Video Plus: Archaeologists Uncover the Pre-Flood People Who Built the World

5 Oct 2025 Origins Explained Daily

Nevali Çori is an 11,000-year-old city in southeastern Turkey that predates even Göbekli Tepe. This ancient settlement wasn’t just a village — it had monumental buildings, polished floors, and organized communal spaces. Archaeologists discovered T-shaped pillars, ceremonial structures, and early evidence of farming. Nevali Çori may have laid the groundwork for later civilizations, shaping culture, architecture, and rituals. Its existence suggests humans were building advanced societies far earlier than we ever imagined. Could this be the lost pre-flood civilization that inspired Göbekli Tepe and others? 0:00 Intro 0:24 The Godfather of Megaliths 4:15 This Civilization Drowned Before History Started 8:25 The Silurian Hypothesis 15:08 Ancient Power Grid Under the Pyramids? 19:27 Did Noah Have Power Tools? 26:12 The Forgotten Age of Enlightenment #preflood #humanorigins #ancientturkey #göbeklitepe

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Intro

Hi, it's Katrina. What if this isn't the first human civilization? We might be living through humanity's second, third,

or even 10th attempt at survival. According to a shocking new study and some archaeological evidence, we aren't

the first. In today's video, I'll be telling you about the shocking history of pre flood civilizations, starting

with a place that is even older than we thought. The godfather of megaliths.

The Godfather of Megaliths

What if a great flood didn't end a civilization? just buried its greatest secrets. Goleep stole the spotlight with

its T-shaped pillars and cosmic carvings taking the world by storm as the oldest

known temple estimated at 11,000 to 13,000 years old. Gobec is one of

history's most exciting mysteries and the one place that might change human

history for good. But hold on a minute, because another Neolithic site had already laid the groundwork for monument

building on a jaw-dropping scale. Wait, is there another lesserknown but even

more ancient prehistoric settlements buried in the hills of southeastern Anatolia? Yes. Yes, there is. And it's

called Nali Chi. Although few have ever heard of it, the site dates to the 9th millennium BC, meaning it is at the very

minimum 11,000 years old. Because Nivali Chi was more than just a village of

farmers, it may have been founded even earlier. From a place this old, you'd

expect crude huts and scattered fire pits. Instead, Neali Chi had rectangular

buildings with precision cut limestone blocks, polished terraso floors instead of mud floors, which some people still

have, and interior spaces meticulously organized with a clear purpose. This was

a town. It was an early blueprint for complex communal living. These people

lived in houses, had families, hosted ceremonial activities, built sanctums, and revolutionized urban construction.

But they did it around 6,000 years before anyone else. How? The pre flood

civilization that ruled the world. The architectural parallels between Nali Chi

and Gobec Leeppe aren't just uncanny, they are undeniable. Both sites feature T-shaped monolithic

pillars and were clearly places of ritual. But Nali came first, which means

that Gobec Leppe may not be the original masterpiece, but the grand sequel built

on top of Nali's blueprints. What's more, Nali may have provided not just

the construction techniques, but the ideological scaffolding for other towns,

cities, and ritual centers. Goleep might owe its entire concept to an older,

wiser neighbor that just didn't have the same PR team. Who came first? That might

not be the right question. What I'm thinking is that it's not about who came first or who built which stone city

earlier. I'm wondering if Nali Chi and Quebec Lee were two places built by the

same civilization. This mysterious pre flood civilization could have built more towns, more centers, and more cities in

what is now modern-day Turkey. What if Neval Chi and Gobec were only two peas in a much bigger civilized pod? A pod

that got flattened and buried by a flood. Among the tools and figurines,

archaeologists also discovered domesticated plant remains at the site, specifically wheat and barley. And that

proves that they were growing crops. Nali chy marks the exact point where

humans stopped chasing antelope and started growing tasty vegetables which incidentally laid the economic

groundwork for organized society, surplus storage and disputes over land ownership. This friends was the

beginning of civilization. So then what happened to it? If nali chi

and other sites across Turkey can be dated to between 11,000 and maybe 13,000

years ago, then they are the pre flood civilization. Forget conspiracies.

Forget the saluran hypothesis. These were the real pre flood people. This

This Civilization Drowned Before History Started

civilization drowned before history even started. What if a massive flood didn't end a world, but revealed one? We now

have evidence of an advanced civilization that may have existed 20,000 years ago. Long before the

pyramids rose from the sands of Egypt or the Sumerians invented a writing, an extraordinary civilization may have

existed. A civilization wiped off the map by a flood so massive it makes

Noah's Ark look like a weekend canoe trip. In Iraq, archaeologists have unearthed a thick, unnatural layer of

yellow clay and sand underneath a 5,000-year-old settlement at Tel Far.

This distinctive sediment suggests that an even more ancient city lies buried below the already ancient ruins. And if

this sediment could talk, it would say, "Civilization was here. You just missed it." The layer of unnatural yellow clay

and sand is more than ordinary river silt. It is a distinctive flood layer, the geological equivalent of a crime

scene chalk outline. This type of clay and sand is usually found in places that were inhabited by people. Similar flood

deposits have already been uncovered at other iconic Mesopotamian sites like and Kish as well as Harapa in modern-day

Pakistan and Nile settlements in Egypt everywhere. Basically, these flood deposits seem to crop up all over early

civilizations, which could mean that either a lot of civilizations got simultaneously unlucky with their

plumbing, or we are looking at the geological footprint of an extinction level flood event. But is it the Genesis

flood archaeologists are seeing or a flood that's even older? In the Bible,

the book of Genesis tells the story of a great flood that God sent down to cleanse the earth of wickedness, saving

only Noah and his family. But it's possible there have been many great floods. Every ancient civilization has

their own version of a great flood story. Researcher Matt Lacra argues that the destruction of the old world

civilizations at the hand of God's flood dates to 20,000 years ago. That would be

pretty incredible, seeing as known civilization got its start about 6,000 years ago. That would be 14,000 years

after this flood swept across the world and left behind its unnatural yellow clay and sand deposits. Which would mean

that there was another civilization before this one. One that reached its sinful peak 200 centuries ago and was

slapped down by God. According to Lacroy, this wasn't a localized flood that messed up a few random towns. It

was an eraending juggernaut that drowned entire cultures and buried their cities in mud so deep they stayed hidden until

now. If all of this does turn out to be true, because right now it's mostly speculation, it could throw our entire

timeline into chaos, which is pretty exciting. The world before the world we

know. Lacroyy's theory pushes the origin of complex civilization back at least

8,000 years far before Sumer Akad or even Gobeclete which is estimated to be

about 12,000 years old. He is adding on 8,000 more years beyond that. Think

about it. All of recorded human history could be a second act. One that started

after the curtain had already dropped on a forgotten golden age of previous ancient civilizations.

What kind of tools did they have? Did they chart the stars? Did they build monuments that are now underwater or

buried? Experts don't know. But now they might finally start to find out. Because

if there was a mighty civilization that moved mountains and harnessed the energy of the earth, they would be buried

underneath everything we know. Whatever structures they built, the houses, the fortresses, the temples, whatever would

be buried under flood deposits. That is if the structures exist. These flood

deposits have been identified, but they haven't been thoroughly studied and nobody has started digging yet. Until

archaeologists can dig their way into the depths of the earth, we won't know for sure what's down there, but we can

guess. So, drop your own guesses in the comments. The Curan hypothesis. Okay, so

The Silurian Hypothesis

maybe there was a civilization 20,000 years ago and maybe they were humans. And yes, maybe the whole slate was wiped

clean by water. But what if there was an even more ancient civilization? NASA

scientists are asking, "What if we weren't the first advanced civilization on Earth?" This provocative theory is

known as the Curan hypothesis. Some people call it the lizard people hypothesis. But just to be clear, no one

is saying intelligent lizards built spaceships in the Curan era and are now living on some other planet waiting to

return to Earth. That's not the hypothesis, but it would make for a cool movie. The real hypothesis was put

forward by two respected scientists, NASA climate modeler Gavin Schmidt and

University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank. They pose the question, what

if lizard people evolved from dinosaurs and became the first human-like intelligent species on this planet? It

is theoretically possible that an industrial civilization of lizards with opposable thumbs, rose up millions of

years ago, built cities, invented Wi-Fi, split the atom, and then nuked

themselves into dust. Would they leave behind any evidence? Would we ever be able to find out? Statistically

speaking, over millions of years, there could have been many civilizations on Earth that were wiped out by natural

disasters, and we would never know. You'd think finding an empire of lizards would be easy, but it's not. The bad

news is that Earth moves and shifts about and things get lost very easily.

For example, here's something you might not know about our planet. The ocean crust gets replaced every 170 million

years. Tectonic plates churn and slide under each other. Anything that was

around 170 million years ago is most likely underneath the crust of the planet at this point. Here's a fact

that's truly mind-blowing. Less than 1% of Earth's surface is urbanized today.

Less than 1%. Now think about how crowded the planet is. Almost 9 billion

people are running around right now. But our urbanized cities, New York, Bangkok,

Paris, Berlin, Hanoi, they all take up less than 1% of the planet surface. Now,

what do you suppose happens in 170 million years when the crust is replaced? How hard do you think it would

be to find even a trace of our modern world, even though it's so packed, less

than 1%. And you would think just based on our own history that there were not as many people back in the day, so

probably even harder. Now, I know you're wondering about fossils. Did you know that fewer than 100 T-Rexes have ever

been found? And many are represented by only a single bone. But scientists say there would have been millions, probably

billions of them, running around all over the place. So billions of T-Rexes once roam the planet. Scientists have 32

of their complete skeletons. So could a race of reptilian super creatures have

built societies that elude all modern scientists? Absolutely. It's plausible.

It's 0% confirmed, but 100% possible. But rather than pray that archaeologists

stumbled upon the femur of a hypothetical paleocene programmer, Schmidt and Frank argue there might be

another way. Geochemical fingerprints. Ghosts in the rock record. Let's say you

were a civilization with industry. You've got factories, transportation, pollution, maybe even nuclear power.

You'd likely leave traces behind just like our modern human civilization is doing. Even if the ruins of the cities

are gone, the evidence of their existence should be around in the form of geochemical fingerprints. These

fingerprints are things like carbon isotope spikes, unusual metal concentrations, persistent pollutants

like PCBs, and radioactive isotopes from weapons tests. All of these geochemical

fingerprints can survive in the sedimentary record. Scientists should be

able to spot them. But as you probably saw coming, there are problems. The

biggest of which is that nature often fakes these fingerprints. Volcanic

eruptions, tectonic burps, and rogue methane seeps can all leave similar

signatures. For example, 56 million years ago was the paleocene eosene

thermal maximum. It was a sudden global warming event that looks through the geochemical fingerprints like man-made

climate change. There was carbon, ocean acidification, metal spikes, deep sea

extinctions, all the things we are currently seeing in our world today. But because there are no fossilized highways

or skyscrapers to prove anything, it seems it was made by nature. But was it

nature? Or could the disaster of 56 million years ago have been caused by our lizard predecessors? Maybe they had

their own nuclear war on a global scale. Or maybe it was just a really epic volcanic eruption. Frank and Schmidt are

not ruling out any possibilities just yet. Because for them, it isn't about proving that ancient lizard people had

better graphics cards than us. It's about understanding how civilizations, including our own, leave traces behind

and how long those traces last. Another possibility is that there were previous

civilizations that never hit the industrial revolution. or if they did, perhaps they shifted to clean energy so

rapidly that they left no geochemical signatures behind. The more sustainable a culture becomes, the more likely it is

that no one will ever know they existed. This idea has consequences that go far beyond Earth. The famous Drake equation,

which estimates the number of communicative alien civilizations in the universe, includes one crucial variable,

how long civilizations last. If most civilizations self-destruct or go green

and leave no trace, then no wonder the universe seems quiet. Maybe there used to be tons of alien civilizations. But

now they are all gone and their pasts are erased. If civilizations can vanish

without a trace here on our planet, they can do it anywhere. There is the possibility that we will never meet

aliens because they're all extinct, which might be a good thing. And now for underground structures found under the

pyramids. But really quick, I want to give a shout out and thank you to unintended consequence for joining our

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Explained family. We'd love to have you. Ancient power grid under the pyramids. As many people suspected, the pyramids

Ancient Power Grid Under the Pyramids?

of Giza may have been keeping a secret deeper than any pharaoh's tomb. Earlier this year, a hidden sprawling

subterranean complex was found stretching for almost a mile beneath all three major pyramids. These are

practically the most famous monuments on Earth. And now it's looking like they might be sitting on top of ancient

technology. According to a controversial radar study by Italian scientists Gorado

Malanga and Filipo Bondi, there are incredible structures and chambers hidden beneath the Cafrey Pyramid. Using

synthetic aperture radar tomography and some proprietary algorithms, Beyond scanned beneath the Giza Plateau and

uncovered a network of five identical multilevel structures, geometric passageways, spiral ramps, and

cylindrical wells plunging more than 2,100 ft underground. I go more into the

actual technology in this video here, so be sure to check it out after this one in case you missed it. At the bottom are

what appear to be two enormous cube-shaped chambers about 250 ft tall and seemingly empty. Some have

speculated that these two massive cube-shaped chambers were for some type of energy source or maybe enormous

batteries. Whatever this massive complex once was, the theories are flying. A lot

of speculation surrounds the theory that this thing might be a buried power plant, ancient tomb, or ancient tech.

Then again, maybe they have simply stumbled upon the greatest burial complex in the whole country. Perhaps

it's the tomb of Osiris, god of the dead. Maybe another ancient ruler lost to history. Or if you want to take it

even further, Anunnaki remains might be down there. With this level of discovery, you know, the internet

spiraled into a mad frenzy. And it's not conspiracy theorists and fringe scientists. This is the kind of

discovery that challenges everything. Even before modern archaeology became the respected field it is now, people

talked about the Great Pyramid being a power plant. Nicola Tesla thought it was a machine. So did Christopher Dunn.

Tesla had a hunch the Great Pyramid was somehow used as a device for harnessing natural Earth energy, maybe even seismic

power. It could have been something closer to a planetary capacitor than a royal mouselium. And now this discovery

might be the first evidence. There is a blueprint buried under sand that looks like a coordinated system of shafts,

chambers, and spirals as if built to conduct something. Unless it's just a circular staircase leading to the Hall

of Records. These scientists are making waves and think they have uncovered the very thing that Tesla suspected the

pyramid was hiding. At least they have found the outline of it. They still need

to dig, but good luck getting permission. Everything beyond the Anmalanga dead was via satellite

technology. So they didn't have to get permission to scan the pyramids. Even after this discovery hit international

headlines, Egypt denied everything. The official story is the same. The pyramids

were tombs built around 2500 BC with ramps, pulleys, and sweat. No magic, no

machines, nothing to see here. If there is, they are going to be the ones to find it. not some questionable Italian

scientist who didn't even go in person. This discovery, though not officially recognized, has sparked a firestorm of

debate. Proponents of the finding argue it is as legitimate as any discovery has

ever been, using the latest technology to peer beneath the Giza plateau. And

the Cafrey project team behind it is desperate to start digging, but they will most definitely be denied

permission. They want to know if whatever is under the pyramids is part of a lost civilization's advanced

technology, something belonging to a pre flood civilization. How old could it be, do you think? The

world wants answers. But Egypt's antiquities authority has been extremely careful when it comes to anything that

smells like alternative history. And so no digging will take place. Not for the foreseeable future, at least. Maybe in a

few decades. Until then, what's beneath Giza remains a tentalizing secret? Let

me know what you think is hiding under the pyramids in the comments. I'd love to know your thoughts. Did Noah have

Did Noah Have Power Tools?

power tools? Six Flags, Disney World, Universal Studios? These places might be

fun for the whole family, but they've got nothing on the Noah's Arc theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky. It opened in

2016 and features an exact life-sized replica of the Ark. Seriously, there's a

life-sized ark built by creationist Ken Ham, the man who recently defended his Noah's Arc theme park in a series of

bold blog posts and public statements. Ken Ham said that Noah may have possessed tools and technologies more

sophisticated than what humans have today. The argument central to Ham's

young earth creationist worldview hinges on biblical literalism and a complete

rethinking of human history, evolution, and definitely archaeology. While scientists have clearly dismissed him,

others wonder if he could be right or at least ask the question, what tools did

Noah have? How did he know how to build the ark? Based on the biblical account

and historical evidence of ancient technologies available during that time, Noah would have had access to advanced

woodworking and construction tools as well as materials for waterproofing. While the Bible doesn't specify the

tools, the technology available in the region of ancient Mesopotamia and the surrounding areas, the likely setting

for the story was pretty sophisticated. There were cutting tools, chisels, mallets, and manual drills. Levers,

pulleys, and ramps would have been essential. And the Bible mentions gopher wood and pitch. In ancient Mesopotamia,

bishumen, which is a naturally occurring asphalt or tar, was widely used as a sealant and adhesive. This was commonly

used thousands of years ago to waterproof boats and even cement bricks together in city walls. Ham is going way

beyond that technology. In Ken's view, ancient humans like Noah weren't primitive in the slightest. They were

brilliant, possibly even more intelligent than modern people. Why were they so much smarter than us? Ken says

it's because they were closer to the perfect creation of Adam and Eve. Also, because they were unbburdened by

millennia of genetic mutations. He basically thinks we're kind of inbred now. Where he kind of loses everyone is

that he says ancient people had power tools and more advanced technology than even today. People just got dumber. He

also believes God created dinosaurs 6,000 years ago. So, make of that what you will. Ken and other creationists

believe that God created everything 6,000 years ago, from the moon to the stars to the T-Rex. In their worldview,

the pre flood world was short-lived. Adam and Eve had some children. The goat herders invented power tools right away,

and God sent the flood to wipe them all out shortly after that. Tools lost to

the flood. When asked why he didn't build his replica ark using ancient tools, Ham's response was simple. He

said that he doesn't know what tools Noah had, and the Bible doesn't specify. I mean, it's true, it's not quite a

manual, but it does kind of specify. He then pointed to Genesis 4:22, which

references early metal work. Ken says that one biblical passage is evidence that pre flood humans were crafting with

bronze and iron just a few generations after Eden. From there, Ham took his

idea and ran with it. With centuries of accumulated knowledge, long lifespans, and god-given intelligence, ancient

people built cranes, harnessed advanced metallergy, and engineered machines that we no longer understand. In other words,

gods zapped knowledge directly into early human brains, allowing them to speedrun the industrial revolution,

which allowed them to build a boat that would make the biggest Carnival cruise ship look like a paper boat thing. You

know what I mean? So, I guess Noah might have had construction equipment that would have put modern contractors to

shame. And if it's all been lost to a global flood, there is no surviving record to contradict the claim. Nobody

can prove or disprove Ken's flood theory. I mean, scientists can prove beyond any shadow of any doubt that

dinosaurs were not alive 6,000 years ago, but that's a whole different story. Ken's argument fits into the larger

young Earth creationist model that compresses all of human history and the entire fossil record into just the last

6,000 years. In this view, Neanderthalss weren't prehuman ancestors. They were

post flood humans. Homohabilis, Homo erectus, and other archaic species that

scientists tell us lived many millions of years ago, according to Ken, weren't evolutionary stepping stones at all.

They were simply different populations of fully human descendants of Noah, and

their intelligence may have exceeded our own. Ken points to pyramids, ziggurats,

and out ofplace artifacts as proof that early civilizations were not primitive. In fact, Ken's whole idea is that human

civilization was never primitive. All those hairy homo erectus were apparently math geniuses and could build the Taj

Mahal over a weekend like the Amish with a barn. As for the plethora of ancient artifacts that date past 6,000 years,

well, creationism isn't for everyone. The archaeological counterpoint. While

researchers agree that ancient civilizations were intellectually capable, after all, they developed

writing, urban planning, and monumental architecture, there is little evidence of pre-industrial technologies that

rival modern engineering. But there isn't zero evidence. If you've been watching the channel, you've probably

seen me cover some very suspicious places like rock walls in Hawaii, Texas,

and Siberia that were clearly carved tens of thousands of years ago. There are lots of examples of potential high

technology employed by ancient people and some of it dates back way past 6,000

years. What about Gobecepe? Confirmed to be almost 12,000 years old and the first

known human-built temple. Ultimately, the disagreement here isn't about whether Noah used a crane. It's about

time, evidence, and how scientists interpret the past. Ken Ham argues from

faith and scripture, imagining a pre flood world wiped so clean that even its

greatest achievements were erased. Archaeologists argue from data, pointing to what has been found, not what might

have been lost. Otherwise, we'd be here all day. While critics often mock Ken's use of steel bolts and modern cranes to

build his ark, he doesn't care. In his mind, Noah had steel, cranes, wheeled

dollies, conveyor belts, hydraulic lifts, the whole nine yards. The forgotten age of enlightenment.

The Forgotten Age of Enlightenment

There is a memory that humanity can't shake. It whispers from myths. It stares

out from crumbling temples, and it floods the dreams of poets and prophets alike. It's the memory of a world that

came before ours. a spiritual civilization vast, luminous and lost

beneath the waves. Call it Atlantis, call it Lamoria, call it Antidoluvian

because whether in Sumer, Egypt or India, the ancients themselves claimed to be descendants of these mysterious

people swallowed by the sea. Notice the old cultures of the old world didn't boast of creating civilization. They

always honored the people who already had. They accepted that the world was new, that others had come before, and

that the knowledge of the ancients was their key to success. From Jewish flood legends to Chinese dragon chronicles,

from Mayan cotices to Vadic hymns, the narrative repeats with eerie consistency.

There was a world before ours, and it fell. As sea levels rose at the end of

the last ice age, roughly 12 to 10,000 years ago, the ocean swallowed coastlines worldwide. This wasn't a

puddle. It was several hundred vertical feet of ocean, enough to bury cities

whole and erase nearly every trace of early human habitation. And yet, some

traces remain. Submerged sites off the coast of India, Japan, and the Caribbean

hint at stone structures where only seabed should be. Drown temples off India. Rectilinear ruins in the Gulf of

Cam, Cuba's underwater city. These anomalies are not proof, but they are

most definitely an issue and they're not going away. And now enter your

controversial favorite archaeologist, Graham Hancock. Hancock argues that what

scientists are finding in these submerged ruins and now in the mysterious flood layers under popular

archaeological sites like in Iraq isn't a fluke. It's the muddy edge of a lost

maritime civilization. And India might just be the missing chapter in humanity's origin story. While Egypt and

Sumer often steal the headlines, Hancock points to India, a civilizational giant

often cropped out of the ancient narrative. Yet no other culture has preserved such an unbroken record of its

spiritual and historical past. No other civilization has over 30,000 verses of

sacred literature describing rivers, bloods, sagas, and stars with almost

geological precision. Take the Sarzvati River. Dismissed by scholars for decades

as mythical, it turned out to be real. Satellite imagery, groundwater studies,

and sediment analysis confirm that this now dry river once flowed wider than the

Mississippi. And what do the Vadas call it? They call it the mightiest of rivers. And what lines its ancient

banks? Ruins of the Harapen civilization, which rose up alongside

Egypt and Mesopotamia and was just, if not more, advanced. Mainstream

historians insist that early civilization was about agriculture, bronze tools and eventually cities. But

in India's Va scripture and in many ancient traditions, civilization meant something else entirely. It was a

conscious alignment with the cosmos. Many scholars believe that ancient humans weren't as obsessed with empires

and economies as we are today. Instead, they were seekers, mathematicians,

stargazers, and sages. So, what if the so-called primitive ancients actually

had a higher state of being than us? What if it wasn't physical machine technology they boasted, but better

brains, more knowledge, and a deeper sense of purpose and connection to the world? If humanity once had access to a

more advanced, more spiritually mature way of life, one we've clearly lost,

then we maybe aren't the pinnacle of progress. You and I and everyone we know is a reboot, a rerun. The tech might be

sleeker, but the wisdom might be gone. Meanwhile, our distant ancestors were

walking around with their chins held high because they were one with existence. What do you think about this?

Let me know your thoughts on pre flood civilizations and what we might learn from them in the comments. Thanks for

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