Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Lost Civilization
Theories.
Spooky!
So we are going to talk about some wild theories circulating about confirmed extinct civilizations
and also some theories about civilizations that some people are convince existed, but
we have yet to find any evidence!
Are you with me!
Before I get into this video, I want to ask you guys what your favourite ancient civilization
is?
Mine is definitely the Romans.
They knew how to enjoy themselves!
Love a banquet!
Although I do have some love for the sneaky Egyptians.
Loved a good curse didn’t they.
Let me know in the comments section down below.
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10 - Atlantis Whether or not Atlantis is real, we just don’t
know.
It is a legendary city that is mentioned in a number of pieces of Greek literature, including
by the late great philosopher Plato.
It is said that Atlantis was a thriving city filled with affluence and positivity….
That was until it sank.
Atlantis was said to have sunk into the sea in a single day and night.
There has been a lot of speculation as to where the city may be – many think that
it may be in the Straights of Gibraltar between Africa and Spain.
If Atlantis was real it would be over 11,000 years old.
Did the people sink and drown?
9 - Mayans The Mayan’s were an ancient civilization
developed by the Maya people.
The population lived in South east Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, parts of Honduras and El
Salvador.
Mayan structures still remaining include Mexico’s famous Chichen Itza.
The Mayan era began somewhere around 2000 BCE and lasted until around the 8th or 9th
century AD.
There were 19 million people in the civilization, which was a significant proportion of the
world population at the time.
All of a sudden, they died out.
We don’t know the real reason – the most sensible theories include drought caused by
over logging but there are wilder theories out there.
Some think that over farming meant eventually people starved, others say the Mayan rulers
killed each other in wars, and others think disease was the main culprit.
However there are some pretty juicy articles out there that’s suggest the Mayan’s had
contact with aliens and somehow extra terrestrials were their undoing.
A lot of people think that the answers lie in the Blue Hole of Belize – an underwater
cave.
8 - The Lost People of Easter Island The Rapa Nui of Easter Island – the ancient
islanders who built the stone figures you have likely seen in pictures.
How the people managed to built these busts using their limited resources in ** we don’t
know….
But how they died out is even more mysterious and makes up talking points in Jared Diamond’s
best-selling book – Collapse.
Easter Island is a small patch of land -roughly 63 square miles in size – and once had a
thriving population.
When Captain James Cook found them in the 1700’s though, they were on the cusp of
extinction.
The main theory is that they destroyed the islands eco system by cutting down too many
trees.
Another theory is rats – rats infested the island and destroyed crops.
Others say disease wiped them out.
7 - The Aztecs In 1545 the Aztec Empire of Central America
began to fall when 90 percent of its population died of a mysterious disease.
It seems that up to 17 million people died in the Aztec Empire, which was a massively
significant proportion of the earths population back then.
In Aztec records they simply referred to the downturn I fortune as Cocoliztli – or pestilence.
From accounts at the time, people got a fever, blotchy skin, started vomiting and bleeding
out of the eyes and nose.
Horrendous.
What this mystery illness was has had a lot of historians scratching their heads but in
2018 a new study concluded it may have been wide spread salmonella – aka severe food
poisoning.
It is possible that Spanish invaders introduced Salmonella to modern day Mexico when they
brought in livestock from Europe.
6 - Indus Valley Civilization The Indus Valley Civilsation was a bronze
age civilisation in the north west regions of south West Asia.
It seems they lived between 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE and they were one of four civilizations
of the Old World.
Sadly it seemed that the civilisation died out abruptly….
Very abruptly which has raised a few historic eyebrows.
There are a number of theories in circulation and they include land drying and desert encroaching
on farm land.
Others think flooding destroyed land and brought about disease in its wake…but then on the
flip side some people think that changing river patterns led to drought.
Others think they died in wars – they were thought to be a peaceful civilization not
equipped for war.
Others say that some survived and dissipated… we just don’t know!
5 - The Lost Souls of the North Sea In 2018 evidence of a lost human civilization
was discovered under the North and Baltic seas.
It seems that the settlement discovered by archaeologists is being dubbed the Swedish
Atlantis and could define a whole era of human development that we just don’t know about.
Right now a team of geologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists on board a ship are excavating
a sand back on the North Sea floor measuring about 30 kilometers.
What may have happened to the people who lived there - we don’t know
4 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke What happened to the Roanoke is a complete
mystery.
In 1585, a small group of settlers made Ronake Island off the coast of North Carolina their
home although many left when they found the conditions unsatisfactory.
In 1587, 115 English Settlers came to join those who were left but weirdly they found
no one… they didn’t seem too disturbed though.
At the time, the colony decided to send their governor, John White, back to England to gather
fresh supplies and fresh settlers to expand the colony.
When he returned back to the Colony, where his wife and daughter were, I may add, three
years later, he found no trace of the inhabitants.
The only clue he found was the word Croatoan carved into a wooden post?
How strange.
Where did the settlers of Roanoke go ? They were never seen again.
Some theories say that they were killed by a Native American tribe, although the fact
that there was no trace of their bodies is suspicious.
Others say they decided to sail back to England for some reason or another and they got lost
at sea.
Although why they would not leave a message letting their returned governor know, I don’t
know.
It is deeply unsettling that this happened twice.
3 - Under the Ice Some therorists believe that there is an ancient
civilization trapped under the thick ice of the Antarctic and it may well be the case
– Antarctica didn’t always used to be frozen… the deep freeze started happening
around 23 million years ago.
160 years ago it separated from Africa… and back then it was by and large a pretty
hospitable place to live.
We know that the first humans as we know them came from Africa, but what if before that
they were living in the area of land that used to be connected to Africa and became
Antarctic and we will never know because they’re buried under ice.
It is a theory… for sure.
Some think they have spotted man made structures under melting ice in Antarctica which may
be the evidence theorists have been looking for .
2 - The Martians It has long been suspected that there was
once life on Mars.
While all of the scientific evidence we currently has seems to refute that, some people are
convinced that the now very very cold planet was once able to house life and they think
that the Viking space crafts and the former Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity captured
them on film.
In 1976, Viking one took the infamous face on Mars photograph.
In 2007 Spirit photographed a so called martian rock statue, adding to the list of so called
other statue sightings on the Red Planet.
One of the last images pinged back from the now sadly shut down Opportunity Rover appeared
to show a bottle buried in the rocks.
A lot of people think that Mars was once just like earth but suffered some kind of cosmic
catastrophe.
Many people believe that when the Mars 2030 astronaut mission takes place we will find
clues that will help us understand our own place in the universe.
1 The Lizard People and The Silurian Hypothesis A mind bender here!
The Silurian hypothesis asks the question : What if humans aren’t the first civilization
on earth.
Researchers from the University of Rochester and NASA have produced a paper that details
how we might be able to tell if humans are the first civilization to arise on Earth….basically
some people think that humans might not have been the first rulers of earth.
If you’re thinking the name Silurian sounds familiar – it is taken from the Doctor Who
mythical reptilian race who were on earth before humans but went into hybernation…only
to pop up again millions of years later.
NASA strongly doubts that there was an industrial civilisation before ours because we would
be able to note it in geological record, the earth’s crust is pretty thick so perhaps
all of the rocks and glaciers we have studied are only telling part of a story – perhaps
even deeper down there are scary mysteries waiting
to be unravelled.
Comments from the Top Scary Things Found in The Snow
Our channel member Dark Samurai said: Snow is all great, after it's melted.
The weirdest or laziest thing I found was my neighbours small car, he never used it
or cleared it in the winter, the year we had a huge record fall multiple times that year,
yeah...?
So, what was it like buried in the snow?
Is that what you are saying?
Christa said their favourite season is spring but that their allergies hate it . I feel
you there!
Thoughts and feedback from Alice Willoughby next – she said: #10 - Ye Gods, global warming
is even morre dangerous than I thought!
This idea of ancient diseases coming back after having been frozen for thousands of
years and still being viable feels like somethng from the X-Files!
#5 - Poor kitty!
I'm glad it survived!?
– ME TOO!