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The history that we were all taught growing up is wrong.

My name is Scott Wolpert.

And I'm a forensic geologist.

There's a hidden history in this country that nobody knows about.

There are pyramids here, chambers, tombs, inscriptions.

They're all over this country.

We're going to investigate these artifacts and sites, and we're going to

the truth.

Sometimes history isn't what we've been told.

Because of my work, I get lots of calls from people who find unusual relics.

A lot of times, they're easy to explain.

But there's one that's bothered me.

And for the last two years, I haven't been able to figure it out.

Holy cow.

I'd be honest.

When you saw this, did you kind of lose your mind a bit? I did. We were down

there looking for dark points, fossils, things of that nature, and we run across

this, and I couldn't believe what we were seeing.

And being a bit naive on the subject, at first I believed it was a bison until

we started getting some opinions back that, no, that's definitely bovine. It's

definitely some sort of cattle.

Okay.

Nick Johnson and his brother stumbled on this incredible artifact.

They had seen one of my lectures and called me up.

The horns are very interesting. They're very prominent. They come up. They're

symmetrical. So let's get this bad boy inside.

I had seen this symbol before, and I know the bow was used by ancient

in their rituals.

But that was 3 ,000 years ago.

It just doesn't make sense.

So I examined it to see just how old the carvings were.

You see this?

Probably some mineralization that's on the surface. It's actually in the

grooves, too. See, it's sort of transitioned and then it lightens up

what you can say is that the carving was done before this black material was

deposited on the surface, if in fact that's what that is. You know,

can tell you right now, this wasn't made recently.

shows some early signs of age.

This looks like a mane of some kind flowing down.

For two years now, I've been studying this symbol, trying to get some answers.

Bulls have been used as symbols by many groups.

Native Americans here, the ancient Greeks over in Europe. But I really

that this carving could be an apis bull used extensively by only one

civilization, the ancient Egyptians.

Which leaves me with the question, How did it end up here?

Nigel, I have something pretty special for you today.

A guy named Nick Johnson who lives down in Oklahoma near Tulsa was walking along

the Arkansas River and he was looking for artifacts and he found this large

that has an interesting carving of a bull on it.

And there are several people I've showed it to that think it might be Egyptian.

Being an Egyptologist, were bulls popular in Egypt? Or what can you tell

about Egypt and bulls?

Very popular. It's basically been for grand validity. So we're talking 5 ,000

years ago. And it leads all the way right through to something you've

heard of called the Apis bull, which is where they have a whole cult to the

bull.

I've heard of the Apis bull.

It's a sacred Egyptian deity that symbolized the strength of the Pharaoh

a protector of the dead.

Well, I guess now's the time. Yeah, please.

I've come a long way to see this.

Ready to take a look? Yeah. All right. Well, here we go.

Immediately, first reaction is that it does look like an apis bull from the

Tell me, what do you see that tells you that?

Well, of course, a bull's a bull, ultimately, but the horns here like

immediately when you first just look at it, that band up. The apis bull,

sometimes there's a ring through the nose, but that's later on.

So, yes, obviously it's a bull, which I agree with you on that, but this is very

unusual.

What do you think this is?

Well, some people have suggested that this is an adornment of some kind. Like,

you know, something they put on the bull as part of a ritual.

Is this any good for dating then?

Well, it can be. But not knowing the history or the provenance of where this

thing has been over time makes it very difficult for me. And the one thing that

I can say...

And I'll show you in the picture right here, you can see the layers here. And

the only way that's going to happen is if you have either lengthy or aggressive

weathering. The question is, how old is that? Well, the honest answer is I don't

know, because I don't know where this thing has been.

So therefore, the obvious thing to me that jumps out is then, why Egyptian?

not Native American?

The Native Americans, especially in the central plains region, they would have

revered the bison more than the bull.

And that would look very different. It wouldn't have the high horns.

So I haven't seen anything like this in Native American art.

Some archaeologists in the local area immediately dismissed it. What they

assumed was that it was a modern creation, and it could be.

The only thing that makes me pause is I see significant weathering of the

grooves.

Let's say a group of Egyptians that came over here.

to North America in this case, would it make sense for them to carve a bowl? No.

They always leave the same inscriptions. They leave the name of the pharaoh in

something called a cartouche, which is a rope which encircles the king's name.

Because he wanted people to know how important he was, how powerful he was,

where he could go, that he had visited that place.

Secondly, it's a hell of a long way.

They don't like the sea.

They're terrified of the sea, in fact. They don't want to go on it. So when

do want something, say from Syria, Israel, that kind of places, they all

subcontracted.

They got merchants to do it for them.

So what you're saying is, based on what you know about the Egyptians, this

carving here in Oklahoma would not be consistent with the Egyptians?

No. They would have made a bigger stamp about it. They would have made a bigger

impression. There would have been other artifacts if they were here. You know, a

lone traveler.

Possibly, but it's a long way to get lost.

Well, at this point, I think we've determined a couple of things. That's

definitely a bull.

It may or may not be an Apis bull. I have to go see the site where this came

from. I want to get samples of this rock and compare it with some of the rock

there to see, is this rock in Tulsa?

I have some doubts that the bull carving is Egyptian in origin.

But it does look old.

A sample pulled from the same environment where this was found could

figure out if it was carved in Oklahoma.

My next stop is Tulsa.

I want to know if this is ancient.

And if it is, I want to know who made it and why.

It's been almost two years since Nick Johnson came to me with a 500 -pound

carving of a bull.

Bull symbols are found in ancient Egypt, but why would one be found in Oklahoma?

I'm heading there to find out for myself.

Hi, Scott.

How are you doing?

Good. How are you?

The reason that we're here is we're trying to figure out, is this thing

old or not?

I mean, is it weeks old, a few years, decades, hundreds, thousands of years

And if it's thousands of years old, this is a big deal.

Where did we find this thing?

Aaron spotted it first and said, hey, did you see this rock?

So you actually saw it first? Yes.

And there's something I thought would catch your eye immediately.

So walk over there to look at it, and here's this big bowl carved on the rock.

We didn't know what to make of that. What is a big bowl doing out in the

of the river out here?

So right out here past these rocks, so what is now in the water? Yeah, probably

about... 20, 30 yards out past the water's edge, there's a hydroelectric

upstream. They started letting water out probably 11 o 'clock or so, so it

started to fill up pretty fast.

So after you found this thing and you got it safe, then what happened?

Well, I started taking pictures and emailing.

Anybody I could find might be able to tell me something about it, what it's

doing out here, if anybody had ever seen it before.

if anybody had any clue how old it could be, whether it was authentic, whether

it was modern.

One of the issues that I have is we've got a flowing river here, and water is

a rapid eroder. It makes rock break down very fast. So if it's sitting in a

river that's going up and down and it's flooded, let me ask you this, would it

have been underwater today where you found it?

Yes. I've got to tell you, Nick, that concerns me a little bit.

the boulder was carved out there. In other words, if that boulder was sitting

there and somebody carved it and we've had the water flowing over it, it could

have made those grooves, you know, in that weathered appearance relatively

quickly. So that's a concern to me.

What I'd like to do is grab a couple samples and eventually get them back to

lab and just compare it with, you know, the rock that you have and see what

turns out.

I know that the bull carving is on a piece of sandstone, which is rock that

a number of unique physical and chemical characteristics that can help establish

where it came from with reasonable certainty.

If I can find the same rock type here today, it could help get to the bottom

where this carving came from.

Scott, what do you make of this?

This would be a great piece to take back to the lab to maybe do a little

comparison with your carving.

This is a big control sample. I think I have what I need.

There's a spot five miles downriver called Turkey Mountain, and there's

to be some other inscriptions and carvings along the cliff face that

reported. You want to go down there and check that out? Let's go. Let's go. All

right.

Should be probably about a quarter mile. We're going to want to kind of keep our

eyes in this direction.

It should be a fairly tall cliff.

Apparently it's pretty high up, anywhere from 15 to 30 foot up from the ground.

Okay.

There's a cliff wall there. Yeah, and there's a trail right here, so let's

in here.

Might be back up in here just a little bit.

Does this feel right to you?

This should be about the right area, yeah.

All right.

Check out for the snare here.

That's a bad

dog right here.

Bad dog.

Well, I don't think that's very old, but it's interesting they use a pecking

technique. I think we're in the right area.

It's that over there.

Take a look at that.

Go all the way along here.

Wait, where is that?

Right there.

Well, that's modern graffiti.

There's supposed to be a face around here. Face. A human face.

Looks like they're wiping something up here.

That's it. That's the face. This looks like it's a head right here.

Is this a profile of a head?

This is a face.

All right.

Which way is the face pointing?

It's the back of the head here.

All right. Some sort of headgear or something.

Something protruding out of the front of the face. And you can see a nose here.

Yeah. You know what?

I got to be honest with you. I don't like this. I think this is modern.

I think we should head down.

Let's take a look at this over here, guys.

These lines right here. This looks like it could be Ogham.

Ogham is a really old written language that uses vertical lines.

Irish Celts used it between the 4th and 10th century A .D. There are more than

400 Ogham sites along northwestern England, Wales, and Ireland.

A lot of academics, however, are skeptical about Ogham in North America.

Apparently there was a guy named Barry Fell from Harvard who said that this was

Ogham and that it translated to G -W -N or Gwen.

Gwen.

Well, Gwen, the name Gwen, if this says Gwen, one possibility is it could be the

Celtic explorer Gwen.

And the Celts, if they were here, certainly would have used Ogham. You

I look at this stuff, I keep thinking about that river that we've been, you

know, walking along all day today.

And, you know, these early explorers, if they were down in the Gulf of Mexico

and they went up the Mississippi, the first large river to the west is the

Arkansas River.

And so that's the way they would have.

traveled. And this is literally right on the river. So it makes sense.

You know, guys, I really like this. This looks good. And we've got a lot of

other stuff here that we can use to compare.

And I don't know if this connects with the bull. It might, might not.

So we have a rock found in a river with a bull carving that could connect to

ancient Egypt.

And not too far away, we have a possible Celtic Ogham inscription carved on a

cave wall.

It seems like these clues are unrelated, so I need to figure out more about this

ancient language and how it all fits together.

And for that, I need to travel to Ireland.

I'm here to try to figure out if the Irish came to America long before

And I'm also here to try to find out if this Ogham script that we found in

Oklahoma could possibly be evidence of their voyage to the New World. If we

could find an Ogham inscription in America, written in Ireland, then we

have absolute proof that the Irish were living in America in the early medieval

period.

Well, I tell you, the reason I'm here is we have, at least people say, an Ogham

inscription in Oklahoma.

And I want to try to learn more about it. Ogham is an alphabetical script

is unique to Ireland and to places where the Irish settled.

It was a fashionable way to record names of people in stone in the 5th to the

7th century.

Can you describe to me what exactly does it look like?

It's made up of straight lines, and to the untrained eye, it looks like tally

marks. But the lines are arranged in a very specific way, each set of lines

representing a consonant or a vowel.

We have a beautiful example here in the library of an inscription from County

Kerry, and I'd be delighted to take you in and show it to you.

This is about the standard size of an inscription of this kind, which dates

the very birth of Irish Christianity.

So what does this inscription say?

This inscription records the name of the man who, either who's buried here or

whose property this is. We follow the vowel line up the center, and then the

consonants are on either side. And it's important that they're on the proper

side, because if they're on the wrong side, it'll mean nothing.

This is the proof that this is an Irish Ogham inscription.

You know you're reading in the right direction and you know you've got an

inscription. That's what you need to find in America.

Only the Irish Celts used Ogham inscriptions, not all Celtic people?

This particular alphabet is used only by Irish Celts and is found, as far as we

know, unless you can prove otherwise, is found only in Ireland or in areas that

were colonized by the Irish.

Do we know how far they traveled and where do we find it? We know, we're

reasonably certain that they got as far as Iceland.

Did they go further to America?

I don't know. You find the stone, you prove it. Well, I tell you what, I have

some pictures I'd like to show you on my computer. So maybe I do have an Ogham

inscription.

So, Damien, here we have what some people claim is a short description

This is at a site called Turkey Mountain in Oklahoma.

Not far away, there was a very beautiful Egyptian -style bull carving found. I

don't know if they're associated with each other, but it wasn't far away.

What do you see here?

I have to say, from what I can see, I see five or six lines, almost all

of them vertical.

And there simply isn't enough in that to be able to say this is an Ogham

inscription. This bears a superficial resemblance to Ogham in that it has

straight lines.

But let me ask you this. If we were able to find a legitimate early Irish

inscription, we could say that that was evidence of early medieval Irish

contact? Correct. A legitimate Ogham inscription, absolutely.

provided it is legitimate, it works the Ogham way, and it is the Irish language

that is on it, you have absolute proof that the Irish were there.

And if there's one there, I certainly would like to see it. I'd encourage you

look. I believe that in Oklahoma, in the Anubis Caves, there are inscriptions

which some people claim bear a resemblance to the Ogham. Why don't you

that one out?

Scott Walter, how you doing? Thanks for meeting me out here.

Oh, you're welcome.

I'm trying to understand how a 500 -pound slab of rock with what looks like

ancient bull carving ended up in the Arkansas River just outside of Tulsa.

Not far from that site where this bull carving was found, we also looked at

ogum. And I understand you've got both ogum and carvings that include a bull

here. Is that true?

That's right, Scott.

I think our carvings and inscriptions that we have here are probably the best

example of Old World Celtic explorers coming to the America long before

Columbus. And I'd love to take you to the cave.

I've been researching these caves, the caves we call the Anubis Cave, for over

30 years now.

Anubis is the jackal -headed Egyptian god of the dead.

He was associated with mummification and protecting the dead as they journeyed

to the underworld.

In the late 1970s, a local rancher brought another researcher here to these

caves. And she recognized the figure Anubis on the cave wall.

And that's the name, the Anubis Caves.

So you've got Celtic writing and evidence of religious practice of the

You've got Egyptian symbolism and iconography consistent with them being

presence here.

And you've also got a bull carving. This whole investigation I started began

with a bull carving.

I mean, if this is what it could be, this is a huge discovery.

I think it is.

This is cave number one.

Okay. I want to show you over here cave number two and three.

Okay.

This is cave two, and you can see the markings.

Oh, yeah.

Right up on the wall from here.

Boy, they look great.

Here we go.

I got her.

Wow.

Well, these are amazing.

Now here's some of the marks that I'd like to show you. Here's the bull, and

can see the ribs drawn in Celtic style, and the horns.

I mean, that's clearly a beast. Looks like a bull to me.

And these lines right here, this looks like it could be Ogham.

So what does all this mean? Well, this was put here 1 ,500 years ago by Celts.

who came here and made a monument to their god Mithras.

I only know a couple of things about Mithraism. It's an ancient religion

practiced around 100 to 500 A .D.

Its god, Mithra, was also known as the sun god, and it also incorporated bull

slaughter.

Mithraism, it was a secret, a mystery religion. And this is a practice of the

Celts? And it was also a practice of the Celts.

Come over here, you can see the rising and setting sun.

And then we have the sun god with his red head and crown.

And then we have the god Anubis with his white crown and the flail

stuck in his back just as he appears in Egypt.

Clearly Egyptian.

And I do see some modern graffiti, obviously, right here. Modern graffiti

very helpful with dating.

It gives us a comparison. I do see, you know, some of these look like they've

been aging for a while.

What's your take on the age of these carvings?

Well, we have dated this to approximately 300 to 500 A .D.

That's very possible. That's quite old.

There's a series of alignments here that only occur on the day of the equinox.

So you're talking about archaeoastronomy?

That's correct.

Well, that's a little something I know about. I mean, many cultures did this

thousands of years and aligned their buildings and structures to align with

planets, moon, the heavenly bodies.

And you're saying we have that here?

What happens here? It's just like going to the movies.

We've often referred to it as the world's first motion picture.

The shadow moves up across this panel.

into the setting sun.

Tells a story of Mithras.

The Celts believed that in Mithras and that their soul came down from the

heavens and then returned back to the heavens and to their god Mithras.

So there's a shadow play here on the equinox, which happens only twice a

in the spring and in the fall. And it's when both day and night are of roughly

equal length.

It was also a significant day for many early cultures.

Just as it was summer turning into fall, it also represented the change from

life into death.

If this shadow play illuminates these symbols, then it clearly represents

something fundamental with the spiritual beliefs of whomever carved this.

So this is the cycle of life?

Yes, it's the cycle of life from beginning to end.

So, Phil, what you've told me here and what I've seen is a very detailed, very

complicated equinox alignment here that was made by explorers that came long

before Columbus.

I know it's not far from the equinox. We're coming up close.

I would love to come back. This is an important site, and it changes history.

We'd love to have you come back. Let's do it.

A guy named Nick Johnson down in Oklahoma found this in the Arkansas

We don't know how old it is, however.

I then talked to an Egyptian expert about the possibility that maybe this

apis bowl of the ancient Egyptian religion. And he basically said, yeah, I

some things that do look like it could be an apis bowl. But then he said he saw

some things that he didn't like that weren't consistent with that.

And then.

I went down to the panhandle in Oklahoma, and I went to a site where I

ogum. I saw another bull carving, and the whole discussion of possibly the

coming here and carving something based on the Mithraism religion.

Ah. We really know the Mithraic religion through symbols and images of

its god, Mithra.

He had a solar crown and was holding a sword or a large dagger and was

sacrificing a bull. And here we have a bull.

It flourished from about the 1st century to the 4th century A .D.

And practitioners, they believed their souls came from the stars.

What would they go through? I mean, what are some of the rituals? Do you know?

The Torah bullion was an initiation.

where a pit was dug and boards were put over the top of the pit.

You, as the initiate, would be brought in underneath this grating. Okay. And a

bull would be taken over the pit and sacrificed with 50 liters of blood to be

poured over you.

You physically got new life from this

blood from the bull.

Now, if that is not a visceral initiation, I don't know what is. Well,

sitting in this pit and a bull is slaughtered above you and the blood is

draining out and covering, you would remember that.

One of the things when I was talking to the Egyptian expert was he couldn't make

heads or tails of this flowing lines here on the back. Could that be blood?

I think you're definitely on the right track there. You know, if you're looking

at Mithraism, the bull symbolism was an extremely important symbol.

This bull seems to represent almost an amalgamation of two things. One, this

Egyptian Apis bull religion and Mithraism. I mean, is it fair to say

sort of evolved from the other?

Absolutely. Without doubt, Mithraism actually was a reforming.

of the Apis religions of Egypt.

Now, this is all starting to make sense.

If it wasn't the Egyptians who made the bull symbol, it was somebody who was

influenced by the Egyptians.

Right now, all signs point to the Celts.

The site that I saw on the panhandle, because of the presence of Ogham,

thinking that the Celts were the ones that were responsible.

If they were the ones that came over here, the question is why.

Christianity was around.

People get chased out, and certainly it's a very strong possibility that the

Celts were simply, the Celtic Mithraic practitioners were chased out. People

will go to amazing lengths to find a place to practice their faith, and isn't

that what North America really has evolved into? I mean, that's what the

States is. But the idea that people were coming here hundreds and thousands of

years ago for the very same thing is really pretty incredible.

Well, I tell you, this is an absolutely extraordinary stone.

When I was down on the river, looking at the site where Nick told me he found

this stone, one of the things I wanted to do is to see, did this rock come from

that area in Tulsa? And it appears that it does.

This is a piece of rock that I collected that is sandstone. It's virtually

identical to this slab that the bull is carved in.

You know, it answered the question for me. I believe that the bull was probably

carved somewhere near where it was found. Maybe not exactly at that site on

island in the river, but somewhere nearby.

It seems to me that really the most likely candidates, if this is indeed

ancient, it has to be the ancient Celts.

Joe, I've been invited back to the Anubis Cave on the equinox to see this

alignment that occurs at that time, and I want you to come with me. I will be

there.

Someone was in that cave thousands of years ago, and someone with an advanced

understanding of archaeoastronomy put those carvings there for a reason.

If the cave illumination is anything like what I've been told, then we're in

something spectacular.

It's really going to be, I'm sure, an amazing experience to see this whole

Celtic, Mithraic religion that appears to have been brought here. And if that's

true, then we have a real game changer in this whole history of the North

American continent.

I'm about to witness what sounds like a spectacular illumination here in the

Oklahoma Panhandle that may explain a mysterious bull carving.

The alignment is taking place during the autumn equinox, when day and night are

of roughly equal length. Not only could this be proof of an advanced

understanding of archaeoastronomy, but possibly the presence of ancient Celtic

travelers in America's heartland, practicing their Egyptian -influenced

religion.

What I'm hoping to see is the story of Mithraism played out in light and shadow

right before our eyes.

Well, Joe, according to the researchers, the Celts carved this site sometime

back around 300 to 500 A .D.

And if that's correct, it changes history in a huge way.

Well, you know, Mithraism was around for centuries.

Centuries of time where Celtic tribes would have been influenced by Mithraic

mystery religion and Mithraic practices.

So, you know, if what you're saying is that you found evidence that is old, and

it's showing symbolism as 1 ,500 years old in Mithraic, what other conclusion

can we come to but that there are Celtic tribes that were here?

Long before Columbus.

Definitely long before Columbus.

Hey, Phil.

Good to see you again.

Nice to see you. That's my friend, Joel.

He's the expert in mithraism I told you about.

And very interested in seeing the alignment today on the equinox. And what

you say? Should we get after it? All right, Scott. Let's get on up. All

After you.

Well, Gerald, is there evidence of Mithraism here in your eyes? It's clear.

It's absolutely clear to me that, I mean, these symbols are so distinct.

you have this canine figure, possibly Anubis, you know, Anubis, the Egyptian

jackal god as he was hunting for the bull. We have the sun.

The sun is connected to Mithraism.

And we have this figure that is clearly a Mithraic -style sun god.

Right here we have this deeply etched bull.

I'm starting to see that this bull symbol is really important.

We see it as the apis bull in Egypt, in Mithraism.

That bull that Nick found in Tulsa along the same waterway that would lead the

people to come here that also has the bull.

There's a very good chance that that's part of this whole thing as well.

Well, really what we're talking about here is another example of

archaeoastronomy. I mean, talking about a geographic spot that is aligned with

the heavens. And this is something the ancients have done for thousands of

years.

Well, Phil, we're only moments away here, so can you tell Joe what's going

happen with the alignment here? Sure.

There will be a wedge of light between two shadows, and it will progressively

pan up across this panel.

And as the lower shadow comes up, there will be a little knob of shadow.

This is going to move halfway up the sun god's face, half obscuring his face,

and the sun will be half obscured below the horizon.

And as the shadow completes obscuring the head, that's the moment that the sun

finally dips below the horizon.

And the lights go out.

You can see the shadow has moved up and is now right underneath the sun god's

chin. And that reflects exactly what's happening on the horizon.

The sun is touching the horizon.

So it's happening right here.

This is incredible.

It's extraordinary. I mean, look at that. It's so clear.

What I'm seeing here, I mean, it is clear that Mithras, at this time, in the

autumn, he is sinking down into darkness.

And there is Anubis who's going to be risen above. And Anubis, of course, you

know, the jackal -headed god, he was the god of the dead and the underworld. And

as he is risen above symbolically right there, he's risen above the sun.

The head of the sun god is almost completely in shadow.

Anubis is nearly fully illuminated and it's already starting to go dark.

That is a really complex alignment.

Someone with a great deal of knowledge and precision has been able to make this

map. Watching the shadow creep across here, they've laid out their lines, and

they've had to have known something very special to have the skill and the

knowledge to do this.

This is incredible.

Here again, we have a brand new chapter in American history right in front of

our eyes.

You know, Phil, your theory that the Celtic tribes that were practicing

things came here, I mean, this is all just making so much sense now. It's

something.

So let me ask you a question. How does the Egyptian symbolism, Mithraism, and

the Celts all connect?

You know, every single one of the people that you mentioned, they revered the

sun, the moon, and the stars. They knew that it was their way to keep track of

everything that was important to them.

I agree.

This site was as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls are to biblical history as

this is to Celtic history.

Well, I tell you guys, this has been incredible.

We started with the bull in Tulsa coming out of the Arkansas River. Not far

away, we saw Ogham's script.

And if we follow that trail up the Arkansas to one of its tributaries, it

us right here.

And this incredible story of Mithraism that we just saw play out on the wall.

was amazing.

And really the only reasonable people that could have done this were the

1 ,500 years ago. I can't think of any other candidates.

And for that reason, this site here should be, I think, designated as a

Historic Site. And it absolutely changes history in a profound way.

My search to uncover the meaning and origins of a 500 -pound bull carving

strongly suggests ancient Celtic explorers brought their religion to

Celtic worshippers of Mithraism who entered into their faith through a

of blood from a sacrificed bull may very well have made their way to Oklahoma.

The stone carving found in Tulsa could hint at their gruesome initiation.

Trails of blood running from the bull's head and neck.

I saw the story of Mithraism play out before my eyes in a spectacular

illumination on the autumn equinox. A testament to an advanced understanding

archaeoastronomy.

Everything I've learned could mean that America's first pilgrims may actually

have been Celtic explorers who left clues behind.

It's up to me and to all of us.

to figure out what those clues mean to the history of this country.

Next time on America Unearthed. We're starting in New Hampshire, and this

solstice line extends to Stonehenge in England. That line keeps going to the

east. You're never going to believe where that goes.

My initial reaction would be, that's beyond possible.

If you have a mysterious artifact or site I need to see, I want to know about

it. Go to history .com slash unearthed.

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