So what does it say? … 8 Goths and 22 Norwegians upon a journey of discovery from Vinland westwards. We had camp by two skerries one day’s journey north from this stone … 1362. Secrets of the Viking Stone II: Skeletons in the Closet
The inscription on the stones speaks of a massacre of ten men, one day’s journey north, which could be where those skeletons were found in the Ashby gravel pit. ibid.
Vinland, west of Greenland, Helga and Ann Ingstad in 1960 a Norwegian couple … used these sagas to navigate around Newfoundland and they eventually found a Viking settlement that was dated to the year around 1,000. This changed everything. ibid.
So what does it say? … 8 Goths and 22 Norwegians upon a journey of discovery from Vinland westwards. We had camp by two skerries one day’s journey north from this stone … 1362. Secrets of the Viking Stone II: Skeletons in the Closet
The inscription on the stones speaks of a massacre of ten men, one day’s journey north, which could be where those skeletons were found in the Ashby gravel pit. ibid.
Vinland, west of Greenland, Helga and & Ann Instad in 1960 a Norwegian couple … used these sagas to navigate around Newfoundland and they eventually found a Viking settlement that was dated to the year around 1,000. This changed everything. ibid.
The Vikings went almost everywhere in Europe … They settled on whatever islands they could find in the north Atlantic. Secrets of the Viking Stone III: Viking Confidential, historian
The fur trade was exactly what would have brought a group of Norsemen to Kensington, Minnesota, in 1362. ibid.
Elroy and I continue to search for an archaeologist who would be willing to hear us out about the Code Stone. Secrets of the Viking Stone IV: One Two Three, Archaeology!
‘The DNA testing worked very well’ … We had a suspicion it might be Native American … Since the skull was Native, we had to figure out a way to get the skull back to the Native Americans. Academics have a hard time believing that the Vikings came to Minnesota, but some are open to the idea L’Anse aux Meadows wasn’t the final stop. ibid. expert
L’Anse aux Meadows: ‘It looks like it had the materials you needed to repair ships: that’s why there’s so many rivets founds there, and also a place where you could make rivets.’ ibid. Dr Anders Winroth
Whoever did this, that’s the person I would like to meet. It’s the last runemaster. Secrets of the Viking Stone V: Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Dr Winroth
There was no doubt that the stone had been found wrapped in tree roots. And all the witnesses who had signed affidavits regarding the age of the tree stated it was at least twenty-five to thirty years old when Olof found the stone. Secrets of the Viking Stone VI: The Discovery
It [stone] was in the ground before he [Olof] even got here. And we’ve proved that. ibid.
According to Scott, the Knights Templar had been using the hooked X for centuries … The hooked X was carved on other rune stones that had been found right here in these United States. ibid.
Just what are the Costa Rican spheres? … We still don’t know why they were carved so perfectly in stone. The UnXplained with William Shatner s1e2: Mysterious Structures, History 2021
A miraculous meteorite falling from the heavens, a priceless gemstone with a deadly curse, and a chunk of sandstone considered so sacred that wars have been fought to protect it. The UnXplained with William Shatner s1e14: Mysterious Stones, History 2021
The holiest and most sacred site in all of Islam … The black stone of Mecca. ibid.
A lion with the head of a man carved from a single piece of rock in the Egyptian desert. No monument on Earth is more recognisable or more puzzling. Treasures Decoded s1e2: The Sphinx, History 2020
At nearly 60 feet high and 240 feet long the Sphinx is the biggest single-stone statue in existence. ibid.
In the autumn of 1898 on a modest farm in Kensington, Minnesota, a Swedish immigrant named Olof Ohman was clearing trees from his farm with the help of his sons. After brushing away the soil they noticed carvings on two sides of the stone: strange symbols no-one could read that resembled old Swedish runes. Holy Grail in America, Channel 5 2009
Baalbek is a very good example that has ... the largest stones in the world ever used for construction. They’re so large so we don’t even know their actual weight. Those stones were somehow quarried, moved five miles, lifted twenty-five, thirty feet in the air and placed together so closely you can’t fit a razor blade or a piece of paper in between them. We have no idea how they did it. We don’t have a crane in the world that can lift weights anywhere near what those things are. Bruce Rux, author Architects of the Underworld
Eden: The original Biblical paradise … A prehistoric structure uncovered in Turkey has rocked the foundations of stone-age anthropology. Could the Bible’s oldest story actually be rooted in reality? Ancient Mysteries s2e8: The Garden of Eden, Channel 5 2017
Rocks protruding from the ground on a mound called Gobekli Tepe. ibid.
A 22-acre site composed entirely of circles built in stone. ibid.
The Inca genius for stone is everywhere, from the steep staircase to the terraced fields ... The cut stone blocks are set without mortar; they are an architectural wonder only matched by the engineering ability that brought them from a quarry eight kilometres away on the other side of the river. Christy Kenneally, The Lost Gods, Channel 4 2005
Britain: A mania for building massive stone structures. Bettany Hughes, Seven Ages of Britain 1066 A.D. – 1350 A.D.
The subject that I’m investigating is human pre-history. Ancient Apocalypse s1e1: Once There Was a Flood, Graham Hancock reporting, Netflix 2022
My suspicion is humans are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten something incredibly important in our own past. And I think that that incredibly important forgotten thing is a lost, advanced civilisation of the Ice Age. ibid.
I’ve spent decades searching for proof of this lost civilisation at site around the globe. ibid.
An advanced human civilisation much older than our own, lost to history … New discoveries keep on pushing that horizon back. One such discovery has been made here in Indonesia. On the most populated island, Java, about four hours south of Jakarta, near the village of Karyamukti. ibid.
What if an advanced civilisation flourished here in Indonesia during the Ice Age? ibid.
Because Gunung Padang is like no place on Earth … You see these blocks scattered across the mountain. Oddly hexagonal stone slabs strewn about everywhere. Thousands of them. It’s quite a spectacle. ibid.
These rocks have been cut, repurposed as building materials and placed by human hands. ibid.
Traces of structures show up all over the hill … on carefully laid out terraces. ibid.
‘This site consists of two cultural layers.’ ibid. Archaeologist
The entire hill is ringed by retaining walls of columnar basalt. ibid.
At least three large rectangular chambers. One around 10 metres down, perhaps an entrance hall of some kind … A third chamber between 20 and 30 metres deep. ibid.
Core drilling: Those sections had been laid out 11,500 years ago. ibid.
Around 100 feet or so he [Dr Hillman] hit the earliest layer of construction … as far back as 24,000 years ago. ibid.
What happened was a literal great flood. ibid.
One of the most mysterious and revealing mythologies in prehistory comes down to us through the ancient cultures of Mexico. Ancient Apocalypse s1e2: Survivor in a Time of Chaos, Netflix 2022
A land of fertile valleys and simmering volcanoes. This is the Puebla region, east of Mexico City. ibid.
This hill isn’t the natural feature it’s often mistaken for. It’s the most massive monument ever built anywhere in the world … This is the Great Pyramid of Cholula … [and] rose to at least 213 feet, 65 metres … 400 x 400 metres at its base. ibid.
They were stunned at what they discovered inside … 8 kilometres of tunnels … The Pyramid of Cholula is simply the latest in a whole series of more ancient pyramids hidden beneath. ibid.
You start off with a place that for one reason or another is regarded as sacred. ibid.
According to myth, the Great Pyramid of Cholula was built by a race of giants. ibid.
Malta: It’s called Ggantija. And it certainly is a giant of a megalithic structure. For decades, it was thought to be the oldest freestanding monumental structure on Earth. Ancient Apocalypse s1e3: Sirius Rising
The construction of these walls required the lifting of hundreds of massive megaliths. Some weighing up to fifty tons. And what we see today is only roughly half of the temple’s original height. ibid.
Two connected temples with over-shaped chambers, their walls were painted red. And a series of altars where charred remains of animal bones were found, suggesting ritual sacrifices or feasting.
Ggantija isn’t Malta’s only megalithic temple. ibid.
How much more of Malta’s prehistory lies hidden beneath the waves? ibid.