The Theory Evidence exists that seems to illustrate that a relatively advanced culture, capable of ocean navigation, who were artistically gifted, and were capable of constructing incredibly precise megalithic buildings coded with information about the cosmos once spanned the globe in ancient times. Over the next few episodes, I’ll guide you guys on a tour around the world as we visit places like Peru, Egypt, Japan, and as remote as Easter Island, to prove to you that this ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ civilization left its telltale signature at all of these locations.

We will ask the question, was this one global civilization? Or is this the result of many ancient civilizations coming into contact with each other, and sharing their resources and knowledge, far further back in time than anyone in the mainstream is willing to allow?

Origins I think the origin of this Conspiracy comes from the fact that all across the globe, Ancient Civilizations built similar Pyramids, all carefully aligned to celestial points. These same cultures mummified their dead, and built with remarkably similar techniques and peculiarities. Archaeologists and Anthropologists argue that this is all the result of these being the most obvious or simple forms of construction. While this may seem like a valid argument, as soon as you start looking at what they claim to be the “simplest” methods, it falls apart. Scientists are still to this day unable to explain many of the construction methods of ancient megalithic sites. (as we saw in our Pyramids episodes) We’ll look at more examples of this, such as the Megalithic Polygonal Architecture found all across the globe, ancient maps that depict the “new world” far further back into antiquity than is accepted, as well as evidence of Pre-Columbian contact with the Americas. We will see several out of place artifacts, and then we’ll round it out with an analysis of how plausible this would have been in ancient times.

To prove my theory that ancient megalithic sites hold clues that an advanced ancient civilization may have either spanned the globe, or at the very least, trekked & traded across the oceans, we need to look at several examples and understand not just their construction

I believe the scale, magnitude and precision of these megalithic sites remove any doubt that this civilization existed. In addition, there are countless pieces of supporting evidence. We will take some time and look at some of that supporting evidence later in this series. For now, I want us to focus on a very interested megalithic construction method that oddly seems to pop up all across the ancient globe.

Polygonal Stone Walls - 1438-1471 CE (Possibly MUCH older) ​ Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Perú

By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43175184 ​

Sacsayhuaman is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ of the Inca Empire. The complex was expanded and added to by the Inca from the 13th century; ​ ​ ​ ​ (1438-1471 CE) they built dry stone walls constructed of huge stones. The workers carefully cut the ​ ​ ​ boulders to fit them together tightly without mortar. The site is at an altitude of 3,701 m (12,142 ft). ​ ​ I want to point out that just like in Egypt, the stone work gets shoddier as time progresses forward. The theory here is that the Inca, and all the other Civilizations that are credited with the construction of these monuments inherited them, at least in part, and expanded on them. The thing about the dating of these sites is that you can’t date the stone. So, it’s extremely tricky to say when exactly a megalith was constructed. Most of the dating comes from ancillary artifacts found around the sites.

Sacsayhuaman continues to be studied by specialists. American researcher Derek Cunningham analyzed the design of the fortress and reached the following conclusions: ● The mysterious zigzag of the walls of Sacsayhuaman reveal an ancient knowledge of astronomical alignments of the moon, the sun and the planet. ● Dr. Cunningham proposes that this architecture system would be a type of writing more than 30 thousand years old. ● In an article published by the magazine ‘Popular Archeology’, the American doctor proposes that this type of writing also existed in other ancient cultures of the world.

Vitrification (ie: stones that have been melted to a point where they form a glass or glaze.) ​ ​ appears on different kinds of stones and structures at the site. It is found on the perfectly fitted walls with irregular blocks.

Additionally to all that, they had no suitable timber for moving/ maneuvering. The plentiful trees in the area now were only widespread after the 19th century.

Egypt -- At least 2510 BC See below, the casing stones of Menkaure’s Pyramid in Giza. These are more trapezoidal that their cousins in Peru, but they do share a certain similarity. For reference, The Pyramid of Menkaure was allegedly constructed in 2510 BC.

Polygonal construction in the Valley Temple in Egypt

Polygonal construction of the “paving stones” near the Great Pyramid.

Also, don’t forget the 3 dimensionally cut basalt slabs near this areas as well.

More basalt slabs

Italy - 900AD // Foundation - 500BC or older

Walls of the Castle of Santa Severa. This castle is built on old ruins of an earlier civilization on Ancient Italians call Pyrgi.

The Pyrgi Tablets were found in a 1964 excavation of a sanctuary of ancient Pyrgi.Three golden ​ ​ ​ ​ leaves that record a dedication made to the Phoenician goddess ʻAštart in 500 BC. ​ ​ ​ ​

Greece: From Wikipedia: Cyclopean Masonry (3200-1050 BC) ​ ​

“Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. The boulders typically seem unworked, but some may have been worked roughly with a hammer and the gaps between boulders filled in with smaller chunks of limestone.

The most famous examples of Cyclopean masonry are found in the walls of Mycenae and Tiryns.”

It reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it was one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world. [1] The masonry used to build the citadel wall surrounding Mycenae was of limestone. ​ Due to the ​ ​ ​ size and weight of these stones, too heavy to be lifted by an average human, later Greeks that discovered these fortifications believed them to be the work of the Cyclopes. Therefore, the ​ ​ stone walls' design was named "Cyclopean" masonry, due to the belief that these "giants" built [1] the walls. ​ c. 3200 BC – c. 1050 BC ​ ​

Necromanteion of Acheron - 800BC

By Evilemperorzorg at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33181804

The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ to Hades and Persephone. It was first described by Homer in the 8th Century BC. ​ ​ ​ ​ We can see similar polygonal construction.

Norba - (1000BC) "The ancient town of Norba features massive and quite picturesque 'cyclopean' polygonal masonry walls, probably dating from the first millennium BC.

Megalithic wall, Norba, Italy. Photo by author / researcher Richard Cassaro.

Turkey - 5000 BC

Alaca Höyük is the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement and is an important archaeological site. It is situated in Alaca, Çorum Province, Turkey, northeast of Boğazkale, where the ancient capital city Hattusa of the Hittite Empire was situated. The mound was a scene of settlement in a continuous sequence of development from at least the Chalcolithic Age, when earliest copper tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools. ​ SIDE NOTE: Gobekli Tepe -- 10,000 BC ​

Just wanted to jump in and talk a little bit about Gobekli Tepe, the oldest known megalithic site in the world, is also located in Turkey. Not much is known about the people who populated this area, and the site is still being excavated. But what we do know, is that it completely rewrote the timeline of antiquity. The site was in use for at least 2000 years, when it was purposefully buried, and abandoned around 8000BC. Prior to the discovery of Gobekli Tepe, scientists had dismissed the idea of a civilization prior to 3300BC. They still don’t accept Gobekli Tepe as evidence of a civilization. Crediting it to hunter gatherers. Interesting, considering less than 5% of the site has been uncovered. From Wiki “It is one of several sites in the vicinity of Karaca Dağ, an area that geneticists suspect ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ may have been the original source of at least some of our cultivated grains. Recent DNA analysis of modern domesticated wheat compared with wild wheat has shown that its DNA is closest in sequence to wild wheat found on Karaca Dağ 30 km (20 mi) away from the site, suggesting that this ​ ​ is where modern wheat was first domesticated.”

Japan - 794 AD - Possibly Earlier.

Many of the imperial castles in Japan also show the Polygonal Construction method. The Palace is said to sit on a much older Megalithic site.

It was built on top of what was called the Edo castle. The warrior Edo Shigetsugu built his residence here around the end of the Heian period. Approximately around the year 794. Brien Forester, author of “A Brief History Of The Incas” suggests that the polygonal stone ​ ​ architecture of the current castle is part of an older megalithic structure that the newer castle was built upon.

Malta -- (3600-2500 BC)

Ġgantija ("Giantess") is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic on the Mediterranean island ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ of Gozo. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of the Megalithic Temples of Malta and are older than ​ ​ ​ ​ the pyramids of Egypt. Their makers erected the two Ġgantija temples during the Neolithic (c. ​ ​ 3600–2500 BC), which makes these temples more than 5500 years old and the world's second oldest existing man made religious structures after Göbekli Tepe in present-day Turkey. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Easter Island -- 400 AD - 1100 AD

Ahu Vinapu is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Eastern Polynesia. The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ceremonial center of Vinapu includes one of the larger ahu on Rapa Nui. The ahu exhibits ​ ​ extraordinary stonemasonry consisting of large, carefully fitted slabs of basalt. Thor Heyerdahl ​ ​ ​ ​ believed that the accurately fitted stonework showed contact with Peru, especially in comparison to ​ ​ the stone wall at sacsayhuaman. The stone wall faces towards sunrise at Winter Solstice. ​ ​ ​ ​

Stone fittings very similar to those seen in Peru & Egypt.

Remember this pic from the Valley Temple?

Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl believed there was an ancient connection between the people of Rapa Nui and the Inca or perhaps even earlier Civilizations Peru. I found this interesting image on twitter that seems to show a network of underwater volcanoes that stretch from the Peruvian coastline all the way out to Rapa Nui. Is it possible that during the last glacial maximum, when the ocean was 300-500 feet lower than it sits currently that these volcanoes acted as waypoints on a journey from one civilization to another?

We’ve looked at a bunch of sites. Did you notice anything similar in addition to the Polygonal Megaliths?

Did you see the Stone Nubs? ​

One of the biggest mysteries in ancient archeology is that of the stone nubs found on megalithic architecture across the world. At many of the Polygonal Megalithic sites that we’ve looked at so far, many of the stones have “nubs” protruding from the sides. Archaeologist’s have no firm explanation for these features. The most common theory is that they were for maneuvering, but no proof of that exists. Some speculate they could be a language / hieroglyphs / star maps, etc..

If they are lifting nubs, why do we find them on things that can’t / weren’t meant to be lifted?

They are found everywhere. They may be innocuous, but they are very peculiar.

So, we have looked at a handful of the examples of polygonal megalithic architecture found all across the ancient world. You may or may not be convinced just yet. I think we need to turn our attention away from the sites, and look at how any of this would have been possible.

How could these ancient civilizations manage to sail the oceans in such a distant time? Afterall, we know Christopher Columbus didn’t “discover” America for white people until 1492! -- (And don’t worry, we’re going to completely debunk the notion that Christopher Columbus discovered North America. Just let me get there.)

Ancient Maps Show Evidence that Ancient Explorers were familiar with the “New World.”

My first piece is evidence for ancient contact with the Americas is the Admiral Piri Reis map ​

From Graham Hancock in “America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization” ​ ​ ​ ​ “The Piri Reis map of 1513 features the western shores of Africa and the eastern shores of North and South America and is also controversially claimed to depict an ice-free coastline of Antarctica--as an extension of the southern tip of South America. Some 300 years before (Antarctica) was discovered. The same map (also) depicts a large island lying east of the southeast coast of what is now the United States. The map is dated to 1513 AD, and is claimed to have used 20 earlier source maps and charts to construct. This includes 8 Ptolemaic maps, 4 Portuguese maps, an Arabic map, and an unknown map by Christopher Columbus (which has been lost).

Quoting Ancient-Origins.com “The great debate was sparked by Professor Charles Hapgood when he published his theory on ​ ​ the Piri Reis map in his book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings in 1965. He and a team of students at ​ ​ the University of New Hampshire studied the map and found many anomalies, such as the use of mercatorial projection (a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and ​ cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.) and the inclusion of a pre-ice covered Antarctica.” ​ ​ Hapgood proposed that the map was based on materials that pre-date 4000 BC, before any known developed languages or progressive civilizations. This theory implies that a prehistoric civilization had the technology to navigate major seaways and fairly accurately chart the globe.”

The Map: What do you see?

Maybe this way helps?

So, how plausible is this? Could an ancient Civilization, without the aid of more modern boat building, and other marine technologies have been able to traverse the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean?

Well, It turns out at least one did:

The Vikings in L'anse Aux Meadows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact_theories From Wikipedia: Only one historical case of pre-Columbian contact is widely accepted among the scientific and scholarly mainstream. Maritime explorations by Norse peoples from Scandinavia during the late 10th ​ ​ ​ ​ century led to the Norse colonization of Greenland and of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland,[3] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ which preceded Columbus' arrival in the Americas by some 500 years. There is also significant evidence of material exchange between the peoples of Siberia and Alaska dating at least five centuries before Columbus' travels to the New World.

So, we have a generally accepted account of pre-Columbian contact with the new world some 500 years before the widely known story.

The Vinland Map

The Vinland map is claimed to be a 15th-century map with unique information about Norse ​ exploration of North America. ​ In addition to showing Africa, Asia and Europe, the map depicts a landmass south-west of ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Greenland in the Atlantic labelled as Vinland (Vinlanda Insula). (named after wild “grapes” ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ discovered in this land.) My theory: Our gigantic blueberries. ​ ​ The map describes this region as having been visited by Europeans in the 11th century.

Some thoughts on The LIbrary of Alexandria The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant ​ ​ ​ ​ libraries of the ancient world. ​

From Wiki: “The Library quickly acquired many papyrus scrolls, due largely to the Ptolemaic kings' aggressive ​ ​ ​ ​ and well-funded policies for procuring texts. It is unknown precisely how many such scrolls were housed at any given time, but estimates range from 40,000 to 400,000 at its height...Alexandria came to be regarded as the capital of knowledge and learning, in part because of the Great Library.” The Library was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC. While not ​ ​ ​ ​ everything was lost in the fire, the fire consumed many irreplaceable items. Any one of which could have held evidence or clues that would have helped us rediscover some of our lost history.

What about South America Do we have evidence for a pre-columbian contact in South America?

Viracocha In Inca mythology, Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra, commonly known today as Con-Tici Viracocha or simply Viracocha, was the creator of civilization, and one of the most important deities in the Inca canon. The description of Viracocha in Incan mythology as a being of white complexion andlong flowing red hair and beard who came ​ from over the ocean in a mysterious vessel (a ship of some sort). This description seems to suggest a caucasion ​ person from either some European, North African or Middle-Eastern civilization.

Out of Place Artifact: The Fuente Magna Bowl “The Rosetta Stone of the Americas”

The "Fuente Magna bowl" is an artifact discovered in Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca that is covered in Proto-Sumerian cuneiform writing. The bowl is over 4,000 years old and likely was brought to Bolivia by seafaring Sumerians, in an incredible example of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.

For reference, the Sumerians were the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern ​ ​ ​ Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages (circa 4500-1900 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ BC), and one of the first civilizations in the world, along with Ancient Egypt, Norte Chico (Peru), ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Ancient Greece, Ancient China and the Indus Valley of northern India. Any contact the Sumerians ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ may have had with a South American nation, or vice versa would completely smash the standard model of ancient archeology. BONUS: What did we learn about the Sumerians in the Mars episodes? -- The Annunakki ​ ​

Translation of the Fuente Magna Bowl: - "(1) Girls take an oath to act justly (this) place. (2) (This is) a favorable oracle of the people. (3) Send forth a just divine decree. (4) The charm (the Fuente Magna) (is) full of Good. (5) The (Goddess) Nia is pure. (6) Take an oath (to her). (7) The Diviner. (8) The divine decree of Nia (is) , (9) to surround the people with Goodness/Gladness. (10) Value the people's oracle. (11) The soul (to), (12) appear as a witness to the [Good that comes from faith in the Goddess Nia before] all mankind."

- " (1) Make a libation (this) place for water (seminal fluid?) and seek virtue. (2a) (This is) a great amulet/charm, (2b) (this) place of the people is a phenomenal area of the deity [Nia's] power. (3) The soul (or breath of life). (4) Much incense, (5) to justly, (6) make the pure libation. (7) Capture the pure libation (/or Appear (here) as a witness to the pure libation). (8) Divine good in this phenomenal proximity of the deity's power."

Sumerian Writing for Comparison:

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/archeol/fuentema.htm

Mainstream archeologists dismiss the bowl as a forgery. Because Sumerians never came to Peru in ancient times. So it can’t be real.

Phoenicians in North America? -- 1000 BC The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at ​ ​ ​ ​ Berkley, Massachusetts. The rock is noted for its petroglyphs carved designs of ancient and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ uncertain origin. Theories have varied regarding who carved the rock, but the one that has seemed to carry the most weight thus far is the possibility that these are Phoenician carvings. The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic-speaking Mediterranean civilization that originated in Lebanon ​ ​ ​ around 2500BC.

Photograph of the Dighton Rock taken by Davis in 1893

By Kenneth C. Zirkel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64159607

The Phoenician Alphabet

THE COCAINE CONNECTION BETWEEN ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE AMERICAS

From J.P. ROBINSON @ https://www.ancient-origins.net/ ​ ​ ​ “in 1976, Dr. Michelle Lescott from the Museum of Natural History in Paris received a sample from ​ the mummified remains of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses the Great to study. Using an electron microscope, she discovered grains of tobacco clinging to the fibers of his bandages. This initial discovery was berated by the authorities and her senior colleagues insisted that she had simply observed “contamination from modern sources.” Tobacco first came to Europe from South America during the time of Columbus, 2700 years later, ruling out the possibility of tobacco being present during the reign of Ramses circa 1213 BC. years later, Dr. Svelta Balabanova, a forensic toxicologist at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at ULM, followed up on Dr. Lescott’s findings with yet more intriguing evidence. In order to eliminate the possibility of contemporary contamination, Dr. Balabanova obtained samples of intestinal tissue from deep inside Ramses, rather than the external layers of skin and cloth, and much to her amazement she discovered traces of cannabis, coca and tobacco laid down in his body cells ‘like rings on a ​ ​ tree.” Dr. Balabanova conducted a series of gas chromatography tests on samples of the seven mummies, one of which was the mummified remains of Henut Taui, 'the lady of the two lands', a priestess who lived sometime during the reign of the 21st Dynasty of ancient Egypt around 1000 BC. Each individual revealed the presence of nicotine and cocaine, and both the mummies and the results were deemed entirely credible.” Professor Martin Bernal, a historian at Cornell University, is one of many scholars who conceded that ancient trade links which vastly predate present calculations must have existed; ‘We’re getting more and more evidence of world trade at an earlier stage.’

But, could they have? Recreating the Phoencian Journey Across the Atlantic From the website “Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition: From the Mediterranean to the Americas” ​ ​ “Could the Phoenicians have reached the Americas nearly 2000 years before Christopher ​ Columbus? The Phoenicia, a replica Phoenician ship, left the old port of Carthage, Tunisia ​ ​ on 23rd September 2019 and (sailed) into Gibraltar, (Spain), Morocco and Tenerife (Canary Islands) before embarking on the unpredictable challenge of reaching the Caribbean. The journey across the Atlantic from Tenerife to the Dominican Republic took 39 days, a distance of some 3,700 miles. From the Dominican Republic to Florida, the journey of 1000 miles took 12 days. The total voyage from Carthage, Tunisia to Florida covered over 6,000 miles and took 5 months to complete.”

The Phoenicia on the water. ©2018 by Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition.

Additionally, consider the famous Kon-Tiki Expedition Documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition

Remember earlier when I said Thor Heyerdahl claimed that the polygonal architecture of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was evidence of contact with Peru? Well, he really really believed that. So in 1947 he set out to prove it was possible. He and a group of five companions set out on a 101 day journey from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft crafted via ancient construction methods only. They completed their 8,000 km journey ​ across the Pacific Ocean, proving that it was indeed possible.

Besides, how hard could it have been to sail across the ocean anyway? Monkeys did it 30 Million Years ago apparently. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/monkeys-raft-across-atlantic-twice-180974637 / Headline from Smithsonian Magazine: “Fossil teeth uncovered in Peru reveal that an extinct family of primates, thought to have lived only in Africa, made it across the ocean.”

“The working hypothesis is that monkeys living along the Atlantic coast of Africa were swept up in intense storms and found themselves at sea. These primates clung to storm debris that formed natural rafts. Currents carried these platforms of vegetation across the ocean. Upon arrival in a new continent, the surviving monkeys found a suitable new home and began to proliferate.”

So, if that’s true, all bets are off.

Which leads to to my conclusion: Science is a LIAR Sometimes

I think the evidence presented more than leaves room for reasonable doubt. I think there can be no definitive dismissal of the idea that an ancient civilization once spanned the globe. There are numerous anomalies that are dismissed out of hand “because people weren’t able to do that back then.” I think that’s dismissive and reductive and frankly, wrong.

I am not saying that I know/understand what went on back then, but I do think the standard model is incorrect.

What do you guys think?