Was There an Advanced Civilization Before Our Own?

Somewhere on the edge of our solar system is a sign post that says 'proceed with caution, humans ahead'.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

The other big glaring issue with :ancient people taught the egyptians and the mayans: The Egyptians were building pyramids in 3000BCE and the Mayan were building pyramids in 300 AD

I dont thinik Golbekli Tepe was sufficiently explained. Would have also been nice to include Boncuklu Tarla since that site is far older and more extravagant, which makes it even less likely to be made for little reason IMO. I think its becoming more obvious that civilization predates our current understanding, but as of yet no evidence that it was advanced. for me, the evidence that civilization predates the younger dryas is stacking. Maybe we had a early bronze age before the flood, and took 2 steps back following. This for me seems more plausable than 'we built megastructures for hunter gathering for no known reason'

I'd like Simon to read something about just how sporadic the fossil record actually is. I mean every single time a dead animal is turned into a fossil is about the most miraculous thing that can and has happened. The amount of things that need to be just right for it to happen is crazy.

Miniminuteman had a great 4-part series tearing Ancient Apocalypse to shreds.

In our house, the first pancake is designated the sacrifice to Oolatek. A nod to the movie Heavy Metal. If you do not eat the sacrifice to Oolatek, all the other pancakes are doomed to a malformed existence. The real reason is because the pan is not at the appropriate temperature and you’re using the first pancake to figure out if it’s too hot or too cold.

I'm only halfway through but there's definitely something to this, I'm from Romania and because of the USSR, archeologists only now have started looking into the black sea. At the bottom of the black sea, where the saltiness levels are so high, they found villages, clay jars, and other stuff used for farming and trade. So when it comes to the creation of the black sea, there was most definitely a big flood that took place, that most likely surprised the population living near the lake that is now the black sea.

I love that Simon casually has a book simply titled 'SEX' in the lower left corner of the screen.

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remember, washing your hands before surgery was seen as ridiculous by surgeons not too long ago.

Miniminuteman, ăn archeologist, made a six part series debunking “Ancient Apocalypse” called “I watched ancient apocalypse so you don’t have to” if anyone wants to know more

The first pancake lubricates the pan perfectly, that's why the rest doesn't stick. When making french crepes at restaurants, they don't even pretend to try and get the first one right

Fossils are an incredibly rare occurrence, and were a society to have existed say 11,000 years ago then the bones we do discover would look like any other human remains. You have to also remembering that any structures made of anything other than would long have collapsed and crumbled to nothing over that time frame, just as our most impressive skyscraper would decay into dust. Thats also not to mention that just as we do today, ancient people would have made cities near coastlines and rivers that may have long been submerged with rising sea levels. When people entertain the idea that advanced civilizations existed in our ancient past they arent usually saying thay everyone was flying around in space ships powered by magic crystals, just that technological and societal progression isnt necessarily linear and that ancient people may have had knowledge of metaphysical matters or means of construction that we dont understand today.

Well nobody had any idea about Sumer until they discovered it fairly reasonably

Simon would not believe in aliens if he was mid gang probe on the mothership.

As a new Zealander I at least knew that but it was pretty recent news afaik, as a child we did not know NZ was massive once.

Regardless of what Graham's theories and thoughts are, it's gotten people wanting to look into archaeology, ancient history etc. And that helps the field of work, plus having someone like this challenge the norm of archaeology is healthy for the industry.

I don't think it's possible a post industrial civilization could have been here before us and not leave traces, but an advanced civ capable of building the sphynx, sure. Makes sense to me

GH has many fascinating hypotheses and has written some very entertaining and intriguing books. It was a pleasant surprise to find him so prominently acknowledged in this video. Fact or fiction, historian or hack, he's a best-selling author for a reason.