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[Graham] If you look me up on Wikipedia,

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you'll find that I am described as a
pseudoarchaeologist or a pseudoscientist.

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I find this frankly absurd.

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I'm no more a pseudoscientist
than a dolphin is a pseudo-fish.

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I'm an investigative reporter.

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My job is to investigate
the official story.

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What is there in the past

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that the existing model
of prehistory doesn't explain?

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Anomalies and paradoxes
are of great interest.

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That's what's brought me here
to the Bahamas.

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I'm fascinated by parts of the world
that haven't been looked at properly yet.

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That's why I spend years
scuba diving on continental shelves

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'cause there's
ten million square miles of land

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that was above water during
the Ice Age that's underwater today.

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Including here, in the Bahamas.

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These are the Bimini Islands.

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Just under 60 miles
off the coast of Miami,

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Bimini is separated
from the mainland of America

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by a deepwater channel
known as the Straits of Florida.

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You might think this is an unlikely place

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to search for clues
to a lost civilization,

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but something incredible has been
discovered beneath the waves here.

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Just half a mile off the shoreline,
not far from the Gulf Stream current,

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is a massive structure
of carefully laid giant stones…

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with every appearance of being
a megalithic roadway or paved terrace…

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which is how it earned
its nickname, the "Bimini Road."

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The formation was first discovered
in 1968 by a group of divers

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who'd been looking for
the fabled lost city of Atlantis

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beneath the waves of the Bahamas.

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In their excitement,
they announced to the world

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that they had found
the road to Atlantis itself.

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This state of Atlantis is supposed
to have existed in 8000 BC,

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and supposed to have attacked Athens.
Greeks didn't exist in 8000 BC.

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This is all simply absurd.

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I'm afraid there is no history
in this story whatsoever.

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[Graham] Predictably, all this talk of
Atlantis caused archaeologists to discount

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what seemed to be
an underwater megalithic structure

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as no more than breathless hype.

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To this day, archaeologists insist

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that this underwater formation
is just a stretch of fractured beach rock

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probably formed around 3,000 years ago
by natural processes.

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Unwilling to risk their reputations,

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few scholars have
seriously investigated it.

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I have no such reservations.

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Because whether or not

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the Bimini structure
is part of some underwater city,

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it would be reckless
to ignore it completely.

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Which is why I've come here

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with some state-of-the-art technology
and a team of experts

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to reopen this cold case.

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My dive buddy is Dr. Michael Haley…

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[Dr. Haley] Hand me the mask.

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[Graham] …a marine biologist who's been
exploring the waters of the Caribbean

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for over 40 years.

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[Dr. Haley over comms]
Graham, let's swim over here.

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[Graham] The so-called Bimini Road
lies just 18 feet,

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five-and-a-half meters, below the surface.

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An easy dive.

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While Mike and I head
for the mysterious structure,

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up above, another member
of our team, Kyle Dufault,

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is preparing to scan the area
using his sonar array.

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Kyle's a marine investigator

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with years of experience
hunting the world's seabeds

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for wrecks and anomalies.

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[Kyle] Good to go.

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[Graham] His sonar should reveal
the road like an X-ray,

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giving us a much clearer view

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of how these blocks
may originally have been laid out.

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I'm hoping to show something
that has never been seen before.

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If this is in fact a man-made object,
I'd like to see precise lines

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because usually 90-degree angles
do not occur in nature.

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It's very rare.

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All right, what I would like to do
is just go right down the middle.

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[Dr. Haley] Graham, look at this.

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[Graham] Below, Mike and I close in
on the line of massive blocks

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on the otherwise empty seabed.

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Recent storms have
stirred up sediment, reducing visibility.

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Even so, it's easy to spot
the well-organized rows of megaliths.

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[over comms] They are laid out
perfectly symmetrically.

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I can swim along the side of the row

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and I can see
absolute level and precision.

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It's a very impressive sight.

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The slabs are remarkably
straight-edged and parallel.

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These very large blocks
are really enormous.

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They're about 15 feet on one dimension,

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and about 12 feet on the other dimension.

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This isn't the top
of any larger buried structure.

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Most of the blocks
are laid out directly on the ocean floor.

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What's so unusual

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is that some of
the undisturbed sections of the structure

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appear to be level,
despite the massive size of the megaliths.

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And when Mike and I take a closer look,
we discover why.

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There's something underneath them.

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[Dr. Haley] Come over here, Graham.
Look at this.

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[Graham] A series of smaller stones
are wedged beneath these huge slabs,

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keeping them level above the sea floor.

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[Dr. Haley] You can see
these foundation stones very clearly.

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[Graham] There's no way those stones
could have gotten under these slabs,

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some of which weigh up to ten tons,

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unless they were put there intentionally.

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There's no doubt about it, in my view.

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Nature just cannot explain
the regularity, the organization,

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the planning
and the precision of this structure.

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It's clear that we're looking
at a man-made structure.

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Huge efforts were made to create

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a leveled-off megalithic platform
on a sloping land form.

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And in order to level that platform,

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they used foundation blocks
underneath the large megaliths.

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Up close, it was difficult to make out

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what the overall intended shape
of the formation might have been.

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But Kyle's sonar scans
should give us further perspective.

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So, now you're starting to see the blocks
of the main section of the road.

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-[Graham] Okay.
-And you can definitively see the cracks…

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[Graham] Absolutely.

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…and the uniform shape of the road.

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[Graham] Definition is amazing.

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-Most of the rocks are very uniform.
-[Graham] Yeah.

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They're usually about
ten to twelve foot long,

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by ten to twelve foot wide.

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-[Graham] So, really substantial pieces.
-[Kyle] Absolutely.

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Look at this straight edge here.

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[Kyle] Right, absolutely.

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Yeah, you can definitively
see the lines between the blocks

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-like they were actually made…
-[Graham] Yeah.

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-…and then laid into a road pattern. It--
-Almost perfectly square.

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Absolutely.

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Like I said, you can
definitively see that they're blocks.

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[Graham] Yes.

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[Kyle] I've scanned both sides
on either side of the road

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and there's nothing like that
anywhere around.

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[Graham] If this formation was simply
the product of natural tidal forces,

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as geologists insisted
when it was first discovered,

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why would the shorter section of the road
lie at an angle to the main one?

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Wouldn't they be parallel?

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And why don't we see
other such formations nearby?

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I mean, not only the weathering
or just the uniformity of them all,

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-but nothing around it looking like this…
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-Somebody put it there.
-Yes.

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So my personal opinion
is that it is man-made.

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So, Mike, what do you make of it?

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What have we been looking at?

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Well, I've dived all over the world

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and it's the only structure
I've ever seen like that.

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Anyway, it's completely unique.

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When I listen to the arguments of those
who think it is a natural structure,

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they argue that it's beach rock.

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Oftentimes a shelf of beach rock
will fracture into pieces

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while still maintaining its overall shape.

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But the blocks at Bimini
are clearly distinct from one another

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and uniformly pillow-shaped.

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It's very hard for me to see
how nature could have made it.

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I've never seen beach rock
fracture in that way.

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-Have you?
-Me neither.

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And it speaks to me loudly
of human workmanship.

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Looks like it very well could be
a man-made structure.

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[Graham] If I'm right,
it must have been made at a time

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when this part of the Bahamas
was above water.

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And extrapolating
from all the available data,

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we can get a good idea of what it might
originally have looked like

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when it lay atop the coastline.

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The hook-shaped formation
runs roughly northeast to southwest,

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about 1,600 feet long.

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Nearly four-and-a-half football fields.

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The biggest blocks are anywhere
from ten to thirteen feet long

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and seven to ten feet wide.

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And on both terraces,
there appear to be intentional gaps.

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But there's no way to know if there was
any wooden superstructure built on top.

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All that remains are the blocks.

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But the very existence
of such a massive man-made structure here

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has extraordinary implications.

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Because this part of the Bahamas has been
under water for thousands of years.

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In fact, most of the islands making up
what we now call the Great Bahama Bank,

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were connected during the Ice Age

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in places rising
100 meters above sea level.

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Part of a vast rectangular Bahama Island,

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just off the mainland
of what today is Florida,

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an island that existed here
for more than 100,000 years.

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Sea levels rose 400 feet
at the end of the last Ice Age

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and in the process,

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swallowed up millions of square miles
of some of the best land on Earth.

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And if we're trying to tell
the human story while not taking account

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of those submerged continental shelves
and what was happening on them,

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then we could be missing
a great deal of important information.

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The new data we've gathered
on the Bimini Road

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strongly suggest to me an ancient date
for this now underwater structure.

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And yet, archaeologists have been slow
to take up the challenge

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of looking for evidence of
older civilizations here in the Bahamas.

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They refuse to consider the possibility.

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If there was an advanced civilization
that lived, say, 30,000 years ago,

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which is what Graham thinks, okay,

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where is their trash? Where are the homes?

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You know, where are
their stone tools or metal tools?

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Where's their writing?

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[Graham] There could be such evidence
of an advanced civilization of the Ice Age

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waiting to be found
beneath the waves on land later flooded.

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But you're not going to find it
if you don't bother to look.

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[Dr. Haley] You're not talking about
a civilization on Bimini.

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You're talking about civilization
on the entire bank, which is huge.

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-The research has simply never been done.
-Yeah.

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Because archaeology doesn't feel
there's any point in doing that research.

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Because archaeology feels that

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the timeline of human civilization
is already sorted out.

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So, there's no reason to investigate that.

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The Bimini Road does overlook
the deepwater channel

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that once ran between the
Ice Age Bahama Island and North America.

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A channel through which
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making it a hugely important landmark
for any ships heading northward

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out of the Gulf of Mexico
toward the Atlantic.

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Like the legendary boat
with no paddles of Quetzalcoatl.

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The stone slabs could have been part of
some larger monument or place marker.

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A legacy of a seafaring culture

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that witnessed the rising waters
at the end of the last Ice Age.

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A culture that may actually
have mapped this important spot.

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I've asked Mike to join me on shore

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to look over replicas of
some of the oldest surviving world maps.

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He may be a seasoned navigator,

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but I'm betting
he's never used maps like these.

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The story of these maps
is quite complicated.

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These maps were typically drawn

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in the 14th, 15th
and 16th centuries of our era.

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But the mapmakers admitted freely that
they were copying from older source maps

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and compiling it together with
new information from the Age of Discovery.

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Let's start with this one,
which is a very famous map.

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This is the Piri Reis map
drawn by a Turkish admiral…

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-Right.
-…in 1513.

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He tells us
in his own handwriting on the map

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that he based it on 20 older source maps.

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In addition to those ancient sources,

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Piri Reis also referred to charts
from recent voyages to the Americas

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by Christopher Columbus and others.

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The end result was a world map,

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but today,
only the western third of it survives.

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This is really interesting, Graham,
because you got this coastline

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showing the rivers
in South America quite accurately.

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[Graham] Yeah. Very good, really,

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representation of the coast
of South America.

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But what stands out for me
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is this very large island

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shown off the southeast coast
of North America.

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Parked off the coast
of a truncated Florida,

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is a large, vertically-oriented,
rectangular island.

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It doesn't look like anything
Columbus should have encountered or drawn.

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Efforts have been made to explain it
as a badly drawn map of Cuba.

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And that just doesn't fly for me
because you can't get it wrong.

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Well, it's long and thin
and oriented on a different axis.

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And oriented east-west.
Whereas this is oriented north-south.

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There is no such island
and it didn't exist in 1513 either.

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But an island
of exactly that size and shape

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did exist during the last Ice Age.

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The large part of the Grand Bahama Banks
that were above water.

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And if you take a closer look at what
Piri Reis drew along the island's spine,

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it's a series of blocks lined up in a row.

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Remind you of something?

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This row looks to me

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very much like the rows of megaliths
on the Bimini Road.

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That would not be uncharacteristic
of maps of this period

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because they took what they saw
as a characteristic feature of that area.

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Like we see this elephant in West Africa,

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curious animals here in South America.

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And this feature here,
which is not mountains.

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It's not how Piri Reis shows mountains.
It's something else.

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I think it's the Bimini Road.

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I don't care whether the Bimini Road
is natural or man-made.

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My claim about the Bimini Road

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is it's really fucking weird
that it appears on a map above water.

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[Joe] Yes.

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A map that was drawn in 1513
based on older source maps.

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This strange appearance
of an Ice Age island

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isn't the only unusual feature
on Piri Reis' extraordinary map.

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As you move to the south,
you've got this large landmass here.

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[Graham] Yeah.

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And that seems extremely strange.

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[Graham] You're putting your finger on

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one of the most controversial aspects
of the Piri Reis map.

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It's a coastline
extending out from South America

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along the southern edge of the Atlantic.

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No one should have known about it in 1513.

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Take a look at this other world map.

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The Pinkerton map, published in 1812.

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It's impressively accurate
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No Antarctica.

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Because our civilization
didn't discover Antarctica until 1820.

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This is why historians
refuse to acknowledge the possibility

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that it might appear
on a map drawn in 1513.

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The area of the map
which people say might be Antarctica,

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well, it just isn't Antarctica.

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It's South America.

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All that happened is that
Piri Reis was drawing the coastline,

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the paper ran out,
so he changed the direction.

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[Peter Barber] He just did a doodle.

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And I think we've been
taken in by the doodle

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into thinking it's something more.

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[Graham] That might make sense,
if the Piri Reis map was the only example.

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But Antarctica shows up in other
16th century maps, as well.

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Here it's clearly detailed
and even labeled

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on the Orontius Finaeus map
drawn in 1531.

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Once again, based on ancient sources,

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before any modern explorer
had ever laid eyes on it.

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But if that is Antarctica
on the Piri Reis map,

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why is it so oddly oriented
and connected to South America?

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Have a look at Antarctica's coastline,
not as it is today,

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but as geologists think it was
when sea levels were lower

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and the southern ice cap extended north
during the last Ice Age.

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If you trace out
Antarctica's Ice Age coastline,

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it looks a lot like
the one on the Piri Reis map.

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Antarctica, its appearance
rather accurately,

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and much as it looked
during the Ice Age on ancient maps,

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is a real paradox and a problem
which needs to be explained.

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And to me, the obvious answer
to that problem isn't coincidence,

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it isn't fantasy
on the part of the mapmakers.

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It's those source maps
they were drawing from.

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I think these maps suggest

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a major forgotten episode
in human history.

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In Indonesia, in Mexico, and on Malta,

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we've seen advanced megalithic structures
associated with civilizing heroes

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who arrived by boat, teaching the locals
about agriculture, laws and engineering.

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Now, these maps suggest that
long before Magellan's famous expedition,

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an advanced culture
did circumnavigate that Ice Age world.

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This is all evidence
that we shouldn't dismiss the possibility

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that our ancestors
had achieved a level of technology

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where they could explore
and map the world's oceans.

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Shouldn't be dismissed.

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Is there anything else compelling
in the immediate area

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that seems to indicate there was
a man-made structure?

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[Graham] There is another unexplained
man-made wonder here.

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Hidden deep inside
Bimini's dense mangrove forest,

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an area accessible only by boat.

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Rising ten feet out of the swamp
is a series of mounds

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set off by empty stretches of sand,
creating a curious 500-foot long shape.

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Like the famed Nazca Lines in Peru,

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it's a phenomenon
best viewed from the air.

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The unmistakable shape of one of
Bimini's most famous ancient residents.

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This effigy of a shark,
carved into the mangrove swamp,

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has been here as long as anyone remembers.

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Though, archaeologists
have never seriously studied it

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since they cannot confirm its origins.

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And yet it's a predator
that any ancient seafaring culture,

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including the lost civilization
I've been looking for,

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would certainly have feared and respected.

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So, who were these ancient navigators?

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Well, at the risk of yet again incurring
the wrath of those in mainstream academia…

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Let's talk about Atlantis.

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I don't believe
Bimini is the site of Atlantis,

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or that Atlantis lies
anywhere near the Bahamas.

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But the legend
of the drowned city is intriguing,

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precisely because it offers us
the most detailed description of something

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I believe really existed.

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A lost advanced civilization
of the Ice Age.

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The Greek philosopher Plato

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is the oldest surviving source
for the story of Atlantis.

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Which he describes quite vividly.

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Atlantis was a precocious civilization.

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Boasting beautiful architecture,
advanced technology,

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and city planning on a monumental scale.

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It also commanded a vast fleet
capable of navigating the world,

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projecting its power
near and far across oceans.

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Until the city was struck by a series
of massive earthquakes and floods,

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a truly cataclysmic event,

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and sank beneath the waves.

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Plato tells us that the story of Atlantis
reached him through his ancestor, Solon.

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That Solon visited Egypt.

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And we know the date of that visit.
It was 600 BC.

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And during that visit, he visited a temple

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and the priests
spoke of a lost advanced civilization

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which they called Atlantis,

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which was destroyed in a flood

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9,000 years before
the time of Solon's visit.

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So we have a date
for the destruction of Atlantis, 9600 BC.

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That's exactly the same time
as an episode of global cataclysm

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and catastrophic sea level rise

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that occurred at the end of the Ice Age.

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Coincidence? Maybe.

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But for the tale of Atlantis
to accord so precisely

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with the latest scientific evidence
on the end of the Ice Age,

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should give even the harshest of skeptics
pause for thought.

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Isn't it much more likely
it is just some sort of allegory?

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I might think that if it wasn't
for the fact that the Plato story

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is echoed all around the world
by people who had no contact with Plato.

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And what I suspect is that they are
all drawing on a common source,

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a common memory of a real event.

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When Plato tells us the story of Atlantis,
he also tells us why Atlantis went down.

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It wasn't just because of a cataclysm.

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It was because of the arrogance,
the hubris, the pride

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that had grown up within Atlantis.

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This is why Atlantis was destroyed.

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Because it had
fallen out of harmony with the universe.

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And I think that our civilization today
is in a very similar predicament.

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We have fallen out of harmony
with the universe.

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Our conceit at our own achievements,

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our willingness to impose
our power around the world

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on other less powerful peoples.

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All of these things in mythological terms

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would suggest that our civilization
is in very great danger.

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[explosion]

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When I published
Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995,

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I thought that there was
nothing more for me to say

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about the possibility
of a lost civilization.

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I became aware of an enormous
and really quite astonishing

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newly-discovered
megalithic site in Turkey.

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One that proved that our Ice Age ancestors

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were capable of far more
than historians ever dreamed.

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To me, it very strongly
speaks of a lost civilization

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that archaeology hasn't got to grips with.

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It's a site now thought to be
the oldest surviving

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megalithic structure in the world.

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One that also may have left us
a warning encoded in stone,

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that the ancient apocalypse
of the last Ice Age

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that nearly destroyed humanity…

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[thunder rumbling]

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could return.

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So, Turkey is where I'm heading next.