Exploring the mysteries of our past, civilizations, cataclysms, and what it all means for us today
Join me for a live walkthrough of the incredible megalithic Osirion – located behind the temple of Seti I in Abydos, Upper Egypt. I get into some of the history of discovery and features of this mysterious site, and share some new observations and details that I’ve only just learned of recently.
Filmed, produced and edited while in Egypt, this is a little different to my regular content!
In October of 2023, a remarkable peer-reviewed paper was published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, citing evidence that the ancient site of Gunung Padang, located in Indonesia, is in fact a man-made and substantial pyramid like structure, with large subterranean chambers and periods of sophisticated construction activity dating back an astonishing 27,000 years. If true, this would make Gunung Padang the oldest pyramid known, dating back well into the last glacial maximum, and make it a significant driver for a re-evaluation of the history of human civilization.
Based on years of on-site work by Indonesian Geologist Danny Hillman Natawidjaja, using techniques including carbon dating, core drilling, trenching, ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and seismic tomography, the paper generated a skeptical, if not outright visceral response from the archaeological community. In this video we get into the details of the discoveries made at Gunung Padang, and dive into the response it generated. Is this site a smoking gun for evidence of unknown ancient and sophisticated civilizations? Or is there validity to the skepticism and rebuttals that came as response to the peer-reviewed paper?
Links:
March 2024 Egypt Tour: https://unchartedx.com/marchtour2024/
Eclipse at the Canyon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eclipse-at-the-canyon-tickets-733419546607?aff=oddtdtcreator
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UnchartedX Locals page: https://unchartedx.locals.com/
Links to Videos mentioned:
Andean Architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuiB1vhDjM
Evidence for Old Kingdom Stone Recycling: https://youtu.be/jj7PORU_LUI
Snake Bros Gobekli Tepe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bba_PD2fMlo
Pukajay Productions Gunung Padang Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Enzo9Yg8tY
Papers and Articles:
Gunung Padang Paper (use permission granted by Danny Hillman): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/16/really-really-weak-experts-attack-claim-that-indonesia-site-is-worlds-oldest-building
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-doubt-claims-that-worlds-oldest-pyramid-was-discovered-in-indonesia/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/world/asia/oldest-pyramid-indonesia-netflix.html
https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2023/08/gunung-padang-what-archaeology-really-says/?utm_source=search.brave.com&referrer-analytics=1
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/24/archaeologists-slam-excavation-gunung-padang-site.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12872795/Indonesian-pyramid-Stonehenge-experts-Gunung-Padang.html
Executive Producers for this Episode
Ryan Haase
Jason Ary
Fred Soria
Dave Fitzpatrick
Mark Johns
Peter Shell
Michael Shirley
Thomas Bowden
Jase C Wilson
Mark Erickson
Joey White
Dave Ditzel
Galen Butler
Ryan Sidor
Jack Demcak
John Aderson
Christopher de Villers
MB
Dr Nenninger (Ettette Inc)
Shriram Rahatgaonkar
Martin Kincel
Philip Craig Fuller
Paul Bahlinger
Dave B
Skip Fisher
Chris Finefrock
James Ferguson
Joseph Martinez
Seamus Brutsch
Paul Baker
Bob Sandford
Nick Davis
Associate Executive Producers for this Episode
Phil and Karen Palmroth
Daniel Dewey
John Peel
Syllabel
Craig Westman
Dave Hoobz
Z Braal
Chris Martin
Dave Bruford
Emily Peyton
James Champion
Joe Horstman
Woody
Joanie Berkwitz
Kimberly Terrell
Christopher Pearson
Michael Ronayne
I recently joined my good friend Mark from the excellent After Skool channel – on his ‘Before Skool’ podcast!
LiveStreaming today on Rumble at 4pm, PST!
All my videos are available on Rumble! https://rumble.com/c/UnchartedX
I’ve also added a Locals page, it’s another way to support the channel via the value for value model, and you can choose your own support level. It will have all the same perks, early access, and other supporter only content as Patreon and Youtube channel memberships.
On this channel in the past, we’re talked about some pretty darn big blocks of megalithic stone, found on the famous ancient sites around the world, particularly those in Egypt. Most of these examples, obelisks or statues, are found on sites that are generally attributed to the later periods of the dynastic civilization, the middle and new kingdoms.
But what about the actual Old Kingdom sites? Places like the Giza Plateau, with its mighty stone pyramids, where most, if not all of the architecture and artifacts are attributed to the oldest periods of known history, and not to later periods of the Egyptian Civilization? Are there massive, almost inconceivably heavy, single piece stones found in these locations?
Well, in today’s video, that’s the topic we’re going to get into, because in the last couple of years, my good friend Yousef Awyan and I have found what, at least to our knowledge, is the largest single piece stone found at the Giza Plateau, and I wanted to share it with everyone. We’ll also take a look at some of the precision machining features of the megalithic structures at Giza, and the unique combinations of stone types that are found in these locations.
Executive Producers for this Episode:
Matt Beal
Gabriele Knecht
Anthony Frasca
WhiteSky Communications, LLC
Marco Berenger
Sean Lenoarch
Marc Forquet
Allan Stuart
Karen Lundmark
Thomas Violante
Associate Executive Producers for this Episode:
Shiona Webster
Mt Van der Ploeg
Paul Thomson
Bard Buell
Cortez Studio
Jared Kolb
Casey Nunes
Spaces available for Egypt tours in Feb and March of 2024!
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Our original Egypt Tour in Feb 2024 sold out in around a week – which was most unexpected! A lot of people expressed interest in the tour and signed up to the waitlist.
In the last several weeks, we unfortunately had to cancel our planned extension (after the trip) to Lebanon, so instead, we decided to run another tour in Egypt and make it available to everyone!
This tour is exactly the same as the Feb tour. Below are details for registration and the full itinerary. The tour starts and ends in Cairo, and runs from March 3-18, 2024.
Check out all the details on the tour page – via the menu above, or right here!
After nearly a year languishing in the ‘dormant’ category of audio podcasts, I finally got around to recording another episode of the UX Podcast! I’m committed to producing these around once a week going forward.
I was joined by Kyle Allen, no stranger to those who watch or listen to my channel, of the Brother’s of the Serpent Podcast. We get into a year review, talk about the skerps and critics, and the erosion on the Giza Plateau. In the 2nd half Randall Carlson gives a great lecture on studies that have been done into limestone erosion, and how it applies to the erosion we see in the Sphinx enclosure.
You can find the audio podcast in any of the online podcast RSS libraries, like Spotify, iTunes and more. You can also use any of the excellent new generation podcast apps from places like https://newpodcastapps.com . You can also play or download the podcast from this site, just click on the ‘UnchartedX PODCAST’ link in the menu bar above, or follow this link!
This video is a recent swapcast and conversation with my good friends Kyle and Russ Allen, of the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, getting into the details around the vase scan project that I’ve been a part of this year.
If you’re looking to hear more details and discussion around these remarkable artifacts and their recently uncovered and entirely astonishing attributes, then you’ll likely enjoy this conversation!
I’m excited to announce that a new season of Ancient Civilizations is available for streaming.
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In season five of this popular Gaia Original series, I’m joined by several other experts in piecing together modern and historical evidence of a far different Earth history than we’ve been taught. New clues continue to surface pointing to the cause (or causes) of the cataclysmic events that vanquished great civilizations like the mystical Mu and enigmatic Atlantean Empire during the anomalous period known as the Younger Dryas.
What caused the rise of massive amounts of water and fire described by our ancient ancestors, and how do ice core samples, earth imaging radar, and comet probes support their tales of the sudden submergence of entire land masses, perhaps still visible under the sea today.
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Doing a new thing! I’ll be uploading ‘stream highlight’ videos to my 2nd channel, UnchartedXLive , on a pretty regular basis. At least, that’s the goal! Many thanks to Dubselectorr for helping with some of the editing.
Please consider subscribing to my 2nd channel if you like the content!
These videos are different to my regular content, it’s live and unscripted. I stream a couple days a week over on twitch if you want to catch the livestreams here: https://twitch.tv/unchartedx .