The Biology Of The Builders

What if the ancient world wasn’t built by people like us at all? In Part 5 of The Buried Empire, The Biology of the Builders, Transition Radio steps away from architecture and into anatomy. Mark and Lynna examine the “Greek Profile” found on statues, coins, and empires — a facial structure that doesn’t exist in modern humans — and ask whether it was artistic idealization… or biological truth. Drawing on suppressed medical journals, anomalous skulls, vanished Smithsonian collections, and the abrupt disappearance of this face from U.S. currency in 1909, this episode argues that empire was once embodied in a different kind of human form. Not metaphorically. Literally. This is a forensic investigation into who built the Old World — and why their bodies had to be erased from history. The ancient world left behind impossible buildings — but no bodies. In Part 5 of The Buried Empire, The Biology of the Builders, Transition Radio treats history like a cold case. Mark and Lynna follow the evidence hidden in plain sight: faces on coins that no longer exist, skulls that don’t match modern anatomy, medical records that abruptly vanish, and a ruling biology quietly removed from the record. This episode argues that the reset wasn’t just cultural or political — it was biological. A different kind of human once ruled, built, and occupied the Old World, and their physical traits marked power itself. Then they disappeared. Not symbolically. Systematically. What you’re left with is a world of monuments without makers — and a species living inside someone else’s ruins.