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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:20,270 --> 00:00:23,670 All right, folks, here's some pretty big news for a tiny town in New Hampshire. 2 00:00:24,470 --> 00:00:28,190 Turns out the stone structures on Malcolm Pearson's property down in Salem 3 00:00:28,190 --> 00:00:29,190 be older than people think. 4 00:00:29,790 --> 00:00:32,549 Some are saying they could be older than Christopher Columbus himself. 5 00:00:33,550 --> 00:00:34,970 Now that would be something. 6 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:36,930 But I guess we need to wait and see. 7 00:00:38,330 --> 00:00:42,910 In sports, the Red Sox faced the Yankees last night as Benway in the first three 8 00:00:42,910 --> 00:00:43,910 -game series. 9 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,200 The history that we were all taught growing up is wrong. 10 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,900 My name is Scott Wolfe, and I'm a forensic geologist. 11 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,900 There's a hidden history in this country that nobody knows about. 12 00:01:53,260 --> 00:01:57,520 There are pyramids here, chambers, tombs, inscriptions. 13 00:01:57,820 --> 00:01:59,300 They're all over this country. 14 00:02:00,180 --> 00:02:03,640 We're going to investigate these artifacts and sites, and we're going to 15 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:04,640 the truth. 16 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,920 Sometimes history isn't what we've been told. 17 00:02:20,150 --> 00:02:24,670 Stonehenge in England is one of the most awe -inspiring ancient sites on Earth. 18 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:32,250 Even today, its origin and purpose remain shrouded in mystery. 19 00:02:34,310 --> 00:02:39,290 One thing archaeologists know for sure is that its construction took over 2 20 00:02:39,290 --> 00:02:40,290 years. 21 00:02:41,630 --> 00:02:44,450 One thing they don't know is who built it. 22 00:02:46,870 --> 00:02:48,450 There's no doubt the site. 23 00:02:48,860 --> 00:02:53,580 Originally comprised of some 150 stones was the work of some advanced 24 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:59,040 civilization that knew enough about the sun, moon, and stars to align these 25 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,740 stones with the heavens in a very specific way. 26 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:09,060 But what if I told you we have our very own Stonehenge in the United States? 27 00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:14,460 And that it's possible that two sites were built by the same people. 28 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,400 I'm on my way to investigate it right now. 29 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,840 America's Stonehenge is a prehistoric site in Salem, New Hampshire. 30 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:46,200 The owner says the stone structures here date back 4 ,000 years. 31 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,520 I got a call from his son, Kelsey. 32 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:57,700 He's discovered a solar alignment, an example of archaeoastronomy that he 33 00:03:57,700 --> 00:03:58,700 me to see. 34 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:07,800 So, this is the Central Observatory, and this is what I was telling you about 35 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,140 why we call America Stonehenge. 36 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,140 Just like at Stonehenge, someone placed standing stones, large vertical rocks, 37 00:04:16,420 --> 00:04:17,420 in a circle. 38 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:19,060 The placement is key. 39 00:04:19,740 --> 00:04:24,000 When viewed from the center of the site, each standing stone lines up with the 40 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,020 sun on important days of the year. 41 00:04:26,580 --> 00:04:29,800 The solstices, the longest and shortest days. 42 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:34,580 The equinoxes, when the sun is on a level plane with the Earth's equator. 43 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,940 And the cross -quarter days, which fall midway between them. 44 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,640 This is the summer solstice sunrise stone. 45 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,180 So, summer solstice, the sun basically just rises right over there. 46 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:51,960 Right over the stone, just kind of comes out diagonal, and then just kind of 47 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,280 tracks across the sky. 48 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:57,120 And then on sunset, it just comes right over to... Right over here? 49 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,700 Somewhere close to the sunset zone there. 50 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,820 You realize this says an awful lot about your site. 51 00:05:05,580 --> 00:05:09,940 Whoever was here is marking these important dates of the year, like many 52 00:05:09,940 --> 00:05:11,320 cultures all over the world did. 53 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:14,840 I've been seeing this a lot lately. 54 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:17,280 It's called archaeoastronomy. 55 00:05:17,690 --> 00:05:22,510 It's how ancient cultures used the sun, moon, stars, and planets in their 56 00:05:22,510 --> 00:05:23,710 architecture and design. 57 00:05:26,990 --> 00:05:31,730 I saw archaeoastronomy in Georgia, where it connected Native Americans to the 58 00:05:31,730 --> 00:05:32,730 ancient minds. 59 00:05:35,430 --> 00:05:40,730 And I saw it in a cave in Oklahoma, where markings that are part of an 60 00:05:40,730 --> 00:05:43,350 illumination may have been left by the Celts. 61 00:05:46,570 --> 00:05:51,090 The ancient practice of archaeoastronomy seems to tie many highly advanced 62 00:05:51,090 --> 00:05:52,090 cultures together. 63 00:05:52,690 --> 00:05:55,230 And it also seems to tie them to America. 64 00:05:58,130 --> 00:06:01,950 You know, I'm looking at that stone and it looks very interesting. Is there any 65 00:06:01,950 --> 00:06:04,270 chance we could go down and take a look at that closer? Sure. 66 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,020 Well, that's pretty interesting. 67 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,920 Can you tell me a little bit specifically what happens with our 68 00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:37,640 Sure. Yeah, well, basically what happens is on summer solstice, the sun will 69 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:42,620 rise right about in the middle here and just kind of go at almost like a 70 00:06:42,620 --> 00:06:47,100 perpendicular to where the stone is and just go right across and just kind of 71 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:48,380 rise up diagonally. 72 00:06:48,620 --> 00:06:51,180 Well, we think actually originally it probably was going to be up here. 73 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,540 And, you know, over the course of time, it probably moved. 74 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:02,280 Okay, well, if it moved, that's very interesting because over time, the 75 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:03,860 axis does shift. 76 00:07:04,220 --> 00:07:05,220 Right. 77 00:07:09,940 --> 00:07:12,680 You probably remember the earthquake in Japan recently. 78 00:07:12,940 --> 00:07:17,840 It was documented that the axis of the Earth actually moved about 8 79 00:07:18,180 --> 00:07:23,240 Now, that may not seem like a lot, but over time, over thousands of years, it 80 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:23,999 adds up. 81 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,940 So actually, to have the alignment move makes a lot of sense, and that's 82 00:07:29,940 --> 00:07:32,440 important because we can actually use that for dating. 83 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:39,740 And so as the Earth's axis shifts, these alignments do shift, and that could 84 00:07:39,740 --> 00:07:41,440 indicate a significant length of time. 85 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,500 Well, we actually had someone come up and check that out. 86 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,280 Really? And from how far it's moved, they actually dated the site back to 87 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:50,520 3 ,800 years ago. 88 00:07:51,150 --> 00:07:56,050 3 ,800 years, okay. Well, I tell you what, that's really an important thing 89 00:07:56,050 --> 00:08:01,910 because there are many people that think that by using archaeoastronomy, that's 90 00:08:01,910 --> 00:08:05,110 actually a more accurate way of dating than carbon -14. 91 00:08:05,370 --> 00:08:09,470 So if that's the case, you've got a pretty ancient site here. 92 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:25,920 Clearly, this isn't natural, a natural position. This was placed in the ground. 93 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:30,560 It appears to have been quarried. It looks to me like it's actually been 94 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,440 a little bit. And all the surfaces are definitely weathered, significantly 95 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:39,919 weathered. Right. And definitely indicates time. This has been here for a 96 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:40,919 time. 97 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,700 Well, you know, also, we call this place America's Stonehenge, obviously, 98 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,000 because of the standing stones. 99 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,840 But there's another thing that I found that I think really... directly ties the 100 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:51,960 site into Stonehenge in England. 101 00:08:52,660 --> 00:08:53,660 Really? Yeah. 102 00:08:53,740 --> 00:08:56,340 Well, if you've got time, I'd love to see it. Sure. Let's go. 103 00:08:58,060 --> 00:08:59,060 Kelsey, 104 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:16,320 let's see what you got here. 105 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,100 All right. Well, a few months ago, I was on Google Earth. 106 00:09:19,450 --> 00:09:23,070 And I was kind of drawing all the lines out on the alignments just basically to 107 00:09:23,070 --> 00:09:24,070 see where they go. 108 00:09:24,450 --> 00:09:28,510 As I was drawing one out on the summer solstice sunrise alignment, yeah, I kept 109 00:09:28,510 --> 00:09:29,690 taking it out further and further. 110 00:09:30,450 --> 00:09:34,810 And, you know, I noticed it went over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 111 00:09:35,710 --> 00:09:38,590 Kind of a northeast direction. Right, yeah. 112 00:09:38,990 --> 00:09:42,130 And then as I took it over, I noticed it went right over to England. 113 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:44,270 And I thought that was kind of interesting. 114 00:09:44,630 --> 00:09:47,050 So I kept zooming in further and further. 115 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,080 Wait a minute. 116 00:09:50,620 --> 00:09:51,620 What? 117 00:09:52,420 --> 00:09:54,240 It's going all the way over towards Stonehenge. 118 00:09:56,140 --> 00:10:00,380 Not only does it go just through Stonehenge, it actually goes right 119 00:10:00,380 --> 00:10:03,260 of the trilithons at Stonehenge. Wait a minute. 120 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,660 Through one of the trilithons at Stonehenge? Right. From America's 121 00:10:11,380 --> 00:10:15,060 Stonehenge is the most well -known megalithic site of all time. 122 00:10:15,740 --> 00:10:16,960 It's a sacred site. 123 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,620 But no one knows who built it or exactly what it was used for. 124 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:24,980 But maybe whoever built it built this, too. 125 00:10:26,140 --> 00:10:30,260 That's amazing, but I see this line continues off to the east. Where does 126 00:10:30,260 --> 00:10:32,720 go? You're never going to believe where that goes. 127 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:20,870 let me get this straight you're talking about we're starting at america's 128 00:11:20,870 --> 00:11:26,150 stonehenge in new hampshire and this summer solstice line extends to 129 00:11:26,150 --> 00:11:30,970 in england that actually goes right through one of the trialathons 130 00:11:30,970 --> 00:11:37,950 that's amazing but i see this line continues off to the east where does 131 00:11:37,950 --> 00:11:41,870 you're never gonna believe where that goes okay i'm ready 132 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:50,920 Starts going over towards the Mediterranean. 133 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:52,240 Yeah. 134 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:56,800 You're kidding me. 135 00:11:57,500 --> 00:11:59,060 Yep, goes right through Beirut. 136 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,760 Are you sure that's right? 137 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,160 I double -checked it. 138 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,280 Beirut, Lebanon? 139 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,300 Well, that's the ancient home of the Phoenicians. 140 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:13,980 Okay, you realize what this means. 141 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,080 Do you think there's a connection here between the Phoenicians and America's 142 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,550 Stonehenge? It's definitely possible. 143 00:12:20,750 --> 00:12:25,250 Well, I tell you what, if you've got a connection here, this rewrites a huge 144 00:12:25,250 --> 00:12:28,150 chapter of American history. This isn't kidding around. 145 00:12:32,790 --> 00:12:37,010 The Phoenicians were based along the coastline of the Mediterranean in modern 146 00:12:37,010 --> 00:12:38,010 -day Lebanon. 147 00:12:38,690 --> 00:12:42,870 They were an ancient seafaring culture that emerged around 1200 B .C. 148 00:12:45,610 --> 00:12:47,990 They were known for trading with distant lands. 149 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,420 Maybe they even made it to America. 150 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,880 They're also responsible for inventing the alphabet we use today. 151 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:11,820 So, Kelsey, how did your family find out about America's Stonehenge? 152 00:13:12,140 --> 00:13:14,540 Well, my grandfather actually heard about it on the radio when he was 153 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:15,620 his hair cut back in 1955. 154 00:13:18,380 --> 00:13:21,060 Yeah, afterwards he went up and checked the site out. 155 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,180 He was just so intrigued by it, he just had to buy it. 156 00:13:26,260 --> 00:13:28,120 It wasn't always called America's Stonehenge. 157 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,720 And there was actually a book written back around 1907. 158 00:13:31,980 --> 00:13:34,620 It was referred to as Paddy's Caves. 159 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:40,100 Who's Paddy? He was one of the first people that was on site, and he lived 160 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:45,280 for the 1700s and into the 1800s. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, I know you guys 161 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,000 this is an old site, but... Why couldn't he have built it? Well, I can show you. 162 00:13:57,180 --> 00:13:59,780 This is it. This is where Patty's house was. 163 00:14:00,380 --> 00:14:01,960 Right in this area right here? Yeah. 164 00:14:09,980 --> 00:14:13,100 There's no way that Patty built this. 165 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,620 It just reeks of being... 166 00:14:15,950 --> 00:14:16,950 really old. 167 00:14:16,970 --> 00:14:19,490 And if it's old, it's important. 168 00:14:21,910 --> 00:14:26,650 Some people think that he used the existing stone structures up in that 169 00:14:26,650 --> 00:14:27,650 animal pens. 170 00:14:27,710 --> 00:14:33,310 He built those huge, massive walls for animals when he's got all these trees 171 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:34,310 he could have used wood. 172 00:14:34,690 --> 00:14:35,830 That's what they think. 173 00:14:36,630 --> 00:14:38,410 Well, I don't buy that one. 174 00:14:41,370 --> 00:14:43,290 I mean, look at the size of these rocks. 175 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:49,600 I wouldn't want to move them. What's that big slab there? Was that like a 176 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,500 We think that was most likely a roof slab for a chamber right there that 177 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:57,280 collapsed. You know what's interesting about rocks like that? Those actually 178 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,480 serve as clocks as well and indicate something about the age of a structure. 179 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,080 This has a genuine feel to it. 180 00:15:07,980 --> 00:15:10,620 And it's amazing. 181 00:15:10,860 --> 00:15:11,860 I mean, look at all this. 182 00:15:20,810 --> 00:15:25,030 We do have one more thing that ties this site into the Phoenicians. 183 00:15:26,190 --> 00:15:29,490 It turns out Kelsey's dad has a stone from the site. 184 00:15:29,770 --> 00:15:33,750 It has a carving on it. Maybe some kind of ancient message. 185 00:15:40,930 --> 00:15:42,710 Scott, this is the ball stone. 186 00:15:43,150 --> 00:15:44,570 It was found in 1964. 187 00:15:45,130 --> 00:15:46,130 What does it say? 188 00:15:46,430 --> 00:15:49,850 It says, to Ball, on behalf of the Canaanites, this is dedicated. 189 00:15:51,349 --> 00:15:55,310 The Canaanites, from the land of Canaan. That's right. That's what they used to 190 00:15:55,310 --> 00:15:59,010 call themselves, but everybody in the region called them the Phoenicians. 191 00:15:59,490 --> 00:16:03,930 They got all over the known world at that time, and many people believe that 192 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:08,370 they made it over here to North America. And there are many examples of possible 193 00:16:08,370 --> 00:16:10,590 Phoenician writings, always from Maine down to Brazil. 194 00:16:12,750 --> 00:16:16,610 Well, I tell you what, if this is indeed a Phoenician inscription, you've really 195 00:16:16,610 --> 00:16:18,470 got something important here. Absolutely. 196 00:16:18,690 --> 00:16:22,690 I mean, together with the alignment that you found, you're talking about an 197 00:16:22,690 --> 00:16:24,570 incredible site, an incredible discovery. 198 00:16:24,990 --> 00:16:31,850 And it really just blasts apart the history books in places Europeans here 199 00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:34,770 North America around 3 ,500 years ago. 200 00:16:42,380 --> 00:16:46,740 Before I make any conclusions, I need to make sure this inscription is old and 201 00:16:46,740 --> 00:16:49,400 that the lines are man -made, not natural. 202 00:16:53,380 --> 00:16:58,520 By using a 3D microscope, I can see how deep the grooves go and if the 203 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,800 inscription has been weathering for a long time. 204 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,579 What I want to do is I want to focus on this groove right here, which I numbered 205 00:17:08,579 --> 00:17:09,579 as number 3. 206 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:10,880 Groove number 3. 207 00:17:11,390 --> 00:17:16,290 And that corresponds to this groove right here. This is about 4 ,000 microns 208 00:17:16,290 --> 00:17:19,069 from the highest point down to the deepest point. 209 00:17:20,369 --> 00:17:26,329 This one clearly is a man -made groove. It looks like it here. It looks like it 210 00:17:26,329 --> 00:17:27,329 here. 211 00:17:28,250 --> 00:17:32,730 I can already tell many of these marks that make up the inscription could be 212 00:17:32,730 --> 00:17:36,250 centuries old. And there's no doubt they were deliberately made. 213 00:17:37,510 --> 00:17:39,750 Because it references the Canaanites. 214 00:17:40,140 --> 00:17:43,500 I have to consider the Phoenicians, but I need to know more. 215 00:17:46,020 --> 00:17:50,900 Is there anything else here that you might have that possibly could tie this 216 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:51,900 site to the Phoenicians? 217 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,320 Well, there is one more thing. It's actually up on the site. 218 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,080 We call it the sacrificial table. 219 00:17:57,220 --> 00:17:58,179 Sacrificial table? 220 00:17:58,180 --> 00:18:01,420 Yes. Well, I'm not going anywhere until I see that. 221 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,780 And this is the sacrificial table. 222 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:51,000 This? You think there was really human sacrifices here? 223 00:18:51,220 --> 00:18:54,260 We believe this sacrificial table could have been used for a human or animal 224 00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:57,280 sacrifice. The stone is about nine feet by six feet. 225 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,180 It's just on four legs. It weighs about four and a half tons. 226 00:19:00,420 --> 00:19:04,440 And on top is a rectangular -shaped groove that's about six feet by four 227 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:09,160 And the table is tilted towards me. So if there was a fluid such as blood on 228 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,950 it would go into the groove and then it would... Continue in the groove towards 229 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:13,350 this little runnel right here. 230 00:19:13,590 --> 00:19:16,930 And are we going to possibly a little base? Or is it cut out in a bedrock 231 00:19:16,930 --> 00:19:17,930 a base could sit? 232 00:19:18,950 --> 00:19:21,250 Well, I see the groove. 233 00:19:21,990 --> 00:19:24,290 And you think this was for channeling blood. 234 00:19:25,250 --> 00:19:26,250 That's amazing. 235 00:19:26,790 --> 00:19:32,550 There's something else that I see. And you see all this cracking and this 236 00:19:32,550 --> 00:19:35,530 layering here along the entire surface. 237 00:19:36,380 --> 00:19:40,920 That's what we call exfoliation weathering. It's kind of like when dead 238 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,200 peels off your body. 239 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:47,720 That's interesting for a couple of reasons. First off, that indicates a lot 240 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,040 weathering has gone on here. This is wetting and drying, freezing and 241 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:55,660 And there's been a lot of loss of material on the surface, which indicates 242 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:56,660 significant age. 243 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:00,940 And I think this could probably be used as a weathering clock. 244 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,700 I see significant weathering here that appears to be consistent with the 245 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:13,960 astronomical alignments that we saw, with the structures that are here, which 246 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,020 indicate that this is a very old place. 247 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,800 There's one more secret at the table I'd like to show you. 248 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,020 Oh. Hello, Scott Walter. 249 00:20:22,940 --> 00:20:24,500 What the heck was that? 250 00:20:47,530 --> 00:20:49,590 So you're the man behind the curtain. That's right. 251 00:20:49,910 --> 00:20:50,910 That's funny stuff. 252 00:20:52,030 --> 00:20:53,130 So what do we have here? 253 00:20:53,430 --> 00:20:56,030 Well, Scott, you're standing in the oracle chamber. And we call it the 254 00:20:56,030 --> 00:20:59,670 chamber because of this tube here that goes through the wall about 16 from the 255 00:20:59,670 --> 00:21:02,230 oracle chamber where we're standing out to the sacrificial table. 256 00:21:04,310 --> 00:21:07,950 And we think during a ceremony, perhaps people watching above would hear this 257 00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:12,090 voice coming out. And it would be like a god or a spirit talking to them. And it 258 00:21:12,090 --> 00:21:14,390 was probably a priest or shaman actually shouting through the tube. 259 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:19,900 Interesting. So really what we have is an example of archaeoacoustics, the 260 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:25,640 science of where the ancients would manipulate sound typically in rituals by 261 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:31,740 using something like this tube here to create a pretty scary sound in this 262 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:37,020 Can you imagine somebody sitting on that table about to be sacrificed and hear 263 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:40,360 that voice? I mean, it must have been really scary. 264 00:21:41,740 --> 00:21:44,380 I can't help myself. Do you mind if I give it a try? 265 00:21:44,750 --> 00:21:45,649 Yeah, I guess Scott. 266 00:21:45,650 --> 00:21:47,430 Okay. All right. 267 00:21:50,270 --> 00:21:51,450 This is all. 268 00:21:51,950 --> 00:21:53,350 Get off my lawn. 269 00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:04,630 I'm glad I came to investigate this site. 270 00:22:05,090 --> 00:22:10,950 I don't know what's more interesting, the sacrificial table, the ball stone, 271 00:22:10,950 --> 00:22:12,150 the summer solstice line. 272 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:18,060 that connects America's Stonehenge to the one in England, and further east to 273 00:22:18,060 --> 00:22:20,880 Beirut, Lebanon, home of the ancient Phoenicians. 274 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:30,000 I plan on coming back for the solstice, but right now I'm headed to Mount 275 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,860 Holyoke College to talk to an expert on Phoenician culture. 276 00:22:46,190 --> 00:22:52,930 Mark, I just came back from a very interesting place called 277 00:22:52,930 --> 00:22:57,390 America's Stonehenge. One of the things that I saw that was discovered by Kelsey 278 00:22:57,390 --> 00:23:01,830 Stone, the son of the owners, was a long -range alignment that starts at their 279 00:23:01,830 --> 00:23:07,670 site, that goes from their site to Stonehenge in England, and then extends 280 00:23:07,670 --> 00:23:11,090 Beirut, Lebanon, which is the ancestral home of the Phoenicians. 281 00:23:12,270 --> 00:23:13,410 Who were the Phoenicians? 282 00:23:13,650 --> 00:23:20,090 The Phoenicians were a group of Middle Eastern people, and their center was in 283 00:23:20,090 --> 00:23:25,850 modern Lebanon, and they developed colonies westward from there, the most 284 00:23:25,850 --> 00:23:30,950 important of which was Carthage. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians on 285 00:23:30,950 --> 00:23:34,610 because they were the most powerful Phoenician culture that ever developed. 286 00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:38,890 Also, they tended to be very secretive, so it's been a challenge to try to 287 00:23:38,890 --> 00:23:40,690 figure out exactly what the Phoenicians knew. 288 00:23:41,180 --> 00:23:44,780 what they were able to do and we're still trying to learn more about them 289 00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:49,940 it's a it's a a difficult task because there's not much evidence the 290 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:56,660 really sort of appear around 1200 000 bc they were trying to build trading 291 00:23:56,660 --> 00:24:02,500 centers and colonization centers and they began to move both north and south 292 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:04,200 along the atlantic coast 293 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,580 Part of the reason for Phoenician success as navigators was the fact that 294 00:24:09,580 --> 00:24:11,000 were able to navigate at night. 295 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,740 And this is because they knew about Polaris, the pole star. 296 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,780 Polaris is also known as the North Star. 297 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:24,220 And if the Phoenicians knew about it, chances are they knew about the rest of 298 00:24:24,220 --> 00:24:25,220 the sky too. 299 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,840 The sun, the stars, the moon, the planets. 300 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,240 And that means they would have had enough knowledge of archaeoastronomy. 301 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:39,270 to create the summer solstice alignment from America's Stonehenge to Stonehenge 302 00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:40,270 in England. 303 00:24:41,070 --> 00:24:46,230 This proposed alignment at America's Stonehenge is very intriguing, and 304 00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:50,470 a possibility that it will connect to some research that I did. In particular, 305 00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:54,470 study that I made of a group of Phoenician coins that had been minted in 306 00:24:54,470 --> 00:25:00,550 Carthage in 350 BC, and that I interpreted as having a map on the 307 00:25:00,550 --> 00:25:02,330 coin. Do you have a picture of the coin? 308 00:25:02,530 --> 00:25:04,280 Yes. This is good. 309 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:12,360 Here are two images from the British Museum. You can pick out the islands 310 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:16,760 clearly. Sardinia in the center, which is the central point in the 311 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,160 Basin. We've got Sicily there, the triangular island. 312 00:25:21,260 --> 00:25:23,380 The boot of Italy coming down. 313 00:25:23,980 --> 00:25:25,420 Iberian Peninsula here. 314 00:25:26,510 --> 00:25:31,470 This straight line here is probably the north coast of Africa, India here, and 315 00:25:31,470 --> 00:25:36,270 this is America. And this almost looks to me like they're giving us the Gulf of 316 00:25:36,270 --> 00:25:39,550 Mexico there in Florida, but that could be subject to interpretation. 317 00:25:40,830 --> 00:25:43,250 Well, that's fascinating. A couple thoughts here. Sure. 318 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,220 They were there here. They were put there for a reason. And I guess until a 319 00:25:48,220 --> 00:25:51,320 better thesis comes along, I like yours. I love yours. 320 00:25:51,540 --> 00:25:57,360 But thank you. I think that this this gives us an insight into the Phoenician 321 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:58,600 psyche. Absolutely. 322 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,560 And remember, they're extremely secretive. Yeah. And so they're not 323 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,220 giving away the store, so to speak. 324 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:06,520 However, 325 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,780 there was they had enough ego to want to have some kind of record of what they 326 00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:13,020 had done. So here. 327 00:26:13,580 --> 00:26:17,920 On these coins and these tiny little images, they were giving us an extremely 328 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,540 condensed Phoenician geography, you know, telling a huge story in a couple 329 00:26:23,540 --> 00:26:24,600 millimeters space here. 330 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,180 There's one other thing I'd like to talk about. It's this sacrificial table. 331 00:26:29,940 --> 00:26:32,140 Did the Phoenicians practice human sacrifice? 332 00:26:32,740 --> 00:26:37,340 Yes, they did. And I think the evidence is overwhelming that they... 333 00:26:37,630 --> 00:26:39,670 They did practice human sacrifice. 334 00:26:39,950 --> 00:26:43,550 I think there's a lot of sources, biblical and otherwise, suggesting that 335 00:26:43,550 --> 00:26:44,550 was the case. 336 00:26:45,210 --> 00:26:48,130 Do you think the Phoenicians made it to North America or not? 337 00:26:48,590 --> 00:26:53,450 They probably went farther than anyone is willing to admit today. They had the 338 00:26:53,450 --> 00:26:58,750 ships to do so. I think the Phoenicians could easily have crossed the Atlantic. 339 00:26:58,870 --> 00:27:01,330 Their whole history suggests that they would have tried to do this. 340 00:27:01,850 --> 00:27:07,590 Diodorus, a Greek historian, reports the Phoenicians knew about this gigantic 341 00:27:07,590 --> 00:27:10,150 island out in the Atlantic with navigable rivers. 342 00:27:10,410 --> 00:27:15,750 The only place with navigable rivers once you get past Spain is America. 343 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,700 When I went to America's Stonehenge, I was amazed to learn about a possible 344 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:38,820 connection between that site in New Hampshire and Stonehenge in England. 345 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:44,920 Bob Stone purchased America's Stonehenge in 1955 because he believed this 346 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,740 ancient place needed to be preserved. 347 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:53,080 Years later, when his grandson Kelsey mapped the site's sunrise solstice line, 348 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:58,300 He discovered that line started at America's Stonehenge and went straight 349 00:27:58,300 --> 00:27:59,500 Stonehenge in England. 350 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:05,920 And now I'm heading there to see if these two ancient sites with massive 351 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,580 standing stones are connected. 352 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:58,600 So, Henry, I'm here because I'm investigating a megalithic site in New 353 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:04,080 Hampshire called America's Stonehenge. And there appears to be a connection to 354 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,080 Stonehenge here. 355 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,460 And I'd just like to know a little bit about Stonehenge. 356 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,680 Well, Stonehenge, I mean, it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments. 357 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,820 But I think a couple of things that people don't always realize about it is 358 00:29:16,820 --> 00:29:20,580 it took over a thousand years to make what you can see now. 359 00:29:21,070 --> 00:29:24,590 To construct. Yeah, yeah. There's lots of different phases and it gets 360 00:29:24,590 --> 00:29:25,610 reinvented through time. 361 00:29:25,910 --> 00:29:28,950 Well, you know, when people think about Stonehenge, they think about what's 362 00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:33,210 right here. But you're saying that it goes all around us, even beyond where we 363 00:29:33,210 --> 00:29:38,750 are? Yes. Yeah, I mean, going back for a couple of thousand years before, you've 364 00:29:38,750 --> 00:29:41,010 got various monuments in all sorts of different directions. 365 00:29:41,210 --> 00:29:45,150 And the focus over time becomes Stonehenge. These stones. 366 00:29:46,930 --> 00:29:50,210 Stonehenge is the most well -known megalithic site in the world. 367 00:29:51,530 --> 00:29:58,450 It consists of 150 enormous stones, the tallest of which rises 22 feet from 368 00:29:58,450 --> 00:29:59,309 the ground. 369 00:29:59,310 --> 00:30:06,170 But in the beginning, around 3100 BC, it was just a hench, a ditch, a bank, 370 00:30:06,290 --> 00:30:07,630 and several round pits. 371 00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:10,870 But even then, it was a popular gathering place. 372 00:30:13,470 --> 00:30:16,910 Being a geologist, I'm very interested in the rocks, the stones. 373 00:30:17,170 --> 00:30:20,650 Tell me a little bit about the stones. There's a variation in the geology, is 374 00:30:20,650 --> 00:30:25,090 that right? Yeah, there's two different types. The very big stones are sarsen. 375 00:30:25,290 --> 00:30:28,970 They come from sort of the local area, within 20 miles or so. 376 00:30:29,230 --> 00:30:32,390 The blue stones, which are the smaller ones, they're still very big. 377 00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:34,410 They come from South Wales. 378 00:30:35,310 --> 00:30:37,230 How far away is that? 379 00:30:37,490 --> 00:30:38,690 Well, it's about 150 miles. 380 00:30:39,610 --> 00:30:42,610 If you think, actually, how they would have transported them, that's not 381 00:30:42,610 --> 00:30:44,850 straight. That's a heck of a task. 382 00:30:45,170 --> 00:30:47,870 240 miles, maybe? I mean, that's at the heart of it. 383 00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:52,250 That really suggests sophistication. 384 00:30:52,590 --> 00:30:57,610 and coordination and something at a pretty complicated level. I think 385 00:30:57,610 --> 00:31:00,450 huge amount of sophistication. People do know what they're doing. I mean, the 386 00:31:00,450 --> 00:31:03,370 fact they can build Stonehenge, the amount of labor which goes into building 387 00:31:03,370 --> 00:31:06,150 something like that is incredible. And people have estimated something like 30 388 00:31:06,150 --> 00:31:07,009 million hours. 389 00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:11,810 30 million hours of work? And how many people say to move one of those stones? 390 00:31:12,110 --> 00:31:16,090 There's no real way of telling. It's something which we continue to think 391 00:31:16,310 --> 00:31:18,870 But the fact they did it, I mean, it's a massive feat of engineering. 392 00:31:20,910 --> 00:31:24,170 But we still find them more sophisticated than we thought. So, might 393 00:31:24,170 --> 00:31:26,070 people, but it might have been just a couple. 394 00:31:31,850 --> 00:31:36,230 The blue stones may not be the biggest stones here, but for me, they're the 395 00:31:36,230 --> 00:31:37,230 interesting. 396 00:31:38,570 --> 00:31:42,990 They're said to have spiritual significance, and I think America's 397 00:31:42,990 --> 00:31:43,990 has that too. 398 00:31:46,050 --> 00:31:49,990 The blue stones came from a land that was believed to have healing powers. 399 00:31:50,990 --> 00:31:55,570 Archaeologists think Stonehenge may have been a franchise of sorts, a closer 400 00:31:55,570 --> 00:31:58,170 version of a faraway sacred place. 401 00:32:00,910 --> 00:32:03,910 There's no doubt these stones were placed here for a reason. 402 00:32:05,070 --> 00:32:10,030 And it has everything to do with the sun and the solstice, just like it does at 403 00:32:10,030 --> 00:32:11,490 Stonehenge in New Hampshire. 404 00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,440 If we think back to ancient times, were there rituals going on? What were the 405 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,160 people doing at this site? 406 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:28,080 We could see ceremonies following on the day of the solstice. People starting 407 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,160 the day at the eastern pitch. 408 00:32:30,580 --> 00:32:32,900 As from here, you can observe sun rising. 409 00:32:33,550 --> 00:32:36,750 on the solstice and then they're following the sun round so basically the 410 00:32:36,750 --> 00:32:41,490 this long rectangular enclosure is basically just a walkway so you follow 411 00:32:41,490 --> 00:32:45,170 the perimeter following the sun in front of you all the time but it's a bit like 412 00:32:45,170 --> 00:32:48,890 a church or a cathedral now you have multiple functions and i think all of 413 00:32:48,890 --> 00:32:52,390 would be happening here why do you think it was so important for these ancient 414 00:32:52,390 --> 00:32:57,650 people to track the movement of the celestial bodies the people are farmers 415 00:32:57,650 --> 00:32:59,910 rely on seasons they rely on understanding 416 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,100 They know when to plant crops, when to harvest them. But actually having a 417 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:05,980 of how that time develops, I think, is really important. 418 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,140 The importance of these bodies, I think, is fundamental to being human and being 419 00:33:11,140 --> 00:33:13,260 farmers, but also something which they celebrate. 420 00:33:23,690 --> 00:33:27,750 Tell me a little bit about the archaeoastronomy here. Well, there's 421 00:33:27,890 --> 00:33:28,789 a huge amount of work. 422 00:33:28,790 --> 00:33:33,250 You'll see there are stones dotted around the site. I saw a big one. Well, 423 00:33:33,250 --> 00:33:36,350 see it right here. That big standing stone over there on the side. 424 00:33:36,630 --> 00:33:38,370 That one is known as the heel stone. 425 00:33:38,570 --> 00:33:42,290 Now, the weird thing about that stone is it's undressed. It hasn't been worked 426 00:33:42,290 --> 00:33:44,070 like all the other stones on site. 427 00:33:44,290 --> 00:33:47,750 But what seems to be important is that stone, whenever you look at the center 428 00:33:47,750 --> 00:33:50,070 Stonehenge and line things up, people have done this in the past. 429 00:33:50,590 --> 00:33:54,950 That's the stone which leads you towards the summer solstice sunrise. 430 00:33:55,350 --> 00:34:01,270 If you line up the heel stone with each of those pits, on one side it marks 431 00:34:01,270 --> 00:34:05,730 sunrise on the summer solstice, and the other one it marks sunset on the summer 432 00:34:05,730 --> 00:34:06,730 solstice. 433 00:34:09,210 --> 00:34:12,030 I don't know, is that more than a coincidence, that they actually are 434 00:34:12,030 --> 00:34:14,330 with two very sort of significant events? 435 00:34:15,130 --> 00:34:17,210 I don't think it's a coincidence, no, I don't. 436 00:34:26,350 --> 00:34:30,230 I have something I'd like to show you. It's a new discovery of archaeological 437 00:34:30,230 --> 00:34:32,550 astronomy at America's Stonehenge. 438 00:34:34,310 --> 00:34:39,350 It's a summer solstice line running from the site in New Hampshire directly to 439 00:34:39,350 --> 00:34:40,350 here. 440 00:34:40,670 --> 00:34:44,850 My initial reaction would be that that's beyond possible. 441 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:23,100 When I was at America's Stonehenge, a megalithic site in New Hampshire, I 442 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:27,720 learned about a new discovery by the owner's son, a connection between that 443 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,360 and Stonehenge in England. 444 00:35:31,140 --> 00:35:36,680 From there, the line extends even further to modern -day Lebanon, which 445 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,000 home base of the Phoenicians. 446 00:35:39,950 --> 00:35:44,770 I want to find out if a Stonehenge expert thinks all three sites could be 447 00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:48,630 connected to each other and to that specific ancient culture. 448 00:35:52,250 --> 00:35:58,550 So here we have the alignment that starts at America's Stonehenge at the 449 00:35:58,550 --> 00:36:03,850 of the observatory. And then as you extend a line through and continue that 450 00:36:03,850 --> 00:36:08,830 line, it comes across the Atlantic and comes right here to Stonehenge. 451 00:36:09,190 --> 00:36:14,390 When you look here at a close -up, you can see that it goes right through that 452 00:36:14,390 --> 00:36:15,530 central trilithon. 453 00:36:16,250 --> 00:36:21,250 Then, if you extend that line, it goes to Beirut, Lebanon, the home of the 454 00:36:21,250 --> 00:36:25,150 Phoenicians. As incredible as it is, it appears to be there. 455 00:36:25,450 --> 00:36:26,450 What's your reaction? 456 00:36:26,810 --> 00:36:29,850 I think it's incredible. I can't imagine there's a link other than the 457 00:36:29,850 --> 00:36:32,870 possibility that people are marking the same sort of alignment. 458 00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:36,590 And I think also when you extend it onto the Phoenician world. 459 00:36:37,230 --> 00:36:39,290 Their world starts around about 1200 BC. 460 00:36:40,190 --> 00:36:45,070 And this site's sort of finished really by about 2000 BC. So there's a good 800 461 00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:46,610 years or so difference. 462 00:36:48,870 --> 00:36:53,150 Interestingly, I think Stonehenge has attracted people in prehistory from 463 00:36:53,150 --> 00:36:54,150 far away. 464 00:36:54,270 --> 00:36:57,690 There's a burial just over there, actually a couple of burials from over 465 00:36:57,730 --> 00:37:00,050 One from about 1400 BC. 466 00:37:00,350 --> 00:37:03,710 So people are moving here. It's people that Phoenicians might have been. 467 00:37:03,990 --> 00:37:05,850 It's not beyond... 468 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,580 But they couldn't have been involved in the design of Stonehenge because it's 469 00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:12,580 too early. 470 00:37:25,940 --> 00:37:30,740 I don't think there's any question that this site was an observatory. 471 00:37:31,370 --> 00:37:36,230 And it was sacred. When we had these ancient people going to other places, 472 00:37:36,230 --> 00:37:40,830 North America and other continents, something that was sacred, that was 473 00:37:40,830 --> 00:37:45,270 their existence and their belief system, they would build those in other places. 474 00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:51,890 And could perhaps these sacred sites be connected or connect these people across 475 00:37:51,890 --> 00:37:52,890 the continents? 476 00:37:53,870 --> 00:37:57,510 I think you're actually right. I think these sites are sacred in that way. And 477 00:37:57,510 --> 00:38:01,980 think possibly people move, but also equally, maybe just... People are so 478 00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:07,280 similar in wherever they live on the planet that they all observe the same 479 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,220 of things. Whether or not people actually move or don't move between 480 00:38:10,220 --> 00:38:14,460 places, the fact that you have similar sorts of sights all over the planet, all 481 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:17,960 respecting the heavenly bodies and so on, I think it's just a really nice 482 00:38:18,060 --> 00:38:20,420 Something about humanity and being human. 483 00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:24,820 Well, I think the one thing that we can definitely agree on, if nothing else, 484 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:30,760 places like Stonehenge and America's Stonehenge prove how important 485 00:38:30,970 --> 00:38:33,890 the celestial bodies were to these ancient people. 486 00:38:43,330 --> 00:38:48,190 The Phoenicians couldn't have built Stonehenge, but the site still might 487 00:38:48,190 --> 00:38:49,990 been a sacred sanctuary for them. 488 00:38:51,050 --> 00:38:55,890 I think the fact that this place directly aligns with America's 489 00:38:55,890 --> 00:38:57,950 the summer solstice is no mistake. 490 00:38:59,460 --> 00:39:04,420 Archaeoastronomy links many cultures together, like the Mayans in Georgia and 491 00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:05,420 the Celts in Oklahoma. 492 00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:11,360 And I think it's also what links the Phoenicians to our very own Stonehenge, 493 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,000 proof of which I'm about to see with my own eyes. 494 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:22,000 They could be the ones who marked an important day, the summer solstice, with 495 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,360 standing stone at the site over which the sunrise takes place. 496 00:39:43,210 --> 00:39:44,009 Good morning, Scott. 497 00:39:44,010 --> 00:39:44,729 Hi, Jenna. 498 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,830 Hi, Kelsey. How are you doing? Good, how are you? Good. How did the trip go? I 499 00:39:47,830 --> 00:39:51,550 had a great trip. I've got some really good stuff to share with you, but I'm 500 00:39:51,550 --> 00:39:54,890 excited to see that alignment. So sun's coming up. Can we head out? 501 00:39:55,270 --> 00:39:56,249 Yeah, I'm ready. 502 00:39:56,250 --> 00:39:57,250 Go. 503 00:40:02,630 --> 00:40:06,770 We're about to see the sunrise over the Solstice Dome. To see the alignment, 504 00:40:06,870 --> 00:40:11,070 Kelsey Stone discovered that links this site to Stonehenge in England. 505 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,780 If you were to draw a line directly through the sun as it rises over the 506 00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:23,060 it would run right through the center trilithon at Stonehenge and then 507 00:40:23,060 --> 00:40:26,600 on to Lebanon, once the center of the Phoenician Empire. 508 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:38,200 To me, it's proof of an advanced understanding of archaeoastronomy and of 509 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,480 ancient connection to the United States. 510 00:40:47,050 --> 00:40:50,250 What else can you say but wow, that's amazing. 511 00:40:51,370 --> 00:40:52,550 I never get old. 512 00:40:52,910 --> 00:40:57,390 Tell you what, what we're seeing here is an amazingly accurate astronomical 513 00:40:57,390 --> 00:40:59,210 calendar. There's no accident. 514 00:40:59,490 --> 00:41:04,310 I saw the exact same thing at Stonehenge. They used standing stones 515 00:41:04,310 --> 00:41:06,770 this to track the seasons. 516 00:41:07,070 --> 00:41:08,230 They used it for worship. 517 00:41:08,530 --> 00:41:12,850 I think they also used it for navigation to come to the new world amongst other 518 00:41:12,850 --> 00:41:13,850 places. 519 00:41:14,030 --> 00:41:15,510 It was absolutely amazing. 520 00:41:15,830 --> 00:41:18,790 The beginning of Stonehenge predates your site here. 521 00:41:19,490 --> 00:41:25,190 The later stages do correspond, especially with the stone erecting 522 00:41:25,190 --> 00:41:26,530 there might be a connection there. 523 00:41:26,770 --> 00:41:33,250 The Phoenician connection is a little bit tenuous because this actually 524 00:41:33,250 --> 00:41:37,030 the Phoenicians by a little bit. Maybe it was a proto -Phoenician group. We're 525 00:41:37,030 --> 00:41:38,030 not sure. 526 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,680 You know what's great is you've got a sacred site in England, you've got a 527 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,260 sacred site here, and there's no doubt that they're connected. 528 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:53,240 Whether it was the Phoenicians or not, what it tells us is that some highly 529 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:59,120 sophisticated culture, probably the elite in that culture, came over here 530 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,900 established this incredible site. 531 00:42:01,180 --> 00:42:05,260 And it's sites like this that connect the new world to the old world. 532 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,680 The Stone family wanted to know if the Phoenicians made their site. 533 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:23,140 It's a question the family has been trying to answer since Bob Stone bought 534 00:42:23,140 --> 00:42:25,240 mysterious site back in 1955. 535 00:42:29,420 --> 00:42:33,780 While I can't say for sure the Phoenicians made it there, I believe 536 00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:35,380 easily have made it to the Americas. 537 00:42:36,260 --> 00:42:39,260 Someone had to assemble those huge stones. 538 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,880 Someone with a vast knowledge of archaeoastronomy. 539 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,580 I believe archaeoastronomy is what links together many advanced civilizations 540 00:42:48,580 --> 00:42:51,620 and is what links some of them to America. 541 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,600 I believe there was contact between ancient cultures. 542 00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:05,100 It may be why America's Stonehenge was built where it was, to create a place in 543 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:08,480 the New World that lined up with a sacred site in the Old World. 544 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,840 People were connected. 545 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,820 And we're just starting to find out how. 546 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,580 Next time on America Unheard. What happened to the Lost Colony? 547 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,360 It's like we have a breadcrumb trail of these stones leading to wherever they 548 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,118 ended up. 549 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,020 Eventually they're going to fall prey to an attack. 550 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,420 You've got to be kidding me. My theory is right. 551 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:39,020 If you have a mysterious artifact or site I need to see, I want to know about 552 00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:41,990 it. Go to history .com slash... honor. 49436

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