1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Aswan Quarry. Now this is an absolutely fascinating place. A lot of the stone... 2 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,920 was actually quarried from here. There are several different quarries in the Aswan area. 3 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:28,920 This unfinished obelisk weighs 1,168 tonnes which is one of the largest work stones on 4 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:36,320 the planet. It's unfinished, it's still in situ, it's still partly attached to the... 5 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:43,240 The biggest obelisk ever erected in Egypt was around 500 tonnes. This is over twice 6 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:50,040 that weight. And you can see when you go to Egypt, you look at some of these obelisks 7 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:55,280 all over the country, it is utterly incredible and absolutely blew my mind whe... 8 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,320 in there and actually witnessed some of these obelisks. But this one really fascinates 9 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:06,320 me because it is an example of the biggest stone left in the quarry. I always think 10 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,439 that from my research, as you'll see today, it's as though they left the largest one 11 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:16,319 in the quarry as well as it being the sacred birthplace of the temple. So I've got a very 12 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:23,319 short video here I'm going to play about the quarry and about other sites that were built 13 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:30,799 from that particular stone. The unfinished obelisk in Aswan weighs 1,168 tonnes which 14 00:01:32,479 --> 00:01:38,839 is a remarkable feat in itself. What's also amazing is the fact that many of the stones, 15 00:01:38,839 --> 00:01:44,359 the casing stones of two of the pyramids on the Giza Plateau actually came from Aswan. 16 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:50,319 They travelled all the way up the Nile, several hundred miles, and they cased two ... 17 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:56,119 not the Great Pyramid, the other two pyramids, with these particular stones,... 18 00:01:56,119 --> 00:02:03,119 style and they're just an incredible sight to behold. So we can see that there's red 19 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:12,000 and black granite on this pyramid, not just red granite as I originally thought. So it's 20 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:19,120 like a combination, and I believe this was part of the original construction and not 21 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:26,120 a later addition. It seems to be like it must have gone quite far up and it's just toppled 22 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:33,120 down, some catatyrismic event. There are many other sites all over Egypt that do come from 23 00:02:36,479 --> 00:02:41,960 Aswan quarry, you can just see this huge block here and you can just see the length... 24 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,960 stone, it's been precision carved, whether it was done with these diorite balls, we're 25 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:52,719 really not sure about, but there's a lot more granite across Egypt than just this. 26 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:59,719 It looks like this quarry there, they've scooped out the rock really perfectly, almost 27 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:05,000 like it's ice cream or butter, and they've just removed it as though it's an extremely 28 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,000 easy process for them. And they've left a mark here with some hieroglyphics on it,... 29 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:16,240 are fascinating, I wonder what that says, who could have done this. These are the Dolarite 30 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:22,080 balls that are said to have chipped away and kind of created all these obelisks and other 31 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:27,759 things here at Aswan quarry, but it doesn't really make sense, I mean maybe they, as 32 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:34,759 Marcus Allen points out, they were used for rolling the stones on. There's no way that's 33 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:42,719 just Dolarite blocks doing that, some kind of machinery it looks like. Anyway, Aswan 34 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:48,599 quarry is an amazing place, there's a lot more going on here than meets the eye because 35 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:52,680 of so much stone that's been taken to all these various other places, often hundreds 36 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:59,680 of miles away. There are geodetic connections between this site and the Giza pyramids,... 37 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:07,680 there's a 365.4 mile length between them, which basically marks out the days of the 38 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:13,520 year. So it's just the tip of the iceberg, you can check out a full analysis, an article 39 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:20,519 I did on this on ancient-origins.net. So you can see, this is a quick video I made about 40 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:27,519 that, I just thought I'd show you that so it gives you some sort of first hand shots 41 00:04:28,479 --> 00:04:35,479 of it. This is just the casing stone on the smaller pyramid, the smallest pyramid at 42 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:40,199 the Giza plateau, and you can just see the size of these. These are beautifully cut, 43 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:45,959 these are transported 600 miles from Aswan quarry, and these are exactly the same style 44 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:50,959 you find in Peru and Bolivia, but also in Turkey and various other places around the 45 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:57,519 world. In fact, the earliest known directors of the Aswan quarry was employed by Ramesses 46 00:04:57,519 --> 00:05:03,639 III named Hurri about 1170 BC, although there's evidence obviously because of the... 47 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:08,399 of the pyramids that it was used much much earlier, but this is the earliest known date 48 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:13,000 that the Aswan quarry was in use. It was in use for at least a thousand years, although 49 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,839 technically probably two or three thousand, and even inside the Great Pyramid we have 50 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:24,600 the 70 ton granite lintels above the King's chamber. These are also from Aswan quarry, 51 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:29,879 so it becomes quite a task when you actually think about it, some of the tonnage involved 52 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:34,040 here, and it really does suggest there was very high technology, or very sophisticated 53 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:40,680 technique at least, of how they would move it. To say it was just chipped away by these 54 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:47,000 diorite spheres or balls is, I'm not too sure about that. If you look at some of the 55 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:55,160 intricate carving technologies throughout Egypt, you can't really say it's actually 56 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:02,560 that, and some tests were done by Christopher Dunn and Egyptologist Mark Lehner, and they 57 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:08,759 said just to release the Aswan obelisk from the quarry would take eight or nine months 58 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:15,839 of 24 hours a day chipping of about 50 people doing it. Just to release it from the... 59 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:21,480 and that's before you lift it out, carve it properly with all the beautiful... 60 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,959 and then try and transport it 600 miles, so there's a lot more going on here than meets 61 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:32,719 the eye. And also we find the same markings in various parts of the world. This is Aswan 62 00:06:32,719 --> 00:06:37,959 quarry on the left here, and this is actually from the quarry Ollantaytambo in Peru, up 63 00:06:37,959 --> 00:06:42,039 on the opposite mountain side to Ollantaytambo, which is in the sacred vall... 64 00:06:42,039 --> 00:06:48,339 Machu Picchu. So we have exactly the same style markings that look like some kind of 65 00:06:48,339 --> 00:06:54,560 scooping technology, like ice cream even. So obviously there's a lot more here than 66 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,879 what we're being told. On top of the great Aswan obelisk, the unfinished obelisk, are 67 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:06,719 some markings of where they were cutting out another obelisk from the larger obelisk, 68 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,360 which I find particularly interesting, but this is quite late, probably Roman or later. 69 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:17,760 And it's almost like the obelisk itself was left in the quarry and was meant to be... 70 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,040 and it was meant to be left like that. It's just a theory I've been developing, and it 71 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:27,880 actually marked a specific geodetic spot within the landscape, as we saw briefly in... 72 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:34,880 video. But also it's like a revered, imbued with power, sacred stone, and so you don't 73 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:41,839 touch it, and you leave it as it is. And it's actually part of the greater system of... 74 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:48,839 across all of Egypt. So this is just a small discovery I made while searching this. It 75 00:07:49,079 --> 00:07:56,079 may have meaning, it may not, but between Aswan quarry, the obelisk, and the great 76 00:07:57,159 --> 00:08:04,159 pyramids of Giza, it's exactly 365.4 nautical miles between them, which I thought was... 77 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:08,720 interesting, obviously, because it's the amount of days in a year, and does suggest 78 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:15,720 that it may have been marking the lower boundary of Egypt. And maybe they were goi... 79 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:22,720 it exactly, or very close, to where the quarry is. So let's have a look at Gebekli... 80 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:27,280 itself. Obviously, most of you, has anyone here not heard anything about Gebekli Tepe 81 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:33,680 before? A few of you, okay. Gebekli Tepe is an incredible site, it's in southeast Turkey, 82 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:39,439 it's 13 miles from San Yerfa, or Erfa, it used to be called, which is also the... 83 00:08:39,439 --> 00:08:46,439 of Abraham and ancient Edessa. And there's various circles of stone with these T-shaped 84 00:08:47,439 --> 00:08:51,719 pillars being found all over the site. I've been there a few times with, once with Graham 85 00:08:51,719 --> 00:08:58,319 Hancock and Andrew Collins, we do trips there. And it's basically 7,000 years olde... 86 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:04,360 Stonehenge, or 6,500 years older than the pyramids. So it's an incredibly ancient site. 87 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,720 So when the pyramids were being built, when Stonehenge was being built, this was already 88 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:14,280 ancient. This had been closed down, buried, and forgotten about for about 5,000 or 6,000 89 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:19,120 years before any of these other sites were even being discovered. Klaus Schmidt, before 90 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,080 he died, he mentioned in a conversation with Andrew, that he believes it could be up to 91 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:29,639 14,000 years old. So the dates are getting pushed back further and further with Gebekli 92 00:09:29,639 --> 00:09:35,320 Tepe. Here's another example of some of the pillars. And you can see the beautiful... 93 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,200 on them, you can't see them, you can see these kind of things all over them, and sort 94 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:45,400 of weird T-shaped pillars all in the circles, sort of facing inwards. Here's just some more 95 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:51,800 examples, here's one of the enclosures, which has got some incredible carvings on. And 96 00:09:51,799 --> 00:09:55,799 there are tool marks and cup marks on them as well. You can actually see them not very 97 00:09:55,799 --> 00:10:01,319 well here, but on top of some of the stones, you do find cup marks like we find in Britain 98 00:10:01,319 --> 00:10:06,399 and various other parts of the world. Here's an example here, just inside one of the... 99 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:12,279 They're just currently building a roof over the top of this to protect it. So it's not, 100 00:10:12,279 --> 00:10:14,899 it's got a lot of wood around it at the moment, but they're going to have to build... 101 00:10:14,899 --> 00:10:19,039 sort of white roof above it. So it'll be much more pristine and there'll be nothing in the 102 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,759 way so you can view it in its more natural state. But one of the things about this site 103 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:29,480 is that it was used, I think, for about 2000 years, and then it was deliberately... 104 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:35,439 because it got damaged, and then buried under millions of tonnes of dirt, and really... 105 00:10:35,439 --> 00:10:40,120 buried like it was being preserved for future generations to eventually find it, which did 106 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:46,639 happen in the mid-1990s. This just shows you an artist's reconstruction and the potential 107 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:51,519 alignment with Syria. So this has obviously been negated by Andrew Collins, who's made 108 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:57,399 signus links with this as well. This just shows you the area where it is. But even 109 00:10:57,399 --> 00:11:04,399 here, going way back, there are some stones still in the original quarry, which are about 110 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:12,360 half a mile from the site. This one here is roughly 22 to 24 feet long, depending on 111 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,360 how you measure it. It's a huge one. It's really thick. It's much bigger than anything 112 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:24,360 actually at Gebeckli Tepe. It has no relief carvings. It's still in a rough state. This 113 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:29,360 is Andrew Collins just pointing out where it is by standing on it. It's really hard 114 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:35,360 to find. You can barely, unless you know where it is, it's really hard to find it. ... 115 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,360 eye level, you just can't see it whatsoever. So it's almost like you have to get above 116 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:46,360 it to see what's going on there. It rests on a slight slope. Klaus Schmidt deduced 117 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,360 that the technique employed must have been carried out by surrounding the outer shapes 118 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:56,360 with a small ditch, which was made by picking it out of the rock with stone tools and then 119 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,360 kind of lifting it out and pushing it out. And then you have to transport and lift 20 120 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:08,360 to 30 tonne blocks. This one's about 50 tonnes. So this is not bad for... 121 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,360 group of hunter-gatherers potentially who were living here at this time. So you can 122 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,360 just see the magnitude of that. And then they would have taken it all the way up to the 123 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:25,360 hill and placed it up there. This is a smaller one, which is just found nearby. T... 124 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,360 the larger one we were talking about, the famous 22 to 24 feet one. But as we were 125 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:35,360 walking back, we actually found another one. This one here. We found these squared off 126 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,360 blocks with this T-shaped pillar still in the ground, suggesting it's another one that 127 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,360 was going to be used and never was. This one's about 12 foot tall, which is some of... 128 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:52,360 ones in some of the enclosures at Quebec-Litepe are about that height. It sh... 129 00:12:52,360 --> 00:13:00,360 of it. They must have used obsidian or something sharp to actually carve the ston... 130 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:07,360 you look at the intricacy of some of the carvings, it's really quite incredible. It 131 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:17,360 shows you more examples of it just from above. This is just a short little video I... 132 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:27,360 going to show of just moving around so you can have a proper look at it. So you can 133 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:35,360 see these square shaped blocks all around here. Then we have the main pillar just here. 134 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,360 There's the main top, very large top part of it, very similar to the vulture pillar. 135 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:47,360 Then going down there, we obviously have the main length of it. Fascinating that this 136 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:52,360 may just well be another pillar here. And one of the other things I found, which has 137 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,360 kind of intrigued me, just while I was researching this and I was looking at the... 138 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,360 the connections between sites worldwide, is that between Quebec-Litepe and the... 139 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:06,360 which is the centre of the ancient Inca or pre-Inca world in Peru, not too far from 140 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:15,360 Ollantaytambo, is the surface distance between that is 7,928 miles, which is roug... 141 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,360 Earth's diameter, which has kind of fascinated me to say, maybe you could real... 142 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,360 what else is going on here. I've done another lecture previously at other conferences as 143 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,360 well looking at the comparisons. I've done an article on Graham Hancock's website you 144 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:37,360 can take a look at as well comparing Quebec-Litepe with the ancient sites in Pe... 145 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:42,360 because there are remarkable similarities. Potentially, if my hypothesis is correct, 146 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:49,360 it would push the dates back in Peru and Bolivia several thousand years to a much... 147 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,360 And so I think there's something going on there. You also have the tradition of the 148 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:58,360 navel or the belly hill. The name of the Coricancha means the centre or the navel. 149 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,360 The name of Quebec-Litepe means the navel or the belly hill. And so you have to kind 150 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:07,360 of question this tradition stretching around different parts of the world. 151 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,360 Obviously, we do our own trips there, so please join us in September if you can. 152 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,360 Andrew and myself are taking just for a few days going over there and looking at various 153 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:24,360 sites, including Quebec-Litepe and Carahantepe, which is an absolutely wonder... 154 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:30,360 It's a very strange place. Carahantepe is like the sister site to Quebec-Litepe. 155 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:36,360 It's not been excavated whatsoever. All they've done is done a ground survey... 156 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:43,360 various discoveries on the surface and surveyed it. It's got some very interestin... 157 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:50,360 with Quebec-Litepe. It consists of T-shaped pillars. It looks like it's been deliberately 158 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:55,360 buried. All you can see nowadays, I mean, this is one of the smaller T-shaped pillars, 159 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,360 very badly weathered. And this is the top of a T-shaped pillar still in the ground. 160 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:05,360 So most of it is still under the ground, yet to be excavated, which really baffles us. 161 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:11,360 And this goes back about 10,500 years. So it's a couple of thousand years younger than 162 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:18,360 Quebec-Litepe, although it would have been in use towards the later phase of Quebec-Litepe. 163 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:25,360 So they may have moved over to this area on the Tek-Tek Mountains, again about 20 miles 164 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:32,360 from San-Li-Erfa. You can just see the area we're talking about here. Quebec-Litepe is 165 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:36,360 there, Carahantepe is here, San-Li-Erfa is just under Quebec-Litepe, about here. The 166 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:42,360 Vali-Churi is another site as well, which has been completely destroyed because a dam 167 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:48,360 and some artificial lakes were built. But by September, the full site is going to be 168 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:53,360 reconstructed in San-Li-Erfa Museum. And obviously we have Chetl-Hoyak as well, whi... 169 00:16:53,360 --> 00:17:00,360 contemporary with the later stages of Quebec-Litepe. Carahantepe is not a touris... 170 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,360 can't really visit there easily. You have to kind of know where it is. We've mapped 171 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:11,360 it out. We eventually found it on our last trip there. When Andrew Collins went there 172 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:17,360 in 2004, he was told by the local family who sort of owned the farmland around it that 173 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:22,360 if anyone visited it, the kid who showed them around would actually get a beating. Luckily, 174 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:27,360 no one got a beating this time, so we were safe. And they just hang out with you, have 175 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:32,359 cups of tea and let you explore free of charge. It's a great place. I've got anoth... 176 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:39,359 video here. I just want to show you some close-ups of the very interesting quarry... 177 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:47,359 are still in situ at Carahantepe, very similar to what we find at Quebec-Litepe.... 178 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:54,359 me, this is the quarry stone, the huge T-shaped pillar, which is at least probabl... 179 00:17:54,359 --> 00:18:00,359 long, found here at Carahantepe, just down the west side, about a 30 degree slope from 180 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:07,359 the main enclosure. It's a fascinating discovery. It's actually much more noticea... 181 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:13,359 one at Quebec-Litepe. But again, we have an example here of finding the largest stone 182 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:18,359 in the quarry. So the largest stone is actually the one that never made it up,... 183 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,359 obviously carve it down to a certain size to do all the relief carvings on it. We're 184 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:27,359 not sure about that, but it's fascinating that it's here and it just gives some idea 185 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:32,359 of how they quarried, cut, but how they lifted it is obviously a whole different... 186 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,359 which we'll have to get into another time. So you can really see how they've actually 187 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:41,359 cut it from the bedrock as well, which kind of fascinates me as a megalithomaniac.... 188 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:46,359 actually sort of cut it. They must have put some picks between it, maybe some wooden. 189 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,359 It might have been when they froze it. They could have frozen wood that would have... 190 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:55,359 the stone. Who knows? Let's take a closer look anyway. This little marker stick gives 191 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:01,359 you some idea of the length. We are estimating it at 18 to 20 feet. And you ca... 192 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:09,359 the way this bit here is kind of being shown in the T part of the pillar. And over there 193 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:14,359 as well. It could be in a regular shape pillar. Also down here you can see how the... 194 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:21,359 from the bedrock and the curved bottom on it as well. Anyway, that gives you some idea. 195 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,359 I just wanted to sort of show you a little video of that to give you an idea of the 196 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:38,359 landscape there as well. But again, it's well worth a visit. And I believe that this could 197 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:42,359 have been deliberately left there again, like we find it as one quarry. This is my friend 198 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:47,359 Kevin Fish. He came with us on the trip and me and him actually just found the stone 199 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:52,359 because nobody could find it. This is another close-up of it here. And obviously what we 200 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:57,359 also find there is not only the T-shaped pillars in the quarry, but also these cut... 201 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:02,359 which is something we find all over Gebeklitepe, all over Karahan Tepe and the... 202 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:07,359 of southeast Turkey, but obviously all over Britain and various other parts of the world. 203 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:14,359 This is another stone found on the opposite side of the hill at Karahan Tepe, which we 204 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:21,359 think is another unfinished pillar. This is the same pillar here. And these are just 205 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:28,359 some images from Andrew's 2004 visit, which with similarities to Gebeklitepe, we find 206 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:34,359 like these serpent carvings here, beautifully cut blocks, with Andrew posing there, various 207 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:39,359 other things, these sort of strange carvings here. But the other thing about Karahan 208 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,359 Tepe is that rather than being in circular enclosures like we find at Gebeklitepe, it 209 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:48,359 actually is like all the pillars go up in an avenue, almost like a serpent, sort of 210 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:53,359 like a zigzag going up to the top of the hill, coming in from other parts of the hi... 211 00:20:53,359 --> 00:21:00,359 into the same spots. So it's a very unusual site and I do really like it. There's... 212 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,359 about that place, I think it's because it's been untouched. I'm not sure whether that's 213 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:10,359 there again. Maybe it's because it's linking to Peru. There's me, Brian Forrester and 214 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:16,359 Freddie Silver having a giggle at Oyen Te Tambo. Oyen Te Tambo. Does people know abo... 215 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:23,359 This is quite a famous megalithic site in the sacred valley of ancient Peru. The dating 216 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:30,359 of it is really under scrutiny because it looks super ancient. There's incredibly old 217 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,359 lichen on it and things like this. But there's a quarry on the other side of the... 218 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:41,359 just shows you some of the examples of the stonework at Oyen Te Tambo and even some what 219 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:47,359 looks like T-shaped pillars carved out of solid granite. But it's the lazy stones that 220 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,359 really interest me. And there's a lazy boy there with the lazy stones. And this is... 221 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:55,359 what they're called. There's a whole bunch of these between the quarry which is a few 222 00:21:55,359 --> 00:22:00,359 miles away with a four hour hike up the top of another mountain. So they had to bring 223 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:05,359 the stones down from the mountain and then go up to another mountain top at Oyen Te Tambo 224 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:10,359 including crossing a river and rough swampy terrain. And this is one of the stones that 225 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:14,359 didn't make it. It's almost like they were kind of levitating them from mountain top 226 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,359 to mountain top. Then they just lost concentration when a pretty girl walked by... 227 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:24,359 and plummeted to the ground. And so there's various of these marking the trail up to 228 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:30,359 the mountain top at the quarry. This is David Childress. He's been up there. I'm going 229 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:35,359 to be going up there in June on our next trip. But you can see they've even got... 230 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,359 of what looks like a wheel to sort of move the stones around. And here's just some of 231 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:44,359 the examples up on the mountain top on the quarry. And again we find the same markings 232 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:50,359 here as we find it as one in Egypt. Here's just another old photo of some of the quarry 233 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,359 at the top of the mountain. There's a huge area around the mountain. It's really hard 234 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,359 to find all the stones apparently but I'm going to go and find out when I go there 235 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:04,359 in June. This is David getting ready to take off and pointing out some saw marks on one 236 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:09,359 of the largest blocks up in the quarry. And he believes it's like circular sort of... 237 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:16,359 tip saws and blades were cutting the stones much like what you find in Egypt. Here's 238 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:23,359 just another one of the stones here. And so throughout Bolivia and Peru you do find... 239 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,359 of these quarries. Many of the stones for example at Tiwanaku come from the other side 240 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:34,359 of Lake Titicaca, you know, 100 or 200 miles away. So either they brought them across the 241 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:39,359 lake and dragged them into place or there's some other technology which is probably how 242 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:46,359 they moved the stones here at Oyin Te Tambo. We get a similar situation on Easter Island. 243 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:53,359 This just shows you an artist's impression of the people's working to, you know, get 244 00:23:53,359 --> 00:24:00,359 the moai out of the bedrock. But this is called El Gigante and the Rano Raraku quar... 245 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,359 is 72 feet tall. This is how tall this particular one is. We'll have a look at so... 246 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:12,359 in a moment. It weighs between 160 and 182 metric tons, the weight of two aeroplanes 247 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:19,359 pretty much. But experts believe that had they finished the moai they would have been 248 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:25,359 almost impossible to put it into place. But the legend states that they walked into place 249 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:31,359 on Easter Island or Rapa Nui. That they sort of, they walked themselves and they always 250 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:37,359 walked around the magnetic area which is the volcanic area and then ended up in their... 251 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,359 position, which is very interesting. It's also interesting, this is 100 tons heavier 252 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:48,359 than any other moai on Easter Island. This just shows you it in situ. You can still 253 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,359 see the way it's still connected to the bedrock. There's also quite an interesting... 254 00:24:53,359 --> 00:25:00,359 story here. This is from Thor Haridull in his book Aku Aku. I'll just read the quote. 255 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,359 An old witch who lived on the Rano Raraku area, the time when the sculptors made the 256 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:09,359 great figures, they breathed life into the stone giants and made them go where they 257 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:14,359 should. But one day the sculptors had eaten a big lobster and when the witch found the 258 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,359 empty shell and realized that none of the contents had been given to her, she was so 259 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,359 angry that she made all the walking statues fall flat on their noses and they were never 260 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:28,359 moved since then. That's one of the legends. This just shows you another beautiful... 261 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:35,359 another angle of that particular stone that's left in the quarry. And again, we have... 262 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:42,359 example of the largest stone in the whole culture there being left in situ, marking 263 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,359 the sacred quarry, the sacred birthplace of the temple, in my opinion. I believe that's 264 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:54,359 what partly it was all about. The Olmec as well, all these Olmec heads we find along 265 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:59,359 the Gulf coast of Mexico, all the stone comes from the Tuxla Mountains which is roughly, 266 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,359 it depends on which side it is, but at least 60 miles away across mountains, very swampy 267 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:10,359 there, and rivers, lakes, and really rough terrain, rocky terrain as well. And yet they 268 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:17,359 manage to move these multi-ton heads, blocks of stone, through these different areas. 269 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:25,359 So most of the stone, they say, comes from that area. It's got a few little details 270 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:31,359 here, but even actually in the quarry itself, there is an area where the indigenous people 271 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:36,359 still revere it as a sacred site and rituals and ceremonies still take place there. And 272 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,359 there's actually an altar, one of the famous Olmec altars, similar to what we've got on 273 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:47,359 the left there with the shame of emerging from the rock. There's actually examples 274 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:52,359 of still being used today, the ones that never got finished, or deliberately, I... 275 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:58,359 left there. So there's a lot more going on here than meets the eye. This is the area 276 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:03,359 of the Tuxla Mountains all around here. This is one area where the stone comes from. This 277 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:09,359 is La Venta, one of the main sites, San Lorenzo, many other sites nearby. These th... 278 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,359 the main sites, Tres de Potas, San Lorenzo, and La Venta. And this is the area they all 279 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:19,359 came from, the stone, that is. So looking at several miles for each trip, this is just 280 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:25,359 a view of the Tuxla Mountains where one of the quarry sites is. This just shows you 281 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:30,359 actually some of the actual stone they were using from that particular area. And again, 282 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,359 it does suggest that it could have been a tradition that was passed down through... 283 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:41,359 where they still revere the sacred quarry as part of the greater complex. Let's move 284 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:46,359 back to the Middle East and look at Baalbek. This is obviously some incredibly large... 285 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,359 here, as you can see here, but the best ones are in the quarry, of course. Officially, 286 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:55,359 it's a Roman temple, but that's under scrutiny because they're not known to have... 287 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:01,359 stones quite this size. They got to about 300 tonnes, the largest they moved, but these 288 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:08,359 are over 1,000 tonnes each, particularly large, really. But there is evidence that ... 289 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:13,359 there's legends of giants going way back. There's a whole load of information I have. 290 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:18,359 I've done an article, it's in Atlantis Rising magazine, actually in the latest issue, but 291 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:24,359 it's American based. And also on ancient-origins.net I've done an article... 292 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:29,359 sites, but quite a lengthy one, about Baalbek. So I'm not going to go into it in... 293 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:34,359 here, but it has links. It said it was re-fortified by Israel's King Solomon. We'... 294 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:41,359 look at Solomon shortly, around 970 BC. But what's really interesting is that they found 295 00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:46,359 another stone there. These are the known stones in the quarry. This is the Stone of... 296 00:28:46,359 --> 00:28:52,359 This weighs 1,242 tonnes, it's been estimated. This is a photo, thanks to Bria... 297 00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:56,359 he recently visited there and sent me some photos. And this one's been worked, you can 298 00:28:56,359 --> 00:29:01,359 see they're kind of doing things here, and reusing the stone, which I think is quite 299 00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:06,359 unusual, probably a later Roman thing they were doing. This is the Stone of the Pregnant 300 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:12,359 Woman. You can just see the magnificence of this. This is just over 1,000 tonnes, this 301 00:29:12,359 --> 00:29:18,359 one. So how they would have moved that slightly uphill to the main temple of Jupi... 302 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:23,359 confusing. But it's what's down here, I'll point out in a moment, is very interesting. 303 00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:27,359 This just shows you the location of them, how they are. They're even sort of almost 304 00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:32,359 aligned in the same direction, which I thought had meaning, but I couldn't find a... 305 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:38,359 connected with that. This is actually the Trilithon, they call it, where it's three 306 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:45,359 major stones in alignment. There are 800 tonnes each, with some other 400 tonnes... 307 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:49,359 this, what I believe is a retaining wall, because it's on a sort of slope. And how 308 00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:55,359 they got these here is a really, really big question. There's been lots of theories put 309 00:29:55,359 --> 00:30:00,359 forward, that it would have taken like 40,000 people, different techniques, wrapping it 310 00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:06,359 in wood in a cylinder and rolling it uphill, I'm not sure. But it was probably just a 311 00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:13,359 bunch of giants doing it, in my opinion. So that settles that one. This shows you some 312 00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:18,359 examples, which you don't often see at Baalbek. This is just some of the columns,... 313 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:22,359 the great walls. The Romans probably did do some of this. Some of these columns actually 314 00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:29,359 are as one granite. So they got these all the way up there from southern Egypt. This 315 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:34,359 shows you some of the larger blocks making up the foundation walls. These are the 400 316 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:42,359 tonnes, I think. Beautifully cut and carved, very in the style of Egypt and Peru. But, 317 00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:47,359 last July, a new discovery was made. They decided to clean up the quarry a bit and 318 00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:53,359 just swept a lot of dirt out of the way. And they found a 1,650 tonne block of stone, 319 00:30:53,359 --> 00:31:00,359 as you do. It was Janine Abdel-Massi, and her team of archaeologists, uncovered it. 320 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:05,359 And this is actually here. This is the stone of the pregnant woman here. This is one of 321 00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:09,359 the largest stones, the very largest stone we saw a moment ago. And virtually underneath 322 00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:15,359 it, it was this one. So this is now, that previously was the largest stone in the... 323 00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:19,359 Now this one is the largest stone in the world, and that's now second place. So it'... 324 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:24,359 interesting that they've discovered this. How they would have moved this stone is a 325 00:31:24,359 --> 00:31:31,359 whole other quandary of how they could have possibly done it. It's measured at 19.6... 326 00:31:31,359 --> 00:31:38,359 long, 6 metres wide, and 5.5 metres thick. And it just really is quite magnificent. 327 00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:43,359 This just shows you a map of where, actually, Bellback's down here, this area, not there. 328 00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:48,359 But interestingly, there's a researcher called Celia Hall, who I work with, and sh... 329 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:53,359 of located all the biblical giants and giant discoveries and axeheads and extremely large 330 00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:57,359 axeheads and things like that. And there's a lot of evidence that this whole area was 331 00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:03,359 the Canaanite area where giants existed. So maybe they have something to do with it. 332 00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:08,359 We're going to get more into that tomorrow night, because it's one of the very strange 333 00:32:08,359 --> 00:32:14,359 stories. I mean, there's an old tradition that states that the fortress of Bellback 334 00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:19,359 is one of the most ancient buildings in the world. Cain, the son of Adam, built it in 335 00:32:19,359 --> 00:32:25,359 the year 133 of the creation. I'm just reading this out. During a fit of raving... 336 00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:29,359 he gave it the name of his son Enoch and peopled it with giants who were punished f... 337 00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:34,359 So there's legends that go way back relating giants to these sites. And it does actually 338 00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:42,359 link with the area of the Giza Plateau as well. There is some geodesy there of a 3-4-5 339 00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:50,359 triangle. But also, Patricia Awan sent me these photos, and these just show you some 340 00:32:53,359 --> 00:32:58,359 caves around the back of Bellback. So there's some evidence here of some other stonework 341 00:32:58,359 --> 00:33:03,359 where they were quarrying. And you can go inside these caves. These are like secret 342 00:33:03,359 --> 00:33:08,359 little ritual temples. And I believe perhaps Bellback had the same principles, the same 343 00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:16,359 traditions as many of these other sites we've been looking at in this lecture, that they 344 00:33:16,359 --> 00:33:21,359 deliberately left these extremely large stones in the quarries for future generati... 345 00:33:21,359 --> 00:33:26,359 go, God, how did they do that? But partly, I think, because it was actually marking the 346 00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:31,359 birthplace of the temple, which was a very large temple there at Bellback, indeed. And 347 00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:36,359 so I think there's something in that which I've been looking into quite thoroughly. 348 00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:41,359 But also, there's always links with Solomon and Bellback and other places and Solomon's 349 00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:46,359 temple. This is an interesting place. This is around Jerusalem area. This is a bunch 350 00:33:50,359 --> 00:33:55,359 of caves under the ground there where a lot of the stones that built Jerusalem actually 351 00:33:55,359 --> 00:34:00,359 came from. But Freemasons and even possibly Templars were associated with this place, 352 00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:05,359 which kind of intrigued me because rituals potentially still take place there. This just 353 00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:10,359 shows you some other examples here. And there's evidence of people being in there for 354 00:34:12,359 --> 00:34:17,359 thousands of years of rituals taking place there. And then more recently, Freemasons 355 00:34:18,359 --> 00:34:23,359 do some of their actual initiations there as well, which is intriguing, none the less. 356 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:28,360 And I believe the Freemasons are one of the only groups of people who actually maintained 357 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,360 the megalithic knowledge, the techniques and the ways that they could move, quarry and 358 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,360 cut these stones to such perfection that we still marvel at today. This just shows you 359 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:45,360 the cave entrance. Actually, this particular area was in 1868. This was where a place... 360 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:52,360 the first recorded Masonic ceremony took place in Palestine. It was actually on May... 361 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,360 13th of that year, 1868. An initiative came from M.W. Bro Robert Morris, past Grandmaster 362 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:04,360 of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, who believed this was being used for a very, very long 363 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,360 time. Also, we have this. This is the Western Wall, the base of the Western Wall in... 364 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:16,360 which we have. This is roughly, I think, 570 tons. This is very similar style to Baalbeck. 365 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:22,360 It has precision engineering and carvings. It probably came from the quarry we were just 366 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:28,360 looking at. And it's part of the Western Wailing Wall, the very base underground pa... 367 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:34,360 This just shows you another angle on it. It just shows you here. I'm just very intrigu... 368 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:40,360 sort of beautiful precision, almost like relief carvings here of these blocks. And ... 369 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,360 these niches in there and probably where the candles were. But how on earth were they... 370 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:51,360 in the prehistory? It really is not really been answered. And this was in 1889. T.... 371 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:01,360 quoted, the massiveness of the work is on par with the Egyptian pyramid kings, and the... 372 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,360 of the cutting and fitting of the stones is nearly equal. So even back in 1889, these... 373 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,360 revered as such. And then we have some of the measurements. They're using very specific 374 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:18,360 techniques between the blocks and indents and various things. So they had a very... 375 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:24,360 technology there. Recently I just came across this. It's actually a TV program I saw abo... 376 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,360 it was on Discovery Channel of History. And actually the guy who goes underground,... 377 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:38,360 underground caverns and caves all around the world. And the only place I could find... 378 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,360 was on that video. I found it really hard to find anything else. But St. Petersburg Qua... 379 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:49,360 Belgium is an incredible place. And I really do want to visit here. And it's about 300... 380 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,360 long underground. Most of it has been carved out. The Templars were involved in this pl... 381 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:03,360 around 1470 AD. And it's believed that most of the churches and cathedrals in that par... 382 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,360 world had stone coming from this quarry. But it's a known ritual center used by the... 383 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,360 later the Freemasons. So it's almost like they had some magical kind of technique to... 384 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:23,360 stone, move the stone. There's markings throughout this quarry, as you can see her... 385 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,360 best. These are just captured from the video. But they show really intricate carving... 386 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:35,360 And massive amounts of stone, thousands and thousands of tons, were being moved here a... 387 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:44,360 the quarry, lifted. And very large blocks were being used throughout Belgium and... 388 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:49,360 places. Recently they found a whole bunch of these carvings and paintings on the wall,... 389 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:56,360 you can't really see it very clearly. It's the only ones I could get from the video.... 390 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:02,360 they were kind of showing some of their ritual techniques, which included quite... 391 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:08,360 probably won't go into here. But kind of some of the things that Peter might have mentio... 392 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,360 talk. But very dark rituals that probably are now still being used in various parts of t... 393 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:20,360 which could have been used to sort of instigate magical powers of moving these... 394 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:26,360 had this quick survey around the world. I just wanted to sort of keep this fairly sh... 395 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,360 keep on time today. Which we're kind of doing okay. So really I just want to summarize w... 396 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,360 found through my research here. Is that I really believe that there's something abou... 397 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:44,360 of the temple. I think it's not only is it to do with geodesy, it's to do with the... 398 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:49,360 later site was marked according to where the stone actually came from. But I believe th... 399 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,360 technique and the actual magical technique they had of cutting and carving and the... 400 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:02,360 moved these stones is still there to be found out. It's just a case of trying to work ou... 401 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,360 earth they did it. And so we must revere these ancient peoples. And I think maybe w... 402 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:13,360 join the Freemasons to find out exactly how they did it. Yes. 403 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:43,360 Thank you. 404 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:13,360 Thank you.