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00:00To produce a rapid rise in a glaciation scenario, we would have to look for an anomaly, and that anomaly exists.
00:10These symbols were already used in the south of Spain in the fourth or third millennium BC.
00:18Through satellite images, the Germans Wickebold and Kuhn discovered that there were certain anomalies, certain geometric shapes that were imprinted on the Marisma.
00:27If at some point that formation was exposed to the human being, the human being could have used those blocks and could have moved them and used them to make their structures.
00:37Suddenly, this civilization collapsed and collapsed with a natural conflict.
00:41There was an earthquake, the buildings were destroyed, and then came a huge wave, perhaps a tsunami, which buried them.
00:47But if there were remains of that antiquity, what civilization would we be talking about?
00:52The truth is that Lorenzo, we should rewrite history.
00:56It is much more common than we imagine the fact that underwater archaeologists find, very close to the coasts of oceans and seas, ruins that have been submerged for millennia.
01:05They are the reflection of large towns that, in their majority, ended up disappearing as a result of terrible natural disasters.
01:12And it is very likely that one of these catastrophes would serve as an argument to build the greatest legend ever told.
01:18Now, are we talking about a legend or is there something else?
01:25LORENZO'S LEGEND
01:41The sea hides many secrets.
01:44It has been home to unknown monsters and has facilitated arguments for the creation of all kinds of myths.
01:50But there is none greater than the one that occupies us.
01:53We are aware of the difficulty that escarbar carries in a event that, being real, occurred more than ten millennia ago.
02:01But in the same way we think that if it has been able to remain for all this time, it is because something real happened, something unimaginable.
02:10Plato writes in 360 BC his famous dialogues.
02:15He is not aware that the story they tell will end up being immortal.
02:19After all, he will be the first to talk about Atlantis.
02:23This is a key moment in the gigantic history that occupies us.
02:27Plato is writing the dialogue he heard as a child to the historian Critias.
02:32Wouldn't you like to be here?
02:34To have the opportunity to ask the Greek philosopher if the Atlantean myth was just that, a legend created by his imagination?
02:41If the lost continent really existed?
02:44If it is worth looking for it?
02:48Plato, who translated his wisdom into various texts, especially in his dialogues,
02:53in Timaeus and Critias, tells us how 9,000 years before the philosopher lived,
02:59that is, we are talking about approximately 11,000 years ago,
03:03there was a very important civilization called Atlantis, which was rich, military,
03:09and which, due to a kind of arrogance and offense to the gods, was buried.
03:14There was an earthquake and then the sea buried it.
03:17That's where the myth of Atlantis was born, the lost civilization,
03:21the mysterious civilization of the past that has managed to get to these days.
03:30Socrates, Critias, Plato, at that time just a child,
03:35it is not surprising that the history of Atlantis in this environment of knowledge will mark it forever.
03:44Plato's story appears in a dialogue where there are a series of characters who speak of Atlantis
03:50and one of them, Critias, says that his source of information is an ancestor of his.
03:54Critias belonged to a noble and important family of Athens
03:57and he refers to a mythical ancestor of his, the legislator Solon,
04:02who in turn would have been in contact with Egyptian priests,
04:05who would be the ones who would have transmitted the story to him and then would have shared it in that meeting.
04:14But when does it start to talk for the first time about Atlantis?
04:18The Egyptian priests refer to a great empire located to the west, which they call Keftiu.
04:24Its inhabitants are brave warriors, but at the same time wise and wise,
04:28who, coming from the Atlantic, have faced the peoples of the Mediterranean.
04:33That place is located beyond the columns of Hercules, the current Strait of Gibraltar.
04:40On the island there is a large city that is structured along two concentric rings.
04:46There are palaces and huge temples in which the gods of ancient times are venerated.
04:52Its richness is such that the outer walls are covered with bronze and the interior with tin.
04:59But the legendary sacred mineral is reserved for the Acropolis to shine like the sun.
05:05This is called oricalco.
05:14Plato narrates the battle that the Atlanteans maintain with the Athenian primitives.
05:19But the important thing will happen later.
05:22A brutal earthquake and an extraordinary flood will end, in just one day and one night,
05:27with Atlantis and its inhabitants, giving rise to the birth of this sad and at the same time wonderful legend.
05:36Suddenly this civilization collapsed and collapsed with a natural conflict.
05:42There was an earthquake, the buildings were destroyed and then came a huge wave,
05:46perhaps a tsunami, a tsunami that buried it.
05:50From that moment the city was submerged.
05:57Submerged, hidden from our eyes but not forgotten.
06:01Because the data provided by Plato will be essential for us to follow the trail.
06:12We know that the Greek places Atlantis beyond the current Strait of Gibraltar,
06:17which dates back to its end in 9,000 BC, that is, 11,000 years ago.
06:25That that extraordinarily evolved people is able to work the metals in full stone age.
06:31We know that its inhabitants live in an exuberant place.
06:35And most importantly, we know what its tragic disappearance is like.
06:40But are there evidence, remains or old scrolls that allow us to determine
06:45what the Atlantean civilization was like?
06:48Let's go step by step.
06:50Let's go step by step.
06:52What does this set of pyramids do on the island of Tenerife?
06:56Do they have something to do with the myth of Atlantis?
06:59It could be or not.
07:01Because at this point the researchers do not agree.
07:04There are those who defend that they have been made by the natives,
07:07a kind of heirs of the survivors of the sunken continent.
07:11Even those who claim that they are not pyramids.
07:14Judge for yourself.
07:16José Gregorio, in the most profound area of the legend,
07:19there are those who have dared to suggest that these constructions
07:22would have been built by the heirs of that sunken continent.
07:25Leaving aside this idea, what is so special about these pyramids?
07:28Well, regardless of the archaeological discussion that keeps the debate open
07:32among those who argue that these constructions are of Huanche origin,
07:36compared to those who claim that it is an agricultural product,
07:39therefore they have a much more recent origin,
07:42it is true that this place is singularized and at the same time the structures
07:46by a very peculiar astronomical phenomenon.
07:49An alignment of this main axis that we have behind us
07:52with the setting of the sun in the summer solstice.
07:55This refers to a tradition that could have to do with the Huanche,
07:59therefore a considerable antiquity,
08:02or with the continuity of a tradition,
08:05of a knowledge that the farmers inherited.
08:08In either case we are faced with a very special enclave
08:11where the astral, where the astronomical,
08:14plays a leading role.
08:24For the moment we leave the islands to move
08:27just 30 kilometers from the city of Huelva,
08:30because a new track leads us to this megalithic set,
08:33which as you will see is tremendously special,
08:36the Dolmen de Soto.
08:38The archaeologist tells us that this dolmen was built
08:41between 3000 and 2500 BC,
08:44but what is clear is that there are stones that were reused,
08:47that is, they are from a previous stage that also have representations,
08:50we can say, of a lost civilization.
08:53Well, this archaeological context is indeed dated
08:56from 3000 to 2500 BC,
08:59but it is true that there are some covering structures of this dolmen
09:02that are reused menhirs.
09:05This is a symbolic power, because there are many representations
09:08that have been engraved on the rock.
09:11The interpretation of those icons and those representations
09:14are attributable to the Neolithic world,
09:17but it is not ruled out that that reuse of those previous stones
09:20were from other people
09:23or were from an older people than the one who built the dolmen.
09:26Here, for example, in this stone what we have is
09:29what is apparently a character, the head, the arms,
09:32but it is inverted, that is, this in its original moment
09:35would be upside down.
09:38Yes, we must bear in mind that when this dolmen was discovered in 1924,
09:41the dolmen was already exfoliated, it was collapsed
09:44and, let's say, many of the stones were in their original location.
09:47A reconstruction was made and these stones were placed,
09:50and when these stones were placed again,
09:53they realized that there were many of them that, as we have said,
09:56were previously reused,
10:00and, let's say, they were placed in a structure
10:03as they understood that it could be better.
10:06If I build the dolmen and I use some rocks
10:09and those rocks are placed outside, as veneers,
10:12as alignment, as crumbles, as whatever,
10:15why do they have those representations?
10:18I think it is very evident that there is not only an iconic and artistic connection
10:21with the Neolithic period,
10:24but that they are talking to us about representations
10:28And if we accept that this representation is more than 5,000 years old,
10:31who made it?
10:34Well, it was made by a culture that was settled here,
10:37a culture that used the rock as an element of expression
10:40and used icons that also have a very strong symbolic power.
10:43And of which we know nothing.
10:46And of which we are trying to know and of which we know nothing.
10:51What civilization is it?
10:54We do not know because history itself does not know either.
10:57It is as if it had been erased from the face of the earth.
11:00Now, in the bowels of this place, among the shadows,
11:03we have discovered that they not only worked the stone
11:06or possessed amazing astronomical knowledge.
11:09In addition, they learned to melt metals
11:12to such a huge scale that they traded with them,
11:15becoming, like the Atlanteans, a rich and powerful people.
11:19Claudio, would it be the representation of this kind of dagger,
11:22the confirmation that they worked with metal?
11:25We see that in many of the stones, in the orthostates,
11:28that union is reflected, that cultural link with metal,
11:31with the melting of metals.
11:34I believe that the icon of this dagger,
11:37that even up here we see that it has a small anthropomorphic figure,
11:40is clearly linked to the fact that in that culture
11:43or in that cultural context, the melting of metals occurs.
11:47Yes, behind the legend there is a real base,
11:50a powerful coastal civilization capable of working the metal
11:54and selling it to other peoples of the Mediterranean,
11:57of knowing the stars or of possessing writing
12:00thousands of years before it appears.
12:03How is it possible?
12:11It is always said that the alphabet,
12:14A, B, C, D, that we use right now,
12:17was invented by the Phoenicians.
12:20But I discovered that in the Museo de Huelva
12:23there were two utensils that said fourth, third millennium
12:26and that had signs of writing.
12:29The Phoenicians used a series of symbols
12:35that are already in Huelva.
12:38This is what we will later call an N.
12:41This is in the Huelva polisher.
12:48These symbols were already used
12:51in the south of Spain
12:54in the fourth or third millennium BC.
12:57We return for a few moments to this stone shell
13:00because there are issues that surprise more
13:03than what we appreciate at first sight.
13:06For example, its orientation from east to west
13:09allows that in the equinox of spring
13:12the sun's rays subtly run through the corridor
13:15until they hit the inner chamber.
13:18Those who elevated it possessed incredible astronomical knowledge
13:21and yet it is nothing compared
13:24to what they represented inside.
13:30We are in one of the orthostates of the Dolmen de Soto,
13:33one of the most striking.
13:36It is very interesting because it is reused
13:39from the monument that was before in this same location
13:42which is a cromlet.
13:45It is striking because inside the stone
13:48what is represented by a system of pots
13:51which is an incision in a circle, are constellations.
13:54Specifically, there are two constellations, two groups.
13:57The upper one supposedly represents the constellation of Taurus
14:00and the lower one represents the constellation of Orion.
14:03In addition, this stone is prior to the Dolmen itself
14:06and if we accept that it was placed in 4000 B.C.
14:09we would be facing one of the oldest astronomical representations
14:12of the past.
14:15In the Old Testament, specifically in the Book of Kings,
14:18it is said that in times of King Solomon,
14:21just when the first temple was located here,
14:24ships from Tarsus were loaded with gold, silver,
14:27monkeys, poppies, ivory.
14:30The mythical Tartessos?
14:33We go to the Cerro de Carambolo,
14:363 km from the city of Seville.
14:39There you will find, in 1958, an elaborate treasure
14:42from the 7th century B.C.,
14:45supposedly made by another mythical people, Tartessos.
14:48But are these and the Atlanteans the same civilization?
14:51Atlantis existed 11,000 years ago.
14:54Tartessos, 3,000 years ago.
14:57Why, however, do we link so much?
15:00Because it was also in the myth.
15:03The Romans said it was very rich,
15:06that it had laws written 6,000-8,000 years ago.
15:09Therefore, the link of the myth has united for a long time
15:12two cultures, two civilizations,
15:15which were probably in the same geographical location.
15:18These are the columns of Hercules,
15:21one of the most legendary maritime passages in the ancient world.
15:24On the other side of the strait, already in African territory,
15:27is Mount Musa.
15:30Beyond both would be, as long as we attend to the data
15:33that Plato offers us in his famous dialogues,
15:36the continent of Atlantis.
15:39The question is exactly where.
15:42Atlantis is the great myth, the great mystery to discover.
15:45There is no exact location yet.
15:48But it is true that Plato says it is a little beyond the columns of Hercules.
15:51What does it mean, a little beyond?
15:54Well, a little beyond cannot be much beyond.
15:57Therefore, it is not plausible that it is in the Caribbean or in the Pacific.
16:00It is a little beyond.
16:03Let's travel 11,000 years ago
16:06and stand in front of the columns of Hercules.
16:09It is not necessary to go much further into the ocean.
16:12If a large portion of the land
16:15as described by the Greek philosopher in his texts
16:19it is logical to think that of existing,
16:22today it will be found, whatever is left of it,
16:25several meters under the waters,
16:28in the surroundings of the Azores, Madeira or the Canary Islands.
16:33José, when Plato raises the idea
16:36that beyond the columns of Hercules is Atlantis,
16:39there are several researchers who have even come to the conclusion
16:42that it could refer either to the archipelago of the Canary Islands
16:45or to a land near this same place.
16:48Do we have any study that supports this idea?
16:51Well, we can interpret Plato's myth in the light of science
16:54if we approach the configuration of the territory
16:57between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago.
17:00Both the Canary Islands and the nearby territories on a continental level
17:03were very different from how they are today.
17:06They were much wider and, therefore,
17:09they allowed the establishment of a wide river culture
17:12in those locations that, evidently,
17:15was forced to leave there, to move to other territories
17:18once climate change occurs
17:21and changes the configuration of the environment
17:24with the rise of the water level.
17:27Therefore, there is a fairly plausible approximation
17:30in which the Canary Islands can be the protagonist.
17:33Climate change, sudden rise of the waters,
17:36even some natural disaster
17:39that causes the man of the past to be forced
17:42to undertake an exodus to the Canary Islands
17:45or to other northern lands,
17:48could be, but did he do it from a land emerged in the waters of the strait?
17:53Plato's tectonic theory was a revolution in the scientific world
17:56when it was consolidated.
17:59Plato's tectonic theory shows the impossibility
18:02that there is a lost continent in the middle of the Atlantic
18:05that disappeared under no type of cataclysm.
18:08In the Atlantic Ocean there is the oceanic dorsal
18:11and the exploration of the oceanic background
18:14that has occurred since the 1970s so intensively
18:17completely denies the possibility that there is such a submerged continent.
18:20On the other hand, the profiles of Europe and Africa
18:23with America coincide exactly
18:26and it is also another of the evidence
18:29that prevents the possibility that this submerged continent exists.
18:33Making the story very brief,
18:3618,000 years ago a great glaciation began,
18:39the earth cooled down a lot,
18:42the ice rose and therefore the sea went down.
18:45It means that the coasts would not be similar
18:48at all to those we know today.
18:51The beach would be a kilometer inland,
18:54we would have many more coasts.
18:5711,000 years ago, approximately, just when the Atlantic disappears,
19:00the glaciation ends, therefore the planet warms up,
19:03those polar caps disappear
19:06and the sea rises and rises kilometers inland,
19:09forming more or less the coasts that we have today.
19:15The disappearance ended 11,000 years ago,
19:18a date in which, according to Plato, the Atlantic sinks.
19:21The seas will rise and the consequences will be dramatic
19:24for all the towns that inhabit the coastal line
19:27of the primitive coastline.
19:30Towns that are now under the sea.
19:33Juan Antonio, what consequences did the beginning of the rise of the seas
19:36have for the towns that inhabited the coastline?
19:39You have to realize that from a geological point of view
19:42it is a fairly rapid rise, but from a human point of view,
19:45that is, a rise of some meter per year
19:48was easily assumable by the coastal towns
19:51and that would imply that they would have to migrate inland.
19:54There were quite a few human settlements
19:57from that time, now submerged on our coast.
20:00And yet, recent studies are revealing
20:03that this rise was, in some areas of the planet,
20:06especially violent.
20:09On the coasts of the whole world,
20:12infinity of submerged remains are being found.
20:15José, were those towns surprised by a sudden rise of the waters?
20:18For a rapid rise to occur in a glaciation scenario,
20:21we have to look for an anomaly in the climatic data.
20:24And that anomaly exists.
20:27In the year 9,645 B.C., the records of the cores of Greenland
20:30show that in that year the temperatures
20:33rose 6.6 degrees in one year.
20:36That is a data collected by Robert Schoch,
20:39a doctor in geology at the University of Boston.
20:42To give us an idea, in our 21st century,
20:45the indicators warn that in the next 100 years
20:48the temperature will increase by 4 degrees,
20:51as we are submerged in a process of climate change.
20:54What happens in that time
20:57so that in just one year it rises more than 6 degrees?
21:00To explain what had to happen on our planet
21:03so that the temperatures rose 6.6 degrees
21:06and that, in addition, from that moment the climate stabilized,
21:09if you see a graph of how the temperatures were
21:12during the last 100,000 years,
21:16until that date, they rise 6.6 degrees,
21:19they get more or less as we have now,
21:22and the climate stabilizes, until today.
21:25So, what stabilizes the climate, what raises the temperatures?
21:28I understand that this is a water vapor injection in the atmosphere.
21:31A brutal injection that raises the temperatures,
21:34produces greenhouse effect, stabilizes the climate.
21:37Our solar system, in its journey around the galaxy,
21:40crossed a cloud of micrometeoroids from ice.
21:43If this powder of ice comes into contact with our atmosphere,
21:46it becomes part of the atmosphere in water vapor.
21:49This massive water vapor injection would explain,
21:52on the one hand, this rise of 6.6 degrees,
21:55and, above all, that the climate would stabilize.
21:58We are facing an apocalyptic event
22:01that will come accompanied by brutal tsunamis,
22:04torrential rains, and the seas that will rise
22:07will make the inhabitants of the coast
22:10suffer the terrible consequences in their own flesh.
22:22In these minutes, we have seen millenary stones,
22:25in which someone represented metal knives,
22:28and celestial maps, treasures whose pieces
22:31require craftsmen with an unknown technique at that time.
22:34It is as if these peoples were heirs
22:37of a previous knowledge,
22:40of a disappeared civilization.
22:43It is possible that the answers are under the waters.
22:46If so, the time has come
22:49to dive to verify it.
22:52José, under these same waters, between 9 and 20 meters,
22:55we have a series of ruins, obviously anthropic.
22:58That is, there were human settlements. How did you discover this?
23:01How did I discover this? Well, this is the area where I learned to dive.
23:04And when I was in the first dives, down there,
23:07and with the little visibility there was,
23:10I realized that there were a series of formations
23:13that were totally, from my point of view, extraordinary.
23:16Perfect round holes, obviously very rough walls,
23:19carved in the rock in a very rough way,
23:22and with a lot of marine life that has, let's say, deformed it.
23:25But there was something there that was extraordinary.
23:28I always thought that.
23:32It is probably a formation that, at the time,
23:35was elevated on the level of the waters,
23:38and that was used to make industry, some kind of industry,
23:41from garum or some kind of fish salad.
23:44Because the pots that are seen have corridors between them,
23:47that are made, we think, by man.
23:50It is made by man, so that there is a form of industry
23:53around all this, right?
23:56So, if we accept this possibility,
23:59what time are we talking about? And what civilization?
24:02Archaeologists say that the coastline, in Roman times,
24:05was where it is today. We are talking about 2,000 years ago.
24:08And if this is between 6 and 20 meters,
24:11we have to go back to before the end of glaciation,
24:14that is, when the Arctic Basin finally melted,
24:17which is when the current sea level reached.
24:20Well, I estimate that we have to be talking about 5,000 or 6,000 years ago,
24:23so that this part of 20 meters, from 20 to 8 meters,
24:26would have been water.
24:29At this point,
24:32are we talking about a simple legend, no more?
24:35No. A fundamental link of this long chain
24:38will be discovered in 2003,
24:41giving an unexpected twist to the myth of Atlantis.
24:44A team of German scientists,
24:47thanks to several satellite photographs,
24:50will provide us with circular structures
24:53in the Marisma de Hinojos,
24:56one of the most important natural areas in Europe,
24:59within the national park of Doñana, in the province of Huelva.
25:02The exact place, right in front of the ancient columns of Hercules.
25:14Through satellite images,
25:17the Germans Wickeboll and Kuhn,
25:20who were working on a set of satellite images,
25:23with different wavelengths,
25:26discovered that there were certain anomalies,
25:29certain geometric shapes that were imprinted on the Marisma.
25:32This led them, let's say,
25:35by that geometric similarity of those shapes,
25:38to associate it with the Platonic myth of a description of a walled city
25:41and a series of temples.
25:44Later, after an in-situ inspection that was carried out in the area,
25:47it was discovered that, even though those geometric shapes,
25:50anthropic alterations, alterations of man on the territory,
25:53did not correspond to a walled enclosure
25:56or large structures in the Marisma.
25:59Wilbock and Kuhn's discovery has led to subsequent studies,
26:02allowing us to consider that if Atlantis existed,
26:05it could perfectly be located in the south of Spain,
26:08the place where we now focus our search.
26:11But first, it is convenient to break a spear
26:14in favor of those who, decades ago,
26:17proposed that Atlantis could be under these Marismas,
26:20and were branded as crazy and marginalized by orthodox science.
26:23Because at the beginning of the 20th century,
26:26the German archaeologist Adolf Sulten
26:29and the British George Bonsore
26:32already endorsed this idea.
26:35GERMAN ARCHEOLOGIST
26:40Claudio, years after the discovery of the Germans,
26:43you started your own studies
26:46and joined an international team.
26:49How did that research begin?
26:52The Supreme Council of Scientific Research proposed a project in Doñana,
26:55which, in some way, was based or tried to elucidate
26:58that hypothesis of the images that were.
27:01A superficial prospect was proposed,
27:04and at that time we were working on the Vodafone Valley,
27:07and we were finding anomalies,
27:10some rocks, some geological structures,
27:13that could be very interesting,
27:16because they were also linked to the habitat, that there was land inside.
27:19Submerged ruins.
27:22The pieces of this great puzzle begin to square off,
27:25and scientists will be attracted by its history,
27:28like the professor of the American University of Hathor, Richard Freund.
27:31We were talking with Richard Freund,
27:34and he found interesting the results we were obtaining with the sonar
27:37and everything that was submerged.
27:40From the knowledge of that submerged habitat,
27:43we began to present the results and we joined the general framework of the research.
27:49The study is conscientious,
27:52with the support of satellite photographs,
27:55electrical tomographies to detect the different formations of the subsurface,
27:58digital cartography and paleoclimatic analysis,
28:01several meters below the sea level will be detected,
28:04and under the waters of the coast of the Gulf of Cádiz,
28:07constructions that were made or used by man
28:10more than 10,000 years ago,
28:13revealing that those who inhabited them
28:16were much more advanced than we could ever imagine.
28:23What did you find? What data?
28:26We found a set of geological structures
28:29that were not characterized.
28:32That was important.
28:35In a sedimentary environment, there were geological structures
28:38that had emerged in past times.
28:41Those geological structures,
28:44which in some cases are very well known in the Chipiona area,
28:47called the fishing corrals,
28:50are dated from the Neolithic,
28:53and we found, in more depth, very similar structures.
28:56We did a series of diving
28:59and we found that some of those structures
29:02had an alteration made by man.
29:05It caught our attention, because for man to have made an alteration
29:08in those geological structures,
29:11that alteration would have to have been made
29:14when that structure had emerged on the very shore of the sea.
29:17Then we would have to go back to 9,000 or 10,000 BC.
29:23If we are talking about human structures from 10,000 years ago,
29:26we have to immerse ourselves in these waters,
29:29because the coast of that time has nothing to do with the coast of today.
29:32It is several miles from the present.
29:35And if there are still remains of the Atlantic,
29:38we are aware that this is the best place to find them.
29:41All the information we have gathered
29:44throughout our research,
29:47supported by geologists, archaeologists and historians,
29:50leads us to think that under us there are structures
29:53that were occupied in the time of the Atlantean myth,
29:56and also later,
29:59at least until the waters, or some natural disaster,
30:02forced its inhabitants to leave or die.
30:05If such structures are there,
30:08it will confirm that more than ten millennia ago
30:11man inhabited these lands then emerged,
30:14being part of a great civilization, absolutely unknown.
30:20THE COAST
30:29And Claudio, could there be human settlements there?
30:32There is no doubt that the habitat of the intern,
30:35of the people who lived inside, traded on the coast.
30:38They had their port structures or their foundations on the coast.
30:41This is where trade took place.
30:44So it is clear that there is a habitat that is purely coastal.
30:47It is a habitat that is subject to trauma,
30:50in all that transgression of the sea level that is changing.
30:53And it is in those coastal levels where, obviously,
30:56settlements were produced, either for trade,
30:59or for the construction of infrastructure,
31:02or for the construction of any votive element.
31:05They are all under the sea right now.
31:10At a depth of 12 meters,
31:13the first formations begin to emerge.
31:16It is necessary to avoid nerves,
31:19because, covered by algae and underwater vegetation,
31:22what appear to be vertical walls, stairs, pavements,
31:25appear. For a sector of geology,
31:28they are the product of sea currents.
31:31But, even if that were the case,
31:34archaeologists themselves argue that,
31:37given their peculiar characteristics,
31:40at some point they were used by man.
31:43What could have happened here, in that distant time?
31:54The formation of these rocks has three stages.
31:57The first is a stage in which the waves build beaches.
32:00Therefore, it accumulates sediment and generates the formation.
32:03Then there is a second stage,
32:06in which that formation is cemented and becomes rock.
32:09And then there is a third stage,
32:12in which the rock is quarried and regular blocks are formed.
32:15Of course, once you have,
32:18that nature has forged you regular blocks,
32:21forming those straight angles,
32:24and those edges, and that perfect block,
32:27that makes it easier for later,
32:30if at a certain moment that formation has been exposed
32:33to the human being, the human being could have used those blocks
32:36and could have moved them and used them to make their structure.
32:40But who modelled these rocks,
32:43in such an ancient time?
32:46What means did they have at their disposal
32:49to work these immense blocks, now submerged?
32:52Is it a civilization extraordinarily advanced for its time,
32:55of which, by the way, nothing is what we know,
32:58because hardly anything is what has come to us?
33:01Could the Atlantis of Plato have reached this point?
33:10Under the waters, more than 10,000 years ago,
33:13the formations that we are showing you for the first time
33:16were emerging.
33:19So, even though they are natural,
33:22man will mould them at will, adapting them to his needs.
33:25Now, how did he do it?
33:28What technique did he use? And where did he learn it?
33:31It has happened many times.
33:34The human being, taking advantage of what his environment offers him,
33:37uses everything that adapts to his needs.
33:40What is surprising in this aquatic environment
33:43is that it was made too long ago,
33:46so much so that this land, now in the depths,
33:49was emerging.
33:52And those who did it seem to be a structured society.
33:55I have no doubt that if there are coastal settlements
33:58of that entity of those years,
34:01which are on the coastline and need construction material,
34:04they will take it from their immediate environment, which is that.
34:07Now, that has to be scientifically proven,
34:10and the real use that is given to that fracture,
34:13to those fractured elements, to that fractured rock,
34:16is really an anthropic use.
34:19That is where science faces a real challenge.
34:22But if there were remains of that antiquity,
34:25what civilization would we be talking about?
34:28The truth is, Lorenzo, that we should rewrite history.
34:31In the case of Plato,
34:34and looking at the different discoveries that have been made,
34:37both in the marisms and their concentric circles,
34:40as under the waters and their submerged remains,
34:43it seems evident that this area of the Gulf of Cádiz
34:46has all the necessary characteristics
34:49to match perfectly with the story of the Greek philosopher.
34:52It is located beyond the columns of Hercules,
34:55which does not force us to go further into the ocean,
34:58where we already know,
35:01based on the tectonic theory of plates,
35:04that it is impossible that there is a sunken island.
35:07But it is also that these ancient populations fish,
35:10work the metal in an almost miraculous way
35:13and sell it to other peoples.
35:16Is this metal the mythical Oricalco Atlante?
35:19We'll see soon.
35:22This question begins to become clearer
35:25if we move a little further north,
35:28not too far from where the extraordinary Tartessic treasure was found.
35:31Claudio, 280 km from Huelva
35:34is the temple of Cancho Roano.
35:37What is so interesting about this place?
35:40What is the most important thing? What does it have to do with all this history?
35:43The ritual space of Cancho Roano is a temple that, let's say, is isolated.
35:46It is a temple that, when it was discovered,
35:49it was automatically considered a ritual space.
35:52The most interesting thing about Cancho Roano is that it has four levels.
35:55The lowest level, level D,
35:58is a level where there are foundations of Tartessic cabins.
36:01And from there, certain elements were incorporated
36:04that gave more complexity to the construction.
36:07The great connection it has with all this that we are dealing with, Lorenzo,
36:10is that there are icons in that ritual space
36:13that connects with great myths.
36:16And it is also a space that has to be thought of
36:19because it was a flooded temple that, over time,
36:22became almost a place of pilgrimage,
36:25where ex-voters with votive themes from other later cultures have been found.
36:28Somehow, whoever went there
36:31connected with a very old tradition,
36:34with a mythical tradition.
36:37Professor Richard Freund has not hesitated
36:40when relating the temple of Cancho Roano
36:43in the extreme locality of Zalamea de la Serena with Atlantis.
36:46We will see this later,
36:49because the first thing that draws attention in this place
36:52is the presence of a seal of sacred metallurgy
36:55found during the dynasty of Amenhotep I, 3,500 years ago.
36:58And inside this iconography,
37:01there is a slab in which a kind of soldier appears
37:04with concentric circles. What is this?
37:07Well, in principle, there is a slab in the basement
37:10that is almost closing the temple,
37:13as if it were a shield. Or probably not.
37:16It is probably a warrior who is guarding a city
37:19that does have those concentric circles.
37:22Freund's interpretation, the interpretation we were working on,
37:25seems to me to be a very seductive hypothesis.
37:31What is he doing here?
37:34What does it have to do with the culture that raised this sacred building
37:37millennia ago?
37:40It seems to me that this culture worked with metal
37:43at a time when nobody did.
37:46But there is more.
37:49At the door of the temple there is a slab with a warrior
37:52next to several concentric circles,
37:55which has been interpreted as an element of that lost civilization.
37:58Plato, who lived in the Iron Age, therefore with many metals,
38:01spoke and wrote that Atlantis was the civilization
38:04that exploded and discovered the oricalco,
38:07which is the oricalco.
38:10I go back to 11,000 years ago,
38:13when we were not yet in the age of metals.
38:16We were still with the stone, carved, not even polished.
38:19And if the theory is good that Atlantis was the first
38:22to learn to handle and melt metals,
38:25I suppose that the oricalco would be the easiest metal,
38:28the most malleable, the easiest to work with
38:31and abundant in the area, which is copper,
38:35The sacred metal of Atlantis will be extracted from Mother Earth.
38:38It does not mix with another.
38:41And this, like in the myth, only occurs in the north of Huelva,
38:44where more than 6,000 years ago native copper was already processed.
38:47Is this Plato's oricalco?
38:50Claudio, if we put aside the myth of Atlantis,
38:53assuming it is a myth,
38:56what civilization had the knowledge 5,000 years ago
38:59precisely to process, to create copper?
39:02Here lived a civilization of the Chalcolithic,
39:05which had developed a complex social structure.
39:08It had developed its own technology to process copper.
39:11And what is most interesting, Lorenzo,
39:14is that when different contexts were excavated in this environment,
39:17they found that there were bovine bones.
39:20I imagine that these animals were used to go for the mineral
39:23and even to transport it to the coast.
39:26Bivalves have been found here, which indicates that there is direct contact
39:29with the sea.
39:32The interesting thing is that we are talking about a commercial network,
39:35we are talking about an industrial development,
39:38we are talking about a technological development, 5,000 years ago,
39:41of metal processing.
39:44As we are seeing throughout our research,
39:47the towns of more than 10,000 years ago were located on the shores of seas and marinas
39:50because here was the necessary food for their survival.
39:53This good could be a normal day in the lives of these people,
39:56but they are not aware of the terrible catastrophe that is coming upon them.
40:27Plato tells us about an unprecedented natural disaster.
40:30In a single night, the wrath of nature will turn against man,
40:33crushing everything in its path.
40:36Like in a cursed dream,
40:39the towns of that time will be engulfed in the depths of the sea.
40:42And with them, their houses, their lives, their history,
40:45which from that moment on will become legend.
40:48Juan Antonio, how can we determine
40:51if tsunamis have occurred in this area of the coast of Huelva?
40:54And most importantly, how can we know when?
40:57Well, really, when a tsunami occurs on any coast,
41:00it always leaves a layer known as a tsunami.
41:03In this case, in this area, different layers of tsunamis
41:06usually appear in the surveys,
41:09and then it is enough to make carbon-14 datations
41:12of each of them to have those events dated.
41:15Did a disaster of that magnitude occur?
41:18The tests we have carried out show that, indeed,
41:21large tsunamis have developed
41:24that could fit with the time of the myth.
41:27But nevertheless, you have obtained records
41:30from the 6th century BC, right?
41:33Yes, records from the 6th century BC,
41:36clearly recorded not only in geology,
41:39but also in the archeology of the Tartessian period
41:42under the city of Huelva,
41:45and records from 2500 BC.
41:58And other mega-tsunamis,
42:01which, just as the geological evidence reveals,
42:04go back to the times in which Plato placed the sunken continent.
42:07And some will destroy everything that rises from the primitive coast,
42:11up to 50 kilometers inland.
42:14Therefore, the Atlantean myth,
42:17now we can say it, has a real origin.
42:21The records we have obtained throughout our research
42:24show that this sequence of tsunamis occurs,
42:27and that the devastation of coastal populations will be total,
42:30forcing those peoples to flee to safer places.
42:34Everything indicates that a powerful unknown civilization
42:37settled in the south of Spain millennia ago,
42:40capable of working the stone and metals
42:43as it had never been seen before.
42:46At this point, the data coincide.
42:49The destruction of this advanced people was real.
42:52The tsunamis existed.
42:55And oblivion, that balsam that cures everything,
42:58led them to mythify the drama they suffered,
43:01turning it into the greatest legend in history.
43:05In many occasions it has been seen
43:07how what was considered a myth for a long time,
43:09reality has confirmed it.
43:11What do I believe? I would like it to exist,
43:13a poetic, beautiful thing,
43:15but it is up to archaeologists to discover it so that it is science.
43:19My particular opinion,
43:21that it could perfectly exist, have existed,
43:24and also, and it is surprising, have been in Spain.
43:27I am convinced that under the coasts of the Gulf of Cádiz,
43:30at different depths,
43:32we have several beach lines.
43:34In those coastlines, there were ancient towns,
43:37ancient towns that were able to work the metal,
43:40they were able to have a commercial network with the East.
43:43I have to try it scientifically,
43:45but I am convinced that under the waters of the Gulf of Cádiz
43:48an ancient civilization is hidden,
43:50which will probably lead us to be able to rewrite history.
43:53There are those who still think that the myth of Atlantis
43:56is typical of madmen or poets.
43:58They believe that Atlantis was the passage of time
44:01and that it would now be being studied by archaeologists,
44:04geologists and historians.
44:06As they have been able to verify,
44:08there are enough elements to think that behind this legend,
44:11more or less ornamented,
44:13there could be a real natural catastrophe.
44:16That said, whether by madmen or poets,
44:18we believe that Atlantis existed
44:20and that today it would still be submerged
44:22at some point between Europe and Africa,
44:24waiting for someone to find it.
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