Lost Civilizations of the Amazon, Why They Burned Alexandria, & What Atlantis Really Is | #698
episodePreviously titled “Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 5, 2026
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Why are there no megastructures in North America?
what's up guys today we are joined by a real life explorer archaeologist historian youtuber as well and possibly my long lost twin lou caverns is on the pod and we are talking about lost cities of gold ancient jaguar people the greatest city that's ever existed in my opinion, New York City, but in Luke's opinion, the city of Alexandria and much more. Sit back, relax, and indulge. Why is it that we see all these massive structures in Mexico and South? Why are there none of these in the northern parts?
That is a good question. Well... Pyramids? Yeah, yeah. So... This is something I've thought about, and I don't know that there is a perfect answer for it.
Why don't you see any pyramids in California? Why don't you see any pyramids on the way? And then all of a sudden they sprout up in... Where's the first...
Probably the most northern is going to be about right here at a place called Teotihuacan. I went there. Yeah, so you've been there. Okay, yeah. So that's probably your first notable... There may be some pyramids north of that, but that's like your first... That's your northernmost stone pyramid. But that said...
What is the significance of Machu Picchu in ancient architecture?
You know, about right here in Ohio, if I'm pointing out Ohio, nobody really knows where Ohio is.
I know what you're going to point out here.
Yeah, but you've got like the Adena mounds and stuff that come from 500 BC, but they're all made out of earth, right? And so, yeah, so much here you have earth and timber, not as much bedrock. So you don't have as much stone to work with.
They just didn't have access to stone. That's why we don't see it. There's plenty of stone on the West Coast.
And that's true. And like in the Appalachian Mountains, man, you've got so much granite and limestone that's poking out, but they're not using it. Not most of the time. There actually is somewhere in the Mississippian world, there is one stone pyramid that I've seen. It might be in Ohio itself. Here in the Southwest, you have lots of stone and they're building like pueblos and, you know, the huge cities and stuff like that. Cliff dwellings, you know, so they're making stuff out of stone, but not pyramids. But in California, you had the highest, California, Oregon, Washington, you had some of the highest densities of Native Americans in North America, and they didn't build anything like that. Why? I have no idea.
Well, this is something we need to understand.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm sure that people in your position have asked these questions tons of times. It's like, why all of a sudden does this modern technology, and modern for the time, right, like pop up in these regions and kind of only in those regions?
I'll give you an idea why I think. Why? So when you're in the Maya world, the jungle is straight up hell. Give me the Mayan empire, like more or less. So the Maya world is going to be the Yucatan Peninsula, about right through here, like that south central Mexico.
Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador.
Yes, sir. Yeah, that's right.
How did the Library of Alexandria contribute to ancient knowledge?
So the jungle out there sucks. Like, just walking through it is hell. And it floods all the time. There are, you know, the world, some of the, well, definitely the America's most venomous snakes live in the highest concentrations right here. of anywhere you're going to find them in America. It's the Fertilance snakes. And you've got eyelash vipers and all kinds of other stuff. And so there's a lot that exists on the forest floor that can kill you and your children, especially like kids, just like that. And it floods all the time.
So it incentivizes you to build structures.
Yeah. So what they want to do is they want to build platforms and And so you wanna get up off of the forest floor and then other people are gonna want that. So you make the platform bigger and then it becomes bigger and then it becomes bigger, but you do it out of earth, but the earth erodes. So then you gotta do it with something strong or you gotta do it with stone. So you're trying just to survive in this hellish jungle environment. And they have a lot of stone bedrock, which is why like in the Amazon, it's all clay.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why are there no megastructures in North America?
0:00–1:18
2
What is the significance of Machu Picchu in ancient architecture?
1:18–2:57
3
How did the Library of Alexandria contribute to ancient knowledge?
2:57–1:15:42
4
What happened to the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
1:15:42–1:18:43
5
How did Cleopatra rise to power in Egypt?
1:18:43–1:22:31
6
What was the significance of the Aztec wedding story?
1:22:31–2:27:23
7
What insights do we gain about the Olmec civilization?
2:27:23–2:29:26
8
How does the were-jaguar figure relate to Olmec culture?
2:29:26–3:39:19
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