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[intriguing electronic music]

[narrator] I have always asked myself a lot of questions

Always bored at school,

where all questions were answered

except for the important ones.

I spent the time daydreaming

thinking about things that surround us.

Easter Island,

the pyramids of Giza,

Machu Picchu...

Mythical places, which have made us all dream at some point.

You may ask yourself questions, lots of questions.

But asking the right ones is truly an art,

a priceless art, that everyone can afford.

This is how I found myself, many years later

looking into the past of our planet

far, very far back in time.

And what I discovered changed my vision of the past

for ever.

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[soaring orchestral music]

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[inspiring music]

I did a lot of reading before investigating on-site

Many far-fetched, contradictory, confusing things

which could mislead those who know nothing about the subject

and convince them that nothing interesting

is to be found in the ruins of the ancient people of our Planet.

Yet, the perfection found in these ancient constructions

defies modern reason. Therefore I decided to surround myself

with competent people,

who could enlighten me and thus avoid any hasty deductions

As the investigation progressed,

uncovering new elements along the way

I saw the look in their eyes change, and so was mine.

I had to set aside my a priori and prejudices

what the French philosopher Descartes called

"wiping the slate clean".

I had to remember the time when I looked at the world differently

in a more simple way.

And this reassured me, inspired me and gave me hope

as perspectives are always brighter than what we can imagine.

Let us start softly then

with one of the most well known ancient sites on Earth,

a minuscule island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

Rapa Nui, Easter Island.

Easter Island is a speck of earth in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

located 3700 kilometres away from the coasts of Chile

and about 4000 kilometres away from French Polynesia.

In a period of 100 years, the People from Rapa Nui

are believed to have sculpted about 1000 volcanic stone giants

using the Moai, the stone coming from a crater, used as a quarry.

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Some of them were erected on pedestals, called Ahu

set at various places on the island.

Here are the main ones.

Tongariki, the largest Moai formation.

Te Pito Kura, the "navel of the World",

with the largest Moai

transported from the quarry, laying down next to it.

In the bay of Anakena

where the Moai are capped with their red Pukao.

Tahaï, where we have restored the white eyes of the Moai.

Vinapu, the most ancient Ahu of the island

according to archaeological studies.

And Akivi, the only formation where the Moai look to the sea

and more specifically to the equinox sun.

Let us quickly review the history of the Island

before getting to the important questions that it raises.

The extraordinary saga of the Rapa Nui People starts there.

In the Anakena Bay, where King Hotu Matua

who left Polynesia with his bravest men, first landed.

It is widely believed that they had built a prosperous society

and the most accepted hypothesis

states that the Rapa Nui society collapsed

following clan wars throughout the centuries,

while deforestation occurred because of the statues.

However, in light of the latest archaeological discoveries,

reality might have been quite different.

Epidemics introduced by the Spanish navigators

at the end the 18th Century,

slave raids at the end of the 19th Century

and their consequences almost exterminated the population

We have to remember that the population here

was reduced to a hundred and ten or eleven people at one point.

The loss of scribes and guardians of the Rapa Nui culture

who became forced labourers in Peruvian mines

and the subsequent Christian evangelization campaigns

almost exterminated the culture of these people.

The Rapa Nui may have originated from Hiva Oa

about 3 600 kilometers to the Northwest.

3 600 kilometers.

One does not embark on such a trip lightly.

One must think about food, and especially water.

Talking about a 30 to 50 days trip in pirogue

implies a certain level of logistics.

There must be enough supplies for the trip back in case of failure.

One may not quite comprehend what such an expedition could imply.

One can eat fish, but enough water needs to be provided for,

especially considering the huge effort.

One needs to know ahead of time

how many days in the pirogue

there are before reaching land.

Either Hotu Mota first sent scouts in various directions

and, by chance, one of them discovered Easter Island

which would have then initiated a further expedition.

Or they left randomly and, out of shear luck

discovered this speck of land in the Pacific Ocean.

Alternatively,

they might have known the position of the island beforehand

which raises the question as to how could they have known about it.

Linguists cite the resemblance of the Rapa Nui language

with the original Polynesian language,

the former would have in fact evolved during migrations

which all confirms the Oral history of the Rapa Nui.

They claim to have accomplished this trip

straight from Hiva Oa Island.

If it's true that they all migrated from this place called Hiva,

the linguistic evidence suggests that Rapa Nui

left that group of people first, and came here.

Of course they were all speaking the same language at that time.

We hear all kinds of things about this Island

but it is difficult to reconstruct

the true story of the Rapa Nui people,

terribly damaged by multiple invasions.

Recent archaeological studies

go against the accepted idea of a nation of warriors.

According to the American anthropologist Carl Lipo,

the mata"a, obsidian blades long considered weapons

may have actually been tools for sculpting and gardening,

noting their lack of a pointed tip.

There are also no traces of fortifications on the island.

And then there are movies that show

very little respect for the people of Rapa Nui,

to the extent that, after filming on the Island,

an American production company just threw a concrete Moai

that was no longer useful out into the ocean.

But Let's get technical.

The Giant Moai of Rano Raraku

which measures 22 meters high

and weighs about 250 tons

is often shown

but we seldom see those Moais

which were sculpted above within the sidewalls

thus complicating their future extraction.

One could think they were not sculpted to be extracted

however, since they are not visible at ground-level

why go to that much trouble?

These Moais weigh between 40 and 60 tons

and are located about 15 kilometres away from the quarry,

where they were extracted from.

Some of the Moais were capped with a Pukao,

hats made of red volcanic tuf

extracted here, at the site of Puna Pao,

12 kilometres from the quarry of Rano Raraku

at the back of this tank.

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The Pukao were then transported, hoisted

and set on top of the Moai's heads

sometimes at a height of 8 meters.

How?

Very simple, according to this explanatory sign.

Maybe someone has a better explanation

but no one has yet thought it would be useful

or important to specify it here.

In fact, no one really knows.

We may have vague hypotheses regarding the transportation

and we believe the Moai might have been erected

to protect the houses they were gazing at,

although the statues tend to look more to the skies than the ground.

Experiences have been set up on flat surfaces

to simulate the transportation of a 5-ton Moai

however, it is impossible to confirm that the same process

would have been possible with an 80-ton Moai like this one.

Ahu Vinapu is different from the other sites

because of its massive architecture.

I ask myself simple questions.

For example, regarding this Ahu,

since it is the most ancient of the Island

it leads to some unsettling questions.

Being the most ancient and still in place

it demonstrates that this way of building

was the most resistant, therefore the safest.

It was the best advertising for this technique.

True to the idea of permanent progress by Homo Sapiens,

one would expect subsequent sites to be built in a similar fashion

or even better.

And the problem is that actually,

all the Ahu built after this one

were never as large, nor as precise in their assemblage

and all ended up collapsing.

But not Ahu Vinapu.

Thus, the questions are:

amongst all the builders at Rapa Nui who followed,

none of them noticed that the only viable technique

was the one utilized at Ahu Vinapu?

And if they did, why not reproduce this technique?

Therefore either the secret of this structure is a unique case

lost in history

or the people of Rapa Nui had nothing to do with its construction.

One may notice a very strong similarity

in the style between Ahu Vinapu

and structures attributed to the Incas, in Peru.

Genetics analyses on chickens of the Island

demonstrate there were contacts between both peoples

but we do not know in which direction.

Destination Peru, more specifically Cuzco.

the old Inca capital that, like Rapa Nui

was referred to as the World's belly button by its inhabitants.

Either both tribes see themselves as the centre of the world

or maybe the Earth has numerous belly buttons.

The problem in Peru

is that there is little information on the time preceding the arrival

of the Catholics and the ravages of the Inquisition.

It means that one may be confused regarding

the history of the buildings and their techniques.

This church was built directly over the Inca Temple of Coricancha

covering it entirely.

However, the Catholic Church was not alone in this use

of this rather high-handed method, as it was practiced everywhere

by conquerors and settlers.

Like here, this mosque over the Temple of Luxor in Egypt

or again the temple of Jupiter in Baalbek in Lebanon,

where Romans preferred to build on top of existing foundations

Which is understandable, as each block

weighs over 1 000 tons.

Here, the Church sought to destroy the archives of these people

until everyone accepted the popular image

of barbaric and bloodthirsty Incas

engaging in human sacrifice.

It is very sad indeed to see how these thousand-year-old peoples

and their immense knowledge were loathed,

knowledge we are just beginning to re-discover

especially in the field of medicine.

And in politics, as well, as, before the arrival of the Europeans,

the Inca Empire had almost succeeded in uniting all of their people.

It was important to avoid any further rebellion.

For that, they had a radical option.

One kills the leaders, spreading confusion amongst

the people, and rebellion is squashed.

The method is as old as the World itself.

Well, actually maybe not.

45 centuries prior to the arrival of the Europeans

life was quite different on the Pacific coast of Peru

and there was a civilization there for a very long time:

the vast city of Caral Supe bearing witness of this.

Caral being the oldest American city to date.

This vast city was remarkably organized

with streets, squares, housing,

amphitheatres and temples in the shape of pyramids.

It dates back to 5000 years old

which is about 3000 years prior to our time.

According to Egyptologist dating, this gigantic mother city

was contemporary to the Pyramids in Giza.

Archaeological studies tell that Caral was destroyed

about 3800 years ago

following earthquakes or other climate-related catastrophes.

The city was a vast problem for those who studied it

as no fortresses nor weapons were ever found,

and so they had to admit the incredible possibility of this city

living in peace for over a thousand years

with commercial cooperation with its neighbors.

All this is to say, how improbable it appears to modern humans

that one may live in peace for vast periods of time.

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When one discovers a site like Caral

the main difficulty for archaeologists is the state it is in

which renders the reconstruction of daily life challenging.

One may find small blocks of stone, joined together by clay cement.

The same technique as we may find at a later stage at Machu Picchu

or at Ollantaytambo

which will later evolve towards greater precision.

They may have started to build Caral with small stones

and it would have been completed with a refined technique

as we may see on the most recent parts of the Machu Picchu site.

It would be a normal evolution of the technique throughout time.

Discovered in 1911

at a time where, in Europe, Incas were still believed to be savages,

this city was unknown to the Spanish

during the time of their occupation of Peru.

It shows impressive technical expertise

especially in the management of water and its distribution system.

Its stone assemblages are harmoniously integrated

into the environment

However, outside of the important work

of bringing the materials to the site

it does not represent any particular difficulty.

But what surprised me was the heart of the site,

built in a totally different style.

Huge andesite blocks, a very hard stone

had been assembled with precision without any seal

meaning stone against stone.

If this stone comes from a quarry

on the other side of the valley,

then one really wonders

how could they have transport these heavy blocks on such a steep slope?

And why such a difference in style?

One may not use the same techniques for buildings intended for rituals

as for buildings intended for housing which I can understand.

but then why are some of the walls "mixed"?

This could be due to ulterior repairs,

but then, the question would be why was it not repaired identically?

One can see that the assemblage techniques of the big blocks

are more ancient compared to the techniques of the small blocks.

Why?

Quite simply: the small blocks are set on top of the big blocks.

Here, similarly to Ahu Vinapu of Easter Island,

the builders have assembled complex polygonal shapes

which do not seem to present any kind of difficulty.

Let's draw some comparisons

which make no sense according to archaeology

as the sites we are going to compare

are separated by thousands of kilometers

and were built thousands of years apart.

Here you can see an assemblage from an angle of a wall in Machu Picchu

and another one from the Temple of the Valley in Giza, in Egypt.

One may notice the same type of general symmetry of the shape

like here, still at the temple of the Valley in Egypt,

and there, at the heart of Machu Picchu.

At Machu Picchu...

And in the Temple of the Valley.

One may explain these parallels

by the fact that, confronted with the same difficulty

human beings will all find the same solution.

But, outside of the similarities

what can we learn?

Simply that one does not randomly assemble blocks

and that, if needed, they are cut to create these patterns

which gives us an idea about the level of mastery required.

How's this for logic?

one starts by assembling extremely resistant constructions

with massive stones

and, as time passes, one builds less and less resistant structures

with stones the size of bricks.

Long live progress.

Here, these stones disjointed by one or more earthquakes

allow us to understand two things:

first of all, the internal faces are precisely worked on

to be assembled over all of their depth,

then the face of the stones on the left is slightly twisted

and the block on the right exactly matches this twist

reproduced on the right to mirror the left.

Do you realize the difficulty of achieving this?

In practicality, this complex work

does not seem to be useful in any way.

If these walls are an evolution of the techniques in Caral

a millennium earlier,

then where does this style with enormous stones come from?

Where is the logic in all of this?

It is even more obvious at Sacsayhuaman,

the fortress with the 3 enclosures overhanging the city of Cuzco,

ancient capital of the Incas.

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3 gigantic outer-walls over 3 levels

made of blocks weighing a few dozen tons

assembled with very great precision.

Over more than 400 meters long.

The stones at the angles weigh over 200 tons

and the others up to 60 tons.

What is the purpose of such a fortress?

3 outer-walls of this scale where,

militarily speaking, we find numerous weak points.

If this was simply a way to appear strong

they might have gone a bit too far.

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At the site, the guides are happy to tell us that

the whole site represents the head of a puma

and that this fortress represents its teeth,

the rest being made of the outer walls of the ancient Cuzco.

This is beautiful story, one may indeed identify an eye

but how confident can we be about it?

What I notice is that the builders must have been able to transport

hoist and assemble stones weighing dozens of tons

but, when repairing stones that were damaged

or had disappeared

this is what they must have done.

At Ollantaytambo, still in Peru we find the same thing.

One may see these walls made of small stones,

classical of the Inca era, and these assemblages there.

Here, the first traces of settlements

date back to -600 to -400 before our time.

so it is rather ancient.

If these were the same builders

then they lost their know-how along the way

because for some unknown reasons

they were unable to complete them or repair them identically.

You can believe what you wish.

The style, the quality of the stone

and the difficulty of the work are in no way the same.

As the repairs are to be found on the upper layers of the walls

it means the stones underneath are older.

The builders, here again, started by assembling

gigantic stones with a very great precision

to finish off with smaller stones assembled with less precision?

At the Ollantaytambo site

my eyes were drawn to black stone blocks carved in a certain way.

I had heard a guide saying there was a link between this site

and the site of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia,

that similar techniques had been utilized.

From what was said, the sites were not dated from the same time

but there again, this was rather unclear.

I decided to head off to Tiahuanaco, through the Andes

on the other side of the famous Titikaka Lake.

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What makes the Tiahuanaco plateau interesting is the following.

A vast enclosure made of walls and pillars

an entryway leading to a door.

Except none of this is authentic.

It is in fact a reconstruction based on the vision of an archaeologist.

Here is the site, pictured before its restoration in 1892.

At the site, no one tells you anything.

There is not even a sign telling you that it was actually restored.

One could believe it was an authentic site.

But curiously, this creative archaeologist

did not find it useful

to look at the site of Puma Punku, located about 1 km from here.

Its builders are said to be pre-Incas.

Therefore, before the Incas.

And they would have built all of this.

[epic music]

What happened there?

Why was this site destroyed?

A dispute between shamans is mentioned?

If this was actually the reason,

it would have been wise to avoid angering them back then

since they would have been quick to smash some slabs

weighing a few dozen tons.

I had asked Erik Gonthier, geologist, to come over with me

as I wanted his advice on the technical means utilized.

Erik told me that in India, stone cutters are still using the same

or almost the same methods

as the ones used thousands of centuries ago.

except the use of hardened steel, too soft

which was replaced by carborundum or other hard-alloy tips.

When using hardened steel tools

the stone cutters usually hit at most 5 or 6 times

before sending them again to the quench.

Erik insisted on the fact

to not to underestimate human capabilities.

You need to know that,

as soon as you question the academic version

others will immediately suspect

that you believe it was all built by aliens.

That's what's meant by "not underestimating human capabilities".

It suggests that we necessarily expect an extra-terrestrial solution

to resolve the "issue" of the tools.

But, to tell you the truth although I cannot explain the methods used

I do not feel that this was something made by beings

capable of travelling across the universe.

I advise Erik to wait for a bit before making a decision.

[soft piano music]

The next day, he will use our roughness-measuring device

a tool that measures the surface flatness

thanks to a minuscule diamond tip

manoeuvred by a computerized arm.

The first measurements on randomly selected stones

provide more than acceptable results.

Then, as we start to choose the stones,

attempting to find some in better condition than others,

the numbers get more accurate.

We then reach the stone I was looking at since this morning.

Erik places the roughness-measuring device over it.

I am curious to know the result

as the block appears to be particularly smooth.

The graph that appears is very flat.

[speaking foreign language]

Variance between the highest and the lowest point on the surface

knowing that 1 micron equals 0.001 millimetre

or that you will need 1000 microns to obtain 1 millimeter,

30 microns, it is 0.03 mm.

this surface is ten times smoother than a modern flat concrete.

Already spotted by Christopher Dunn

an aviation engineer who based his career on precision.

In a hotel room, we cleared of a table

that had a glass table top

The glass table top was within 7 thousands of an inch

of being flat.

Going out to Puma Punku and taking that instrument,

it was within half a thousand of an inch.

Knowing that, on top of it all

surfaces deteriorate over time.

to give you an idea, here is the roughness of every day materials.

He who was talking about copper and abrasion.

Believe me when I tell you that he carefully chooses

his words in front of the camera.

300 kilometers away.

Transporting rocks weighing a few tons across the Andes

and over such a distance does not seem to surprise him that much.

Nothing will ever replace an actual visit.

Although... Sometimes, from a distance

we may discover certain things.

[mysterious music]

One may notice this pattern on a slab.

A researcher told me this pattern

was also present at another enigmatic site in Peru,

over 700 km away as the crow flies.

Nazca.

On this barren plateau, immense lines and representations of animals

have been drawn on the ground by the people of Nazca.

The first evidence of the existence of these people

dates back to about 2300 years ago.

Except for a few stylised representations of animals

one may observe mainly straight lines

some spanning over a few kilometers.

The whole site covers thousands of square kilometers.

We often hear about the "tracks of Nazca".

And some did not hesitate in the past to call these

"landing strips for extra-terrestrial vessels".

How could you seriously consider

that people capable of flying across the universe

might need a landing strip drawn on the ground in order to land

just like one of our planes?

This sounds as stupid as the hypothesis

stating theses patterns were destined to call on the gods

asking for water, rare in the area.

that would imply taking the elders as fools.

At that time, one might have had better things to do

rather than wasting time in a barren area where nothing grows.

Here again, we know nothing.

Although these figures are gigantic

their creation might have been difficult

but far from impossible.

What interests me, is the "why".

We are often shown animal drawings

but the lines are far more impressive.

And both curiously overlap in some places

as if we were looking at 2 eras and 2 very different styles.

On one hand, we have

animal drawings and representations of living beings,

though none of them lived at this latitude.

On the other, we find abstract and immense geometrical lines.

This is inconsistent with a people supposed to have possessed

only primitive technology.

Similarly to the H-shape blocks of Puma Punku.

Let's look at what we have.

From the people of Rapa Nui to the Inca Empire,

partly because of foreign invasions,

we do not know for certain the why and the how

of all these constructions.

But we can see they have usually been executed

in inaccessible areas

in the desert, on top of hills

or on very steep mountainsides.

Each time,

there seems to be at least 2 different eras

and the most ancient era

appears to have a taste for abstract geometrical patterns.

[wondrous music]

Peru is a vast and magnificent land

as its people.

It is said there are over 1200 sites listed

and one would need a lot of time in order to see them all.

Sometimes I just trust my intuition

and let myself be guided by the people I meet.

This is how I discovered the next site.

[wondrous music]

After a drive of about 30 km of dirt track

this site is difficult to access.

A low stonewall covers the back wall.

Another stonewall outside

leads us to believe that we are in some kind of sheepfold.

Up until now, nothing abnormal except for the fact that,

for some unknown reason, the other sidewall has been cut.

[wondrous music]

And as we turn around, we discover that, at the entry of this cave,

the stones have been entirely sculpted.

[wondrous music]

Here again, the feeling that you are facing

2 different eras in the building of the structure

is strong.

This feeling is confirmed by these outer structures

in the same style as the sheepfold.

A latter imitation?

The work is clean and the cut outs are beautiful

but wait to see the next site

located far far away from Peru

in India, in the Bihar region.

[traditional indian music]

[singing in foreign language]

We find 7 caves entirely excavated from massive granite blocks,

spread over 2 main sites.

4 at Barabar

and 3 at Nagarjuni.

Amongst them, 2 remain unfinished.

They are considered to be the oldest caves in India

and they may have been built between the 3rd and 2nd century

before our time, about 2300 years ago

under the reign of King Ashoka,

according to the scriptures carved at the entrance of 3 of the caves.

There are many other caves in India

but these are unique because of their features.

Here again,

one may observe the same contrast

between the seniority of the building

and the sobriety of its geometric shapes.

They were dug into granite rocks,

a material harder than hardened steel?

On these images, the surfaces appear to resemble cement.

However, this is an optical illusion

due to the light and the transparent granite crystals

polished to the extreme, giving the feel of a rough surface.

In reality, they are like this, everywhere.

I asked Jean-Louis Boistel, an experienced stone cutter

who has been working granite for over 40 years

without any modern tools, for his opinion.

I did not even have the time to let him know

these images had been taken with a highly sensitive camera

that allows us to film in the dark as if in full light.

Indeed, with a normal camera

this is what we get.

[mysterious music]

[epic music]

Yet these caves are at least 2300 years old.

The dating only relies

upon the inscriptions carved at the entrance of 3 of them.

However, when looking at these inscriptions in detail,

we can see the work is far from being as clean

as the work produced inside the caves.

In the most complex cave,

the granite has literally become flaky in some parts

which is a natural phenomenon

suggesting that these caves may be older than we think.

In this massive stone,

2 caves have been carved on that side.

The one on the left is fully completed inside

and the entryway also appears to be finished.

The one on the right displays a curved porch

Buddhist-style, corresponding to the era of King Ashoka,

but the inside is unfinished.

The side is surface-sized over 3 sides.

But the vault, the ground and the dome are still raw.

We don't understand why the completed cave

is not the one with the porch, obviously special,

as it is the only cave to have one.

Why was it not completed?

When looking at the porch more closely,

we can see the work is easy on the eye, so to speak.

But, as beautiful as it may look,

it cannot be compared to the work accomplished

on the inside walls of the cave.

This porch is off-centre not vertical.

It is nothing compared to the precision

in the construction of the caves.

[soft music]

According to some archaeologists,

this uncompleted cave could explain in detail

how the other caves would have been constructed.

It is hard, when looking at this work

to imagine it might one day resemble this.

[soft music]

Even more impossible

as the hits on the vault go too deep in some areas.

This cave seems to show a failed attempt

maybe done on a cave that was discovered unfinished.

A king would not take over a cave already completed

but would more likely finish a cave including some modifications.

which would explain the difference in levels on the ground.

And maybe his men did not succeed.

Of course this is pure speculation on my part.

The contrast between the surface-sized wall

and the ceiling seems to confirm the idea of a re-use.

We would need further study of this room

in order to comprehend fully the chronology in the work

and confirm or set aside this hypothesis.

We measured the surfaces with the roughness-measuring device.

[intriguing music]

[speaking foreign language]

There is an average difference of a few microns.

These surfaces are almost as smooth as glass.

[mysterious music]

But it was when we took the measurements

that I started to understand.

The precision tolerance varies between about 2 and 5 mm.

The takings of measurements with a rangefinder

are difficult because the walls are tilted.

What tools were used to accomplish such an exact work?

Some defects in the polishing do confirm

that these caves were hand-made

which renders the need for accuracy even more pronounced.

When I say "hand-made"

I am considering quite powerful portable tools

besides simple chisels and hammers.

But why such precision?

What is the point?

[mysterious music]

A gap of a few centimeters

would be difficult to see with a naked eye and in full light.

I was leaving Barabar

with the feeling that these caves had more to offer.

However we could no longer settle for a roughness-measuring device

and a rangefinder, we needed more precise equipment.

From Easter Island to India, via Peru,

we may observe 2 very different styles.

The work that is the most ancient is also the largest

the most precise and the best assembled.

It is the case on Easter Island, At Ollantaytambo,

at Machu Picchu

at Naupa Iglesia

and in Egypt.

Why this need for accuracy?

[soft music]

I was leaving for Egypt with Erik Gonthier

who was growing more and more embarrassed

by all of our discoveries.

Few scientists accept to appear in these types of movies,

afraid to look like raving lunatics in the eyes of their colleagues.

But like me, he wanted to understand.

Neither he nor I had any hypothesis.

I was just unravelling the facts following an intuition

I was looking to validate through reason

whilst he was taking measurements and data.

The granite used to build the sarcophagi

comes from one of the quarries in Aswan

about 900 km away from Saqqarah

located 1km away from the Nile river,

distance on which the 22 sarcophagi

had to be transported.

[traditional music]

However, despite it being an extraordinary work

surfaces are a little less precise than the ones observed at Barabar.

How did these 22 sarcophagi

and their lids get moved into such a small space?

Why, yet again, the need for such accuracy

for sarcophagi destined to hold bulls

even if these bulls were sacred?

How did they work underground?

How did they get enough light to accomplish such polishing?

What were their tools? How did they breathe?

Have Egyptologists looked into these questions in their publications?

If this is the case

I am more than curious to know the answers.

Because these are the types of tools shown

when one talks about the stone cutting techniques

of Ancient Egypt.

When we're looking to Ancient Egypt

and we follow their civilization over a 3000 year period,

we are told that they used very simple tools

at the beginning of their civilization,

such as copper chisels, wooden mallets,

stone chisels, stone hammers...

and then you follow the progress of that civilization

over 3000 years and it ends up :

they're still using the same tools as they started with.

that doesn't make sense.

Christopher Dunn offers the vision of an engineer

through all of his observations,

no matter what the techniques are

the thought process is rigorously the same throughout the ages.

Especially regarding the complex structure of Ancient Egypt.

Tools had to evolve.

we go from a single stone to a stone tied up to a medium

then, little by little, the tool is perfected.

However, and despite the fact that master pieces were created

for some unknown reason, it may have not happened that way.

[traditional music]

Particularly when you look into what they created,

because the tools they have found in the archaeological records

are not capable to create these artifacts from that period.

Convinced for over 20 years that the Egyptians

are indeed the creators of these structures,

Christopher Dunn has been tracking down their tools.

Clearly more elaborated in regard to their constructions

which he explains in detail in his work

[traditional music]

Each stone of the outer wall weighs between 200 and 400 tons.

It's completely surreal.

So much so in fact that nobody has tried to discover

how they could have done this.

Theses stones have then been covered by granite paving

from Aswan, as usual.

We notice that these massive stones all have different shapes

fitting together accurately.

I have never heard nor read any serious explanation

regarding the building of this temple

as if piling up stones weighing 200 to 400 tons

was just child's play.

For some, the builders would have used ramps to raise them.

Others mention hoists.

Get some information regarding

the difficulty of transporting such heavy loads

and you will understand that the enigma

is far from being solved.

sites which, according to our History have nothing in common

except for the fact

that they have been created by people

who were barely clothed.

The temple of the Valley is located below Giza

some hundred meters away from the greatest of all pyramids.

On the 30th Parallel, about 4500 years ago

the Great Pyramid of Giza would have been built.

if we go by the dating of Egyptology.

No text mentions its construction

nor the construction of the Median Pyramid

also known as Khafre Pyramid,

nor the small one, also known as Mikerinos Pyramid.

In fact, this is not quite right.

fragments of papyrus dated from the end of the 4th dynasty

discovered in 2013

do mention the transport of limestone blocks from Tourah,

those used for the cladding of the great Pyramid,

but nothing else.

no reference to the more than 2 million blocks of limestone

that came from other quarries.

Its construction remains an enigma to this day.

The site of Giza is built over a limestone plateau

originally made of flattened hills

as we can see on the median Pyramid.

For the Great Pyramid, the builders kept part of the hill.

Some kind of giant pivot of about 6 meters high

around which it was built.

First, they paved about 60 000 square meters in surface

minus the surface of the pivot

which allowed them to keep a great part of the blocks

for the construction. But these paving blocks,

weighing a ton anda half on average are not all identical

and have complex shapes

which makes joining them even more complicated.

This is even more complex as the ground has been carved

in order to insert these blocks.

It is a giant puzzle in 3D.

Once this was completed they built the base of the pyramid

which is almost flat

as noted by the Egyptologist Mark Lehner.

He detected a difference of only a few centimeters

from one end to the other of the pavestone

which spreads over 230 meters in length.

We do wonder a lot about the means to obtain such precision

with the basic tools commonly attributed to the Egyptians.

That is, if they were indeed the builders of this site.

Then, they piled up over 2 million limestone blocks

in successive rounds up to the top.

There again, we can see the height of the rounds is not the same

and the blocks all have different shapes

meaning that they did not place the blocks randomly.

The work was done with such precision

that the edges of the pyramid remain unbroken up to the top.

Today, the blocks of the cladding

made of limestone from Tourah are missing.

[enigmatic music]

Blocks may have fallen down following a violent earthquake

in the 14th century,

cladding we can still see on the top of the median pyramid.

Cladding that rendered the great pyramid

entirely smooth from the outside.

It was oriented with stupefying precision to True North

with variation of only 1/500th of a degree,

precision that would take us

thousands of years to achieve again

even with our modern equipment.

The first difficulty was to establish

directing lines on the ground with such precision.

And the second,

to raise the 2 million blocks,

while maintaining this precision.

How did they do it?

No one knows.

The base of the great pyramid is not a perfect square

but is slightly octagonal.

This indentation is visible on these images

as well as on satellites pictures.

For unknown reasons, the small pyramid also has this oddity.

but not the median pyramid.

What does it imply?

On top of managing raising each round of blocks of various sizes

they also had to deal with this indentation right up to the top,

considerably complicating construction.

The great pyramid was so smooth

that it made it impossible to see the entryway on the north face.

How can we confirm this with confidence?

Because, if this was not the case

in the 9th century, the men of the Caliph Al Mammoun

would not have dug a long tunnel within the great pyramid,

only a few meters below the actual entryway.

This confirms that still at that time,

no entryway was visible.

Moreover, either they were well informed

or they got really lucky

as the tunnel was dug up on the accurate face of the Pyramid

and precisely reached the junction

of the ascending and descending hallways.

We notice, in passing

in this hallway, that all the inside layers of the blocks

are set up together accurately.

we feel as though we are in a compact limestone mass.

It gives an idea of the overall work.

According to Professor André Pochan,

mathematician, physicist and teacher

at Cairo High School in the thirties,

this indentation

would have allowed for what he called

"the lightning phenomenon",

precisely indicating the equinoxes

as seen on this aerial picture by the Royal Air Force.

This led him to photograph this phenomenon

on the 21st of March 1934,

using infrared cameras, the height of technology at the time,

in order to show the temperature differences on the south face,

here in these 3 photographs taken 15 seconds apart.

Thanks to this indentation

when the sun reaches the ridge at the time of the equinox,

it first lightens up half of the south face for a few seconds,

dividing it in 2 equal parts,

then goes on to illuminate the whole of it

leading to what Professor Pochan baptised

"the lightning".

For some, Pochan is mistaken as, according to them,

the cladding of the Great Pyramid did not have any indentation.

To confirm this, they are looking at the few cladding blocks

visible on the North face of the Great Pyramid.

There again, when you look further,

you will find that these blocks are not the original ones.

You can see them here,

photographed by the Morton brothers.

Despite some damage, these blocks are in excellent condition

when compared to the blocks behind them,

which have not been exposed to the air since the 14th Century.

Here you can see them a century later, quite eroded.

Let's reason logically.

Why would these builders have considerably complicated their work

by managing the raising of indented faces

with blocks of various sizes

in order, after that

to set up flat cladding blocks to fill in this indentation?

Should Professor Pochan be right

Imagine the complexity of both the design and the execution here.

Let's move to the internal structure,

considered by many to be a building site in itself.

It is made up of 2 main hallways.

The descending hallway crosses the foundation

to then plummet to the limestone plateau,

oriented at 26,18 degrees.

Please do remember this number.

Leading to the unfinished underground chamber.

The ascending hallway leads to the median chamber

then to the high chamber, crossing the Great Gallery.

It also carries a gradient of 26,18 degrees.

This internal structure defies all logic

We are moving from a 1 meter by 1 meter hallway

to a room 8,5 meters high over 50 meters in length

whose purpose, if any, remains totally unknown.

The median chamber is entirely built of limestone.

It has a chevron ceiling and a curiously off-center niche.

[dramatic music]

And finally the High Chamber.

This chamber is made exclusively of granite slabs.

It is the only place in the pyramid where they are found,

granite from Aswan, located 900 km away from Giza.

These slabs weigh between 12 and 70 tons

They were extracted here,

may have been transported over the Nile River

raised 40 meters on the Giza Plateau

then another 50 meters in the pyramid

to be precisely configured to guarantee

the horizontality and the verticality of the room.

Just this, in itself, defies all reason.

They needed to manage this building site at the same time as the site

where the limestone blocks were extracted from. Why?

The sarcophagus, for example, is too big to go through the opening.

Therefore it needed to be placed inside

prior to erecting the sidewalls.

One may talk for a long time about how to maneuver

and adjust such heavy blocks with great accuracy.

but Let's talk about Egyptology and what it has to teach us.

One would have employed about 15 000 men

over a 20-year period to build the great pyramid.

We know nothing of the tools

and we can at best speculate about the methods.

We do not know more about the complex management

of building such a site.

Getting them to eat, sleep, healing them if necessary,

since these workers lacked gloves or any kind of footwear safety.

This great endeavor was reportedly undertaken

to deliver a cenotaph for King Kheops when he died,

meaning it was utilized during a ceremony

allowing the soul of the King to rise towards the heavens.

Once the ritual was accomplished,

the pyramid would be hermetically sealed

and the mummy would be transported elsewhere.

There is no inscription anywhere, no gigantic statue, no signature.

the only thing left from this megalomaniac king

is a 7 cm statue

and the testimony, sometimes crazy, of Herodotus

more than 2000 years later

which is, in vast parts, the basis for all of the theses of Egyptology.

No matter what, 20 or even 30 years to build the Great Pyramid

appears to be totally impossible

with regard to the example that follows.

Here is the entry to the temple of Karnak

that measures about 110 meters in length,

40 meters in height and 15 meters in width.

it would have taken 17 years to be built.

10 years for the basement, 7 years for the rest of the building.

And it would have been erected a lot later than the Great Pyramid.

But let's go back to Puma Punku,

as I have not told you everything about this site.

It was during an interview that one of the members of our team

had the intuition to measure the H-shape blocks,

which is what we did straight away.

This gap is set at exactly 22 cm.

On another block, it is 21,9 cm.

or a 1 mm difference.

[dramatic music]

21,9 cm on a third one.

There again, 1 mm difference.

In the middle of the site are 2 H-shaped blocks

in excellent condition.

At the back on the blocks,

one may see a pattern in the shape of a cross

that we decided to go and measure.

[suspenseful action music]

[device beeping]

[incredulous laughter]

The H-shape blocks are 1 meter high.

The crosses are 30 cm in width.

This gap here, 22 cm.

We are in the metric system.

I told you Erik was a courageous man.

The meter in a pre-Inca site

is not very easy to integrate into the accepted chronology.

But why is it so disturbing?

Because, first of all,

the meter is based on the measurements of the Earth.

So we can't define it if one has not measured the Earth.

And secondly because the Earth was measured

and the meter was set in 1795.

So unless one strongly believes in coincidences,

logically, we should not find this unit before this date.

And it is even more troubling to find it on blocks

with such particular shapes,

which, if they were in wood, would seem unnoticed in an Ikea store.

This must have been appreciated

because it was identically reproduced

at an altitude of 4000 meters in the middle of nowhere,

measured in meters.

We measured three H-shape blocks

as the others were either too deteriorated or unreachable.

They were more readily available in 1892

when they were also measured using the metric system.

So here is the problem.

Because the meter is connected to the measurement of the Earth,

if pre-Inca people built this site,

then there are not many possibilities.

Either it is by chance

or pre-Inca people measured the Earth,

or this knowledge was given to them.

Whether it was deliberate or not, this meter is found elsewhere.

Let's go back to Egypt.

[tape rewinding then stopping]

This inscription would have been carved

at the entrance of the Plato Academy

but it could as well have been carved

at the entrance to the Great Pyramid.

Egyptians were taking measurements in cubits

and the original dimensions of the Great Pyramid

including its cladding, dimensions everybody agrees on,

are 440 cubits at the base,

and 280 cubits in height.

In 1859, the Englishman John Taylor

noticed that this dimension here, divided by this one, would give Pi.

Egyptologists certify that the Egyptians

only had a very basic knowledge of mathematics

and that they did not know about Pi

nor about the Golden Ratio.

The High Chamber, however is built on a double square

which leads us to the Golden Ratio geometry.

I know, numbers and mathematics don't fascinate many people

but if I, who slept during math class, manage to understand,

it can't be as difficult as it seems.

First of all, let's introduce quickly the Golden Ratio

to those of you who do no know it.

you will actually find a lot of videos on the Internet

that will explain it in detail.

It is the Italian Leonardo Pisano that publicized

in the 13th century, the Fibonacci sequence,

where each number divided by the previous one

results in a number that progressively approaches 1,618.

It is a number, and more precisely a ratio between 2 numbers

that is endless, just like Pi.

but with amazing mathematical properties.

[suspenseful dramatic music]

No need to remember all that.

All you need to know is the logic.

Since it is a ratio system

we will use its variations, even its square root

which is equal to 1,272.

If it has been called the "divine proportion",

it is precisely because we may observe it

statistically or in its average, just about everywhere around us

in the minerals through their angles,

in plants through the geometry of their leaves,

the distribution of seeds,

amongst animals and Man, like Da Vinci showed us,

or again in the arts, where it would represent harmony.

Building when using the geometry of the Golden Ratio

means attempting to imitate Nature,

or to reproduce what we may perceive.

Do keep these numbers in mind

as they will cross our path again.

In order to take measurements, one needs a reference:

the meter, or the yard, for example.

In Egypt, they used the cubit

which actually varied, according to some.

But in the Great Pyramid, its value can be obtained with great certainty

since the High Chamber is made of precisely assembled granite.

The value obtained through the measurements of this room

varies between 0,5235 and 0,5236,

or 52 centimeters 3 millimeters and 5 or 6 tenths of a millimeter.

It is the Royal Cubit, used in the Great Pyramid.

But then, although these builders didn't know about the "meter”,

their cubit is by some miracle connected to it.

As the Frenchman Funk Hellet demonstrated in 1956,

it can be obtained easily through geometry.

This dimension is 1. No unit, just 1.

The length of the circle is this dimension times Pi.

So there we have Pi.

We divide the circle into 6 parts.

Each part equals 0,5236.

And what we have left equals 2,618,

which is the Golden Ratio squared.

These 3 numbers are connected by this circle,

which has a diameter of 1.

I went and talked to a man who's on the field

who has been working with ancient measurements for decades.

If I want to measure this circle, I will need a measuring unit.

Let's take the Yard.

So this dimension equals 1 yard

and this one here 0.5236 yards

It does not correspond to anything in particular.

On the other hand, if we choose the meter;

then this dimension equals 0.5236 meters,

which is the value of the royal cubit of the Great Pyramid.

This can only be sheer luck as the meter was adopted in 1795

after the Earth was measured.

Sheer luck added to sheer luck

with simple shapes, our builders

also got the geometry of the Golden Ratio

without even seeing it.

Let's take now the measurements of the Great Pyramid in meters.

Thanks to its proportion, if we divide this by that,

whichever measuring unit we chose to use,

the result will be Pi.

But if we choose the meter,

this dimension divided by this one equals Pi.

But this dimension minus this one equals Pi x 100,

which only works with the meter.

Same dimensions, a division and a subtraction.

In regard to the High Chamber,

amongst all the possible choices of shapes,

they chose by chance, a double square

opening the door to a geometry

they were not supposed to know about.

The geometry of the Golden Ratio.

Then, to build this Chamber,

over all of possible choices in dimensions,

the builders chose 10 by 20 cubits.

This dimension here is Pi times 10 meters,

and this is only possible in meters.

This dimension here plus 2,618 meters equals this dimension.

This dimension plus 2,618 meters equals this dimension.

Plus 2,618, it is this dimension.

It can only happen because the room measures 10 by 20 cubits.

If it had been 9 times 18, or 11 times 22,

we would have had the Golden Ratio or Pi in proportion,

but not in meters.

All of this makes no sense, since, as I told you,

the meter was set in 1795.

Something is not right.

Need a break?

In a book on the Golden Ratio, we learn that, in the Middle Ages

builders of Churches and Cathedrals also used the cubit

which belongs to a measuring system called the Quine.

Which means it is in proportion with the Golden Ratio.

Look how its all arranging itself ingenuously around a pentagon

so dear to the French Companions.

Amongst all these different cubits in the Middle Ages,

one is very particular.

the Royal Cubit, carrying the same value as the cubit

of the Great Pyramid.

but where does this medieval cubit come from?

Which means that this cubit was imposed by royalty,

who, more than 3500 years

after the building of the Great Pyramid,

would have, by chance,

run into the same unit of measurement.

A surprising choice that we can't explain.

Exactly 20 cm,

Which is surprising, since the span was widely established

prior to the meter.

By the way, how was the meter established?

It was in 1795,

in relation to the meridional circumference of our planet,

which means in relation to a circle

that goes round the Earth, via the poles.

It was decided that this circle would be divided

into 40 million parts, or 40 million meters

which then gave the length of the meter as we know it today.

If, instead of 40 million,

the circle had been divided into 50 million parts,

the meter would have been shorter by about 20 cm.

I then wondered,

"but why was it divided into 40 million parts"?

Why not 36 million, which would have been logical

since we divide a circle into 360°?

I did not find any response.

What did surprise me, was that this choice of 40 million

has surprising consequences.

But, before we discuss that,

let's talk with Frenchman Quentin Leplat

who wanted to statistically verify the presence of the meter

by measuring all the churches' doors within a specific region.

Obviously, some will say that these medieval builders

were not thinking "meters" but "spans"

and that we should not read 1 meter, but 5 spans.

Maybe, but when we put all these facts back in order,

we realize what History is usually asking us to adhere to.

The fact that the builders of the Great Pyramid

may have, by chance and without knowing it,

discovered a value of the cubit connected with Pi,

the Golden Ratio and, later, the meter.

That, in the Middle Ages, and at the initiative of royalty,

medieval builders, by sheer luck, may have implemented

the same royal cubit as the builders of the Great Pyramid.

That, centuries later, by chance

one decided to divide the circumference of the Earth

into 40 million parts

which would have given, still by chance,

a value of the meter equal to 5 spans,

and a royal cubit equal to Pi divided by 6.

And when we chose the meter,

nobody realized that 5 spans

equalled precisely 1 meter.

By chance.

I don't know about you but for me, it does not add-up.

Unless one is an unconditional believer in chance

would it not be more rational to imagine

that the person who suggested to divide

the circumference of Earth into 40 million parts

actually knew what he was doing?

And that, as surprising as it might sound,

be a discrete and long multi millennial transmission chain?

Because, what we also see

is that the choice to divide the circumference of the Earth

into 40 million parts

means that the diameter of our planet

almost equals the square root of the Golden Ratio.

[wondrous music]

In any case, based on facts

the Royal Cubit, Pi, the Golden Ratio and the meter

are all connected.

Everyone is free to verify this, or to believe what they want.

Because what we believe influences what we see.

Such is the case when facing certain surprising objects from the past.

On this site, about 4500 years old,

one may find these alabaster tanks.

And this second model, a bit different.

[mysterious music]

We are told these tanks were used during sacrifices

to collect the blood of the victims.

They look more like filling holes rather than evacuation holes

since they are raised, but what for?

These peculiar objects lead us to believe

that they might have more of a technical function

rather than a religious or ritualistic one.

[soaring music]

This green schist discus

with a diameter of about 60 cm

was discovered in 1937 in the tomb of a prince

who lived about 5000 years ago.

We know this was a valuable object for him

since he decided to be buried with it.

However, 80 years after its discovery

we still have no idea what its use may have been.

It was therefore put away in the catch-all box

of "religious or decorative objects”

along with all other elements that we do not understand.

Yet, looking at the precision of its shape

we feel there is more to it.

Its central hub also seems like it is intended to rotate.

But there is no proof it has a technical function.

On the other hand there's absolutely no doubt

about the nature of the object that follows.

It represents, at least 2000 years later

the mechanical expression of the genius of the human spirit.

In the 50s, a physician rediscovered

in the Athens museum, this misunderstood fragment

coming from the shipwreck of a boat that sank about 20 centuries ago.

Convinced of its importance,

he spent the rest of his life studying it

but he died 20 years before technology confirmed his intuition

when the object was scanned slice by slice

in its depth.

[heart beating]

This represents the skies at a given time

or to determine a date from a specific pattern in the skies.

It models all the movements of the visible planets

of the sun and the moon and in a single movement,

turning the crank,

one will rotate the skies up to where one wants them to be.

It is a perpetual mechanism.

It carries no less than 300 gears and toothed parts.

To design it,

the inventors needed necessarily to know that the Earth is a sphere

and that the stars rotate around the sun.

They knew precisely the cycles of each of the planets

including the issue of the offset

between the lunar and solar calendars

identified by the Greek Meton.

A calculation that would be fine-tuned

a century later, by Calipe de Cyzique.

On Mathias Buttet's initiative

the Hublot society decided to reproduce this device.

But the first time Mathias heard about it

he thought it was a joke.

As for the level of mathematics required,

it is stupefying,

as the Antykithera mechanism involves

complex differential movements.

The orbit of the moon around the Earth is not circular

but elliptic which gives it, from the Earth

a variable speed.

This is complicated to reproduce

as the gears generate constant circular movements.

To this knowledge,

you have to add the mastery in the fabrication of the gears.

What they might not dare to say in front of the camera

in fear of upsetting some archaeologists

is the level of mathematics required to design such a mechanism

far beyond what is usually attributed to the ancient Greeks.

Otherwise they would have needed thousands of prototypes

to reach such a precise result.

Yes, because, in practice

it is way more complicated than it looks.

Let's take the main wheel which carries 223 teeth.

how do you easily break down a circle into 223 equal parts?

Now, with the knowledge of this device

some Greek scriptures sound different.

If one needed proof

that tools or machines did not survive the test of time,

this mechanism gives us something to think about.

It was only 2000 years ago.

Egypt is 5000 years ago.

And the device would still work had it not remained underwater.

How could a major episode in the history of human engineering

have been lost from our History?

That the device was lost is one thing

but that the very idea of its existence be lost

is even more surprising than this discovery

who was almost entirely overlooked by Archaeology.

Just before leaving Athens, go to the Acropolis.

I was not even surprised to see such walls.

Chance is indeed a persistent thing.

[plane beeps]

If the Antikythera mechanism forces us

to reconsider the evolution of human science and technology,

one archaeological site

completely disrupts the chronology of the settlements.

Its discovery is a live grenade.

You will see the problem.

The site of Gobekli Tepe was discovered in the 90s

by shepherds in Turkey.

[mysterious music]

At the heart of the enclosures, there are central pillars.

And this is where the problem starts.

According to History, this is prior to civilization

Something is not right. But it goes even further.

I had been trying for months to interview

one of the best researchers in the world on this matter,

the author of "Fingerprints of the Gods"

carefully documented and sourced,

that opened the way for a lot of people.

Graham Hancock came just at the right time.

he was going to give me the keys I was missing.

Here we have a giant megalithic site

much larger than Stonehenge, for example

which is 11 500 years old,

which appears suddenly in a community that, apparently

are entirely hunter-gatherers.

Where did they learn the skills to do this?

We don't see them practicing.

The oldest material at Gobekli Tepe is the best.

Did they wake up one morning

with some sort of magical inspiration

that enabled them to quarry and cut stone

to put up the world's first

perfectly North-South aligned building,

which requires astronomy?

Since we do wonder about the true purpose of the site...

One of its pillars raises the issue of agriculture.

In the usual chronology,

nomadic people would settle at one place

by becoming farmers and breeders

then they would specialize and then be able to build temples

Meanwhile, here it all happened in reverse.

Agriculture appears suddenly,

at the same moment that Gobekli Tepe appears.

Actually, when I spoke to the late Klaus Schmidt,

he found that Gobekli Tepe

had functioned as a center of innovation in that area.

That it was a place that people were drawn to and were taught skills

and this raises a question in my mind.

Who taught them the skills?

Because what I think we're looking at, at Gobekli Tepe,

the sudden emergence of megalithic architecture,

the sudden emergence of evolved agricultural knowledge,

it looks to me like a transfer of technology.

It looks to me like people came to that area

who already knew how to make megalithic architecture,

who already knew agriculture,

and who knew how to mobilise and organise work forces.

And they put that infrastructure into place there

and they passed on their skills in megalithic construction

and in agriculture

to the local hunter-gatherers that they had settled amongst.

So who were these people?

- One can see on the pillars

patterns similar to others around the planet.

- I don't know how much we should make up these connections.

But it's interesting to note, for example

that the Gobekli Tepe megaliths are tall pillars

sometimes weighing as much as 20 tons

with a kind of shape of a letter T.

The T-shape at the top of the pillar

represents a human head.

We can say this for sure

because many of the pillars have arms carved into the side,

and the hands meet in front of the belly.

The positioning of the hands of the Gobekli Tepe figures

is just identical to the positioning of the hands

on the Easter Island statues.

On this belt, is cut the letter,

a sign that we would recognize as the letter H.

And oddly enough,

that exact same H-shape, as you know

appears in the H blocks, at Tihuanaco.

There are certain creatures and animals

which are cut on the Gobekli Tepe megaliths

which are reproduced exactly in structures in Peru.

And I went into this in some depth in my book

"Magicians of the Gods".

- One can see baskets on one of the pillars.

This is also what attracted Graham Hancock's attention

since there are similar types of baskets

in the representations of the Mesopotamian god Oannes,

who is said to have brought civilization

to this part of the world.

A motif that we also find in Central-America

in the hand of a god, who will later be called Quetzalcoatl.

Also a transmitter of civilisation.

- What we are often seeing in these similarities

is what we would expect to see

if one culture on one side of the world

and another culture on the other side of the world

had both received a legacy from the same third party culture.

- How else can one explain these parallels?

And what about the sudden appearance

of this temple and agriculture, 12 000 years ago?

It is interesting to notice

that Gobekli Tepe curiously means "the hill of the navel".

Another one.

As Klaus Schmidt actually discovered,

this navel has been deliberately buried

which allowed for it to be precisely dated

11 600 years ago,

with a margin of error of about 150 years.

But why go the extra mile to build this site

for it later to be buried?

Would it be for it to be preserved?

We could think of it as a message, left for posterity.

We've noticed these 11 600 years

correspond to the brutal end of a time,

of intense terrestrial changes called the Younger Dryas.

As Earth was getting warmer

and was progressively coming out of the last ice age,

the temperature brutally fell by 7 degrees.

[Graham Hancock] This Younger Dryas episode

has for a long time been mysterious to geologists.

We know it happened

but they've not known why it happened.

- About 1 300 years later

the temperature climbed up again brutally by 10 degrees.

- There was a second episode of cataclysm

a second episode of global flooding.

Geologists call it Meltwater Pulse 1B.

- According to several scientific studies

these two events might have been due to comet impacts

hitting the Earth twice, 1 300 years apart,

creating cataclysms our ancestors might have witnessed.

- Every account that I'm aware of

that exists of a former human civilization

that was brought low by a cataclysm.

There are no exceptions.

- If large debris indeed hit our planet,

one can understand why people might be under the impression

they were enduring some divine retribution

This "impact" hypothesis is nowadays considered

as serious possibility by science

which has just published a full article about it in Nature magazine.

In the layer of the earth corresponding

to the beginning of the Younger Dryas period,

we found massive quantities of platinum

associated with Nano-diamonds and carbon spherules.

Minerals melted at a temperature of 2000 degrees

and vast quantities of ashes resulted from fires.

That may confirm the "impact" hypothesis

when nothing else can explain the cause of the Younger Dryas period.

We can constrain it to the period between

12 800 and 11 600 years ago.

[Narrator] Again, as stated by Graham Hancock,

we do have records.

Solon reported to Plato that the Atlantis sunk

9 000 years prior to his visit in Egypt.

in -600 before of our time,

or 11 600 years ago,

which coincides with the end of the Younger Dryas period.

We must not take literally all legends

but we must not dismiss them all either.

Let's talk about the legendary city of Kumari Kandam

of the Tamil people, in Southern India.

[mysterious music]

This very evolved civilization

may have occupied a vast extension of land

with massive libraries and universities.

However, 11 600 years ago

the date of the end of the Younger Dryas,

Kumari Kandam disappeared totally during a cataclysm.

Sea level has risen 120 meters.

More than 27 million square kilometers of land

which is roughly Europe and China added together

was above water

during the last ice age and is underwater now.

I would suggest that the civilization

we're dealing with was a maritime seafaring civilization,

that did occupy the very best lands

available in the ice age world.

And those very best lands, actually as is the case today,

were the coastal lands, lands close to the sea.

Those were the lands that were flooded

by rising sea levels at the end of the ice age.

- Local fishermen had been complaining for a long time

of underwater remnants in which their nets were getting caught

but nobody believed them.

They talked about it to Graham Hancock

who decided to go dive with them.

- We went out and dived at Mahabalipuram

with the local fishermen in 2002

and lo and behold, everything that they'd said was true.

There is an underwater city there.

and, what's more, it extends more than five kilometers from the shore,

down to depths of more than 30 meters.

- But during the 2004 tsunami when the ocean withdrew,

the bay was exposed for about 30 minutes.

[Graham Hancock] And many people saw the ruins.

[Narrator] Since then, the site is being studied.

[Hancock] But not investigating in a satisfactory manner.

They're still working in the intertidal zone,

down to a depth of 5 meters.

They should be out 5 kilometers from shore at 30 meters,

looking at what's lying down there.

because it has the potentiel to rewrite history,

Because we know from sea level studies that that area

has been underwater for about 11 500 years

exactly as is given in the Kumari Kandam story.

With time,

tales are often embellished, deformed, or disappear.

Is this the reason why Egyptian priests

engraved the history of Egypt on the walls of a temple?

- As my friend John Anthony West puts it,

the Ancient Egyptians are telling us very clearly

that their civilization was not a development.

It was a legacy.

It was a legacy from the first time

and the first time I associate with the arrival of the survivors

of a lost civilization in Egypt around 12 800 years ago.

And that story, as a matter of fact

is told in full detail in the Edfu building text.

The priests of that time, around 330 BC

had inherited the archives

of the earlier temples.

Amongst these archives,

written on animal skins, and falling into pieces

was the story of the time when the gods came to Egypt

after the destruction of their former homeland,

which was an island!

They came to Egypt and they brought the gifts of civilization,

and the priests decided to copy

those crumbling, ruined and ancient texts

and make them permanent on the walls of the Edfu temple.

- This is the story that was told to Solon

who came to Egypt to learn

like almost all the illustrious Greek wise men

who then communicated it to Plato.

For some, it is only a tale but it would be arrogant

to forget how illustrious Solon was,

a member of the 7 wisemen council.

Similar to Plato,

nowadays accused of being senile or a deceiver,

what he has to say does not correspond to what we believe

or what we would like to hear.

It is however, what is written on the walls of this temple.

Kumari Kandam, or the Antykithera mechanism

remind us to remain prudent.

Only one or two generations

are enough to wipe out the memory of a whole population.

How many other objects or texts

could have been lost in the same way?

We knew that, 13 000 years ago

our planet was subject to a major climate shift.

The ice caps melted in the northern territories.

A mass extinction occurred.

The level of the oceans rose by over a 100 meters.

And the cold came back and prevailed for 1 300 years.

However we cannot explain the brutal cause of it all.

We also know our ancestors lived through this event,

that it lead to migrations of entire populations

but we thought they were still only hunter-gatherers.

Gobekli Tepe reveals this was not the case.

From there, it is only a small step

to picture a level of development of civilisation

greater than what we thought.

We should not expect the remnants of that civilization

to be the same as our own.

They're going to be very different and may even be unrecognizable.

- As we have built over the quasi totality of the planet,

mined and drilled the underground in many places,

our civilization has left remnants everywhere.

But what if this civilization had evolved differently?

Although some believe all the common features between

these particular sites have some divine origin,

I personally cannot imagine they were built by the hand of a god.

Unless this god was small enough

to walk through the hallway of the Great Pyramid.

Others, on the contrary state that all these common features

are connected by the fact that Homo Sapiens

having settled everywhere on the planet,

found the same solutions to the same problems.

And, indeed, we can ironically appreciate the fact

that humankind started with precisely adjusted, massive stones

to end up with small blocks and cement.

But another connection defies this hypothesis,

both in time and in History.

In 1965, the French Ethnologist Francis Mazière

talked about a connection between Easter Island, Peru and Egypt,

stating that all three are located, according to him

on some sort of "magnetic equator" of the Earth.

In 1997, the American Jim Alison

baptized it "the great circle".

A great circle that was invisible

prior to having mapped the entire earth,

which is, as you will see, a huge problem.

[suspenseful music]

Let's go from Easter Island

taking a 30 degree orientation

and drawing a line about 100 kilometers wide.

[suspenseful music]

The strip passes through Nazca in Peru

then Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman,

Cuzco and Naupa Iglesia.

It crosses the Atlantic to go over the sacred caves

at Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria.

Then through the Oasis of Siwa.

By the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.

Over Petra in Jordan.

Ur in Irak.

Persepolis in Iran.

Mohenjo Dar in Pakistan.

Khajuraho in India.

Pyay in Burma. Sukhotai in Thailand.

Angkor Vat and Preah Vihear in Cambodia,

highly likely to be connected a long time ago.

Then over to the little known islands of Aneityum

in New Caledonia.

In this alignment,

we are not looking at the date of construction of the structures

as some are spread in time over many centuries

or thousands of years

but we are rather looking at their locations,

most of them being built and rebuilt

over the ruins of ancient temples.

[mystical music]

Let's first look at the distance ratio between some of these sites.

Let's look at the Earth from above.

The red circle that surrounds it is our Great Circle.

The distance between Angkor Vat and Nazca

equals the distance between Mohenjo Daro and Easter Island.

The distance between Angkor Vat and Mohenjo Daro

equals the distance of Mohenjo Daro between Giza

and also the distance between Nazca and Easter Island.

I believe that at this stage of the investigation,

no one will be surprised to see the Golden Ratio showing up again.

The distance Angkor Vat and Giza

times the Golden Ratio

equals the distance between Giza and Nazca

and the distance between Giza and Nazca

times the Golden Ratio

equals the distance between Nazca and Angkor Vat.

Using the metric system

in the same way we did with the Great Pyramid,

let's measure the distance between Easter Island and Giza.

10 000 times the Golden Ratio. Or again,

a quarter around the Earth times the Golden Ratio.

This is where Jim Alison stops

as like many other Anglo-Saxon researchers,

he measures distances in miles and not in meters.

Up until 2012,

Google Earth gave the figure of 16 179 km between both sites.

Today, it is 16 168 km.

Simple reason: the method of calculation has changed.

So, depending on the method used, the result can change.

But let's be serious.

Even with a difference of about 20 km,

to find an island positioned on this tilted equator

is nothing short of a miracle.

[mystical music]

Once we checked this distance on-site

with the "Maps" application for smartphones,

and taking the GPS coordinates of the Great Pyramid in Giza

as the starting point,

we were able to validate a new discovery by Jim Alison.

The point indicating precisely the 16 180 km

is located at the center of the triangle

created by 3 remarkable positions of this island,

the two highest summits, Terevaka and Poike

and the center of the crater

of Rano Kao.

And this triangle

is even more unique.

Both its sides are identical

and have an angle of 108 degrees.

It is the portion of the golden pentagon of the Companions,

connected to the Golden Ratio.

How is it possible?

It is quite obvious that the volcanoes were not "built".

[mysterious music]

And how to explain these 16 180 km between the sites

without relying once more on sheer luck?

It is very simple in fact.

the builders of Giza had to position this site

according to Easter Island

which they must have known about,

same as the metric system.

[mysterious music]

A private geologist, who is not seeking recognition

shared with me his surprising observations,

humbly thinking that he was not able to draw conclusions on his own.

First, he found that Easter Island

was located on a hot point of the Earth,

points that have the surprising particularity to remain fixed

while the Earth's crust is moving.

Which means that, millions of years ago,

there was no certainty that Easter Island

was located above this hot point.

Then, he realized that the alignment of he sites

on this great circle are located on what we call

"zones of discontinuity of the Earth's crust"

which means, simply said,

the equivalent of the junction of 2 stone blocks.

If shaken, this is where it will break.

There are obviously other zones of discontinuity

on the Earth's crust

but the important fact is that each site of this great circle

is located precisely over a discontinuity point.

This geologist could not explain

why one would have built temples at places

where they were the most at risk of collapsing,

when only a few kilometers away, it would have been much safer.

Worse, when the discontinuity point is at sea

then the site is built as close as possible to land,

which is the case for Nazca,

where the ocean and the Andes land formations

did not leave much choice in regards to its location.

Why confer such an importance to these discontinuity points?

The placement of sites around the world

at specific longitude distances from one another,

and those longitude distances are all part

of the ancient system of numbers

that we find in myths and traditions all around the world.

And that system of numbers are generated

by the precessional wobble of the Earth's axis.

It's a number system based on the number 72,

and there's an astonishing number

of ancient monuments around the world

that are precisely separated from one another

in terms of degrees of longitude by that number system.

- These sites are therefore located on a great circle

but not just any circle.

The North pole of this great circle is in Canada,

in the north west of British Columbia.

[mysterious music]

And this happens to be the place where the magnetic pole oscillates.

The pole, indicated by the compasses

is the one that enables life on earth.

It also generates a magnetic field that filters solar radiation,

enabling life and also allowing us to produce electricity.

Is this the reason Francis Mazière spoke of a "magnetic equator",

referring to ancient esoteric tradition?

Like any group of humans,

the world of esoterism is not free from ideological bias

but this is no reason to discard information

especially when it could resonate with modern science.

This late discovery

regarding the existence of the Earth's magnetic field

was made by the Englishman William Gilbert in 1600's.

Similar to that of another researcher, and it allowed me

to better understand the building of these ancient sites.

Ian S.Stewart, from the University of Plymouth

wondered why the ancient Greeks decided to build temples

precisely on spots subject to seismic activity.

Journalists jokingly wondered

whether Greeks worshipped some Earthquake cult.

You know, cults, gods,

all the folklore of our semi-naked ancestors.

[somber music]

For this researcher,

reasons could be both spiritual and perhaps medical,

since he realized these sites had pristine water sources.

I don't believe any of this has much to do with some ritualistic cult

at least not the way we think of them.

Ask for an expert in civil engineering.

A polygonal assemblage, therefore non-periodic

stands better against earthquakes than our modern walls

made of same size bricks.

Here again, on earthquake-prone sites,

they built earthquake-proof structures.

This is what I had already seen on the hill of the Nymphs, in Athens.

[epic music]

And on Easter Island, the site of Te Pito Kura,

navel of the world, this egg-shaped stone which is magnetic.

A lot of stones are magnetic.

you can check that with a compass.

But how do you know about it without a compass?

Is it yet again a coincidence if this sacred stone

is specifically magnetic

and set on a discontinuity point of the Earth's crust,

and even more, on a hot point?

Same thing in Giza

where the Great Pyramid is located

over a remarkable point of the Earth's crust,

where they built the high chamber with granite slabs

that they had to get painstakingly from about 900 km away.

One can keep thinking

the only reason for this structure's existence

was to glorify God and its earthly representative

the despotic and megalomaniac Kheops.

You can think what you wish.

What can we learn from all of this?

That these sites are built

in the most earthquake-sensitive areas

in regard to the geological activity of our planet.

That they belong to the Great Circle,

our magnetic equator,

which might be related to the magnetic activity of our planet.

That we carefully place specific stones

in particular locations on the Earth.

- The separation in degrees of longitude

between Giza and Angkor is 72.

- Which is yet another way to talk about the proportions

between these sites of the Great Circle.

But after discovering the Golden Ratio and the metric system,

we go into degrees.

Unless this is by chance, again,

that we run into whole numbers when measuring degrees

between Giza and Angkor Vat.

[epic music]

Nothing in common at first glance, right?

But are you sure you saw everything?

Take this, for example.

Polygonal shape of stones.

[percussive music]

Shape of the paving stones.

A specific system of anchoring of the stones.

And even symmetries.

[percussive music continues]

The stones are not particularly large,

and their work closely resembles European cathedrals.

If Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm or Bayon

are indeed dated back to the Middle Ages,

they do seem to be inspired by the same style

as in Peru, Easter Island or Egypt.

The question is more in regards to their location

as these temples were built on the ruins of an ancient complex.

and spread over almost 250 square kilometers.

- Even the name "Angkor" has a meaning

in the Ancient Egyptian language.

Angkor means "Life to the Horus"

Archeologists say it's all a coincidence but I wonder

if something deeper is going on.

Some deeper game.

They all share this common DNA,

this common legacy that goes right back to the beginning.

- Graham Hancock and John Grigsby demonstrated in 1998

that the whole of the site

was also positioned according to the stars,

on the constellation of the dragon.

This is another common point

to all the archaeological sites of our past

to reflect a specific position of the skies at a given time.

- Gobekli Tepe encodes the winter solstice

12 800 years ago.

Giza encodes the equinox 12 800 years ago

The three pyramids on the ground,

the great Sphinx, the constellation of Leo,

Orion, the Milky Way, they're all part of the picture.

Mathieu Laveau and Georges Vermard

also got interested in the connection

between the site of Giza and the Orion constellation,

same as Robert Bauval.

- 10 500 years prior to our era,

or 12 500 years ago,

a time relatively close to the beginning

of the Younger Dryas period.

Graham Hancock mentioned an astronomical cycle of the Earth

called precession of the equinoxes.

The reason why one refers to equinoxes and constellations.

As explained by Mathieu Laveau regarding Giza,

these constellations, once transferred to the ground,

would work as time stamps

But what is the precession of the equinoxes?

In reality, with respect to the Earth,

stars are not fixed over time.

the sky looks like it is moving on whole of 1° every 72 years.

and you will need almost 26 000 years for a whole circle.

One turn of the Celestial Wheel.

It is called a Zodiac.

[mysterious music]

To find our way in this zodiac

we connect the stars together, which creates shapes,

which then permits us to easily identify

these periods in the sky.

This is a gigantic astronomical clock

that never goes wrong.

As per Plato, a tour of the zodiac

lasts precisely 25 920 years.

Modern science establishes it at 25 760 years.

That Plato managed

to obtain such a close estimate, 2500 years ago,

is an enigma that does not seem to interest anyone.

Let's give him credit

and let's take the value of 25 920 years,

Which represents a "big year", divided into 12 months, or eras,

each lasting about 2 160 years.

When talking about the modern era,

it is probably in relation to the era of the Pisces

which started about 2000 years ago.

See our famous fishermen in Catholicism.

And consider this: each of the precessional eras

is carefully represented on the ancient sites.

- There's no doubt the Ancients paid attention to those.

During the age of Taurus, the bull

was the primary icon in Ancient Egypt

and in Ancient Mesopotamia.

As we shift into the age of Aries

suddenly rams become the primary icon

Just look at that column of ram-headed sphinxes

at Karnak, for example,

As we shift again into the age of Pisces,

suddenly, it's the fish.

The early Christians used the fish as their symbol.

So ancient cultures were aware of this

and these broad changes in the heavens

do seem to be accompanied by broad changes on Earth.

- According to ancient myths and beliefs of various people,

Earth fits into cycles.

The most famous being that of the Mayan suns

or that of the 4 ages of the Earth.

As per the doctrine of Hermeticism the science of Hermes,

which despite bearing the name of a Greek God,

actually dates back to ancient Egypt.

So it is a question of cycles or periods of time.

Throughout history,

the end of Time has often been mentioned.

but more in reference to the end of "a" time.

The end of a precessional era.

Was this what French writer André Malraux was referring to when saying

"The 21st century shall be spiritual, or won't be at all"?

But what is the importance of the procession of the equinoxes?

For us, I do not know. But for them, it was important.

They were convinced that the planets,

the gods often representing these planets,

had an influence on the destiny of humankind.

The idea of the planet-gods is evident in Ancient Greece,

where the Antykithera Mechanism,

which allows to establish with stupefying precision

the position of our stars,

could have a new meaning?

But if Aries and Taurus are indeed marking correctly

the corresponding astronomical eras,

what is to be said about the Sphinx in Giza, connected to the Lion?

The previous era of the Lion started indeed about 13 000 years ago

just before the beginning of the Younger Dryas period.

It was at the time

when I was wondering about the meaning of all of this

that the results came back from Barabar.

We had indeed decided to go back there for a very short time

with a 3D scanner and someone to operate it.

A sound level meter for acoustic studies,

a laser level to measure horizontality, verticality,

and to check the regularity of the curves.

[mysterious humming]

The images you will see are the result of 3D scans

done by a laser rotating double-beam all over the surfaces.

They are the equivalent of an MRI.

The impacts of the lasers determine millions of points

allowing to later recreate volumes with a precision to the millimeter

and to obtain tri-dimensional pictures

which I will show you in raw form, with no touch-up.

Let's start with the two unfinished caves.

[intriguing ambiance]

Then on to the completed caves.

We can see a logical evolution of the shapes.

The first one is a trapeze-shaped cave

with a vaulted ceiling,

entryway in its width.

[intriguing ambiance]

The second one is trapeze-shaped with a vaulted ceiling,

entryway in its length.

[intriguing ambiance]

The third one is entirely vaulted, entryway in its width

and the back wall is curved.

[intriguing ambiance]

The fourth one is trapeze-shaped with a vaulted ceiling,

entryway in its length,

curved at each of its extremities.

[intriguing ambiance]

The fifth one is the most complex,

trapeze-shaped with a vaulted ceiling,

hemisphere over a cylinder, truncated at one end.

[intriguing ambiance]

This is what was accomplished in granite about 2 300 years ago,

in India.

These caves are the oldest of their kind in India

and for some unknown reason

all those built in the centuries that followed never managed

the same level of precision and finish once constructed.

Using material harder than reinforced steel,

complex shapes were built with a degree of precision

ranging from 2 to 8 millimeters

over a length often exceeding 13 meters.

this is more than a "good enough for the eye" work.

These caves are the most vertically symmetrical,

a real accomplishment, given the available means at the time.

Let us put aside the question about the tools

that enabled the constructions of the caves

under such conditions and discuss the geometry of the shapes.

Vapiyaka,

Karan Chopar,

Gopika

and the Sudama room all contain trapezoidal sections.

The vertical walls are in fact slightly tilted

with a constant angle of less than three degrees.

In these rooms with trapezoidal sections

we place portions of cylinders in the form of arcs

whose central axe height varies from one cave to the other.

In Vapiyaka,

the axe is located approximately 13 cm over the floor.

In Karan Chopar,

the axis is located approximately 1,20 m over the floor.

In the room in Sudama,

the axis is located approximately 1,10 m over the floor.

But in Gopika, it is more complicated

since the axe is located approximately 47 cm under the floor.

Building an arc whose axis is located 47 cm under the floor

greatly complicates measurements during its construction.

A requirement to verify proper curvature.

Nothing mandates that arcs be made from portions of cylinders

unless this is explicitly required.

And everything is done with a glass finish.

Let us simplify things.

We do not aim for such precision for no reason.

In the case of the caves,

it must have been a necessary part of the architectural specifications.

Construction plans with such precise dimensions had a specific reason,

all which enlightens us about the knowledge and the skills

required for their execution,

which would have required at least one engineer

and several highly skilled laborers during construction.

Something that appears quite advanced

with respect to the knowledge

and the technical means available during the Ashoka period,

indicated by the quality in the realization of the porch

and the inscriptions on certain caves.

OK, but why construct such peculiar rooms?

Something surprising about the caves is the sound,

and the way it propagates due to the slight inclination of the walls,

which leads to a suppression of echo

in favor of acoustic resonance.

If it is not an extraordinary coincidence,

which is likely when confronted with the evidence,

then where can the preliminary tests

leading to such degree of expertise be found?

Once again, like with the Antikythera mechanism,

it was necessary to experiment, to conceive prototypes.

Caves of such precisions are not conceivable without prior tests.

Yet no prototype is found anywhere

other than these two incomplete caves.

And the work performed in the following centuries in India

would never equal, or come close to the level of these masterpieces.

These spaces behave like resonance chambers.

Tests conducted in the Sudama cave

show that when one is placed in the center of the dome,

certain frequencies make precise parts of the organism vibrate.

But Let's be more concrete. Data analysis using a sonometer

yields incredible results for three of the caves.

Measurements taken in the last two

are not sufficient at the moment and will need further completion.

Let us start by Karan Chopar.

This cave resonates at a frequency of 200 Hz

as well as at multiples of this frequency:

400 Hz, 800 Hz, 1000 Hz and 1200 Hz.

Gopika resonates at 200 Hz

400 Hz, 800 Hz and 1200 hz.

And Vadathika resonates at 200 Hz and 1000 Hz.

[loud thud]

Are you aware of the implications?

Those who conceived and built these three caves

ith their specific shapes and dimensions

knew that they would resonate at these frequencies.

Can we attribute this to mere coincidence?

Precise frequency calculations, 2300 years ago.

Since these three shapes resonate at precise frequencies,

how can we know it before making them?

How to calculate their dimensions?

In regards to Sudama,

the circular diameter on the ground of the chamber

measures 6 meters, to the millimieter.

On this complex shape of truncated cone

they placed half a sphere of about 3 meters in diameter

with a 5cm difference this time,

whose center is 1 meter above the ground,

give or take 1 cm.

No, I won't sell you the meter over other measuring units

but, recurrent luck or a hint from the builders,

this circle is about 6 meters in diameter

or Pi in royal cubits in diameter.

Divided by 6,

the arc equals Pi in meters.

[mysterious music]

What if I told you these granite caves are also located

ver a discontinuity point of Earth's crust?

It is up to each of you to conclude what you want

in regard to these masterpieces.

That with the help of chisels and good will

builders might have accomplished this useless miracle

or maybe we are indeed facing

the illustration of a science totally unknown to us.

Ritualistic or religious reason

or remnants of a science misunderstood and forgotten?

I believe we have greatly mistaken

about the true function of these sacred temples

of our past.

If one spends so much energy maneuvering such massive stones.

Of one adjusts and fits them so precisely.

Of one positions them

at the intersections of the magnetic equator

with discontinuity points.

If one builds them with such unique rocks.

If one uses such special numbers.

If one meticulously orients the structures with the stars,

it is obviously because there is more to it.

We still have a lot to learn from Barabar and Giza.

I am sure.

[hopeful music]

Before placing the last and necessary piece of this puzzle

I will restate what we have thus found.

Enigmatic ancient sites

built according to similar techniques

everywhere on the planet implying a transmission of knowledge.

Absence of archives or explanations

about the means and techniques utilized.

A particular care in the choice of rocks.

Unfinished elements.

[mysterious music]

An advanced design accompanied by a precise construction

contrary to the knowledge and simple means

supposedly used at the time.

Astronomical orientation of major sites

in reference to the precession of the equinoxes.

An archaeological site pushing back the certainty

of the beginnings of human sedentarization

to the start of the last era

of brutal climate changes of our planet, about 13 000 years ago.

An archaeological site implying the use of sound frequencies

for reasons still unknown.

Presence of the Golden Ratio geometry

opposing the knowledge commonly attributed at the time

A connection between the cubit of the Great Pyramid,

the royal Quine and the meter.

implying a knowledge of the dimensions of the Earth

before its measurement in 1795

and its transmission throughout the ages.

The positioning of ancient sites within a geometric planetary frame

connected to the Golden Ratio,

the dregrees and the metric system.

The location of sites at the intersection of points

of discontinuity of Earth's crust

and the magnetic equator.

Scriptures, myths or sacred texts mentioning one

or more advanced civilisations vanishing

confirmed at various places by the discovery of remains.

Facing all these facts and connections,

I put forward that instead of chance, I choose

what seems to be the most rational explanation.

The existence of a very advanced civilisation in the past

who would have disappeared following a cataclysm.

I have wondered how it could have transmitted its knowledge

through a unique way to see the world.

not knowing whether it could be

understood by other civilizations after it.

And it appeared to me, in all its splendor.

So, "genius builders” or "fruit of our imagination"?

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In the Apocalypse according to St John,

the prophetic text ending the New Testament of the Christians,

he mentions the end of a particular era.

One may read this rather enigmatic sentence.

On a card of the Marseille tarot, the arcane 21, called "The World"

one may find these 3 animals

as well as the man, represented by an angel.

We are told about astronomical constellations.

Taurus, Lion, Scorpio that used to be the Eagle,

and Aquarius, formerly the angel.

Aldebaraan, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut.

The Fixed Cross of the Elders.

Printed in a double square on the Tarot card.

A double square opening to the Golden Ratio geometry.

Contrary to popular belief,

"apocalypse" in Greek does not mean "the end of the world"

but "disclosure of knowledge".

A religious scripture, a card game, structures

Multiple communication mediums

conveying the same invisible knowledge

to those who don't know how to read it,

But will keep playing it and telling stories

since this is the way humans are.

In the animal kingdom which we belong to,

game has always been the best learning aide.

Similar to the stories that we are told

and are sometimes teaching us, without even seeming to.

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This type of transmission

would have more chance to hide from the various powers

that inevitably appeared on our planet,

with the disturbing habit to try and rewrite the past,

to better justify their domineering position.

But they will always let people play and tell tales.

Even the almighty Church

with its tetramorph supposedly representing the 4 evangelists

Mathew, Mark, Luke and John

would not have seen anything.

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Otherwise why would it reverse the Lion and the Taurus?

It may have all been laid before our eyes

everywhere all the time, and since the beginning.

Ways to transmit, throughout thousands of years

information impossible to understand

before reaching a certain level of development.

What an extraordinary act of wisdom provided by these builders.

And what an extraordinary lesson of humility

and self-sacrifice from these humble people

who discreetly transmitted this precious information

throughout time

for the time when we will be able to understand it again.

Given what we can see regarding these complex structures,

it appears that we are still very far away

from reaching their level of knowledge

and simplicity in expression,

which I find is truly genius.

Which makes it impossible to comprehend to the eyes of those

who see without seeing and have no other choice than to giggle,

For with the caves at Barabar,

the sound and science of frequencies

comes into play through the front door.

The one, open but not understood

of the High Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza,

also made of granite,

seemingly a concentration of all of our ancestors' knowledge.

This prodigious High Chamber

protected by such an inefficient security system

that considering their high level of technical mastery

we could only see as symbolic.

A system that would lead one to expect a precious treasure

But there is nothing more than an austere granite trunk

too big to pass through the door and the hallways.

Why?

The ritualistic or religious explanation

prevents further thinking.

However after all that we have seen

its significance is self evident.

This chamber contains the ultimate treasure.

The treasure of knowledge.

It's a sublime mathematical symphony.

The true music of the spheres,

written in the universal language of the numbers,

creating the invisible frame of our world.

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For the few experiences I could have in this chamber

the sound seems to play an important role.

The spectral audio analysis

performed on the voice recording data in this room

exhibits a set a frequences sensibly equal

to that found in the three first caves of Barabar.

It is possible it consists, as in Barabar,

of the ancient musical skill, based on 432 Hz.

But all requires further analysis

with more sophisticated material.

But what if I suspect is proving

the perspectives are mind-blowing.

This debauchery of technical prowess

accomplished all around our planet,

in specific locations that can only be determined with certainty

with the help of an elaborate scientific knowledge,

all these clues left everywhere around us

represent in my eyes,

the indisputable trace of these builders.

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These builders, whose recollection

seems to be lost in the memory,

but whose footprints, left in stone, are more than eloquent.

These footprints, we also find in scriptures.

To the readers of the Koran,

I wish to dedicate this sentence.

And to those reading the Bible, this one.

For the site of Gobekli Tepe does not cry out.

It screams. And it is not the only one.

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If we exclude from the equations the disrupting elements,

then one will not find what one is looking for.

It is the same thing when an archaeologist

who does not believe in the existence

of sophisticated mechanical tools in the past

does not see the point in measuring a surface

with the roughness-measuring device or to scan it in 3D.

If he is already convinced

that it is the by-product of basic tools

then why bother checking?

This goes against the true scientific approach

which, since Descartes,

needs to wipe the slate clean

of assumptions and prejudice.

At the end of the 18th century

a scientist as brilliant as Lavoisier

was smiling at the fact

that stones might be able to fall from the sky.

A few decades before the existence of meteorites was proven.

So be let's be prudent.

since tomorrow's science will probably

shatter today's convictions.

The hypothesis of a lost civilisation is disruptive.

Most of the time it is ridiculed and those who defend this theory

as serious as they might be, are ignored,

which prevents us from discussing their arguments.

As educated as one may be,

no one is exempt from their own prejudice and emotions

otherwise, how would we explain that such a hypothesis

could bother us so much?

For this reason, I wanted to pay respect to all these researchers

who are fighting silently away from all of the media's chaos

and mockeries of their colleagues

Because in the end only the facts count.

In summary what I am trying to say

is that we will most likely need to change our way of thinking

if we want to understand the science

of these builders of the ancient world.

I know it is not easy to reconsider

the founding principles of our society,

on which we have built our current vision of the world.

Yet all these kings, emperors, dictators,

political leaders and religious heads

throughout our history have each time arranged the stories,

erased the records of the losers

and surely wiped out or rewritten the past

in order to legitimize their power.

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But the structures from the past are speaking to us

if we deign listen to them.

The city of Caral shows it is possible

to live a long period in time without any conflict.

Ancient Egypt also, since it did not start any expansion wars.

The Inca Empire again, who showed us that

if all the people were not properly integrated

in the respect of their identity

and not by force, sooner or later, conflict would ensue.

Our Earth also, is perhaps speaking to us.

Our magnetic pole has sped up its pace in the last 30 years

and one would need to be blind

not to see that our climate is disrupted.

The ground is rumbling more often and more loudly.

We still have so much to discover

it is now up to you to go and see these sites.

Wake up!

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