The Ancient Equator Theory – Part 2

This edition of the show is the conclusion of the 2 part series on the Ancient Equator/Great Circle Theory. This hypothesis looks the idea that humanity may have developed an advanced civilization much further back than we think that may have spanned the world and many of the ancient megalithic sites around the world offer clues in the way they are curiously in alignment along a kind of ancient equator line around the Earth.

Show Notes:
The Nazca Lines
Sajama Lines
The Great Pyramid Orion Connection
The Great Sphinx
Mohenjo Daro & Skeletons
Petra
Persepolis
Angkor Wat
Ancient Equator Quadrant Map
The Younger Dryas Impact Evidence

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Episode Transcript

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and more. Hey everyone, and welcome back to the show.

(01:00):
Thank you so much for hanging out with me today.
On this edition of the Strangeology Podcast, we are going
to follow up with the last episode, the Ancient Equator Theory.
So this is part two. Listen to the first part
if you haven't yet. This is a big, dense series
of episodes here, so we're going to save any show

(01:23):
updates and other information for the end of the show.
Definitely stick around for all of that, but in the
meantime we are going to jump right back into this
Ancient Equator Great Circle theory. So if you like ancient
mysteries and often wonder about the origins of humanity where

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we came from? Do we really have this lost chapter
of our history? Are we a species with amnesia? Definitely
stick around. So last time we left off with the

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Nazca lines, and there was an interesting thing that was
found where if you tilted the planet about thirty degrees,
a lot of these lines in the Nosca plane start
to align east to west. Now, was this site involved
with a potential prehistoric loss civilization? Well, the carbon dating

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of the site seems pretty certain of his age, but
perhaps there was an older layer or myth to this
area that was carrying on a legacy from something long ago,
kind of like the other sites am going over. But
it is interesting and worth noting that Nosca is located

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on this proposed ancient equator or Great Circle line. There's
also the lesser known Sahama lines in Bolivia's Altaplano region,
which are very similar to the Nosca lines. They're not
in the Great Circle, but they're thought to predate the Inca.
Although not much is known about these lines yet, but

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it is worth mentioning since they are nearby geographically. Now.
The Great Circle then passes through the Amazon, which I
mentioned before. There's a lot of geoglyphs and constructs, roads,
ancient sites and cities being found in the Amazon using

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lidar that were swallowed up by the jungle centuries perhaps
even millennia ago. And of course this place is like
the search for the Lost City of z and Percy
Fawcett who went into the Amazon to find this fabled
ancient lost city but never came out of the jungle
on his final expedition in nineteen twenty five. And the

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Amazon jungle itself was largely altered by humans over ten
thousand years ago who were cultivating certain plants with agricultural techniques.
And you also find this material there called terraprita, which
is this engineered soil that is super super fertile. It

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doesn't occur in nature. So it's thought that people ten
thousand years ago had this knowledge in this technique to
make something so they could actually have agriculture and grow
things in this area. It's thought that today the Amazon
is largely this gigantic garden in a way, and I

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think that's pretty profound that whoever these people were had
this kind of knowledge. And this falls along the Great
Circle and could very well add to the theory. Now
let's go to Africa next. So as we go through Africa,

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we're passing through the Sahara. There's sites like Tasili Najer
in Algeria, which is full of ancient petroglyphs. We passed
by the Siwa Oasis, but the most significant of which,
of course, is the Great Pyramid of Giza, as well
as all the other stuff in the Giza plateau. And
this is of course one of the most iconic and

(05:38):
mysterious structures in the world. It was believed to be
built around forty five hundred years ago. Its precise alignment
with the cardinal points of the compass, its astronomical significance,
and its massive scale has led to endless debate and
speculation about how and why it was built, and it

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maybe thats of years older than we think. Egyptologists say
that the Great Pyramid alone is comprised of two point
three million limestone blocks, sitting on an area that's over
thirteen acres. The official story is that the Great Pyramid alone,
beyond all the other construction temples in Giza and elsewhere

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in Egypt, was built over the course of twenty six
or so years and fun fact, the Great Pyramid was
the tallest man made structure on Earth at four hundred
and fifty four feet until the Eiffel Tower surpassed it
in eighteen eighty nine. That's a long time to go
by surpassing that height. So what's interesting is that when

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you calculate all of that out to see that kind
of time frame, the low end estimate would require over
two hundred and thirty blocks, these several ton limestone blocks
to be placed every day with masterful precision that we

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wouldn't see again until modern times, and even we can't
really replicate building the Pyramid today with their techniques or
what we think were their techniques. This would also require
the work to be done for twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week to complete the construction of the
Great Pyramid. This also doesn't account for the massive granite

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blocks making up the roof structures of the King and
Queen's chambers to divert and spread out the weight of
all the blocks on top of them, or the complex
mathematics and geometry needed to account for the passageways and shafts.
And there's still mysteries about this place. Just a few

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years ago, there was a massive void anomaly detected above
the Grand Gallery, which go all the way up to
the King's Chamber using I believe it was a Muon technology,
and nobody knows what's up in there. Back in the
nineteen nineties, there was this little robot sent up a shaft.
It was a really small shaft, thought to be like

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an air shaft or it was pointing up towards the
constellation of a Ryan or something like that. And they
sent this robot up and there was a door that
was very far up and they drilled through and then
the shaft just kept going, and I think that the
Ministry of Antiquities decided to put the kibosh on exploring

(08:39):
it further. There's also the Osiris Shaft, which was closed
off underneath the pyramid, and there's theories that there's a
whole labyrinth under the Giza Plateau as well, where there's
all this stuff that we don't know about yet. It's
there's so much going on at this it's just wild.

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Now back to the construction of the pyramid. This time frame,
this twenty six years, also doesn't account for the time
in engineering involved in flattening out and putting multi ton
paving stones as a base layer on the site where
the Great Pyramid stands. That alone would have been a

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monumental feat. That's something that not a lot of people
I feel talk about. The Great Pyramid is also aligned
within a tenth of a degree of true north, which
is an astounding level of accuracy for a giant megalithic
structure that's supposed to only be forty five hundred years old.
Another interesting feature of the Great Pyramid is that it's

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actually apparently eight sided, not four like all these other pyramids.
Normally it's hard to see with the pyramid when it's
fully illuminated by daylight, but there are these images is
where the sun is lower in the sky and shadows
are starting to be cast, where it becomes evident that
on each of the four main sides they're actually slightly indented. Man.

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This makes things vastly more complicated with explaining how ancient
people figured out how to do this with the basic
tools that they had available to them, like copper chisels
and ropes and saws, not to mention moving the large
granite blocks that they corried from sites hundreds of miles

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away down the Nile River and transporting them there. And
of course there are theories routinely being suggested as to
how the Great Pyramid was built, such as the ramp theory,
which is probably the most widely accepted theory that the
ancient Egyptians built this long causeway up from the Nile
to the Pyramid and that's how they were getting their

(10:55):
blocks up there. Or there's even a theory that the
ramp kind of spiraled are around the pyramid. Internally. The
problem there is that building a causeway that big and
capable of supporting the weight of all those megalithic blocks
and not having it be too steep. The thing would
have to be like a mile long, and it would

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be an engineering marvel in and of itself equal or
greater to that of the Great Pyramid. And from what
I understand, there's not great evidence to suggest that the
ancient Egyptians built this causeway. I could be wrong. There's
a lot in this episode and a lot of details,
but yeah, it's who knows. There's also this lever and

(11:40):
counterweight theory that people suggest from time to time, which
could be possible. There's also the water shaft theory, where
they would fill these constructed shafts up with water to
float the blocks up. I don't know how buoyant limestone

(12:00):
megalithic multi toone blocks are, if they're even buoyant. There's
also the slave labor theory, of course, which was a
popular one, although the idea that rather than slave labor,
that skilled masons and artists and builders were much more
likely to be used and contracted by the pharaoh to

(12:26):
work on the pyramid. This idea has gained popularity in
recent years, especially because of all the different housing complexes
that are around the pyramids, so that very well could
be instead of slave labor, they actually use people who
were willing and were paid to build these sites. But

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the fact is that we don't know how the ancient
Egyptians built the Pyramid exactly. There's a lot of good ideas,
a lot of bad ideas, and interestingly, there are no
written records of how or why it was built, even
though the ancient Egyptians kept a pretty meticulous record for
things that we know of today for other sites around

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this ancient country. The Great Pyramid itself contains no hieroglyphics
at all, save for a cartouche or a symbol written
for Kufu, who was thought to be who this pyramid,
the Great Pyramid is for, and it was found in
the small chambers above the King's chamber, in between these
massive granite blocks, and it's unclear whether or not that's

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from the original construction of the Great Pyramid or if
that was from a later date. Back in twenty thirteen,
there was a pair of German archaeologists who actually got
a sample of this cartouche so they could carbon date it,
with the idea that if it was found to be
newer from a newer era, it would call into question

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whether or not the Great Pyramid was actually built for
the arrow Cufu. But they got caught wound up getting
in huge trouble with the Egyptian government and that was
the end of that. There's also the problem of Cufu's
mummy never being found in the pyramid, nor any afterlife
treasures that pharaohs and other pyramids have had, and that's

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kind of curious. That could be explained by grave robbers,
of course, But there are a lot of other interesting
things that have been found about the interior of the
Great Pyramid as well, which some suggest shows that it
wasn't actually a tomb. You've also got these mathematical equations
seemingly coded into the structure of the Great Pyramids, measurements

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that suggest that the speed of light was known by
the ancient Egyptians or whoever it was that built the
Great Pyramid. For example, the speed of light in a
vacuum is two hundred ninety nine million, seven hundred ninety
two thousand, four hundred and fifty eight meters per second,
and the latitude that the Great Pyramid sits at the

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exact center of the King's chamber inside is twenty nine
point nine seventy nine two four five eight degrees, which
is the same numbers as the speed of light two
nine nine seven nine to two four or five eight. Now,
that could be complete coincidence that those are all the

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same numbers, And you can also argue, well, ancient Egyptians
didn't use the meter. The meter wasn't invented until the
late seventeen hundreds. They used the cubit as a unit
of measurement, so that doesn't line up, but it is.
It's very interesting considering whoever built the Pyramid had the
knowledge and ability to make it in the first place.

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There's also another interesting piece of math seemingly encoded into
the Great Pyramid as well, and so incient Egyptians they
use cubits for a unit of measurement. It's about zero
point five to two meters or one point four seven
six feet. The sides of the Great Pyramid measure at
four hundred and forty cubits long, and the height is

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two hundred and eighty cubits. This guy named John Taylor,
who is a publisher and egyptologist from England in the
eighteen hundreds, first proposed the idea after noticing that when
you add two sides of the Great Pyramid together and
then divide it by its height, it equals Pi three
point one four, and then the forever series of numbers

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after that, which is really interesting. Maybe it's all coincidence,
or maybe whoever built this place had some really advanced
knowledge of stuff and that maybe they're trying to leave
behind something for future peoples to decipher. There's also an
interesting connection with the all three of the major pyramids

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of Giza, the Great Pyramid of course, and then the
pyramids of Cofre and Mankari, which align with the belt
of the constellation of Orion, and this aspect of the
whole Giza plateau has fascinated me for a really long time.
I remember first hearing about it, probably in the nineteen nineties.

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I think Robert Baval was one of the people that
suggested this or noticed this connection and this idea, this
archaeo astronomy idea, is very interesting because for the pyramids
to be aligned like that, the constellation would make more

(17:45):
sense for it to be in a kind of alignment
lower in the horizon, I believe, to make it make
sense for why they're aligned like that, and you can
turn back the clock of constantly in the sky the
procession of the equinox and find out where the constellations
were in the last time that they lined up, that

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it would make sense for the pyramids to align to
the belt of Orion. Happened in around ten thousand, four
hundred and fifty BCE. So if this alignment lines up exactly.
The official narrative is that the Great Pyramid was built

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in around forty five hundred years ago, and then the
other pyramids were built after that. But you've got this
ten thousand BC E date coming into play. And this
is interesting because part of this theory ties in a

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period known as the Younger Drias, which happened in this timeframe.
You've also got the Great Sphinx, which aligns with the
constellation of Leo in that same ten thousand BCE time period.
And this also supports the idea from doctor Robert Shock

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in his theory about water erosion and weathering patterns on
the Great Sphinnx needing to have happened over a much
longer period of time than the accepted age of the Sphinx,
which of course suggests that the Sphinx could be far
older and could have been constructed back then when the
Sahara was much more hospitable to life. It was forested,

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it was wet, there was a lot of rainfall, It
was much more green than it was today. I think
there were good parts of Egypt back then that were
still desert, but the Nile was a lot more of
an oasis. And it really makes you wonder what could
be buried under all of that sand that's in the

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Sahara today, because back then, of course, seems like it
was much more hospitable for life. There are also massive
bodies of water like Lake Megachad that I mean, who knows,
that is totally gone now, and you've got the Rashot structure,
which people think may have been a site for Atlantis.

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There's so much going on here now. There's also another
interesting thing that came out recently. There was this article
talking about plasma bubbles being detected in the atmosphere above
the pyramids in Giza. So whatever the official explanation is
for this area, it seems like there's a lot more

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going on under the surface, quite literally, as well as
above the surface, and hopefully we have we get some
more understanding of what's going on here. Well. The fact
that the Great Pyramid is one of the key sites
along this hypothesized ancient Equator is pretty significant and doesn't

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really seem all that random when you start piecing everything together.
Of course, there was a whole civilization in ancient Egypt.
We have all that history, and there are several other
ancient sites in megalithic building within ancient Egypt that aren't
necessarily on the Great Equator line. But if the Great

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Pyramid and Sphinx are far older than previously thought, like
ten thousand years or more twelve thousand years older, like
some proponents of this theory suggest, perhaps the ancient Egyptian
dynasties are a legacy of this older lost civilization. Perhaps
they were trying to recreate what was supposedly going on

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in a much earlier time. And like I said before,
the pyramid and its exact purpose is still debated. We
don't know if it was actually a tomb for Cufu
or if it was an astronomical observatory. There's also the
power plant theory, which is a whole other rabbit hole,
and it could have been used for something else entirely.

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Whatever the true story is, its location along this ancient
equator definitely adds fuel to the theory that its builders
may have been part of some much older and advanced civilization.
And you're probably wondering, well, archaeologists thus far have these
sites pretty well dated, and we've established the timeline of

(22:39):
human civilization. Nothing is older than places like ancient Samaria
and Babylon. And you know, you've got the city of
Er with its great Zigarot, Petra and Jordan, Persepolis and Iran.
All these places fall in this great circle. And don't
get me wrong, we know quite a bit about many
of these sites, but one site in particular that was

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only recently discovered in the last few decades turned the
archaeological world on its head, and I alluded to this earlier.
It's the site of go Beckley Tepe and Turkey. This
place is older than Stonehenge, as well as our established
dates for ancient Egypt and the Sphinx, Ancient Samaria, as

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well as the Indus Valley civilization. And although it's not
on the hypothetical ancient equator, this place is so old
we're talking over eleven than six hundred years old, that
it's a perfect example of humanity having this missing chapter
in our story. Graham Hancock talks about us being a

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species with amnesia. Right, We've been around for a long
time and doing things for a lot longer than we know,
even in the Neolithic period when we were supposed to
just be hum gatherers and cavemen. Now, go Beckley Teppe
was discovered officially in the nineteen nineties by Klaus Schmidt,

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although parts of its megalithic structure were seen poking out
of the ground as far back as the nineteen sixties
and seventies, so technically the guy who on the land
probably discovered it first, but maybe wasn't aware that it
was a whole ancient, super super ancient archaeological site. So
this site is known to have these circular enclosures that

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have these megalithic t pillars. They're anywhere from three to
six meters tall and weigh as much as twenty tons,
and they've got these intricate relief carvings of animals like lions, snakes, bears, vultures,
as well as abstract symbols. This place is thought to
have been a religious or spiritual site. That's archaeologists best

(24:54):
guess at this point. They think it was kind of
like the world's first known temple, but it's just a hypothesis.
We don't know for sure yet. It also could have
been a trading hub for ancient people's. Others have suggested
that it could have been an astronomical observatory like we've
seen so many other ancient megalithic sites, but we just

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don't know who the people were that built this place
and why. What's really weird is that around eight thousand
PCE the whole place was backfilled and buried with rubble,
like whoever built this place buried it like a time capsule,
and we just don't know why. Now one of the

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t pillars at go Beckley Tepee is thought to be
pretty significant. It's called Pillar forty three, or the Vulturestone,
which has the infamous handbag symbolism found in almost every
ancient megalithic site around the world, and seems to depict
celestial events like the equinox and the solstices. Others think

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that the relief carvings on it are a record of
constellations as well as a potential ancient cataclysm in the
form of a cosmic impact event. Very interesting that a
site this old has something like this, and there's all

(26:22):
these legends from cultures around the world talking about floods
or something messed up happened, right. And there's also this
other nearby site that there's really been no work done
on it yet. And there's a few other sites like this,
but this one's called Carahan Teppe, which it has been

(26:43):
found to be fifteen hundred years older than go Beeckley Tepe,
and like I said, it hasn't really been excavated at all.
This is just like preliminary stuff. And go Beckley Teppe itself,
to this day, after thirty years of work on it,
is only five five percent excavated, and this year twenty

(27:03):
twenty four, all future further digging at the site has
been halted by the Turkish government for quote future generations
to discover. And it's kind of weird. Do you think
that you'd want to have people archaeologist teams in there
trying to figure out who these people were, why they

(27:26):
built this place, in what it was for. And there's
been all of trees planted all over the site as well,
which apparently there's some law in Turkey that says you
can't cut down or remove the trees, which is prohibiting
anybody from even digging, although there's ideas that you know,
the root systems will work their way underground and destroy

(27:48):
all the structures, because there's they've done ground penetrating radar
of this site and there's it's so much more massive
than what's been dug up so far, and there could
be other pillars, like Pillar forty three that help complete
the picture of what this site was all about, what

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these people knew, how they lived, their knowledge all of that,
And apparently there's not going to be any more work
done on go Beckley Teppe for generations, it seems unless
something something else happens. So it's just really kind of strange. Now,

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remember when I said there might be a connection with
Easter Island earlier in the episode. As it turns out,
there are carvings and symbology at go Beckley Teppe that
suggests a connection, specifically on the t pillars and the
small statue carvings that have been found there, which depict
a humanoid figure with its hands holding its belly and

(28:56):
it also has this kind of like h symbol belt
around its waist, which can also be found on you
guessed it, the Moai statues in Easter Island, and there's
In my opinion, I don't think there's any way this
couldn't be a coincidence, Like, there's no way this is
a coincidence, especially because this symbolism shows up again and

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again in different cultures around the world. I don't know
if that means that where the Rapanui people or potential
original inhabitants of Easter Island were from, or maybe they
carried this legacy, this knowledge passed down through oral teachings
for generations and generations using this symbolism as people migrated

(29:39):
across the globe for thousands of years or maybe it
suggests that there was some kind of lost civilization that
spanned the globe. Back then, they probably didn't have our
type of modern technology. Their technology may have been different.
Maybe they were more like exploration era technology. They had

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sailboats and ships that they were able to circumnavigate the globe.
I mean, we just don't know. Now, speaking of Easter
Island again, and we're going to move on to the
next site real quick. I know this episode's getting a
little bit long. Thank you for hanging in there with me.
This is a very complex subject. Now. Interestingly, Easter Island

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is the antipode on Earth to the site of Mahenjo Daro,
meaning its exact opposite side on the planet. The Great Circle,
the ancient equator also passes through this site. Now, Manjo
Daro was part of the Indus Valley civilization, which we
don't know a ton about, but it's believed to have
started in between modern day Pakistan and northwestern India around

(30:51):
twenty five hundred BCE, and the city of Mahendra Daro's
name means mound of the dead because when it was
found in the nineteen twenties, the whole place, just like
any ancient site really was in this totally ruinous, calamitous state.
It looks like it was just blown up, but the
city showed advanced urban planning, a grid system, They had

(31:16):
irrigation and plumbing with drainage and sanitation. It was really
advanced toward its time, and they were found to have
granaries storage facilities, although interestingly they didn't have really massive
megalithic constructs. There's also this theory floating around that Mahendra

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Daro which is believes to have been abandoned by nineteen
hundred BCE, so people it's thought people only lived there
for like six hundred years. There's this strange theory that
it was actually destroyed by atomic weapons due to stones
in the area appearing to be vitrified or melted because

(31:59):
of the heat of an atomic blast would be required
or an impact if you will, would be required to
melt stone, as well as there being an alleged elevated
level of radiation higher than background radiation, and many of
the human remains found at the site appeared to have

(32:20):
died suddenly from something. None of that is confirmed and
any archaeologist out there would say that those are bogus claims.
But maybe there's a kernel of truth. I mean to me,
if that was true, it kind of fits into the
theory that there was some kind of cataclysm, maybe an
impact event, that just suddenly wiped out all these ancient civilizations.

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In another interesting connection to Easter Island the Indus Valley Script,
which hasn't been deciphered. Of course, this pictographic script is
virtually identical to the script on the Wrong Go Wrongo tablets,
which is why doctor Robert Shock believes that the Wrong

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Go Wrongo tablets, or at least the script on them,
could be at least ten thousand or more years old.
There are some key differences, of course, but language, letters,
symbolism does evolve over time. Right old English is vastly
different from modern English, for an example. But when you
look at examples of the Indus Valley Script and the

(33:33):
Wrong Go Wrongo tablets side by side, anyone could see
that there is some striking similarities. And they're so similar
that I have to think that it's not coincidence. There's
got to be some kind of connection between the two.
I'll put some images in the show notes for that.
It's free to check out. And I'm going to mention

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one last place on the Ancient Equator, So we're not
going on forever here, this is a very long episode.
So the Ancient Equator also passes by the site of
anchor Wat in Cambodia, and anchor Wat is one of
the largest it might be the largest acreage wise ancient.

(34:19):
It's not super ancient, but one of the most complex
religious monuments in the world. It was built by King Suryavarman,
the second of the Kehmera Empire, in the twelfth century,
and it was abandoned and swallowed up by the jungle
after the Kimera Empire fell in the fifteenth century and
was totally forgotten, and then in the nineteenth century it

(34:41):
was rediscovered by the French explorer Henry Mount. Now this
place is renowned for its architectural precision and astronomical alignments,
particularly its alignment with the solstices, and was initially built
as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu, and
later became a Buddhist temple. The site itself covers over

(35:04):
four hundred acres, which yeah, it's got to be like
the largest known religious monument that we know of on Earth.
That's absolutely massive and like so many of the megalithic
buildings around the planet. The stones used here were quarried
from far away, in this case around thirty one miles
and these stones were carved and moved, all without the

(35:26):
use of modern technology. Very impressive feats. Even though this
site is far too new to be really considered part
of a fabled lost prehistoric civilization that span the world,
it is interesting that Anchor wat falls along the Great Circle.
Perhaps the Camera Empire inherited knowledge from some lost and

(35:50):
much older civilization, or maybe and we just don't know,
that this site could be potentially have been built on
top of an older structure, like so many of the
other places we see around the world. Light our scans
of the area around Anchor Watt have been finding interesting

(36:10):
new things, so I wonder if it's possible that this
might gather enough evidence to suggest that people were at
this site ten twelve thousand years ago doing stuff. We'll
see now. Thank you all for listening to my yapping

(36:33):
so far. I'll be putting the fries in the bag soon.
You're probably wondering where I'm going with all this. Well,
during my research, I ran across this guy named Roger Gilbertson,
who is a filmmaker and researcher. He created this documentary
back in two thousand and six called Who Killed the
Electric Car? And as part of his work and research

(36:54):
into electric vehicles and green energy technologies, Gilbertson wanted to
find out if there was an orbital path that a
satellite could take around the Earth they would keep it
constantly in sunlight as a way to potentially harvest more
solar energy and beam it down to Earth. After consulting

(37:15):
with a friend of his who was a rocket scientist,
he found out that orbiting around the Equator would be
ideal for that, but there was a problem because of
the shape of the orbit, the altitude above Earth, the
inclination of the object orbiting, and the rotation of the
Earth would throw things off. So he's still searching for

(37:37):
this perfect orbit. He has a feeling that it has
to be out there somewhere. So he talks to another
friend who was an aerospace engineer and a mathematician, and
they realized that in order to achieve this, the orbit
that they needed. Instead of being ninety minutes to complete

(38:01):
one orbit like the International Space Station takes, he needs
one that would take a period of two days to
orbit the Earth, and this orbit needed to be at
a thirty one degree inclination. It also had to be
past the Van Allen Belts and Earth's magnetic field, and

(38:23):
because of this distance in inclination, it would always be
in sunlight, just outside of Earth's shadow. So his research
brought him to an interesting connection with the work that
Jim Allison did regarding the prehistoric alignment of all of

(38:44):
these ancient world wonders and megalithic sites, and looking at
this alignment using a quadrant map of Earth, all of
these sites appeared to align in a straight line which
you can flatten out the map of the Earth and
see that this line also forms a perfect circle around

(39:07):
the globe. And when Roger lined up his two day
orbital path that he worked out with how it would
line up on Earth's surface, it curiously lines up exactly
with the path of this ancient alignment of ancient and
mysterious megalithic sites that would create the ancient equator or

(39:31):
Great Circle. How could this be? This could perhaps be
more evidence that maybe it's just a coincidence, but maybe
if there was some lost civilization back then and that
the Earth was tilted thirty degrees different than it is
today that it could make sense that this civilization would

(39:53):
have built along this line. And of course, as I've
mentioned before, there are dozen of other megalithic sites all
over the world. But the thing that's significant about all
of the sites that fall along this Great Circle, this
ancient equator. These sites have some of the biggest megalithic

(40:17):
stones that have ever been moved, and biggest and most
enigmatic constructs that we know of. There seems to be
some kind of connection here. Of course, there's a question
if there was some ancient, advanced last civilization that was
responsible for these sites somehow. Why are there other megalithic

(40:39):
sites around the world that aren't on the line, like
Stonehenge or the pyramids that are in China which are
largely unexplored, the megaliths of Japan, the mound builders structures
in North America, or the ancient cities of the Maya.
The simple answer being that they were all built much
more recently than this ten twelve thousand years ago timeline.

(41:05):
The interesting thing about the sites that are within a
reasonable distance of the Great Circle have some of the
largest megaliths as well, in advanced building techniques used that
mankind has ever achieved, like the stones in Ballbeck, Lebanon
underneath this ancient Roman temple, which are around eight hundred

(41:28):
tons each. The heaviest megaliths on the site, however, are
known as the Trilithon stones. The heaviest one is called
the Forgotten Stone, and it was never finished being quarried.
In weighs about one six hundred and fifty tons. You
see pictures of it on the internet everywhere, people walking

(41:50):
along it. It was never never finished being quarried, never
stood up to move it anywhere. There's also the Stone
of the Pregnant Woman, which is about a thousand and tons,
and the Stone of the South, which is two and
forty two tons. These three stones are in the top
five heaviest stones ever quarried by humans, with the Forgotten Stone,

(42:13):
of course taking first place. Now, one thing I forgot
to mention is that many of these sites also have
stone surfaces that are perfectly straight and level beyond all
the cyclopean polygonal architecture. And these surfaces are polished with
an almost diamond cut precision that even our most advanced
technology today would have some trouble achieving to the same

(42:36):
degree like the Serapium in Egypt or the barbar Caves
in India, which are super interesting. Yet these were supposed
to be built by people during the Bronze Age in
Iron Age using much more primitive tools. What do you
do with that information? Now? One more thing I want

(42:59):
to cover here is what's in the bag? I always
love posting about this on my social media, What's in
the bag? Many of these ancient sites have this interest
and connection between cultural iconography, such as the depiction of
these bird like deities holding what appears to be a handbag. Now,

(43:21):
this particular image has been dubbed the handbag of the
gods by some and it can be found all over
the place, from ancient Samaria, where their creator gods, the Innunaki,
are depicted holding these bags. They can also be found
in subsequent cultures in the region of the Fertile Crescent
like the Assyrian Empire. They're found in ancient India, Southeast Asia,

(43:43):
all the way to the Americas with the Olmec, the Toltec,
the Tiwanaku culture, and even on Easter Island and as
far back as the people who built go Beckley Teppe.
This iconography can also be found in New Zealand and
within the Australian Aboriginal culture as well, which might even
be the oldest of all, since it's thought that the

(44:06):
Aboriginal people in Australia have lived there for something like
fifty thousand years. Now, skeptics will argue that this imagery
is simply depicting a completely normal bag or even a basket,
to the contrast of others who are proponents of this
lost Antediluvian pre flood civilization, where the bag represents some

(44:30):
kind of knowledge being passed down by these gods or deities.
Maybe they're survivors from this lost civilization for surviving people
to restart civilization after this global catastrophe. Okay, so a
lot of these sites fall along the Great Circle, but

(44:51):
they're separated by vast distances as well as time. But
what if they weren't, or at the very least, maybe
these sites were built upon older structures that were wiped
out in some mysterious cataclysm. One of the big ideas
tying this whole theory together involves the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.

(45:15):
See the Younger Dryis is a period during the last
ice age that happened between twelve nine hundred and eleven
seven hundred years ago according to ice core data from
the Greenland Ice Sheet, and this time period in geological terms,
is practically overnight. The Earth was already going through a

(45:37):
warming period, but then it suddenly started to cool. And
this time period was also when places like go Beckley
Teppee and Karrahan Teppee were constructed. Now, Graham Hancock has
proposed that there was a series of comet or asteroid
fragment impacts like the Earth got blasted by Buckshot. There

(46:01):
is plenty of evidence of craters from this time from
impact craters, but there also could have been airburst explosion
events like what happened at Tunguska in Russia back in
nineteen oh eight. And impact events like these would of
course cause widespread destruction across Earth. You'd have wildfires out

(46:24):
of control, potential tsunamis, earthquakes and what else do we
see around this time period, Well, we see the mass
extinction of most species of megafauna, and there's other evidence
as well, such as a geological layer that contains high

(46:44):
levels of iridium during this period, which is really only
found in asteroids and meteorites and strongly suggests that the
Earth was hit by something. Impacts like these also create
these microspherules in nano diamonds from the extreme pressure and
high temperatures caused by these events, and these are found

(47:08):
within the Younger Dryas boundary. There's a map showing the
areas where these nano diamonds have been found, which is
largely in North and Central America, as well as parts
of Colombia and Venezuela in South America, and pretty much
the whole of Europe as far east as Turkey, and
there's a good chunk of the Middle East where these

(47:30):
have also been found. There's also been carbon rich black
mats found around this Younger Dryas boundary layer that might
signify widespread wildfires, which would, like I said, undoubtedly rage
uncontrolled after an impact event. Around this time as well,
there's another event that happened called Meltwater Pulse one B,

(47:53):
which was a period of rapid glacial melting. If you remember,
a large portion of the northern hemisphere, North America and
Asia were covered in an ice sheet, all of Canada,
about half the US, northern parts of Europe, Siberia, that
all that was covered with glaciers, and it's thought that

(48:15):
this glacial melting period happened over the course of a
few centuries. That's too long of a period for like
a massive global cataclysm, but this made ocean levels rise
up at least twenty meters within the first few centuries.
Sea level back then, back when we were at our

(48:38):
glacial maximum, sea level was about three hundred and thirty
feet lower before everything melted. Now, some researchers like Randall
Carlson have suggested that this melting event could have actually
happened in just a few days as a consequence from
a celestial impact, which, if true, would absolutely destroy any

(49:02):
human civilization that was around at the time. He often
points to the Missoula floods event, which happened in what
is now Washington State between thirteen and fifteen thousand years ago,
which puts this in the timeframe of a potential impact
during the Younger Drias. And these floods were so massive
that it altered the topography of the area. You know,

(49:23):
when you're at the beach and you can see the
small wave patterns in the sand as the tide is
going out, Well, that's what this area looks like if
you're looking at it from a bird's eye view down,
except it's on this massive scale. There's also what appears
to be evidence of massive flooding or something similar like
that washing over the Sahara Desert in Africa, especially past

(49:45):
the Reshot structure, which I've mentioned a few times already,
that again some people think was a candidate for the
location of Atlantis, and if it was, it would have
been totally destroyed according to you know, sinking beneath the waves,
according to Plato. Right now, even if this lost civilization

(50:07):
was at a similar technological level to say, the nineteenth century,
anything built near the coast would be submerged almost instantly.
Lower laying lands would be swallowed up. Think about Sundaland
in Southeast Asia, this whole continental shelf that used to
be above sea level and now it's underwater, or dogger

(50:27):
Land in Europe. These areas get totally submerged after the
ice caps melted. And there's also things like the Yonaguni Monument,
which was found off the coast of Japan, that looks,
if not man made, definitely manipulated and carved out by
a human hand. Like a lot of sights in Peru.
There's also the ancient mythical city of Tawarka believed to

(50:50):
be submerged just off the coast of India as well.
I mean, who knows what could be just beneath the
surface of the ocean that was around to fifteen thousand
years ago that has been submerged since the ice caps melted.
It really does sound like the myth of Atlantis. And

(51:10):
who knows. Maybe since so many cultures around the world
have a flood myth, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh
or the Biblical flood, or even in the Venus, the
Hindu god Vishnu tries to warn ancient humanity of an
impending flood, So perhaps there is some truth within these
old myths and religions. It does seem like there's a

(51:32):
good chance that these myths may have originated from some
kind of shared collective memory of a global cataclysm that
happened so long ago. Alternatively, doctor Robert Schock, who used
to subscribe to the impact theory like Graham Hancock, now
thinks that there's evidence suggesting some kind of solar outburst

(51:55):
or coronal mass ejection from the Sun that could have
caused the rapid melting of the ice sheets and subsequent
extreme climate change that wiped out this supposed lost civilization
at the end of the Last Ice Age. Shock points
to ancient artifacts like the Ronco Wrongo tablets of Easter Island,
of course, and other scripts and petroglyphs that share similar iconography.

(52:20):
There's a lot of depiction of serpentine snakelike winding shapes
that could potentially be a record of people seeing something
like the Aurora borealis. These massive streams of plasma that
were in the sky due to a coronal mass ejection

(52:40):
or a CME, which would have made the sky potentially
look like it was on fire. If this plasma somehow
got closer to the surface of the Earth, maybe Earth's
magnetic field weakened somehow. But if this gut closer to
the surface of the Earth, if it was just so

(53:03):
powerful it could melt the ice sheets, it could vitrify
stone buildings, of which there are a number of examples
of that in ancient Megolithic sites around the world that
appear to have been melted, such as Dundeer Doll, Tapo
Noth or Old Hill in Scotland. And according to Shock,
this plasma event could also vaporize bodies of water, which

(53:27):
in turn would create a long term deluge of rain,
global flooding, and also, if I didn't mention it, massive wildfires.
Of course, it's pretty terrifying to think about because there's
really nothing that you could do except try to hide underground.

(53:48):
And do we have evidence of people hiding underground? Why, yes,
yes we do. There's darren Couu in Turkey, this underground
city that was constructed in the Cappadocia region that believed
to have been able to house over twenty thousand people.
The earliest written accounts of darren Kuu date back to
about three hundred and seventy BCE, but it could be

(54:10):
possible that this place was far older. In any carbon
dating came from objects that came from periods of time
where the site was reused time and again. It was
used during the medieval period for people to escape, this
is the story, at least escape from attacking armies and
things like that. There's also the long U Caves in China,

(54:30):
which these are massive caverns that were carved out and
weren't even discovered until nineteen ninety two. They're thought to
be at least two thousand years old, and that they
were made during the Ming dynasty. But the thing is,
there's no records of these being made, and the Chinese
people kept meticulous records of everything dating back to five

(54:52):
thousand years ago. So maybe this site and others like
it are as old as go Beckley Teppi as well.
And there's also cultures like the Hopie who have legends
of being saved by the Ant people and that they
had to hide underground during one of the destructions of Earth.

(55:12):
Very interesting that there's all of these connections here. So
was there really an ancient, lost anti Diluvian bray Fled
civilization on Earth that was destroyed around eleven to twelve
thousand years ago during the Younger Driess and may have

(55:34):
existed and flourished for even thousands of years before that. Well,
the truth is we just don't know for certain. There's
a lot of work that needs to be done. There's
a lot of really compelling evidence out there already suggesting
that there might be something to this hypothesis. Skeptics of
this theory believe that we have accurately dated and explored

(55:56):
many of these sites enough to know what really went
on and when it happened. They also find it preposterous
that the Earth could have had some kind of pole
shift or crustal displacement, or that evidence of a compact
impact or coronal mass ejection is inconclusive at best. The

(56:17):
notion that all of these megalithic sites were deliberately constructed
and aligned along this thirty degree or so different equator
is pretty much just thought to be mere coincidence. Archaeologists
also point to many of these sites being built with
locally sourced materials rather than stuff that was traded from

(56:38):
distant lands, although some structures were definitely sourced with stones
and materials hundreds of miles away like in ancient Egypt.
And also considering alignments, yes, many were aligned to the
stars and local landmarks. Archaeo astronomy is super interesting, but
skeptics believe that given the number of these sites around
the world, it's unlikely that these were all lined up

(57:02):
with a purpose along this alleged great circle. Although how
many have to line up in that exact position that
I laid out in this episode and I didn't cover
like half of them, and how many have to line
up for it to not be coincidence, I wonder. We
also have the issue of a lack of direct evidence
that can be dated, like proving there was some globally

(57:24):
connected civilization. We don't have necessarily things like tools, technology, buildings, settlements,
written records, ceramics, aside from things like the writings of Plato,
which are largely just thought to be allegory. But he
of course talks about Atlantis and how it dated back
to about nine thousand, ten thousand BC, which puts this

(57:47):
puts it in the same timeframe as what I've been
talking about this whole time now. You could also argue
that similarities in building techniques and iconography, writing systems, and
symbols of these different cultures is hard to ignore for
a potential connection, and if there was such a world
changing event so long ago, practically nothing would be left

(58:11):
to show that people were around back then doing advanced
things in prehistory. There's also the viewpoint of the similar
construction in building techniques and styles, which archaeologists and skeptics
think that these ideas were developed independently of one another,

(58:31):
rather than being diffused down from a progenitor civilization. Like
the shape of the pyramid just makes the most sense
for a stable, large construct, so many civilizations probably just
gravitated towards that idea, or even just moving megalithic blocks.
People like to build things, so in the end, skeptics

(58:52):
don't necessarily think that the evidence that's out there so
far is really evidence at all, rather just making connections,
and there aren't any. But I think that time will
tell on this. Just look at go Beckley Teppe, for example,
and it's neighboring sites which have already really rewritten history
since it was far against the mainstream that any advanced

(59:14):
building of any kind existed before ancient Samaria, and now
we have to wait over one hundred years before anything
more is done on that site, which is crazy. Now,
it's all very curious and well, I can't say for
sure about any of this. I do think that there
is a very compelling pattern here that we just don't

(59:37):
have the whole picture of our distant past. But let's
keep digging and find out the truth. All right. Thank
you again everyone for hanging out with me today. I
hope you enjoyed this two parter. It's been so long
since I've done one, and they're always a lot of fun,

(59:57):
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