0:03 in a world where we often think we have
0:06 uncovered all the secrets of the past a
0:07 conversation between Joe Rogan and
0:09 Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan podcast
0:11 reveals a fascinating story of ancient
0:13 seafaring cultures
0:15 while archeology acknowledges the
0:17 Polynesian expansion as the first great
0:19 seafaring Adventure Hancock questions
0:21 the evidence and points to DNA evidence
0:23 from the Amazon and ancient maps as
0:25 proof of a global navigating culture in
0:27 the Ice Age the discovery of an old map
0:29 that shows the world as it looked during
0:31 the last ice age incorporating precise
0:34 relative latitudes and longitudes is
0:35 hard to explain
0:37 what could this mean was there an
0:39 advanced civilization that existed long
0:41 before ours that had mastered the art of
0:49 when archaeologists talk about seafaring
0:52 humans what do they date that too the
0:54 great seafaring Adventure that is
0:56 accepted by archeology is called the
0:58 Polynesian expansion and it's a
1:00 remarkable story and that occurs roughly
1:04 3 000 to 3500 years ago and those
1:06 Polynesians were amazing ocean
1:08 Navigators they could they could cross
1:10 distances of thousands of kilometers
1:13 with pinpoint accuracy I mean it's not
1:15 an accident that the Polynesians found
1:18 Easter Island finding Easter Island is a
1:20 really challenging project Easter Island
1:22 is 2 000 miles from the coast of South
1:24 America it's two thousand miles from the
1:26 nearest other Island which is Tahiti
1:28 it's just a little speck in the middle
1:30 of the ocean but the Polynesians found
1:32 it and settled there and appeared to
1:34 have brought a reproductively viable
1:36 population there and appear to have made
1:39 voyages back and forth but that was
1:40 three thousand to three thousand five
1:43 hundred years ago that was not 12 800
1:46 years ago and this is this is where
1:49 archaeologists add adamant position that
1:51 ocean voyaging was begun by the
1:53 Polynesians and that there was no major
1:55 ocean voyages before that I think needs
1:57 to be strongly questioned and it needs
1:58 to be strongly questioned in the light
2:00 of this DNA evidence from the Amazon
2:02 rather than rejecting the evidence and
2:04 temp should be made to consider what
2:05 that might mean well it's interesting
2:07 because we know that the Egyptians had
2:11 boats yeah and so why I mean if there
2:12 were boats four thousand five hundred
2:13 years ago why do we think that they
2:15 didn't try them out in the ocean that
2:16 doesn't make any sense especially if
2:18 there existed A Thousand Years prior
2:20 which is also possible archaeologists
2:22 wouldn't argue that the Egyptians had
2:24 boats but but that is that is still
2:26 within the the framework of accepted
2:28 history it's it's the notion of a of a
2:32 global navigating culture in the Ice Age
2:35 that archaeologists can't swallow it's a
2:37 subject that I've kept on coming up
2:39 against over a number of years I think
2:41 the best evidence for it is ancient maps
2:44 which show the world as it looked during
2:46 the last ice age we're talking about
2:49 Maps that were drawn roughly between the
2:54 1300s and the 1700s in other words in
2:56 relatively recent history however these
2:59 Maps were largely based on much older
3:02 Source Maps which they copied and we can
3:04 say that for sure because one of the
3:06 famous Maps is the piriris map which was
3:08 created by a Turkish Admiral called
3:11 Perry Reese in the year 1513. actually
3:13 only a corner of his map has survived it
3:15 was originally a world map we now just
3:17 have a bit that shows the east coast of
3:19 South America and North America and the
3:22 west coast of Africa Perry Reese writes
3:24 in that map that it is in his own
3:27 handwriting that he based it on more
3:30 than 100 older Source Maps some of which
3:33 had come from the Library of Alexandria
3:35 in other words that Maps had been when
3:36 the Library of Alexandria had been
3:38 destroyed in the 4th Century A.D or
3:40 whenever it was some of its contents had
3:42 been rescued and brought to
3:44 Constantinople which became the Turkish
3:46 capital and piriris had access to those
3:48 maps and he incorporate information from
3:51 those maps on his Maps as well as
3:53 incorporating more recent navigational
3:55 information and this is one of a whole
3:57 category of maps which are extremely
3:59 hard to explain all of them based on
4:02 older Source Maps now lost all of them
4:05 incorporating extremely precise relative
4:08 longitudes and latitudes latitude is not
4:10 that difficult to technological feat but
4:12 longitude is a difficult technological
4:15 feat longitude involves a chronometer it
4:17 involves knowing the time at the place
4:19 you began your voyage and the local and
4:21 local noon as well and calculating the
4:22 difference between them you need a
4:25 chronometer that will keep accurate time
4:27 at Sea with the Motions of a ship and
4:28 it's just a plain fact that our
4:31 civilization did not invent such a
4:33 chronometer until the late 18th century
4:36 before that we didn't know what
4:38 longitude we were at and ships were
4:40 constantly sailing unexpectedly into
4:41 coastlines that they thought were
4:43 hundreds of miles further away so the
4:45 discovery of the technique to do
4:47 longitude was a major civilization
4:50 Advance its presence in maps based on
4:52 much older Source maps that actually
4:54 show the world as it looks during the
4:56 last ice age suggests that somebody
4:58 during the last ice age was mapping the
5:00 world and had mastered the technique of
5:03 calculating longitude
5:07 classic example of these maps and I make
5:09 a point at this is what's called the
5:13 Pinkerton world map which was drawn in
5:16 the year 1818 and it was based on the
5:19 latest navigational information at that
5:21 time I reproduced that map in the in in
5:23 the book what's missing from the map
5:26 entirely missing is Antarctica there's
5:28 just a hole at the bottom of the world
5:30 there's nothing there the reason that
5:32 Antarctica is not there is that our
5:34 civilization hadn't discovered
5:36 Antarctica in 1818. so they couldn't
5:39 authentically put it on a map in 1818
5:42 actually we discovered it in 1819 and
5:44 that's when it starts appearing on
5:47 Modern Maps the problem is that
5:50 Antarctica appears repeatedly on these
5:52 much older maps and it appears in the
5:55 right place and a bit bigger than it is
5:57 today but very much as it looked during
5:59 the last ice age so what all of this
6:01 suggests to me is that the world was
6:03 mapped and explored by a global
6:05 seafaring culture with a level of
6:06 technology that was at least equivalent
6:08 to ours at the end of the 18th century
6:11 during the Ice Age wasn't there also a
6:13 map of Greenland that showed it
6:15 underneath the ice yes there are and and
6:18 and and uh another intriguing thing I
6:20 met I mentioned the Perry Reese map just
6:24 now shown on the periris map lying off
6:26 the east coast of North America is a
6:29 large island with a row of megaliths
6:31 like a road of megaliths running up the
6:33 middle of it
6:36 um that island is in the exact place of
6:38 the Grand Bahama Banks so this island is
6:40 sitting there off the Southeast coast of
6:42 North America look at the way they used
6:44 to draw things back then too and and
6:46 what you see running down the middle of
6:49 it is this road-like feature of of
6:53 um I see right there yeah
6:55 now the thing is there was a long period
6:57 of my life when I I did a lot of scuba
6:59 diving and I was looking at underwater
7:01 structures and one of the sites I dived
7:03 on was the Bimini Road which is in the
7:06 Grand Bahama Banks and the Bimini Road
7:08 is exactly where that island is and the
7:10 the here's the issue I don't care
7:12 whether the Bimini Road is natural or
7:15 man-made for me the mystery is that it
7:17 is shown above water on that map and the
7:19 last time it was above water was
7:21 thousands and thousands of years ago so
7:23 for me this is all evidence that we
7:25 shouldn't dismiss the possibility that
7:27 our ancestors had achieved a level of
7:29 Technology where they could explore and
7:30 map the world's oceans we shouldn't
7:32 dismiss that and the whole effort of
7:34 archeology has been to dismiss the
7:35 significance of the Bimini Road how
7:37 would they dismiss that well they say
7:38 it's just me they say it's totally
7:41 natural I can tell you I absolutely do
7:42 not think it's natural I think it's a
7:44 man-made structure but the argument is
7:46 that it's a kind of beach rock that
7:48 forms in these blocky formations yes
7:50 Beach Rock does form In Blocky formation
7:51 but here I believe that the beach rock
7:53 has been used as a construction material
7:57 but I repeat the key issue is not
8:00 whether the Bimini Road is man-made or
8:02 not the key issue is that it features on
8:05 a map above water and that is a dating
8:07 project that tells us that somebody was
8:09 mapping that bit of the world when it
8:12 was above water takes us back a very
