Of all the work, I've [done] over the last quarter of a century
The reason I felt I had to do it. I mentioned [Gobekli]. Tepe [we] talked at the beginning of this discussion about
Plato's Atlantis story, and how he said that Atlantis went down Eleven thousand six hundred years ago
Nine thousand years before the time of [so] [long] that's eleven thousand six hundred years ago in our time
That's the date of the foundation of Gobekli tepe
It's very set very clear absolutely founded eleven thousand six hundred years ago. Exactly the date that plato gives for the ending of
Atlantis
and and [Gobekli] tepe
Doesn't fit it. Just comes out [of] nowhere out of nowhere
We understand a site like stonehenge
makes perfect sense it's about Four-and-A-Half thousand [years] old start henge
[we] know that it was centered in [a] agricultural community which?
Generated surpluses those surpluses allowed labor to be freed you could
Fund people to become astronomers or architects or engineers they need to be producing all the time so we can understand the social and economic
Context in which a huge megalithic site like stonehenge emerged
Go to [Gobekli] tepe you're seven thousand years earlier
The entire area prior [to] the appearance of Gobekli. Tepe is inhabited only by hunter-Gatherers
There's no agriculture whatsoever
They haven't built anything ever and then suddenly without any background or any preparation
Appears this huge megalithic site which is incredibly sophisticated turns out because a large part [of] it's still under the ground
seen with ground-Penetrating radar that the whole site is actually 50 times bigger than Stonehenge and
seven thousand Years older, so
How do we account for this did a group of hunter-Gatherers [in] turkey wake up one morning?
magically inspired
That they suddenly knew how to cut and quarry stone move blocks weighing in some cases up [to] 50 tons
Create gigantic stone circles in an area with [no] water
Involving bringing a labor force and organizing that labor force and feeding and watering them to create the world's first
Perfectly North-South aligned building which involves accurate astronomy to do all of that and at the same time to invent
Agriculture because at the same moment that [gobekli] tepe pops up suddenly agriculture appears in that same region of turkey
It's obvious to me that that wasn't a group of hunter-Gatherers who woke up one morning suddenly equipped with the skills
What we're looking at the transfer of technology?
This was the survivors of a lost civilization they already knew how to create megaliths they already knew how to do agriculture
They settled amongst
The hunter-Gatherer people who they may have reached out to before they settled amongst them and they created this project, and this [project] was to
restart
Their civilization it didn't quite work, but they got somewhere they created this huge site they invented agriculture
We are all the descendants of that all of the agriculture in the world today began around [Gobekli]
Tepe Eleven thousand six hundred years ago
It's an extraordinarily employed moment are these
Aliens are they know they're human human a human being but came from this and transferred technology over to this other space. Yes
First of all it's important to understand that the Earth changes that took place between twelve thousand eight hundred and Eleven
thousand six [hundred] Years ago were utTerly
cataclysmic
Beyond all
imagining
The science is now in [its] very clear
We had an interaction with the fragments of a very large comet a giant comet
Which originally may have been as much as a hundred miles in diameter. It was drawn into the inner solar [system] about
20,000 years ago these things come from very far away, they come from a place called the oort Cloud which is almost
Light year away. It's so far away
it's so far [away] a huge sphere of trillions of comets in the very outer solar system, but
Disturbances gravitational disturbances can send comets out of those safe orbit swinging in towards the inner solar system
it happens from time to time and the evidence now is that we
Got one of those a big one about a hundred miles in diameter [about]
20,000 years ago it entered an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and
For the next eight thousand years nothing bad happened
They missed each other
[but] twelve thousand eight hundred years ago at least eight fragments of that comment
And we know comets break into fragments [many] of your audience are young but those who were around in
1994 Will Remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which hit jupiter with
spectacular effect it broke up into 20 fragments each
One of those fragments hitting jupiter was equivalent to more than the entire nuclear arsenal of the Earth going off at once
Something similar happened to the Earth Twelve thousand eight hundred years ago
At least eight pieces of this large comet some of them up to a mile in diameter
Hit the Earth the primary impacts were on the [North] [American] ice cap there were impacts on
The Northern European ice cap and the Furthest east that we've documented in caps
Impact is actually syria
50 million Square [kilometres] of the Earth's surface was devastated by this compact a comet impact sea levels Rose
Rapidly and the Earth's climate
Plunged into a dreadful deep freeze that lasted
1,200 years
This event was of a scale of a magnitude that is quite capable of having wiped out
almost all traces of a former civilization
and that's why I think again about what plato had to say and I think also about
[our] civilization