We are the descendants of an ancient civilization, one which mastered technology, mapped the cosmos and understood our relationship with the natural world.

Our ancestors traveled the world and built enormous structures. They scaled their creations into cities. They shared a common governance and similar religious beliefs.

Our ancestors lived as we do today as a global society. Then around 14,500 years ago, this global superpower started to collapse.

First came uncontrollable change and then a cataclysm. In less than a week, everything and almost everyone was gone. Those left behind built monuments.

Monuments not as tributes the gods who are homage to kings, the monuments are a warning to future generations. To us, that warning is simple, danger is coming.

Our civilization has ended before and it will end again. This is one story that big archaeology and world governments don't want you to know.

Because once you hear it, you'll never trust them again. Because the danger that's coming, there's not a thing they can do to stop it.

In 1994, German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt was touring Turkish Neolithic sites when he spotted a limestone block poking out from a hillside.

The locals called the area pot belly hill or in their language, go back to the temple. Schmidt and his team began excavating the hillside around the limestone.

And though they didn't know it at the time, what they discovered would change everything we know about human history.

We've all been taught the official story, the big archaeology story of the origin of human civilization.

Stone Age hunter-gatherers emerged from the last ice age and eventually discovered farming. These people organized into settlements in Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent.

Then about 6000 years ago, the first civilization was born, ancient Sumer. Stone Age humans before Sumer were primitive. Their most advanced technology was stone tools.

At Gobekli Tepe, archaeologists uncovered four man-made stone enclosures covering 100,000 square feet of land. That's interesting, but there was a problem.

The earliest parts of Gobekli Tepe were built 11,600 years ago. That's 6000 years before the ancient Sumerians were doing anything. Now this didn't make sense at all.

11,600 years ago was the end of the last ice age. Big archaeology said that this far back in time, humans were following the migration of animals.

They built temporary camps where at most mud huts. Humans were not building enormous permanent stone structures. They didn't have the knowledge. They didn't have the tools. They didn't have the talent. Yet, here it was.

So the more they dug, the more things stopped making sense. Soon archaeologists learned that the enclosures weren't built at the same time.

This indicates long-term occupation of the site. Well, how long? Well, the newest structure was built about 10,500 years ago.

That means Gobekli Tepe was occupied for over a thousand years. Now a thousand years doesn't sound that long, but in human history a thousand years is a very long time.

That's enough time for the Roman Empire to rise and fall and rise and fall again.

The excavation of Gobekli Tepe continued, and from the perspective of the scientific establishment, things just kept getting worse. Gobekli Tepe wasn't haphazardly thrown together by stone age primitives. It was built strategically for a purpose.

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