of course it's not even in 1995 the the
notion of a lost civilization was not a
new idea that notion has been around for
a very long time we can take that notion
actually back thousands and thousands of
years the most famous example is Plato
the Greek philosopher Plato who gave us
the story of Atlantis from Plato comes
the story of Atlantis a great advanced
civilization which had navigating in
seafaring skills which could explore the
world which built gigantic buildings
which had advanced knowledge in every
area which was prosperous and powerful
but then Plato says that corruption
crept in to this society that it became
cool and avaricious it became greedy it
began to impose its power around the
world and he has a very ringing phrase
he said that Atlantis ceased to where
its prosperity with moderation and the
suggestion is that it's this this hubris
this conceit of Atlantis that had to
become so sure of itself that somehow
the universe struck it down and we have
the the Cataclysm of flood and and
disaster and that Atlantis is submerged
beneath the waves now of course the view
of historians and academics is that
Plato story is just made up he just made
it up to make some political or
philosophical point but this cannot be
so that that that view can't be right I
was very suspicious of that view the
first time I heard it from a mainstream
historian I say that Plato made this up
Plato repeatedly states that it is a
true story and as we look into it
further we find something else that
Plato puts a date on the destruction of
Atlantis he says Atlantis was submerged
beneath the waves in a huge global
Cataclysm 9,000 years before the time of
Solon that gives us an absolute date for
this we know Solon we know who he was
Solon was a famous Greek lawmaker he was
an ancestor of Plato as a matter of fact
about 200 years before Plato and around
600 BC Solon the great Greek lawmaker
made a visit to Egypt and in Egypt the
priests are the temple of sice in the in
the Delta told him the story of Atlantis
and they said that it was written on the
walls of the temple and he said when did
this happen when was this great
civilization destroyed and they said
9,000 years ago and that was in 600 BC
so that's 9600 BC in our calendar that's
11,000 600 years ago Plato is telling us
a great civilization was destroyed in a
global Cataclysm of flood 11600 years
ago he's laughed at by all academics and
historians but then geology comes along
and lo and behold what do we find eleven
thousand six hundred years ago is a
truly cataclysmic episode in geological
history
it's called meltwater pulse one B we
have a massive rise in sea level as the
ice sheets on North America and northern
Europe just column but crumble and
collapse into the ocean if Plato made
the whole thing up
he was just astonishingly on the money
with the latest geology and I think that
we really have to reconsider our
attitudes to these stories that have
come down to us from the past academics
have been too quick to dismiss them too
quick to say oh we figured the whole
story out there's no mystery there maybe
there's a huge mystery there maybe we
should listen to these clues and hints
from the past that speak of a great
civilization so when I published
fingerprints of the gods in in 1995 it
was at the end of a long lineage going
back to Plato and before and of course
famously Ignatius Donnelly in the 1900s
the early 1900s and late 1800s wrote
Atlantis the antediluvian world which
was a huge investigation of Atlantis so
this subject has been tackled again and
again and again and again
mainstream academia has said no it's
impossible there could be no lost
civilization we know everything about
the past and it's been dismissed but the
problem is that new evidence keeps
coming out which can't be explained by
the existing historical model new
evidence that just doesn't fit the
picture and my sense is that this
evidence is now becoming overwhelming
and that we're reaching a tipping point
maybe not this year maybe not next year
but within our lifetimes we are going to
see a complete ly new understanding of
the past or a radical revision of the
past and therefore of our place in the
world as well