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World of Antiquity treats the lost continent of Mu as a modern legend that needs the same tests as any other historical claim. The video grants the popular picture, a Pacific land of advanced builders whose refugees supposedly taught Egypt, China, and the Americas after a catastrophe. It then sets geology against that picture. Ocean crust is thin and lacks the continental rock called sial, real sunken masses such as Greater Adria and Zealandia are not a Pacific homeland, and island chains, Easter Island among them, read as volcanoes ringed by deep water. The rest of the hour follows James Churchward’s exhibits and finds them thin. A Madrid Codex reading borrowed from Augustus Le Plongeon treated Maya signs as if he could translate them and as if the book were vastly older than it is. Unseen Naacal tablets, a Lhasa text tied to Paul Schliemann that looks unverified, and Greek or Indian passages that never actually name a drowned land called Mu round out the case. Where a story and the seafloor disagree, the channel says the seafloor wins.
Key points
- Mu is introduced as a sidelined cousin of Atlantis and Lemuria, credited with seeding later civilizations.
- Plate structure and the missing continental rock under the Pacific are used to rule out a sunken homeland.
- Greater Adria and Zealandia are named as real submerged crust, unlike Churchward’s continent.
- Le Plongeon’s Maya readings, including a queen Moo and a drowned basin, are rejected as imaginary translations.
- The Naacal tablets were never shown, and none have turned up since.
- Plato, Proclus, and the Ramayana are said not to establish a Pacific continent named Mu.
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The ocean floor lacks sial and has a thinner crust, while continents are massive, solid blocks that are much thicker.
World of Antiquity, Churchward and the continent of Mu
This is the geological contrast he uses against a continent sitting in the Pacific. Watch at 3:42
There are no traces of a lost continent like Mu at the bottom of the Pacific.
World of Antiquity, Churchward and the continent of Mu
After the crust discussion, he states the direct negative result. Watch at 6:14
So the possibility that all of this is a hoax seems likely.
World of Antiquity, Churchward and the continent of Mu
He is speaking about Paul Schliemann’s unverified Lhasa inscription and similar exhibits. Watch at 22:01
No Naacal tablets have ever been discovered since.
World of Antiquity, Churchward and the continent of Mu
Churchward’s tablets, which he never showed, have no later finds to back them. Watch at 24:24
But this is a common strategy employed by fantastic history enthusiasts.
World of Antiquity, Churchward and the continent of Mu
He means the habit of reading a secret message into signs instead of the literal text. Watch at 36:35
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