Lost Civilizations, Part 2: The Egyptian Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, and the Aksumites.

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🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to part two on our series on the greatest lost civilizations in history. Today we are looking at three groups: The Egytian Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, and the Aksumites. These three groups are particularly beloved by believers in extra-terrestrials and religious myths.
They ask questions like these: Did the builders of the pyramids handy craftsmen, whose method of transporting massive stones are still unexplainable, simply disappear or were they part of an advanced alien race? Did the Nabateans hide the Holy Grail? Was the Kingdom of Aksum really the keeper of the Ark of the Covenant, and did this lead to their downfall?

Learn why these myths persist today in this episode.

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1:05.2	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, myth busts historical lies,
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1:15.2	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:19.2	Hi everyone, welcome to part two on our series on Lost Civilizations.
1:32.0	In the last episode, we looked at the myth of Atlantis, the Indus Valley Civilization,
1:36.6	and the Cucatini Trippilian culture.
1:39.6	In this episode, we're going to be moving closer to the cradle of civilization in the Near East.
1:44.3	We'll look at the Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, who inhabited modern
1:48.4	New Jordan, and the Kingdom of Oxum in Ethiopia.
1:53.6	Let's start out in Egypt and look at the people who built up the Pyramids from 2700 to 1700 BC.
2:01.5	To some, they were skilled craftsmen, to others, they were visitors from another planet.
2:07.4	But let's actually begin our examination in 1990.
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