Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age
Between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, terrible things happened to the world our ancestors lived in. Great ice caps over northern Europe and north America melted down, huge floods ripped across the earth, sea-level rose by more than 100 metres, and about 25 million square kilometres of formerly habitable lands were swallowed up by the waves.
Marine archaeology has been possible as a scholarly discipline for about 50 years – since the introduction of scuba. In that time, according to Nick Flemming, the doyen of British marine archaeology, only 500 submerged sites have been found worldwide containing the remains of any form of man-made structure or of lithic artefacts. Of these sites only 100 – that’s 100 in the whole world! – are more than 3000 years old.
This is not because of a shortage of potential sites. It is at least partly because a large share of the limited funds available for marine archaeology goes into the discovery and excavation of shipwrecks. This leaves a shortage of diving archaeologists interested in underwater structures and a shortage of money to pay for the extremely expensive business of searching – possibly fruitlessly – for very ancient, eroded, silt-covered ruins at great depths under water. Moreover, with the recent exception of Bob Ballard’s survey of the Black Sea for the National Geographic Society, marine archaeology has simply not concerned itself with the possibility that the post-glacial floods might in any way be connected to the problem of the rise of civilisations. (Excerpt from grahamhancock.com)
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July 19th, 2009 at 16:18
Why isn’t the educated tellin us about all this. Why is it sed that Civilization started in Egypt? What is really going on. Why don’t we find out what happened B4 the Ice age. I know we are no Apes. I belive we are the alliens. Tell us the truth, even bout the UFOs.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:43
The educated ARE telling us about this. You just have to do a little research. How do you expect them to tell you about it? Do you expect them to come to your door just to let you know about things like this? If you were to spend a small amount of time browsing science news sites you’d see that the information is there, you just haven’t bothered to look. Maybe you should educate yourself. After you’ve educated yourself, you can go door to door and let the rest of us know things like that. You may want to work on your spelling and grammar before you do that though.
How do you “know we are no Apes”? Are we aliens, or “alliens” (never mind that that statement makes very little sense). Assuming we were from some other world, would we have evolved there? If so, wouldn’t we have evolved from some animal? Is that somehow better than evolving from an ape? Again, you should educate yourself, learn decent writing skills and a dash of critical thinking wouldn’t hurt either.
I sure hope you aren’t an American. It’s people like you that give the rest of us a bad name.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:49
One more point. Making no comment on the existence or non-existence of “UFOs”, I’d like to point out that they’re often used as answers for the lazy… or lazy minded.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:26
On this site I see only episode 1..documentary makes reference to further parts..are they on this site?
October 29th, 2009 at 14:48
Interesting. Worth watching.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:47
i’ll like to get more documantaries on this topic.
if there was really an ice age and the level of the seas were much lower, it does make sense that people would be living on lower grounds near the sea, as high point would probably be freezing cold especially in winters.
hence with the alleged rise in sea level, many of these habitations, perhaps villages would be lying now under the sea and in lagoons.
it is worth exploring under the seas for other than ship wrecks
as for the alien issue, according to the creationist views, would Adam and Eve be considered as aliens???…
January 7th, 2010 at 02:50
I agree with the above. This kind of information should be spreading faster than it is. Although, at the same time, it does truly have little effect on the times and lives of anyone today. However, truth is truth.
I noticed people wanted more on this, and there is actually a really good series on this site about the same information that is even more complete and covers more bases.
Quest for the Lost Civilization can be found at http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/quest-for-the-lost-civilization/
January 25th, 2010 at 08:58
@CAPRICIOUS & @FRANKIE
Same researcher, Graham Hancock.
UNDERWORLD
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS
SUPERNATURAL
FRANKIE, reading has always been an much easier endeavor than writing ;^)
It’s a very unimaginative man that can only think of one way to spell a word.~Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain
February 25th, 2010 at 19:05
Agree with the above:
Quest for the Lost Civilization is much better and more complete so not sure if its worth looking up the further episodes for this doc.