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- Albert Lin is on a global adventure, from icy Black Sea depths to the heights of the Peruvian Andes, searching for the origins of Great Flood stories.
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Hello NG, I know you probably will not see this, but lost cities is one of my favorite running series i have ever seen and it is a joy to have them free on youtube. PLEASE continue posting these. It can be hard to find joy in such an unforgiving world, and it might be silly, but this provides me that joy.
The story is awesome, they did a good job putting it together. But I'm sure you can do better. Save up and in a few years go off the tracker. Go explore a brutal forest, examine data, explore ruins.
@tsrmmercy836 you don't know the age or the physical condition of the person. Money are not the solution to everything, regardless of how much you save. Anyway...
God bless you both!
@@Oana-Roxana. I’m sorry I assumed the person was part of the vast majority of the able bodied population. “Money are not not the solution to everything” - I never said it was, but it does help if you’re disabled, old etc. You can use that money to hire labor or equipment/treatment for disability.
absolutely correct. I'm inmy 80s and can travel no more to my sorror. These shows are à pleasure ! Thank you NG.
@@tsrmmercy836 I'm not angry at you, but you said, "You can use that money to hire people to..." But what money are you talking about? People who are disabled don't have any money! Even if they once did, all of it was long ago spent on special equipment, treatments, and prescriptions, just to survive! Travel to the doctor's office is extremely difficult, if you can even afford a doctor. We are forced to double up with people we don't like, just to have a roof over our heads, so the cost of travel beyond our own area is an impossible dream.
Travel insurance alone, for people with medical issues, is totally prohibitive. I live only to be out in nature, but yet I haven't had a holiday of any kind in over 25 years. I consider myself lucky if a friend drives me to the grocery store once every 6 months, and I'm VERY far from being the worst off among us! It's so sad how invisible we disabled people are.
Thank you Albert Lin. I'm 63 now with osteoarthritis but I was adventurous and explored when I was younger. I didn't have the balls you have but I did as much as possible. I admire you. Nothing is a replacement for perseverance. I wish you the best and I look forward to seeing your adventures.
you're also slow/boomer enough to not understand 16:40 is the fakest thing imaginable
Albert lin is so bad… express so bad
Absolutely amazing...its so marvelous...as someone who studies anthropology and history, I get such a thrill from seeing what archeology finds...and the whole world has legends and myths, stories in every language and tribe of a universal flood. Keep it up!
This is extremely entry level for "someone who studies anthropology and history".
Albert Lin is one of my absolute favorite explorers and I’d love to meet him and just talk for hours! He humanizes all cultures.
Albert lin express so bad…. Shut up
I love Peru. There is something so magical visiting there.. fascinating Albert, thank you for talking about this subject 😀 my favorite show!❤ National Geographic, we are so lucky to live in such a beautiful world! May 18 2024
One of the greats, Albert Len Wu bringing us back to the historic epic tales of old. Thank you, Blessings
I didn't knew Albert Lin came in Bulgaria. I'm so happy he choose Black Sea for this episode because most people never heard of the Black Sea flood or the Varna civilization.
Mr. Al Lin, I am totally addicted to your investigative reporting. Love Love going along with you. The whole filming style the music emphasizing such importance of all Nat Geo reports on. Thank you sir. Thank you Nat Geo
Thank you Constantine. ❤
I doubt Lin ever sees our posts, but this video was the most exciting yet!
I've spent some long months in Romania, Constanza and the Black Sea, so this is quite interesting.
Good thing someone mentions Romania regarding Black Sea
I find Lin doing too much show, is so dramatic even when not necessary.
Content is interesting... the host is great... however the overly dramatic music at every turn is a bit over the top. NG you don't need to do that to keep our attention.
Well drama makes the ratings, to bad NG has sold his soul to the devil....shame on u....
@@maurimat I agree that the music is overdone, but i think your condemnation of NG is, too. Just sayin'....
It's fun to me that I'm not alone hearing the soundtrack! The worst is Scott Wolters shows! But by the same token, we commenting are recognizing the effect of the music, and I am not offended by Mr. Lin getting some fanfare. If others less sensitive just get a little more "buzz," that's a good thing for the serious content.
It might be to pull in younger viewers 🤔
Film producers try to tweak our emotions to create a stronger experience. I'm ok with that for fiction, but yeah, I don't appreciate my strings getting yanked for documentaries. Just show me stuff and I'll choose how to feel about it, thank you!
I explored parts of Chan Chan forty years ago. I am forever thinking and dreaming about that magnificent sand city. Thank you for expanding my limited knowledge around the tragic circumstances of Chan Chan.
It stands to reason that when some of the polar ice caps and all of the ice sheets/glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age/ Younger Dryass, ALL of the oceans levels rose around the world. Margaret Mead, the famous sociologist, recognized that back in the 1960s.
Thank you Albert Lin for this so wonderful mesmerizing documentary ❤
Albert Lin in the House and we are all immersed in awe with the best possible scenario of bringing back old legends into reality
He doesn't mess around.
Good for your house! I am age 71, and was fortunate to grow up in a house that subscribed to NG and had a couple of sets of the Time-Life books about what was then known about ancient civilization. My curiosity has never faded, to follow the discoveries back, and farther back, in time.
Albert Lin has GOT to be the best documentary host of the current generation - LOVE him!!!
If glaciers melted at the same time 10,000 years ago, it makes sense different cultures had flood stories.
Yeah, I think it only took Doggerland only took as little as 4hrs to be submerged completely. I think there was a little more to it than simply melting glaciers. I can't remember so I guess I'll watch that one again after this.
Actually it was an asteroid strike that punctured and collapsed the water vapor shell in the upper atmosphere and simultaneously broke the earths crust releasing the water under the land.
We have sea fossils on our highest mountains.
It was indeed catastrophic.
Nah...the most likely scenario is boring. Most civilizations lived along rivers and lakes, places that heavily flood in the spring. Every civilization is going to have their own 'big fish' story of a flood that wiped out everything. Overtime as civilizations merged so to did the stories.
And we have sea fossils on mountains because geology happens. That's nothing surprising.
Research Randall Carlson
@@WalkerRileyMCexactly and mountains are created how? when land is getting crushed by plates surrounding it, the more severe the higher the mountain, a lot of old mountains were small hills or flat land at one point
Love these adventures, no matter your faith, it's fun to see the discoveries along the way
@NatGeo & Albert Lin please come to Sri Lanka! You'd be amazed at how much there is to see and we could really use your tech to uncover so much of our ancient kingdoms and temples. Looking forward to more of your documentaries 🎉❤
I adore this show! Albert's enthusiasm inspired me so very much!❤❤❤❤❤
BEST JOB BY NAT GEO AND ALBERT LIN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY OF RESEARCH APPRECIATED ALL THESE ARE MY FAVORITES EVEN HUNGER FOR MORE AND MORE TO EXPLORING OF THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMS
Albert Lin documentaries just hit different 👍
Couldn’t agree more 👏👏👏👏👏
Shallow?
@@andrewfrank7222shallow because it’s entertaining?
They're kinda light
Albert is so unintentionally funny sometimes. He seems pathologically honest about things so even when he’s acting he’s not really acting. It’s an excellent show. Star Trek + archaeology.
Albirt Lyn one of the most renowned surfers of the world surfed across the pacific from the Mediterranean all the way to Peru!
The Mediterranean isn't connected to the Pacific...
Exraordinary~ Thank you. No mention of the Legend of Gilgamesh, predating the Noah story by millinea.
show me you rep SD without saying you rep SD. Big up Lin for bringing a Mcallum bonzer to Peru and even bigger up for showing the world what determination looks like. Haven't finished the video yet but curious if he will credit hancock and others that have been pointing to a global flood story for years. Keep rocking Albert!
I loved this episode. It’s so fascinating and the way you present. It is wonderful. I love the music on here. It adds to the dramatic flare so please keep it going.
This was amazing. Albert is incredible. Thank you!
In approximately 6500 bce, the coast of Norway had a huge landslide that flooded & decimated Doggerland by tsunamis, turned the Great Britian into an island with the tsunamis eradicating the lands nearby & created the North Sea.
That's a flood!
The flood myths could all just be stories passed on for generations about the end of the ice age. We're still passing them on today!
@@lost_porkchop
Absolutely. Unfortunately, the Doggerland slide is verified. Neolithic tools, extinct animal bones & other items are brought up by fishing trawlers betweenNorway & Scotland.
If you're interested in archaeological programs, go to utuber Reijer Zaijjer's channel and click onward til you reach Time Team , hit Playlist & there are shows about the unique history of the UK & other countries, from Spain down to the island of Nevis in Carribean.
You can also youtube Doggerland & see the history of it that includes additional theories of glacial melt bursting thru to the ocean, raising levels. No religion involved.
Cheers!
And how do you know this happened were you there lol everything about history is speculation we know nothing lol that's why every few years what they said changes. If it was known they wouldn't change what they say about what happened every few years grab a brain you goof.
@@lost_porkchop except they arent myths
@@mottthehoople693 right.....
I really love watching Albert lin geographic adventures 💯
Great programming as usual ❤
Please Albert, go to Lake Van, in Turkey and explore for us all
This was a great episode! Well done to the entire team and all the contributors. They keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat until the very end!
Theres only one proble. With your hypothesis. Cultures all over the world tell stories about the flood in their origin stories. The flood did take place butit affected the entire planet, not just the area of the black see and the Mediterranean. This video is very interesting, none the less. Thank you for taking us along with you.
Exactly, a global event, and it had never rained before, anywhere.
List five of these stories that support your assertion.
There is a layer of marine fossils on Mt Everest. While this does not prove the Bible story, neither does it rule it out. How did thise fossils get there? Was the mountain much lower once, and if so, does the water pressure from the Flood create enough power to push up great mountains?
@@nancylongworth9617 Do you not know that the Himalaya's are getting taller little by little? The Indian Continent is being driven Underneath he Asian plate creating that range and the Tibetan Plateau.
There was no world spanning flood in the human part of history, just many stories from peoples affected by ocean levels rising.
Alot of the Northern American ones on the west coast were from a glacial lake breaking is dam, this is now called Lake Missoula.
There was a build up of ice on both poles so flood stories on both sides of earth is a definite YES
Hi there, flood means Almighty God is Alpower .😮
A story so powerful, I had to SURF about it!! ... thank you Albert Lin!! 😂😂🏄🏻♂🏄🏻♂🏄🏻♂❤❤
The Natives of the Americas believed in a Great Flood as well. There is a great story in Oregon about a canoe that landed on the side of Mot. Hood and the shape of it can still be seen =)
Very Cool 😎 thank you for sharing that information.
I will honestly look it up now LoL 😂😆
Not the Abrahamic flood.
@@andrewfrank7222Abrahamic?
@@TexasRivermedic The two flood stories in the Hebrew "book" of Genesis.
No flood EVER took place that covered the entire surface of the Earth. That DEFINITELY never happened.
@@andrewfrank7222 Gotcha. If people don’t believe in the God of the Bible, none of that matters anyhow.
Wow! Amazing 👏 🙀 Thanks for inviting Albert Yu-Min Lin to host this! I feel the passion and excitement , too!❤ The first in eight thousand years!
he actually has a whole series here =) Benn loving it!!!!
@@jadedjhypsi Ive been patiently waiting for more seasons from Albert. Really enjoy his shows!
Thank Albert Lin for the Knowledge. I'm Samson from Nigeria and I would like to be part of your Family (Team).
Just happened to find something in a random spot almost instantly? Feels really set up and the clay piece looked like it was from a normal flower pot.
I really love your show. Thank you for proving climate change has been ongoing since the Younger Dryas and that extreme weather events have always happened! Great job
That is known for decades now.
You notice when something is missing. If a city was covered in mud...you'd know where you were headed and to find that would definitely go down in history. A whole city state washed away is insane. Finding it and elaborating is even more special
Thank you for sharing these, historic program's!
now THAT is content!!
Finally, Some Surf! Thats Awesome! Seen the Board in other episodes. Peru is on my dream wave list.
Keep the Great Adventures coming.
And he surfs! What a legend
Well presented 🎉
Almost all ancient civilizations that traversed the world have stories of a great flood and the more fascinating fact is these civilations are thousands of miles apart and most of them had it the same date that their respective calendars and records are telling. That's a really solid evidence.
List five of these stories that support your assertion.
@@mauryhanDid you not listen to the video? He named several.
@@nancylongworth9617 Yeah, I did, but 186 million years is a lot more than several. If each layer was 100 feet thick that would be 1.8 million layers. He was intentionally minimizing it because to use an accurate number would make the flood seem sillier than it already is.
This video posited a theory and came to zero conclusions. I feel as though I wasted 45 minutes.
albert lin is like the james bond of historical science
I think the making of this took a lot of "doing". I find it interesting and thought provoking. Mr. Lin has many talents and is a searcher like a lot of us. True there are writings in many languages,oral stories but many details that can only be looked for. I really like seeing physical evidence. There are things that can be taken by pure faith but seeing only reinforces the real. Chan chan I had never seen,amazing. How could a society that intelligent believe sacrificing their children would stop anything. I actually think it was because of something else that nothing to do with natural elements. I think he did a great job,we still have much to learn. I enjoyed it,Thank you Mr.Lin. Keeping my eyes,ears and mind open!😊
There is nothing meaningful here tobexpkain The universal flood. The huacos are the regular floods that occur in any mountain, being in Switzerland or any place along the Andes mountain or else. The Noah's flood is something else. Why we find sea shells on the top of the Andes mountains?
The huacos are waters that run downward. The universal flood are ruso g waters to the top of the mountains. That is not difficult to figure out.
I love too watch this tipe of documentaireserie thanks you so much ❤❤❤
Wait wait wait. The Chimu didn't dissapear, they were conquered by the Inca, rebelled 3 times, and 3 times was Chan Chan sacked, their artisans forced to move to Cusco and construct the Inca monuments. When the Spanish arrived, Pizarro allied with the Chimu to overthrow the Inca and restore their independence. Which he did and built the city of Trujillo, over 150 years after that, around 1700, Chan Chan was finally abandoned and peopled moved to Trujillo permanently. Its very possible the El Niño weakened the Chimu so the Inca were able to finally conquer them after many years of struggle.
Trujillo is the city you can see in the background when he's driving through Chan Chan.
I was fine with you talking about the Great Flood and the Black Sea, I've always thought the Great Flood was related to the last ice age and the flooding of the Black Sea area. But connecting "El Niño" to the Flood is just: Stretching the Documentary!
Your correct, El Nino is recent.
Not necessarily
Yeah, El Nino is localized and could not explain a global phenomenon.
The whole documentary is stretching.
El Nino can't operate when half the planet is covered in ice.
This is definetly the best Flood Story I have heard.... an El Niño/El Niña event, perhaps a combination of both, certainly is the only thing that makes sense for the whole "40 days and 40 nights" part of the story.
Flash flooding is the best explanation for the majority of the Mass Flood stories.... but we still arent looking back far enough.... Humans took millions of years to Evolve, but we are only looking back 7000-14,000 years..... there HAD to he something before this, up to 100,000 years ago or more.
I love the music. I want to buy the soundtrack 😂💗
The Chimú of Chanchan recorded the magnetic flip of the earth
I heard last pole reversal was around 7 or 8 hundred thousand years ago
@@steventhompson399 42,000 years ago.
Albert Lin is the best, more please.
🌹😎 Very impressive research. Thank you so much.
NG, please know that I will watch anything you post if it is hosted by Albert Lin.
Bob Ballard made a significant discovery in the Black Sea some 40+ years ago. I believe they termed it an entire ancient farm in some 300 meters depth.
I remember seeing a story on that, can't for the life of me find a proper write up on it now. I think they found remains of a wooden structure, with what they hoped were tools under sediment.
We have to remember that the current Black Sea is salt water and the old lake was fresh water, making the lower parts Anoxic (no Oxygen in the water) it does preserve wood really well as Borers cant survive.
I Love History any History from anywhere any country. Its fun to learn alot or things from other countries... Such intriguing!
He drives, he scubas, he swims, he hikes, he surfs...And then they show the image of a prosthetic limb: Albert Lin is a legend.
Nat G is taking over History while the History Channel talks about big foot. 😂
History channel is all about Aliens nowadays
And racist duck hunters
Saquatching ain't easy.
Albert Lin is a great host. Really like to see him more often
It's interesting how artifacts, unlike those that are acquired without doing kilometers or even yards of digging in the sea, could be easily discovered, not including submerged larger items such as buildings.
My dude has a lot of talents; rock climbing, surfing, diving, LIDAR expert, archaeologist, etc.
Is there anything he can't do?
Consume milk products
act
Best doco presenter since Sir David.
🙏🙂 Albert
Albert Lin is my new fave person. ✨✨
Good video 🆙🆙®️💥🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠☄️
It's not an "epic tale" it's a Biblical record.
... biblical records are epic tales.... tales can be based in true events, but over the eons thru translation, and mistellings becomes legend.
Sir, I guess its La Niña you mean. I do watch all your videos, good content, specially this one.
Extremely interesting. Thank you!
LETS GO FINALLY ALBERT LIN AGAIN !
I love ur background music
Thanks
I believe you're going to need to scan the seabed with ground penetrating radar (if there exists a waterproof version) in order to find conclusive evidence of a settlement on the edge of the previous Black Sea shoreline. The seabed has had centuries of sediment and organic detritus deposited, not to mention the likelihood of human made items falling into the water during shipwrecks, accident or purposeful disposal. This would make it difficult to happen upon artifacts just laying on the surface.
Finding ancient, relevant artifacts on the seabed surface seems like a longshot to me. I'd like to see a follow up program on this research once more data is gathered.
The "rattle of death" got me too...
I hope Albert will show us Mount Nemruit in Eastern Turkey soon. It's just fascinating!
Gives a new meaning to a death rattle!
Yall need to take a trip to the scablands in the pacific northwest.
Knowing what we do of the violence of Tsunamis and how common they are even in the modern world - all over the place from Asia, Americas, Mediterranean, Africa = if you didn't know of a village or kingdom not devastated by these flood disasters would have made you very lucky.
From archeological research, it was found that underground lakes rose during the great flood. Thus, the combination of non-stop rain and the release of the underground lakes flooded the earth rapidly. All the way up to the highest peak, we know now as Mount Everest.
Didn't even hear a mention of the Younger Dryas.
I was wondering about that lack of acknowledgement too. Surely not an oversight but perhaps there's a political and/religious agenda behind that.
You guys have been drinking the graham Hancock kool aid. Not every archeologist is studying the same subject
@@jool5941 what? It was an observation, not a personal attack.
Mr. Lin, You should visit Dwaraka in India. This city submerged with great floods.
Hope You find something here
I have a theory that ties so may things together: If the Indonesian earthquake can shift the earths axis slightly then a cosmic impact hitting in the right place, on the right angle can shift the axis a lot. I think something big hit us and shifted the axis by as much as 20-30 degrees all at once. The side of the earth that is Turkey and Egypt was rotated northward causing the Black sea to spill over like a bathtub and buried Gobekli Tepe in a tsunami of water and rubble. The Mediterranean sea would have spilled over southward also , stripping casing stones off the pyramids up to the level where they are still attached. This water would cause the southward streaks of sand that curve westward with the earths rotation and would have drained back into the Atlantic ocean, covering the Richat structure with a salty mud. On the side of the globe that is North America, the land would be rotating southward, causing the pacific ocean to wash northward over the land, flash melting the glaciers and draining southward back into the pacific ocean quickly, perhaps carving out the grand canyon quickly. A cosmic impact in the ocean or on a glacier sheet would have caused millions of gallons of water to be ejected high into the atmosphere that would have taken sever days to rain back to earth. A flash melting of glaciers would have caused the oceans to rise the 400' quickly to present day levels. Incidentally, world maps prior to 1400 show three islands off the coast of Alexandria which would have been seen with oceans 400 feet lower. Maps after 1400 do not show these islands. Current lidar bathymetry data shows these islands 12 miles off the coast of Alexandria, one in 62 feet of water, the other two in 150 feet of water.
Ancient civilizations knew quite a bit about the heavens and might have been able to detect the incoming impact ahead of time, notifiying "Noah" to build an ark that humanity could survive with, much the same way that we'd be able to do something in advance today. This would have caused the oceans to surge globally, rains to come down globally, and oceans to rise quickly, and local climates to change overnight. The more you look at the ancient mysteries of cataclysms, the more this seems to tie everything together. The earth rotating quickly would have even quickly wiped life off of easter island and far out to sea, burying the Moai halfway. It's a theory I have, and the more I watch videos like yours, the more examples I see that this can explain.
my favorite National Geographic program with Albert Lin
I love history ❤but this is the story of the world 🌍 I ever want to see.Thank you for showing us what the Hand of the LORD GOD made for us.Godbless and stay safe.
Thanks for the nice video.
Albert Lin is my ideal weekly date.. this dude rocks!
Nicely presented by Lin, and provocative .
I'm sure Graham Hancock would love watch this
PERU is so fascinating ❤❤❤
Amazing documentary ❤
The special effects are so hokey, like him scanning that burial pit with his tablet. I guess NG needs to compete with History's ancient aliens somehow.
Such an interesting documentary ! Great job Albert Lin !
My favorite documentary Albert lin
In 1996, I lived in northern California. An El Niño year, saw 12" of rain in a 10 hour period (over 30" in 6 days)that flooded Hwy 70 & the Feather River Canyon, erasing settlements, campgrounds & bridges. Two years until the road opened again. Thanks, Niño...
During the Mariel Boatlift, 27" of rain fell on Key West in under 20 hours.
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Can't even imagine that ! One wonders how you could breathe ! Almost like being under water...
Thanks for the info..our planet is always giving us surprises. Cheers...
@@maeve4686 That's why most Keys houses are built on stilts. And back then, most folks had a small boat in the yard. Still and all, that's lots of rain....
El Niño means drier weather for us in Australia. We get more rain with La Niña
Oral history could easily be one event.
Flooding is a common thing that happens everywhere. It would be strange not to find flood stories all over the world
I think this could have been 2 shows. Since the Peru flood had a different cause, I would have liked more explanation of the series of El Nino. The Black Sea could also explore other evidence and theories, like the break in the barrier of the Mediterranean, more explanation about the freshwater shellfish, more about the pottery found below and above water. Basically an update of the older documentary. Just a thought.