Antarctica Civilization Origins

Now on Spotify with Video! https://open.spotify.com/show/57DWFx0n8eUmRyAMGTnWIO What if the most extraordinary ruins on Earth are hidden beneath the Antarctic ice? In this episode I’m joined by Rand Flem-Ath, co-author of *When the Sky Fell* and *Atlantis Beneath the Ice*, whose work has argued for decades that Antarctica may preserve the remains of a lost prehistoric civilization. Drawing on ancient maps, Plato’s account of Atlantis, global catastrophe traditions and Charles Hapgood’s theory of Earth-crust displacement, Flem-Ath has pursued one of the most controversial possibilities in alternative history: that Antarctica was once far more hospitable and that traces of an early civilization may still lie beneath the ice. We look at the strange pyramid-shaped formations that have fuelled speculation about Antarctica, the old maps said to preserve knowledge of a different southern continent, and the possibility that stories of catastrophic change preserved across ancient cultures contain memories of real events. We also get into what Antarctica may have looked like in the distant past, why Flem-Ath connects the continent with Atlantis, and how his ideas developed from the earlier work of Charles Hapgood. The claims remain heavily disputed, but the questions lead into a much larger mystery: how much of the human past could still be hidden beneath one of the least explored landscapes on the planet?