it's a great pleasure to be here and I want to thank Dominic görlitz and Wolfgang Schmidt is he here before inviting me and making this all possible so I really am pleased to be here thank you so I will try to talk about some of the secrets of the Sphinx the Sphinx is something I have been working on now for over a quarter century I am a PhD from Yale I'm a geologist geophysicist PhD from Yale I now teach at Boston University I started at Boston University in 1984 I started working on the Sphinx in 1990 and the person that introduced me to the Sphinx was this man John Anthony West to people and he says and I this is younger me began about 1990 working on the Sphinx at that time the paradigm was that we were hunter-gatherers very primitive then people became barbarians and ultimately civilization arose about 3,500 BC and that was a standard paradigm the standard worldview at the time for these things and that the Sphinx was built about 2500 BC and one of the characteristics of civilization as it was defined was monumental stone structures I found very quickly 25 years ago that geology shows there is a problem with this dating that the Sphinx and I will talk about this in a second sits on the edge of the Sahara Desert it's been hyper arid desert for the last five thousand years back to 3000 BC essentially all of alleged history of civilization I think you know where this Fink's is but it sits on the edge of the Sahara Desert it's carved from the bedrock limestone and it sits below ground level this is me at the paws of the Sphinx and it's located east of the Kafra or schefren pyramid and it faces due east to the Rising Sun here you can see the Sphinx circled this is the Great Pyramid second pyramid third pyramid and when they carved the Sphinx they carve the Sphinx from the bedrock they remove removed huge blocks and built what is known as the Sphinx temple so when you go there now you still see the Pyramid of Khafre Chevron Sphinx and this is the Sphinx temple this is known as the valley temple both of these temples were built from blocks that came out of the Sphinx enclosure here's the Sphinx temple and there's a person for a scale you can see how huge these blocks are limestone blocks now I'm a geologist and what I studied these are people for scale you can see how the Sphinx was carved out of the bedrock and I studied initially the weathering the erosion on the Sphinx and on the walls of the Sphinx enclosure and what I found very early on is that you look at this weathering and erosion this was caused by rain by water coming down not what you expect in a desert condition so this said to me right away as a geologist that there was something wrong here with the dating that the dating had to go back to a period when it was pre Sahara here you can see diagrammatically what you get with the raining roshan versus the wind erosion there are layers of rock and in both cases it takes out the softer layers but with a very different style a very different weathering here we can see real photographs this is the Sphinx enclosure this is the wall of the Sphinx enclosure this is wind erosion on the Giza Plateau of Old Kingdom structures that according to Egyptologists are approximately within a century or two the same age as this but this doesn't make sense geologically this has to be older to earlier climatic period here we see the same thing here this is the wind features notice how it's very angular looks very different than the rolling undulating features that are caused by water caused by precipitation and this is myself just this past about a year ago though over a year ago here we see exactly the same thing just to give you a sense of what is caused by rain and what I conclude it very early on is that this Great Sphinx dates back to an earlier climatic period not 2500 BC but my initial estimate was at least 5,000 to 7,000 or earlier had to go back to this earlier period where it was much more rainy much more moist much more temperate before the onset of the desert period and it had to go back enough in time to caused this massive erosion that causes massive weathering now since then this Finks has been buried in sand literally for thousands of years we have records of the ancient dynastic Egyptians digging it out of the sand and that sand from a geological point of view protected the weathering protected the earlier weathering that's a 19th century photograph this is early 17th century notice the Sphinx you don't see the body it was bare up to its neck in sand other evidence there's lots of evidence I'll summarize some of it for instance in saqqara not far from Giza you have mud-brick mustapha's these are dried mud-brick Mustafa's these are first second early dynastic period for second dynasty dynasty these particular ones they are beautifully preserved shows that sahara arid conditions had existed even prior to when the Egyptologists say the Sphinx was carved these would be destroyed completely if there had been the rains necessary in their time to do whether the Sphinx this Fink's has to be older here's another piece of evidence this is the back of the Sphinx the rump of the Sphinx this is a goalie formed by lots of water that was running down it was formed by water running down it's a erosional Galli the thing is it should not be there Great Pyramid the second pyramid third pyramid can you see the Sphinx originally water when it rained on the Giza Plateau water what run like this it ran off the back into this area so the water would flow because there's a flow from the Northwest to the southeast the water would flow down this way run off the back that's why that gully formed the thing is Great Pyramid second pyramid this is a map this is the Sphinx when they built the Great Pyramid at least part of it and I would say the old younger part of it but the upper portions they quarried here they quarried this area worked by Khufu they quarried in this area when they quarried that stopped the flow of water this indicates as many geologists have said to me when I presented this at geological means this indicates the Sphinx has to be older than the Great Pyramid there's no question about it Jeolla geologically it's a matter of how much older not is it older it has to be older Egyptologists tell us that this was carved after the Great Pyramid it's impossible when I say Egyptologists the standard conventional majority so this quarry would stop the flow of water indicates that this had to form the Sphinx enclosure had to have been carved out much earlier and if you look here here's the Sphinx you can see how it sits in the enclosure these are the quarries up here it would have stopped the flow of water something else had been suggested one geologist and I don't mind named his name he works for archaeologists certain archaeologists he looked at my work he said I was right that yes the Sphinx is eroded in very very ancient times thousands of years before the old Kingdom but his explanation was that it was natural erosion on a yard day on a natural hill so it was a natural hill that was eroded by the wind by the rain by the elements it started to look like a sphinx so it was going from one to three see how it starts to look like a sphinx and the Egyptian said it looks like a sphinx so they came and they carved it into his Fink's and what you have he said is natural erosion that's very ancient but that had nothing to do with when it was carved into his fingers so that was his explanation the problem is he forgot that when they carved the body of the Sphinx these erosional features here are below the original ground level they carved it they had to remove all this material and what he's effectively saying is that natural wind and rain removed all this material but we know that this material when it was removed it was cut out as huge blocks to form the temple and geologically wind and rain naturally does not cut blocks and build temples so that falsifies this hypothesis another thing is we have ancient repairs on the Sphinx sometimes people go and they see the Sphinx for the first time and they think that the Sphinx is built out of lots of little blocks as well as the bedrock here I'm looking this is my hand these are very ancient these are more recent these in fact are from the 1990s because I watched them put them there at the time Asahi Hawass among others has told me numerous times that some of these repairs go back to Old Kingdom if those are all Kingdom repairs this implies geologically that the structure itself must be much older and when you look at it and you try to reconstruct how much has eroded away we're talking at least a metre or so in English about three plus feet but at least a metre deep of erosion so incredible erosion and you don't get that much erosion even in a thousand years but much less just a couple of hundred years to have to repair it in all Kingdom times in fact you don't get that much erosion even to have to repair it in New Kingdom times geologically given the climate that we had in kingdom and subsequent times so the problem it's a real problem as to the traditional dating to have that much erosion that much necessary repair and this actually ties in with something else very recently there's some pictures of them repairing recently there have been surface luminescence dates found are on calculated by sampling from it the Sphinx temple and the valley temple they came up with dates ranging from about 3100 BC plus or minus 500 years or so to 10,500 BC plus or minus five years superficially some people said well this shows that the Sphinx does date to dynastic period I don't believe it's the case I've looked at their work very carefully what they are measuring I am of the opinion that in my assessment what they are measuring is not the original construction but repairs to these structures it was being repaired it was being reworked in dynastic times including Old Kingdom early and Old Kingdom dynastic times right up until New Kingdom and middle-middle New Kingdom and even a bit later these are structures that were taken over used and reused over and over and we can see that and I have pointed this out for over 20 years now for instance the Sphinx temple here we have the Sphinx temple this is John Anthony West we have the Sphinx temple and what you have is a limestone core and a granite facing on it and when you look at this closely you go into the Sphinx temple here you see the granite facing but what you find this is the granite this is the granite but it is being used to repay and restore a much more ancient structure what they were testing is the restoration not the original structure and in fact I am convinced and I've looked at this numerous times now then some cases they actually cut the granite blocks to fit the very ancient weathered structure they were trying to keep as much as possible of the original structure and you can see it very faintly here their higher glyphic inscriptions on the granite from old kingdom times which means this granite has to be at least old kingdom times it could be older and then it was Rhian scribed during old kingdom times but either way my interest is these much earlier structures which are contemporaneous with the original Sphinx because they were built from blocks carved out when the Sphinx was originally carved and this gets to another factor the head of the Sphinx is much too small for the body many people noticed that many archeologists Egyptologists initially said that I was absolutely crazy for many reasons they thought one was that they said look at the head of the Sphinx it is a dynastic head and I said no it doesn't matter yes it's a dynastic head but it's too small for the body why because it's not the original head real Sphinx is in proportion they have much larger heads relative to the body the Great Sphinx does not have its original head maybe it was a sphinx originally maybe it was something else maybe it was a lion originally whatever it was my assessment my opinion is that the original head eroded down it was damaged so was the body for the body what they did is they worked on repairing it so they repaired it with blocks that would be incredibly difficult for the head they had this eroded head and they carved it smaller to restore it so you ended up with something where the head was too small for the body something else that we did and a lot of people don't pay enough attention to it in my assessment in fact I've had many of my critique critics ignore this line of research but it's incredibly important is we did seismic testing around the Sphinx so what we did is we used a sledge hammer a sledge hammer we hit a steel plate and basically sound or energy penetrates into the rock it goes down you can pick up different layers different densities of rock and we got incredibly interesting results when we did this and this is younger me what we found is that the erosion the subsurface erosion and weathering really as you say weathering technically the subsurface weathering is uneven around the Sphinx it is much deeper much deeper on the sides and in the front it's very shallow in the back and here we can see it diagrammatically it is twice or more is deep on three sides as it as it is in the back what this indicates is that originally the back portion was connected to the bedrock and also this back portion when we calibrate that is compatible that makes sense for all kingdom times but these this much deeper weathering on the other three sides again indicates that the original structure goes back thousands of years earlier so what I believe was the case is that originally in the back it was only carved down to this level and then this portion right in here was freed up was carved down to about 2500 BC about 2500 BC when this Finks was being refurbished repaired that may be when the head was recarved or somewhere along the lines but that would be dynastic times but the original sphinx goes back bunch earlier so this was very strong confirmation of my initial estimate that the sphinx must go back to earlier climatic period and when I did my initial estimate I was thinking in terms of 7 to 5,000 BC honestly as the data has developed and more information has come in this data is compatible with back to 10,000 BC I'm very open to that in fact I think that's probably more likely given everything that we're putting together has to do with things like the calibration of the seismic data other data that we've been able to develop since then and new lines of evidence so what I believe is the case is that originally the rump of the Sphinx was connected to the bedrock here only the top portion of that back was carved out the rest was carved along the sides and in the front and the Sphinx essentially emerged from the bedrock which interestingly when the Sphinx looks out to itself in the sky leo everyone knows the constellation leo that's essentially what it looks like in all kingdom times this portion was carved out during the restoration during the repairs when would it have looked out at leo one possibility and I think you'll hear more about this is 12,000 years ago about 10,000 BC on the vernal equinox which would be the what do people know this age of Leo the processional age of Leo and in fact I suspect that the original Sphinx a lion may have been a marker or somehow tied in with that early period was it a male Sphinx or I'm sorry a male lion maybe it was a male maybe it was a female lion that's another possibility we just don't know because we don't have the original head something else we found with the seismic work is I don't want to go into all of this but notice this right here it's called a anomaly a do you see the outline of the Sphinx you're looking down on the Sphinx so here's the paws of the Sphinx the head the rump we found different anomalies there may be a tunnel type feature along here but this is the one to focus on this is a hard layer that's not a cavity air tunnel this is a cavity we found a cavity under the left paw it is there I have no doubt about it artificial cavity have people heard of edgar cayce some people say that Edgar Cayce predicted that there would be something around this area I don't know but about that but I do know there's a cavity there's some kind of chamber and it looks artificial it has yet to be explored one more thing to do one of the secrets that remains for the Sphinx so my initial work on the Sphinx pushed it back to the five to seven thousand year period this is my version of a timeline you've seen something like this already where we have to we're going back beginning of civilization according to the traditional archaeologists and historians about three to four thousand BC I was pushing the Sphinx back to thousands of years earlier and to give you a geological time reference this is the end of the last ice age so I did this I thought it was great but many Egyptologists and archaeologists and historians thought was horrible and it made headlines about rewriting history and clashing on the age of the Egyptians Fink's debate rages over the Sphinx's age NBC actually ran made and ran a documentary called the mystery of the Sphinx hosted by Charlton Heston two people know Charlton Heston yeah he he was picked because he was played Moses in a very famous movie and this was made into a DVD you can still get the DVD but I warn you if you get the DVD DVD version it's been sold and re-entered and supplemented it's got all kinds of stuff in it that I don't like but that's what they tend to do commercially what happened though from our point of view is in 1992 so this was very early in my work on it that Egyptologists were so upset that they had a special debate at the American Association for the end American Association for the Advancement of science annual meeting in Chicago where they wanted to debate the age of the Sphinx I thought they wanted to debate the age of the Sphinx they told me that so I came this is actually me and they said we were going to debate the age of the Sphinx I said this was great because I could show all my evidence and data they did not want to see evidence and data they just wanted to say I was wrong and they're classic comment was this is from Artyom Egyptologist mark Lehner who is sitting there nice and snug I he said and this was to put me down and so I would never talk about it again he said definitively because he knew everything about the Sphinx if the Sphinx was built by an earlier culture where is the evidence of that civilization where are the pottery shards people during that age were hunters and gatherers they didn't build cities because he everyone assumed thousands of years before the rise of civilization as they knew it 3500 BC everyone was primitive they couldn't build Sphinx as they couldn't travel across oceans they didn't have high technology they you know people were just primitive hunters and gatherers I this is me at the time I was pretty disgusted by the Commons because I knew that that geology was very good I had presented this to my geological colleagues many geological colleagues said yes you're absolutely right in fact it's very simple they didn't understand why Egyptologists didn't understand it but I didn't have at the time this is 1992 I didn't have another site showing advanced civilization so this now brings us to the next point this is dr. hare professor dr. Klaus Schmidt who unfortunately is now deceased he and I are talking on site at gobekli tepe Quebec Lee Tepe so remember 1992 was the debate since about 1995 so several years later he first really found a rediscovered gobekli tepe began excavating gobekli tepe at it's a site near Earth which interest seemly ties him with biblical themes because that's the traditional home of the biblical Abraham in southeast Turkey is very near the Syrian border but what was important and I had to explore for myself is he had what he called it the time major building phases from 10,000 BC to 8000 BC what I had referred to informally as Sphinx Age here's where Quebec li Tepe is located it's in Mesopotamia between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in northern Mesopotamia what some people say is the biblical um Eden the area of Eden and Quebec Lee Tapei was even older than my original estimate for the Great Sphinx at the time so he was also pushing things back it's a credible site here's an overview of it it has stone circles only four have been substantially excavated as of this as of this year because it's a very big site there are 20 or more megalithic stone circles most of them are still under the ground they have to be excavated but they've been found by geophysical methods things like ground-penetrating radar I skip one environment ground-penetrating radar different things like that she's right here this is my wife Katie who took many of these photographs she comes with me on all the trips and is an integral part of the researching here's a photograph she took of me there you see the stone circle and when you look at this it is very very sophisticated see how beautifully carved these are this is about 10,000 BC to 10,000 BC if you just looked at this I've asked several archaeologists informally if they found something like this in isolation they didn't have any dating for it they just had to estimate how old it would be they've told me several have told me about 1,000 maybe 2,000 BC maybe 600 BC not 9,000 to 10,000 BC incredibly sophisticated this is one of most people's favorites look at this animal carved and this is not stuck to the post they plan to have it there so they carved it this is all one piece of rock one piece of stone there's another that's a little happy Fox and can you see this a little animal there little pig there so there are different things this is carved in the relief this is incised on it was being used and it was being reused for thousands of years here shows some of the pillars and there's some more pillars they are anthropomorphic they are human-like do you see the arms and hands so this is has its arms and hands like that you see and there's a fox here and this would be its what head but they were showing it representationally like that it's like served almost beautiful artwork semi-abstract and I think that was very very intentional here's another one of the pillar they're very tall very narrow very beautifully done and set very loosely not loosely very shallow in the bedrock they may have actually vibrated intentionally what I was particularly interested in is how this was dated so I discussed this at length with dr. Schmidt and just a few summary points there ornately carved in relief here you can see the arms the Fox do you see the hands and this is a belt you see the belt and a loincloth this is about four meters tall or so and they weigh up to 1015 tonnes they're anthropomorphic and they were set very shallowly in the bedrock with a kind of concrete 12,000 years ago should not exist but it does and they were intentionally buried by 8,000 BC we know this because once they were buried we can see that it was intentionally buried you can tell that geologically by the way the rock covered them over so they were not just left to be covered by the wind and the sand and the rain it wasn't abandoned it was intentionally buried first and once it was buried mineralogical changes occurred new minerals formed like in a caves - like tights in stalagmites formed on micro scale those can be radiocarbon dated and it all indicates it was entirely covered ten thousand years ago so it's a very old site very complex site notice how you've got the hands and arms there's some close-ups of and the navel region they're holding a loin cloth and just a quick picture some people say this is a designer belt 10,000 BC beautifully done you see the buckle and you see how it has it looks like inscription could they have had some kind of writing I mean if you saw just a designer logo today what would you make of it and very important to our story is that it was had catastrophe you have breakage here and then it was intentionally buried this is the way it was really found this is not archaeological reconstruction look at this pillar do you see how that pillar fell over then it was put back up in ancient times 10,000 years ago these crude rock walls were put up against them to hold them back into place and then the whole thing was covered over so there's evidence of major catastrophe and then reaction crudely hastily then the whole thing is buried over here we see how they did this crude wall up against the pillar - maybe prop it up to protect it temporarily before it was covered over here we have one very dramatically do you see this pillar there we'll look at a quick close up this pillar got knocked over there was some kind of casts Tropic event here they propped it up very quickly with the remains of part of that pillar and some other blocks does everyone see that and then they built these walls then they covered the whole thing over with dirt and debris and sediment which is what the archaeologists excavated out to get it to this point to see what was going on so why did they do this why were they intentionally burying everything by 8,000 BC Klaus Schmidt said that they spent as much time burying it covering it over as they did to build as much energy I should say so why this takes us back to the next part of the story which is the end of the last ice age what is going on at the end of the last ice age because that's when gobekli tepe comes from Quebec Lee kept a spans the end of the last ice age and at the end of the last ice age we have something known as a younger dryas the Younger Dryas is interesting because ice age was starting to end it was starting to warm up then it got colder that's known as the younger dries then it got dramatically warmer so the younger dry starts about ten thousand nine hundred BC and then you have a dramatic warm at 9700 BC which is exactly gobekli tepe time a little geology and climatology this is from a book I'm a co-author on and it's a quasi log scale so here it's very cold in the ice age it starts to get warm everyone see that then it gets cold this is the younger dries then it suddenly gets really warm and stays warm you know with little ups and downs but stays warm right up to the present when I was a graduate student we used to think that when it had a sudden warming that might be a hundred years or five hundred years in the last decade we found that from ice core data this is ice core data this sudden warmer warming initially it was thought it might be two or three years which is very sudden geologically but now things have even changed the last year we now have from ice core data this is years this is older to younger this is one year another year another year this is the last year based on isotopes of the ice age this is the first year of post ice age the ice age ends not even within a year within weeks probably days just a couple of days so what could indicate what could cause us to literally snap out of an ice age within just days that's what the evidence indicates now incredibly quickly something else that's happening at the end of the last ice age it's dated by ice cores and this is very very accurate now because we have like tree rings ice court rings I scored levels it's almost exactly 9700 BC and this is the time when all the big Ice Age animals go extinct they actually go extinct this is Cal uncalibrated they go extinct right this level which correlates with what in calendar years is 9700 BC so something is going on there something very very dramatic so end of the last ice age you start to have cold periods ten thousand nine hundred BC and then you have this warming spell 9700 BC just as a comment comment comment I want to say comment as a thought some people think it's a comment that caused all this are asteroid and I know a lot of people think that's a nice it's it's almost too good to be true it turns out that the evidence is now very much against it in the last couple of years it has not held up to scrutiny and we have to accept that but what does seem to be the case is that the Sun the Sun is not stable it is going through periods of fluctuation it's actually doing it now and it was doing it at the end of the last ice age the Sun all the evidence in my assessment points to the Sun that the Sun time the Sun is sometimes quiet and stable sometimes it's not and the Sun is not as stable as most people believe the Sun sometimes undergoes major outbursts it ejects what are known as plasma discharges so basically electrically charged particles arm and they can hurtle toward Earth if Earth is in the wrong place at the wrong time and this would cause massive destruction it could dramatically warm the climate which is exactly what we see it could in just a matter of days even hours initially and it would have the potential to end an ice age the Greenland ice core data is there sediment core data there's lunar data from the moon that all indicates that something is happening instantaneously in 9700 BC to tie in with this everyone knows what the Northern Lights are that's from very small plasma discharges solar wind they call it very small but what you get is you get things in the sky now when this is very mild with classic Northern Lights you only see it at high latitudes you have to be close to the north pole or the South Pole everyone follow if it gets stronger you start to see it in more parts of the world if it's strong enough you see it all around the world and that's what happened in ancient times there was a man well man he was an astrophysicist he's now deceased Thomas gold at Cornell University he started talking about these types of phenomena in 1960s in the 1960s and he suggested that when there's a big solar outburst so this is a quote from him the Earth's magnetic field the our magnetic field helps protect us but if it's too strong it doesn't protect us that when there's a really big one the Earth's magnetic field can't up hold up it can't hold up to the incoming gas to charge particles and what you would get is at the atmospheric level you would get essentially what he called a series of sparks it would look like huge lightning strikes and would create things that you see in the sky for periods of times and would carry hundreds of millions of amperes and it would cause destruction on the ground physically sometimes in some places like a tornado hitting it would cause atmospheric changes it would cause climate change it would cause radiation levels to rise on the surface and you would get all kinds of effects one thing he suggested you need to look for to prove this is what's known as vitrification where rock is hit by this discharge it gets very hot very quickly melts and then refreezes vitrification refers to glass so natural glass everyone follow and he saw this what do we have orbiting around us the moon if the earth was hit the moon would be hit also he suggested and he actually the same Thomas gold studied the lunar surface from the Apollo missions and samples that were brought back he found evidence of this on the moon I have been studying this this is the mode of mark in Scotland this goes back to about not 10,000 BC end of the last ice age here I'm holding in my hand you see that that is vitrification that is from the same type of phenomena very high very intense heat just on the surface in Egypt we have something that note is known as a DA clay glass which classically because people didn't know how to explain it this is covered over this is over area of about 400 square kilometres people said well it must be a comet it doesn't fit comet characteristics what it does fit is solar outbursts characteristics and this again shows you what vitrification looks like so there's a lot of evidence that something is happening at the end of the last ice age that there were major solar outbursts we have isotope data which records solar activity I'll come back to that in a few minutes we have data from sediments from lunar data of ancient vitrification there's other evidence too and I want to point that out and that is from petroglyphs and I want to introduce another call here for a few minutes this is anthony peratt dr. anthony peratt who works for Los Alamos National Laboratories he is a specialist on high-energy plasma physics from stars from the Sun between different bodies in the solar system if you don't know what plasma is technically it's this this is a picture of it most of the universe is actually plasma bulk wise there's solids there's liquids there's gases everyone knows those three the states of matter the fourth is plasma it's electrically charged particles which are neither solid liquid nor gas technically and that's what he studies and what he found was that when you have plasma discharges from stars and the Sun is a star if it hits a planet's atmosphere like the earth it will react with the atmosphere it makes shapes in the sky so you would think see things in the sky everyone follow and those take on very distinctive shapes very distinctive configurations so you can think of the northern and southern lights but it becomes less diffused it becomes more distinctive and it was its take on distinctive shapes that he has with computer simulated simulations and you see how they serve look like stick figure men but not exactly like humans so if we had a major solar outbursts plasma discharges into the atmosphere what you would start to get these are this is Northern Lights it would become even more distinctive than this and it would start taking on different shapes so yeast model that would take on shapes like stick figure men's with dots on their sides things that would look like stick figure men what with birds has and also what we call donut type shapes he has looked at petroglyphs around the world petroglyphs are when people scratch on rock and very ancient times and what you get are things in over a hundred and thirty countries looking very similar people don't really have extra sets of arms or little dots on their sides but this is what you would see in the sky during a major solar outbursts and here's some more pictures of them from this Saudi Arabian United Arab Emirates when Katie and I were speaking in Norway we went to see some Petra khlyst we found the same types of things again dating back to the end of the last ice age another place where you get petroglyphs very sophisticated once is in the south pacific on easter island anthony peratt dr. prot did some work there Katie and I followed up and expanded on it Easter islands a fascinating place is where you have the big heads but what you also get are petroglyphs you see the Birdman there does everyone see that yeah so you get these petroglyphs and they have something else it's indigenous script it's known as the wrong go wrong go but what does it look like anyone see Katie my wife first pointed this out she knows that the rongorongo looks a lot like the plasma configurations and the petroglyphs and it turns out that the very strong case can be made that they were recording the same thing so you've got the plasma configurations here will you start with this one plasma configurations this is what they look like this is the Rango Rango the Rango Rango and various petroglyphs they were all recording something happening in the sky thousands of years ago here you have bird headed man stick figures the other shapes serve donut type shapes in fact knows how the rongorongo fits even the better in many ways the my configurations and lots of cultures have have traditions along these lines one in Easter Island is that they were gazing towards the sky and something happened there they talked about how the sky fell at one point and it fell and then it went back so doctor parot and his team his associates came to the conclusion that there is evidence for intense solar outburst in prehistory they have never been able to date it I suggest that the date in fact all the evidence suggests the date is the end of the last ice age that this is the major catastrophe at the end of the last ice age that what we have at the end of the last ice age is advanced civilization gobekli tepe sphinx end of the last ice age that you had earlier cycle of civilization as people like Plato talked about when was Atlantis he dates it to that period what we would say as the end of the last ice age and that it was wiped out by these catastrophes a major solar outbursts you would have sudden melting of glaciers what happens you get lots of atmospheric moisture that has to come back out as precipitation so you've got torrential rains and flooding you've got rising sea levels you're relieving pressure from the surface of the earth when you take off kilometers of ice very very suddenly in the high lattice this sets off earthquake activity and volcanic activity this has been just demonstrated in Iceland in recent times you would deplete the stratospheric ozone layer you would change atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns you would have literal incineration of parts of the earth where you had wildfires being set from plasma discharges hitting in certain areas wherever you saw rich vacation as I was showing you you would set fires undoubtedly and this would cause the rapid and even the last ice age remember the Castro 'fuck that incredible precipitation erosion on the Sphinx part of it I think our good chunk goes back to this time coming back to Quebec late a pay why did they bury everything because literally there were these casts trophic changes on earth so their civilization was being wiped out they tried to restore things as best they could they try to preserve things um but ultimately they had to cover over how would you escape this short term especially radiation levels which have been calculated to be very high on the surface you go we're underground and there's incredible tradition of going underground or preparing to be able to do that again because the ancestors had to do that so Easter Island you have these artificial houses or caves that really serve no purpose except they would be very good to protect from an event like this the Easter Islanders built these they also have a tradition of going into the caves we were there on one of our trips to East around a fellow who was a native and had learned the traditions from his ancestors just said to us oh yeah they had to live in caves for a long time because there were things happening on the surface he knew nothing about the research we're pursuing here's the entrance to one of the Easter Island caves inside they're basically lava tubes that they enhance dr. Heinrich cush has done a lot of work recently on underground tunnels and caves very mysteriously he thinks there's these 12,000 years old caves associated with so many sites that's the end of the last ice age very perplexing why did they build these they cut them into solid rock in many cases well makes sense if you need it to survive as a sidenote humans can do this but how about big animals like woolly mammoths or woolly rhinoceros they can't go into caves they don't know to go into caves radiation levels and other catastrophes on the surface that's what caused them to go extinct because there's this mass extinction geologically all at this one timeframe one last point I want to make cappadocia people know cappadocia the this is the place known for underground cities these earliest versions I believe go back to this very remote period this is chemically just one of the ones that you can visit and you go into it's got their incredible perfect ventilation they could house thousands of people you go in there just absolutely amazing the standard story of archaeologists is that these were built in relatively recent times what I mean by that is three thousand two thousand years ago or so and that they were to escape their enemies now that makes no sense whatsoever what would the enemy do they would see where the city is because all the big pile debris would be on top because they had to carve all this out and then you go you just find the entrances you close them off you let everyone suffocate and starve it turns out we don't find the big piles of debris why not because I believe these go back so many thousands of years that it's all eroded away this is the way you would protect yourself from a solar outbursts if it were comets it would just collapse them frankly um if it really to my and my assessment makes no sense other than in terms of what seems to have happened at the end of the last ice age because this would protect you from radiation levels events like that something else about Cappadocia is it does seem this is one of the pockets where humanity survive independent evidence of that is something like this well here's compactly tapi I just want to point this out um Cappadocia is this region so we're talking the same basic part of the world I think another pocket may have been down here with my Sphinx with the Sphinx but this is the Cappadocia region independent line of evidence looking at the origins and expansion of the indo-european language family we're talking about how we need to be interdisciplinary looking at different lines of evidence when this is analyzed it turns out that going back if you calibrate this going back in time to the end of the last ice age linguistically there was a pocket here that expanded from that region and from that seems to have been a pocket of I'm sorry I got the wrong pocket the pocket of people that expand it from this region in Cappadocia that's this color here expand it from here at the end of the last ice age and then moved out and you can then map the pattern of languages everyone understand but it goes back to a pocket in this region at the end of the last ice age in the Cappadocia region what is happening after that so I am saying that the evidence suggests and this is what Dominic was saying also that the evidence suggests there was real sophistication things going on as far back as the end of the last ice age Sphinx Quebec Lee Tepe we heard about transoceanic travel the plant relationships the more advanced sophistication technologically even with iron we not sure how far back goes back but something wiped out this early cycle of civilization I believe it was a solar activity and what we have was a Siddha Katie and I have been calling Siddha solar induced Dark Age this is a site also in turkey knows Chow who yuck this is supposed to be this is in fact thousands of years younger than gobekli tepe but it is much less sophisticated and this is what we have essentially the Dark Age and here you have a site or you don't you lack monumental stonework it's all just mud brick do you see how primitive it is its civilization in decline collapsing so what we have what I'm suggesting is that we had advanced civilization here we have a Dark Age this gets wiped out at the end of the last ice age by the events we have Siddha or solar induced Dark Age and then we have not the beginning of civilization but a reamer gence of civilization about five to six thousand years ago and people like let people like Plato were right there was advanced civilization an earlier cycle civilization very early on now one last point I want to make in the last thirty seconds or so could a solar outburst happen again could our civilization go the same way could 12,000 years from now people say oh there were advanced people when we live now but they have no evidence of this so could this all happen again the answer is yes we may be overdue Thomas gold remember I mentioned Thomas gold very early worker he thought it might happen um maybe once every ten thousand years if that's the case we're really overdue because it's been about 12,000 years when you look at isotope data I said it would come back to us on the isotope data um this is a time frame so this is the end of the last ice age up to 4,000 years 4000 BC this is the last 6,000 years 4,000 to BC to 2018 notice how at the end of the last ice age you want to see when it's above that line do you see how the Sun was very active but also very erratic so very active unactive active do you see how it's swinging back and forth very volatile very erratic very unstable then the son surfs so this is what wiped out those early civilizations ended the last ice age ice age then it starts to get less active it becomes much more stable for thousands of years in recent times look what's happening it's starting to get really active really volatile again so be warned it could happen again I am saying and I'm not trying to predict doom and gloom but as a geologist something you learn very early on if it happened in the past will it happen again yes how many times have people said oh that volcano hasn't exploded for four thousand years it must be dormant then it explodes so so bottom line is we have civilization prior to end of last ice age thousands of years before the traditional beginning of civilization just a few last comments to promote this type of research just recently I and some of my colleagues we have a new and American nonprofit organization Oracle if you're interested in that we can give you more information or go online about it it stands for Oracle is it stands for organization for the research of ancient cultures because I really think it's important that we have conferences like this that we collaborate that we really make this serious research and it's not just you know a lot of diverse groups so this is one thing we're trying to do also I got to put a little plug in here if you want to come on seeing these sites I do take people on different sites you can come to my website and I think that there may be copies of my one of my books is forgotten civilization and there's an actually German version of it which I think we I haven't seen him yet but it will be here but if you'd like to visit my website and find out more information because I had to do this very quickly that's my website and if you'd liked I have a mailing list if you'd like to be on the mailing list email Katy my wife at that address so thank you very much [Music]
