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In the Americas there are no iron tools or horses. No wheeled vehicles. Yet America’s people engineer great monuments. Mankind: The Story of All of Us VII: New World, History 2012
Ancient monuments deep underwater. A once thriving metropolis. Now half a mile under the sea. Lost cities submerged for thousands of years. Ancient Aliens: Underwater World s2e3, History 2010
Are underwater monuments examples of mankind’s earliest civilisations? Or is there evidence of skills far beyond that of primitive man? And if so, where did they come from? ibid.
What evidence lies deep underwater? ibid.
The legend of the lost city of Atlantis ... Across the Atlantic lies the island chain of the Bahamas. Just south-east of Florida. Here in 1968 Archaeologist J Manson Valentine believed he’d found part of Atlantis when he discovered an unusual rock formation off the coast of North Bimini Island. ibid.
Cuba ... Symmetrical stone structures deep below the water. Remarkably, they were over a half-mile down. ibid.
Yonaguni, Japan: this small island is at the westernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago ... A massive complex of stone formation hidden just sixty feet beneath the surface. ibid.
Is it a coincidence that the Earth’s twenty-fifth parallel north cuts through both the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon’s Triangle? ibid.
But could as ancient astronaut theories believe these strange Dogu figures really be a primitive interpretation of a space suit or a diving suit? ibid.
Off the coast of India – In 2001 researchers from India’s Oceanic Institute detected anomalies on the Gulf of Khambhat. The images revealed an enormous network of stone buildings now shrouded in mud and sand, and covering an area of five square miles. ibid.
Some believe a link between the submerged ruins and extraterrestrials can be found in another set of texts known as India’s Sangam literature. ibid.
The Andes Mountains, Peru. Here at an elevation of 12,500 feet lie the dark waters of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable body of water in the Earth. In August 2000 an Italian team of divers and archaeologists launched an underwater investigation of the legendary lake. There submerged under one hundred feet of water the team uncovered traces of a paved road, a stone terrace and a wall nearly half a mile long. ibid.
Megalithic monuments linked together by electromagnetic energy. Green historic ruins arranged across vast distances in straight lines. And advanced mathematics carved into landmarks more than five thousand years ago. Ancient Aliens s3e14: Aliens and the Secret Code
Ancient Astronaut theories believe our ancestors purposely constructed their monuments on energy lines that when mapped and connected create a significant pattern. ibid.
In 1925 [Alfred] Watkins published The Old Straight Track, a book in which he proposed that man’s earliest monuments and megaliths were linked by a network of long straight tracks. ibid.
The exquisite pattern of stars – Orion’s Belt – is repeated in monuments throughout the ancient world. Ancient Aliens: Destination Orion s4e14
There are many ancient legends which suggest that some of the monuments were built with the help of acoustic levitation. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
The next block of evidence which supports the existence of previously advanced civilisations comes from ancient monuments. Richard D Hall, Richplanet.net, Alien Ancestors
In September 1918 Britain’s most famous monument – Stonehenge – was given to the nation. Heritage! The Battle for Britain's Past II: The Men from the Ministry, BBC 2013
Why do we regard some places as being more sacred than others? Neil Oliver, Sacred Wonders of Britain I, BBC 2014
The coming of a whole new age, one that would see great monuments, sacred monuments, rise from the earth around Britain. ibid.
The time of the stone circles had begun. ibid.
Newport Tower, Rhode Island: Twenty-eight-feet tall and made of thousands of intricately placed stones. No-one knows who built it, when and why. America Unearthed s1e12: America’s Oldest Secret, H2 2013
I seem to find clues to my Templar theory every time I’m here. ibid.
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace, Odes
All monuments built by the elite are built according to what is known as sacred geometry. Architecture based on sacred geometry are the most effective at channelling energy. The Arrivals, 2008
And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
When tyrants’ crests and tombs of brass are spent. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 107
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous. Matthew 23:29
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. Hunter S Thompson
The big questions remain – what was its origins? How did it evolve over thousands of years? And which forces of Nature and Humanity inspired its creators? Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath? I, BBC 2014
The Hidden Landscapes Project’s unprecedented Big Picture has revealed a remarkable world of hidden monuments. ibid.
Lying three kilometres to the north-east is Durrington Walls. It’s five-hundred-metre wide circular ditch and bank make it the largest monument of its type in Britain. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath? II
The monuments’ innate symmetry has revealed that the architects of Stonehenge had a grasp of geometry. ibid.
The monument’s primary function – to mark the passage of the sun. ibid.
Two-way trade with the continental mainland had flourished. ibid.
The discoveries have placed Stonehenge at the very heart of a fast evolving and dynamic culture. ibid.
One of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs created this impossibly vast monument to himself at Abu Simbel … The largest temple ever carved out of solid rock. Ancient Impossible: Monster Monuments s1e2, History 2014
Stonehenge: it appears to be a structure years ahead of its time. ibid.
‘These stones from this quarry were transported well over a hundred miles.’ ibid.
We have been tasked to find and protect buildings, monuments and art. The Monuments Men 2014 starring George Clooney & Matt Damon & Cate Blanchett & Bill Murray & John Goodman & Jean Dujadrin & Bob Balaban & Hugh Bonneville & Sam Hazeldine & Dimitri Leonidas et al, director George Clooney
It’s exactly what we’re fighting for – for our culture and for our way of life ... But if you destroy their achievements and their history then it’s like they never existed. ibid. Clooney to men
There were over five million pieces recovered. ibid.
They stand before us: colossal examples of mankind’s achievements, natural wonders and symbols of liberty. But behind the marble facades and steel beams are secrets, secrets so outrageous, so controversial, so dangerous, that to discover them may present a challenge to the very foundations of our nation. America’s Book of Secrets s1e1: The Monuments, History 2012
Arlington: secrets involving exhumations, betrayals and revenge. ibid.
‘The Freemasons were very instrumental in the building of the Washington Monument.’ ibid. Brad Berger, park ranger
The Alamo: ‘The myth is that Jim Bowie’s treasure was hidden in the well.’ ibid. historian