folks like Graham Hancock. It didn't come from archaeology textbooks. It was tons of people learning that there was this mysterious culture they knew nothing about, and they want to know something about it, right?
So Luke tells me the Olmec is a huge keyword. You want to do anything that involves the word Olmec, and then people will be interested in it. And so not long after that, the great courses who I've been working with for years call me up and they say, you know what? Our marketing department says that everybody wants to know more about the Olmec these days.
Would you be willing to do a 12 lecture series on the Olmec? And so for the last year and a half, that's exactly what I've done. We're now in post-production, but there'll be 12 lectures coming out about the Olmec to the best of my ability, telling everybody all the little details that they'd want to know in a vetted source. They're so great there.
They have a whole team of fact-checkers who just scrutinize everything I say down to, was it – 750 BC or was it 751 BC? Because these sources contradict what you say. So a really super vetted thing. But it began with the inspiration of a whole bunch of people wanting to know more about the Olmec because what's pejoratively called pseudoscience, created that interest.
Mesoamerica. They have been traditionally called the mother culture. They are the first ones to really build big cities to organize tens of thousands of people together to create at least the evidence of a religious structure. Like they're the first ones to make religious art. And they interacted with a bunch of other cultures. Nowadays, I see it at least as a more co-evolutionary thing.
A lot of interaction was happening with the people who would become the Maya, with the people who would become the Zapotec and the Mixtec. And the valley where the Aztecs would develop like 2,000 years later. So they interact with them. But they are – And what timeline?
We're talking Olmec run from 1800 BCE to 500 BCE. So 1,300 years worth of them. And then they turn – archaeology calls them at that point the Epi-Olmec. And that goes on to about 200 AD. Okay.
There's one of them there. Luke and I just went through and saw every one of them. Luke's actually bringing a group in two weeks for my exploration center all through that area.
I think that one is back, too. I boasted that I'd bring everybody to every set, all 17 heads, and then one was in China. So I missed it by one, but I think it's back. Okay, cool. But these heads are what everybody's fascinated by, and they are incredible. And their faces are very evocative. They do look African, though. And that's controversial to say, right? People don't like that.
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