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All right, folks, here's some pretty big
news for a tiny town in New Hampshire.
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Turns out the stone structures on
Malcolm Pearson's property down in Salem
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be older than people think.
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Some are saying they could be older than
Christopher Columbus himself.
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Now that would be something.
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But I guess we need to wait and see.
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In sports, the Red Sox faced the Yankees
last night as Benway in the first three
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-game series.
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The history that we were all taught
growing up is wrong.
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My name is Scott Wolfe, and I'm a
forensic geologist.
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There's a hidden history in this country
that nobody knows about.
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There are pyramids here, chambers,
tombs, inscriptions.
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They're all over this country.
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We're going to investigate these
artifacts and sites, and we're going to
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the truth.
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Sometimes history isn't what we've been
told.
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Stonehenge in England is one of the most
awe -inspiring ancient sites on Earth.
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Even today, its origin and purpose
remain shrouded in mystery.
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One thing archaeologists know for sure
is that its construction took over 2
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years.
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One thing they don't know is who built
it.
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There's no doubt the site.
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Originally comprised of some 150 stones
was the work of some advanced
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civilization that knew enough about the
sun, moon, and stars to align these
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stones with the heavens in a very
specific way.
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But what if I told you we have our very
own Stonehenge in the United States?
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And that it's possible that two sites
were built by the same people.
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I'm on my way to investigate it right
now.
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America's Stonehenge is a prehistoric
site in Salem, New Hampshire.
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The owner says the stone structures here
date back 4 ,000 years.
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I got a call from his son, Kelsey.
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He's discovered a solar alignment, an
example of archaeoastronomy that he
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me to see.
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So, this is the Central Observatory, and
this is what I was telling you about
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why we call America Stonehenge.
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Just like at Stonehenge, someone placed
standing stones, large vertical rocks,
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in a circle.
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The placement is key.
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When viewed from the center of the site,
each standing stone lines up with the
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sun on important days of the year.
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The solstices, the longest and shortest
days.
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The equinoxes, when the sun is on a
level plane with the Earth's equator.
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And the cross -quarter days, which fall
midway between them.
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This is the summer solstice sunrise
stone.
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So, summer solstice, the sun basically
just rises right over there.
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Right over the stone, just kind of comes
out diagonal, and then just kind of
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tracks across the sky.
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And then on sunset, it just comes right
over to... Right over here?
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Somewhere close to the sunset zone
there.
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You realize this says an awful lot about
your site.
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Whoever was here is marking these
important dates of the year, like many
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cultures all over the world did.
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I've been seeing this a lot lately.
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It's called archaeoastronomy.
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It's how ancient cultures used the sun,
moon, stars, and planets in their
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architecture and design.
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I saw archaeoastronomy in Georgia, where
it connected Native Americans to the
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ancient minds.
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And I saw it in a cave in Oklahoma,
where markings that are part of an
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illumination may have been left by the
Celts.
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The ancient practice of archaeoastronomy
seems to tie many highly advanced
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cultures together.
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And it also seems to tie them to
America.
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You know, I'm looking at that stone and
it looks very interesting. Is there any
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chance we could go down and take a look
at that closer? Sure.
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Well, that's pretty interesting.
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Can you tell me a little bit
specifically what happens with our
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Sure. Yeah, well, basically what happens
is on summer solstice, the sun will
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rise right about in the middle here and
just kind of go at almost like a
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perpendicular to where the stone is and
just go right across and just kind of
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rise up diagonally.
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Well, we think actually originally it
probably was going to be up here.
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And, you know, over the course of time,
it probably moved.
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Okay, well, if it moved, that's very
interesting because over time, the
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axis does shift.
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Right.
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You probably remember the earthquake in
Japan recently.
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It was documented that the axis of the
Earth actually moved about 8
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Now, that may not seem like a lot, but
over time, over thousands of years, it
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adds up.
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So actually, to have the alignment move
makes a lot of sense, and that's
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important because we can actually use
that for dating.
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And so as the Earth's axis shifts, these
alignments do shift, and that could
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indicate a significant length of time.
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Well, we actually had someone come up
and check that out.
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Really? And from how far it's moved,
they actually dated the site back to
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3 ,800 years ago.
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3 ,800 years, okay. Well, I tell you
what, that's really an important thing
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because there are many people that think
that by using archaeoastronomy, that's
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actually a more accurate way of dating
than carbon -14.
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So if that's the case, you've got a
pretty ancient site here.
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Clearly, this isn't natural, a natural
position. This was placed in the ground.
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It appears to have been quarried. It
looks to me like it's actually been
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a little bit. And all the surfaces are
definitely weathered, significantly
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weathered. Right. And definitely
indicates time. This has been here for a
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time.
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Well, you know, also, we call this place
America's Stonehenge, obviously,
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because of the standing stones.
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But there's another thing that I found
that I think really... directly ties the
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site into Stonehenge in England.
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Really? Yeah.
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Well, if you've got time, I'd love to
see it. Sure. Let's go.
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Kelsey,
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let's see what you got here.
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All right. Well, a few months ago, I was
on Google Earth.
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And I was kind of drawing all the lines
out on the alignments just basically to
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see where they go.
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As I was drawing one out on the summer
solstice sunrise alignment, yeah, I kept
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taking it out further and further.
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And, you know, I noticed it went over
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
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Kind of a northeast direction. Right,
yeah.
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And then as I took it over, I noticed it
went right over to England.
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And I thought that was kind of
interesting.
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So I kept zooming in further and
further.
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Wait a minute.
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What?
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It's going all the way over towards
Stonehenge.
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Not only does it go just through
Stonehenge, it actually goes right
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of the trilithons at Stonehenge. Wait a
minute.
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Through one of the trilithons at
Stonehenge? Right. From America's
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Stonehenge is the most well -known
megalithic site of all time.
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It's a sacred site.
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But no one knows who built it or exactly
what it was used for.
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But maybe whoever built it built this,
too.
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That's amazing, but I see this line
continues off to the east. Where does
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go? You're never going to believe where
that goes.
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let me get this straight you're talking
about we're starting at america's
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stonehenge in new hampshire and this
summer solstice line extends to
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in england that actually goes right
through one of the trialathons
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that's amazing but i see this line
continues off to the east where does
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you're never gonna believe where that
goes okay i'm ready
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Starts going over towards the
Mediterranean.
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Yeah.
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You're kidding me.
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Yep, goes right through Beirut.
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Are you sure that's right?
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I double -checked it.
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Beirut, Lebanon?
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Well, that's the ancient home of the
Phoenicians.
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Okay, you realize what this means.
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Do you think there's a connection here
between the Phoenicians and America's
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Stonehenge? It's definitely possible.
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Well, I tell you what, if you've got a
connection here, this rewrites a huge
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chapter of American history. This isn't
kidding around.
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The Phoenicians were based along the
coastline of the Mediterranean in modern
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-day Lebanon.
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They were an ancient seafaring culture
that emerged around 1200 B .C.
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They were known for trading with distant
lands.
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Maybe they even made it to America.
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They're also responsible for inventing
the alphabet we use today.
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So, Kelsey, how did your family find out
about America's Stonehenge?
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Well, my grandfather actually heard
about it on the radio when he was
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his hair cut back in 1955.
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Yeah, afterwards he went up and checked
the site out.
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He was just so intrigued by it, he just
had to buy it.
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It wasn't always called America's
Stonehenge.
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And there was actually a book written
back around 1907.
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It was referred to as Paddy's Caves.
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Who's Paddy? He was one of the first
people that was on site, and he lived
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for the 1700s and into the 1800s. Oh,
really? Yeah. Well, I know you guys
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this is an old site, but... Why couldn't
he have built it? Well, I can show you.
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This is it. This is where Patty's house
was.
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Right in this area right here? Yeah.
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There's no way that Patty built this.
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It just reeks of being...
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really old.
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And if it's old, it's important.
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Some people think that he used the
existing stone structures up in that
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animal pens.
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He built those huge, massive walls for
animals when he's got all these trees
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he could have used wood.
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That's what they think.
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Well, I don't buy that one.
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I mean, look at the size of these rocks.
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I wouldn't want to move them. What's
that big slab there? Was that like a
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We think that was most likely a roof
slab for a chamber right there that
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collapsed. You know what's interesting
about rocks like that? Those actually
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serve as clocks as well and indicate
something about the age of a structure.
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This has a genuine feel to it.
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And it's amazing.
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I mean, look at all this.
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We do have one more thing that ties this
site into the Phoenicians.
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It turns out Kelsey's dad has a stone
from the site.
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It has a carving on it. Maybe some kind
of ancient message.
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Scott, this is the ball stone.
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It was found in 1964.
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What does it say?
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It says, to Ball, on behalf of the
Canaanites, this is dedicated.
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The Canaanites, from the land of Canaan.
That's right. That's what they used to
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call themselves, but everybody in the
region called them the Phoenicians.
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They got all over the known world at
that time, and many people believe that
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they made it over here to North America.
And there are many examples of possible
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Phoenician writings, always from Maine
down to Brazil.
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Well, I tell you what, if this is indeed
a Phoenician inscription, you've really
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got something important here.
Absolutely.
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I mean, together with the alignment that
you found, you're talking about an
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incredible site, an incredible
discovery.
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And it really just blasts apart the
history books in places Europeans here
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North America around 3 ,500 years ago.
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Before I make any conclusions, I need to
make sure this inscription is old and
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that the lines are man -made, not
natural.
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By using a 3D microscope, I can see how
deep the grooves go and if the
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inscription has been weathering for a
long time.
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What I want to do is I want to focus on
this groove right here, which I numbered
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as number 3.
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Groove number 3.
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And that corresponds to this groove
right here. This is about 4 ,000 microns
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from the highest point down to the
deepest point.
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This one clearly is a man -made groove.
It looks like it here. It looks like it
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here.
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I can already tell many of these marks
that make up the inscription could be
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centuries old. And there's no doubt they
were deliberately made.
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Because it references the Canaanites.
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I have to consider the Phoenicians, but
I need to know more.
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Is there anything else here that you
might have that possibly could tie this
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site to the Phoenicians?
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Well, there is one more thing. It's
actually up on the site.
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We call it the sacrificial table.
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Sacrificial table?
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Yes. Well, I'm not going anywhere until
I see that.
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And this is the sacrificial table.
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This? You think there was really human
sacrifices here?
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We believe this sacrificial table could
have been used for a human or animal
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sacrifice. The stone is about nine feet
by six feet.
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It's just on four legs. It weighs about
four and a half tons.
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And on top is a rectangular -shaped
groove that's about six feet by four
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And the table is tilted towards me. So
if there was a fluid such as blood on
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it would go into the groove and then it
would... Continue in the groove towards
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this little runnel right here.
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And are we going to possibly a little
base? Or is it cut out in a bedrock
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a base could sit?
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Well, I see the groove.
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And you think this was for channeling
blood.
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That's amazing.
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There's something else that I see. And
you see all this cracking and this
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layering here along the entire surface.
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That's what we call exfoliation
weathering. It's kind of like when dead
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peels off your body.
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That's interesting for a couple of
reasons. First off, that indicates a lot
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weathering has gone on here. This is
wetting and drying, freezing and
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And there's been a lot of loss of
material on the surface, which indicates
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significant age.
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And I think this could probably be used
as a weathering clock.
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I see significant weathering here that
appears to be consistent with the
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astronomical alignments that we saw,
with the structures that are here, which
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indicate that this is a very old place.
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There's one more secret at the table I'd
like to show you.
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Oh. Hello, Scott Walter.
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What the heck was that?
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So you're the man behind the curtain.
That's right.
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That's funny stuff.
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So what do we have here?
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Well, Scott, you're standing in the
oracle chamber. And we call it the
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chamber because of this tube here that
goes through the wall about 16 from the
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oracle chamber where we're standing out
to the sacrificial table.
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And we think during a ceremony, perhaps
people watching above would hear this
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voice coming out. And it would be like a
god or a spirit talking to them. And it
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was probably a priest or shaman actually
shouting through the tube.
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Interesting. So really what we have is
an example of archaeoacoustics, the
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science of where the ancients would
manipulate sound typically in rituals by
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using something like this tube here to
create a pretty scary sound in this
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Can you imagine somebody sitting on that
table about to be sacrificed and hear
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that voice? I mean, it must have been
really scary.
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I can't help myself. Do you mind if I
give it a try?
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Yeah, I guess Scott.
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Okay. All right.
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This is all.
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Get off my lawn.
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I'm glad I came to investigate this
site.
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I don't know what's more interesting,
the sacrificial table, the ball stone,
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the summer solstice line.
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that connects America's Stonehenge to
the one in England, and further east to
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Beirut, Lebanon, home of the ancient
Phoenicians.
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I plan on coming back for the solstice,
but right now I'm headed to Mount
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Holyoke College to talk to an expert on
Phoenician culture.
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Mark, I just came back from a very
interesting place called
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America's Stonehenge. One of the things
that I saw that was discovered by Kelsey
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Stone, the son of the owners, was a long
-range alignment that starts at their
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site, that goes from their site to
Stonehenge in England, and then extends
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Beirut, Lebanon, which is the ancestral
home of the Phoenicians.
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Who were the Phoenicians?
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The Phoenicians were a group of Middle
Eastern people, and their center was in
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modern Lebanon, and they developed
colonies westward from there, the most
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important of which was Carthage. The
Carthaginians were Phoenicians on
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because they were the most powerful
Phoenician culture that ever developed.
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Also, they tended to be very secretive,
so it's been a challenge to try to
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figure out exactly what the Phoenicians
knew.
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what they were able to do and we're
still trying to learn more about them
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it's a it's a a difficult task because
there's not much evidence the
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really sort of appear around 1200 000 bc
they were trying to build trading
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centers and colonization centers and
they began to move both north and south
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along the atlantic coast
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Part of the reason for Phoenician
success as navigators was the fact that
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were able to navigate at night.
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And this is because they knew about
Polaris, the pole star.
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Polaris is also known as the North Star.
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And if the Phoenicians knew about it,
chances are they knew about the rest of
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the sky too.
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The sun, the stars, the moon, the
planets.
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And that means they would have had
enough knowledge of archaeoastronomy.
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to create the summer solstice alignment
from America's Stonehenge to Stonehenge
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in England.
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This proposed alignment at America's
Stonehenge is very intriguing, and
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a possibility that it will connect to
some research that I did. In particular,
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study that I made of a group of
Phoenician coins that had been minted in
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Carthage in 350 BC, and that I
interpreted as having a map on the
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coin. Do you have a picture of the coin?
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Yes. This is good.
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Here are two images from the British
Museum. You can pick out the islands
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clearly. Sardinia in the center, which
is the central point in the
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Basin. We've got Sicily there, the
triangular island.
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The boot of Italy coming down.
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Iberian Peninsula here.
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This straight line here is probably the
north coast of Africa, India here, and
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this is America. And this almost looks
to me like they're giving us the Gulf of
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Mexico there in Florida, but that could
be subject to interpretation.
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Well, that's fascinating. A couple
thoughts here. Sure.
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They were there here. They were put
there for a reason. And I guess until a
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better thesis comes along, I like yours.
I love yours.
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But thank you. I think that this this
gives us an insight into the Phoenician
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psyche. Absolutely.
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And remember, they're extremely
secretive. Yeah. And so they're not
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giving away the store, so to speak.
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However,
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there was they had enough ego to want to
have some kind of record of what they
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had done. So here.
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On these coins and these tiny little
images, they were giving us an extremely
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condensed Phoenician geography, you
know, telling a huge story in a couple
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millimeters space here.
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There's one other thing I'd like to talk
about. It's this sacrificial table.
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Did the Phoenicians practice human
sacrifice?
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Yes, they did. And I think the evidence
is overwhelming that they...
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They did practice human sacrifice.
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I think there's a lot of sources,
biblical and otherwise, suggesting that
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was the case.
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Do you think the Phoenicians made it to
North America or not?
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They probably went farther than anyone
is willing to admit today. They had the
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ships to do so. I think the Phoenicians
could easily have crossed the Atlantic.
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Their whole history suggests that they
would have tried to do this.
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Diodorus, a Greek historian, reports the
Phoenicians knew about this gigantic
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island out in the Atlantic with
navigable rivers.
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The only place with navigable rivers
once you get past Spain is America.
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When I went to America's Stonehenge, I
was amazed to learn about a possible
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connection between that site in New
Hampshire and Stonehenge in England.
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Bob Stone purchased America's Stonehenge
in 1955 because he believed this
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ancient place needed to be preserved.
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Years later, when his grandson Kelsey
mapped the site's sunrise solstice line,
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He discovered that line started at
America's Stonehenge and went straight
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Stonehenge in England.
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And now I'm heading there to see if
these two ancient sites with massive
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standing stones are connected.
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So, Henry, I'm here because I'm
investigating a megalithic site in New
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Hampshire called America's Stonehenge.
And there appears to be a connection to
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Stonehenge here.
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And I'd just like to know a little bit
about Stonehenge.
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Well, Stonehenge, I mean, it is one of
the most famous prehistoric monuments.
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But I think a couple of things that
people don't always realize about it is
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it took over a thousand years to make
what you can see now.
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To construct. Yeah, yeah. There's lots
of different phases and it gets
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reinvented through time.
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Well, you know, when people think about
Stonehenge, they think about what's
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right here. But you're saying that it
goes all around us, even beyond where we
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are? Yes. Yeah, I mean, going back for a
couple of thousand years before, you've
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got various monuments in all sorts of
different directions.
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And the focus over time becomes
Stonehenge. These stones.
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Stonehenge is the most well -known
megalithic site in the world.
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It consists of 150 enormous stones, the
tallest of which rises 22 feet from
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the ground.
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But in the beginning, around 3100 BC, it
was just a hench, a ditch, a bank,
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and several round pits.
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But even then, it was a popular
gathering place.
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Being a geologist, I'm very interested
in the rocks, the stones.
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Tell me a little bit about the stones.
There's a variation in the geology, is
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that right? Yeah, there's two different
types. The very big stones are sarsen.
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They come from sort of the local area,
within 20 miles or so.
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The blue stones, which are the smaller
ones, they're still very big.
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They come from South Wales.
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How far away is that?
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Well, it's about 150 miles.
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If you think, actually, how they would
have transported them, that's not
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straight. That's a heck of a task.
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240 miles, maybe? I mean, that's at the
heart of it.
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That really suggests sophistication.
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and coordination and something at a
pretty complicated level. I think
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huge amount of sophistication. People do
know what they're doing. I mean, the
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fact they can build Stonehenge, the
amount of labor which goes into building
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something like that is incredible. And
people have estimated something like 30
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million hours.
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30 million hours of work? And how many
people say to move one of those stones?
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There's no real way of telling. It's
something which we continue to think
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But the fact they did it, I mean, it's a
massive feat of engineering.
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But we still find them more
sophisticated than we thought. So, might
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people, but it might have been just a
couple.
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The blue stones may not be the biggest
stones here, but for me, they're the
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interesting.
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They're said to have spiritual
significance, and I think America's
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has that too.
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The blue stones came from a land that
was believed to have healing powers.
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Archaeologists think Stonehenge may have
been a franchise of sorts, a closer
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version of a faraway sacred place.
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There's no doubt these stones were
placed here for a reason.
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And it has everything to do with the sun
and the solstice, just like it does at
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Stonehenge in New Hampshire.
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If we think back to ancient times, were
there rituals going on? What were the
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people doing at this site?
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We could see ceremonies following on the
day of the solstice. People starting
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the day at the eastern pitch.
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As from here, you can observe sun
rising.
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on the solstice and then they're
following the sun round so basically the
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this long rectangular enclosure is
basically just a walkway so you follow
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the perimeter following the sun in front
of you all the time but it's a bit like
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a church or a cathedral now you have
multiple functions and i think all of
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would be happening here why do you think
it was so important for these ancient
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people to track the movement of the
celestial bodies the people are farmers
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rely on seasons they rely on
understanding
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They know when to plant crops, when to
harvest them. But actually having a
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of how that time develops, I think, is
really important.
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The importance of these bodies, I think,
is fundamental to being human and being
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farmers, but also something which they
celebrate.
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Tell me a little bit about the
archaeoastronomy here. Well, there's
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a huge amount of work.
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You'll see there are stones dotted
around the site. I saw a big one. Well,
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see it right here. That big standing
stone over there on the side.
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That one is known as the heel stone.
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Now, the weird thing about that stone is
it's undressed. It hasn't been worked
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like all the other stones on site.
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But what seems to be important is that
stone, whenever you look at the center
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Stonehenge and line things up, people
have done this in the past.
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That's the stone which leads you towards
the summer solstice sunrise.
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If you line up the heel stone with each
of those pits, on one side it marks
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sunrise on the summer solstice, and the
other one it marks sunset on the summer
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solstice.
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I don't know, is that more than a
coincidence, that they actually are
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with two very sort of significant
events?
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I don't think it's a coincidence, no, I
don't.
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I have something I'd like to show you.
It's a new discovery of archaeological
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astronomy at America's Stonehenge.
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It's a summer solstice line running from
the site in New Hampshire directly to
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here.
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My initial reaction would be that that's
beyond possible.
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When I was at America's Stonehenge, a
megalithic site in New Hampshire, I
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learned about a new discovery by the
owner's son, a connection between that
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and Stonehenge in England.
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From there, the line extends even
further to modern -day Lebanon, which
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home base of the Phoenicians.
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I want to find out if a Stonehenge
expert thinks all three sites could be
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connected to each other and to that
specific ancient culture.
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So here we have the alignment that
starts at America's Stonehenge at the
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of the observatory. And then as you
extend a line through and continue that
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line, it comes across the Atlantic and
comes right here to Stonehenge.
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When you look here at a close -up, you
can see that it goes right through that
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central trilithon.
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Then, if you extend that line, it goes
to Beirut, Lebanon, the home of the
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Phoenicians. As incredible as it is, it
appears to be there.
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What's your reaction?
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I think it's incredible. I can't imagine
there's a link other than the
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possibility that people are marking the
same sort of alignment.
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00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:36,590
And I think also when you extend it onto
the Phoenician world.
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Their world starts around about 1200 BC.
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And this site's sort of finished really
by about 2000 BC. So there's a good 800
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years or so difference.
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Interestingly, I think Stonehenge has
attracted people in prehistory from
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far away.
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There's a burial just over there,
actually a couple of burials from over
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One from about 1400 BC.
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00:37:00,350 --> 00:37:03,710
So people are moving here. It's people
that Phoenicians might have been.
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It's not beyond...
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But they couldn't have been involved in
the design of Stonehenge because it's
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too early.
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I don't think there's any question that
this site was an observatory.
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And it was sacred. When we had these
ancient people going to other places,
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North America and other continents,
something that was sacred, that was
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their existence and their belief system,
they would build those in other places.
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00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:51,890
And could perhaps these sacred sites be
connected or connect these people across
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00:37:51,890 --> 00:37:52,890
the continents?
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00:37:53,870 --> 00:37:57,510
I think you're actually right. I think
these sites are sacred in that way. And
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think possibly people move, but also
equally, maybe just... People are so
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similar in wherever they live on the
planet that they all observe the same
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00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,220
of things. Whether or not people
actually move or don't move between
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places, the fact that you have similar
sorts of sights all over the planet, all
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respecting the heavenly bodies and so
on, I think it's just a really nice
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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,
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places like Stonehenge and America's
Stonehenge prove how important
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the celestial bodies were to these
ancient people.
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The Phoenicians couldn't have built
Stonehenge, but the site still might
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00:38:48,190 --> 00:38:49,990
been a sacred sanctuary for them.
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00:38:51,050 --> 00:38:55,890
I think the fact that this place
directly aligns with America's
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the summer solstice is no mistake.
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00:38:59,460 --> 00:39:04,420
Archaeoastronomy links many cultures
together, like the Mayans in Georgia and
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the Celts in Oklahoma.
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00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:11,360
And I think it's also what links the
Phoenicians to our very own Stonehenge,
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proof of which I'm about to see with my
own eyes.
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They could be the ones who marked an
important day, the summer solstice, with
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standing stone at the site over which
the sunrise takes place.
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Good morning, Scott.
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Hi, Jenna.
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Hi, Kelsey. How are you doing? Good, how
are you? Good. How did the trip go? I
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had a great trip. I've got some really
good stuff to share with you, but I'm
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00:39:51,550 --> 00:39:54,890
excited to see that alignment. So sun's
coming up. Can we head out?
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Yeah, I'm ready.
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Go.
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We're about to see the sunrise over the
Solstice Dome. To see the alignment,
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00:40:06,870 --> 00:40:11,070
Kelsey Stone discovered that links this
site to Stonehenge in England.
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00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,780
If you were to draw a line directly
through the sun as it rises over the
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00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:23,060
it would run right through the center
trilithon at Stonehenge and then
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00:40:23,060 --> 00:40:26,600
on to Lebanon, once the center of the
Phoenician Empire.
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00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:38,200
To me, it's proof of an advanced
understanding of archaeoastronomy and of
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ancient connection to the United States.
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00:40:47,050 --> 00:40:50,250
What else can you say but wow, that's
amazing.
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I never get old.
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Tell you what, what we're seeing here is
an amazingly accurate astronomical
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00:40:57,390 --> 00:40:59,210
calendar. There's no accident.
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00:40:59,490 --> 00:41:04,310
I saw the exact same thing at
Stonehenge. They used standing stones
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this to track the seasons.
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They used it for worship.
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00:41:08,530 --> 00:41:12,850
I think they also used it for navigation
to come to the new world amongst other
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00:41:12,850 --> 00:41:13,850
places.
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00:41:14,030 --> 00:41:15,510
It was absolutely amazing.
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00:41:15,830 --> 00:41:18,790
The beginning of Stonehenge predates
your site here.
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00:41:19,490 --> 00:41:25,190
The later stages do correspond,
especially with the stone erecting
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00:41:25,190 --> 00:41:26,530
there might be a connection there.
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00:41:26,770 --> 00:41:33,250
The Phoenician connection is a little
bit tenuous because this actually
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00:41:33,250 --> 00:41:37,030
the Phoenicians by a little bit. Maybe
it was a proto -Phoenician group. We're
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00:41:37,030 --> 00:41:38,030
not sure.
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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
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00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,260
sacred site here, and there's no doubt
that they're connected.
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00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:53,240
Whether it was the Phoenicians or not,
what it tells us is that some highly
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00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:59,120
sophisticated culture, probably the
elite in that culture, came over here
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00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,900
established this incredible site.
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And it's sites like this that connect
the new world to the old world.
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00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,680
The Stone family wanted to know if the
Phoenicians made their site.
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00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:23,140
It's a question the family has been
trying to answer since Bob Stone bought
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00:42:23,140 --> 00:42:25,240
mysterious site back in 1955.
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00:42:29,420 --> 00:42:33,780
While I can't say for sure the
Phoenicians made it there, I believe
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00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:35,380
easily have made it to the Americas.
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00:42:36,260 --> 00:42:39,260
Someone had to assemble those huge
stones.
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00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,880
Someone with a vast knowledge of
archaeoastronomy.
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00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,580
I believe archaeoastronomy is what links
together many advanced civilizations
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00:42:48,580 --> 00:42:51,620
and is what links some of them to
America.
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I believe there was contact between
ancient cultures.
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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
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00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:08,480
the New World that lined up with a
sacred site in the Old World.
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00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,840
People were connected.
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00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,820
And we're just starting to find out how.
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Next time on America Unheard. What
happened to the Lost Colony?
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00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,360
It's like we have a breadcrumb trail of
these stones leading to wherever they
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00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,118
ended up.
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00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,020
Eventually they're going to fall prey to
an attack.
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00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,420
You've got to be kidding me. My theory
is right.
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If you have a mysterious artifact or
site I need to see, I want to know about
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00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:41,990
it. Go to history .com slash... honor.
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