Azores: Echoes of an Ancient Civilization

[@WorldOutofTime]

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[@karentrimmer]

My step-grandfather was born and raised in Pico, Azores. migrating to the US when he was 18, just after WWI. I've seem home movies of my grandparents traveling there in the 1950s, mostly showing family members, and heard stories of family history. This is the first time I've ever heard anything about the island's history. Thank you.

[@SkatingErinsMom]

My grandmother was from Flores, moved to the US by herself when a young adult. A very gentle, lovely woman!

[@hardbodyhappiness]

This is so beautiful. Wonderful storytelling and cinematography

[@johnnunes2993]

My homeland, born there in 1972, most beautiful islands on this planet

[@mjproebstle]

I was stationed on Tercera for 3 years! We hiked the calderas and cinder cones and lava tubes and caves all over the island. So beautiful and untouched!

[@Foundry_made]

My dad was stationed there, at Lajes AFB, I was a kid but I remember enough to know there's no place like it on earth. I WILL go back there before I die.

[@jayneroberts919]

Really nice video, thank you!

[@WorldOutofTime]

Thank you for watching!

[@grantyboy0311]

I’ve never seen a more beautiful group of islands.

[@philipponte5643]

Thank you!!😊

[@MysteryMan404]

What about Thailand or Philippine islands?

[@grantyboy0311]

@@MysteryMan404 nope

[@paulveenings6861]

What an absolutely fascinating place. Thank you for showing us 🙏

[@nozrep]

how did he get this good at filming films to only have 280 subscribers so far? Welcome to youtube! haha well better late than never!

[@albornozale]

Need to visit this island, looks amazing!

[@terceiratours]

In this video you can see 4 different islands. The Azores are 9 islands different from each other. Paradise :)

[@iminencia]

Awesome vid, we need part ,2

[@WorldOutofTime]

Thank you, stay tuned!

[@aaronmckey6226]

I was just there for over 2 weeks and on 3 islands. Flores is full of these spiral mounds and they are massive. Some of them look like they were just exposed as they had a forest of trees on them.

[@britesdalmeida370]

My beloved beautiful Açores ❤❤❤ .

[@Pico8015]

Great video, thank you❤

[@jamestregler1584]

Lovely thanks so much from old New Orleans 😇 !

[@charlieclubers]

Incredible!

[@keithnewton1966]

No mention of the statute that was dismantled by a Spanish king of a person riding a horse bareback, or the pyramid discovered just a hundred feet beneath the surface of sea between two of the islands.

[@WorldOutofTime]

There is a lot out there to discuss. Some things that we filmed did not make it into the final cut of the video, but we’re thinking of heading back there in the future and doing a part 2!

[@GoncaloCruzMaker]

Spanish king??? Could you elaborate?

[@trippycaterpillar]

The pyramid thing has been debunked

[@slappy8941]

A statute and a statue are different things.

[@wout123100]

@@trippycaterpillar it always amazes me how peoppe so easily believe in nonsens, and cannot accept science..crazy

[@hHarVv]

19:03 the entire floor is carved into tiles +also looks like a massive stone brick retaining wall slopped into the cliff +looks like a third chamber carved into the mountain side to the top right of the water tank. +and to the far left we see the foundation of a massive tower/keep

[@Binayadriano]

Esta increíble!! 😍

[@stijnjanssens571]

19:00 is it just me or does it look like there is a 3rd chamber a little further back to the right?

[@WorldOutofTime]

yeah, it is! that one is a bit more elusive though. It was not very clear to us what its purpose could have been, and there was no information about it in the studies that we read. So it remains a mystery, like the rest, haha.

[@stijnjanssens571]

@WorldOutofTime the mysteries keep expanding haha

[@AncientAtlántida]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you. Have you been back lately? Would you be interested in expanding this into a narrative doc somehow?

[@WorldOutofTime]

@@AncientAtlántida thank you! No, we have not been back but would love to when we get the chance. And yeah we could be interested. If the opportunity were to present itself, why not!

[@Mephistopholies]

Good show! AWSM production good work!

[@WorldOutofTime]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jbos5107]

That just screams step pyramid to me, and the alignment makes sense if you accept that we don't really know what pyramids are all about. Monuments to something we can't understand. Very interesting video. I hope you do make a part 2.

[@WorldOutofTime]

Thank you! It’s hard not to perceive them as such. We were there for a full week basically alone accompanied only by a few farmers, all the while these huge structures staring back at us. The whole thing was surreal. Let’s hope more archaeological research is done here so we can get some answers.

[@cinnamongirl5410]

The ocean used to be much more shallow a few thousand years ago. I'd be very interested in diving there. There may be evidence under the rock off the islands. They may have been connected as a land mass, with what we see now as Islands were the mountain tops of a large land mass.

[@mnomadvfx]

It's really not as much as you think it is. 120m difference from 20,000 yrs ago to the modern sea level. Compare that to the average deoth of the Atlantic Ocean which is 3,646 m (11,962 ft) and it's really not as impressive as you think it is. Also they are volcanic islands like Hawaii. There's no reason for them to be connected beyond being literally right next to each other.

[@jplater9191]

Imagination seems to be the way this museum director dismisses taking seriously the obvious signs of earlier human activity. As a museum director one would expect a little more scientific curiosity…

[@MetaphysicalZero]

It can also be he is hiding something don’t take a book for his cover Portuguese are masters of hiding secrets

[@MrG100000008]

People only "care" about history to fill their own egos, especially when there are no objective proof

[@gamehavenstl9485]

Went to google translate & decoded all three plaques. I would post the picture, but I can't here. Let me know if you want the image :)

[@cacogenicist]

I guess it's possible Carthage tried to start a colony there. Not a totally crazy idea.

[@mountainfolk7942]

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[@Dragonsitter]

The region of the Azores, site of Atlantis, destroyed by the upheaval of the earth, sub ducted during glacial isostatic movement?

[@MrAmhara]

That would more likely have been the Canary Islands. Or mainland Africa.

[@franciscorompana2985]

14:21 It is claimed the greatest long-distance flight recorded by a pigeon is one that started at Arras in France and ended in Saigon, Vietnam, back in 1931. The distance was 11,600km (7,200 miles) and took 24 days. 🕊️ SOURCE: AP

[@gregb6469]

Very scenic place.

[@pedrocabral4498]

Paradise

[@valeriesilveira2939]

My Ancestral Home is so beautiful ❤❤❤

[@paulveenings6861]

Have you visited your ancestral home?

[@valeriesilveira2939]

Sadly no, buck it is on my bucket list..

[@MysteryMan404]

@@valeriesilveira2939you should really go. Where do you live now?

[@valeriesilveira2939]

@@MysteryMan404 At the moment I am stuck in Upper Michigan 😪

[@MysteryMan404]

@@valeriesilveira2939 oh wow. Have you been to mainland Portugal?

[@leroyavila3088]

My mom is scotch Irish and my Dad heritage is from the Azores and I have a disease that is autosomal recessive a disease that both parents have to have the same faulty chromosomes and I’m the only one that have the disease! It comes from the Germanic people! Or the Viking’s that were farmers and a many ice age,caused the people to have a bottleneck in the bloodline and therefore there are a lot of recessive diseases in Norwegian people it is Slavic peoples as well 🕊

[@alexsetterington3142]

Thankyou for scientific evidence that I could check up if I wanted to look further into Azores history. I Really appreciate it.

[@CarlRodrig]

The Iberian peninsula was invaded by Germanic tribes about 1500 years ago. In the Norwest of the peninsula existed a Suev kingdom, and in the rest of the peninsula a Visigothic kingdom. So, maybe your ancestors came form the same germanic family hundreds of years ago. 😀

[@lookabomba32]

My family is from Rabo de Peixe. Sao Miguel. My grandpa (bless his soul) would tell me stories about the islands and the folklore. My grandpa and his younger brothers would go out and look for bits and pieces of metal, usually coins, melt them at his farm and sell it. Not for much mind you. This was during the 1940s under Salazar's regime.

[@WorldOutofTime]

Thank you for sharing! We actually spent a month in Fenais Da Luz, which is very close to Rabo de Peixe. Very beautiful part of the island.

[@MysteryMan404]

Can you please share some the stories and folklore your grandpa shared?

[@lookabomba32]

@@MysteryMan404 one story he would tell me quite regularly is how the islands were not actually Portuguese. He told me from all the things he found around beaches and some old forested areas he would find strange coins some silver and bits of iron. He would say they were from the nórdico. Northmen. And how Rabo de Peixe got its name.

[@MysteryMan404]

@@lookabomba32 yeah I think there’s more history to these islands before the Portuguese got here. I wonder what secrets it has. I want to know more. I’m actually in sao Miguel now

[@Useaname]

Excellent. Subbed

[@WorldOutofTime]

Awesome, thank you!

[@damongulick3497]

That was a classic ancient dovecote. Did they find urns? Remains?

[@WorldOutofTime]

There are oven like structures inside and beside the cave where they found bone scraps. It could’ve been a dovecote, I don’t know, but I think the evidence is pointing more towards some sort of crematorium complex.

[@scottzema3103]

I believe that the Azores were part of a huge Neolithic trading network, extending from the Mediterranean through the Straights of Gibraltar, out into the Atlantic and up the coast of Europe. At the center was the Bronze Age city of 'Atlantis', perched near the Pillars of Hercules on the Atlantic side of Southern Spain, as verified by a joint American and Spanish scientific expedition about 10 years ago.

[@chrisbarriere101]

I agree it seems like there was deliberately no mention of most of the specific evidence of Egyptian settlement during the late Bronze Age. Furthermore Atlantis the city is to be clearly differentiated from Atlantis the country. So the Empire of Atlantis spanned across several modern countries but was based in Mauritania at the Eye of Sahara a.k.a. the Richat Structure also known as Guleb al Richat in Arabic. This is natural geological formation known as a cinder cone, that is probably one of the most symmetrical that we have found in the world, but it’s not unique. There’s several over the near the Lybian, Sudanese, Egyptian three-way border. This cluster of cinder cones seems to be the epicentre of bedouin Civilisation and an origin point of many domestic sheep.

[@carlosc5218]

👏👏

[@csluau5913]

You know, the more videos I see about all the things that are on these islands the more I realize that there are people really trying to keep this information out of the public domain, which is very interesting. It’s even more interesting when you pair it up with the other information about stone structures on many other Mediterranean islands and, the islands off the coast of Africa and Asia that also have mysterious stone structures. Debt defy explanation and cannot be accurately dated. This is kinda that scares the shit out of archaeologists and anthropologist, not to mention the wealthy philanthropist that tend to take a Eurocentric point of view about the whole world and how it came to be. SMH.

[@DrCorvid]

Just south of that on the plain under 17,000 feet of ocean towards northern Africa lies the rest of a huge Atlantean civilization. Look from Google earth and be overwhelmed by the sheer size, hundreds of square miles of development.

[@kaumingo]

I loved the choral music used in the final scenes of this presentation. What WAS that?

[@WorldOutofTime]

Thank you so much! That is the work of Carlo Gesualdo, he is singular in everything that he did. A fascinating character to explore as well.

[@russell8516]

Not forgotten but avoiding maybe.

[@rolandhunter791]

Such beauty, thank you, and I'm always ip for some speculation, but could I note a cultural dissonance? That catholic music while serene seems at odds with your speculation, as any catholicism surely originates with the Portuguese?

[@WorldOutofTime]

Hi Roland, thanks for your comment. We think about music often as it plays a big part in our videos. Music and cultural context is something we regularly discuss. But ultimately, our main concern was: how do we establish a certain sacrality or deep sentiment about these places. We found this music evoked these feelings; it was mostly an artistic choice. If you watch our other videos, you’ll see we tend to do this.

[@riririri100]

Who narrates this?

[@WorldOutofTime]

Luis, 1/2 of A World Out of Time!

[@riririri100]

​@@WorldOutofTime He sounds like Edgar Ramirez.

[@scottzema3103]

The cave is for dovecotes. This could well date them into recent historic times.

[@WorldOutofTime]

Hi Scott, could very well be. As I’ve mentioned in other comments, there are oven like structures inside and beside the cave where bone scraps have been found. To me, this evidence is pointing more towards some sort of crematorium complex. Of course, more conclusive evidence may be needed.

[@scottzema3103]

@@WorldOutofTime I really liked this atmospheric video. I think that the signs are unmistakable that the islands had pre-Portuguese inhabitants of some sort who were not present when the Portuguese arrived and so had died out or more likely abandoned the islands at some point. Perhaps its because the volcanic eruptions drove them away. That whole area of the Atlantic and the surrounding lands are very seismically active and historically subject to eruptions, tidal waves, and earthquakes. So is there human ash in the nooks? Also, natural caves could have had multiple uses over time, including as living quarters for humans and burial sites. Are there human bones in the ovens or animal bones? I saw the basements of houses that were excavated in Orvieto, Italy by the owners as dovecotes, so no other use of those spaces would have been possible. But as a Columbarium it would be very unusual. How would the niches have been sealed? SZ BA MA Art History and Architecture

[@joaosaraiva9425]

👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤

[@robertferreiro3466]

wow

[@v1antbo]

the 14th century not 15th

[@מוגוגוגו]

Its not columbarium , its postal bird cage.

[@rpreto72]

A museum director saying "Who cares?" to the hipothesis of human occupation of the Azores before the portuguese, is shocking. How about people with some interest on history?

[@-KillaWatt-]

Because he obviously has skin in the game. It's two fold I'd imagine. One, it would up end a life time of work and make his entire career appear pointless for upholding a belief that was wrong all. Secondly, his pride would be hurt. It would mean having to admit his ancestors weren't the original inhabitants of the island. It's funny how every time anyone in history "discovered" another land there were already people there. Humans migrated out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago and inhabited almost every piece of land in the eastern sphere of the globe yet some how these same experts can't believe ice age people 10,000yrs ago couldn't create an Atlantis or any other legendary place from the deep past.

[@alanfaulkner6329]

Atlantas.

[@Outrjs]

14:30... waffle construction just like today. Atlantis was a One world government, monetary system, and military. The attempt at a one world religion and the wickedness of its separation from the Heavenly Father brought a deluge that wiped out this wicked and adulterous generation.

[@josephwarra5043]

IEEEEE!!!

[@CancelYoutube026]

In the future, us highways would be reviewed the same way, who build these remains?

[@donthetrader]

This probably really is the location of the storied “Atlantis”.

[@wout123100]

no it isnt

[@tickletaxel1368]

​@@wout123100​Time for a geology lesson sir... Not only are the Azores exactly where Plato described Atlantis to be (west of the Pillars of Herecles (Strait of Gibraltar), past a few set of islands, but before the Americas), he even called the exact date of the supposed flood that could have been responsible (11,600 years ago), which aligns with scientific evidence of catastrophic sea level rise (known as Meltwater Pulse 1b). And that meltwater pulse, was caused by the sudden melting of the great ice sheets around the world during that time, a very fast, catastrophic melting, at the end of the Pleistocene. Since the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (where the Azores is) is some of the youngest crust on Earth, AND the Azores is locked on what is known as a 'Triple Plate Junction', which basically can act like a hinge, it's very, very plausible (and with some empirical evidence to support it) that the Azores Plateau, the underwater plateau that hosts the seamounts making up the archipelago of the Azores today, could have 'Isostatically Depressed' into the crust of the Earth, due to the massive weight of the ice sheets being lifted from North America, just like how a seesaw works... So basically, when there is an ice sheet that is the size of the current Antarctic ice sheet or bigger, placed ON North America, this causes the Azores Plateau to RAISE out of the water, and when those ice sheets MELT, and that WEIGHT is LIFTED, you get the possibility of the submergence of a landmass, just how Plato described. They're not myths, they're memories.

[@tickletaxel1368]

@@wout123100 Time for a geology lesson good sir... Not only are the Azores exactly where Plato described Atlantis to be (west of the Pillars of Herecles (Strait of Gibraltar), past a few set of islands, but before the Americas), he even called the exact date of the supposed flood that could have been responsible (11,600 years ago), which aligns with scientific evidence of catastrophic sea level rise (known as Meltwater Pulse 1b). And that meltwater pulse, was caused by the sudden melting of the great ice sheets around the world during that time, a very fast, catastrophic melting, at the end of the Pleistocene. Since the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (where the Azores is) is some of the youngest crust on Earth, AND the Azores is locked on what is known as a 'Triple Plate Junction', which basically can act like a hinge, it's very, very plausible (and with some empirical evidence to support it) that the Azores Plateau, the underwater plateau that hosts the seamounts making up the archipelago of the Azores today, could have 'Isostatically Depressed' into the crust of the Earth, due to the massive weight of the ice sheets being lifted from North America, just like how a seesaw works... So basically, when there is an ice sheet that is the size of the current Antarctic ice sheet or bigger, placed ON North America, this causes the Azores Plateau to RAISE out of the water, and when those ice sheets MELT, and that WEIGHT is LIFTED, you get the possibility of the submergence of a landmass, just how Plato described. They're not myths, they're memories.

[@tickletaxel1368]

@@wout123100 Time for a geology lesson good sir... Not only are the Azores exactly where Plato described Atlantis to be (west of the Pillars of Herecles (Strait of Gibraltar), past a few set of islands, but before the Americas), he even called the exact date of the supposed flood that could have been responsible (11,600 years ago), which aligns with scientific evidence of catastrophic sea level rise (known as Meltwater Pulse 1b). And that meltwater pulse, was caused by the sudden melting of the great ice sheets around the world during that time, a very fast, catastrophic melting, at the end of the Pleistocene. Since the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (where the Azores is) is some of the youngest crust on Earth, AND the Azores is locked on what is known as a 'Triple Plate Junction', which basically can act like a hinge, it's very, very plausible (and with some empirical evidence to support it) that the Azores Plateau, the underwater plateau that hosts the seamounts making up the archipelago of the Azores today, could have 'Isostatically Depressed' into the crust of the Earth, due to the massive weight of the ice sheets being lifted from North America, just like how a seesaw works... So basically, when there is an ice sheet that is the size of the current Antarctic ice sheet or bigger, placed ON North America, this causes the Azores Plateau to RAISE out of the water, and when those ice sheets MELT, and that WEIGHT is LIFTED, you get the possibility of the submergence of a landmass, just how Plato described. They're not myths, they're memories..

[@tickletaxel1368]

​@wout123100 Time for a geology lesson good sir... Not only are the Azores exactly where Plato described Atlantis to be (west of the Pillars of Herecles (Strait of Gibraltar), past a few set of islands, but before the Americas), he even called the exact date of the supposed flood that could have been responsible (11,600 years ago), which aligns with scientific evidence of catastrophic sea level rise (known as Meltwater Pulse 1b). And that meltwater pulse, was caused by the sudden melting of the great ice sheets around the world during that time, a very fast, catastrophic melting, at the end of the Pleistocene. Since the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (where the Azores is) is some of the youngest crust on Earth, AND the Azores is locked on what is known as a 'Triple Plate Junction', which basically can act like a hinge, it's very, very plausible (and with some empirical evidence to support it) that the Azores Plateau, the underwater plateau that hosts the seamounts making up the archipelago of the Azores today, could have 'Isostatically Depressed' into the crust of the Earth, due to the massive weight of the ice sheets being lifted from North America, just like how a seesaw works... So basically, when there is an ice sheet that is the size of the current Antarctic ice sheet or bigger, placed ON North America, this causes the Azores Plateau to RAISE out of the water, and when those ice sheets MELT, and that WEIGHT is LIFTED, you get the possibility of the submergence of a landmass, just how Plato described. They're not myths, they're memories..

[@wel40]

I am brazilian, a native portuguese speaker, I can hardly understand what the first woman is saying.

[@brunobastos5533]

São Miguel got a strong accent specially in the rural areas

[@mattressfour20]

Such a weird doom laden soundtrack.

[@diogenesv.2.065]

Azoros was captain of Argo.

[@MrG100000008]

Too many tourists

[@lovingkat5]

that is where Enki was hiding "The Real Chosen ones" whom by the way were Brown Skin people

[@johnbruce2868]

As a retired archaeologist I can guarantee that when colleagues and lay persons don't understand a structure they invariably declare it of religious significance. Here, "sacred space". It's a cistern requiring sunlight to enter so you can see what you're doing when inside. Solstice? That's what they all say (Ah! The Wonder!). It's just your imagination and the desire to make the site important with a good video and pretty music. Personally, I have no doubt you are describing previously overlooked evidence of an earlier culture but you have no context. You need some proper archaeological evidence. Pottery, artefacts, middens, pits, post-holes, masonry... structures designed for shelter. Everything that went with a culture building pyramids, columbaria and cisterns (aka, water temples). Find that. Please. Putting your video into context, even Early Palaeolithic Homo heidelbergensis left clear evidence of existence in the form of flint tools. Where is yours? Go looking.

[@markaxworthy2508]

No material evidence is shown here for any pre-Portuguese presence.

[@gdr189]

You may not know, but the strictness, timing and framing of your statement displays a level of ulteriorness.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@gdr189 You may not know, but your reply tells us nothing about anything. Try again.

[@gdr189]

@@markaxworthy2508 It tells us about you, clearly. Potentially, you, about you.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@gdr189 Again, you may not know, but your second reply still tells us nothing about anything. Try again...... and remember, the subject is the Azores in the pre-Portuguese era..

[@Useaname]

Hi Mark. Go be a bore somewhere else.

[@tonygoulart3693]

The most plausable theory is that a massive Volcano erutped on one of the islands and they had to flee beacause of the massive ash deposits on the islands.