The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Basement: Luke Caverns | How One Mistranslated Number Has Hidden Atlantis for Centuries
Anthropologist and explorer Luke Caverns details his groundbreaking lidar projects in the Amazon and US, shares his family's legacy of treasure hunting, and recounts the personal journey that led him to embrace independent archaeology focused on the Americas.

Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths
Hugh Newman, an explorer and author, reveals how recent discoveries at ancient sites like Karahantepe and Gobekli Tepe are forcing a radical re-evaluation of early human civilization, pushing back timelines for advanced astronomy, metrology, and complex societal structures by thousands of years.
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