Yes.....I can't believe these sites are NOT including important information. Pisses me off, and they lose credibility in my eyes.....put the dates, the place, etc.
How refreshing to see so many archeological experts commenting on this! And with so much positivity. You are really such a happy bunch of knowledgable folks. Such a joy to be around, I'm sure.😁
Greetings from Australia. Of course Professor Alice Roberts is looking just absolutely stunning as always, but mostly your enthusiasm is infectious. The respectful and humble way in which you interact with everybody is admirable.
Thank you for this video. Not only was a lot of content of knowledge, but the production value was outstanding. Hello from the United States. Really great work guys.
We always look at neolithic lives through 19th century religious eyes. It's always a ceremonial site with ceremonial objects. We never interpret theses sites and objects as indications of a scientific view of neolithic people.
To everyone: Religion and a belief in something more has always been a huge part human life because there was so little we knew about the why and how of the universe and earth. Religion and spiritual belief gave us answers to things we didn’t understand, so usually, yeah a lot of archeological finds are connected to religion, symbolism and spiritualism.
This is more of a philosophical pondering: now that we know way more about the world and how it actually works, and speaking VERY generally here, organized religion is on the decline bc strict belief in supernatural explanations for, say, the weather or where we come from, are no longer complicit with our current scientific knowledge. (Or if a particular religion is on the rise or people identify with it in a casual sense, it may often be due to the ethnic/tribal/community identity it brings rather than any attachment to the actual beliefs. Excluding the people where the actual beliefs matter to them bc that’s still a motivation for them obviously) However, in a sense, our brains need religion or some kind of spiritual/religious ritual customs and the community around it, because of the way we evolved and how our societies developed (we’re deeply social creatures and particular set of religious beliefs/spirituality is a better community unifier than solely intellectual bonds, though those can make communities too) Japan has an interesting culture around that, where in practice beliefs aren’t exactly necessary in Shinto and Buddhism, but ritual is deeply ingrained in the culture. It makes me wonder what the future will bring for various religions. I’m not a “religion is terrible and we all should just stop having it” bc it serves a genuine function for our community health, even if some are very flawed or have an ugly history at times. Or currently cause harm in some way in addition to whatever positive impact it has. But I do think we’re in a time of flux where the people who find identity with religious groups, or take comfort in the beliefs or motivation to be a good person, may feel out of sorts wondering what the future or place is now. And the people who don’t affiliate themselves with a particular religion also feel out of sorts in a different way, bc communities may be harder to find or more specific to a singular hobby or interest The archaeological record of now is gonna be very interesting 1000 years from now
Circse, Circle, Church, Nome, Grove, Synagogue, Basilica, Temple, Vatican. It's all a reference to the Great Mother, Asherah, Ashoura, Ashura, Kythera, Anat, Pipitunaka, Amaru, etc The Great Dragon or Serpent 🐍 representing Hydra, which appeared at Saturnalia One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4) There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000. One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666.... 360 ÷ 6.66 is 54 54 x 2 is 108 108 x 2 is 216 To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400). This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present based sixty or seximal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years. 6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects. Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. This shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, which effects the arc of a Pendulum like that in a Grandfather Clock, the Sun also does this in the sky over the seasons. But first, they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160! This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This is the basis of the Olympics, to mark a Leap Year, starting with the first Full Moon of the Summer Solstice. This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions. Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light. 1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333 11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid. The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years 72 x 3 is 216 2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333 The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC, and ended with one on June 5 2012. The double headed Phoenix. This whole code can be encrypted into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66. 100 is the "perfect number" because it represents Ten (6 unit) metrics times ten 6 unit metrics: a unit being 6.66 ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27. 11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star of the Dog days of Sirius, in Assyria, and the star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the # of years in a 'Great Solar Return'. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) This is why at every Megalithic site we find Theatres, like in "Nazereth" and Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point, as well as in New Zealand. Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David: 13 x 360 is 4680 4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666.. The circumference of the Earth in Nautical Miles is 21,600 This means the basis of the Nautical Mile is the Moon. Calculate the Circumference of the Earth in kms by multiplying the Diameter of the Moon by 18.6, the period of a Metonic Cycle in years to get 40,175.
@@Uncanny_MountainThis is a lot of gnostic nephilim dmt shit. The Bible explicitly lays out that the serpent/dragon (likely a fallen seraphim) is a deceiver and the enemy of mankind who has basically been defeated by Jesus Christ (seed of the woman who crushes the serpent's head although the serpent bites his heel). It is weak now. Also, Enoch was righteous and taken up to Heaven. If he was later deified, wasn't his fault people are desperate to find anything but the actual creator to worship. No true professing Christian is worshipping a weak demon dragon coughing up its last fiery breaths. It is literally the dragon that gets stabbed through in Revelation. Not worthy.
BTW for those that didn’t hear this at the beginning, it was stated that no evidence of household activity was found on site. Hence the hypothesis that it was ceremonial.
11:36 - what utter nonsense: people don’t give up their cathedral because they’ve out done themselves, once it’s built they make use of its utility…until they stop believing (assuming the builders themselves buried it over).
Oh be careful, I believe our ignorance is showing. Consider please the need for a gathering of people who have heard of a trove of warriors who are engulfing villages and even kingdoms to take over the rights to lands. Right now we need to think out of the box. These are called real life scenarios. Praise whomever, that we have been living in a more peaceful time in "The ages". The discovery of land as it was called at first, we should now admit, that most of the time was actually .....THE TAKING OVER OF LAND! What in the total fuck was going on? It wasn't as if tribes or even kingdoms had way more than enough land to share with one leaders millions of supporters.
I don't understand how we KNOW they abandoned it? They went to massive effort to construct it, why would they not just continue using it? They either are wrong or omitted critical details.
We still know almost nothing about the why and how of most of the universe including the human brain and our oceans that cover the large majority of this planet.
Wow that Roman barracks is a goldmine! A perfectly preserved barracks complete with a Roman toilet, bathhouse, and altar stones with inscriptions, AND it was perfectly preserved because it was filled with rubbish! (more archaeological good!) what a find!
Game dev here at 6:18 those objects resemble utility objects used in a game. The thing the scientist hold like a weapon (6:48), could be like a pin that is designed to be set on the ground and stay there to mark a spot, maybe some sort of bowling-curling game. Just look at the set, it is a pair of each one except for the ball and the "pedestal" (for the ball maybe?) A score counter? Unless there is one missing from the set in wich it could be working more like a dice.
There have been ponies in the British Isles for thousands of years. The Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies are small but their ancestors were here since forever ( a technical term ) . Also the south of England wasnt under the ice at the last most recent ice age .
Was cool to see Matt briefly. He didn't do much presenting, so I wonder if he was just hanging out with Alice and decided to just sit in during the taping. 😄
I believe that is a more recent discovery, made after this production from 2015. How it got from Orkney to Stonehenge is still in question with several theories. See recent reports.
I was particularly interested in the Conyers family. My ancestor Leonard Conyers was the rector of Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire from 1670 to 1707. Wish I could find his family.
Did any of these finds happen to be re-digs of the excavations Time Team did in Orkney during the 90's? I have I remember them finding a ship burial with the iron rivets still in situational context. Also remember a dig done on one of the stone circles in that complex as well.
Archeology cliché incoming: It didn’t fracture at the weakest point during use, right at the hafting hole where the stone is thinnest and most susceptible to shock, and any lateral stresses would be transferred from the handle to the head during a mis-struck blow. Instead it was… ceremonially… broken because “we are finding so many fractured mace heads.” Archeologists in 10,000 years will have fun deciphering the dog grooming brushes, the handles of which I have snapped at their thinnest point in the past year as I pulled them (un-ceremonially) through the coat of our freakishly large Bernadoodle. I keep them because I can still use them by grasping the back, so I expect they will be deposited together when I eventually decide to throw them in the rubbish. Must be ritual, no doubt.
6:23 The level of speculations by those two ladies who most probably were never involved in armed combat is truly comical. "With something like this, you could keep it in your fist and deal somebody a horrible blow with the spiky point." Yeah, and break your own knuckles in the process, hun. Peak ceremonial object enjoyer, right there.
Since I am not a seasoned call of duty veteran like yourself maybe you can explain why she's wrong? If you hit someone with this in your fist then it would make your punch harder wouldn't it? I don't see why it would hurt my knuckles if I hit somewhere soft like the face
Matt seems used as a prop, using his popularity and pleasing face rather than involving him for his knowledge and experience to be a leader in the narration of the story. I hoped for more information and details coming directly from him. Has he never been tried out as a younger Sir Tony?
I enjoyed that enormously. And feel a ‘family history’ feeling because I am Welsh and Scots. I noticed a Viking DNA video , recently, saying that though there were😊 signs of Viking culture on Orkney, the skeletons they have found had local DNA
In my next lifetime I’m coming back as a paleontologist and or an archaeologists amazing work that you wonderful people do thank you so much for us supposing us non-educated people in those very specialized fields about our history I’m extremely fascinated!
I tend to think that this place was the capital of a whole culture, the site also bears a resemblence to what plato described as atlantis, although far fetched, its the only remaining site to fit his description
Would have been better if they included some footage of Matt speaking. He is a very accomplished archeologist. A few scratches on the wall which could have been done by a bored kid, let's blow it out of proportion and call it 'Ritualistic Artwork' 🥴🤔
It's easier to dismiss things we can't understand as ancient people creating "temples" for "ceremonies" or illogical extreme burials rather than consider the real original usage of a structure. Just like we do, the ancient people built water gathering, filtration and transport systems, sewage systems, fertilizer and other chemical processing plants, cold storage facilities, grain storage, irrigation systems or retaining walls. They used lightning rods and knew that currents could pass through rock and so on but religious archaeologists just project it was all built out of fear of "God" or worship of some supernatural entity.
Yeah but they do that for a reason... because of how many times that has proven to be the answer. It's also a reasonable explanation for things that don't otherwise make sense, because religion and spiritualism are the aspects of human behavior which are the most nonsensical.
Thank you for sharing a lot of interesting information about British history. Except for one thing. Horses for a long time were often being demanded from local peasants to be shipped to any war front. Nomadic shepherds and peasants were not often being the horse killers. Like the number of horses which got shipped overseas across the Atlantic ocean during the Polish-Russian war. That had nothing at all to do with killing horses just for the horse meat. The large city called Edmonton, Alberta Canada in some neighborhoods have been built on top of some very large obsolete now old coal mine tunnels which were built that city maintenance crews are sometimes finding to be more than just a little bit problematic now that climate change is happening which makes flooding more of a possibility. A lot of the coal miners who used to work in them may have been from Asian ancestory, Metis/Irish ancestry, or they could have been adopted indigenous orphans. Later on maybe Jewish forced migrants too.
Dolmens are found worldwide there are 80,000 . They are shrines to Noah’s ark. Noah has hundreds of names . Every religion has his activity’s encoded in temples and tombs . Dolmens were constructed from soft flood sediment, which petrified. Stonehenge has scooo and trowel marks on the megaliths. Stonehenge was inspired to celebrate the end of the deluge . Hindu temples are genesis theme parks in granite.
Wonderful work. Here is an idea...sea walls? Wouldn't a bit of effort in that area be beneficial to extend archeological study. If a high profit dock front were in the offering the $$$$$ would be found.
Dear Christians, as you happily watch shows on the internet, which developed through the scientific method, whilst contentedly living in an age of increased life expectancy, which increased due to applying the scientific method, do you ever feel a bit silly that you obsess over a religion that is scientifically ridiculous, with its virgin births and people coming back from the dead, etc, etc. No.... I thought not
It is true that many people will think of large Christian houses of worship first, but the word "cathedral" itself is not limited to Christianity. The site being uncovered has been hypothesized to be a large centralized place for ritual activities. That fits with the original meaning of "cathedral".
@@lisakincaid3974 The word ''cathedral'' comes from the Latin word for 'seat'. It is a word specifically, and exclusively, relevant to Christianity. All other places of worship are called 'temples', 'shrines', 'synagogues', etc. You are wrong.
Language usage changes over the course of generations. If you would kindly refer to a dictionary or two, you might observe the definition has expanded to analogous usage. In the case of this program, the term cathedral is being used to give modern viewers a point of reference for the scale of the site being excavated by the archaeological team. While it may be wanting for the precision you would prefer, it may be the step up a less learned individual may need to improve their understanding.
Yes, God only existed according to your personal feelings, before white people, no one ever worshipped a God of any kind, or built anything You're basically God after all 😂
14:10 That might be a military thing. I remember a friend of mine who attended USMC Officers Candidate School at Quantico telling me about the _esprit de corps_ of their communal toilets. I remember because I was horrified! 🤦🏼♀️🤣
Or pieces of machinery? You may not have the schematic to draw conclusions, but things could have been interlocked with wooden shafts, I wonder like an early clock or celestial time keeper, maybe the seasons or the solstices. Just mechanism to measure out time.
1. Cosmic dust settles on Earth in large quantities every single day. 2. ..3. .4... 5..... Maybe because geologists, gardeners, etc, amateurs and professionals have figured out long ago the many contributing factors to that ubiquitous phenomenon already; it's a given on this planet .
Calling it a cathedral is a bit of a stretch, was/is the Ness of Borodgar a city? I thought that was the rule for cathedrals, maybe church would be a better name for this
prof mark edmonds talks like a cryptic crossword, "in other words" the answer is hidden in the words he uses. and must he have been aware that others have used the same words in another place, both further north and perhaps even in an essay as far south as oxford.
@@hgriff14 This place of worship/temple has nothing to do with Christianity. There were people before Christ. There were religions before Christ and all throughout history. They actually call it a temple in the video. Did you watch it?
Why is this such an irritable comment section? You have an extensive complex of buildings with signs of enormous feasts, but lacking signs of domestic use. It seems likely that whatever went on at the Ness of Brodgar involved the whole community in some non-prosaic activities. Why couldn’t those activities have been religious?
Why would it have to be religious? Also....Cathedral before....LONG before Cathedrals existed? the Jewish faith was just starting to come together. Have they found religious materials? Nope, but they found WEAPONS....I know as a soldier, where ever we met we ate slot and had weapons....sooooo, your go to is religion huh?
Because they said the same thing about Stone Henge and Gobleki Tepi until they dug a little deeper. That's why they're afraid to go deeper. They're scared of the truth.
It's a certain type of atheist who is not content with just challenging religious ideas in our contemporary society, so they like to project a modern atheistic subjectivity onto ancient peoples.
EXACTLY ! And a "Standing Stone" in it, implying that it might be an outstanding religious/ritual item ! It may have just been part of a roof support, like the T-shaped pillars at Gobekli Tepe are now presumed to be !
Interesting how the armchair archaeologists are so much more opinionated than their knowledge and experience should allow. So many negative, or derisive comments, but no claims of any archaeological qualifications. Pretty poor form really. Grow up people.
I not only have Archaeological and Geological qualifications, but also a Degree in Visual Arts and Applied Design, and I'm calling Bullshit on a few vertical/oblique scratches on a rock as being "Art" ! So much wrong with this program it must be embarrassing for reputable researchers like Matt and Alice to end up presenting this twaddle, balderdash, and drivel to appease some TV Producer, because they need to make some money in an impecunious field like Archaeology ! At least Alice has been able to make her way into a top Job and an oustanding Career.
It's an auction house for the breads and pottery etc ffs. Then the stones elsewhere are like the market stones , billboards for the main stall holders . The markets held on timing relevant to the moon and stars so many could come trade
Far beit for me to contradict the wonderful Alice, but 5000 "cathedral" ???? Three thousand years before the start of churchianity? Might be a gathering place but Cathedral with a Bishop and smells and bells and stuff. C'mon keep archaeology real!
Merrium-Webster gives one definition of a cathedral as "something that resembles or suggests a cathedral (as in size or importance)". The site does indeed fall into those parameters. It being from about 5,000 years ago, we have no idea what language was spoken by the people who used that structure - and therefore no idea what they themselves called it. Our best word to understand the context of that building is indeed "cathedral".
Circle, Circse, Church, all have the same root. The Temple is the night sky. One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4) There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000. One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666.... 360 ÷ 6.66 is 54 54 x 2 is 108 108 x 2 is 216 To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400). This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present based sixty or seximal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years. 6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects. Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. This shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, which effects the arc of a Pendulum like that in a Grandfather Clock, the Sun also does this in the sky over the seasons. But first, they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160! This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This is the basis of the Olympics, to mark a Leap Year, starting with the first Full Moon of the Summer Solstice. This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions. Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light. 1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333 11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid. The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years 72 x 3 is 216 2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333 The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC, and ended with one on June 5 2012. The double headed Phoenix. This whole code can be encrypted into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66. 100 is the "perfect number" because it represents Ten (6 unit) metrics times ten 6 unit metrics: a unit being 6.66 ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27. 11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star of the Dog days of Sirius, in Assyria, and the star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the # of years in a 'Great Solar Return'. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) This is why at every Megalithic site we find Theatres, like in "Nazereth" and Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point, as well as in New Zealand. Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David: 13 x 360 is 4680 4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666.. The circumference of the Earth in Nautical Miles is 21,600 This means the basis of the Nautical Mile is the Moon. Calculate the Circumference of the Earth in kms by multiplying the Diameter of the Moon by 18.6, the period of a Metonic Cycle in years to get 40,175.
😂 Where do you think the Solstice Calendar came from buddy, Scotland was called Caledonia. Israel is the Canaan word for Saturn or El, Fruit of Isis and Ra Esus aka Isis is the Celtic God of Death, Wife of Amun Ra, aka Set Saturn, celebrated at Saturnalia I and the Father are One Your Father is the Devil It's Accusations in a Mirror 🪞
Why the hell was Matthew even in this broadcast? You barely let him speak and when it was just him and her or he and 2 women on screen, you relegated him to nodding along mutely. He's probably the most experienced archeologist in the damn room wherever he goes these days.
He's involved with the new Time Team and presents it sometimes. He has sort of stepped into Phil's beat up old boots as senior digger, a well earned and suitable place for him to be. He is certainly the best all rounder and much better than the bloke who is supposed to be the presenter now. He could Bore for Britain, never mind dig it. They had Tony back for a Special on Sutton Hoo and it was like it suddenly came back from the dead itself.
@@hgriff14they’re using the term metaphorically- a large building for some ceremonial purpose. They don’t mean it’s an actual Roman cathedral. People have used the same or similar words to describe the Great Hall of Karnak in Egypt.
What a dumb title! Saying that you "found a 5,000 year old cathedral" is like saying that you "found a 5,000 year old parliament building", or the tomb of a "5,000 year old prime minister"... "Cathedrals" weren't really a concept 5,000 years ago!🤣
Impressed with your superior knowledge.🤣 You are lacking understanding of nuance of explaining things from history to people today. I guess you didn't watch because he did say “the so-called cathedral”. 🤣
Those anl beads on the coffee table look terribly uncomfortable. I love watching these, but I think people put too much emphasis on the theoretical stuff like mythology and spirituality. I’ll bet our ancestors were far smarter and more practical than we give them credit for. I’ll bet that they behaved pretty much exactly as we do with the exception of technology and access to information. Otherwise I’ll bet they’d be just like us
Mind boggling the waste of time most subjects today are investigated meanwhile.......the world needs help - this subject archaeology seems to still refuse2admit they cant date any of this accurately most of its done upon agreed assumptions of tools, wheel etc absolute waste of time hope they get the ego boost they're lookin4 by puttin their names to it
Lots of educated guesses in this video. And not many likes despite over 27,000 views, so far. Frankly, I'm quite bored and even irritated by the narrator's poshy accent. Seems to me a lot of professionals in the field make the mistake of anthropomorphizing their own cultural norms onto the remains of ancient civilizations. It's a mistake because of course Western Civilization (so-called) is far removed from the times and cultures in which the structures on Orkney and the Salisbury Plain were built. It's anybody's guess what was really going on in this particular structure, so here's mine: It was a multipurpose room. It was where the locals went when they weren't hunting, eating or sleeping. It was where they got together to stay warm while they worked on those arts and useful crafts and did a bit of trading on those chilly, rainy days when there wasn't much else they could be doing. Maybe they honored their dead there. Maybe they had regular market days there, as well. If it wasn't the climate that made them leave en masse, perhaps it was some marauders from across the water they knew were coming. So they slaughtered all their livestock, ate and took away all they could so the marauders couldn't have it and went elsewhere.
Well said. Like lawyers, doctors and preachers, archeologists HATE saying “I don’t know”. Also, have you ever left behind anything that was really valuable to you? I imagine most of what we find in digs like this would be the worst examples of any particular medium or category of item. The broken, the useless, the discarded, not important at all. Of course that would not always be the case. But in any site other than a tomb or grave, it would stand to reason.
I don't know. I mean... you're "right". But I think they're just offering the best interpretation they can come up with. They could always be proven wrong with additional discoveries. But until then, I personally have no real issue with their hypothesis.
@@saberx08 i would have a lot less issue with it if they would couch it in those terms. If they would start out every declarative sentence with “we believe” or “one interpretation” or “many archeologists contend” or “our hypothesis is”, it would be more honest.
Prince Charlie "Brought into combat with the English at the Battle of Culloden" - I would have expected better than this lazy representation. There were more Scots than English among the Hanoverian forces that Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites fort. It was much more complicated than an "English vs Scots" battle. I just that the person voicing this visits the National Trust for Scotland visitor centre at Culloden to understand more of the history.
@@devindevon Do you not understand how much effort something like this would take to build? They wouldn't put years of labor into building a place that's just nice for sitting. But they would do it out of worship for a deity
Machir and eber.descendants of noah.travelled to hebrides.machir bay.and the names prove this.eberne was original name of ireland.4000 yrs ago.eberian peninsula.was where they settle d first but tribes were too violent.
Please add the year these programs were made? Helps with context. And is something history buffs care about.
Series 3 episode 3. February 2015.
Looked around, and it appears this was originally broadcast Nov 12, 2015, covering archeology from 2014.
the guys shirts say 2012? time stamp 18:47
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Yes.....I can't believe these sites are NOT including important information. Pisses me off, and they lose credibility in my eyes.....put the dates, the place, etc.
How refreshing to see so many archeological experts commenting on this! And with so much positivity. You are really such a happy bunch of knowledgable folks. Such a joy to be around, I'm sure.😁
So your snide and sarcastic remarks further and benefit the Archaeological discussion, HOW, exactly ?
I found the comment funny and I can't see anywhere in the text that it was made to further archaeology.
@@ashleysmith3106 nice Semitic handle. What happens when it turns out the Jews were Celts?
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Greetings from Australia. Of course Professor Alice Roberts is looking just absolutely stunning as always, but mostly your enthusiasm is infectious. The respectful and humble way in which you interact with everybody is admirable.
Thank you for this video. Not only was a lot of content of knowledge, but the production value was outstanding. Hello from the United States. Really great work guys.
Matthew & Alice another excellent episode of Digging For Briton, I am so glad your careers have flourished!!
Digging for BRITAIN : it's in the Titles ‼
We always look at neolithic lives through 19th century religious eyes. It's always a ceremonial site with ceremonial objects. We never interpret theses sites and objects as indications of a scientific view of neolithic people.
No we dont
To everyone: Religion and a belief in something more has always been a huge part human life because there was so little we knew about the why and how of the universe and earth. Religion and spiritual belief gave us answers to things we didn’t understand, so usually, yeah a lot of archeological finds are connected to religion, symbolism and spiritualism.
This is more of a philosophical pondering:
now that we know way more about the world and how it actually works, and speaking VERY generally here, organized religion is on the decline bc strict belief in supernatural explanations for, say, the weather or where we come from, are no longer complicit with our current scientific knowledge. (Or if a particular religion is on the rise or people identify with it in a casual sense, it may often be due to the ethnic/tribal/community identity it brings rather than any attachment to the actual beliefs. Excluding the people where the actual beliefs matter to them bc that’s still a motivation for them obviously)
However, in a sense, our brains need religion or some kind of spiritual/religious ritual customs and the community around it, because of the way we evolved and how our societies developed (we’re deeply social creatures and particular set of religious beliefs/spirituality is a better community unifier than solely intellectual bonds, though those can make communities too)
Japan has an interesting culture around that, where in practice beliefs aren’t exactly necessary in Shinto and Buddhism, but ritual is deeply ingrained in the culture.
It makes me wonder what the future will bring for various religions. I’m not a “religion is terrible and we all should just stop having it” bc it serves a genuine function for our community health, even if some are very flawed or have an ugly history at times. Or currently cause harm in some way in addition to whatever positive impact it has.
But I do think we’re in a time of flux where the people who find identity with religious groups, or take comfort in the beliefs or motivation to be a good person, may feel out of sorts wondering what the future or place is now. And the people who don’t affiliate themselves with a particular religion also feel out of sorts in a different way, bc communities may be harder to find or more specific to a singular hobby or interest
The archaeological record of now is gonna be very interesting 1000 years from now
Circse, Circle, Church, Nome, Grove, Synagogue, Basilica, Temple, Vatican. It's all a reference to the Great Mother, Asherah, Ashoura, Ashura, Kythera, Anat, Pipitunaka, Amaru, etc
The Great Dragon or Serpent 🐍 representing Hydra, which appeared at Saturnalia
One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4)
There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000.
One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666....
360 ÷ 6.66 is 54
54 x 2 is 108
108 x 2 is 216
To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400).
This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present based sixty or seximal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years.
6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects.
Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. This shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, which effects the arc of a Pendulum like that in a Grandfather Clock, the Sun also does this in the sky over the seasons.
But first, they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160!
This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This is the basis of the Olympics, to mark a Leap Year, starting with the first Full Moon of the Summer Solstice.
This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions.
Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light.
1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333
11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid.
The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years
72 x 3 is 216
2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333
The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC, and ended with one on June 5 2012. The double headed Phoenix.
This whole code can be encrypted into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66.
100 is the "perfect number" because it represents Ten (6 unit) metrics times ten 6 unit metrics: a unit being 6.66
ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth
This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27.
11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star of the Dog days of Sirius, in Assyria, and the star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the # of years in a 'Great Solar Return'. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) This is why at every Megalithic site we find Theatres, like in "Nazereth" and Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point, as well as in New Zealand.
Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David:
13 x 360 is 4680
4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666..
The circumference of the Earth in Nautical Miles is 21,600
This means the basis of the Nautical Mile is the Moon.
Calculate the Circumference of the Earth in kms by multiplying the Diameter of the Moon by 18.6, the period of a Metonic Cycle in years to get 40,175.
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@@Uncanny_MountainThis is a lot of gnostic nephilim dmt shit. The Bible explicitly lays out that the serpent/dragon (likely a fallen seraphim) is a deceiver and the enemy of mankind who has basically been defeated by Jesus Christ (seed of the woman who crushes the serpent's head although the serpent bites his heel). It is weak now. Also, Enoch was righteous and taken up to Heaven. If he was later deified, wasn't his fault people are desperate to find anything but the actual creator to worship. No true professing Christian is worshipping a weak demon dragon coughing up its last fiery breaths. It is literally the dragon that gets stabbed through in Revelation. Not worthy.
Always great to see you Matt. Hope things are going well for you. You're looking good. Be safe out there.
BTW for those that didn’t hear this at the beginning, it was stated that no evidence of household activity was found on site. Hence the hypothesis that it was ceremonial.
The objects are for weaving grass/fibres into rope
I found this extremely informative. Keep up the good work guys and don't let all the trolls in the comment section get you down.
11:36 - what utter nonsense: people don’t give up their cathedral because they’ve out done themselves, once it’s built they make use of its utility…until they stop believing (assuming the builders themselves buried it over).
That whole section annoyed me. By definition, you can't have a 5,000 year old Cathedral. Very poorly done by a team that is usually spot on.
Oh be careful, I believe our ignorance is showing. Consider please the need for a gathering of people who have heard of a trove of warriors who are engulfing villages and even kingdoms to take over the rights to lands. Right now we need to think out of the box. These are called real life scenarios. Praise whomever, that we have been living in a more peaceful time in "The ages".
The discovery of land as it was called at first, we should now admit, that most of the time was actually .....THE TAKING OVER OF LAND!
What in the total fuck was going on?
It wasn't as if tribes or even kingdoms had way more than enough land to share with one leaders millions of supporters.
I don't understand how we KNOW they abandoned it? They went to massive effort to construct it, why would they not just continue using it? They either are wrong or omitted critical details.
Two of my favorite TimeTeam alums still feeding my brain!
We still know almost nothing about the why and how of most of the universe including the human brain and our oceans that cover the large majority of this planet.
Wow that Roman barracks is a goldmine! A perfectly preserved barracks complete with a Roman toilet, bathhouse, and altar stones with inscriptions, AND it was perfectly preserved because it was filled with rubbish! (more archaeological good!) what a find!
Game dev here at 6:18 those objects resemble utility objects used in a game. The thing the scientist hold like a weapon (6:48), could be like a pin that is designed to be set on the ground and stay there to mark a spot, maybe some sort of bowling-curling game. Just look at the set, it is a pair of each one except for the ball and the "pedestal" (for the ball maybe?) A score counter? Unless there is one missing from the set in wich it could be working more like a dice.
Probably agricultural
There have been ponies in the British Isles for thousands of years. The Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies are small but their ancestors were here since forever ( a technical term ) . Also the south of England wasnt under the ice at the last most recent ice age .
Was cool to see Matt briefly. He didn't do much presenting, so I wonder if he was just hanging out with Alice and decided to just sit in during the taping. 😄
The alter stone at stone henge being from Orkney says to me that the religious center was moved south. But thats just my impression.
I believe that is a more recent discovery, made after this production from 2015. How it got from Orkney to Stonehenge is still in question with several theories. See recent reports.
@@cathjj840 Correct. Fascinating nonetheless.
I was particularly interested in the Conyers family. My ancestor Leonard Conyers was the rector of Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire from 1670 to 1707. Wish I could find his family.
Did any of these finds happen to be re-digs of the excavations Time Team did in Orkney during the 90's? I have I remember them finding a ship burial with the iron rivets still in situational context. Also remember a dig done on one of the stone circles in that complex as well.
Archeology cliché incoming: It didn’t fracture at the weakest point during use, right at the hafting hole where the stone is thinnest and most susceptible to shock, and any lateral stresses would be transferred from the handle to the head during a mis-struck blow. Instead it was… ceremonially… broken because “we are finding so many fractured mace heads.”
Archeologists in 10,000 years will have fun deciphering the dog grooming brushes, the handles of which I have snapped at their thinnest point in the past year as I pulled them (un-ceremonially) through the coat of our freakishly large Bernadoodle. I keep them because I can still use them by grasping the back, so I expect they will be deposited together when I eventually decide to throw them in the rubbish. Must be ritual, no doubt.
6:23 The level of speculations by those two ladies who most probably were never involved in armed combat is truly comical.
"With something like this, you could keep it in your fist and deal somebody a horrible blow with the spiky point."
Yeah, and break your own knuckles in the process, hun.
Peak ceremonial object enjoyer, right there.
My thoughts ENTIRELY! NOTHING primitive about us -
Since I am not a seasoned call of duty veteran like yourself maybe you can explain why she's wrong?
If you hit someone with this in your fist then it would make your punch harder wouldn't it? I don't see why it would hurt my knuckles if I hit somewhere soft like the face
I'm amazed that people on here are getting so riled up about the use of the word 'cathedral'! It's being used as a metaphor, ffs!
It should be in inverted commas.
What a great series ❤
Matt seems used as a prop, using his popularity and pleasing face rather than involving him for his knowledge and experience to be a leader in the narration of the story. I hoped for more information and details coming directly from him. Has he never been tried out as a younger Sir Tony?
Thanks Alice and all involved great sites and history
Another awesome program again. Happy to see Matt again.
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you both so much 😊
Matthew Williams is all grown up.
@ 1:07 I think they mean Alba.
I enjoyed this video very much. ❤ thank you
It looks AMAZING! A lot of work, but I can’t wait to see how this evolves!
More Matt please. ☺️❤️
Is the blacksmith and berserker Bodger Blodger's ancestors from Brodgar? Bodger Blodger was born and grew up in Skotland.
I enjoyed that enormously. And feel a ‘family history’ feeling because I am Welsh and Scots.
I noticed a Viking DNA video , recently, saying that though there were😊 signs of Viking culture on Orkney, the skeletons they have found had local DNA
The emoji was a mistake 🙄
It's not like stores existed then to buy food. I don't blame the humans for just trying to survive in a very difficult time.
In my next lifetime I’m coming back as a paleontologist and or an archaeologists amazing work that you wonderful people do thank you so much for us supposing us non-educated people in those very specialized fields about our history I’m extremely fascinated!
I looove this show!❤ THANK YOU, ONE and AAALL!❤🎉❤
Could this be linked to the new discovery about the altar stone at Stonehenge??
I loved the program. So many interesting discoveries and projects. Thank you.
I tend to think that this place was the capital of a whole culture, the site also bears a resemblence to what plato described as atlantis, although far fetched, its the only remaining site to fit his description
I love seeing a time team archaeologist on this
Probably originally aired 2015 from what I can see
Love these shows. Thank you!
7:39 all those artefacts could be held in ropework and held on leashes in combat.
Would have been better if they included some footage of Matt speaking. He is a very accomplished archeologist. A few scratches on the wall which could have been done by a bored kid, let's blow it out of proportion and call it 'Ritualistic Artwork'
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Just remember that if an archeologist doesn't understand something the automatic (almost 'knee jerk') answer is "it must be religious".
And pseudo-archeologists' automatic reaction is "aliens."
It's easier to dismiss things we can't understand as ancient people creating "temples" for "ceremonies" or illogical extreme burials rather than consider the real original usage of a structure. Just like we do, the ancient people built water gathering, filtration and transport systems, sewage systems, fertilizer and other chemical processing plants, cold storage facilities, grain storage, irrigation systems or retaining walls. They used lightning rods and knew that currents could pass through rock and so on but religious archaeologists just project it was all built out of fear of "God" or worship of some supernatural entity.
i was wondering if it was the place they brought their girlfriends for a date.
Yeah but they do that for a reason... because of how many times that has proven to be the answer.
It's also a reasonable explanation for things that don't otherwise make sense, because religion and spiritualism are the aspects of human behavior which are the most nonsensical.
And if the history channel doesn't understand something... "Aliens!!"
Thank you for sharing a lot of interesting information about British history. Except for one thing. Horses for a long time were often being demanded from local peasants to be shipped to any war front. Nomadic shepherds and peasants were not often being the horse killers. Like the number of horses which got shipped overseas across the Atlantic ocean during the Polish-Russian war. That had nothing at all to do with killing horses just for the horse meat. The large city called Edmonton, Alberta Canada in some neighborhoods have been built on top of some very large obsolete now old coal mine tunnels which were built that city maintenance crews are sometimes finding to be more than just a little bit problematic now that climate change is happening which makes flooding more of a possibility. A lot of the coal miners who used to work in them may have been from Asian ancestory, Metis/Irish ancestry, or they could have been adopted indigenous orphans. Later on maybe Jewish forced migrants too.
nice video man!
Thank for the insight in the adventure of humans journeys
Dolmens are found worldwide there are 80,000 . They are shrines to Noah’s ark. Noah has hundreds of names . Every religion has his activity’s encoded in temples and tombs . Dolmens were constructed from soft flood sediment, which petrified. Stonehenge has scooo and trowel marks on the megaliths. Stonehenge was inspired to celebrate the end of the deluge . Hindu temples are genesis theme parks in granite.
There must be some way of screening pedantry from the comments.
Wonderful work. Here is an idea...sea walls? Wouldn't a bit of effort in that area be beneficial to extend archeological study. If a high profit dock front were in the offering the $$$$$ would be found.
Archeologists: find strange objects
thinks: obviously for hitting each other
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Cathedrals are the seats of Christian Bishops. There is no such thing as a "5000 year-old Cathedral". Silly title.
They were ahead of their time.
He did say “the so-called cathedral”. It is a familiar term for large buildings used for ceremonial purposes.
A cathedral is just another word for a ritualistic complex.
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Dear Christians, as you happily watch shows on the internet, which developed through the scientific method, whilst contentedly living in an age of increased life expectancy, which increased due to applying the scientific method, do you ever feel a bit silly that you obsess over a religion that is scientifically ridiculous, with its virgin births and people coming back from the dead, etc, etc. No.... I thought not
if you connect the dots it looks likt one of the constellations of the big or little dippers...
The word ''Cathedral'' suggests Christianity. Christianity is only 2,000 years old. So, whatever else the building might be, it WASN'T a cathedral!!
It is true that many people will think of large Christian houses of worship first, but the word "cathedral" itself is not limited to Christianity. The site being uncovered has been hypothesized to be a large centralized place for ritual activities. That fits with the original meaning of "cathedral".
@@lisakincaid3974 The word ''cathedral'' comes from the Latin word for 'seat'. It is a word specifically, and exclusively, relevant to Christianity. All other places of worship are called 'temples', 'shrines', 'synagogues', etc. You are wrong.
Language usage changes over the course of generations. If you would kindly refer to a dictionary or two, you might observe the definition has expanded to analogous usage. In the case of this program, the term cathedral is being used to give modern viewers a point of reference for the scale of the site being excavated by the archaeological team. While it may be wanting for the precision you would prefer, it may be the step up a less learned individual may need to improve their understanding.
Yes, God only existed according to your personal feelings, before white people, no one ever worshipped a God of any kind, or built anything
You're basically God after all 😂
@@v1e1r1g1e1actually you're wrong
Church comes from Circse and Circle
Literally means a Stone Circle
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Amazing & ancient place jst been today! More intelligence than we could ever imagine 🔥🏴
If those bones are from small horses they don't match. Large spinal bones and yet very small feet????? That's hard to visualize. 😮
Matt doesn’t mention he’s excavated those caves with Timeteam
30:35 : Scottish Abu Simbel ! Respect ! Can I support ?
Was the writing on stone that was done before it was repurposed into the building structure?
That's why one man's rubbish is another man's treasure.
Excellent, Thankyou.
14:10 That might be a military thing.
I remember a friend of mine who attended USMC Officers Candidate School at Quantico telling me about the _esprit de corps_ of their communal toilets. I remember because I was horrified! 🤦🏼♀️🤣
Or pieces of machinery? You may not have the schematic to draw conclusions, but things could have been interlocked with wooden shafts, I wonder like an early clock or celestial time keeper, maybe the seasons or the solstices. Just mechanism to measure out time.
regarded the 5000 years old cathedral, perhaps the flooded plain remained flooded for too long and they had to flee and leave everything behind!
Why do they never ask the central question of archaeology? Why is there so much soil over objects?
1. Cosmic dust settles on Earth in large quantities every single day. 2. ..3. .4... 5..... Maybe because geologists, gardeners, etc, amateurs and professionals have figured out long ago the many contributing factors to that ubiquitous phenomenon already; it's a given on this planet .
Calling it a cathedral is a bit of a stretch, was/is the Ness of Borodgar a city? I thought that was the rule for cathedrals, maybe church would be a better name for this
It’s a metaphor- don’t take it literally. They don’t mean it was a Roman Catholic cathedral in +/- 3100 BC
prof mark edmonds talks like a cryptic crossword, "in other words" the answer is hidden in the words he uses. and must he have been aware that others have used the same words in another place, both further north and perhaps even in an essay as far south as oxford.
a cathedral that is 3,000 years older than christianity? is this like “anglo saxons are indigenous to england”??
no it an anglo saxon alfred the great who invented the idea of england.
@@hgriff14 This place of worship/temple has nothing to do with Christianity. There were people before Christ. There were religions before Christ and all throughout history. They actually call it a temple in the video. Did you watch it?
Yes you are a maroon incapable of thinking beyond your own personal ignorance
Basically the entire universe revolves around your feelings
Spell check needed.
Why is this such an irritable comment section? You have an extensive complex of buildings with signs of enormous feasts, but lacking signs of domestic use. It seems likely that whatever went on at the Ness of Brodgar involved the whole community in some non-prosaic activities. Why couldn’t those activities have been religious?
It could have been the celebration of a new king or birth of a king's son and rituals to bring good fortune to him and the community. That's my guess.
@@CharityGal I doubt those buildings were built to commemorate any one event. They were built over a very long period of time.
Why would it have to be religious? Also....Cathedral before....LONG before Cathedrals existed? the Jewish faith was just starting to come together. Have they found religious materials? Nope, but they found WEAPONS....I know as a soldier, where ever we met we ate slot and had weapons....sooooo, your go to is religion huh?
Because they said the same thing about Stone Henge and Gobleki Tepi until they dug a little deeper. That's why they're afraid to go deeper. They're scared of the truth.
It's a certain type of atheist who is not content with just challenging religious ideas in our contemporary society, so they like to project a modern atheistic subjectivity onto ancient peoples.
No, they didn't. They even probably don't know WHAT they've found... except for a structure.
Looks like a place to store food like grain.
EXACTLY ! And a "Standing Stone" in it, implying that it might be an outstanding religious/ritual item ! It may have just been part of a roof support, like the T-shaped pillars at Gobekli Tepe are now presumed to be !
Matthew !!! I adore Matt.
☀️ Scotland, may he part of the UK, but I will never consider Scotland to be Britain.
Stand at the kill spot and look uphill , you'll find a campsite nearby !
Interesting how the armchair archaeologists are so much more opinionated than their knowledge and experience should allow. So many negative, or derisive comments, but no claims of any archaeological qualifications. Pretty poor form really. Grow up people.
Well said, I was just thinking the same, if Alice Roberts is ok with the use of the wording it’s ok by me
I not only have Archaeological and Geological qualifications, but also a Degree in Visual Arts and Applied Design, and I'm calling Bullshit on a few vertical/oblique scratches on a rock as being "Art" ! So much wrong with this program it must be embarrassing for reputable researchers like Matt and Alice to end up presenting this twaddle, balderdash, and drivel to appease some TV Producer, because they need to make some money in an impecunious field like Archaeology ! At least Alice has been able to make her way into a top Job and an oustanding Career.
A 5.000 yo cathedral? This is misinformation.
I refuse to believe they just packed up and all left there abodes , i think the word " Ritual " is vastly over used
It's an auction house for the breads and pottery etc ffs. Then the stones elsewhere are like the market stones , billboards for the main stall holders . The markets held on timing relevant to the moon and stars so many could come trade
Facts?
Far beit for me to contradict the wonderful Alice, but 5000 "cathedral" ???? Three thousand years before the start of churchianity? Might be a gathering place but Cathedral with a Bishop and smells and bells and stuff. C'mon keep archaeology real!
Merrium-Webster gives one definition of a cathedral as "something that resembles or suggests a cathedral (as in size or importance)". The site does indeed fall into those parameters. It being from about 5,000 years ago, we have no idea what language was spoken by the people who used that structure - and therefore no idea what they themselves called it. Our best word to understand the context of that building is indeed "cathedral".
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Circle, Circse, Church, all have the same root. The Temple is the night sky. One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4)
There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000.
One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666....
360 ÷ 6.66 is 54
54 x 2 is 108
108 x 2 is 216
To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400).
This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present based sixty or seximal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years.
6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects.
Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. This shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, which effects the arc of a Pendulum like that in a Grandfather Clock, the Sun also does this in the sky over the seasons.
But first, they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160!
This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This is the basis of the Olympics, to mark a Leap Year, starting with the first Full Moon of the Summer Solstice.
This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions.
Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light.
1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333
11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid.
The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years
72 x 3 is 216
2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333
The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC, and ended with one on June 5 2012. The double headed Phoenix.
This whole code can be encrypted into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66.
100 is the "perfect number" because it represents Ten (6 unit) metrics times ten 6 unit metrics: a unit being 6.66
ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth
This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27.
11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star of the Dog days of Sirius, in Assyria, and the star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the # of years in a 'Great Solar Return'. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) This is why at every Megalithic site we find Theatres, like in "Nazereth" and Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point, as well as in New Zealand.
Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David:
13 x 360 is 4680
4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666..
The circumference of the Earth in Nautical Miles is 21,600
This means the basis of the Nautical Mile is the Moon.
Calculate the Circumference of the Earth in kms by multiplying the Diameter of the Moon by 18.6, the period of a Metonic Cycle in years to get 40,175.
Cathedral - 3000 years before Christmas?
It’s a metaphor, dude. They don’t mean it was a literal Catholic cathedral in 3100 BC .🙄
@@RKHageman but that is what the net search function will r think.
😂 Where do you think the Solstice Calendar came from buddy, Scotland was called Caledonia. Israel is the Canaan word for Saturn or El, Fruit of Isis and Ra
Esus aka Isis is the Celtic God of Death, Wife of Amun Ra, aka Set
Saturn, celebrated at Saturnalia
I and the Father are One
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Why the hell was Matthew even in this broadcast? You barely let him speak and when it was just him and her or he and 2 women on screen, you relegated him to nodding along mutely. He's probably the most experienced archeologist in the damn room wherever he goes these days.
He's involved with the new Time Team and presents it sometimes. He has sort of stepped into Phil's beat up old boots as senior digger, a well earned and suitable place for him to be. He is certainly the best all rounder and much better than the bloke who is supposed to be the presenter now. He could Bore for Britain, never mind dig it. They had Tony back for a Special on Sutton Hoo and it was like it suddenly came back from the dead itself.
Cathedral older than Christianity.
that’s the first thing i thought. there might have been a cathedral there at one point but the cathedral is definitely not 5,000 years old.
@@hgriff14they’re using the term metaphorically- a large building for some ceremonial purpose. They don’t mean it’s an actual Roman cathedral. People have used the same or similar words to describe the Great Hall of Karnak in Egypt.
What a dumb title! Saying that you "found a 5,000 year old cathedral" is like saying that you "found a 5,000 year old parliament building", or the tomb of a "5,000 year old prime minister"... "Cathedrals" weren't really a concept 5,000 years ago!🤣
Impressed with your superior knowledge.🤣 You are lacking understanding of nuance of explaining things from history to people today. I guess you didn't watch because he did say “the so-called cathedral”. 🤣
@@EattheApple666 dumbing down history, kinda patronising to it's audience
Its a war fort or hunting or both..social area
Thank God we don't need to be religious anymore. No idea how our ancestors could have put up with it.
Those anl beads on the coffee table look terribly uncomfortable.
I love watching these, but I think people put too much emphasis on the theoretical stuff like mythology and spirituality.
I’ll bet our ancestors were far smarter and more practical than we give them credit for.
I’ll bet that they behaved pretty much exactly as we do with the exception of technology and access to information. Otherwise I’ll bet they’d be just like us
altar, temple, cathedral... isn't that going a bit far with the interpretation?
Are the ppl of Orkney called Orks?
Mind boggling the waste of time most subjects today are investigated meanwhile.......the world needs help - this subject archaeology seems to still refuse2admit they cant date any of this accurately most of its done upon agreed assumptions of tools, wheel etc absolute waste of time hope they get the ego boost they're lookin4 by puttin their names to it
The irony of you wasting your time in youtube comments, go and help the world then
are you sure its not a roman bath house?
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Lots of educated guesses in this video. And not many likes despite over 27,000 views, so far. Frankly, I'm quite bored and even irritated by the narrator's poshy accent. Seems to me a lot of professionals in the field make the mistake of anthropomorphizing their own cultural norms onto the remains of ancient civilizations. It's a mistake because of course Western Civilization (so-called) is far removed from the times and cultures in which the structures on Orkney and the Salisbury Plain were built.
It's anybody's guess what was really going on in this particular structure, so here's mine: It was a multipurpose room. It was where the locals went when they weren't hunting, eating or sleeping. It was where they got together to stay warm while they worked on those arts and useful crafts and did a bit of trading on those chilly, rainy days when there wasn't much else they could be doing. Maybe they honored their dead there. Maybe they had regular market days there, as well. If it wasn't the climate that made them leave en masse, perhaps it was some marauders from across the water they knew were coming. So they slaughtered all their livestock, ate and took away all they could so the marauders couldn't have it and went elsewhere.
Well said. Like lawyers, doctors and preachers, archeologists HATE saying “I don’t know”. Also, have you ever left behind anything that was really valuable to you? I imagine most of what we find in digs like this would be the worst examples of any particular medium or category of item. The broken, the useless, the discarded, not important at all. Of course that would not always be the case. But in any site other than a tomb or grave, it would stand to reason.
I don't know. I mean... you're "right".
But I think they're just offering the best interpretation they can come up with. They could always be proven wrong with additional discoveries. But until then, I personally have no real issue with their hypothesis.
@@saberx08 i would have a lot less issue with it if they would couch it in those terms. If they would start out every declarative sentence with “we believe” or “one interpretation” or “many archeologists contend” or “our hypothesis is”, it would be more honest.
@@pttpforever Give us the facts and let us make our own decision as to what their mindset was, our opinion is as valid as the 'experts.'
The irony is you're doing the same thing
Screaming and crying because people don't pander to your Arbitrary terms
You're a gigantic baby
Cathedral =catholic
Not 5k years old
Maybe a temple... terms do mean something.
Prince Charlie "Brought into combat with the English at the Battle of Culloden" - I would have expected better than this lazy representation. There were more Scots than English among the Hanoverian forces that Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites fort. It was much more complicated than an "English vs Scots" battle. I just that the person voicing this visits the National Trust for Scotland visitor centre at Culloden to understand more of the history.
Place used to worship their beliefs
That's not Britain that's Scotland. It's only the British isles because that's who conquered it there's Wales and Scotland not just Britain.
We have no idea what this is, therefor.... religious rituals. Always.
Does that surprise you? If something didn't serve a practical purpose then more than likely it had a ritualistic purpose
@@AleksiJuvakka How do you know it didn't have a practical purpose? Must every stone slab be a ritual altar? Is it never just a place to sit?
@@devindevon Do you not understand how much effort something like this would take to build? They wouldn't put years of labor into building a place that's just nice for sitting. But they would do it out of worship for a deity
@@AleksiJuvakka So no one would ever construct a meeting place for any reason other than religion?
@@devindevon Probably not out of stone, because it was labour intensive
They're not weapons . They're for marking pottery and bread in baking . It's a bakery and pottery house. Not a temple.
How do you know this?
Machir and eber.descendants of noah.travelled to hebrides.machir bay.and the names prove this.eberne was original name of ireland.4000 yrs ago.eberian peninsula.was where they settle d first but tribes were too violent.