The Basement: Luke Caverns | How One Mistranslated Number Has Hidden Atlantis for Centuries

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Luke Caverns is an anthropologist and explorer who's mapped over 80 ancient archaeological sites using LIDAR — sites that don't appear on any map. His grandfather found and lost seven gold mines in New Mexico. Luke found them again.

Now he's planning the largest LIDAR scan ever done in the Amazon. We also go deep into Alexander the Great's missing body, the Were Jaguar cults of the Olmecs, and the Minoan civilization that may have been Atlantis.

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - LIDAR and the Mound Builder World: Luke's Secret 3-Year Project
09:00 - Reagan Family Secrets: Cattle Rustlers and the Lost Gold of West Texas
18:26 - Grandfather's Seven Lost Gold Mines of New Mexico
26:09 - Finding the Mines on Google Earth After 9 Months
35:35 - The Grandfather He Never Knew (and the Dream That Proved He Was There)
46:06 - 1.7 GPA to Anthropologist: The Unlikely Path of an Explorer
55:50 - Meeting Dr. Ed Barnhart Over Tacos, Then His First Pyramid
1:08:26 - Wet Socks, Half Rations & 200+ River Crossings: What Expeditions Really Look Like
1:32:39 - Alexander the Great's Life: From Obscure Kingdom to God-King at 22
1:50:00 - Why Ptolemy Founded Alexandria (And Stole Alexander's Body to Do It)
2:15:08 - Cleopatra's Last Gambit and the Final Mystery: Where Is Alexander's Body?
2:43:36 - The Olmecs: A Civilization That Appeared With No Warning and No Origins
3:06:16 - Feathered Serpents, Dragons & What Ancient People Were Really Seeing
3:29:42 - The Were Jaguar Theory: Shamans, Cleft Palates, and a Power War in Stone
4:04:49 - The Minoans: Hot and Cold Running Water While Greece Was Living in Mud
4:20:51 - Zero Casualties from the Largest Eruption in Human History (Then They Vanished)

#AncientCivilizations #LostHistory #Atlantis #AJGentile #LukeCaverns

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Executive Producers:
Jennifer Gentile
Gino Gentile
AJ Gentile
Patreon Members

Editors:
Joe Stone
Drew Sullivan
Brandon Snyder
Ryan Fitzgerald

Producers:
Victoria Young
Haley Burke

Research:
Haley Burke
AJ Gentile
Gino Gentile
Jen Gentile
Victoria Young

Written/Hosted by:
AJ Gentile
Hecklefish J. Moriarty

Thank You Mods:
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With Music on Repeat
by Victor Lundberg

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