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00:08Easter Island statues could hold the secret of what happened in the world before history began.
00:15Why did ancient cultures with no known contacts have so much in common?
00:22My theory is they all derived from a common source, a single lost civilization.
00:37The End
01:03Almost 600 myths collected on every continent
01:07speak of a global flood that swept away an advanced civilization.
01:13This is the basis of the Noah's Ark story.
01:16I believe that such stories record real events
01:19that shook the earth at the end of the last ice age.
01:23The myths say there were survivors, ancient mariners,
01:27who rode out the flood in great ships and colonized new lands.
01:40Easter Island today is just a tiny, windswept volcanic peak
01:44protruding above the almost limitless wastes of the Pacific Ocean.
01:48But before the end of the last ice age, things were very different.
01:53Sea levels were almost 400 feet lower then.
01:56And an observer sitting here, instead of seeing endless wastes of ocean,
02:02would have seen a vista of valleys and mountain peaks
02:05stretching away towards the horizon.
02:12Around 13,000 years ago,
02:14the melting ice sheets unleashed a catastrophic flood upon the earth.
02:20Historians dispute the myths of an advanced civilization.
02:24They tell us there were only primitive tribes of hunter-gatherers then.
02:28No agriculture, no architecture, no writing, no cities,
02:34and certainly no advanced civilization.
02:38Yet if such a civilization had existed,
02:41its ruins would be underwater, completely out of sight.
02:46My quest is to look for the traces of its survivors.
02:55Surrounded by the deeps of the Pacific Ocean,
02:59Easter Island is a mystery made of statues.
03:02Almost a thousand of them, weighing dozens of tons each,
03:06distributed all around the island.
03:13For hundreds of years, they were quarried here in Rana Raraku,
03:18hewn out of the living rock in this great crater rim.
03:21And then suddenly, for no apparent reason, the work stopped.
03:25It's as though the artisans just downed their tools and went away
03:29and never came back to it again.
03:33Archaeologists see it all as a great folly,
03:35which came to an end as follies do.
03:38But the ancients weren't stupid,
03:41and they didn't do all this for nothing.
03:48For a start, the sculptures are rooted in astronomy,
03:51which would have been an essential tool
03:53for the navigators who first found this place.
03:57The giant statues and the platforms they stand on
04:00face the rising sun on specific days of the year
04:03and target significant stars.
04:09It was part of a massive endeavour to connect sky to ground,
04:13and it's a pattern I'm seeing all over the ancient world.
04:19But there's no evidence whatsoever
04:21of any contact between these early cultures.
04:262,000 miles from anywhere,
04:28Easter Island is the remotest inhabited spot in the world.
04:36Yet it emerges from legend as a place of refuge
04:39for the survivors of a terrible flood
04:41that had destroyed the earth
04:42at the end of a prehistoric golden age.
04:53The only real event that fits the bill
04:56is the sudden end of the last ice age
04:58when melting ice caps flooded the globe.
05:05Many coastal areas,
05:07which could have supported an advanced seagoing civilization,
05:10would have been inundated
05:11and the people forced to find new homes.
05:17The geological record is fairly well established
05:21that around the 11th, 12th, 13th millennium,
05:25something cataclysmic happened over the face of the earth.
05:29The ice melted, producing tremendous climatic changes.
05:33There were enormous earthquakes all over the place.
05:38Many, many animals of the ice age went extinct.
05:43Suddenly, the sea levels rose precipitously,
05:46100 meters within the space of days.
05:52So when you put all of this together,
05:54you have a scenario,
05:55and a very well-established,
05:57deeply scientific geological scenario
05:59for dramatic earth changes
06:03everywhere over the face of the planet.
06:12On the other side of the Pacific Ocean,
06:15there's exciting evidence of a civilization
06:17that could have been lost in the cataclysm.
06:21It lies off the most southerly Japanese island of Yonaguni.
06:30In 1997, reports reached me
06:33of a mysterious underwater structure.
06:38Few geologists even know about this new discovery.
06:41It's been submerged since sea levels rose
06:44at the end of the ice age.
06:50If these walls and steps are man-made,
06:54the story of civilization
06:55is thousands of years older than we thought.
07:14To try to reach some informed conclusions,
07:17I set up an expedition with a team of divers,
07:20including geologist Professor Robert Schock
07:22and Egyptologist John Anthony West.
07:26It's just a tremendous feeling of excitement
07:29to get down there
07:30and see this thing looming at you
07:33out of the cathedral gloom
07:35at those depths.
07:36It's a sense of the power
07:37and the awe of this structure.
07:40I'm starting to get a sense
07:41of exactly, you know,
07:43what we're looking at,
07:44and it's just spectacular.
07:47I don't know how to judge it at the moment.
07:50There's a mood of urgency now
07:52because we have to complete our work
07:54before the current gets too strong.
08:11A local shark fisherman
08:13diving for hammerheads
08:15discovered this extraordinary structure
08:17ten years ago.
08:21It's the height of a six-storey building
08:24and the length of Egypt's Great Pyramid.
08:29The islanders are convinced
08:31it's an ancient monument.
08:36Look at this peculiar trench.
08:38It cuts through from east to west.
08:57The whole structure feels designed
09:00and organized,
09:01a work of intelligence.
09:24I'm excited to find
09:26these deep, round holes.
09:28They look like the seatings
09:29for large posts.
09:36It was so interesting to note
09:37a narrow trench
09:38about so wide
09:40and so deep
09:41which runs perfectly straight
09:42for I would guess
09:43the best part of 60, 70 meters.
09:47And off to the side of that
09:48there's an indented area
09:49again with very precise cuts
09:52along the side of it
09:53which I suppose
09:55they could be natural
09:56but I find it hard to believe
09:58they are natural.
09:59it's more spectacular
10:00than anything
10:02nature produces
10:03yes, on the scale
10:04of the Grand Canyon
10:05or something like that
10:06nature does a pretty good job
10:08but the angles and planes
10:10and complexity of it
10:12gives you, it's awesome
10:13down there, it really is.
10:15There's two huge circular holes
10:17in the rock
10:18which go down
10:18I guess about from
10:19your chest down to the ground
10:21and again one is projecting
10:25one's past experiences
10:26onto these things
10:26but I can't help thinking
10:27post holes
10:28to put big posts in
10:30such as they have at
10:31Stonehenge
10:32some posts
10:32I mean there's a massive thing
10:33maybe that's where they boil
10:34the missionaries
10:36but whether they're
10:37missionary pots or post holes
10:40nature tends not to
10:42not to do that
10:42not to do that
10:43absolutely
10:44this is really
10:45I mean you can't see it
10:46very well in this
10:47but this I think
10:47is really the most spectacular
10:49I agree
10:50I agree
10:51but one thing is
10:52when you look around
10:53I mean then you get
10:54other areas
10:55which have the same
10:56feel and texture
10:57but they aren't
10:58as spectacular
10:59this is like a focal point
11:01of the monument
11:01it all seems to me
11:02to be part of a pattern
11:04yeah
11:06but it was clearly
11:07exposed at one point
11:09we know that geologically
11:10I mean this is
11:13in my opinion
11:14this merits further study
11:22so this is
11:23wall is
11:25not natural
11:26yeah
11:27very strange
11:28very interesting
11:29yeah
11:29professor Masaki Kimura
11:31of Okinawa University
11:32is one of Japan's
11:34leading marine geologists
11:37he's staked
11:38his considerable
11:39professional reputation
11:40on the assertion
11:41that the Yonaguni
11:42structure is man-made
11:43and not a freak
11:44natural formation
11:45so professor
11:47you've been
11:47you've been studying
11:48this monument
11:49intensively
11:50for six years
11:51are you
11:52are you really sure
11:54that it's man-made
11:55so our research
11:57here
11:58this topography
12:01never made
12:03by natural
12:04so that means
12:05this topography
12:07is
12:09man-made
12:11Kimura and his team
12:12of students
12:13have made
12:13more than
12:14200 dives
12:15to survey
12:15the structure
12:16at Yonaguni
12:18it is naturally
12:19eroded
12:20but they say
12:21nature
12:21could not have
12:22produced
12:22the sharp
12:23rectangular edges
12:24and other peculiar
12:25features that the
12:26monument displays
12:29more and more
12:30interesting
12:30as we go along
12:31yeah
12:31it's interesting
12:32it's very interesting
12:35and if you are sure
12:36that it's man-made
12:37when
12:37when do you think
12:38that man-made it
12:39based upon
12:40the sea level
12:42change
12:43the age
12:44is
12:44older than
12:469000 years
12:47somewhere between
12:489000 and 10,000 years
12:50yes
12:51the last time
12:52sea level
12:53was that low
12:54was between
12:54maybe 9000 and 10,000 years
12:56yes
12:57but in fact
12:57the monument itself
12:59could have been
12:5912 or 13
13:00or whatever
13:01then it's possible
13:04you know
13:04that's very
13:05very interesting
13:06because I believe
13:06it has astronomical
13:07characteristics
13:08it points south
13:09and there's a major
13:10east-west feature
13:11running through it
13:12and 9,900 years ago
13:15this monument
13:16stood precisely
13:18on the ancient
13:19Tropic of Cancer
13:23over 10,000 years
13:25the tilt of the earth
13:26has shifted
13:26the position
13:27of the tropics
13:28by about one degree
13:31to determine
13:32the position
13:33of the tropics
13:33requires a
13:34detailed knowledge
13:35of astronomy
13:38such knowledge
13:39is only thought
13:40to have been
13:40developed by the Greeks
13:41in relatively
13:42recent times
13:47its presence
13:48here
13:49suggests
13:50a very
13:50sophisticated
13:51civilization
13:52at an
13:52impossibly
13:53early date
13:57before Japan's
13:58underwater
13:58monument
13:59was flooded
14:0010,000 years
14:01ago
14:01it stood
14:01above water
14:02directly
14:03on the Tropic
14:04of Cancer
14:06I'm beginning
14:07to think
14:07it was part
14:08of a network
14:09of astronomical
14:09observatories
14:11set up
14:11by a lost
14:12civilization
14:13of ancient
14:13mariners
14:16and I think
14:17I've found
14:17another link
14:18in the chain
14:20across the
14:21Pacific
14:21on the tiny
14:22island of
14:23Ponope
14:23in Micronesia
14:24there are more
14:25strange stone
14:26temples
14:27at a site
14:27called Nan Madol
14:33the story goes
14:34that two brothers
14:35came here
14:36to establish
14:36the temples
14:37because of myths
14:38of an underwater
14:38city nearby
14:49the brothers came
14:51from a mysterious land
14:52in the west
14:53in a great boat
14:58they climbed a high
14:59mountain
14:59overlooking this point
15:00and down in the bay
15:02they saw a city
15:03drowned under the water
15:05this told them
15:06that they had found
15:06the right place
15:07to build Nan Madol
15:15the name translates
15:16as the place
15:18in between
15:26the best way
15:27to explore the Nan Madol
15:29structures
15:29is undoubtedly
15:30by boat
15:30because the whole
15:31place is arranged
15:32like a sort of
15:32Micronesian
15:33Venice
15:35unfortunately
15:35even at high tide
15:36the channels
15:37are just so
15:38clogged up
15:39that it's just
15:39not been possible
15:40for us to get
15:41our flat bottom boat
15:42through here
15:42so we're having
15:44to explore it on foot
15:45I'm now
15:45standing up to my
15:46shins in warm
15:48sticky mud
15:49getting a foot massage
15:51from sea cucumbers
15:52disgusting creatures
15:53and I've just seen
15:54a sea snake
15:54as well
15:56if I can get my feet
15:57out of here
15:58I will try
16:00and get
16:01into the main
16:03part of the
16:03structure
16:16archaeologists believe
16:17that this temple
16:18is at least
16:19a thousand years old
16:20but very little
16:21is known about it
16:24it's only recently
16:25that experts
16:26have considered
16:26the astronomical
16:27alignments
16:31as with Yonaguni
16:32and Easter Island
16:33and other sites
16:34I've studied
16:34it's perfectly
16:35oriented to the
16:36points of the compass
16:37north, south, east
16:39and west
16:47they say the spirit
16:48here is very strong
16:51people they come here
16:52when it's getting dark
16:53when the sun goes down
16:55they move out
16:55from here
16:58rumors from
16:59many old people
17:01they say
17:01in those past days
17:03in the afternoon
17:04there are people
17:05talking here
17:06like ghosts
17:22this strange place
17:24also comes complete
17:25with myths
17:26of why it was built
17:29they're uncannily
17:30like those
17:30I've heard
17:31in Egypt
17:31and Cambodia
17:32which speak
17:33of a place
17:34to train
17:34or prepare
17:35the soul
17:36for a journey
17:37after death
17:44Conpeyans believe
17:45that when a person
17:46died
17:47the soul
17:47leaves the body
17:49and goes someplace
17:50but the someplace
17:51that the soul
17:52goes to
17:53is underwater
17:56souls of people
17:58who probably
17:58did not do well
18:00will have to go
18:00through certain
18:01trials
18:07there is a bridge
18:08underwater
18:09where those
18:09people
18:10who need
18:11to go
18:11through the trials
18:12will have
18:12to cross
18:13the bridge
18:15if they could
18:15sing well
18:16or if they did
18:18not fall
18:18from the bridge
18:19then they are
18:20given the passage
18:21to the good world
18:26and that's the reef
18:27out there
18:44local legends
18:45speak of sharks
18:46guarding the gates
18:47to the sunken city
18:48and of columns
18:49underwater
18:56I'm trying to find
18:57those columns
18:58but unfortunately
18:59the water
18:59gets extremely murky
19:10where the land
19:11begins to rise
19:12up towards
19:13the surface
19:13I can suddenly
19:14see it
19:14a column
19:15very tall
19:18although my depth
19:19gauge isn't
19:20working properly
19:21it's at least
19:21five or six
19:22times my own
19:23height
19:23so we're looking
19:24at something
19:24thirty
19:25perhaps even
19:25forty feet
19:26tall
19:34and then I find
19:35another column
19:49that was a very
19:51exciting
19:51puzzling
19:52strange dive
19:54it's difficult
19:55to be certain
19:56whether it is
19:57a natural column
19:58of coral
19:58or whether
19:59it's artificial
20:00I scraped off
20:02the coral
20:03in places
20:03and found white
20:04stone underneath
20:05and then I swam
20:06along further
20:06and found two
20:08other columns
20:09all standing up
20:10vertically
20:12so the mystery
20:13deepens
20:13and it's not
20:14clear by any means
20:16what we have here
20:24there are other areas
20:25around the coast
20:26of Pohnfei
20:27where the local
20:27people believe
20:28there actually
20:29was structures
20:30underwater
20:32and this built
20:34into their belief
20:35system
20:35and they consecrated
20:36those as sacred
20:37places
20:39do you feel
20:40that it's possible
20:41that it was
20:42consecrated as a
20:42sacred place
20:43because of an
20:44underwater city
20:44very very highly
20:45possible
20:48and if there are
20:49structures
20:49this is fascinating
20:50not only for us
20:51but for the rest
20:52of the world
21:05everything that I've
21:06learned since I got
21:07here has convinced
21:09me that Nanma doll
21:10is part of the
21:11jigsaw puzzle
21:12that it is part
21:13of this worldwide
21:14sky ground mystery
21:20in Egypt
21:22the great pyramids
21:23of Giza
21:23were part of
21:24an immense
21:24religious system
21:25linked to astronomy
21:27the pyramids
21:28themselves
21:29were a ground
21:30map of the stars
21:34at Angkor
21:35in Cambodia
21:36I found
21:37the same
21:37astronomy
21:42again the monuments
21:43map the stars
21:49at Easter Island
21:50the obsession
21:51with astronomy
21:51surfaces again
21:55many of the statues
21:56line up with the sun
21:57and the stars
22:03I believe that
22:04Pohnepay
22:04Easter Island
22:05Angkor
22:06and Giza
22:07are linked
22:09these sites
22:10are not located
22:11randomly
22:15they're the result
22:16of a deliberate
22:17plan
22:20no one could have
22:21done this
22:22without being able
22:22to survey
22:23the whole world
22:26that's something
22:26we've been able
22:27to do
22:27only in the last
22:28few hundred years
22:35I've come to
22:36discuss this idea
22:37with one of the
22:38world's experts
22:39on ancient measuring
22:40John Michel
22:41has written a dozen
22:42books on the subject
22:43and researched it
22:44for 40 years
22:45the earth
22:46the earth was
22:46certainly surveyed
22:47in the past
22:48they established
22:49degrees of latitude
22:49and longitude
22:51and there is
22:52evidence actually
22:53that certain places
22:54were placed
22:56geographically
22:56either by local
22:58considerations
22:58or by something
22:59much bigger
23:01was it something
23:02that was within
23:02their grasp
23:03as far as we
23:03understand the past
23:05we now know
23:06a lot about
23:06ancient astronomy
23:07and how
23:09proficient
23:10many ancient
23:11societies were at it
23:12and of course
23:12astronomy is always
23:13linked to surveying
23:15and they certainly
23:17had the equipment
23:19the same
23:20essentially the same
23:21as we had
23:21in the 19th century
23:22when we got
23:22perfectly adequate
23:23earth surveys
23:24and measurements
23:25of the earth
23:26major monuments
23:27are built in units
23:29which are part
23:29of the earth's
23:30dimensions
23:30fractions
23:31of the earth's
23:31dimensions
23:34in the 18th century
23:35when Sir Isaac Newton
23:36the greatest scientist
23:38of his time
23:38wanted to measure
23:39the earth
23:40he looked to the
23:41ancient Egyptians
23:41for the answer
23:43Sir Newton
23:44not knowing
23:45the dimensions
23:45of the earth
23:47investigated
23:47ancient measures
23:48in order to
23:49be able to
23:50establish the earth's
23:51dimensions
23:53that's why he sent
23:54John Graves
23:55to measure the pyramid
23:57and he made a very
23:58good estimate of it
23:58actually
23:58he got it just about
23:59right
24:03we seem to become
24:04rather arrogant
24:04and thinking
24:05we're the first
24:06people capable
24:06of measuring the earth
24:07and so on
24:10our ancestors
24:11could only have
24:12measured the earth
24:13through the study
24:14of astronomy
24:15and there's an
24:16unexplained
24:17astronomical
24:18relationship
24:19between Giza
24:20in Egypt
24:20and Angkor
24:21in Cambodia
24:23both cultures
24:24appear to have
24:24built their temples
24:25as a reflection
24:26of particular
24:27star constellations
24:28as they would have
24:29looked in
24:3010,500 BC
24:34they couldn't have
24:35done that
24:36without knowledge
24:37of the very slow
24:37movement of the stars
24:39known as precession
24:43precession is an
24:44almost undetectable
24:45changing of the star
24:46field over very long
24:47periods of time
24:48caused by a slight
24:49wobble in the earth's
24:50rotation
24:53the stars appear to make
24:54a complete revolution
24:55every 26,000 years
24:59for the cycle to change
25:00by just one degree
25:02takes 72 years
25:06Angkor and Giza
25:08are separated
25:09on the globe
25:09by exactly 72 degrees
25:12of longitude
25:16in Cambodia
25:17precession is represented
25:19by the number 54
25:20three quarters of a degree
25:22of precession
25:25all over the site
25:27that number comes up
25:28again and again
25:37Pohnpei in the Pacific
25:39is exactly 54 degrees
25:41east of Angkor
25:45these sites have
25:47something else in common
25:48which links to Easter
25:50Island
25:52all of them are
25:53described in their
25:54local traditions
25:55as navels
25:56or centers
25:57of the world
26:13this curious stone
26:15may be a very important
26:16part of the Easter Island
26:17mystery
26:18it's called
26:19Tepetokura
26:20which means the navel
26:21of light
26:22or the navel
26:23of the sun
26:24and Easter Island
26:25itself is called
26:26Tepetokura
26:27one of its ancient names
26:29which means the navel
26:30of the world
26:33but of course
26:34there's more to this place
26:35than strange names
26:39incredibly
26:39Easter Island
26:40is 144 degrees
26:42east of Angkor
26:43and 144 degrees
26:45west of Giza
26:46that's 2 degrees
26:47of precession
26:50a submerged
26:51volcanic peak
26:52that was part
26:53of the island
26:54before the end
26:54of the last ice age
26:55fits the grid
26:56exactly
27:02so I believe
27:03that what we have
27:04here is a network
27:05of interconnected
27:06sites
27:06which the ancients
27:07could have used
27:08to map
27:08and survey the earth
27:15and the earth
27:16if a civilization
27:17was destroyed
27:18at the end
27:18of the ice age
27:19its survivors
27:20would certainly
27:21have had a motive
27:22to build their new sites
27:23according to a network
27:24to maintain contact
27:28but what could have destroyed
27:30such a civilization
27:33scientists believe
27:34that the earth
27:35collided with a comet
27:36which melted the ice sheets
27:38and unleashed the flood
27:43the earth
27:44was never a quiet place
27:45right from the beginning
27:47it's been a story
27:48of impacts
27:51impacts between comets
27:52and meteorites
27:53essentially led
27:54to the formation
27:55of the earth
27:57so I think
27:57it's very hard
27:58to deny
27:59that the earth
28:00has been pounded
28:01with comet impacts
28:02right from the
28:04very moment
28:05of its creation
28:09about 13,000 years ago
28:12a giant comet
28:14became unstable
28:16in its circular orbit
28:17and was perturbed
28:19by Jupiter
28:19into an orbit
28:21that crossed
28:22the orbit of the earth
28:24a pounding episode
28:26of this kind
28:27could have led
28:29to the snapping
28:30out of the earth
28:31from the last ice age
28:34a big impact
28:35from outer space
28:36would have caused
28:37tidal waves
28:38fire
28:38and devastation
28:39on an unparalleled scale
28:44any civilization
28:45is likely
28:46to have attributed
28:47the devastation
28:47from the sky
28:48to the work
28:49of the gods
28:52if they saw things
28:53happening from the skies
28:54that affected them
28:55so severely
28:56and so dramatically
28:57I think they would
28:58naturally come
29:00to adopt
29:00that kind of world view
29:03I think it is
29:05entirely possible
29:06that a past civilization
29:07could have been
29:08completely wiped out
29:09with a collision
29:11from space
29:13just as it is possible
29:15that our present civilization
29:16would come
29:17to a dramatic end
29:19if a comet
29:20were to collide
29:24it's easy to understand
29:26how a great civilization
29:28could have been
29:28rubbed out
29:32and why ancient mariners
29:34who survived
29:35would try so hard
29:36to pass on their knowledge
29:38it was a legacy
29:40of wisdom
29:41and a warning
29:43to the future
29:45Easter Island's
29:46ancient name
29:47name was the navel
29:48of the world
29:56in the Andes mountains
29:58of Peru
29:58I'm on my way
30:00to the sacred
30:00Inca city of Cusco
30:02a name that also means
30:04naval
30:10in the 16th century
30:12the Incas believed
30:13that the earth
30:14was repeatedly destroyed
30:15and reborn
30:16they feared
30:18that the next cataclysm
30:19would be signaled
30:20by a change
30:20in the heavens
30:21and carefully studied
30:23the stars
30:26the Incas shared
30:28the belief
30:28I found in Egypt
30:30and Cambodia
30:30that the souls
30:31of the dead
30:32can become stars
30:33in the sky
30:47a cathedral built
30:49by the Spanish conquistadors
30:50now largely covers
30:51the great Inca temple
30:52at Cusco
30:53which was called
30:54the Coricancha
30:57the Coricancha
30:59was the center
30:59of everything
31:00for the Incas
31:01the center
31:02of spirituality
31:02and religion
31:03but above all else
31:05the center
31:06of astronomy
31:09this was the most
31:10sacred place
31:11in Inca cosmology
31:13literally the navel
31:14of the universe
31:16Inca legends
31:17spoke of this place
31:19as sacred
31:19before the Incas
31:20ever came here
31:21the first Inca
31:23founded the uncovered
31:24navel stone
31:25and this was taken
31:26as a sign
31:26that they should
31:27build here
31:27the Coricancha
31:28their great temple
31:30of the sun
31:30and in the center
31:32of it
31:32they placed
31:33this granite
31:33coffer
31:34covered at one time
31:35with 55 kilograms
31:36of solid gold
31:40and it was said
31:40that once a year
31:41the sun
31:42came down here
31:43to drink
31:48when the Spanish
31:49conquered the Inca
31:50empire
31:50in the 16th century
31:51they came here
31:52and stole the gold
31:54the fabulous wealth
31:56of the Incas
31:57was pillaged
31:57and their extraordinary
31:59knowledge
31:59was systematically
32:00rooted out
32:01and destroyed
32:05on the heights
32:06above Cusco
32:07I talked to
32:08Dr. William Sullivan
32:09he's done more
32:10than any other
32:11modern scholar
32:12to point up
32:13the sophisticated
32:13astronomy
32:14of the Incas
32:15just like the
32:17ancient Egyptians
32:17they worshipped
32:18the sun
32:19and aligned
32:20their monuments
32:20to it
32:22the Inca
32:23was the son
32:24of the sun
32:24so it was
32:25the sun king
32:27extending
32:28his control
32:29to all the
32:30directions of the
32:30empire
32:31and his control
32:32over the tribes
32:45from the
32:46cordy concha
32:46there emanated
32:47a system
32:48of rays
32:48called
32:49seces
32:49to all points
32:50of the compass
32:53so far as we know
32:55from the Spanish
32:56chronicles
32:56these imaginary lines
32:58were lines of sight
33:00from the cordy concha
33:01to different places
33:02on the horizon
33:04representing the direction
33:05of all the different tribes
33:08organized along
33:09these imaginary lines
33:10were natural
33:11power spots
33:12springs
33:13fountains
33:13and so on
33:14each tribe
33:15had to take care
33:16of one of them
33:18and there was a special day
33:19for each one
33:20of these shrines
33:21so it begins to sound
33:22like a calendar
33:25the Incas
33:26observed the sky
33:27with incredible accuracy
33:28and saw that the stars
33:30were changing their positions
33:31over long periods of time
33:33the cycle known as precession
33:35they calculated
33:36that their link
33:37to the stars
33:38and the world
33:38of the ancestors
33:39would be cut off
33:40by the changes
33:41in the sky
33:42a prospect
33:43that filled them
33:44with terror
33:46all of their efforts
33:48were aimed
33:48at preventing
33:49such a catastrophe
33:52were they trying
33:53to fix it
33:54in some way
33:54was that what
33:55was that what
33:56this was all about
33:57yes I believe
33:58that they were actually
33:58attempting to stop time
34:04the idea
34:05of stopping time
34:07might sound far-fetched
34:10but the Incas
34:11believed time
34:12was governed
34:13by the stars
34:16they thought
34:17they could influence
34:18the heavens
34:18by their actions
34:19on earth
34:21the Edict
34:22went out
34:23from the Coricantia
34:24to each tribe
34:25to supply a child
34:26to be sacrificed
34:28each child
34:30represented
34:30a different star
34:33after walking
34:34across the mountains
34:35to Cusco
34:37the children
34:38were chained
34:39to a statue
34:39symbolizing the sun
34:44the brutal sacrifice
34:45was an attempt
34:46to tie the sun
34:47to the stars
34:48stop their movement
34:49and thus stop time
34:56the human sacrifice
34:57was very clearly
34:59designed
34:59to send the souls
35:00of children
35:02from each tribe
35:03that is
35:03each constellation
35:04in the sky
35:05back to their homeland
35:06in the sky
35:07with a message
35:08and we actually
35:10have the message
35:12may the sun
35:13and moon
35:13not grow old
35:15because when any
35:15god grows old
35:16it's the end
35:17of a world age
35:19and let there
35:20be peace
35:21well with a huge
35:22empire
35:23very stable
35:24and at peace
35:25except for
35:26a few skirmishes
35:27perhaps at the
35:28frontiers
35:29where was the war
35:31the war
35:32was against time
35:37so the Incas
35:38believed
35:38that if they
35:39could stop time
35:40they could stop
35:41the coming
35:41cataclysm
35:44they were not
35:45the only culture
35:46to believe
35:46in such things
35:53from all around
35:54the world
35:55there are myths
35:55of cyclical
35:56world-ending
35:57catastrophes
35:59but like the myths
36:01surrounding the
36:01great flood
36:02many are
36:03surprisingly
36:04close to fact
36:07the more
36:08that we
36:09investigate
36:10the astronomical
36:10myths
36:11the more
36:12it seems
36:13that they do
36:13speak of
36:14actual events
36:19myths from
36:20all around
36:20the world
36:20frequently talk
36:21of a periodic
36:22disturbance
36:23of life on
36:24earth
36:25by fire
36:26which could
36:26be volcanic
36:27eruptions
36:28explosions
36:29that could
36:30occur
36:30from cometary
36:31impact
36:31and so forth
36:35the amazing
36:36thing is
36:36that not only
36:37are they aware
36:38that those
36:38events can
36:39occur
36:40but they have
36:41this kind
36:42of millennial
36:43faith
36:43that our
36:44earth
36:44organism
36:45the earth
36:46itself
36:46and life
36:47on the earth
36:47could recuperate
36:49and recover
36:49from those
36:50catastrophes
36:54eventually
36:55life on earth
36:56would begin
36:56again
36:57in a new
36:57cycle of
36:58existence
36:58and that's
36:59why they
36:59were so
36:59obsessively
37:01fascinated
37:01with plotting
37:03these long
37:03term cycles
37:09the Incas
37:10inherited
37:11their knowledge
37:11from a people
37:12who were said
37:13to have come
37:13from the fabled
37:14city of
37:15Tiwanaku
37:15near the shores
37:16of Lake Titicaca
37:17in Bolivia
37:22the
37:23if there's anything
37:23to the
37:24Inca beliefs
37:25we'd expect
37:25to find
37:26evidence
37:26of complex
37:27astronomy
37:27here
37:28and we do
37:34no one
37:35has studied
37:35Tiwanaku
37:36more intensively
37:37than Oswaldo
37:38Rivera
37:38the distinguished
37:39Bolivian
37:40archaeologist
37:40he took me
37:42to the famous
37:43gateway of the sun
37:44to explain
37:45its astronomical
37:45significance
37:46from this line
37:48from this line
37:48we have
37:4811 little
37:51representations
37:51of the sun
37:52this is a
37:53solar
37:54calendary
37:55in stone
37:55right
37:56so this way
37:57they would observe
37:58the range
37:58of the sun
37:59along the horizon
38:00during the course
38:01of the year
38:02and track it
38:03symbolically
38:03with these
38:04sun figures
38:05and this is
38:06a little
38:06human
38:07fissure
38:07his trumpetist
38:09he's the
38:09announcer
38:10of the sun
38:12is going
38:12to move
38:13to the middle
38:14I see
38:14so the trumpeter
38:15marks the extreme
38:16position
38:16of the solstice
38:19from this
38:20we have
38:20December
38:21January
38:23February
38:25March
38:26April
38:28May
38:29and June
38:32not just
38:33the gateway
38:33but the whole
38:34site
38:34is designed
38:35to track
38:36the rising
38:36and setting
38:37of the sun
38:44the controversial
38:45archaeologist
38:46Arthur Posnansky
38:47who lived
38:47at Tiwanaku
38:48for 20 years
38:49worked out
38:50how the temple
38:51accurately marks
38:52the significant
38:52points of the
38:53solar year
39:06Poznansky
39:07deduced
39:07that in such
39:08an accurate
39:08site
39:09the placing
39:09of the
39:10corner pillars
39:10would have been
39:11designed
39:11to target
39:12the extreme
39:13positions of
39:13the sun
39:14in its annual
39:14movement
39:15across the sky
39:17because of the
39:18changing tilt
39:19of the earth
39:20the sun's
39:21position now
39:21falls outside
39:22the corner
39:23posts
39:23recent calculations
39:25by Oswaldo Rivera
39:26show that the sun
39:28would have matched
39:28the pillars
39:29in 10,500 B.C.
39:36It's astonishing
39:37but that's exactly
39:39the date
39:39that the sphinx
39:40and the pyramids
39:41of Giza
39:41line up with the
39:42stars over
39:43Egypt
39:44and the temples
39:46of Angkor
39:46match the stars
39:48over Cambodia
39:50three sites
39:52all linked
39:53astronomically
39:53to 10,500 B.C.
39:56that can't
39:57be a coincidence
40:01there's another
40:02link at Tiwanaku
40:04Poznansky
40:05found ancient
40:06harbor
40:06constructions
40:07which suggest
40:08that Tiwanaku
40:09was once a port
40:10on Lake Titicaca
40:12over thousands
40:13of years
40:14the lake
40:14has receded
40:15and is now
40:1612 miles away
40:17from the city
40:18and 300 feet
40:19lower
40:21geologists
40:21I spoke to
40:22confirmed
40:23it would have
40:23taken between
40:2410 and 13,000
40:26years for the lake
40:27to recede
40:27that far
40:32that puts us
40:33back to the time
40:34when the last
40:34ice age
40:35came cataclysmically
40:36to an end
40:38it changed
40:39the face
40:40of the earth
40:40and I believe
40:42destroyed a great
40:43civilization
40:43of prehistory
40:50the ancient mariners
40:52who survived
40:52the cataclysm
40:53spread out
40:54around the world
40:58there are myths
40:59at Tiwanaku
41:00which speak
41:01of the arrival
41:02of a pale-skinned
41:03bearded god
41:04credited with
41:05bringing civilization
41:05to South America
41:08his name
41:08was Viracocha
41:11and I'm standing
41:12in front of
41:12an image of him
41:13here at Tiwanaku
41:14and you can see
41:15the goatee beard
41:17on this figure
41:19Viracocha was said
41:20to have come
41:21to the Andes
41:22in a time of darkness
41:23after a great
41:24cataclysm
41:25and he and his
41:26companions
41:26traveled northwards
41:28teaching a religion
41:29of compassion
41:30and love
41:30and teaching also
41:31skills such as
41:32astronomy
41:33and architecture
41:37they were said
41:38to have come
41:39from across the sea
41:40in a boat
41:41that moved
41:41by itself
41:42without paddles
41:43and to have
41:44established themselves
41:45at Lake Titicaca
41:52the boat building
41:53skills of the
41:54local Aymara
41:55Indians
41:55have long
41:56been acknowledged
41:58it was here
41:59that Tor Hayerdal
42:00the Norwegian
42:01anthropologist
42:01and explorer
42:02proved that
42:03larger boats
42:04of the same
42:05design
42:05were capable
42:06of crossing
42:06the Pacific
42:17Hayerdal had
42:18such an ocean
42:19going boat
42:19built for his
42:20Contiki expedition
42:21he sailed it
42:22from Peru
42:23across the Pacific
42:24and past
42:25Easter Island
42:30the boats
42:31are made
42:31from
42:31totora
42:32reeds
42:33almost identical
42:34boats
42:35were made
42:35in ancient
42:36Egypt
42:36using papyrus
42:37reeds
42:41what both
42:43of these
42:43styles of
42:43boat
42:44have in common
42:44is that
42:45they're based
42:45on an
42:46ocean
42:46going
42:47design
42:47with a
42:47very
42:48high
42:48prow
42:49and
42:49curving
42:50stern
42:58this ancient
42:59tradition
42:59which has
43:00been passed
43:00from father
43:01to son
43:02down the
43:02generations
43:02for thousands
43:03of years
43:04is coming
43:05to an end
43:06and perhaps
43:07it'll just
43:08become another
43:09part of
43:10mankind's
43:10forgotten
43:11knowledge
43:13as forgotten
43:14as the boat
43:15building skills
43:15of ancient
43:16Egypt
43:16which I believe
43:18must have been
43:18inherited
43:19from the same
43:19source
43:22the design
43:23is identical
43:51is identical
43:59Sophisticated boats, 70 feet long with an ocean-going design, have been excavated in
44:04Egypt from tombs more than 5,000 years old.
44:10This relief from 1500 BC documents an amazing expedition that the ancient Egyptians made
44:19down the Red Sea and into the Indian Ocean, probably to the coast of Somalia, to bring back frankincense
44:25trees, beloved of the gods.
44:30When we look at the precise astronomy reflected in ancient Egyptian architecture, isn't it
44:36obvious that the lost prehistory of this people includes millennia of navigational experience?
44:55I believe that the survivors of the lost civilisation I'm searching for settled in Egypt thousands
45:02of years before the pharaohs.
45:05Their knowledge and their memories of the world before the flood were passed down from one
45:10generation to another until hieroglyphs could set them in stone.
45:19This is the temple of Edfu in Upper Egypt.
45:28Carved on its walls are acres of hieroglyphic texts which speak of a time when the gods lived
45:33on an island surrounded by a vast ocean.
45:43A terrible flood destroyed the island and drowned almost all of its divine inhabitants.
45:53There were only a few survivors, amongst them seven sages, also called the seven builder gods,
45:59who chose to settle in Egypt.
46:03They travelled around this land, building sacred mounds which were to be the foundations of
46:08all future temples.
46:11Their objective was nothing less than to recreate the former world of the gods.
46:24What the myths are telling us couldn't be clearer and fits perfectly with everything
46:29we now know about the cataclysmic history of the earth during the past 13,000 years.
46:36Out of the waters of the global flood at the end of the last ice age, I believe that
46:41a few survivors of an advanced civilisation did make their way to Egypt and did attempt
46:46to establish it as a cosmic land, mirroring the patterns of the stars as they last appeared
46:51in 10,500 BC.
46:56Water erosion patterns around the great sphinx of Giza provide strong geological evidence
47:02that this monument at least may actually have been built in that epoch.
47:11Its face is an emblem of mystery.
47:17As are the great stone heads of Angkor lying in the jungles of Cambodia 72 degrees to the
47:22east of Giza.
47:28What is the real history of the underwater monument at Yonaguni in Japan?
47:39And the great statues of Easter Island surely not accidentally left lying exactly midway between
47:45Giza and Angkor.
47:56Human knowledge is fragile and the treasures of wisdom are easily destroyed as the experience
48:01of Easter Island proves.
48:05There may be many explanations for the similarities and connections that we've found into linking
48:10all these places, but I believe that the best explanation is a lost civilisation, lost in the
48:17night of time that once touched them all.
48:20I think it's possible that that civilisation knew something that we do not, and that its survivors
48:27after the great cataclysm that brought the last ice age to an end went to extraordinary lengths
48:32to keep that knowledge alive.
48:37It was fundamentally a spiritual teaching that concerned the mission of humanity here
48:42on earth.
48:43Not to lose ourselves in the illusion of material things, material greed, material ambition,
48:48but to understand that material life is a precious opportunity for each individual
48:53to learn and to grow and to develop, to equip the soul for immortality.
49:04The teaching still exists, locked away in the myths and the monuments and the astronomy,
49:09and it can be retrieved.
49:14Poised at the edge of a millennium, after a century of unparalleled wickedness and bloodshed,
49:20perhaps we need the ancient wisdom more than ever before.
50:03by this one, we can arrive at the study of the field of years,
50:10a
50:10A
50:10neural
50:10learning
50:10staring at the
50:15line
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