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The Most Alarming Ancient American Mysteries | Luke Caverns
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- Julian Dorey Daily
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- Sep 8, 2026
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FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/l5x-YcFsK24?si=8-ZiK3OTfh9c05zL Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily LUKE'S LINKS - YT: https://www.youtube.com/@lukecaverns - X: https://twitter.com/lukecaverns Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-booksCLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT Luke Caverns is an Ancient Civilizations Historian Researcher and Anthropologist with a degree in Anthropology who has appeared on Joe Rogan and has a recurring presence on the Julian Dorey Podcast. He specializes in the lost civilizations of Egypt South America and the Amazon Jungle and takes the specific middle ground between mainstream archaeology and its popular alternatives that makes his work the most credible and most immediately accessible version of the ancient history conversation available. In this segment he sits down with Julian Dorey to cover the full arc of ancient American civilization — primordial America and the Great Plains and the Comanches who dominated them, Hernán Cortés the gods theory disease and how 150 men marched to Tenochtitlan, conquering smallpox Peru temples and geoglyphs, the Amazon garden theory clickbait and preservation, the conquest the Olmecs Coatzacoalcos agriculture the 17 giant heads transport and engineering, aliens gods psychedelics ego death and shamanism, and the middle ground the understudied civilizations progress family and Athens. The Cortés and 150 men thread is the episode's most immediately alarming and most historically significant contribution. Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519 with approximately 500 soldiers — but by the time he marched on Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztec Empire he had been reduced to approximately 150 men after losing most of his force at the Battle of Otumba. He…