Hi it's Mike Chen!
You guys know I know talking about prehistoric civilizations on this channel,
And I do personally believe that very advanced societies have existed before.
Of course, I'm not the only one.
In 2015, A famous archaeologist and best-selling author Graham Hancock published a book called
Magicians of the Gods, in which he talked about his belief that around 13,000 years
ago, there was a previous human civilization that was tragically wiped out by a comet,
leaving only a small amount of people behind to carry on the knowledge and traditions of
the destroyed civilization.
His book, in this day and age, was met with a ton of criticism
People called him a fantasist and an amateur, and it didn’t help that he promoted hallucinogenic
drugs as “intellectual stimulants” either.
Although, like I mentioned before, his book was dismissed by many,
One of the most convincing pieces of evidence Hancock provided in his book was found at
Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, where he supposedly found the “most ancient work of monumental
architecture on earth”.
It was a pillar known as th e vulture stone, and what's strange about that particular piece
of architecture is that it was TWICE as old as stonehenge and seemed to be much more complex
There were strange astronomical as well as animal carvings and inscriptions on it, which
seemed to tell stories of past civilizations.
What's really interesting is that one of the carvings looked like a comet that fell and wiped out
everything on earth.
There was even a pillar that showed a headless man, symbolizing the mass killing of people
by the comet thousands of years ago.
But since there was no proof, that piece of architecture was pretty weak evidence
for a past human civilizatio n.
For 20 years, people refused to acknowledge Hancock’s beliefs and findings until recently.
Earlier this month, researchers and experts at the University of Edinburgh's
School of Engineering confirmed that the carvings at Gobekli Tepe were indeed of a comet strike
in around 10,950 BC.
But how were researchers able to find out the exact date?
Well, the stars inscripted on the pillar in Gobekli were actually represented as they
were in 10,950 BC, which means that whoever created the pillars somehow knew how to backdate
constellations.
That shows extreme sophistication, which isn’t something that humans, who were thought to
be hunter-gatherers not much better than cavemen, were capable of.
And if they were just a bunch of people living in caves, running around scared of fire, how were they able to build Gobekli Tepe?
Another curious thing is that experts have long agreed that a huge event happened right
after 11,000 BC that caused a huge change in climate.
This event resulted in a 1500 year long chill called the Younger Dryas, where the world
turned into a cold glacial place.
Although there have been many explanations as what caused the abrupt climate change during
that period of time, Hancock believed that there was only one explanation:
The earth was hit by a huge comet.
According to Hancock, there must be a reason why myths and legends from all across the
world have common stories about human civilizations being destroyed by floods or other natural
disasters.
Not only that, there was also evidence around the world such as huge boulders, platinum
deposits and tiny diamonds found across north america.
All of these led him to believe that they were the waste, or leftovers of a huge impact
that hit earth.
He believes that a huge asteroid hit earth and wiped out animal species like the mammoth
and sloth bear, and wiped out all except a very small group of humans.
He thinks that some of the people who survived include the ancestor of the Ojibwa tribe of
the Canadian grasslands, who still tell the story of a long-tailed heavenly
climbing star that came from the sky and scorched the earth.
How were the primitive people of the time able to use complex math and have
such advanced architectural and stone-working skills?
Hancock thinks that all the knowledge already existed.
He thinks that there was a human civilization that existed before the comet strike, and
that civilization was much, much more advanced than we are today.
That is the only reason why such complex structures originate from thousands of years ago even
though the cavemen-like people at the time were definitely incapable of building such
things.
Finally, Hancock goes on to state that not only did a comet hit some 11,000 years ago,
there will also be another comet that will hit earth very soon.
He says that the gobekli stones weren’t just describing something that happened in
history; they were also describing an event of the future.
He thinks the comet that hit the earth in 10,950 BC was a piece of debris from the
Taurid meteor stream, a belt that holds millions upon millions of space rocks.
Inside that belt, according to astrophysicists, lies a superheated rock, and inside that rock
is boiling tar that is slowly building up pressure until it explodes.
One it explodes, the impact will be big enough to destroy every living thing on earth.
Since we are due to cross the Taurid stream in 13 years, Hancock believes that earth will
only survive until then before it gets destroyed.
Was there really a smarter, more advanced civilization before us that left all of these
complex architectural works behind?
Is a tar-filled, superheat ed rock going to explode on us in 13 years?