Mike Collins
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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And it's unfortunate because I think that there's a need for, there's definitely a need for archaeology and the work that's being done. But I also think that it's been hijacked over the years by
I mean, this goes right into some of the stuff that we talked about before with, you know, some of the, you know, one of the big things that I've experienced, and this maybe is a good segue into stuff like Long U Caves, but These places around the world, once they get that tin roof, you already know what's happening. And it's ongoing. It's going on with Gobekli Tepe.
And I'll just say it outright. The big conspiracy about them pushing back the excavations 50, 100 years or whatever they're doing, it's because they found a way to make money out of it. And I think it's as simple as that. Archaeology has stopped there or stopping there, like they've talked about and said publicly, not because they're waiting on new technology. It's because they found a cash flow.
And I see it around the world at these sites that I visit all over the world. It's like all the same design. They get these roofs, these metal roof things. They get a drive and parking lot built right up to it so tour buses can pull up and load people. There's a ticket booth, an office or whatever right there. And they've excavated 5, 10% of the site usually. And they're fine with that.
And they stop there. And then it's just a tourist destination. I think Obekli Tepe, the numbers that I remember, I think, I might be off here, but it was like getting 6,000 to 8,000 visitors a year at some point. And now it's over half a million people a year. It's a big business. They're making money. It's a lot of income.
And then what starts happening is what's happening in China, unfortunately. It's the active covering up of history. They're changing everything about that site. So you go in there in the caves. Oh, awesome, here we are. None of that right there, those shots of the carvings and stuff, none of that's original. So apparently all that's been added after the fact.
And that aerial view there kind of gives you a perspective as these things are all underground. And even on the top surface as I was exploring that area, it's interesting because there's areas and stone outcroppings and stuff where there's evidence of possible... you know, ancient working and stuff.
You know what, if we can hold here, this shot here shows the caves there at the bottom of the screen. But up on all those buildings there, all these buildings are being added over the area and over the site. So now if you look at the cave type system here, those are caves that haven't been drained yet.
And to the left of that, those buildings there, that's like the main entrance there to the cave systems down underground. And so this whole area that's covered by trees, underneath all that is Longview Caves. There's evidence in areas that you walk through through these trees. There's evidence of stuff above ground that was going on. They've just blown through certain areas.
So they've completely demolished rock outcroppings and stuff that have evidence of ancient drill holes and tool marks and stuff in them. And they've just blown through them to create pathways. And basically what they're doing, if you look down on the bottom right, So when I was there, that building structure there in the bottom right corner is still under construction.
And basically what they're doing with that building is turning it into the buildings like up there at the top right. And you can see that open area right above the building in the bottom right corner where that little space has been cleared. You can see they're setting up to build another building there. Now what you...
may not recognize is the top of the right of the screen there the very top right corner that's the river so that's how close you are to the river and just out of frame on the right side is the river now all of the rock and everything that's been excavated from those caves they've never found and we're talking about tens of thousands of tons of excavated rock that's never been accounted for and um
So there it is. There's the whole complex.
But again, they haven't found that there at the river either, any evidence of that.
Right. There's no buildup of excavated stone or buildup of rock. And basically what they're doing here is creating this... you know, entire, you know, what they're doing. Yangshan Quarry is a great example because they've already built this, like, village in front of Yangshan Quarry.
So you go on site, there's Yangshan Quarry, but then they've built this whole facility up at the front of it where they do these, like,
you know like entertainment value you know um performances and different stuff with shops and things and they're turning into almost like a mini little amusement park but then back behind that is yangshan quarry that's what they're doing here this whole complex here is is all new and it's all to eventually facilitate this being a tourist attraction
and um so i don't know if you can kind of follow sort of in the middle of the screen there's a bigger building there um that's that one there that that one there is that's like the ticket booth office and from that parking lot there to its left you walk in go to the ticket booth office it was free when we went that day i don't know why
um because we didn't speak the same language them at the ticket booth and us english but um then you walk into the park so this is going to be designed out to be this whole kind of walkthrough experience and generally what it looks like they're doing is laying out this kind of cultural experience that you'll walk through with all those buildings and different stuff like that
And then you'll go on and you'll do the caves. Now, when you walk into the caves, you go down into the caves and they're changing the interior of the cave. They're carving out the walls. Now, the walls show evidence of this patterning that you see a lot in ancient sites, which is this almost like parallel band and horizontal band of machining tool looking marks.
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