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Göbekli Tepe Was Built by Survivors, Not Beginners

2026-03-10 Entertainment
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Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja identifies two geological events that came closest to ending human history entirely. The first is the Toba supervolcano eruption approximately 74,000 years ago - a cataclysm roughly 3,000 times the scale of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Published research suggests it reduced the global human population to only a few thousand individuals. It is no coincidence that the first evidence of worldwide human migration appears around the same time. People were repopulating a devastated planet. The second event is the Younger Dryas boundary, which Danny connects to the flood traditions found independently across nearly every ancient culture - Gilgamesh, Noah, and dozens of others that appear to describe the same catastrophe in different languages. From this, Danny draws a hypothesis arrived at independently - that civilisation operates in cycles interrupted by global disasters. Göbekli Tepe was not built by the first clever humans. It was built by survivors of something that came before. Agriculture was not invented around 11,000 years ago. It was reinvented. And Mesopotamia is not the origin of civilisation. It is simply the most recent chapter we have been willing to read.

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@paujman 2026-03-11

I cannot wait to hear his full lecture. For those who complain about another dialect and/or accent. Please take the time to listen and expand your consciousness. It will be well worth the effort. Listen to other cultures,absorb what you can. Some of the most intriguing knowledge will be among people very different than yourself. Our lives are very much like snowflakes,special,different, and quite unique.

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@slartibartfast2452 2026-03-10

Needs an english overdub

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@greghoffstadt667 2026-03-10

April 4 will interesting then. Maps

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@robertajabour3592 2026-03-10

I agree with what he said in this video because I have my own idea, which goes as follows: Perhaps the age of the original pyramid(s) was indeed the same as a much older civilization who harnessed and focused nuclear energy. Then it exploded by natural or man-made means and loosed radiation on the earth. As a layperson, I favor nuclear energy for the products that a pre-dynastic civilization created. It seems that the pyramids were originally built to be air-tight. Could some older civilization have harnessed and focused nuclear energy, with its capability for high temperatures, via the pyramids on natural stone that had existed since the earth was born, some 4 billion+ years ago? Did an older civilization and all materials less than stone, plus the surface and sub-surfaces of the earth, disintegrate because the "lids" of the stone containers for stores of usable (unspent) nuclear energy were damaged by cosmic events? Why did only diamonds and some gold survive among the nano-diamonds? Did an older civilization anticipate such events? Did they know that nuclear energy and it's subsequent radiation was so devastating? Why were so many stone boxes found buried far underground, inaccessible from above, beside, or below? Is it because they contained depleted (spent) nuclear material? What was found in the Serapeum's boxes? Were their contents totally decomposed after eons? Wasn't some 'sludge' found inside by modern man? Why were so many construction sites abruptly left abandoned seemingly mid-work? Only something as lethal as nuclear energy with its high temperatures could have been focused to create or melt into pliable stone the pre-dynastic and openly visible: walls, structures, water transportation networks, statues, flooring, underground cities, granite vases, etc. Was just water used to polish-off the stone while still soft? Why were hard-stone vases, which are geometrically nearly perfect, found buried deep underground, which protected them from nuclear blasts and cosmic impact events? Since no evidence of plentiful soot from torches was found in tunnels, did they light them with Dendera devices (Praveen Mohan hosted "Bill" showing actual lights in operation using an independent electricity source). And what were all the water structures for? To cool the nuclear energy they were producing? Were nuclear blasts and fallout radiation (not to mention nuclear material then in use) why we have found so few decomposable tools but no others? Did later civilizations, like the Egyptians and the Tiwanaku of Pumapunku, "try" to duplicate the older civilization's methods without knowing the source of the energy? Is that why so many non-functional things have been described in the written record among the seemingly undocumented functional structures that we can see with our own eyes? Did later civilizations who "inherited" the older works find them so difficult to comprehend that they worshipped them instead, as evidenced by the later "chicken scratches" on otherwise smooth and polished surfaces? It might behoove us to be very careful with nuclear energy even if we manage to harness and focus it. Another cosmic event or nuclear war may release it once again upon this earth, wiping us out as the dinosaurs once were.

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@danontherun5685 2026-03-11

Plato's logic about lowlanders lost and highlanders being the uneducated survivors is very astute and also makes the point that the 'great' flood wasn't water world.... so no Noah.

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@LWT80 2026-03-10

Yeah thats not gobekli tepe

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@MichaelClarke1980 2026-03-13

Yep. Gobeckli tepe was not hunter gatherers learning up and becoming more advanced. It was advanced people learning how to be primitive. We got it backwards

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@YebuOracle5901 2026-03-14

Nope...Gobekli Tepe was invaded by cannibals and was ritually buried in deference to the inhabitants, who were tortured and consumed. As the Epstein files reveal, some of their descendants are still cannibalizing people.

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