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 stakes 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, as occurs in the disciplines of biology, mathematics or chemistry. Others 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 has 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, the ground that the tale of our past is built upon, 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 not the written history of civilization but rather these earlier aspects of our past that are in what seems like an ever increasing state of dispute. The arguments being made are legitimate, they are coming from many different vectors and different disciplines of science, many are based on discoveries that have been made only 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 it it’s most basic form, it goes something like this:
A while ago, we humans, homo sapiens sapiens evolved, emerged directly into the stone age, fiddling with sticks and rocks and contentedly hunter gathering our days away. It is here that we spent the vast majority of our time on earth, 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of years, then DING, all of a sudden, we get the bright idea to team up, build some forts, build some walls, create some gods, make some rules and viola, there’s civilization. The ancient sumerians kick us off, then Egypt, Babylonia, the Greeks the Romans the Mongols, China’s great dynasties and all the rest. Soon we’re playing with swords and castles and serfs and slaves, now it’s time to up our painting game, we have a renaissance, someone observes that steam goes up (which is still the basis of our entire economy, even nuclear power stations are just big kettles for making steam go up), we begin a love affair with gunpowder and money, we put a meter on electrons, and the industrial revolution begins the inexorable rise of modern technology. Then, hello, here we all are, intangibly connected to the internet, watching thousands of tiny flashing pixels on a device of unimaginable complexity, sipping a latte, wearing sneakers and synthetic clothes – and mostly doing so as if this were all perfectly normal.
The idea that we are all here as the direct result of an unbroken straight line of human progress from the stone age is one of the foundations upon which our modern human identity is formed, yet it is this very foundation that is under seige. The evidence that our history is longer, and much more complex continues to stack up. The narrative this this new evidence weaves is frankly alarming; it tells a tale of unimaginable destruction, of the rise and fall of unknown yet undeniably mighty civilizations, of advanced technologies that were created, used and then lost, a cycle of death and rebirth on a scale beyond anything contained within our current version of history – and this is a version that, in the light of new evidence, simply be considered but the latest revolution of the cosmic hampster wheel of human civilizations.
Let’s put some of this new evidence into context.
Here’s a ‘New Scientist’ article from 2006, which was, if you’re like me and in denial about getting older, was, shockingly, 13 years ago now, although you wouldn’t know it from the music that I still listen to. The article lays out the timeline of human evolution, the mainstream ‘story of history’ as it was taught in 2006. Let’s make a graph, and talk about us kids. Around 195,000 years ago, we emerged onto the scene, into the neolithic stone age. Here we stay for many 10s of thousands of years, until we start eating mushrooms, having visionary experiences, drawing cave art, burying our dead, creating symbolic and abstract concepts, called the ‘great leap forward,’ some 50,000 years ago, around the same time humans first colonize Australia. Then, roughly 12,000 years ago, and still globally in the stone age, modern humans finally reach the Americas. The stone age eventually comes to an end only a scant 6000 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 is now modern day Iraq.
Now let’s look at how some of the new evidence since 2006 should be affecting this timeline.
A new find in Morocco made us instantly more than 30% older than we thought, pushing the earliest date of our species back to around 300,000 years ago.
New DNA evidence, analyzed from Neanderthal remains, estimates our split with them from a common ancestor as far back as 800,000 years ago. Not only that, but discoveries of entire new species of hominids, like homo floriensis, or the densiovans, is proving that our origins as a species is much more complex than we had first believed. As our timeline extends it also means that we co-existed with our cousins for a very long time, I believe there is much more find here.
New archaeological work has smashed human timelines in the Americas, with digs like the Cerutti Mastadon site in San Diego or the Bluefish caves showing that humans were in North America as much as 130,000 years ago, and certainly longer than that claimed by the ‘Clovis first’ doctrine of archaeology, that has for so long strangled open minded research efforts in north america.
Not only that, 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 land bridge theory of the diaspera of humanity. These findings suggests that large populations of people, groups large enough to leave genetic indicators, crossed the pacific ocean long long before we were supposedly capable of such feats.
When it comes to civilization, the story gets even more intriguing, with new finds pushing the start date back further and further. We had thought the first civilization was 6000 years ago, but the largest megalithic site in the world, Gobleki Tepi in Turkey, is now known to have been deliberately buried some 12,000 years ago, likely after thousands of years of use. The re-dating of the Great Sphinx in Egypt by Professor of Geology Dr Robert schock, indicates that this structure is at least as old as Gobleki Tepi, some 12,000 years, possibly significantly older. A massive man made pyramid like structure was recently discovered in Indonesia at a site called Gunung Padang, and it has had carbon dating of organic remains pulled from chambers inside the structure that pushes civilization dates as far back as 25,000 years ago.
It’s not just new findings when it comes to the reasons for a re-evaluation of history. There is another argument to this debate, and that is that in many ways, our current interpretation of history simply does not make sense when you take a close careful look at it. Contradictions and mysteries abound, they attract the attention of interested and open minded people, despite the efforts of academia to declare that no such mysteries exist. (shame on you) These contradictions are often hidden in plain sight, in our textbooks, and in the astonishing megalithic evidence left to us on in the ancient places of the world, and demonstrated nowhere better than those in Egpyt. Just consider the old kingdom period – which, according to egyptologists, arose directly from the primitive Stone age, and who’s 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 stone? Why are these incredible structures the earliest pyramids ever built? And this is to say nothing of the mind bending precision that is evident in this work when you look closely, nor the obvious signs and markings of advanced tools, tools that are not found in the archaeological record. After the old kingdom, Egypt kept on building pyramids, and 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 that really how civilizations work?
Another contradiction, this time South America; Why are there are 3 distinct styles of architecture present in Peruvian ancient sites? 3 styles that are wildly different in the technological sophistication, yet all 3 styles are attributed to the Inca alone? What can we make of the mysterious precision stonework of Puma Punku and Tiwanaku in Bolivia, or the cyclopean walls of Sacsayhuaman? Why do so many of these sites show evidence of massive destruction at some distant point in their past? Why does the megalithic architecture match so closely if it is from different civilizations, seperated by distance and millenia?
Why are we only now, thanks to deforestation, finding literally hundreds of huge geometric shapes, as well as the remains of entire cities in the amazon jungle? What about the pyramids dotted all over China, pyramids that no one has been allowed to film, let alone investigate in 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 greatest pyramid of them all, the great pyramid of Giza, has yet to give up all it’s secrets, despite our modern technology. Every aspect of it’s construction that we have puzzled out, from it’s precise alignment to true north and to celestial constellations, it’s sacred geometry ratio’s that encode the very constants of nature, to the fact that it is essentially an ac curate scale model of the earth, all these attributes speak to us of an unimaginably advanced understanding of the universe that must have existed, deep within the distant past, an understanding and a capability that we simply cannot attribute to what we know of the ancient egpytians.
Why are there ancient maps, like the Piri Res map or the Oroto Finaeus map, that show antarctica before it was discovered? These maps were admittedly drawn from even more ancient source maps, maps that are now lost to us. Not only that, but they accurately depict the coastline of Antarctica that is under the ice, as verified by the US Air force in 1960. Several ancient maps show undeniable proof of advanced technology, in there projections and in their high degree of accuracy in both longitude and latitude – which was not possibly for us to do until the turn of the 19th century – Because accurate watches. Look it up.
I don’t think that many of these contradictions, nor these mysteries can be resolved from within out current paradigm of history. Nor can we truly attribute all of the megalithic work nor the ancient high technology objects still left to us, to what we know of the great, yet primitive ancient civilizations that make up our orthodox version of history. I love and greatly respect our ancient civilizations, but the reality is some of what we see was simply out of their technological reach, as is attested to by so many professional craftsmen, builders, and engineers that study these things in detail.
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 is 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 progress that the house of history is built upon. It effectively wipes the slate clean, and it’s impact is such that were we to be honest, were we to be truly open minded and receptive to new evidence, we should be rewriting the entire story of our history from the beginning.
This key is known to us today as the Younger dryas cataclysm, and it happened in the period around 12,800 years ago, and it changed the surface of the earth. Evidence shows that the planet was subject to an unimaginably violent series of cataclysms during this period, most likely a series of massive cosmic impacts and air bursts, from the broken up fragments of a giant comet that intercepted our planet. These events ultimately melted the glaciers, they ended the ice age, they killed off fully half of the megafauna of the pleistocene, and up to 80% of all large animals in the Americas, and rose sea levels some 400 feet, to their current height they are still at today. This was a very, very dark day for life on the planet, and anything remotely resembling civilization at the time, would have been erased almost entirely. The most important aspect of this, the undeniable fact of this event, is that all of our recorded history, all of our evidence for civilization, all of it apparently 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 symbolic religions. they speak of cataclysm, of destruction, of flood and fire, of the world being destroyed by war in the sky, and later being renewed. They speak of their ancestors living through these events, of gods, of giants, of great civilizers with magical, high technology-like powers, that came from across the sea. It’s not just cataclym, but there is another curious commonality between many ancient myths and religions, and that is that many of them consistently encoded advanced celestial knowledge in their symbolic tales, and this case has been made for different cultures that spanned the globe, and millenia of time. the same information, the same evidence of a deep understanding of the movements of the heavens, even when those cultures themselves had no such knowledge. Our own religions, our modern day sun-cults, also encode this celestial knowledge, and also speak to us of cataclysm, of world ending floods. Science is now backing up the truth encased in these legends, and the evidence for almighty destruction during the Younger Dryas is writ large on the earth itself, in places like the Channel Scablands of Eastern Washington state. In recent months, we’ve even found what appears to be one of the craters from this cosmic impact, a massive gaping hole under the Hiawatha glacier in greenland.
It is from within this context, the context of cataclysm, and near extinction, that the human timeline and the mysteries in the story of history can begin to make sense. It becomes a tale of inheritence, of extended timelines, of civilizations rising and falling. A, mighty, global civilization that existed in the distant past,that was struck down and swallowed by earth, or subsumed by the seas, a civilization that left traces of it’s greatness in architecture and artifacts, and legacies it’s knowledge encoded into the cultures and religions of those that eventually followed. The ancient egpytians even called themselves a legacy civilization, after all. From within this context, the context of a lost, ancient, advanced technology civilization, the contradictions of megalithic architecture could be explained, the enigmas of obviously high technology objects, could be investigated and solved.
Despite this deluge of new evidence, our tenured academics in the fields of history are slow to change, if not outrightly hostile towards new ideas. In many ways, the story of history is very much similar to a religious dogma, as ultimately, its just a story, and it’s high priests of archaeology and egyptology only derive their authority from mainstream acceptance of this story. We have witnessed time and again the tired routine of establishment defending its outdated interpretation by attacking the reputation of researchers and authors, lobbying to shut down dig sites or to remove the funding of academics that dare to be open minded enough to embrace the scientific method and follow the new evidence to where it leads.
If questioning the foundation of history is heresy, then this is a label I happily accept, and I consider this channel something of a modern heretic’s toolkit. Many others are also on this path, authors, researchers, and fellow content creators, and a slow awakening is happening, as more and more people realize that it is high time we re-evaluated the story of our past.
You will find content on my channel that explores many aspects of this debate, from cataclysms of the ice age, looking at new scientific evidence, 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 captivated by the true mystery and wonder that awaits those who wish to visit the astonishing ancient places that are left to us. I want us to heed the warnings that are transmitted from ancient civilizations, that are indicated by the astronomical alignment of so many of their structures, and written in 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 propogate ourselves into the stars.
My name is Ben, and you’re watching unchartedX. I wanted this to be an introduction to my channel and an overview of what I’m trying to do. If this is the first time you’ve seen any of my work, then welcome to the channel,I hope you’ll find the rest of my content interesting. I’m a lifelong student and fan of history. I’ve been travelling the world investigating and filming at ancient sites and other interesting places for many years now. I’ve had the chance to interview and even travel with many of the experts working in this field, and I’d like to think I have a curious and open mind when it comes to new evidence affecting our vision of the past. I am not championing any specific agenda, nor do I claim to have all the answers, I definitely don’t, but I’m open to any idea that brings real evidence, as ultimately my goal is to go where the evidence leads, no matter how uncomfortable or threatening it is for the mainstream academics working in this field.
I am committed to the scientific method, and I think that if we apply ourselves with open minds to all possibilities, we can make real sense of our past. I hope you will join me on this journey. I am committed to pursing this goal, I quit my day job a few years ago to try and do just that, and I need some support to make it an on-going concern. I’m extremely grateful to those that find some value in my work and have already seen fit to contribute towards this effort. I try to work on a principle called the value for value model; if you get some value from this, please do consider returning some of that value to me, be it sharing my work, tipping me as you might tip a server, or even signing up on the crowd funding sites Patreon or SubscribeStar. All the details on how to do this available at unchartedx.com/support, or please do hit me up on the social medias. I will see you all in the next video. Peace.