Just one little correction from a Maltese history student/teacher-to-be: Malta gained independence from the British in 1964 (not 1956 like is said in the video) with the Queen still remaining as Head-of-State until 1974 when we attained the status of Republic, free from Britian in totality.

I just realized missing Atlantis is missing 411 but for a whole city.

The appearance of Wendigoon + GIANTS absolutely finished me LOL. That entirely aside, I learned so much from this, thank you!

I don’t know if you did this before, but I like that when you quote someone, you put a picture of them on the screen.

“You get to go to space Jeff, let me find Atlantis” needs to go on a TShirt 😂

The point you made about reaching people on the fence at 54:20 is absolutely key, it shocks me how many people I've seen fall down conspiracy rabbit holes (myself included) and end up believing some really wacky stuff purely because all the experts in that area laugh and accidentally censor the fringe conspiracies. If it's approached reasonably, and debunked in a respectful way, it draws so many people away from false beliefs. You're honestly doing an amazing job at just that, I was telling a friend about this exact thing just a few days ago and that entire conclusion was a perfect example of it!

Your logical consistency is refreshing. I cant get enough of it

That wendigoon cut is prime 👌🏽😂

Has Graham Hancock ever played the Assassin's Creed games? I think he'd really like them. It has an ancient race of hyper advanced beings that controlled humanity before dying off in a cataclysm thousands of years ago. You actually visit Atlantis in one of the games. It really seems like the kind of thing he would enjoy.

Reminds me Mr.mythos did a video on Malta with giants too. Wendigoon is gonna go nuts.

Bravo! Fantastic video! I love your fairmindedness and your devotion to actual rigorous scholarship. I wish more people were as even-handed as you are when evaluating theories, and I wish more people actually bothered to do real research before making their theories and opinions public! Rock on, Sir!

I subbed to your channel about a week ago, and have been binge watching all your stuff, I'm not caught up yet, but this was too cool to pass up. I'm VERY curious about your theories, I haven't visited Malta myself, but I know people who have, and they're all baffled by the structures on the island.

And I forgot to tell you in my last comment that your channel is def 1 of the most intelligent I've come across with the most academically sound arguments & explanations around. Quite impressive to anyone that knows these topics and how to present such in a way that more than conspiracy theorists & nuts will find compelling and influential. We'll done sir, we'll done indeed.

Gotta say I love this series and really makes me want to get into research again

Super Excited. Always good content!

I enjoyed doing the research for this with you! Good shit

love how he explains meltwater pulse 1B as if he doesnt bring it up every video❤

classics master student here, from the linguistic side of things rather than archaeological. What you had to say about the archaeological community and their shortcomings nearer the end of the video was spot on. They are far too quick to disregard literary connections, are often times quite lazy in their own research, and simply want you to respect them because of their time "in the field" (i.e. a vacation in Italy or Greece for a summer, with lots of drinking) or their degree; what is especially frustrating is when you have the same level of education as them lol. Keep on keeping on my guy, love this channel.

Phenomenal job as always gentleman. I can’t wait for your video on sound of freedom.

It’s so frustrating how much Graham paints himself and his theories to be “anti establishment” and against the mainstream narrative to give himself some credibility. As soon as certain people hear things like that they’re already prone to believe him. It’s even more frustrating because he clearly has a thirst for knowledge that he can use to actually shine a spotlight on ancient civilizations that aren’t heard about but chooses to do this

As a Maltese, the first time I heard about this I was absoltely baffled by the concept. But hey, we made it into another youtube video! Your pronounciation of 'Ġgantija' is amusing, I give you an A for effort

Thank you for always giving the most fair and balanced assessments of historical and archaeological data that I can find. You have a wonderful knack for being able to look at things from multiple perspectives and not let biases sway your research.

I am so impressed with your level of knowledge, research and relatively unbiased opinions. This is refreshing

I recommend watching Miniminuteman's series of debunking Ancient Apocalypse. Not only is it really informative about archeology and history, it's also pretty funny.

Oooh very interesting video. Amazing work - really great research put into this!

Every single time I watch a video that talks about the development of ancient civilizations, it makes me want to go play Civ hahaha Also, I always headbang to your theme music 🤘🏼

My sister has a masters in Geology and she told me a really interesting piece of science history. Back in the 1930s, well before the discovery of Tectonic plates it was assumed that the continents were static and didn't ever move. A meteorologist at the time studying climate areas notices a bizarre pattern that indicated many climate zoned 'lined up' with places on other continents. His research was the first to prove that the jigsaw puzzle of Africa and South America fitting together actually was because they were once one piece and not simply a coincidence. He took his findings to a major convention of geologists and was hoping that this gathering of the top geologists on the planet would know what to make of his info. They laughed him out of the room and told him he had no credentials for geology, he couldn't possibly have anything to contribute to their field and basically told him to go back to cloud watching. Two decades and the Second World War go by, the meteorologist passes away and the geology community gets a call from Uncle Sam and the DoD. The US navy has it's fleets of submarines mapping the ocean floor and they found this giant ass ridge, longer than whole continents, running down close to the middle of the Atlantic ocean. The military wanted to know what the fuck it was and like the government is good at doings, a lot of money was thrown at studying the Mid Atlantic Ridge. As a result of the intense study of the ocean floors geography, Geologists where forces to admit that maybe that weather guy they mocked a few decades before was onto something. Now, we take for granted the fact that Plate tectonics is accepted science and that's the normal stuff taught in school. Back when the Boomers where in school, it wasn't, it was cutting edge science and a very NEW idea, a complete paradigm shift. Academia hates Paradigm shifts and they hate anyone who pokes a hole in the paradigm. The problem is, sometimes the paradigm is just *wrong* and it takes someone with a different perspective to see why it's wrong. I appreciate the Graham Handcock Atlantis theory for this reason. Even if Handcock is wrong about 99% of his theory, that 1% that's right breaks a lot of the accepted paradigm. It is important to find these flaws in the paradigm because they open up huge new segments of our own history and just general knowledge to us. If we care about history actually being a study of the true events of the past, then we need to consider *everything* that can be proven to be true. Otherwise, once we begin to ignore truth in history, we go down the same road the Holocaust deniers or 'Moon landing was fake' people do. You don't get to say you value the Truth and then ignore parts of it; there is only one Truth, one way History happened, no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'. I want History to be about Truth, not the 'truth' that some stodgy tenured professor with an ego problem believes to be the 'truth'. Ad hominin attacks on the credibility of Hancocks book back in the 90s didn't make Golbeki Tepi any less real when it was found a few years later There's was in fact evidence of organized civilization LONG before Sumer and Mesopotamia. We need to keep looking and having more people interested in the search (even if they have quirky ideas) is not a bad thing. How many archeologists ARE trained scuba divers? How many know how to operate a drone to scan the rainforests of South America with LIDAR? other people with other specialties can help. Dissing someone as 'not credible' just because they aren't an archeologist is exactly what geologists did to the meteorologist who discovered plate tectonics. Academia is shooting itself in the foot by being as obsessed about specialization and 'staying in your lane' like it is. Where are the great polymaths and geniuses who are experts in a half dozen unrelated fields? Why in the most educated period of history do we not have any Da Vincis or Newtons and why was Einstein and Hawkings our last great scientists? Even Einstein fell into the elitism trap of academia when Hawkings came along in the 50s and challenged him on Black Holes. Turns out General and Special relativity had an error: black holes DO leak radiation and we call it Hawking Radiation because of the man who challenged Einstein himself. It's ironic that Einstein, a man who rewrote the paradigm on physics, was so upset when a younger and equally intelligent physicist challenged HIS paradigm after it became the accepted, uncontested truth. (Sidenote: The best argument to use against one of the 'moon landing was fake' people is to point out that not even the Soviets argued that point. If ANYONE was going to claim the US was lying about the Apollo 11 landing and actually had the ability to back up what they were claiming, it was the Soviets. Instead, they watched the US land, and had nothing to say to counter it so just quietly accepted defeat in the Space Race.)

Just a small note several orders from the crusades exist today albeit so much as military orders but have more charitable functions now. The hospitalars are one of those as well as the order of the holy sepulcher who even still act as honor guard for certain church events, and the order of st. Lazarus of Jerusalem who fund hospitals all over the world. It's actually a pretty cool bit of history that i just found out recently. All that to say your content is amazing keep it up.

I can't help but smile everytime I see you and Wendigoon post

Another great video guys i appreciate your efforts and research

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Aiden, you're aidin' us all. Thanks dude.❤

Your pronunciations on all the names are just ever so slightly different from what I’m used to and for some reason I find it entertaining.

After day of hunting listening to your vids while starting the cleaning and tanning process is my fav part of the week

Oh yeah! Lore lodge! My day is made.

I don't know much about my heritage, but there's one thing that always sticks with me - the4e are more Maltese people living around the world than in Malta itself!

Just found your channel 😀 very interesting 🤔 We have a lot to watch 😊

I really like ur videos cuz I do watch a lot of other videos like the one u are talking about & it’s really nice to hear the other side. Please make more. I also really like how ur respectful, give credit where do & it’s not just a Roast. Thanks again & gods bless every1.

Cover the selucid empire. A Greek empire that stretched across the middle east all the way to India/China

Love how click-baity these titles are, knowing that when someone exposed to this conspiracy will click on this to learn more and inadvertently learn more. Big brain

I will say that I remember hearing a similar story about quetzalcoatl leaving and saying he would return but I can't for the life of me figure out from where. It can't have been from Graham because I remember hearing it years ago and I've only heard of Graham from your videos talking about him

Where do you guys list your sources? (Great video btw!)

Shoutout to Plato making an allegory akin to Icarus about getting too greedy too fast and now people are like “but where is it. I know it’s real. Where is it” girl where is animal farm hiding

So, dude, here's yet another interest that we have in common. Ancient history. So there's folklore, fringe missing persons cases, supernatural/paranormal.... And now ancient history. I wonder if this extends to ancient architecture.

I absolutely freakin love this channel!!

Graham Hancock's general method for dating sites is based on which way their door faces, then he goes into the charts to see where the solstice would have shone through it and suggests that's the actual date. So based on that, I'm going to have to call my Realtor because apparently my house is actually 12,000 years old and WASN'T built in 1992.

loved the pic of the great wendigoon :D

Your videos are always so damn fascinating and make me miss studying history so much. What an interesting subject! Thanks for scratching my "know esoteric things" itch, as always! ❤

the pic of wendigoon when mentioning giants is the best part of the episode

I *am* a trained archaeologist, and this is very good. I particularly like the defense of Neaderthals. My former advisor would go off about their public reputation, lol.

24:30 - at this point you're just describing a bunch of my neighbors, though :D

shoutout to my bestie logan for his research on this 🙏

what if someone 18,000 years dug up the two neanderthal teeth and threw them on the ground making them be at the 18,000 year level?

nice one, cheers bruv

Do one on the endless Positivity of BrentlyG ... that dude could Enthuse the saddest of sad folk ...where he gets his mindset and energy is the true mystery... either that or he LOVES nosebeers

U should cover the Canadian family that went missing thirty years ago. Their last name was Park and they’re case has little coverage.

Been watching your channel and I wich everyone in the fields I research do as thorough a job as you, while you do touch on many topics I am researching , I'm quite curious you thoughts on them. Mainly the cross referencing of civilizations pulling their structure and belief systems from sumer.

Linguist & hobby archaeologist here. Both of these fields are similar. I once heard a linguistics professor dismiss a well-done study by a renowned Economist that found a correlation between cultures that address future events in the present tense and the culture-wide average savings of each household. Fascinating study. The reason the professor gave? "This guy isn't a linguist; he doesn't know what he's talking about, and that just doesn't make sense." Both fields want to be taken seriously, but professionals in each field are just... ridiculous.

It's pronounced (eye-sis) btw I know cause I was never after her lol. Obsessed with your channel btw.

Watching this to sate my appetite while I wait for the whyfiles ep on it to come out

Procreating with Sansuna must be like throwing a hotdog into the grand canyon.

Prior to the destruction of the library of Alexandria, the Disintegration of the Sumerian, Mesopotamian, and Ancient Greek societies, and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, mankind definitely had amassed a massive and impressive wealth of general knowledge in the fields of math, science, astronomy, and biology, that we find to be almost impossible for them to obtain but yet they did. I find it absolutely arrogant and pretentious that our current society believes the average person today is smarter than the people of the past. If anything people are becoming dumber by the day. I believe we don’t give ancient man enough credit for there incredible achievements and accomplishments.

There is also some intriguing archaeology on Menorca (the Balearic Islands) further west in the Med. Megalithic Talaiots and burial Naveta structures. Makes you wonder, if they were always small islands in a vast sea, why would people choose to settle there in favour of mainland areas with plenty of room, and more fertile soil, to carry on a successful agricultural society.

The whole Tartaria thing has just made me believe that the people who follow it are re - tartar + Tedward - “ward”

Hello, Maltese here. if Atlantis was real, our government would have taken out 300 deals with Arabic oil tycoons in black budget projects just to resurface Atlantis to use as a tourist trap and segregate like 1/4th of it for the ministers and government officials, with the prime minister making the palace at the centre his new home, and dedicating the front courtyard as journalist target practice.

Omg my dog learned how to play videos and apparently loves lore lodge 😂

I generally agree that there probably is a lot more to pre-Bronze age human history than is generally believed, and the reason there isn't a lot of evidence for it is because a lot of it was either built with materials that degrade and/or most of it is just underwater now and/or people built on top of it. Once humanity reached the "civilization" stage of development, we tended to build places at the same spots (estuaries, river confluences, etc), so there could be all kinds of stuff buried under cities from 8,000 years ago or whatever that we'll never see because they're buried far underneath peoples' houses. However, the idea that there was some globe-spanning civilization is an extraordinary claim to make, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

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Great video! I love your presentation style and the respect you give when covering (and sometimes correcting) another's work. I also like Milo (Miniminuteman), but he can come across as too arrogant for my taste. Really the only time I remember seeing you lay into someone was when the Tartarian guy made it personal and had it coming 😂

Does Hancock point out that there are I think 37 Neolithic temples all over Gozo and Malta? Does Hancock mention Clapham Junction? An area near the quarry where all the stones were excavated from. There are pairs of groves cut into the rock like railroad tracks running from the quarry to all locations with megalithic structures. Archaeologists hypothesize that these tracks were used by wheeled carts to transport the rocks. Since the British were the colonizers they named the place where all tracks converged after Clapham Junction in the London west end.

Shells with holes drilled in them probably are some form of money :) known as shell money, often kept on a string

Thank you for holding archaeology to the same standards as conspiracy theorists - it isn't enough to just say "nah nah can't be true" in a professional setting! (I trained in archaeology.)

First of kudos for the balanced analysis and pronunciation! We have a weird tricky language with sounds extinct from modern Arabic that are not used in any Romance languages either. The only real mistakes are: "j" is always a "y"; we have two "g", a "g" (hard g) and a "ġ" ("gee" sound); gh is a distinct more-or-less unvocalised sound (the easiest is to just treat it as a brief pause so Ghar Dalam would be pronounded -ar Dalam). Whenever I see my homeland's history, especially pre-history, mentioned in any sort of media I despair of what nonsense someone will spew to further their own agenda. You did a great job NOT doing that at all. I learned a little too, so thanks! Some small translations people might find useful from a Maltese: Ghar Dalam (the cave) just means darkened cave (cave dwelling was common, and even extant to a small degree in the 20th Century) Ġgantija lit. means giants place Gebel gol-bahar means stones in the sea There is also a very significant site called Hagar Qim, lit. old stones All to say, these names probably date to the Arab period, and many would be from people of the day trying to explain (and therefore mythologise) the ancient past. Think of the way Renaissance Europeans, especially Italians, viewed the Romans. Regarding the "cart ruts" - very similar structures occur on Lampedusa, Pantelleria and I think the other small Italian territories nearby. Those are connected to Roman cisterns but as far as I know (not a historian), the rock channels to capture and direct rainwater are older. Since childhood I have always thought this the most likely reason for the Maltese "cart ruts". Water management in arid countries is certainly worth the effort to carve the upper coralline limestone in some of those locations.

No one is going to take these aliens and Atlantis guys seriously until they prove something.

I am coming from a point of constructive criticism. Could you please title your multipart videos as such? I have recently picked up your channel and I am going through your catalogue and multipart videos are not identified until a bit into the video itself. Just a minor inconvenience as a viewer. I enjoy your work and find your analysis interesting. Keep up the good work Aiden^2!

Have you tried to get in touch w Jimmy from bright insight? I would love to hear you to talk about Atlantis theories

Graham has nice stories to tell it's unfortunate though that he tries to claim they're actually real and tries to prove them in a pseudoscientific manner. Just because a story is interesting doesn't mean it's real. Claiming everyone is out to get you doesn't give you legitimacy either, neither is taking a monument and changing it's age at a whim to suit your hypothesis.

I wonder if the people who lived in Atlantis thought of themselves as Atlantians or a people from somewhere else who happened to live in Atlantis.

Can you do a video about the discrepancies in the carbon dating timeline of Akrotiri and the archaeologists pottery dating timeline. Aegean archaeologists love their pottery dating methods and felt they were very secure and accurate but after carbon dating from the volcanic site Akrotiri, it proved them wrong by several hundred years

Where's our collab with Miniminuteman? I hella wanna see you 2 just wail on graham together

Pretty good show have to keep an open mind on all of this. One thing we can agree on the real information is being suppress Alterd withheld whatever you want to call

Love ur show, u should debate Handcock. gods bless every1.

I don't have the archeological lore to argue Maltese specific conditions but I would like to point out that the aboriginal people of Australia were there approximately 60'000 years ago with stone age technology and the Maori of New Zealand had legends of monsters that were later confirmed by biological remains as Giant Moa and other megafauna. So archaic humans with a base level of technology and a capacity for passing on oral traditions is absolutely realistic, megalithic construction is very doable with enough time and manpower so building works pre 6000bc is absolutely realistic in my own opinion. Edit: on the subject of Sirius, if you are willing to entertain completely unproven fringe ideas, a great many cultures in wildly different locations and historical periods all associated Sirius as one of the homes of "the gods who came from the sky" whichever pantheon it happens to be in that culture the God associated with Sirius teaches the locals civilisation, agriculture and astronomical knowledge. If you want to link unexpectedly complex structures with a Sirius alignment that's an interesting concept.

Can you do some research or have you already done some research into the case of Jason Landry, he is a texas boi who got into a car crash, left his clothes on the side of the road and then is still missing to this day.

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After learning about Dashrath Manjhi, I simply refuse to believe the great ancient monuments couldn't be built without advanced tech

But that said, I applaud you for being objective, for giving due where it is earned and criticizing where it is due. There are not many people who are able to do that 👍

A few things about Neanderthals: - Most people who study them professionally believe that they "died out" a lot more recently than archeology as a field is currently acknowledging. There's a few reasons for this. Shaky evidence like these teeth are one reason. 18K years ago is very, very recent for Neanderthals, and they haven't really been dated beyond that, but we're still dating a lot of stuff in context. If they'd been found by somebody famous in the 1920's, we'd probably accept them as proof. Then there are pieces of evidence like that kid they found in Spain who has been extensively tested and determined to be both 27,000 years old, and half Neanderthal. There are more controversial finds on the Iberian peninsula that may be from as recently as 22k years ago. Do I believe those finds are reliable? I don't know. The information on them is pretty gatekept by the old heads of archaeology. - I said "died out" because that's a loaded term that I don't believe is accurate. When anatomically modern humans started coming to Europe from Africa, they came in great numbers into a population that was already dwindling. Neanderthal populations were in free fall as the ice age ended, forests became plains, and ambush hunting couldn't sustain them like it could before. Humans, meeting these people, did what humans do: some got violent, some traded goods and went on their way, and some said "I wonder if I could hump that." Within ten generations, there were between nine and fifteen Homo sapiens sapiens for every Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. It was more that pure Neanderthal specimens were bred out of existence. It's sort of an old Ben/Obi Wan Kenobi situation. Of course we know them! We are them! We're not too clear on when Neanderthal traits disappeared completely, is my point. The short version is: we have a lot of reason to believe, on a professional level, that Neanderthals existed a lot longer than we previously believed, we just don't have what modern science would call a smoking gun. I'm not sure how a half Neanderthal kid dated to 27,000 years ago isn't a smoking gun, but that's academia for you.

Not sure why, but I love when Aidan spills the tea on historian community drama.

I'm just glad I found someone who disagrees with Graham, without calling him a Nazi.

One of the problems with Graham Hancock is that he's the king of "it kind of looks like this to me, so that's what it must be". Add to that him often presenting those theories as observable fact that Big Archeology just doesn't want the public to know and I think it becomes understandable why he's so easy to dismiss. And the only willingness I have seen him show towards being wrong was dependent on him still being able to force that evidence to fit his narrative.

The teeth could be 18k years old. The ancients practiced ancestor worship. Perhaps they were carried down the line by multiple people. Like a talisman.

"People think that people before them were dumb or inferior." Did ya'all study Latin and Greek at school? School, not college. All I know about Malta is that they are famous for their falcons and they make good chocolate covered milk balls.

All archeology is conjecture. As you noted, paradigm shifts are hard to accept for established experts in the field. Sadly, the primary reason being ego rather than disputing hard science.

So the basis for many fields of science including Biology, Paleontology, cosmology among others is founded on treating theories as laws. We do not question these theories in academia, we work towards trying to prove them correct at all Costs and anyone who isn’t willing to work within that framework is not allowed into Academia.

Hey, you should go to the Maltese catacombs and document your adventures there! Prove em all Wrong!

Isnt "Mexica" pronounced something more like Meshica?

The Sansuna story reminds me of the Nephilim. To be clear I'm not suggesting that the traditionally accepted history of Malta is wrong. But perhaps a female Nephilim descendent traveled to Malta & myths were later made about her. Even her possible Semitic name origin supports the idea of her being a descendent of the Nephilim.

None of the carbon reliably dates the side, because none of it was under the rocks so the rocks could have been there a long time before hand. It is not the date that is unreliable; it is the link between the date and the rocks.

"you can go to space Jeff just let me find Atlantis" what a world we're living in, hey?