The Ancient Civilizations The Elites Tried To Bury
5/7/20261 hr 1 min
What if our history is a carefully curated fiction?
I sit down with Michael Button to expose the dark underbelly of mainstream archaeology—from confiscated tools in Mexico to the ruined careers of scientists who found "the wrong thing." We’re diving into the 1-million-year-old evidence that elite institutions are desperate to keep hidden.
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Michael Button· Guest0:57
The entirety of human civilization, everything that you've read about has occurred in just the most recent 0.2% of our story, and everything before that [dramatic music] It's very likely that humans were doing more sophisticated things than the, quote-unquote, "mainstream explanation of prehistory" allows for. So for example, they found- There's a one-million-year-old skull?
Andrew Gold· Host1:19
What is this?
Michael Button· Guest1:20
The skull that was found in China in the 1990s.
Andrew Gold· Host1:23
You've just blown my mind. What's the single discovery that if it got mainstream attention would rewrite the history books overnight?