Mummies Guarding a Mining Site? Ancient Underground Secret of Chandravalli Caves — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey guys today i'm going to show you one
2. 0:03of the strangest underground caves in
3. 0:06the world
4. 0:07this just looks like an ancient temple
5. 0:10right but as we go in through these
6. 0:14metal doors everything changes it is
7. 0:17completely pitch black
8. 0:19my tour guide is shining a flashlight
9. 0:22but even then we cannot see much so we
10. 0:26have to use bigger lights to see
11. 0:29reasonably well
12. 0:31they have forced me to take a guide
13. 0:34because there are so many
14. 0:35interconnecting chambers that i can get
15. 0:38lost inside and will not know how to
16. 0:41come out
17. 0:42but there's another secret reason why
18. 0:45they don't allow
19. 0:48anyone alone inside
20. 0:50because of this
21. 0:52there's a human body perhaps a mummified
22. 0:56body inside this big cube-like thing
23. 1:00according to locals a person by the name
24. 1:02of paradise
25. 1:04rests here this is very strange because
26. 1:07hindus normally burn the dead but we can
27. 1:11see something very odd you can see fresh
28. 1:15concrete patches this is definitely done
29. 1:19recently the guide says it is just a
30. 1:22routine renovation and he's hurrying me
31. 1:26to look at other parts of the cave but
32. 1:29when i went on the other side
33. 1:32i spotted this
34. 1:34somebody has made a hole
35. 1:37to see what's inside or maybe someone
36. 1:40tried to loot the contents look closely
37. 1:43this is not a natural deterioration this
38. 1:46is man-made a deep hole has been drilled
39. 1:50in
40. 1:51a large hole of at least three inch
41. 1:54diameter
42. 1:55why would someone do this
43. 1:58who is doing this what is actually
44. 2:01inside this
45. 2:02i think this is the reason why they have
46. 2:05kept this cave locked with an iron gate
47. 2:08and i think this is why they don't allow
48. 2:11anybody inside without a guide
49. 2:14to make sure
50. 2:16nobody is opening this
51. 2:19the guide is not allowing me to examine
52. 2:22this hole further and i have to move on
53. 2:25but
54. 2:26what's on top of this is even more weird
55. 2:29to me
56. 2:30they have made a pillow-like elevation
57. 2:33in concrete
58. 2:35is someone sleeping on this at nights
59. 2:39but do you see this other structure
60. 2:41nearby
61. 2:43people say his belongings are preserved
62. 2:45inside this one
63. 2:47these are rituals practiced by ancient
64. 2:50egyptians only egyptians keep the
65. 2:53belongings preserved near the dead
66. 2:57not hindus but when i turn around i can
67. 3:00see something even more strange there is
68. 3:02a lingam right opposite to the
69. 3:05sarcophagus it is against hindu religion
70. 3:08to put a dead body inside a shrine or
71. 3:12even near it this lingam has a unique
72. 3:15smell and it is made of multiple stones
73. 3:19but here you can see something crazy a
74. 3:22hole
75. 3:23on the floor near the lingam but that
76. 3:27hole has been covered recently by a pile
77. 3:30of rocks originally the water poured on
78. 3:34the lingam would have fallen through
79. 3:36that hole
80. 3:38but where will it go
81. 3:40there should be another level a deeper
82. 3:43underground level
83. 3:45below this
84. 3:46there are many secret areas completely
85. 3:49sealed off in this cave
86. 3:52the reason for this is not clear
87. 3:55for example look at this one
88. 3:58this way is completely sealed off using
89. 4:01metal bars
90. 4:03why was it so important to put these
91. 4:06bars here
92. 4:07what is on the other side
93. 4:09what are they hiding from us
94. 4:12there are also many strange secret
95. 4:15passages and tunnels which we can miss
96. 4:18easily
97. 4:19most tourists will completely miss these
98. 4:22because the tour guides use small
99. 4:25flashlights with such narrow vision
100. 4:29however we can see many such giant holes
101. 4:33everywhere
102. 4:34making it look very weird
103. 4:37watch how many doorways i have to go
104. 4:40through
105. 4:41within the next 30 seconds they're not
106. 4:43straight
107. 4:44they're made in a crooked fashion
108. 4:47every time you enter a doorway you will
109. 4:51find more doorways and you end up
110. 4:53choosing from multiple passages this is
111. 4:56exactly like a maze a labyrinth where
112. 5:00you can easily get lost
113. 5:03but there is something bizarre the
114. 5:06doorways are so short and narrow that
115. 5:10you have to squeeze through them
116. 5:12almost all of them are less than five
117. 5:14feet tall so you have to crouch all the
118. 5:17time
119. 5:19what you just saw was actually a taller
120. 5:22doorway but doorways like these are the
121. 5:26real problem
122. 5:28this one is probably only three feet
123. 5:31tall and is not recommended for older
124. 5:35people and claustrophobes and some may
125. 5:38argue that it's very hard to cut the
126. 5:41natural rocks and make these passages so
127. 5:44the builders must have made short
128. 5:46passages
129. 5:48to minimize their work
130. 5:50but look carefully this is not a cut out
131. 5:54rock they have built this by putting
132. 5:56rectangular stone blocks and then they
133. 6:00have neatly plastered over the wall they
134. 6:03have artificially created this wall they
135. 6:06have purposefully made the doorway
136. 6:09short and difficult to use
137. 6:12making us wonder if it was used by
138. 6:15humans
139. 6:16but it's not just a doorway that's
140. 6:18really short the entire area is short
141. 6:23and the guide is making sure i'm not
142. 6:25hitting my head in the ceiling
143. 6:28as we go deeper and deeper underground
144. 6:31the passages are becoming narrower and
145. 6:34narrower and they're also becoming more
146. 6:37and more complicated
147. 6:39built in an extremely crooked fashion
148. 6:42there are doorways where i cannot even
149. 6:46crouch through i have to squat
150. 6:49and walk like a frog to get through them
151. 6:53and all of them were specifically built
152. 6:56that way you can see the well plastered
153. 6:58walls
154. 7:00doorways are normally made to enter and
155. 7:03exit easily
156. 7:05but why do they have to make them
157. 7:07deliberately difficult for humans to get
158. 7:10through
159. 7:12in some of the doorways you can see
160. 7:13mysterious figures carved
161. 7:17who are they why is this figure looking
162. 7:20at the doorway as though it is expecting
163. 7:24someone
164. 7:25now who built this cave and when
165. 7:28the standard answer given by the guide
166. 7:30is that it was built
167. 7:331700 years ago by a king
168. 7:36who was defeated and wanted to hide from
169. 7:39his enemies
170. 7:41this is a ridiculous story you know how
171. 7:45big this artificial cave is
172. 7:47it has an area of more than 6 million
173. 7:52square feet this is 100 times the size
174. 7:56of an american football field but it
175. 7:59also goes at least 80 feet deeper
176. 8:03making it even bigger to build an
177. 8:06underground cave like this you need
178. 8:08thousands and thousands of strong men
179. 8:11and with those men
180. 8:13the king could have easily defeated his
181. 8:16enemy
182. 8:17rather than building this cave and there
183. 8:20is no way such a large construction
184. 8:23project can be done secretively
185. 8:27some argue that this was built as a
186. 8:29school but what is the need to build an
187. 8:32underground school with a complex
188. 8:36maze-like design
189. 8:38imagine creating something like this
190. 8:41today it would be a monumental task
191. 8:44even with modern machines first you have
192. 8:47to scoop out all the natural rocks worth
193. 8:51this huge volume then you have to
194. 8:55cut giant granite blocks and make them
195. 8:58into pillars and beams then these have
196. 9:02to be placed everywhere to make sure the
197. 9:05cave will not collapse over time or
198. 9:08during earthquakes
199. 9:10these are the very basic parts of this
200. 9:13construction and i'm leaving out the
201. 9:15complexities like design
202. 9:18water harvesting and ventilation for now
203. 9:21but constructing something like this
204. 9:23today will be very difficult and nearly
205. 9:28impossible
206. 9:29without machines
207. 9:31but
208. 9:32when was the structure
209. 9:34originally built some experts claim it
210. 9:37was built 1
211. 9:39700 years ago but when i digged into old
212. 9:44archaeological reports i found something
213. 9:47shocking it could have been built
214. 9:50three thousand two hundred years ago
215. 9:53earliest excavations show that they
216. 9:56found objects belonging to the iron age
217. 10:00meaning that the cave was used
218. 10:033200 years ago even more shocking they
219. 10:07found part of another sarcophagus
220. 10:10very similar to the egyptian mummy
221. 10:13holders they also found an ancient pot
222. 10:17with human remains inside
223. 10:19they also found a variety of coins
224. 10:23revealing
225. 10:24international connections a roman
226. 10:27daenerys coin a chinese coin belonging
227. 10:30to king wuti
228. 10:32and an indian coin of satavachana period
229. 10:36all dating
230. 10:38much older than
231. 10:401700 years
232. 10:42these coins take the cave at least 500
233. 10:46years backwards trade and foreign
234. 10:49connections must have existed
235. 10:52even around 200 bc
236. 10:55normally wikipedia gives timelines of
237. 10:58all ancient structures
238. 11:00but we can understand why
239. 11:03it does not say anything about the
240. 11:05timeline of chandravali caves because
241. 11:09it's shrouded in mystery here is a very
242. 11:13strange structure
243. 11:14can you tell me
244. 11:16what it is
245. 11:17the guide explains it as a throne
246. 11:21but nobody can sit comfortably on this
247. 11:25it has a depression inside you cannot
248. 11:28sit in any angle
249. 11:30where would you put your back and where
250. 11:33would you put your legs you can only go
251. 11:36in and lie down
252. 11:39like it's a coffin
253. 11:40so what is it
254. 11:43at the back there is something scary
255. 11:45that hole is only one foot wide
256. 11:48how can somebody crawl through that
257. 11:51why does it have tiny steps in it if
258. 11:56somebody manages to crawl through
259. 11:59why do they need steps
260. 12:01because steps are made for walking right
261. 12:04how tiny do you have to be
262. 12:06if you're walking through these steps
263. 12:09and entering or exiting this doorway
264. 12:13what is actually behind this wall
265. 12:17on the other side
266. 12:19there is nothing here the doorway is on
267. 12:22the left
268. 12:23why did they make such a small hole to
269. 12:26reduce effort instead of making a big
270. 12:29doorway they just made a smaller hole
271. 12:32no again this is an artificial wall
272. 12:35built by them so the hole was
273. 12:37specifically designed to be small
274. 12:40the guide explains this area as a
275. 12:43bedroom where people will sleep
276. 12:46these are supposedly beds made of brick
277. 12:50this is mind-boggling to me look at the
278. 12:52ceiling it's very low
279. 12:54it's impossible to stand erect in those
280. 12:58areas there is a giant slope on the side
281. 13:02which has many different levels it
282. 13:05reminds me of factories where goods will
283. 13:08move in a conveyor belt system to
284. 13:11various paths
285. 13:13but one thing is clear this was not made
286. 13:16for humans
287. 13:17these are not beds for sleeping you
288. 13:20cannot sleep there your breath will hit
289. 13:23the ceiling and return back to your face
290. 13:26if you manage to crawl up and lie down
291. 13:29there
292. 13:29this is not a doorway and on the other
293. 13:32side that is definitely not a throne
294. 13:37so what is the actual purpose of this
295. 13:40cave
296. 13:41why was it built
297. 13:43the common narrative that it was a
298. 13:46hideout or a school
299. 13:48is wrong
300. 13:49so why did they decide to dig in this
301. 13:53area they did not just make an
302. 13:56artificial cave they have built an
303. 13:58underground cave going deep into the
304. 14:02ground i think we're only looking at the
305. 14:05tip of the iceberg there are much deeper
306. 14:08tunnels and passages sealed off
307. 14:11so why did ancient builders
308. 14:14painstakingly dig so deep
309. 14:17were they mining for gold
310. 14:21this region the state of karnataka is
311. 14:24very rich in gold and many unexplained
312. 14:27structures here
313. 14:29prove that this was a mining site
314. 14:32for example look at this the guide calls
315. 14:36the structure a bathtub but it looks
316. 14:39complicated there is one large tank
317. 14:42that is flanked by another smaller tank
318. 14:46we can see the holes at the bottom
319. 14:48but such a complex system is not needed
320. 14:52for taking a bath
321. 14:55he says this is a sofa nearby for
322. 14:58resting immediately after the bath
323. 15:01i have never seen anyone take rest after
324. 15:04a bath it must be really tiring to take
325. 15:07a bath here
326. 15:09but this is actually a washing system
327. 15:12for gold they call it a wash plant even
328. 15:16today people take gold ore from the
329. 15:18ground and pass it through multiple
330. 15:21tanks for washing and to extract pure
331. 15:25gold this is a modern wash plant and you
332. 15:28can see the similarity of how water and
333. 15:32the ore is running through multiple
334. 15:34stages in several containers
335. 15:38now we can understand the purpose of the
336. 15:40so-called throne
337. 15:42it is a shallow tank to wash or process
338. 15:46gold and the whole above would have been
339. 15:50used to drop gold ore or water or both
340. 15:54into the tank
341. 15:56if you look at a modern-day sluice box
342. 15:59in gold mining it has tiny little steps
343. 16:02to create deposits just like what we see
344. 16:06in this hole perhaps this was a similar
345. 16:11system
346. 16:12but there is something much more
347. 16:14brilliant designed here the ancient
348. 16:17builders must have designed a water
349. 16:19channel system that brings water
350. 16:22from an outside source we can see water
351. 16:26still getting channeled here but the
352. 16:29ancient pipeline system must have gotten
353. 16:32clogged and nobody knows how to fix it
354. 16:35they probably don't even know
355. 16:38it exists
356. 16:40this is why we still see water
357. 16:43leaking in several places
358. 16:46maybe gold mining explains why there are
359. 16:50pots drawn everywhere you can see three
360. 16:53pots carved here and
361. 16:55in the center there is a container
362. 16:58inside it you can see more pots
363. 17:01symbolizing
364. 17:03gold and richness
365. 17:05but there's something else on the walls
366. 17:08that is even more strange
367. 17:10what are these spaces
368. 17:13according to the guide these are lamp
369. 17:15holders people would put a simple oil
370. 17:19lamp in every dome-shaped structure
371. 17:22because it is dark in here
372. 17:25but why would an entire wall be covered
373. 17:29with these lamp holders
374. 17:31how many lamps do they need in a single
375. 17:34room
376. 17:35it doesn't seem likely that you need 20
377. 17:38lamps on one side of the room and the
378. 17:42other walls are all blank
379. 17:44even more interesting in some areas
380. 17:47especially in dark areas
381. 17:50there are no lamp holders where you
382. 17:53actually need light
383. 17:56another mystery is the ventilation
384. 17:59system this is supposedly the deepest
385. 18:02area i'm allowed to be in it is 80 feet
386. 18:05deep
387. 18:06yet there is excellent airflow in here
388. 18:10i'm not short of breath
389. 18:12this means there are ventilation shafts
390. 18:16from the ground level connecting all the
391. 18:19underground chambers
392. 18:22most ancient underground structures like
393. 18:24daryn kuyu and elora caves used
394. 18:28cylindrical ventilation shafts
395. 18:31to supply oxygen to deep chambers
396. 18:36so this cave was not built in a hurry it
397. 18:39is a very well planned structure
398. 18:42from start to finish
399. 18:45this is evident when we can see five
400. 18:47different materials
401. 18:48used as a part of construction
402. 18:51square granite blocks
403. 18:54bricks
404. 18:55lime mortar
405. 18:57dirt
406. 18:58and the natural overhanging rock
407. 19:01as the ceiling
408. 19:02so what do you think do you believe in
409. 19:05the conventional theory
410. 19:08or
411. 19:09was this an ancient gold mining site
412. 19:13i hope you liked this video please
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