The Joe Rogan Experience
The Joe Rogan Experience

#2558 - Tyler Engle

September 24, 2026

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In a temple carved from solid rock in India, a man chants a single note. The sound doesn't fade. It hangs in the air for nearly twenty seconds, reverberating off walls that were shaped with a precision modern jackhammers cannot match. This is not a mystery that can be explained away by "they were just really smart." Tyler Engle, a researcher and content creator who runs the Instagram page Baseforge.us, sat down with Joe Rogan to walk through the mounting evidence that our understanding of ancient history is fundamentally incomplete. The conversation moves from the scans of a boat-shaped formation on Mount Ararat to the microspheres found embedded in megalithic stone, building a case that a lost civilization possessed a technology we are only beginning to glimpse.

The Noah Problem and the King's List

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  • 2 (02:47) **Noah's Ark and the Mount Ararat Scans** - New drone scans from Turkey using same technology that found the Hawara labyrinth
  • 3 (04:27) **The Sumerian King List and Ziusudra** - The ancient Sumerians called Noah "Ziusudra," the last king on the Sumerian King List before the flood
  • 4 (05:54) **Was the Flood Global or Local?** - The story as written seems preposterous, but was probably a simplification of something at least somewhat true
  • 5 (09:33) **Giants and the Denisovan Evidence** - The giant stories are ubiquitous across cultures, and now we're finding physical evidence
  • 6 (17:10) **The Implausibility of Ancient Fiction** - Few ancient stories were likely fiction, as writing was difficult and readers were scarce
  • 7 (18:23) **The Kailasa Temple Problem** - Carved from a single volcanic mountain in India, with impossible precision

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Show Notes

Tyler Engle is a musician, researcher, author, and host of the "BassForge" YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/@BassForge_us
https://bassforge.us


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