hi there and welcome to a special episode of after skool. my name is ben and i produce the
unchartedx youtube channel i'm a student and fan of history and for many years i've been
dedicated to traveling and researching ancient sites and mysteries as well as the geological
evidence for cataclysm in today's episode we'll explore some of the anomalies that don't fit into
the mainstream story of our past and make the case for rewriting the very beginnings
of our history i hope you enjoy the video when it comes to the realms of academia and science
battles are fought whenever new ideas or new evidence emerges to challenge the mainstream
understanding of the times bloodless wars but wars nonetheless are slowly waged across
many domains of knowledge paper by paper and book by book at stake are the prizes the label
of expertise the tenure of education and the authority that derives from establishment
some of these disputes are precise using the scientific method of hypothesis experiment and
result to produce concrete conclusions to unhorse old ideas and to move our understanding forward
such as that which occurs in the disciplines of biology physics or chemistry for example
other disciplines are less precise and rely on the interpretation of incomplete sets of evidence
the weaving together of data and observation as happens in fields like archaeology or paleontology
one battle that's been heating up considerably over the last decade is
the fight for the foundations of human history itself i'm not talking about modern history or
even what we refer to as ancient history at least as we know it in our textbooks today
i'm talking about what happened before this the ground that the tail of our past is built upon and
the basis for all of recorded human history and that is the timeline of our evolution as a species
our rise from the stone age and into the era of civilization it is these older aspects of our
past that seem to be in an ever increasing state of dispute the arguments being made are legitimate
they are coming from many different vectors and many different disciplines of science
many arguments are based on discoveries that have only been made in recent years and collectively
they're making the case for a re-evaluation of the story of our past ever stronger everyone is aware
of this story to a greater or lesser degree and in its most basic form it goes a little something
like this a while ago we humans homo sapiens evolved and emerged directly into the stone age
fiddling with sticks and rocks and contentedly hunter-gathering our days away it's here that
we spend the vast majority of our time on earth tens if not hundreds of thousands of years then
all of a sudden we get the bright idea to team up raise some forts build some walls create some gods
and make some rules and then voila there's civilization the ancient sumerians kick us
off then egypt babylon the greeks the romans the mongols china's great dynasties and all the rest
soon we're playing with swords and castles and surfs and slaves
now it's time to up our painting game and we have ourselves a renaissance
someone observes that steam expands which is still the basis of our entire economy
even nuclear power stations are just big kettles for boiling water and making steam expand we begin
a love affair with gunpowder and money we put a meter on electrons and sell them to everyone
and the industrial revolution begins the inexorable rise of modern technology
then all of a sudden hello here we all are intangibly connected to this thing called
the internet watching thousands of tiny flashing pixels on some device of unimaginable complexity
while sipping a latte wearing sneakers and synthetic clothing in our paved over jungle
and mostly doing so as if it was all perfectly normal the idea that we are all here as the
direct result of an unbroken straight line of human progress coming from the stone age this is
one of the foundations upon which our modern human identity is formed yet it's this very foundational
concept that is under siege the evidence that our history is longer and much more complex
just continues to stack up the narrative that this new evidence weaves is frankly alarming it tells a
tale of unimaginable destruction a tale of the rise and fall of unknown yet undeniably mighty
civilizations of advanced technologies that were created used and then lost to us a cycle of death
and rebirth on a scale that is beyond anything contained within our current version of history
a version that in the light of all this new evidence can simply be considered but the latest
revolution of the cosmic hamster wheel of human civilizations let's put a few examples of this new
evidence into some context here's a new scientist article from 2006 which was if you're a law like
me and in complete denial about getting older shockingly 16 years ago now although you wouldn't
know it from the music that i still listen to this article lays out the timeline of human evolution
the mainstream story of history as it was taught in 2006 so let's make a graph and
talk about us kids around 195 000 years ago we emerged onto the scene and into the stone age
here we stay for many tens of thousands of years until we start eating mushrooms having
visionary experiences drawing cave art burying our dead creating symbolic and abstract concepts
also called the great leap forward which was some 50 000 years ago around the same time that humans
first colonized australia then roughly 12 000 years ago and still globally in the stone age mind
you modern humans finally reached the americas the stone age eventually comes to an end only a scant
6 000 years ago from now when the first true civilization that leads directly to us begins
with the ancient sumerians in mesopotamia which was mostly in what's now modern-day iraq
now let's look at some of the new evidence since 2006 and how it should be affecting this timeline
a new find of human remains in morocco made us instantly more than 30 percent older than we first
thought pushing the earliest date of our species back to some 300 000 years ago new dna evidence
analyzed from neanderthal remains estimates our split with them from a common ancestor
as far back as 800 thousand years ago not only that but discoveries of entirely new species of
hominids like homo florences or the denisovans is proving that our origins as a species are
much more complex than we had ever believed these hominids weren't simple dumb creatures and with
fines like the dennis oven jade bracelet a 40 000 year old artifact that includes a drill hole
indicates that they may well have been as intelligent organized and capable
of understanding abstract concepts as our own species as our timeline extends further back it
also means that we co-existed with our cousins for a very long time i believe there is much more to
find here new archaeological work has smashed our understandings of human timelines in the americas
with digs like the ceruti mastodon site in san diego or the bluefish caves showing that humans
may well have been in north america as much as 130 000 years ago and was certainly here
25 to 30 000 years ago which is much longer than those dates claimed by the clovis first doctrine
of archaeology that for so long has strangled open-minded research efforts in north america
not only this but dna linkages between aboriginal australians and the natives of south america
linkages that don't seem to exist in the peoples of central or north america
is challenging the entire northern landbridge theory of the diaspora of humanity these
findings suggest that large populations of people groups large enough to leave genetic
indicators crossed the pacific ocean long before we were ever supposedly capable of such feats
and when it comes to civilization the story gets even more intriguing with many new finds pushing
our supposed start date back further and further we had first thought that civilization arose some
six thousand years ago but the largest megalithic site in the world gobekli tepe in turkey
is now known to have been deliberately buried some twelve thousand years ago likely after thousands
of years of use the re-dating of the great sphinx in egypt by professor of geology dr robert shock
indicates that this structure is at least as old as gobekli tepe some 12 000 years and it's
possibly significantly older a massive man-made pyramid-like structure was recently discovered in
indonesia at a site called gunan padang it has had carbon dating of organic remains that were pulled
from chambers inside the structure that pushes the earlier start date of civilization possibly as
far back as 25 000 years ago it's not just these new findings when it comes to the reasons for a
re-evaluation of history there is a whole other category of evidence in this debate
that category is that in many ways our current interpretation of history simply does not make
sense when you take a close and careful look at it contradictions and mysteries
abound in our story of history they attract the attention of interested and open-minded people
despite the efforts of academia who in many cases just declare that no such mysteries exist
these contradictions are often hidden in plain sight they're in our textbooks and they're in
the astonishing megalithic evidence that is left to us in the ancient places of the world
demonstrated nowhere better than those in egypt just consider the old kingdom period
which according to egyptologists arose directly from the primitive stone age and whose people
did not have the ability to quarry granite why then is the old kingdom so rich in incredible
granite structures that have never seen their match since how did they build such
massive granite artifacts and architecture without the ability to quarry or work this stone
why were the huge megalithic pyramids like those at giza the earliest pyramids to be built and this
is to say nothing of the mind-bending precision that is evident in this work
from the oldest period of egyptian history precision that is found in the smallest of objects
like the thousands of lathe turned exquisite stone jars to the largest of objects like the
great pyramid which even today still ranks amongst the most precisely made structures on the planet
when you look closely you will find the obvious signs and markings of advanced machining and tools
tools that are not found in the archaeological record
after the old kingdom egypt kept on building pyramids and they kept on making artwork
but they never came close to reaching the same technical ability that they supposedly did in
the very earliest part of their civilization ask yourself is this really how civilizations work
do they peak instantly and then degrade over time another contradiction this time south america
why are there three distinct styles of architecture present in peruvian ancient sites
three styles that are wildly different in their technological sophistication
why are these three styles always found in the same order with the largest and most difficult
work at the bottom and oldest layers with the much cruder simpler stonework found on top
all three styles are attributed to the inca alone whose civilization mighty as it was only existed
for some 150 years does this look like the work of six or seven generations of the same civilization
what can we make of the mysterious precision stonework of pumapunku and tiwanaku in bolivia
or the cyclopean walls of saksayhuaman why do so many of these sites show evidence of massive
destruction at some distant point in the past why does the megalithic architecture found all
over the world from peru to easter island to egypt to turkey match so closely if it is from
different civilizations that were separated by not only distance but also millennia of time
why are we only now thanks to deforestation finding literally hundreds of huge geometric
earthen shapes as well as the remains of entire cities in the amazon jungle what
about the pyramids that are dotted all over china pyramids that nobody has been allowed to film let
alone investigate for some 40 years none of these mysteries fit within our current story of history
pyramid culture itself seems to be a constant across many parts of the world
the largest and most famous pyramid of them all the great pyramid of giza has yet to give up all
of its secrets despite our modern technology every aspect of its construction that we have
managed to puzzle out from its precise alignment to true north and to celestial constellations
its sacred geometry ratios that encode the very constants of nature to the fact that
it is essentially an accurate scale model of the earth all of these attributes are like a message
sent through time one that speaks to us of a deep understanding of the universe an understanding
that must have existed far back in the distant past and an understanding and capability that
we simply cannot attribute to what we currently know of the ancient civilizations in our textbooks
why are there ancient maps like the piri ray's map or the oronto phineas map maps that show
antarctica before it was even discovered parts of these maps the accurate parts were drawn
from much more ancient source maps which like so many other ancient documents are now lost to us
not only is antarctica shown on these maps but they accurately depict the coastline of antarctica
that is under the ice a claim that was verified by experts in the us air force in 1960 several
ancient maps show undeniable proof of advanced technology and mathematics in their projections
and in their high degree of accuracy in longitude the measuring of distance to the east and west of
the prime meridian and this is something that was only possible for us to do as a civilization in
the 19th century around the time of james cook's second voyage of discovery because of the need
for accurate chronometers which we simply hadn't invented up until that point i don't think that
many of these contradictions nor these mysteries can be resolved from within our current paradigm
of history nor can we truly attribute all of the megalithic work or the ancient high technology
objects that are still left to us to what we know of the great the great yet primitive ancient
civilizations that make up our orthodox version of history i love and i greatly respect our ancient
civilizations but the reality is some of what we see was simply out of their technological reach
this technological gap between what we know of ancient civilizations and what we see is attested
to by so many professionals craftsmen builders and engineers experts who study these things in
detail people who are far more qualified to offer opinions on ancient technology or engineering than
the egyptologists or archaeologists who commonly deride such opinions but couldn't engineer the
chair that they're sitting on when they do it there is however a key that unlocks these
mysteries a solution that makes sense of all of these contradictions and this solution comes to us
from adjacent scientific fields and from a series of discoveries only made in the last 20 years
it's a huge clanger in the story of history it's something that fractures our established timeline
and it destroys the premise of a single unbroken line of human progress since the stone age
the very premise that the story of history is built upon it effectively wipes the slate clean
and its impact is such that were we to be honest were we to be truly open-minded and receptive to
new evidence we really should be rewriting the entire story of our history from the beginning
this key is known to us today as the younger driest cataclysm it happened in the period
around 12 900 years ago and it changed the surface of the earth evidence now shows
that the planet was subject to an unimaginably violent series of cataclysms during this period
these events ultimately led to the rapid melting of the continental glaciers with a series of
catastrophically violent megafloods the signature of which is still writ large in the spectacular
landscape of regions like the channeled scab lands up to 10 percent of the biomass of the planet was
on fire and this period left a signature of destruction found in the strata layers of the
earth at dozens of sites from north america to south africa the younger dryas ended the
glacial maximum of the ice age it killed off fully half of the megafauna of the pleistocene up to 80
percent of all large animals in the americas these events and the melting of the ice sheets
rose sea level some 400 feet to the current height that they are still at today this was a very very
dark period for life on this planet and anything remotely resembling civilization likely living in
the warmer coastal regions at the time would have been erased almost entirely supporting this point
new dna evidence shows a huge genetic bottleneck and reduction in global population of people
aligned with the younger dryers period the most important aspect of this to me the undeniable fact
of this event is that despite our age as a species all of our recorded history all of our evidence
for civilization all of it comes after this world ending cataclysm why do you think that is
almost every ancient culture speaks to us of this tumultuous period with their origin
stories and their symbolic religions they speak of cataclysm of destruction of flood and fire
they speak of the world being destroyed by a war in the sky of their ancestors barely living
through these events and later being forced to begin again they speak of gods of giants and of
great civilizers with magical high technology-like powers who came from across the sea
it's not just the evidence for cataclysm that we find in so many ancient tales
there is another curious commonality between ancient myths and religions and that is that many
of them consistently encode advanced celestial knowledge in their symbolic tales and this case
has been made for many different cultures that span the entire globe as well as millennia of time
it's the same information the same evidence of a deep understanding of the movements of the heavens
this data is encoded into myth and religion even in some cases where these cultures themselves had
no such knowledge our own religions our own modern day sun cults they also encode this celestial
knowledge and they also speak to us of cataclysm of cosmic impacts and of world ending floods
science is now backing up the truth that's encased in these legends and these religions and
the truth of the younger dry's cataclysm over 150 peer-reviewed papers have now been published since
the theory first emerged in 2006 and in recent years we've even found what may be one of the
craters from this cosmic impact a massive gaping hole under the hirowatha glacier in greenland
so it is from within this context the context of cataclysm and near extinction
that the human timeline and the mysteries of the story of history can begin to make some sense
it becomes a tale of inheritance of extended timelines of civilizations rising and falling
a mighty global civilization that existed in the distant past a civilization that was struck down
and swallowed by the earth or subsumed by the seas a civilization that left traces of its greatness
in architecture and in artifacts it left legacies of its knowledge encoded into the cultures
and religions of those people that eventually followed after all the ancient egyptians even
called themselves a legacy civilization a legacy of what or of whom it is from within this context
the context of a lost ancient high technology civilization that the contradictions evident in
megalithic architecture could be explained and the enigma of obviously high technology objects
could be fully investigated and solved yet despite this deluge of new evidence our tenured academics
and the textbooks in the field of history are very slow to change if not outrightly hostile
towards any new ideas in many ways the story of history is very similar to a religious dogma
as ultimately it's just a story and its high priests of archaeology and egyptology only
really derive their authority from the mainstream acceptance of this story if questioning this
dogmatic version of history is heresy then this is a label that i happily accept and i consider this
channel to be something of the modern day heretics toolkit many others are also on this path authors
researchers fellow content creators and i think a slow awakening is actually happening as more
and more people realize that it's high time we reevaluated and re-examined the story of our past
you will find content on this channel that explores many aspects of this debate
from the cataclysms of the ice age and looking at new scientific evidence
to investigations of ancient sites and the search for evidence of ancient high technology
my hope is to spread some awareness of this debate to get more people interested in
uncovering our real history and above all to get people captivated by the true mystery and
wonder that awaits those who wish to visit the astonishing ancient places that are still left to
us around the world i want us to heed the warnings that are transmitted from ancient civilizations
warnings that are indicated by the astronomical alignment of so many of their structures
and written into so many of their stories we need to understand the dangers that lurk in the cosmic
environment of our future as ultimately i believe that our priorities as a species need to change
if we hope to survive in the longer term and eventually propagate ourselves into the stars
thanks for tuning in to this episode of after school who i want to say a huge thank you to for
their excellent work in this collaboration i'm ben from the uncharted x channel and i've been
traveling researching and filming for many years now so if you're interested in the topics covered
in this video i explore many of these mysteries in depth over at the uncharted x channel from new
scientific work uncovering the cataclysms of the ice age to the evidence for lost civilizations and
ancient forms of high technology i've also had the privilege to both travel with and interview
many of the experts that work in these fields figures who should be familiar to after-school
viewers guys like randall carlson and graeme hancock you can find those discussions on
my youtube channel as well as on the uncharted x audio podcast the links to both of those are below
i hope you enjoyed the video and many thanks for watching
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