Forbidden Archaeology

Referenced in 3 episodes

Definition

A concept popularized by Michael Cremo, suggesting that archaeological evidence exists for human civilizations that are much older than conventional archaeology claims.

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Veda Austin: The Living Language of Water and the Search for Lost Knowledge

Earth AncientsOct 17, 2026

New Zealand water researcher Veda Austin claims that water responds to thoughts, images, words, and emotions, and that it reveals this as patterns in partially frozen crystallography. She describes a repeatable symbolic 'language' of 43 hydroglyphs that she says resembles ancient scripts from Göbekli Tepe, the Indus Valley, and Egypt. She also shares results from water samples she took inside the Great Pyramid, the Osiris Shaft, and the Serapeum. The episode opens with host Andy Grimes' tribute to the late Michael Cremo, author of Forbidden Archaeology.

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Episode #382: Searching for Traces of a Lost Civilization with Ben from UnchartedX

Brothers of the SerpentAug 18, 2026

Ben from UnchartedX joins Russ and Kyle Allen to argue that ancient Egypt shows evidence of two separate industries: a primitive one matching dynastic Egyptian tools, and a far more sophisticated one involving machining, precision, and massive logistics. They propose that the dynastic Egyptians inherited monuments, statues, and precision stone vases from an older lost civilization, possibly one that flourished during the African Humid Period or earlier. The conversation covers erosion on the Giza plateau, the precision vase scanning debate, academic resistance to alternative ideas, and advice for future archaeologists.

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Bibhu Dev Misra: The Aztec Calendar, Ekpyrosis and the Coming Cycle of Catastrophe

Earth AncientsAug 1, 2026

Author Bibhu Dev Misra returns to Earth Ancients to argue that the Aztec 52-year New Fire cycle ends in 2026, a 'One Rabbit' year that Aztec codices and tree-ring data link to droughts and famines. He connects the Aztec fear of the Pleiades and the Taurid meteor stream to the Younger Dryas catastrophe, and warns that Earth passes through the dense Taurid swarm in 2032 and 2036. Framing it all within the end of the Kali Yuga and a Greek 'ekpyrosis', or cleansing by fire, he suggests 2029 to 2036 may be a seven-year 'tribulation' marked by the asteroid Apophis, while also proposing that UFOs come from an underground civilization.

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