1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,199 The feeling that all over the world people have become dissatisfied with the sterile, 2 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:24,800 dry and frankly meaningless answers to the great mysteries of life that are given by 3 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:31,000 science and by history. More and more people, and I would say it runs into tens and perhaps 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:37,719 even hundreds of millions around the world, are increasingly aware that we are a much 5 00:00:37,719 --> 00:00:43,600 more mysterious species than we give ourselves credit for, and that there are m... 6 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,519 mysteries and secrets in our past than we are prepared to accept at the moment. And 7 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:55,040 this intuitive sense that people have is driving them to re-examine the past of the... 8 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,200 whether or not the historians and the scientists want to do it. The people... 9 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:10,159 the way in this quest for the truth about our own past. What's happening here is that... 10 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:16,080 people, ordinary members of the general public who should never be underestimated,... 11 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,840 completely dissatisfied with the picture of the past that is being given to them. More... 12 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:29,280 evidence is coming out, and very gradually, very slowly, but very surely, this evidenc... 13 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,480 to overwhelm the old historical model that we've been living with. Now it's natural... 14 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:40,159 those who have a vested interest in the existing historical model, for example... 15 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:45,400 Egyptologists, archaeologists, are going to be extremely reluctant to let it go becaus... 16 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:50,240 blowing away their own careers when they do that. And this is why the move in this... 17 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,760 coming from the general public, who are seeing the new evidence, who are putting t... 18 00:01:54,760 --> 00:02:00,880 and realizing that the answers are not provided by Orthodox history, and who are... 19 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:09,200 for an answer to the whole problem. I would say that it's most important of all to... 20 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,759 authority. Actually, it's very clear if we look at the history of science, even withi... 21 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:19,679 history, we can see that the great advances in science have always been made against a... 22 00:02:19,679 --> 00:02:28,479 of enormous resistance from the quote unquote establishment. If we just blindly accept what 23 00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:33,840 the so-called authorities tell us, then we'll never make any kind of progress in ideas.... 24 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:42,319 essential to keep an open mind to all possibilities and not to be bound down by... 25 00:02:42,719 --> 00:02:48,519 put forward by an entrenched establishment who have a vested interest in those very... 26 00:02:48,519 --> 00:02:54,799 ideas. I wrote Fingerprints of the Gods because I wasn't satisfied with the answer... 27 00:02:54,799 --> 00:03:01,439 being given to me to a huge series of mysteries around this planet. Most mysteri... 28 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:08,479 series of ancient sites that have never been properly explained by historians. These sites 29 00:03:08,799 --> 00:03:15,199 I think of literally as the fingerprints of the gods, as marks left on our planet by a... 30 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:20,359 civilization that we have not yet properly identified. And amongst those sites, two in 31 00:03:20,359 --> 00:03:27,079 particular are extremely interesting. One is Giza in Egypt, where the Great Pyramids an... 32 00:03:27,079 --> 00:03:33,919 stand. And on the other side of the Atlantic, on the other side of the world, is Tiwanak... 33 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:43,719 high Andes in Bolivia. Possibly the oldest city ever been built, the oldest city... 34 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:53,119 this day. Archaeologists tell us that Tiwanako dates to just 500 AD. On what is... 35 00:03:53,119 --> 00:04:00,079 based? It's based on the carbon dating of organic artifacts found buried around the... 36 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:08,000 out of which Tiwanako is built. That's like saying that we can date Westminster Cathed... 37 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:15,040 which was built hundreds of years ago, on the basis of somebody buried in it ten years a... 38 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:23,120 completely illogical. Tiwanako is an extraordinary site. It's built of gigantic... 39 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:31,480 which in some cases weigh more than 400 tonnes each. It's astronomically aligned w... 40 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:37,120 precision. And when we do the astronomical calculations on Tiwanako, we find that what 41 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:45,720 those alignments are telling us is that this city was laid out 15,000 years ago, at lea... 42 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:51,120 years ago. And that also ties in with the geology of the site, because it's very cle... 43 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:57,680 orthodox archaeologists don't dispute this, that Tiwanako was built as a port on the... 44 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:04,199 Titicaca. Now Lake Titicaca today is almost 15 miles away from Tiwanako and more than ... 45 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:09,680 feet lower. Of course, different lakes lose their water level at different rates, but... 46 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:15,399 experts from the British Geological Survey who are working in that area at the moment... 47 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:22,399 me that for Lake Titicaca to have declined as much as it has from the edge of the city of 48 00:05:22,399 --> 00:05:30,039 Tiwanako would have taken at the very least 10,000 years to happen. So it seems someti... 49 00:05:30,039 --> 00:05:35,399 geologists and the archaeologists don't compare notes on these problems, and perha... 50 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:42,719 we'd begin to get a better idea of what really went on in our own past. Situated a... 51 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:50,160 of 12,500 feet above sea level, Tiwanako in the high Andes in Bolivia is one of the... 52 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:58,400 and most mysterious sites in the world, a site that may have been very wrongly dated... 53 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:05,160 archaeologists working in that area. Round about the turn of the century, a great... 54 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:12,000 called Arthur Poznanski, a professor at La Paz University, began a 50-year study of t... 55 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,680 of Tiwanako. Year in, year out, no matter what the conditions, no matter what the... 56 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:24,040 Poznanski was up there excavating, measuring, carefully calculating the alignments of th... 57 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:31,399 And as a result of that 50 years of work, he came up with an extraordinary conclusion. He 58 00:06:31,399 --> 00:06:38,839 concluded on the basis of astronomical alignments that Tiwanako had been laid out... 59 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:47,079 years ago, long before any civilization known to history is ever supposed to have existed. 60 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:56,599 When the Spanish first arrived in South America, they asked the local people, the... 61 00:06:56,599 --> 00:07:01,279 time, who built this incredible city of Tiwanako with these gigantic blocks of sto... 62 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:06,239 build it? The Incas said no. In fact, they laughed at the idea. They said we had nothing 63 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:12,079 to do with this. This was built thousands of years before our time. It was built, they... 64 00:07:12,079 --> 00:07:19,920 by gods or demigods who they called the Viracochas, bearded, pale-skinned men who... 65 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:26,519 the seas, they said, in a time of darkness and turmoil when civilization had been... 66 00:07:26,519 --> 00:07:34,120 restore the health of society, to bring back culture to a devastated land. And all the... 67 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:41,439 and traditions state that it was these mysterious bearded strangers, long ages ag... 68 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:49,680 city of Tiwanako. The best bet is that the powerful statue, the middle of the three... 69 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:57,519 subterranean temple in Tiwanako, is an image of this bearded civilizing hero, Viracocha... 70 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:03,600 the beard is very evident on the face, and the features of the face in no way resembl... 71 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:12,320 features of a native of that area. He looks like a foreigner. And in fact, so much was... 72 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:18,040 to have looked like a foreigner, that when the Spanish first arrived in South America... 73 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:24,360 pale-skinned, coming from across the sea by boat, exactly as Viracocha was said to hav... 74 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:30,960 the legends, the local people at first welcomed the Spaniards, believing that the... 75 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:38,600 returning. But unlike the Viracochas, who brought only good things with them, and wh... 76 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:45,960 create civilization and a prosperous and worthwhile society, the bearded Spaniards ... 77 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:53,199 America destroyed everything that they found in their way. They obliterated almost all... 78 00:08:53,199 --> 00:08:59,439 the ancient civilizations that had lived in that area. They wiped clean one of the mem... 79 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:09,680 of mankind. Is the upper statue also Viracocha? It's been speculated that the... 80 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:17,920 of the gateway of the sun also represents Viracocha. All of this is speculation,... 81 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:24,480 records coming down to us from this period. But it is a great mystery to find on these... 82 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:30,879 ancient monuments, the images of a type of people who should not have been present... 83 00:09:30,879 --> 00:09:35,960 conventional history in the Americas at that time. Well, who was Viracocha and where di... 84 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:43,920 My own view is that Viracocha was one of the survivors of a great lost civilization of... 85 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:50,440 antiquity that was destroyed in an enormous global cataclysm. I think there were a num... 86 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:59,160 and all around the world we find memories of people like him, tall bearded people.... 87 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:06,560 Mexico is another example. Osiris in Egypt is another example. I've made a very close st... 88 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:11,840 symbolism of all of these figures, and they have a remarkable amount in common, much m... 89 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:19,040 explained by coincidence. I think what we're looking at here are very ancient memories ... 90 00:10:19,039 --> 00:10:25,519 a civilization as yet unidentified by history, who sought to keep the light of... 91 00:10:25,519 --> 00:10:32,759 devastated world. It's long been noticed that there are curious similarities between the... 92 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:39,799 historical cultures of Mexico, of the Andes, and of Egypt, and other places around the... 93 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:45,120 quite distant and scattered places. And it's been suggested from time to time that mayb... 94 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:51,840 resulted from some kind of direct influence of Egypt on Mexico, or of South America on... 95 00:10:51,840 --> 00:11:01,840 forth. My own view is that what we're looking at here is a common influence that touched... 96 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:09,840 long before recorded history began. A remote third party civilization unidentified by... 97 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:17,120 presence in Mexico, that had a presence in South America, that had a presence in Egyp... 98 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:25,879 behind a legacy of knowledge in all of those places. That legacy was then reinterpreted... 99 00:11:25,879 --> 00:11:32,800 different ways by the different peoples, but still, even to this day, we find those com... 100 00:11:32,799 --> 00:11:40,599 they all go back to a common source. There are so many strange similarities linking... 101 00:11:40,599 --> 00:11:48,399 America, ancient Central America as well. One of the best examples is the kind of stonew... 102 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:56,240 large blocks of stone put together with extraordinary complexity and very finely... 103 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:05,279 precisely aligned that you can't even slip a piece of paper into those joints today. Th... 104 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:11,840 parts of the world, and yet there's supposed to have been no contact between these anci... 105 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:21,720 answer to this problem lies in an even more ancient civilization, which passed down a... 106 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:29,080 of these widely scattered areas of the globe, and it's that common legacy that explains ... 107 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:37,040 better than any other theory that I've come across. What I think of as one of the... 108 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:46,240 certain way of working with stone. For example, carrying blocks around a corner i... 109 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:54,279 building, and we find this, for example, in the Vali Temple next door to the Sphinx at... 110 00:12:54,279 --> 00:13:04,680 Andes in South America. To me, the best explanation for this common method of... 111 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:11,960 sides of the Atlantic is that it's the result of a common architectural legacy handed on... 112 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:21,519 civilization not yet identified by history, and what I see in that architecture is the... 113 00:13:21,519 --> 00:13:32,000 architecture that was designed to withstand the most horrendous geological shocks, hug... 114 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:40,080 architecture is capable of riding out the worst earthquake that you can imagine, so ... 115 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:50,560 deal with very bad earthquakes, and we find that architecture in Egypt and in South... 116 00:13:50,560 --> 00:14:00,080 evidence that a common legacy of architectural knowledge was passed down fr... 117 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:12,160 world, and what all this architecture has in common is enormous stability. I think of i... 118 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:22,520 people who had passed through an enormous disaster and who had survived that disaste... 119 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:35,799 build monuments that could never be destroyed by no matter how great the earthquake was,... 120 00:14:35,799 --> 00:14:46,399 might occur again, and who seemed to have looked to the skies and to the stars to fi... 121 00:14:47,279 --> 00:15:07,559 Ask yourself this. If you belonged to a high civilisation that had just been almost... 122 00:15:07,719 --> 00:15:23,839 First of all, you would set out to create buildings that were extremely stable, that... 123 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:41,519 all around the world, a fixation, a desire to create buildings that would last forever, ... 124 00:15:41,519 --> 00:15:57,199 What has come down to us from the ancient past seems to be a message that by a close... 125 00:15:57,879 --> 00:16:23,879 And the eeriest thing of all is that there's a convergence of ancient mythology from al... 126 00:16:24,559 --> 00:16:44,559 I'm not saying that the ancient myths are right. What I am saying is that we would b... 127 00:16:45,239 --> 00:17:00,239 The prime meridian at Greenwich is measured with the latest modern techniques, and bes... 128 00:17:00,239 --> 00:17:14,240 The interesting thing about this building, although it incorporates all the latest... 129 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:32,920 If you go to Egypt and go to the Great Pyramid, which is not just any little... 130 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:51,600 Now what this tells us is that the people who built the Great Pyramid were people with... 131 00:17:52,279 --> 00:18:06,279 We're told by Egyptologists that that monument, perfectly oriented due north,... 132 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:25,960 Everything about the monument proclaims the opposite conclusion, that it could never h... 133 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:32,960 This is a work of science and intelligence left for future generations to puzzle out. 134 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:44,640 Not only is it perfectly oriented to the north, it also stands on latitude 30, exac... 135 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:52,640 Again, the Egyptologists would like us to believe that this is the result of... 136 00:18:53,320 --> 00:19:04,320 I think this defies common sense, and more and more people are unwilling to accept su... 137 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:11,320 If it stands on latitude 30, then it does so because its builders deliberately put it... 138 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:27,000 For several hundred years, a model of what mankind is and of what the earth is has be... 139 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,000 And this is the prevailing model that we live with today. 140 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:51,680 Academic specialists, whether they're scientists, physicists, geologists,... 141 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:59,360 They've grown up with that model. They took it in with their mother's milk. They... 142 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:13,360 For such people, human nature being what it is, it's very easy to understand why they... 143 00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:21,039 And it's natural that they should seek to ignore or discount or even ridicule that... 144 00:20:23,039 --> 00:20:32,039 But we're getting to a situation now where the evidence is piling up and piling up an... 145 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:43,720 The great challenge for the future is for people to open their minds again to all... 146 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:52,720 But I'm afraid the last people who are going to be prepared to open their minds to that... 147 00:20:53,400 --> 00:21:00,400 What I sense, particularly with Egyptologists, is a kind of desperation or... 148 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:10,400 They themselves can't be completely blind to the new evidence that's coming up that... 149 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:20,400 But they realise that if they admit even one tiny point of that new evidence, that that... 150 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:30,400 That's the end of the wedge which is going to overturn the whole model on which their... 151 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,400 And also their whole idea of what the past of mankind is. 152 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:43,400 It's extremely difficult psychologically for anybody to accept such a revolutionary... 153 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:49,400 And it's natural that they should resist as strongly as possible the new ideas that ar... 154 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:57,080 But these aren't just ideas. This is evidence. Evidence from all over the world... 155 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:05,080 And that's why people are increasingly turning away from the orthodox authorities... 156 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,080 To find answers to the mysteries that puzzle them as well. 157 00:22:11,759 --> 00:22:18,759 The model of the old world and the new world is deeply rooted in the conventional... 158 00:22:23,759 --> 00:22:27,759 That America was discovered in 1492 by people from Europe. 159 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:31,759 And that's when its history begins. 160 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:36,759 Although of course we know that the Americas were inhabited for long, long periods befo... 161 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:44,440 But what nobody has ever considered is the possibility that there may have been an... 162 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,440 A civilization on this planet way before what we call history began. 163 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:55,440 In that deep dark period called prehistory from which no records have come down. 164 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,440 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 165 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 166 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:08,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 167 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 168 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:16,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 169 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:21,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 170 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 171 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:29,120 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 172 00:23:29,799 --> 00:23:32,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 173 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:36,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 174 00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:40,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 175 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 176 00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:49,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 177 00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:53,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 178 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,799 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 179 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 180 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 181 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 182 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 183 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 184 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 185 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,480 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 186 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 187 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 188 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 189 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 190 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 191 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 192 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 193 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 194 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 195 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 196 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 197 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 198 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 199 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,160 A civilization that knew the world as well as we do ourselves. 200 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,840 History envisages a straightforward linear evolution of society 201 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,840 from primitive to advanced today. 202 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,840 And yet all of us grew up in our childhood 203 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,840 hearing the myths and legends of the golden age 204 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,840 and we have a sense that there may be truth in those myths and legends. 205 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,840 A truth that history just hasn't come to terms with at all.