THE MYSTERY OF GÖBEKLI TEPE - Graham Hancock on London Real - YouTube

Of all the work, I've [done] over the last quarter of a century

The reason I felt I had to do it. I mentioned [Gobekli]. Tepe [we] talked at the beginning of this discussion about

Plato's Atlantis story, and how he said that Atlantis went down Eleven thousand six hundred years ago

Nine thousand years before the time of [so] [long] that's eleven thousand six hundred years ago in our time

That's the date of the foundation of Gobekli tepe

It's very set very clear absolutely founded eleven thousand six hundred years ago. Exactly the date that plato gives for the ending of

Atlantis

and and [Gobekli] tepe

Doesn't fit it. Just comes out [of] nowhere out of nowhere

We understand a site like stonehenge

makes perfect sense it's about Four-and-A-Half thousand [years] old start henge

[we] know that it was centered in [a] agricultural community which?

Generated surpluses those surpluses allowed labor to be freed you could

Fund people to become astronomers or architects or engineers they need to be producing all the time so we can understand the social and economic

Context in which a huge megalithic site like stonehenge emerged

Go to [Gobekli] tepe you're seven thousand years earlier

The entire area prior [to] the appearance of Gobekli. Tepe is inhabited only by hunter-Gatherers

There's no agriculture whatsoever

They haven't built anything ever and then suddenly without any background or any preparation

Appears this huge megalithic site which is incredibly sophisticated turns out because a large part [of] it's still under the ground

seen with ground-Penetrating radar that the whole site is actually 50 times bigger than Stonehenge and

seven thousand Years older, so

How do we account for this did a group of hunter-Gatherers [in] turkey wake up one morning?

magically inspired

That they suddenly knew how to cut and quarry stone move blocks weighing in some cases up [to] 50 tons

Create gigantic stone circles in an area with [no] water

Involving bringing a labor force and organizing that labor force and feeding and watering them to create the world's first

Perfectly North-South aligned building which involves accurate astronomy to do all of that and at the same time to invent

Agriculture because at the same moment that [gobekli] tepe pops up suddenly agriculture appears in that same region of turkey

It's obvious to me that that wasn't a group of hunter-Gatherers who woke up one morning suddenly equipped with the skills

What we're looking at the transfer of technology?

This was the survivors of a lost civilization they already knew how to create megaliths they already knew how to do agriculture

They settled amongst

The hunter-Gatherer people who they may have reached out to before they settled amongst them and they created this project, and this [project] was to

restart

Their civilization it didn't quite work, but they got somewhere they created this huge site they invented agriculture

We are all the descendants of that all of the agriculture in the world today began around [Gobekli]

Tepe Eleven thousand six hundred years ago

It's an extraordinarily employed moment are these

Aliens are they know they're human human a human being but came from this and transferred technology over to this other space. Yes

First of all it's important to understand that the Earth changes that took place between twelve thousand eight hundred and Eleven

thousand six [hundred] Years ago were utTerly

cataclysmic

Beyond all

imagining

The science is now in [its] very clear

We had an interaction with the fragments of a very large comet a giant comet

Which originally may have been as much as a hundred miles in diameter. It was drawn into the inner solar [system] about

20,000 years ago these things come from very far away, they come from a place called the oort Cloud which is almost

Light year away. It's so far away

it's so far [away] a huge sphere of trillions of comets in the very outer solar system, but

Disturbances gravitational disturbances can send comets out of those safe orbit swinging in towards the inner solar system

it happens from time to time and the evidence now is that we

Got one of those a big one about a hundred miles in diameter [about]

20,000 years ago it entered an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and

For the next eight thousand years nothing bad happened

They missed each other

[but] twelve thousand eight hundred years ago at least eight fragments of that comment

And we know comets break into fragments [many] of your audience are young but those who were around in

1994 Will Remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which hit jupiter with

spectacular effect it broke up into 20 fragments each

One of those fragments hitting jupiter was equivalent to more than the entire nuclear arsenal of the Earth going off at once

Something similar happened to the Earth Twelve thousand eight hundred years ago

At least eight pieces of this large comet some of them up to a mile in diameter

Hit the Earth the primary impacts were on the [North] [American] ice cap there were impacts on

The Northern European ice cap and the Furthest east that we've documented in caps

Impact is actually syria

50 million Square [kilometres] of the Earth's surface was devastated by this compact a comet impact sea levels Rose

Rapidly and the Earth's climate

Plunged into a dreadful deep freeze that lasted

1,200 years

This event was of a scale of a magnitude that is quite capable of having wiped out

almost all traces of a former civilization

and that's why I think again about what plato had to say and I think also about

[our] civilization