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>> On December 7, 2001, a news article on the BBC boasted

"Lost city found beneath Cuban waters."

This exciting news came from a team

of explorers headed by Pauline Zelitsky, a marine engineer,

and her husband, Paul Weinzweig.

Their company worked side-by-side

with the Cuban government to try to uncover

hundreds of treasure-laden ships from the Spanish colonial era.

What they uncovered using their advanced sonar equipment

was far more mysterious.

>> According to what they reported,

Weinzweig and Zelitsky had made a deal with Fidel Castro

in order to do side-scan sonar readings of the sea floor

around Cuba looking for sunken Spanish treasure galleons

in order to have gold that might be found.

The gold would then be split 50/50 between them and Cuba.

And nobody else had gotten these rights before.

So it was very exciting.

When they used the sonar on the seabed, what they found

was not sunken gold.

They found incredible architectural monuments

down there.

And these monuments were specifically

located off the Western tip of Cuba about a half a mile

below sea level in very, very harsh ocean currents

that make it almost impossible to have anything go down

there except for some of the best submersibles.

What they saw on these side-scan sonar

readings were pyramid-like buildings, long roads,

all kinds of clearly megalithic stone architecture.

And what we hear from the original reports

was that they had signed an exclusive deal with "National

Geographic Magazine;" that this whole story was going to go

public in the summer of 2003.

Well, that obviously did not happen.

In the meantime, Pauline Zelitsky

was leaking information about what those discoveries were

revealing.

According to Zelitsky's reports, she was using a submersible

and saw that there were sphinxes down there;

that there were bizarre inscriptions on the stones.

And remember, we're dealing with something

that could not possibly have been above sea level

for at least 11,000 years.

She had submersible footage of a pyramid down there

that has kind of a change in its slope angle

as it goes halfway up, similar to the bent pyramid of Djoser

in Egypt.

So we're seeing a direct relationship

between these monuments and what we see in Egypt.

That to me is astonishing, because it suggests

that the Egyptian pyramids as well may have been built

at the same time and are, therefore,

far older than the assumptions of conventional archeology.

There it is right down there.

It's very obviously artificial.

And then the whole story somehow got suppressed.

>> Zelitsky estimated that it would have taken over 11,000

years for such a structure to have sunken to the depth

at which these structures were said to be found.

Strangely, after they released their findings,

the news outlets and networks went dark.

What might they have stumbled upon?

>> When we talk about submerged cities,

we're lending credibility to the emerging evidence of cyclic

civilization.

The question is, how far back to those civilizations go?

First, they appear to occur in 5,000-year cycles.

If a historic context of civilizations going back

50,000, 60,000, 70,000 years along these 5,000-year cycles

shows up in the mythology, maybe the mythology is based on much

more fact than we've been led to believe in the past,

or we've been willing to embrace in the past.

>> If this structure underneath the ocean floor sank possibly

11,000 years or more ago, could this be a link to the infamous

Atlantis?

>> Atlantis is almost a catch-all term for trying

to find the origins of civilization itself.

This probably goes back to the 19th century

when the US Congressman by the name of Ignatius Donnelly

wrote a book that was to become the seminal work on Atlantis.

It was entitled "Atlantis, The Antediluvian World."

And in here, what he proposed was

that all of the civilizations of the ancient world

and the new world, the Americas, had a mother

civilization as its source.

All of the information that's been left to us on Atlantis

by Plato, the great philosopher who wrote around 350 BC,

suggests that we should be looking for Atlantis somewhere

in the area of the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

But because of Ignatius Donnelly's ideas

to do with a mother civilization,

Atlantis, therefore, becomes this concept more

than an actual drowned city.

I believe that Atlantis existed.

I believe that a high culture probably

peopled those massive islands of the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

And they may well have been drowned and destroyed

in the great cataclysm, the so-called Younger Dryas event.

>> And I think I need to explain the Younger Dryas.

Let's, first of all, consider the world during the Ice Age.

Everybody's heard of the Ice Age.

What was the Ice Age?

The last ice age set in about 125,000 years ago.

And it saw the buildup of giant ice caps

primarily on top of North America

and on top of northern Europe.

Exactly why the Ice Age happened is still a subject

that scientists argue about.

But it's not in dispute that an ice cap 2 miles deep

sat on top of North America and a huge area of northern Europe,

that same two-mile deep ice cap.

It reaches its maximum extent about 21,000 years ago.

The temperatures are warming almost actually

to modern levels.

And the ice is beginning to disappear.

Then suddenly, 12,800 years ago, really suddenly, literally

overnight, everything changes.

And the Earth is plunged back into a massive deep freeze.

This is a time of-- a huge extinction

of species are wiped out.

The new evidence that is providing coherent sense

to this is called the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.

And it has been put forward by a group--

a large group of mainstream, credentialed scientists.

And what they've said is that they

have found evidence which suggests

the Earth was hit by several fragments of a comet.

For a long time the comet was out there,

it was probably a very spectacular, visual presence.

But it wasn't hitting the Earth but 12,800 years ago,

by which time that comet had begun to fragment

and broken up into lots of fragments.

And the estimates are that four of those fragments--

four large fragments hit the North American ice cap.

It's literally beyond imagination.

That instant of impact would have created so much heat

that it would have melted large areas of the North American ice

cap and sent the water flooding south.

Then within a matter of days or weeks of that release of water,

the freezing temperature has begun.

And there's no more release of water.

The world goes dry at that point and into a very deep,

dark frozen period accompanied by animal extinctions.

The Younger Dryas lasts for 1,200 years.

It lasts from 12,800 years ago to 11,600 years ago.

And then something else really weird happens.

The Earth has been in a deep freeze.

Suddenly, 11,600 years ago, you get a second massive pulse

of meltwater into the world ocean.

One very strong suggestion is that the Earth

intersected again with the debris

stream of the same comet.

And that there were further impacts 11,600 years ago.

But those impacts were not on ice.

Those impacts were entirely oceanic.

You get big comet impacts in an ocean

and what you're going to get-- as

well as extraordinary tidal waves, what you're going to get

is a massive amount of water vapor thrown up

into the upper atmosphere.

And that water vapor creates a greenhouse effect,

which accounts for the very radical warming of the Earth.

It has to be rather intriguing that that's the exact date,

11,600 years ago, that Gobekli Tepe is founded.

And it has to be even more intriguing that

11,600 years ago is the exact date

that Plato gives us for the destruction and disappearance

beneath the flood of the ocean of the lost

civilization of Atlantis.

>> If what Graham Hancock is telling us is true about

the Younger Dryas, where can we see evidence elsewhere

on the planet?

>> The flood also did sink many other areas of megalithic

architecture, such as the gorgeous pyramid that we see

in the Azores off the coast of Portugal,

such as what we see around the coast of India,

such as what we see in Japan, where you have sunken

architecture down there--

all kinds of stuff that's coming up that

defies the conventional view.

>> As a matter of fact, just a couple of years ago,

a little further away from Malta in the Sicily channel was

discovered a giant--

absolutely, nobody is disputing-- man-made megalith

lying on the bottom of the ocean.

And that bit of ocean was covered

by the rising sea levels more than 9,000 years ago,

which makes it already 3,000 to 4,000 years older

than the established date for the monumental temples

on the island of Malta itself.

>> Some experts, like Jack Cary, have done some alternative

research that might coincide with the science behind

the Younger Dryas.

>> As far as the sunken pyramids go in the oceans of the world,

a lot of that can be tied to research being done by Dr.

Courtney Brown and his group of very skilled remote viewers.

They're beginning to, not only target what they described

as being Atlantis, but through their remote viewings

they're beginning to ascertain that it

was this very science that caused

the downfall of the society; that they used it in such a way

that it literally caused a destruction of the landmass,

and that that may have actually been

part of some sort of conflict or war that was going on.

The fact that there's just so many

of them all around the world is what's fascinating.

Humanity has not come together in any way, shape, or form

the way we would want or hope or expect or love

for it to do ever since the Tower of Babel,

ever since we were spread all over the Earth.

>> A conflict?

What kind of conflict could Dr. Courtney Brown

and his researchers be picking up on?

Ancient texts from the Greek philosopher Plato

explain in great detail the destruction of Atlantis

by Zeus as payback for human arrogance.

The legend describes the founder of the great city

to be half-god and half-human and ruled by Poseidon.

As punishment for their immoral bankruptcy,

Zeus sent a ball of fire to destroy the aquatic cities.

The curator of the Joseph Campbell collection

draws some parallels from Plato's story

and a similar tale between two warring Sumerian gods.

>> It is very possible that the Greek story--

the one we find in Plato about a lost continent Atlantis ruled

over by Poseidon, the god of the oceans--

that this has earlier roots.

After all, storytellers in those times

borrowed from other stories, and we can follow.

It's called syncretic-- the way information, images,

and narratives move from one culture

to another, particularly if they're

relatively geographically close by, which in this case is true.

Sure Enki, the great god of the Sumerian traditions,

could have been the Poseidon figure.

And the destroyer god could have come

from the Sumerian tradition.

This is not only possible, it is likely.

Zeus is the name we are familiar with from the Greek tradition

that comes and punishes the people of Atlantis, who have

achieved so much, because--

because they started taking it for granted.

>> What could the people of Atlantis have taken

for granted?

How could they have become immorally bankrupt?

Could this be another interpretation

of a god figure striking down upon humans

for knowing too much?

>> What I can tell you is that there is a recollection

in Sumerian myth and tradition of a time before the flood,

when a high civilization existed and when cities existed.

And then the flood came.

And everything was reset and started again.

So what's of interest to me in that

is the recollection of the memory of something

before the flood, something major,

something important before the flood.

>> Could there be a connection between the Greek version

of Atlantis and the Sumerian gods?

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>> (INTERPRETER) I think it is interesting,

because we thought for a long time that Plato had been taught

by Egyptian priests.

But thanks to the Edfu Texts, we wonder if he actually

had the copies in hand.

We will never know.

But there are very similar elements

between the Plato version of the Atlantis

and the Egyptian Edfu Texts of Atlantis I translated.

And we can understand in a few words

that Osiris, who is considered to be the Sumerian god Enki,

fled Mesopotamia to help start a new civilization.

According to the doctrine of Enlil,

"and he flees to Atlantis and settles down

on some islands in the Atlantic Ocean."

This ancient territory is mentioned

in some funerary texts, such as the "Egyptian Book

of the Dead."

They call it La Mem Ptah, which can be roughly translated

by "the water crown of Ptah."

Ptah is one of Osiris' names.

It is the Egyptian name for Enki.

Like all the other gods, he had many different names.

We understand that Ptah settles on some islands.

And we can identify similar data to that of Plato's writings.

In the Edfu versions of the Atlantis,

there are always attacks from the forces of Seth.

Seth is, of course, Enlil.

We understand that he went all the way

to Egypt, even all the way to Morocco, Azores, and the Canary

Islands.

Seth doesn't stop attacking Osiris' island.

Another interesting element to this story.

There is a technology that Egyptians gods

used for protection-- the Djed pillars.

They place them around the city.

Apparently, some are even on the water.

The text called them floaters.

They can protect the city.

And we can understand in parts of the text

that, thanks to the energy coming from these Djed pillars,

Egyptians can control water and create

water walls, very thick ones in order to protect the city.

Many mythologies and legends have similarities.

We understand that Osiris could actually

be Poseidon or Neptune.

And Enlil, in some ways could be Zeus.

>> What is interesting to note is Poseidon is always pictured

with a pitchfork that was later connected with the biblical

pitchfork of Satan by the Catholic Church.

If Enki is connected to this interpretation,

could the destruction of Atlantis

be the story of Yahweh's wrath on advanced humanity?

Anton Parks suggests there is a connection

between the scientific version of the cataclysm

and the Egyptian texts.

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>> (INTERPRETER) The Egyptian Atlantis must have lasted long

enough in history that it is part of Egyptian culture.

Funerary texts mention it quite often.

Indeed, the Egyptian Atlantis, La Mem Ptah,

corresponds to the West.

It also means "the West" in Egyptian.

And West is also where you bury the dead.

We see that the idea remains that when

you go towards the West, there were many deaths.

In Egyptian history, Osiris' death

happens at the same time as another very singular element,

which takes place in the sky.

It is the fall of the Eye of Sound found in the Edfu Text.

This is the destruction of a planet, which was

in between Mars and Jupiter.

This is where we find the asteroid belt.

And I believe that a planet used to be there.

The death of Osiris is at this point in the story.

>> In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky published a book called "Worlds

in Collision."

In this book, he discusses that Venus was ejected from Jupiter

as a comet.

And this passed near Earth causing

catastrophes mentioned in mythologies around the world.

Could Anton's translations of the Sumerian text

explain this very moment in human history

and how it relates to the flood?

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>> (INTERPRETER) In the Edfu Text that I translated,

they mentioned the fall of the Eye of Sound.

Let me explain.

In my opinion, Venus was located close to Mulge.

It was one of its satellites.

And when Mulge exploded, its satellite, Venus,

is ejected into the Solar System.

And at some point, it comes very close to Earth.

Then there is Osiris' death.

According to the texts, this was the work

of Enlil, who prepared his attack

both on Earth and in the sky.

He really wanted to make history and impact significantly

the gods' history.

He was not going to be defeated by earthly technology.

Venus was ejected into the Solar System,

turns inside it for thousands of years,

before eventually placing itself where it is today.

Enlil must have really wanted to finally put

an end to the lengthy war he was waging against Enki Osiris.

And he came close with the death of Osiris.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]

>> (INTERPRETER) But then a second event,

the story tells us, and luckily for history in general,

Osiris comes back as Horus, and the battle can start again.

There are many elements that explain these events

and describe how Horus arrives to destroy

the evil of the world in order to avenge his father's death.

This explains a similar catastrophic event

that happened at the same time, such as the destruction

of Atlantis.

This arrival is most likely a comet, who is actually Horus,

according to Sumerian text.

And this is also when the so-called flood happened,

about 10,000 years ago.

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>> Could these ancient Sumerian texts be explaining a battle

for the power over Earth and the destruction,

not only on the planet, but in the sky?

Ancient texts suggest that whoever

survives this cataclysm survived to tell the story in Egypt.

>> Plato tells us where the story came from.

It came from an ancestor in his family line, Solon,

a famous Greek lawmaker who visited Egypt around 600 BC.

And in that visit, he encountered Egyptian priests,

who told him the story that there

had been a high civilization in remote antiquity

that had been destroyed in a cataclysm

and submerged beneath the sea, that there were survivors.

Some of those survivors came to Egypt

and founded what would become the great civilization of Egypt

in due course.

>> And with the great civilizations of Egypt came

the Great Pyramid.

Could this ancient knowledge that was now

buried beneath the ocean floor have made a resurgence

on the Earth's surface?

>> Well, the Great Pyramid, I mean, is a monument,

but it's a dramatic monument.

But in fact, it's not a four-sided pyramid.

It has a very slight concavity on each side,

making it an eight-sided pyramid.

Now, the minute you do this, you not only complicate the design

tremendously, but it produces rather bizarre geometry.

So this geometry, when we analyze it, produces numbers--

numbers keep popping out, numbers

that shouldn't be there, things like universal constants.

>> Up next, could the ancient builders of the Great Pyramid

have left behind a code that not even Enlil could destroy?