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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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.
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.
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.
On this site I see only episode 1..documentary makes reference to further parts..are they on this site?
Interesting. Worth watching.
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???…
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/
@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
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.
Hancock has a point.
Established historians are too close minded and therefore limit themselves.
Solid research is needed and objective open minds
I hear Eoten talking about UFO’s are for “Lazy People” or “Lazy Minded People” I think it is easier to pass them off as such than it is to BELIEVE!
@ Eoten.
It’s people like you -who believe you know what’s best for other people, people that you don’t know- who give Americans a bad name. maybe you need a “dash” of humility.
Be carefull viewers – Graham Hancock may not be woth the credit!!!
Go to Youtube and search for “Atlantis Reborn Again”. It’s a BBC docu and do the judgement for yourselves.
PS – I also thought that the guy was a good samaritan, telling us “the truth”. Though, after I saw the BBC docu, I realise why historians have such prudent approaches. They deserve the credit.
And please guys, try not to insult others – if you know someone is wrong, just help him/her to get the best info available. We all need some support here and there, throughout our path to knowledge, right?
Peace
Dear Quark,
Readers may also wish to review the following letters of complaint filed by Robert Bauval and Hancock with the British Broadcasting Standards Commission following the airing on BBC of “Atlantis Reborn Again”
http://www.grahamhancock.com/archive/horizon/bauval.htm
http://www.grahamhancock.com/archive/horizon/bsc-complaint.htm
I agree that historians require prudent approaches-that’s what Science is about.So should journalists.
Our notion of the direction “North” as “Up” on a map is a Western convention. This was not always so. In ancient Egypt “South” filled that role.
Cheers
Readers may also wish to review the following by geologist Dr Robert Scloch
http://www.robertschoch.com/sphinxcontent.html
including the related scientific paper he presented which argues for a significantly older date for the Sphinx at Giza
http://www.robertschoch.com/geodatasphinx.html
Superb documentary – the evidence has long been overwhelming of our origins being many thousands of years older than we are told – see Charles H Hapgood maps of the ancient sea kings 1966 – Hancock brings it together in a sober new look – about time too – the truth is all we ask for, and that pride and fear of scholars in their chosen fields should not inhibit our understanding of the truth.
Some how it seems totally acceptable that Jesus Christ performed miracles on a regular basis, but any one mentioning Atlantis or the ancient Lemurian culture is slammed as a fringe scientist or id***……but the evidence is there to anyone who wishes to see, hear or read it.
I think its time to carefully re-look at everything we thought was true fact regarding our distant past.
Well done Mr Hancock!
Notice the recuring theme of how these sites are pillaged and their evidence destroyed, quite often by “archaeologists”? The sad thing is we will never again know just how much of our history is forever lost. The Smithsonian has apparently the goal of hiding such evidences, even from the Grand Canyon, google “THE PHOENIX GAZETTE April 5th, 1909 – EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON”
Who’d of thought history could be so confused and more so, why exactly are such lengths taken by those who seek to conceal it? What can be so important to warrant such effort? Its a fascinating subject on so many levels.
It’s ironic how they say that those who cannot learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. Whenever in history someone has presented something revolutionary, scholars of that time have laughed at it and dismissed it. Look what happened to the early greek matemathican and the medieval astronomy researcher. Those who research history must be aware of these two incidents, yet they act as scholars of that time did? Basically, if they now, after laughing to the theory, recogniced it, they’d also admit having acted so ironically, ones who really ought to know history and learn from it. Without being able to correct yourself, you limit yourself and those around you.