New Discoveries That Completely Alter Human History - UnchartedX

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 you

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