Robert sent in some links that focus on the idea of former advanced civilisations. One such is Chinese pyramids. Watch the video and make up your own minds.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqvEz73s-c … They are officially described as ‘natural hill features’ so there is an argument if they are man made or natural. There is no reason why they might be man made as we have a heavenly parallel to the pyramids, as described by Clube and Napier in their book, The Cosmic Winter. The zodiacal lights. The disintegration of a comet, over a long period of time, shedding fragments and a lot of dust and debris, injects a large amount of that dust into the zodiacal cloud – and the latter is reflected by sunlight. In the early evening, or just before sunrise, they appear as a beautiful pyramid of light that can be seen rising out of the horizon, lying along the line of the zodiacal constellations. In the tropics, even nowadays, it can rival in brightness the Milky Way. With an enhanced amount of newly created dust, at times this would have been quite a striking phenomenon. The Chinese were fascinated by what was going on in the night sky, from meteor showers to sun halos and all kinds of transient phenomena. The zodiacal light would have intrigued. We have the Egyptian pyramids, and pre European American pyramids, as an established fact, as well as the ziggurats of Sumeria and Babylonia and various structures in ancient India. China may have been too far north, as a whole, but if these pyramids were in southern China they would be close to the tropics. After all, it could be that Silbury Hill in southern England was created as a pyramid like structure, and that is in the temperate zone and not too distant from cold north. There are plenty of videos being made by people outside the mainstream bubble. Robert has been looking at Robert Sepehr. He wrote a book, ‘Species with Amnesia; Our Forgotten History‘ and there have been many other attempts to drum up an interest in Lost Worlds and Forgotten History [usually as a result of unusual archaeology].
Is he the new Graham Hancock? The latter was a mixture of genuine and speculative and no doubt Sepehr may prove to be somewhat similar. Robert did also provide a link to another more interesting storyline. Lost civilisations of Amazonia – see https://theconversation.com/great-mysteries-of-archaeology-an-ancient-amazonian-world-revealed-from-the-sky-282006 … Amazonia is the rain forest belt between the Andes and the Atlantic, reaching northwards into Venezuela, and embracing the equator and beyond in the south. The rain forest is currently being raided for balsa trees as they are used in wind turbines. In this story we have LiDAR technology. It peers through trees and vegetation and provides a glimpse of bumps and lumps on the ground. Bumps and linear features are the bread and butter of archaeologists. It provides somewhere to push or scrape with their trowels. However, the LiDAR survey itself is done by light aircraft flying above the trees. So, it would be a very long project to carry through all of Amazonia. This has not happened. Selected locations have been chosen, mostly around the periphery of the rain forest, or in regions where savannah conditions may have been intermittent in the past. The Llanos de Moxos for example. Or rather, a section of the Llanos, in the SE portion. Human activity there is dated between AD500 and 1400. When it strangely disappeared. About the time the Black Death decimated populations in Europe and Asia. If there is a link it would require being spread via the atmosphere, like bird flu – in order to break out spontaneously in different parts of the world. Plague can also be spread person to person – although the official reason is that it was spread by rats, especially ship rats that then escaped and ran across the countryside, wiping out huge numbers of people, rich and poor. The disappearance of this civilisation occurred quite a long time prior to European penetration of the Amazonian region. The forest had grown back by the time they got there and the presence of pyramids, plazas, canals and roads, and human settlement in general including agricultural fields, was invisible. Exactly as occurred in the forested regions occupied by the Maya in central America. Even now new cities are being found and temples and pyramids etc. Or the lost civilisation of Angkor in the Cambodian tropical forest. LiDAR aerial surveys are revolutionising archaeology, in many regions of the world. Even here in the UK. The Maya appear to have switched location on a regular basis. This seems to have a connection with movements in the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, a tropical jet stream.
Aerial LiDAR has also been used to discover human activity elsewhere in Amazonia. Such as the Upana Valley, a mountain forest on the eastern flanks of Ecuadorian Andes [between AD 500 and 700]. A connection with other human complexes higher in the Andes may be appropriate – but yet to be confirmed. Another region explored was Upper Xingu in central Brazil and the Sierra de Sante Marte in Columbia. And so on. They all appear to have fallen into decline before the arrival of Europeans. Why? It has been a mainstream lynchpin that the arrival of Europeans introduced novel diseases into the Americas, collapsing the population.
The Conversation link is an excellent read but it was taken up by a Creationist web site to which Robert also sent a url – see https://crev.info/2026/06/jw-lost-world-amazon-lidar/ …. Here it has a definite agenda. The idea is to attack mainstream scientists and their assumptions. Particularly the idea of the evolution of humans from primitive to modern. The author, however, cares to not mention those primitive tribes in the rainforest. Still there. Some of them completely refuse contact with the outside world and shake their spears at passing aircraft. They have retreated deeper and deeper in order to avoid contact – but they would have been much more common across Amazonia in the past. This suggests large parts of the rainforest have not experienced human activity such as agriculture or the building of settlements with large architectural buildings. That fact alone disputes the thrust of the Creationist author, as primitive humans tend to suggest humans have evolved, and adapted, over time. Only a fraction of the rainforest has been surveyed by LiDAR, and only a fraction of what has been surveyed has been investigated by archaeologists on the ground.
Both links are worth looking at – but always, be sceptical of the opinions of others. I can remember going to an archaeological talk at least 20 years ago, and probably longer, when the findings at the Llanos de Moxos had first been explored. The inhabitants had improved the quality of the soil by the use of organic matter and other residues as well as what was being called black carbon. Nowadays the whole improvement is referred to as dark earth. The black carbon appears to have included wood and plant material, that was burnt and blackened. The rumour was it was some magical formula for improving farm land. That high moment has subsided as people have experimented with it. It is unclear if the burnt material was the result of landscape fires with a human or natural origin, such as lightning. It led, ultimately, to the development of bagged compost with added black carbon. As most garden soils are quite fertile I would imagine it doesn’t do very much. However, if your garden was stripped of top soil by the developer and sold as an extra little earner, and then the soil would be depleted and enriched compost might be a good idea. After all, that was what had happened in the Amazon, Poor soils were improved so that maize could be grown. Various people thought that charcoal, produced in large amounts for the barbecue market, could become a hot product in garden centres. That was not to be.
It should also be born in mind that LiDAR aerial surveys are common in Europe, North America, and Asia. In order to peer through trees and vegetation as in the rainforest. The Amazonia surveys are really an expansion of this technology.