For over 15 years, explorer and author Marco Vigato has been researching the origins of civilization and mystery traditions around the world. He joined guest host Richard Syrett (Twitter) on Friday night to discuss the reality of Atlantis and its influence on the ancient civilizations that followed. According to Vigato, there was a great reset of civilization during the Younger Dryas period which coincided roughly with end of the last Ice Age. The world had begun warming and then something happened which caused temperatures to plunge again, he reported. "Nobody can really explain what happened at that time," Vigato said, suggesting the cataclysmic cold was caused by the impact of a large fragmenting comet that ultimately destroyed civilization.
After this period there appears to be a re-emergence of civilization from an advanced pre-cataclysm civilization. Later ancient civilizations, such as Gobekli Tepe, are vestiges of Atlantis, Vigato continued. "We see a global effort at reconstruction, rebuilding the civilization that existed before the cataclysm," he explained, pointing to the huge surge in construction of monolithic structures. He revealed how Gobekli Tepe, the oldest archaeological site on the planet, featured sophisticated architecture and a system of hieroglyphic writing thousands of years before ancient Egypt. "Somebody came to Gobekli Tepe... from somewhere else bringing an already advanced civilization and culture," he said, noting they taught the local people Atlantean knowledge but over time much of it was lost.
Vigato also commented on Plato's writings about Atlantis, noting the geographic area he described corresponds to the current Azores islands. The island chain may merely be the tops of the mountains of a sunken Atlantis, he disclosed.
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