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When it comes to the\nrealms of academia and science, battles are fought  whenever new ideas or new evidence emerges to\nchallenge the mainstream understanding of the times. Bloodless wars, but wars\nnonetheless  are slowly waged across many\ndomains of knowledge, paper by paper and book by book. At stakes are the\nprizes,  the label of expertise, the\ntenure of education, and the authority that derives from establishment. Some of\nthese disputes are precise, using the scientific method of hypothesis,\nexperiment and result to produce concrete conclusions, to unhorse old ideas and\nto move our understanding forward, as occurs in the disciplines of biology,\nmathematics or chemistry. Others disciplines are less precise, and rely on the\ninterpretation of incomplete sets of evidence, the weaving together of data and\nobservation, as happens in fields like archaeology, or paleontology.  One battle that has been heating up\nconsiderably over the last decade, is the fight for the foundations of human\nhistory itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not talking\nabout modern history, or even what we refer to as ancient history, at least as\nwe know it in our textbooks today. I’m talking about what happened before, the\nground that the tale of our past is built upon, the basis for all of recorded\nhuman history – and that is the timeline of our evolution as a species, our\nrise from the stone age and into the era of civilization. It is not the written\nhistory of civilization but rather these earlier aspects of our past that are\nin what seems like an ever increasing state of dispute. The  arguments \nbeing made are legitimate, they are coming from many different vectors\nand different disciplines of science, many are based on discoveries that have\nbeen made only in recent years, and collectively they’re making the case for a\nre-evaluation of the story of our past ever stronger.   Everyone is aware of this story, to a\ngreater or lesser degree, and it it’s most basic form, it goes something like\nthis: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A while ago, we\nhumans, homo sapiens sapiens evolved, emerged directly into the stone age,\nfiddling  with sticks and rocks and\ncontentedly hunter gathering our days away. It is here that we spent the vast\nmajority of our time on earth, 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of years, then\nDING, all of a sudden, we get the bright idea to team up, build some forts,\nbuild some walls, create some gods, make some rules and viola, there’s\ncivilization. The ancient sumerians kick us off, then Egypt, Babylonia, the\nGreeks the Romans the Mongols, China’s great dynasties and all the rest. Soon\nwe’re playing with swords and castles and serfs and slaves, now it’s time to up\nour painting game, we have a renaissance, someone observes that steam goes up\n(which is still the basis of our entire economy, even nuclear power stations\nare just big kettles for making steam go up), we begin a love affair with\ngunpowder and money, we put a meter on electrons, and the industrial revolution\nbegins the inexorable rise of modern technology. Then, hello, here we all are,\nintangibly connected to the internet, watching \nthousands of tiny flashing pixels on a device of unimaginable\ncomplexity, sipping a latte, wearing sneakers and synthetic clothes – and\nmostly doing so as if this were all perfectly normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea that we are\nall here as the direct result of an unbroken straight line of human progress\nfrom the stone age is one of the foundations upon which our modern human\nidentity is formed, yet it is this very foundation that is under seige. The\nevidence that our history is longer, and much more complex continues to stack\nup. The narrative this this new evidence weaves is frankly alarming; it tells a\ntale of unimaginable destruction, of the rise and fall of unknown yet\nundeniably mighty civilizations, of advanced technologies that were created,\nused and then lost, a cycle of death and rebirth on a scale beyond anything\ncontained within our current version of history – and this is a version that,\nin the light of new evidence, simply be considered but the latest revolution of\nthe cosmic hampster wheel of human civilizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s put some of\nthis new evidence into context.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a ‘New\nScientist’ article from 2006, which was, if you’re like me and in denial about\ngetting older, was,  shockingly, 13 years\nago now, although you wouldn’t know it from the music that I still listen to.  The article lays out the timeline of human\nevolution, the mainstream  ‘story of\nhistory’ as it was taught in 2006. Let’s make a graph, and talk about us kids.\nAround 195,000 years ago, we emerged onto the scene, into the neolithic stone\nage. Here we stay  for many 10s of\nthousands of years, until we start eating mushrooms, having visionary\nexperiences, drawing cave art, burying our dead, creating symbolic and abstract\nconcepts, called the ‘great leap forward,’ some 50,000 years ago, around the\nsame time humans first colonize Australia. Then,  roughly 12,000 years ago, and still globally\nin the stone age, modern humans finally reach the Americas. The stone age\neventually comes to an end  only a scant\n6000 years ago from now, when the first true civilization, that leads directly\nto us, begins with the ancient Sumerians \nin Mesopotamia -which was mostly in what is now modern day Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn9989-timeline-human-evolution\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now let’s look at\nhow some of the new evidence since 2006 should be affecting this timeline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new find in\nMorocco made us instantly more than 30% older than we thought, pushing the\nearliest date of our species  back to\naround 300,000 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New DNA evidence,\nanalyzed from Neanderthal remains, estimates our split with them from a common\nancestor as far back as 800,000 years ago. Not only that, but discoveries\nof  entire new species of hominids, like\nhomo floriensis, or the densiovans, is proving that our origins as a species is\nmuch more complex than we had first believed. As our timeline extends it also\nmeans that we co-existed with our cousins for a very long time, I believe there\nis much more find here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New archaeological\nwork has smashed human timelines in the Americas, with digs like the Cerutti\nMastadon site in San Diego or the Bluefish caves showing that humans were in\nNorth America as much as 130,000 years ago, and certainly longer than that\nclaimed by the ‘Clovis first’ doctrine of archaeology, that has for so long\nstrangled open minded research efforts in north america.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only that, but\nDNA linkages between Aboriginal Australians and the natives of south america,\nlinkages that don’t seem to exist in the peoples of central or north america,\nis challenging the entire northern land bridge theory of the diaspera of humanity.\nThese findings suggests that  large\npopulations of people, groups large enough to leave genetic indicators, crossed\nthe pacific ocean long long before we were supposedly capable of such feats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to\ncivilization, the story gets  even more\nintriguing, with new finds pushing the start date back further and further. We\nhad thought the first civilization was 6000 years ago, but  the largest megalithic site in the world,\nGobleki Tepi in Turkey, is now known to have been deliberately buried some\n12,000 years ago, likely after thousands of years of use. The re-dating of the\nGreat Sphinx in Egypt by Professor of Geology Dr Robert schock, indicates that\nthis structure is at least as old as Gobleki Tepi, some  12,000 years, possibly significantly older. A\nmassive man made pyramid like structure was recently discovered in Indonesia at\na site called Gunung Padang, and it has had carbon dating of organic remains\npulled from chambers inside the structure that pushes civilization dates as far\nback as 25,000 years ago.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not just new\nfindings when it comes to the reasons for a re-evaluation of history. There is\nanother argument to this debate, and that is that in many ways, our current\ninterpretation of history simply does not make sense when you take a close\ncareful look at it. Contradictions and mysteries abound, they attract the\nattention of interested and open minded people, despite the efforts of academia\nto declare that no such mysteries exist. (shame on you) These contradictions\nare often hidden in plain sight, in our textbooks, and in the astonishing\nmegalithic evidence left to us on in the ancient places of the world, and\ndemonstrated nowhere better than those in Egpyt. Just consider the old kingdom\nperiod – which, according to egyptologists, arose directly from the primitive\nStone age, and who’s people did NOT have the ability to quarry granite.  Why then is the old kingdom so rich in\nincredible granite structures that have never seen their match since? How did\nthey build such massive granite artifacts and architecture without the ability\nto quarry stone? Why are these incredible structures the earliest pyramids ever\nbuilt?  And this is to say nothing of the\nmind bending precision that is evident in this work when you look closely, nor\nthe obvious signs and markings of advanced tools, tools that are not found in\nthe archaeological record. After the old kingdom, Egypt kept on building\npyramids, and making artwork, but they never came close to reaching the same\ntechnical ability that they supposedly did in the very earliest part of their\ncivilization. Ask yourself, Is that really how civilizations work? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Another contradiction, this time South\nAmerica; Why are there are 3 distinct styles of architecture present in\nPeruvian ancient sites? 3 styles that are wildly different in the technological\nsophistication, yet all 3 styles are attributed to the Inca alone? What can we\nmake of the mysterious precision stonework of Puma Punku and Tiwanaku in\nBolivia, or the cyclopean walls of Sacsayhuaman? Why do so many of these sites\nshow evidence of massive destruction at some distant point in their past? Why\ndoes the megalithic architecture match so closely if it is from different\ncivilizations, seperated by distance and millenia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are we only now,\nthanks to deforestation, finding literally hundreds of huge geometric shapes,\nas well as the remains of entire cities in the amazon jungle?  What about the pyramids dotted all over\nChina, pyramids that no one has been allowed to film, let alone investigate in\n40 years? None of these mysteries fit within our current story of history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pyramid culture\nitself seems to be a constant across many parts of the world.  The greatest pyramid of them all, the great\npyramid of Giza, has yet to give up all it’s secrets, despite our modern\ntechnology. Every aspect of it’s construction that we have puzzled out, from\nit’s precise alignment to true north and to celestial constellations, it’s\nsacred geometry ratio’s that encode the very constants of nature, to the fact\nthat it is essentially an ac curate scale model of the earth, all these\nattributes speak to us of an unimaginably advanced understanding of the\nuniverse that must have existed, deep within the distant past, an understanding\nand a capability that we simply cannot attribute to what we know of the ancient\negpytians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are there\nancient maps, like the Piri Res map or the Oroto Finaeus map,  that show antarctica before it was\ndiscovered? These maps were admittedly drawn from even more ancient source\nmaps, maps that are now lost to us. Not only that, but they accurately depict\nthe coastline of Antarctica that is under the ice, as verified by the US Air\nforce in 1960. Several ancient maps show undeniable proof of advanced\ntechnology, in there projections and in their high degree of accuracy in both\nlongitude and latitude – which was not possibly for us to do until the turn of\nthe 19th century – Because accurate watches. Look it up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think that\nmany of these contradictions, nor these mysteries can be resolved from within\nout current paradigm of history. Nor can we truly attribute all of the\nmegalithic work nor the ancient high technology objects still left to us, to\nwhat we know of the great, yet primitive ancient civilizations that make up our\northodox version of history. I love and greatly respect our ancient\ncivilizations, but the reality is some of what we see was simply out of their\ntechnological reach, as is attested to by so many professional craftsmen,\nbuilders, and engineers that study these things in detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, however, a\nkey that unlocks these mysteries, a solution that makes sense of all of these\ncontradictions. And this solution comes to us from adjacent scientific fields,\nand from a series of discoveries only made in the last 20 years. It is a huge\nclanger in the story of history, it’s something that fractures our established\ntimeline, and it destroys the premise of a single, unbroken line of progress\nthat the house of history is built upon. \nIt effectively wipes the slate clean, and it’s impact is such that were\nwe to be honest, were we to be truly open minded and receptive to new evidence,\nwe should be rewriting the entire story of our history from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 This key is known to us today as the Younger\ndryas cataclysm, and it happened in the period around 12,800 years ago, and it\nchanged the surface of the earth. Evidence shows that the planet was subject to\nan unimaginably violent series of cataclysms during this period, most likely a\nseries of massive cosmic impacts and air bursts, from the broken up fragments\nof a giant comet that intercepted our planet. These events ultimately melted\nthe glaciers, they ended the ice age, they killed off fully half of the\nmegafauna of the pleistocene, and up to 80% of all large animals in the\nAmericas, and rose sea levels some 400 feet, to their current height they are\nstill at today. This was a very, very dark day for life on the planet, and\nanything remotely resembling civilization at the time, would have been erased\nalmost entirely. The most important aspect of this, the undeniable fact of this\nevent, is that all of our recorded history, all of our evidence for\ncivilization, all of it apparently comes AFTER this world ending cataclysm. Why\ndo you think that is? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost every ancient\nculture speaks to us of this tumultuous period, with their origin stories, and\nsymbolic religions. they speak of cataclysm, of destruction, of flood and fire,\nof the world being destroyed by war in the sky, and later being renewed. They\nspeak of their ancestors living through these events, of gods, of giants, of\ngreat civilizers with magical, high technology-like powers, that came from\nacross the sea. It’s not just cataclym, but there is another curious\ncommonality between many ancient myths and religions, and that is that many of\nthem consistently encoded advanced celestial knowledge in their symbolic tales,\nand this case has been made for different cultures that spanned the globe, and\nmillenia of time. the same information, the same evidence of a deep\nunderstanding of the movements of the heavens, even when those cultures\nthemselves had no such knowledge. Our own religions, our modern day sun-cults,\nalso encode this celestial knowledge, and also speak to us of cataclysm, of\nworld ending floods. Science is now backing up the truth encased in these\nlegends, and the evidence for almighty destruction during the Younger Dryas is\nwrit large on the earth itself, in places like the Channel Scablands of Eastern\nWashington state. In recent months, we’ve even found what appears to be one of\nthe craters from this cosmic impact, a massive gaping hole under the Hiawatha\nglacier in greenland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is from within\nthis context, the context of cataclysm, and near extinction, that the human\ntimeline and the mysteries in the story of history can begin to make sense. It\nbecomes a tale of inheritence, of extended timelines, of civilizations rising\nand falling. A, mighty, global civilization that existed in the distant\npast,that was struck down and swallowed by earth, or subsumed by the seas, a\ncivilization that left  traces of it’s\ngreatness in architecture and artifacts, and legacies it’s knowledge encoded\ninto the cultures and religions of those that eventually followed. The ancient\negpytians even called themselves a legacy civilization, after all. From within\nthis context, the context of a lost, ancient, advanced technology civilization,\nthe contradictions of megalithic architecture could be explained, the enigmas\nof obviously high technology objects, could be investigated and solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this deluge\nof new evidence, our tenured academics in the fields of history are slow to\nchange, if not outrightly hostile towards new ideas. In many ways, the story of\nhistory is very much similar to a religious dogma, as ultimately, its just a story,\nand it’s high priests of archaeology and egyptology only derive their authority\nfrom mainstream acceptance of this story. We have witnessed time and again the\ntired routine of establishment defending its outdated interpretation by\nattacking the reputation of researchers and authors, lobbying to shut down dig\nsites or to remove the funding of academics that dare to be  open minded enough to embrace the scientific\nmethod and follow the new evidence to where it leads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If questioning the\nfoundation of history is heresy, then this is a label I happily accept, and I\nconsider this channel something of a modern heretic’s toolkit. Many others are\nalso on this path, authors, researchers, and fellow content creators, and a slow\nawakening is happening, as more and more people realize that it is high time we\nre-evaluated the story of our past.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find\ncontent on my channel that explores many aspects of this debate, from\ncataclysms of the ice age, looking at new scientific evidence, investigations\nof ancient sites and the search for evidence of ancient high technology. My\nhope is to spread some awareness of this debate, to get more people interested\nin uncovering our real history, and captivated by the true mystery and wonder\nthat awaits those who wish to visit the astonishing ancient places that are\nleft to us. I want us to heed the warnings that are transmitted from ancient\ncivilizations, that are indicated by the astronomical alignment of so many of\ntheir structures, and written in so many of their stories. We need to\nunderstand the dangers that lurk in the cosmic environment of our future, as\nultimately I believe that our priorities as a species need to change if we hope\nto survive in the longer term, and propogate ourselves into the stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Ben, and\nyou’re watching unchartedX. I wanted this to be an introduction to my channel\nand an overview of what I’m trying to do. If this is the first time you’ve seen\nany of my work, then welcome to the channel,I hope you’ll find the rest of my\ncontent interesting. I’m a lifelong student and fan of history. I’ve been\ntravelling the world investigating and filming at ancient sites and other\ninteresting places for many years now. I’ve had the chance to interview and\neven travel with many of the experts working in this field, and I’d like to\nthink I have a curious and open mind when it comes to new evidence affecting\nour vision of the past.  I am not\nchampioning any specific agenda, nor do I claim to have all the answers, I\ndefinitely don’t,  but I’m open to any\nidea that brings real evidence, as ultimately my goal is to go where the\nevidence leads, no matter how uncomfortable or threatening it is for the\nmainstream academics working in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I am committed to the scientific method, and I\nthink that if we apply ourselves with open minds to all possibilities, we can\nmake real sense of our past. I hope you will join me on this journey. I am\ncommitted to pursing this goal, I quit my day job a few years ago to try and do\njust that, and I need some support to make it an on-going concern. I’m\nextremely grateful to those that find some value in my work and have already\nseen fit to contribute towards this effort. I try to work on a principle called\nthe value for value model; if you get some value from this, please do consider\nreturning 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\nPatreon or SubscribeStar. All the details on how to do this available at\nunchartedx.com\/support, or please do hit me up on the social medias. I will see\nyou all in the next video. Peace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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