117: Forbidden Archaeology: Lost Giants of America | The Smithsonian's Biggest Secret
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
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The History of Polynesia
There's evidence of Chinese contact with the New World in 1200 BC. There are even old maps from the Arabs and Turks that show north and south America, a thousand years before Columbus was born. Some mummies have been found with traces of Koka and Nigati. A reexamination of the mummy of Ramses II in the 1970s revealed the presence of fragments of tobacco leaves in his abdomen. Mainstream science and especially the media have a playbook. It's easy to recognize once you look for it. The four stages of suppression are criticize, marginalize, attack and censor.
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