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Iraq War Excavation Funded by Nazi Banking Dynasty and Petroleum Company

Danny Jones Podcast · #407 - Anunnaki Expert Decoded True Origin of 'Ancient Alien' Technology | Heather Lynn · June 22, 2026
Iraq War Excavation Funded by Nazi Banking Dynasty and Petroleum Company
Danny Jones Podcast
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#407 - Anunnaki Expert Decoded True Origin of 'Ancient Alien' Technology | Heather Lynn
"One of them was the head of the Baron von Thyssen, the head of the Thyssen family dynasty. His family bankrolled the Nazis. He owned the second largest stash of antiquities in the world, second only to Queen Elizabeth II. He funded this excavation along with Gulf Sands Petroleum. That has links to the Bushes, and it's an American company located in Texas."
Lynn traced funding for a 2010s archaeological excavation in ancient Ur, Iraq to the Thyssen family—whose patriarch Fritz Thyssen gave seed money to the Nazi Party—and Gulf Sands Petroleum, a Texas oil firm with Bush family connections. The excavation, conducted by the University of Manchester, raised conflict-of-interest concerns given Thyssen's private antiquities collection and the oil company's involvement. Lynn suggests this exemplifies the occult interests and shadowy financial networks behind Middle East archaeology.

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In this episode, host Danny Jones sits down with Dr. Heather Lynn, an archaeologist and historian specializing in Western esotericism, ancient Mesopotamia, and the hidden occult architecture behind modern power structures. Lynn opens with her unlikely journey from high school dropout living in a van near Area 51 to earning a doctorate, then infiltrating the Lucis Trust Arcane School—a UN-affiliated mystery school formerly called Lucifer Publishing. The conversation pivots to explosive revelations: Lynn discloses that a wealthy Canadian philanthropist secretly funded the initial congressional UFO disclosure hearings and made payments to Senators Rubio and Gillibrand, motivated by occult interests in Sumerian gods. She also reveals that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were funding searches for Atlantis and allegedly collecting genetic samples from Norwegian men at Zorro Ranch, connecting this to root race theories and transhumanist obsessions with superior bloodlines. Lynn argues the Anunnaki were not aliens but a breakaway civilization from the Younger Dryas that used animal husbandry, religion, and temple prostitution to control early Sumerians—inventing money, banking, and hierarchical rule. She traces modern billionaire behavior back to these ancient priest-class systems of control. The episode also covers archaeology's deep ties to spycraft, chaos magic's role in elite rituals, Peter Thiel's strategic use of Christianity for eschatological purposes, and why Lynn believes the entire disclosure movement is an astroturfed psyop to usher in a new mythology. Throughout, Lynn connects Sumerian innovations—from cuneiform to opium use—to transhumanist efforts by figures like Epstein to mathematically conquer entropy and achieve immortality. She closes by warning that history and mathematics are deliberately kept from the public to maintain hierarchical control, and that current elites are using ancient playbooks to engineer a modern scapegoat event.

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