The Basement: Luke Caverns | LiDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding
5/27/20264 hr 51 min
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
Today, I'm talking with Luke Caverns, an anthropologist and explorer who's flagged over 100 archeological sites that aren't on any map. He's planning the largest LIDAR scan of the Amazon ever attempted. Uh, what? Is he trying to see Jeff Bezos naked? Not that Amazon, the Amazon jungle. Ah, that makes more sense. LIDAR fires laser pulses from aircraft through the jungle canopy and maps what's buried underneath. And over the last few years, it's been revealing mega cities and ancient highways, a civilization buried under the Amazon that nobody knew was there. Today, we're covering that, the Minoans of Crete as Plato's Atlantis, and the Olmecs and their jaguar priest cult. Yeah, a cult based on cats? Hard pass. He also has a theory about what happened to Alexander the Great's body that I hadn't heard before. It's pretty interesting. As always, after the episode, I'll come back in and do a breakdown of what we covered, what I can prove, and what I can't. Until then, let's go down to the basement. [upbeat music] Luke, welcome to the basement.
Luke Caverns· Guest1:04
Hey, man. Thank you so much for having me here. This is amazing.
Speaker 11:07
I'm so excited. I've got a whole, so much to talk to you about. We're gonna go all over the ancient world. I'm not a professional. It's chaos. J- just bear with me.
Luke Caverns· Guest1:17
It's all right.
Speaker 11:17
[laughs] Um, so I just want to start with, of all the sites that you've looked at, what was the, what was the one or the one that sticks with you that goes, that makes you go, "That is not natural.