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  • Опубліковано 19 лис 2022
  • Explore Megalithic Malta and Gozo in March 2024, including private access to the Equinox Sunrise at Mnajdra Temples & Ħaġar Qim, The Hypogeum,, Ggantija and lots more. Hosted by Jim Vieira, Hugh Newman and JJ Ainsworth: www.megalithomania.co.uk/malta.... Ggantija is Malta and Gozo's primary megalithic site. It dates back to at least 3600 BC, although Lenie Reedijk in her book 'Sirius: Star of the Maltese Temples' suggests much earlier dates. It is a hugely impressive megalithic temple and in tradition is said to be built by the Giantess Sansuna, who was also said to have constructed nearby Sansuna dolmen forming an alignment to Buggiba Temple on the Maltese mainland. It is also connected to nearby (now mostly destroyed) Xaghra Stone Circle and was the oldest free-standing temple on the planet until Gobekli Tepe was discovered in the 1990s. It features prominently in the new Netflix series, 'Ancient Apocalypse' hosted by Graham Hancock. Includes exclusive aerial footage.
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  • @MegalithomaniaUK
    @MegalithomaniaUK  Рік тому +15

    Megalithomania organises an annual tour to Malta and Gozo every March over the Spring Equinox. Details of the next available trip can be found here: www.megalithomania.co.uk/maltatour.html

  • @vapormissile
    @vapormissile Рік тому +10

    Thanks for this knowledge. We need it.

  • @suzylogan3524
    @suzylogan3524 Рік тому +6

    I last was there 25 years ago! I absolutely loved it. Thanks for posting this.

  • @grahamfleming8139
    @grahamfleming8139 Рік тому +7

    There was a similar story in Spain and the Cailleach in sligo in Ireland and the Cailleach in Scotland, dropping stones from her apron, good wee video again.hugh.Uabhasach math a rithist!

    • @MegalithomaniaUK
      @MegalithomaniaUK  Рік тому +2

      Yes, we feature that in our book 'The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain'

  • @raymondparsley7442
    @raymondparsley7442 Рік тому +6

    The structures they leave, speak loud... leaving us mystified and searching for answers. Thank you for the tour, much appreciated

  • @remkojerphanion4686
    @remkojerphanion4686 Рік тому +1

    Sites like this deserve thorough investigation using modern tools such as Lidar. They also deserve our respect and conservation. Great video, thanks!

  • @ten-tonnetongue
    @ten-tonnetongue Рік тому +8

    lol - friendship in archaeology makes it just that much more enjoyable. It is awesome that you have someone to explore these ruins with on a regular basis. Two sets of eyes examining these intriguing relics of our ancient past has got to be better than only doing it on your own.

  • @maughan3061
    @maughan3061 Рік тому +14

    I always find it incredible that the legends of giants dropping stones from their leather aprons are found all over the world. And I noticed a number of academics have written papers confirming that solar alignments at Ggantija around the winter solstice would have lit up various areas inside the temple.

    • @wag0NE
      @wag0NE Рік тому +6

      Based on the recent work by Lenie Reedijk in Sirius - the star of the Maltese Temple, presented in Hancock's new series.
      Each of the temples across Malta are aligned to (the star) Sirius, a star that is twice as bright as any star around it in the night sky. They determined that due to the earth's 'wobble' precise alignments would have had to be altered during different era's(ie build new temples correctly aligned). Starting with the smallest temple (finding it to be the oldest based on the alignment of Sirius) using modern software they tracked the movements and appropriate dates relating to each temple and the last one that would have been build according to this method would have been Ggantjia. Given the context it makes complete sense and shows the true antiquity of the site, at this point in time on earth Sirius is not even visible to people on Malta...

    • @joemeyers4131
      @joemeyers4131 Рік тому

      The way in video he used the word striding or stride of the one dropping stones story made me think of the Striding Vishnu of in India , but striding was saying the personage or eponymous Ashkenaz in Genesis 10 :3 was a general ancestral guide taking ultimate settlers out far beyond Mesopotamua after the great flood of Noah and he was exploring and "striding" 3 ways was his leading ancestors of people like of Asians and Native Americans until where they would settle or colonize in general sense . Not seeking to alter what's known, but keep an open mind to what if what happened in how it played out .The one settling North America was not obscure and chaotic back in time , but planned out for until destinations we're found . Though thus was very ancient . Many sons or children of Noah became the titles like Zeus and Poseidon and Dionysus and Athena and on and on so. Vishnu can fit as alternate identity of what Ashkenaz accomplished. He was the far out away explorer in those ancient days . To places other descendant sons had not gone that far though far in their own right . He was the Mongol like conqueror that lived as a sophisticated better equipped huntergatherer guy teaching men how to carry on living way out .

    • @pure_awareness
      @pure_awareness Рік тому +1

      Star light must have been spectacular thousands of years ago.

    • @maughan3061
      @maughan3061 Рік тому

      @@wag0NE Thats very interesting. Do you remember what the dates were?

    • @Shelmerdine745
      @Shelmerdine745 Рік тому

      And at other times of the year some other places would be lit up. Absolutely amazing!
      Just like the window in my bedroom, actually, imagine that. Now, who built my house? Giants, maybe?

  • @ArleneAdkinsZell
    @ArleneAdkinsZell Рік тому +9

    Thank you for another fascinating video.

  • @davidlancaster8152
    @davidlancaster8152 Рік тому +9

    The pattern and positioning of the stone circles is reminiscent of Gobekli Tepe. Thanks Hugh and crew!!!!!

  • @jigold22571
    @jigold22571 Рік тому +6

    Thank You so very much for sharing ❣️🕊🙏

  • @ZiggyDan
    @ZiggyDan Рік тому +2

    Cant wait to go back there, fascinated.

  • @wag0NE
    @wag0NE Рік тому +2

    With all these sites you do have to wonder how far specific links go, for example architecture and some symbology are so unique that they are most likely an indicator of shared or passed on knowledge, depictions of the fish pieces, tales fire from the sky, tell tale numbs on masonry those types of things.
    However when I see common symbols such as snakes and cattle depicted to me there is nothing in particular to note, the main reason I feel the snake is just a common symbol and often representing danger is because it is the most common nightmare experienced across the majority of the southern hemisphere (based on an international study of dreams), strangely across western nations the fear of loosing ones teeth is greatest which just shows you how society has developed from fear of nature, to fear of our own self perception... crazy anyway.
    Snakes are snakes and don't think it necessarily determines a link although I'm always open to more! Great video and good timing after the wonderful Hancock series.

  • @JaneOnTheJourney
    @JaneOnTheJourney Рік тому +2

    Ive litetally just booked for Malta (and Gozo) In march. This such devine timing 😁

  • @robinleeevans3150
    @robinleeevans3150 Рік тому +3

    Thank you a million times for taking us with you and showing us some of the most amazing ancient sites in the world....our ancient past is fascinating and shows us how ancient unknown technologies were being used! You have a fantastic channel!

  • @carolinemcgreal2382
    @carolinemcgreal2382 Рік тому +4

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @nancyM1313
    @nancyM1313 Рік тому +4

    Thanks Hugh

  • @nancyvolker3342
    @nancyvolker3342 Рік тому +10

    Hey how are you today

  • @Len5
    @Len5 Рік тому +4

    😎Thanks👍

  • @zacfurther
    @zacfurther Рік тому +1

    Thanks for this informative video.My Family used to holiday in Gozo every year from the late 60's through to the 80's.My father was obsessed with the archaeology so we spent many hours in Ggantia,around the cart ruts and other sites.Indeed,my father used to find many surface artifacts including pot shards,and tesserae (which he would pass on to the caretaker or the museum)and wrote the first handbook about the cart ruts along with Rod Parker which was published by the Victoria museum in Gozo.the site then was obviously without all of the walkways and scaffolding.I find your analysis that the walls were polygonal fascinating,and as you say the weathering has all but hidden this.Also suggesting due to the erosion of (as you say)very hard limestone that the site may be far older than existing estimates.The possibility that the round rocks being used to move large stones my also be implicated in the creation of the cart ruts is also interesting.The suggestion of a connection connection via the stonework to Gobekli tepe and those sites is also exiting,some definitive proof would be great.
    The myth of the giantess (who sang as she worked) was connected with the possibility that an elephant was being used to transport the huge megaliths used in the construction.When I revisited the island in2001 and met with Jo Warren who worked as the antiquities restorer at the Victoria museum.she was busy piecing together a small (quite ancient,possibly fossilized)elephant tusk,one a pair discovered in the sea,I think in Marsalforn bay.

  • @watcherspirit2351
    @watcherspirit2351 Рік тому +6

    Great documentary. You are generous with your skills. Sad to see the paintings that demonstrate people of our time did their bit to dismantle much of what was left of the structure.

  • @jussanother2ool
    @jussanother2ool 2 місяці тому

    What I love most about these ancient marvels is that at one point in time…ancient hands once touched these stones thousands of years ago. Actual hands from ancient people carved, moved and set (somehow) and we have no way of knowing how it was done. We are left to our imagination. Astounding

  • @MidNight-ns7is
    @MidNight-ns7is Рік тому +2

    Well done sir as usual. Amazing world we live in. Thank you for sharing.

  • @thundercatt5265
    @thundercatt5265 Рік тому +6

    ..it do kinda look polygonal.....but it don't look Annunaki built ,the stone is old ,it may be fragments of ATLANTIS heavily worn and reused ,by the way it's aligned (Circular stones) that's native made ,seashells ,and bullhorn...the heads look old and very worn as well the "serpent" now that's a clue ,like the serpent water marks found in South America ,it's a mixture kinda like the inca rebuilding over older structures

  • @pure_awareness
    @pure_awareness Рік тому +1

    I mean it's just fascinating, thank you Hugh

  • @ravenspace
    @ravenspace Рік тому +2

    We have a stone head from the marquesas islands in the Auckland Museum which is strikingly similar to the heads on display here.

  • @joekennedy5110
    @joekennedy5110 Рік тому +1

    great vid!

  • @thejmoneyshow
    @thejmoneyshow Рік тому +5

    They need to remove all those trees that are a few meters away from the entrances.

  • @massimosquecco8956
    @massimosquecco8956 Рік тому

    Thank you for having shown us the ancient paintings that testify to the real condition of the temples, much more complete than now. I visited Ggatija in 2019 the day after I visited Tarxien, and I have a better impression of them when confronted with the latter site, which is so much ( too much) restored. At least Ggantija is not made of 60% cement as the 3 temples of Tarxien are, indeed. But looking at the pictures of just 2 centuries ago I see how much construction is lost, gone forever:, that gives me a really bad-sad feeling.

  • @juliegroulx7033
    @juliegroulx7033 Рік тому +5

    I would be to have the means to follow you two around the Globe. In another life perhaps...

  • @Kamikazzi
    @Kamikazzi Рік тому +3

    Malta needs to excavated !!!

  • @meekle8891
    @meekle8891 Рік тому +1

    I noticed in the painting you showed at 5:20 that there were smaller cobbles on top of the larger blocks. Reminds me of Peruvian ruins

  • @rodneyhearld8151
    @rodneyhearld8151 Рік тому +3

    The3 rocks are of odd size because they where once bricks that became rapidly vitrified and rapid cool they call that ballooning from the heat, but realistically they would not build with that kind of material, the pyramids where made from brick

  • @Chinoacosta
    @Chinoacosta 6 місяців тому

    How this video only have 30 something thousand views?this is insane I bet this generation doesn’t even know what are megalithic work

  • @Flower_Power888
    @Flower_Power888 Рік тому

    One of these sites to keep memory of times of Great Goddes. Piece of our history that we were believed to not exist...

  • @ReticleMan690
    @ReticleMan690 2 місяці тому +1

    It's much older than 5,000 years old.

  • @toddincabo
    @toddincabo Рік тому +1

    cool

  • @HappyPursuits
    @HappyPursuits Рік тому

    @12:19 perhaps the pits all over the stones were designed to receive and hold plaster? Maybe a red ochre compound?

  • @lizmcnay9947
    @lizmcnay9947 Рік тому +1

    From several photos it looked like the keyhole sites in Japan.

  • @shanedavison7473
    @shanedavison7473 Рік тому +2

    Archeologists have screwed up the dates so bad it's best to not even try to date stonework.

  • @MagicFromThe0161
    @MagicFromThe0161 8 місяців тому

    They have just found a 470,000 year old site with ancient wooden structures at kalambo falls (September 2023) ....looks like you were on to something guys !

  • @PunksterOS
    @PunksterOS Рік тому +3

    I thought that I recognise that place, I just recently watched that Netflix show, Ancient Apocalypse.
    What did you think of it?

    • @MegalithomaniaUK
      @MegalithomaniaUK  Рік тому +3

      Mind blowing. Been here a few times and has a special energy

    • @PunksterOS
      @PunksterOS Рік тому +1

      @@MegalithomaniaUK Aye, I bet it is. Is it really as old as Hancock claimed, as I was afraid that he may be leaving out critical information that may have contradicted his own theory?
      I thoroughly enjoyed the show but as always, I remain sceptical but in his defence, I've no doubt whatsoever that he faces pushback from archaeologists with their 'trowels dug in.'
      We only need to look at human history and see what people will do to keep whatever the general consensus is of the time and will do their utmost to keep that narrative intact, ruining lives with ridicule etc.
      Anyway, sorry to impose my doubts onto you, it's just that I value your opinion on such matters.

  • @HappyPursuits
    @HappyPursuits Рік тому +2

    @7:10 Stone heads… seen at Tiahunaco, Gobekli Tepe, and Karahan Tepe. Across continents and all possibly from the same epoch if we use Gobekli Tepe as a time stamp. All the sites could be 12,000 years old. Has anyone talked about these connections?

  • @danieljayfrank7276
    @danieljayfrank7276 Місяць тому

    The animal on the shell reminds us more of a snail with a house. In the past everyone was concerned with creation stories. Isn't a ruler also called a finger snail in Egypt before Dynasty 0?

  • @baxtronicxavier
    @baxtronicxavier Рік тому

    “.. A rare sighting… And she’s run, she gone” 🤣

  • @BarryAdams777
    @BarryAdams777 4 місяці тому

    Ancient glory holes! FASCINATING!!!

  • @reccocon3442
    @reccocon3442 Рік тому +3

    Giant culture and "normal" sized humans had first, coexisted with each other, due to the pottery found. Personally, have not read/heard of the giant culture using making/ pottery. Definitely not titans, another realm.

  • @matteroff
    @matteroff 8 місяців тому

    Yep, JJ recordings are increasingly looking like Bigfoot sightings.

  • @Robert89306
    @Robert89306 Рік тому +1

    These stones may be connected to Giants but how much weight could even a 10 or 15ft person in relation to a 6ft person in modern times . Let’s say a 6 ft person could lift 1000 pounds ? Could a person 4 to 10 ft taller lift or move a 10 ton or a 50 ton rock? Maybe moving 10 tons with giant”friends” but even 50 tons would be pushing the limit

  • @erikalsteiner7805
    @erikalsteiner7805 Рік тому

    The shapes seem to resemble Adam's Calendar. Could it be a resonance chamber or similar?

  • @mslilurainbow
    @mslilurainbow Рік тому

  • @PierreFarrugia
    @PierreFarrugia Рік тому

    Big like, I cover this temple for my channel but I am no historian

  • @fernandocuriel124
    @fernandocuriel124 Рік тому +6

    Nephilim site.

  • @cosmicbuddhi8029
    @cosmicbuddhi8029 Рік тому

    Why doesnt meglomania send teams of great psychics to these sites for psychometry readings etc and compare notes?

  • @lizmcnay9947
    @lizmcnay9947 Рік тому

    Are snakes metaphors for the human brain and the spinal column?

  • @-Awareness
    @-Awareness Рік тому +3

    I find it amusing that this site is called Gigantica, built by giants… yet there are many more sites worldwide with much larger rocks and stones in comparison and constructed with much greater intricacies, which are only conceived to be built by humans lol…

  • @incusus5307
    @incusus5307 Рік тому

    I for one think that the fact that graham soldhimself to netflux is kinda a wrong step in science view of all this.

  • @fationmurati-rk5el
    @fationmurati-rk5el 11 місяців тому

    Sardenja ,,turqia ,albania,,tempell ,,,titanet ,,pellazget,illyret,,

  • @fationmurati-rk5el
    @fationmurati-rk5el 11 місяців тому

    Pellazjan. Illyrian titanet,,,malta,,,mjalta,,,,

  • @pure_awareness
    @pure_awareness Рік тому

    Hope to get my life together so I can join you soon.

  • @lavishabass9300
    @lavishabass9300 Рік тому

    So the recently dug mega structure in the Philippines its not worth your time, 😳ok

  • @lizmcnay9947
    @lizmcnay9947 Рік тому

    Was it all a bull cult, or was it about the Apis bees, & honey?

  • @oval1740
    @oval1740 Рік тому +2

    Main stream archaeology is so boring 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @darrenheffner4329
    @darrenheffner4329 Рік тому

    If you grew up in the US you were lied to about humanity

  • @fationmurati-rk5el
    @fationmurati-rk5el 11 місяців тому

    Mjalti i maltes,,,mali,,titanet,,pellazgjan. Illyrian. ,,Inxinjera,,,

  • @ianasquith3902
    @ianasquith3902 Рік тому +1

    I don't believe that any of these buildings were originally designed for God worship!

  • @Hannibal1529
    @Hannibal1529 2 місяці тому

    IT IS all from karthago 👍👍👍

  • @gunzmith29r
    @gunzmith29r Рік тому

    these are nests...eventually they will find these nests everywhere on the planet...mostly far below the current sea level.

  • @gunzmith29r
    @gunzmith29r Рік тому

    this was built by the bird people...descendants of the dinosaurs...intelligent birds during the beginnings of the ice age......which the bird people did not survive...but they did help a few humans survive the ice...which covered most of the planet....they also built gobekli tempi and saved the humans and other species from extinction....they themselves could not adapt to the extreme temperatures tho they tried and died...someday they will find a time capsule left by these highly intelligent creatures...humans still have a racial memory of these beautiful creatures with the wings that saved humans from extinction.