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Kal El Ceremonial storage of human remains (i.e. not just throwing them off the cliff like it’s the Chateau d’If), ceremonial ceramics, the presence of a contemporary surface structure which tells us entrance into this necropolis wasn’t just hopping into a cave to escape the rain, and the fact that this structure was built during a series of archaeological phases called “The Maltese Temple Period”. Not to mention the orientation of the main chamber to illuminate during the winter solstice. And other, more scholarly things discovered in the last 107 years of study, probably. It’s not like this place was discovered in 2016 and the archaeologists just assumed it was a temple.
Being bombarded ~~~~~?(asteroids) - building bunkers and then seeking shelter - wouldn't that make most people pray, that they aren't being in the Middle East?
Every archeologic discovery ever Temple temple temple Where people lived? Oh that.... In the fking dirt, no houses no bullshit, nothing left out of it. But look A TEMPLE
The first time I visited this was in 1969 as a nine year old boy. You had to enter via a trap door in the kitchen of the house above. I went again about 15 years ago. The house is now demolished, commandeered by the Maltese Government with no compensation to the owners, or so I heard. If you want to visit, it is by appointment only. No cameras or phones are allowed, but you can buy copies of the official photographs whilst there. The Tarxien (pronounced tar sheen) temple is close by and is well worth seeing. 🇲🇹
It’s never boring watching your videos and I believe that many of the ancient structures were created by the only people who have historically been capable of building such things. I’ll leave it at that.
Just like the Paracas skulls in Peru which are have anomalies such sagital suture missing, spinal column location and some skulls are up to 30% larger in volume which cannot be explained by any known mutation or head binding. Seems we have another member of the human family to add that does not fit the evolutionary paradigm. Enlongated skulls have been associated with the higher class around the world but why? It looks like there was once another human species and headbinding is a attempt to mimic these features.
I believe they are exactly what Enoch says- fallen angels that taught mankind "secrets of heaven". Ancient aliens/fallen angels/annunaki, all the same thing.
@@rebeccarivas9545look's like we are on the same page, the scriptures are pretty clear and similar descriptions of star people are found throughout ancient cultures world wide. For all we know human form could be common in the universe but obviously the fallen angels are compatible with human biology if children were concieved.
"From an examination of the skeletons of the polished-stone age, it appears that the early inhabitants of Malta were a race of long-skulled people of lower medium height, akin to the early people of Egypt, who spread westward along the north coast of Africa, whence some went to Malta and Sicily and others to Sardinia and Spain." NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE January to June, 1920 VOLUME XXXVII www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/hypogeum-hal-saflieni-and-unknown-race-elongated-skulls-001190
@@AncientArchitects This is amazing. A friend gave me a souvenir she got in Malta of "the sleeping lady". So cool to see this mentioned on your program. Thanks
Think of All the Ancient stories of Underground civilizations and even hostile entities...even Jesus stood b4 some Underground entrance and said that "the Gates of Hell will not prevail..."
Thanks for the video, Matt. I think such an important site requires a more in-depth research and extended coverage. The dating of 4 000 BC is questionable, Malta megaliths are definitely much closer to the time of Gobekli Tepe than to the Bronze Age.
Finally someone that isn’t a sheep, I applaud you. There had been C14 dates on Malta of between 6 to 7000 BC before Gobekli Tepe was brought to the public consciousness. At the time it was a mistake, “No Way”. After, you’ll never here about those dates being excepted. When in reality, there is structural evidence that ties to Megalithic Malta of the coast. It didn’t subside, it was built in a flat plain when the sea level was lower.
Definitely a delightful way to begin my Sunday. Whoever our ancestors were, I'm rather thankful we have sites like these to give us a glimpse into who they were.
I for one could not stand to see how life was for them. It scares me to think there were huge Giants and other wild half humans half animal beings running around on Earth. Yikes! Hearing about it is one thing being there ... No way
As usual an amazing video ancient architects keep up the fantastic work I genuinely appreciate the awesome information I get from being enthralled in your uploads 👌
Would like to hear your thoughts on the acoustic properties of this structure, particularly the resonant frequency of 110 hz. which has also been measured at several other megalithic sites. Cheers
@@DrCorvid I knew there was something familiar about that frequency. I remember 440 being the modern middle A note but didn't recognize 110 as an octave. Very interesting point you make. Cheers!
Wow, looking at these images, I'm confident this place was the basis for the underground path to Atlantis in the video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. In the game, this location was on the island of Crete rather than Malta, but aside from that, the underground part looks exactly like it. The triple doors, crumbled staircase, giant stone sphere, the circular platform, artwork on the walls. It's literally all the same as in the game. It makes sense, because a lot of other areas in the game are based on real world sites. It was and still is an amazing game.
I'm in Malta now but the Hypogeum has been fully booked for way before I made my plans. Going to Tarxien tomorrow, then Ghar Dalam cave the next day. Gozo and Gigantija at some point. Great work as usual dude.
Same for me now but I see very mixed reviews, some quite negative regarding seeing only 2 rooms, too small even with only 10 visitors a time and €35 per person is ridiculous. I have been in a (old but much later date) similar underground place in Turkey that is far less expensive. €35 is ridiculous.
Many answers lay in Malta. The rectangular style of construction is very familiar to other structures world wide, which certainly implies a connected origin, and the fact that it's underground would suggest that whomever built it was avoiding the surface, for potentially cataclysmic reasons. I was actually thinking to go to Malta later this year. You've just made me get my shit together and book a ticket, cheers Matt.
Malta is a great place to visit! Especially for history lovers. If you want to see the Hypogeum, be sure and go online and book your tickets well in advance. They only allow a few dozen people per day.
I disagree with your assesment as to why it was built underground. There are several other temples of same design above ground. The Hypogium was built for the dead.
Yeah all these underground intricate cities carved out of stone with ventilation systems that we don't even know how they got fresh oxygen down there definitely hiding people from plasma and asteroids but I think the main reason was to hide them from when the sun mini Novas that will be detrimental to our planet it's going to happen again in 2047. Check out dog over a Dye whole Foundation.
@@chrisbelvedere6653 OMG, mini novas in 2047? What happened with the Niburu prediction of 2012....... then 2014.....then 2017..... ? Please grow up, get a brain and do something useful. Till then please don't vote, don't reproduce, and don't operate heavy machinery.
EXACTLY. If the taurid meteor stream was much more dense 5,000 years ago people would have been prepared for an annual assault of everything from the sky lit up at night with thousands of tiny fragments burning up in the atmosphere to midair bursts like happened in Russia to ocean strikes which caused tsunamis. If you could inspect the remains you might find they were seeking shelter and raging fires outside suffocated them like in the cities of Hamburg and Dresden in WWII. I would imagine there would be temples down there. During the fires in WWII it's well known people we're praying. I'm sure they knew when it would happen and they probably had all kinds of ceremonies which they performed leading up to the event, during it and after. Seems like a good reason to invent religion, God's and sacrifice.
Thanks for all the work you in sharing your fascinating research. I’d never get to know anything about most of this stuff if it weren’t for you. You’re one of the very few I trust (on UA-cam) to give unbiased info (well, as unbiased as humanly possible). That what makes your channel exciting (I can believe in what you’re saying).
One of the most incredible places on the planet. The feeling inside and especially strong in the circular chamber of the niches (oracle room) is something that is very hard to put into words that would be understood without having been there. It is one of the main reasons why I went to Malta and due to the fact that only a handful of tickets are available each day does need to be booked well in advance. Also getting to see the "sleeping lady" with my own eyes at the national archeology museum was something I will always remember.
That is simply amazing! Thank you for bringing it to our attention: so many magnificent archaeological finds that we have never heard of, but thanks to you, we do.
Very few things have the power to surprise and astonish me these days but this really does. Thank you Matt for bringing this magnificent structure to my attention - it kind of puts Stonehenge in context.
Love your channel, keep up the great work, I think that it is a great idea when you go back to an old topic and reinvestigate the ideas with a fresh viewpoint and challenge yourself to find new answers,.
I've been gone since July 30th and as soon as I got out and got my phone I went right to your channel and have a lot it catching up to do love this channel so much thank you for it
Hi Matt. The elongated skulls are interesting as several disciplines over lap: anatomy, genetics, human-evolution, social history and geography. Do you have any plausible explanations for them??
Hi Matt. Please please include Dossier Malta by Anton Mifsud in your research. The book is difficult to get hold of but you can find an on-line copy. His focus is on a paleolithic origin for the first inhabitants of Malta & the background as to why the current conventional dating is to the neolithic. He also goes into detail about the geology of Malta/Gozo/Scicily which you might find interesting. Although the book was written in the 90's it is a scholarly work & is backed up with serious evidence & appropriate references.
6000 years old, exquisite underground construction/excavation, island location off Africa. A small colony of Atlantis? Being a colony would help explain the time frame and similarities to Ancient Egypt and other ancient civilizations.
This is absolutely amazing ancient architecture. Reminds me of Gobleki Tepe. One has to wonder if there was alien technology involved. Nephilim comes to mind.
These wonders of curiosity of ancient sites , if it was only possible to have technology to reverse time to witness the early civilization settlements of each ancient architectural sites to observe and study they way of life without tampering time quantum as watching movies were you can rewind , fast forward, pause , rotational in third dimensional view , hear these ancient language of unknown , observed the beginning and fall of civilizations etcetera...it would be a magnificent spectacular observations to answer what questions we may want to witness ourselves.... something of curiosity and wonderful content ancient architecture does...thank you
Not to be 'that guy' who brings in aliens, but if aliens have been visiting our planet for millennia, perhaps one day they will be able to show us their research and recordings of our history.
What a shame about its discovery! Can you imagine if something like this were to be discovered today? We would painstakingly catalog everything in it to the nth degree and methodically excavate it for a hundred years, preserving everything. I wish we could find a site like this!
That depends on the country. In many regions of the third world, uneducated people would rush to collect whatever building materials they can get free of cost, and the site would be cleared in no time.
Dear A2, Thank you for bringing light to this little-discussed, monument of antiquity. Could you please try to find out about if water was available in the cave structures? Were their sanitation facilities, for example?
You know you have access to all that yourself via whatever device you viewded this and made comment with... Don't make Matt do all the work, have some fun yourself... Google is your friend in this case... try www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/maltas-hypogeum-one-worlds-best-preserved-prehistoric-sites-reopens-public-180963397/ or heritagemalta.org/hal-saflieni-hypogeum/ or whc.unesco.org/en/list/130/ or www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-mysterious-phenomena/experts-unravel-sound-effects-malta-s-hypogeum-hal or any of 100-s of other links
They could have built it to protect themselves from natural disaster (of course I understand they would have needed to be pre-warned). Many tunnels / underground dwelling exist throughout Europe also which seems strange given the massive effort for these people to build such.
@@AncientArchitects Ever delve into the Irish Megalithic structures, like Drombeg Stone Circle, as opposed to the more famous ones? Most southerly example of a recumbent stone circle, which design migrated from Northern Norway etc?
7,000 people weren't discovered in the Hypogeum. Most (though not all) of the bones were removed in 1902-3 by locals and used as fertiliser! :( :( The figure of 7,000 is a computation based upon the amount of kneecaps found in a small chamber -- which indicated the amount of bodies it probably contained. This was used to estimate the total amount of bodies that the Hypogeum could contain.
I'm pretty sure its just an estimate based on a number of different factors. at least that's what the 'experts' say. we just go off what information they give us and talk about how it doesn't make sense, you know, all these experts that seem to know everything about everything but then usually seem to be wrong. then when you question the experts you're labelled a conspiracy theorist. if this video was sponsored by the government and the person talking was so a so called expert and said these things were from 4000 BC you wouldn't bat an eyelid.
This is a very well informed video but it was hard to get through because the tone was the same the whole time throughout. It makes 6 minutes feel like 15. You end every sentence with the same inflection. I just wish you'd talk to me, your viewer, in a more conversationalist tone and not like you're reading off of something. Good video nonetheless and I wish the best for you and your channel.
Humans seem to very conservative with regards to architecture. Just like the later Greeks who made stone replicas of wooden buildings, and the Egyptians who carved stone to replicate earlier palm & reed constructions, these people seem to have carved out underground representations of earlier above-ground constructions. This seems to suggest that the ideas represented were more important than the materials themselves.
Hearing your theme music to a new video always makes that day better! Another interesting video on something I was not aware of! The red ochre looks out of place, like hooligans graffiti? The builders could do such an impressive job with stone yet all the Ochre looks like 4year olds finger painting! Maybe re-invented to store all the bodies. I am sure the skulls could tell us. More?
"Resonance chamber"? "Chanting or drumming"? Isn't this mere New Age speculation? How do we know what these rooms and chambers were used for - or whether their acoustic properties are intentional or unintentional? Any stone room is going to have resonance. Hell, my tile bathroom does - but that was not a consideration of its design or construction, just an after-the-fact observation.
Perhaps the sleeping figurine represents a real person who died. Or maybe everyone who has died. We write "sleeping" and "fell asleep" on gravestones in modern times as a kinder way of thinking about death. Our loved ones are not dead, just having a nap.
Think of how stable a community would have to be to “ Labor rich” enough to build these places? How many thousands of years did it take to build up this “ labor wealth”. Plenty of food and leadership ( police and or army) for stability and protection .
Not very long. With a stable food supply and a sedentary lifestyle. (women could have children sooner after a previous birth), it would be within a few generations since the division of labor allowed for full time management of complex development. You vastly underestimate the intelligence, ingenuity, engineering and productivity of a population focused on common goals.
SurfK9 man we can’t get people to do the simplest things in a few generations. This is proof of a long LONG term culture. My grandpa said something about moving some big stones and my dad was like “ ok” then I was left to move this shit. No man! This is evidence of centuries of culture, maybe thousands of years .
The report was probably destroyed because it had bones of Giant's, just like so many site's worldwide. Interesting that it was suddenly missing in 1910 which was about the year all history of the Giant's was erased.
@@AncientArchitects I would very much like to find out if the entrance of the spine is also shifted rearward by an inch or so like the Paracas long skulls.
I imagine they would have had stone and wood buildings above ground with similar looking beam structures or else they wouldn’t have fashioned the underground to look as though it had support structures.
Just scratching the surface as you know,but,for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of going or reading/watching anything about it,something is better than nothing. Please,do as much as you can,with the pitiful remains left of some of these great ,amazing monuments ,but,also mention the scandalous way successive governments of Malta have allowed these incredible and enigmatic structure to decay, whilst "loosing" nearly all of the artifacts, particularly the human remains! That the christians got their grubby paws on the islands and had centuries to destroy and rewrite the narrative, does in no way forgive the more recent abominations perpetrated against these wonderful structures, many of which should NOT be standing out in the elements; better either covered in earth or at least some form of "tents/protective covering" and still no real museums with ALL the relics present and accounted for. Many have been sold on black market and more "lost/thrown away". As always a good day,when one of your videos in alerted. Very best to you & yours;have a great week👋🌟✌
@@wms72 I'd rather be assumed to be "mentally enslaved by my hate" ; than show myself to mentally ignorant and hatefully passive aggressive, with little grasp of history or facts regarding the crimes against humanity and culture,perpetrated by religion in general,but,since your dogmatic belief of choice appears to be a reductive view of chrisianity and an erroneous understanding of the slave trade in general - I'm assuming you're some flavour, probably fundamentalist , of christian. In which case,you really should practice what you preach and forgive a sinner or simply turn the other cheek ?!? From my comment which is based in fact ,it would be hard for anyone apart from a fundementalist with little undertanding of history to extrapolate that I "hate" any particular religion? Simply because I mention christians and their history on Malta, would indicate - particularly, taking into account the context of the remark and the video /channel under which it sits - an intelligent person might realise I'm simply discussing the reality of the way that ancient monuments and relics were treated by the christian rulers of the islands AND the current rulers whose mentality is firmly moulded by the Catholic faith in particular,with 98% of the population claiming to be catholic,it's one of the MOST catholic countries in the world! Where did you get the idea that christians ended slavery? The American - and various European - Christian, plantation owners had little problem reconciling their beliefs and owning human beings like cattle! It was intelligent liberals of various faiths who quite rightly outlawed it worldwide. And yet the latest figures for 2016, show that unfortunately and disgustingly, there are 40.3 million slaves WORLDWIDE, the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania in 2007! Slavery has been around,unfortunately, in one form or another for most of the history of humanity. Just read your bible. So I'm not terribly sure what you're actually referring to regarding "Christians ending slavery"?!? They certainly did a lot to start it off in the best known form - that of the export of Africans to the west indies and the USA & Europe - , by issuing a 'papal bull' - a directive from the Pope,head of the then mostly unified christian faith - in 1493,which gave almost all of the new world to Spain. The first enslaved Africans arrived in Hispaniola in 1501 and it wasn't until late in the 18th century that liberals - some christian, some not;both sides used biblical passages in their arguments for and against ,what would seem to be an obviously inhuman practice - managed to abolish the practice in the USA in 1865.It had been abolished,by Royal Assent in the UK in 1833. For their shame ,in the British Empire as in the French,Spanish,Dutch,Portuguese etc,it would go on for at least another Century. The committed christians, for so most of these aforementioned were, who imposed their beliefs on Indigenous People across the World, had little problem,reconciling their beliefs and the inhuman treatment of these People ,across the globe! In fact even in the recent past ,the opposition to the US civil rights movement was founded in quite a large part by the same Christians that opposed the abolishing of slavery in the USA. For the record, slavery was technically abolished during the middle ages in Europe, in favour of Feudalism and ever more disgusting form of behaviour, which saw the religious - mainly christian ruling classes ,take zero responsibilities for the poor who worked their land and enabled their life style;so slaves in all but name! The church was one of the worst offenders and fought hardest against the abolishion of feudalism as it did against slavery. So if you'd be so kind as to give me or anyone else reading this an actual example of "christians ENDING slavery" as you say above, I'll happily alert the media AND the poor unfortunate 40.3 million people still in servitude around the world! If we were on one of those demented creationist or flat earth sites,which trades on ill informed people and their gullibility, I might just have let this go,but, this is an excellent channel,run with great integrity by an excellent man,who works extremely hard to present FACTS, about the ancient world - it's kind of in the title. Unfortunately for you there innumerable accounts of Christians destroying - through dogmatic stupidity - some of the greatest sites in the ancient world and before you tear off on a rant about old Islam - Spain under the Moors,who took it from the Visigoths,who had been mainly christian since the 4thC (who sacked and plundered the great wonders of Rome and took Europe back to the Dark ages),was a time of unparalleled culture on a continent that saw nothing like it until the Renaissance in 1300-1600 at which point as I've already established the nascent Christians, were establishing their Pauline version of a story that had been told multiple times and in multiple forms for thousands of years , before he got his hands on it. And his successors consolidated it by building palaces, torturing and murdering people and using slaves and peasants to embellish their repugnant lifestyle! Right up until last century when the United nations were formed; abolished slavery ,in name,worldwide and now we have MORE slaves than probably at any one time during human history. For the record I don't even hate ignorance,I empathise with people who've been conditioned to think a certain way OR haven't taken or had the luxury to take, the time and energy necessary to form a factual view of the history and present reality of the world. Time far better spent than insulting and assuming things about someone you don't know and have never met,but,then from my experience and that of history that's the Christian way of dealing with life! Have a wonderful week👋🌟✌
@@wms72 _"Christians ending slavery"_ What a load of ignorant BS. Pretty sure the confederate army called themselves 'christians'. As do the Ku Klux Klan, the Nordic brotherhood and every other white supremacy group. All of whom absolutely believe in the subjugation of non Caucasians. The original poster is quite correct in that the island of Malta has been historically marginalised by the most clandestine christian fundamentalists ever known. The Sovereign Order of Knights Malta is just the most conspicuous / wealthy of their corrupt groups of tax evading criminals and they have influence everywhere, including the UN. Had things gone a slightly different way, the founders would have been burned at the stake by the Catholic Church - as devil worshipers. I suspect this is where the 'collecting' of Maltese artifacts started. These were people who had been blackmailing the vatican for a century with something they found while digging in the Holy Mount.
I calculate that the original landing parties of the E.T. colonists that spread East from their first landing site on Easter Island, followed later by Peru, upon arriving in the Mediterranean region had just one guiding bit of wisdom for picking a new landing site, and it was: Islands are the safest places, so explore and populate them before approaching the continents. And what do we see in the Med.? Every island seems to have been a settlement of an advanced people. That sure makes perfect sense.
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Ancient Architects wow. Didn’t know about this. Yet one other mystery how did they cut those stones 😂
Great job.
I'll be going there in 2 weeks, let me know if you'd like some high res shots!
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The lesson to be learned here is the importance of doing high quality archeological work or critical information can be lost for ever. Thanks for the wonderful introduction. CHEERS☺
DNA of the skulls? Are the elongated skull people Denosonovian?
This is the most beautiful ancient structure I’ve ever seen. So fascinating. Thanks for sharing this exciting find with all of us.
Why is it every time we dig up new ruins, its a temple by default? Like the ancient didnt have other things to do but pray...?
Kal El Ceremonial storage of human remains (i.e. not just throwing them off the cliff like it’s the Chateau d’If), ceremonial ceramics, the presence of a contemporary surface structure which tells us entrance into this necropolis wasn’t just hopping into a cave to escape the rain, and the fact that this structure was built during a series of archaeological phases called “The Maltese Temple Period”. Not to mention the orientation of the main chamber to illuminate during the winter solstice.
And other, more scholarly things discovered in the last 107 years of study, probably. It’s not like this place was discovered in 2016 and the archaeologists just assumed it was a temple.
... I'm hip.... Just has to be a temple
Being bombarded ~~~~~?(asteroids) - building bunkers and then seeking shelter - wouldn't that make most people pray, that they aren't being in the Middle East?
Every archeologic discovery ever
Temple temple temple
Where people lived? Oh that.... In the fking dirt, no houses no bullshit, nothing left out of it. But look A TEMPLE
Temples were places that were built better and had more traffic than homes and food production sites.
I think that's why they are found more often.
The first time I visited this was in 1969 as a nine year old boy. You had to enter via a trap door in the kitchen of the house above. I went again about 15 years ago. The house is now demolished, commandeered by the Maltese Government with no compensation to the owners, or so I heard. If you want to visit, it is by appointment only. No cameras or phones are allowed, but you can buy copies of the official photographs whilst there. The Tarxien (pronounced tar sheen) temple is close by and is well worth seeing. 🇲🇹
It’s never boring watching your videos and I believe that many of the ancient structures were created by the only people who have historically been capable of building such things. I’ll leave it at that.
Just like the Paracas skulls in Peru which are have anomalies such sagital suture missing, spinal column location and some skulls are up to 30% larger in volume which cannot be explained by any known mutation or head binding. Seems we have another member of the human family to add that does not fit the evolutionary paradigm. Enlongated skulls have been associated with the higher class around the world but why? It looks like there was once another human species and headbinding is a attempt to mimic these features.
I believe these were a product of fallen angels mixing with humans
@@rebeccarivas9545 The book of Enoch describes that exact scenario but if this source is correct the real question is who or what are fallen angels?
I believe they are exactly what Enoch says- fallen angels that taught mankind "secrets of heaven". Ancient aliens/fallen angels/annunaki, all the same thing.
@@rebeccarivas9545look's like we are on the same page, the scriptures are pretty clear and similar descriptions of star people are found throughout ancient cultures world wide. For all we know human form could be common in the universe but obviously the fallen angels are compatible with human biology if children were concieved.
they're also related genetically to the longheads in Ukraine, meaning they're the same population, thousands of miles apart
Thanks for the video, never heard of this place. Very interesting
Cheers for watching
"From an examination of the skeletons of the polished-stone age, it appears that the early inhabitants of Malta were a race of long-skulled people of lower medium height, akin to the early people of Egypt, who spread westward along the north coast of Africa, whence some went to Malta and Sicily and others to Sardinia and Spain."
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE January to June, 1920 VOLUME XXXVII
www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/hypogeum-hal-saflieni-and-unknown-race-elongated-skulls-001190
@@AncientArchitects This is amazing. A friend gave me a souvenir she got in Malta of "the sleeping lady". So cool to see this mentioned on your program. Thanks
I've never heard of this b4 either! Why??
This is cool.
I'm hearing about whole underground cities being found in the Middle East
Think of All the Ancient stories of Underground civilizations and even hostile entities...even Jesus stood b4 some Underground entrance and said that "the Gates of Hell will not prevail..."
Of all the videos so far, this one completely blew my mind
I've been in one of the underground cities in Turkey. To me it's clear it wasn't a fortification, it was a shelter from extreme environmental events.
Thanks for the video, Matt. I think such an important site requires a more in-depth research and extended coverage. The dating of 4 000 BC is questionable, Malta megaliths are definitely much closer to the time of Gobekli Tepe than to the Bronze Age.
What makes you think that?
Finally someone that isn’t a sheep, I applaud you. There had been C14 dates on Malta of between 6 to 7000 BC before Gobekli Tepe was brought to the public consciousness. At the time it was a mistake, “No Way”. After, you’ll never here about those dates being excepted. When in reality, there is structural evidence that ties to Megalithic Malta of the coast. It didn’t subside, it was built in a flat plain when the sea level was lower.
Definitely a delightful way to begin my Sunday. Whoever our ancestors were, I'm rather thankful we have sites like these to give us a glimpse into who they were.
I for one could not stand to see how life was for them. It scares me to think there were huge Giants and other wild half humans half animal beings running around on Earth. Yikes! Hearing about it is one thing being there ... No way
I’ve been here and it’s a truly incredible thing to experience! Great video ☺️
As usual an amazing video ancient architects keep up the fantastic work I genuinely appreciate the awesome information I get from being enthralled in your uploads 👌
Would like to hear your thoughts on the acoustic properties of this structure, particularly the resonant frequency of 110 hz. which has also been measured at several other megalithic sites. Cheers
James I happened to catch that ...110 hz is the "A" note so they are using the more distracting 440Hz scale. Go figure.
@@DrCorvid I knew there was something familiar about that frequency. I remember 440 being the modern middle A note but didn't recognize 110 as an octave. Very interesting point you make. Cheers!
Look in the 432 scale instead
@@creativebuzzevents B is 4 baritone guitar
Wow, looking at these images, I'm confident this place was the basis for the underground path to Atlantis in the video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. In the game, this location was on the island of Crete rather than Malta, but aside from that, the underground part looks exactly like it. The triple doors, crumbled staircase, giant stone sphere, the circular platform, artwork on the walls. It's literally all the same as in the game. It makes sense, because a lot of other areas in the game are based on real world sites. It was and still is an amazing game.
I'm in Malta now but the Hypogeum has been fully booked for way before I made my plans. Going to Tarxien tomorrow, then Ghar Dalam cave the next day. Gozo and Gigantija at some point. Great work as usual dude.
Same for me now but I see very mixed reviews, some quite negative regarding seeing only 2 rooms, too small even with only 10 visitors a time and €35 per person is ridiculous. I have been in a (old but much later date) similar underground place in Turkey that is far less expensive. €35 is ridiculous.
Excellent reportage about a very important but little known site.
Many answers lay in Malta. The rectangular style of construction is very familiar to other structures world wide, which certainly implies a connected origin, and the fact that it's underground would suggest that whomever built it was avoiding the surface, for potentially cataclysmic reasons.
I was actually thinking to go to Malta later this year. You've just made me get my shit together and book a ticket, cheers Matt.
That's what you might call a 'Hyper-gee up'!
:- )
Malta is a great place to visit! Especially for history lovers. If you want to see the Hypogeum, be sure and go online and book your tickets well in advance. They only allow a few dozen people per day.
I disagree with your assesment as to why it was built underground. There are several other temples of same design above ground. The Hypogium was built for the dead.
Hope there is alot more to come about the hypogeum it really is a wonder of the world
Excellent information as always !
Thank you
Makes a great shelter from failing hailstones and ancient tempests that plagued our planet. You know, the ones mainstream ignores.
Yeah all these underground intricate cities carved out of stone with ventilation systems that we don't even know how they got fresh oxygen down there definitely hiding people from plasma and asteroids but I think the main reason was to hide them from when the sun mini Novas that will be detrimental to our planet it's going to happen again in 2047. Check out dog over a Dye whole Foundation.
Oh and I dig your videos man keep up the good work.
..And those who were involved in global piracy, and required permanent safe bases and staffing to protect the spoils..
@@chrisbelvedere6653
OMG, mini novas in 2047? What happened with the Niburu prediction of 2012....... then 2014.....then 2017..... ? Please grow up, get a brain and do something useful. Till then please don't vote, don't reproduce, and don't operate heavy machinery.
EXACTLY. If the taurid meteor stream was much more dense 5,000 years ago people would have been prepared for an annual assault of everything from the sky lit up at night with thousands of tiny fragments burning up in the atmosphere to midair bursts like happened in Russia to ocean strikes which caused tsunamis. If you could inspect the remains you might find they were seeking shelter and raging fires outside suffocated them like in the cities of Hamburg and Dresden in WWII. I would imagine there would be temples down there. During the fires in WWII it's well known people we're praying. I'm sure they knew when it would happen and they probably had all kinds of ceremonies which they performed leading up to the event, during it and after. Seems like a good reason to invent religion, God's and sacrifice.
Thanks for all the work you in sharing your fascinating research. I’d never get to know anything about most of this stuff if it weren’t for you. You’re one of the very few I trust (on UA-cam) to give unbiased info (well, as unbiased as humanly possible). That what makes your channel exciting (I can believe in what you’re saying).
That is amazing ! Very cool video ! Thank you !
"Built in alignment with the winter solstice sunrise" much like Irelands New Grange dated to 3200bc.
One of the most incredible places on the planet. The feeling inside and especially strong in the circular chamber of the niches (oracle room) is something that is very hard to put into words that would be understood without having been there. It is one of the main reasons why I went to Malta and due to the fact that only a handful of tickets are available each day does need to be booked well in advance. Also getting to see the "sleeping lady" with my own eyes at the national archeology museum was something I will always remember.
thank you! so much history that is unknown , lost and not even considered by most folks...
ELONGATED SKULLS !! AWESOME! Keep up the great research.
That is simply amazing! Thank you for bringing it to our attention: so many magnificent archaeological finds that we have never heard of, but thanks to you, we do.
Very few things have the power to surprise and astonish me these days but this really does. Thank you Matt for bringing this magnificent structure to my attention - it kind of puts Stonehenge in context.
Thank you, looking forward to watching later. Always found the hypogeum very intereating
Love your channel, keep up the great work, I think that it is a great idea when you go back to an old topic and reinvestigate the ideas with a fresh viewpoint and challenge yourself to find new answers,.
Alot of strange things on this small island.
I would like to hear your take on the "cart ruts" that its covered with.
Ah yes finally got to the Hypogeum! Pumped to watch this!
words cant evan begin to exsplain how amazing this site is.
Wow. More like that please. Pity you couldn't glean more on it. Had to watch it twice. Good stuff. Peace from Berkshire.
Wow! That place is amazing. Thank you for the information and images of it.
This is espetacular. Was not aware of it at all. Thank you Matt.
I enjoy all your videos but I particularly like this one, always amazed at what the ancients were able to accomplish with stone age technology.
The Discarding of aincent artifacts is the greatest crime to history.
I felt that,
It’s terrible
Excellent as always.
I've been gone since July 30th and as soon as I got out and got my phone I went right to your channel and have a lot it catching up to do love this channel so much thank you for it
Hi Matt. The elongated skulls are interesting as several disciplines over lap: anatomy, genetics, human-evolution, social history and geography. Do you have any plausible explanations for them??
ua-cam.com/video/8p-MFdFlCIU/v-deo.html
Look up L.A. marzuli. He explains
Apparently you can book a tour into that place, but they are very rare and expensive. It's a hard site to preserve with a big tourist flow through it.
Hi Matt. Please please include Dossier Malta by Anton Mifsud in your research. The book is difficult to get hold of but you can find an on-line copy. His focus is on a paleolithic origin for the first inhabitants of Malta & the background as to why the current conventional dating is to the neolithic. He also goes into detail about the geology of Malta/Gozo/Scicily which you might find interesting. Although the book was written in the 90's it is a scholarly work & is backed up with serious evidence & appropriate references.
6000 years old, exquisite underground construction/excavation, island location off Africa. A small colony of Atlantis?
Being a colony would help explain the time frame and similarities to Ancient Egypt and other ancient civilizations.
@@iandalziel7405 exquisite article. That sounds very exciting. :)
This is absolutely amazing ancient architecture. Reminds me of Gobleki Tepe. One has to wonder if there was alien technology involved. Nephilim comes to mind.
The large woman, Was a giantess who built the hypogeum, Sasuna was said to have been killed by pirates that kidnapped her half giant children
Looks like a badass Stone Age house
These wonders of curiosity of ancient sites , if it was only possible to have technology to reverse time to witness the early civilization settlements of each ancient architectural sites to observe and study they way of life without tampering time quantum as watching movies were you can rewind , fast forward, pause , rotational in third dimensional view , hear these ancient language of unknown , observed the beginning and fall of civilizations etcetera...it would be a magnificent spectacular observations to answer what questions we may want to witness ourselves....
something of curiosity and wonderful content ancient architecture does...thank you
Not to be 'that guy' who brings in aliens, but if aliens have been visiting our planet for millennia, perhaps one day they will be able to show us their research and recordings of our history.
@@WestOfEarth that is your opinion. I agree to your own opinion it is about sharing what is on mind...
What a shame about its discovery! Can you imagine if something like this were to be discovered today? We would painstakingly catalog everything in it to the nth degree and methodically excavate it for a hundred years, preserving everything. I wish we could find a site like this!
That depends on the country. In many regions of the third world, uneducated people would rush to collect whatever building materials they can get free of cost, and the site would be cleared in no time.
Great video. Was there any trace of soot on walls and ceilings? How did they get light in there?
LOL I'm getting holiday adverts for Greece... wp YT.. you're finally kinda getting it right. :-D. Nice video as always Mathew San.
ThankU for sharing and posting.
Thank you for watching
More great stuff. One of my fav channels
finally.You are my # 1 favorite.channel and ive been waiting forever for you to do a video about Malta. and the hypergeom.i spelled that wrong opps.
NB: Jack, those three dots alongside your comment allow you to edit it after the fact, very helpful for the 'permanent record'.
thankyou for this presentation - I went there in Nov of this year and it was magnificent
Dear A2, Thank you for bringing light to this little-discussed, monument of antiquity. Could you please try to find out about if water was available in the cave structures? Were
their sanitation facilities, for example?
I’ll try and find out more
You know you have access to all that yourself via whatever device you viewded this and made comment with...
Don't make Matt do all the work, have some fun yourself...
Google is your friend in this case...
try
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/maltas-hypogeum-one-worlds-best-preserved-prehistoric-sites-reopens-public-180963397/
or
heritagemalta.org/hal-saflieni-hypogeum/
or
whc.unesco.org/en/list/130/
or
www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-mysterious-phenomena/experts-unravel-sound-effects-malta-s-hypogeum-hal
or any of 100-s of other links
They could have built it to protect themselves from natural disaster (of course I understand they would have needed to be pre-warned). Many tunnels / underground dwelling exist throughout Europe also which seems strange given the massive effort for these people to build such.
Just what my Sunday morning needed!
Good morning!
Heck it's Monday morning here in New Zealand - there goes that Flat Earth theory then...
@@iandalziel7405 woops!
I wonder if it resonates when frequencies are played inside it
Matt: HELLO EVERYBODY.
Me: Hi Matt.
Cheers Odin
I didn’t know that his name was Matt. I guess I’d never really looked.
@@AncientArchitects Ever delve into the Irish Megalithic structures, like Drombeg Stone Circle, as opposed to the more famous ones? Most southerly example of a recumbent stone circle, which design migrated from Northern Norway etc?
Hi Odin! Love you❤️
@@_Odin_ Migrated from northern norway? any example?
7,000 people weren't discovered in the Hypogeum. Most (though not all) of the bones were removed in 1902-3 by locals and used as fertiliser! :( :(
The figure of 7,000 is a computation based upon the amount of kneecaps found in a small chamber -- which indicated the amount of bodies it probably contained.
This was used to estimate the total amount of bodies that the Hypogeum could contain.
Been waiting for this one!
Nice work again.
Thanks 👍
Great video! 👍
I'd like to see a recreation of what the inside looked like when it was inhabited.
It would have made a hell of a night club - Bunga Bunga!
The Mediterranean sea and its various islands are full of advanced and ancient civilizations.
Awesome video
Cheers 👍
Can you explain how the 4000 BC date was determined? Thank you so much for these fascinating videos! I’m hooked on your channel.
My question too. Don't like those glib statements of fact without any backup.
I'm pretty sure its just an estimate based on a number of different factors. at least that's what the 'experts' say. we just go off what information they give us and talk about how it doesn't make sense, you know, all these experts that seem to know everything about everything but then usually seem to be wrong. then when you question the experts you're labelled a conspiracy theorist. if this video was sponsored by the government and the person talking was so a so called expert and said these things were from 4000 BC you wouldn't bat an eyelid.
It is much older than that.
This is a very well informed video but it was hard to get through because the tone was the same the whole time throughout. It makes 6 minutes feel like 15. You end every sentence with the same inflection. I just wish you'd talk to me, your viewer, in a more conversationalist tone and not like you're reading off of something.
Good video nonetheless and I wish the best for you and your channel.
We still have the Hipogeum of St Lucjia, if they decide and study to open it!
My curiosity has peaked!
Humans seem to very conservative with regards to architecture. Just like the later Greeks who made stone replicas of wooden buildings, and the Egyptians who carved stone to replicate earlier palm & reed constructions, these people seem to have carved out underground representations of earlier above-ground constructions. This seems to suggest that the ideas represented were more important than the materials themselves.
What an exquisite place! Thank you for another great video. 👏👏
How can the summer solstice illuminate the facade of the "Holy of holies" if the Hypogeum is underground? Please correct. (4:30)
Any reason for the exact same rhythmic style of verbal delivery of each segment of the video??? A bit distracting.
Hearing your theme music to a new video always makes that day better!
Another interesting video on something I was not aware of! The red ochre looks out of place, like hooligans graffiti? The builders could do such an impressive job with stone yet all the Ochre looks like 4year olds finger painting! Maybe re-invented to store all the bodies. I am sure the skulls could tell us. More?
"Resonance chamber"? "Chanting or drumming"?
Isn't this mere New Age speculation? How do we know what these rooms and chambers were used for - or whether their acoustic properties are intentional or unintentional?
Any stone room is going to have resonance. Hell, my tile bathroom does - but that was not a consideration of its design or construction, just an after-the-fact observation.
I agree.
Perhaps the sleeping figurine represents a real person who died. Or maybe everyone who has died. We write "sleeping" and "fell asleep" on gravestones in modern times as a kinder way of thinking about death. Our loved ones are not dead, just having a nap.
Maybe! 👍
I've heard about those 'stone nappers'....
@@iandalziel7405 Ouch!
Think of how stable a community would have to be to “ Labor rich” enough to build these places? How many thousands of years did it take to build up this “ labor wealth”.
Plenty of food and leadership ( police and or army) for stability and protection .
They'd be a force to be reckoned with..
I guess they'd need some kind of 'stable genius' at the helm...
Not very long. With a stable food supply and a sedentary lifestyle. (women could have children sooner after a previous birth), it would be within a few generations since the division of labor allowed for full time management of complex development. You vastly underestimate the intelligence, ingenuity, engineering and productivity of a population focused on common goals.
Ian Dalziel man don’t do that here.
SurfK9 man we can’t get people to do the simplest things in a few generations. This is proof of a long LONG term culture.
My grandpa said something about moving some big stones and my dad was like “ ok” then I was left to move this shit.
No man! This is evidence of centuries of culture, maybe thousands of years .
Those bones and artifacts weren't destroyed the evil one's are hiding it all along with the rest.
These underground structures are amazing, and so interesting. Thank you for your work
thanks for this, I had forgot this place. More on Malta would be good. What do you make of the fossilized wheel ruts found there and in other places?
Malta is an amazing place - cheers
I love this place. Let's see what you can do with it (and you've done great so I'm looking forward to your story.)
It is astounding!
It really is
Try and talk little more natural. But otherwise a great and interesting video
You can tell how old this is because some guy put Abdul was here 6000 b.c.
Looks like a cool place to smoke a bowl too 🚬
The report was probably destroyed because it had bones of Giant's, just like so many site's worldwide. Interesting that it was suddenly missing in 1910 which was about the year all history of the Giant's was erased.
I’ve seen some videos that claim the skeletons found there were unusually large In stature not just the skulls
Great video. Was there places blackened by smoke from candles an cooking?
What did the landmass surrounding Malta look like 6,000 years ago?
Anton Mifsud goes into this in some detail in Dossier Malta
Those skulls also lack sagittal sutures like other long skulls which don't show direct evidence of binding.
Yes - that’s what the look like - very strange. Apparently taken off display from the museum in Malta
@@AncientArchitects I would very much like to find out if the entrance of the spine is also shifted rearward by an inch or so like the Paracas long skulls.
very good on what information that was available to you
I imagine they would have had stone and wood buildings above ground with similar looking beam structures or else they wouldn’t have fashioned the underground to look as though it had support structures.
Ah. I should have just kept listening.
To build like that underground . Something uptop must have scared the shit outta them
So this place is older than Gobleki Tempe? In Turkey?
one of your better vids
More excellent content such information, my bucket list is overflowing. Appreciate everything you do Matt thanks.
Thanks for watching
Another no-bullshit video! Keep 'em coming! We don't need to hear what you think. Just tell us the facts as they stand today!
Just scratching the surface as you know,but,for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of going or reading/watching anything about it,something is better than nothing. Please,do as much as you can,with the pitiful remains left of some of these great ,amazing monuments ,but,also mention the scandalous way successive governments of Malta have allowed these incredible and enigmatic structure to decay, whilst "loosing" nearly all of the artifacts, particularly the human remains! That the christians got their grubby paws on the islands and had centuries to destroy and rewrite the narrative, does in no way forgive the more recent abominations perpetrated against these wonderful structures, many of which should NOT be standing out in the elements; better either covered in earth or at least some form of "tents/protective covering" and still no real museums with ALL the relics present and accounted for. Many have been sold on black market and more "lost/thrown away". As always a good day,when one of your videos in alerted. Very best to you & yours;have a great week👋🌟✌
If it weren't for Christians ending slavery, you'd probably be enslaved somewhere physically instead of just mentally by your hate.
@@wms72 I'd rather be assumed to be "mentally enslaved by my hate" ; than show myself to mentally ignorant and hatefully passive aggressive, with little grasp of history or facts regarding the crimes against humanity and culture,perpetrated by religion in general,but,since your dogmatic belief of choice appears to be a reductive view of chrisianity and an erroneous understanding of the slave trade in general - I'm assuming you're some flavour, probably fundamentalist , of christian. In which case,you really should practice what you preach and forgive a sinner or simply turn the other cheek ?!? From my comment which is based in fact ,it would be hard for anyone apart from a fundementalist with little undertanding of history to extrapolate that I "hate" any particular religion? Simply because I mention christians and their history on Malta, would indicate - particularly, taking into account the context of the remark and the video /channel under which it sits - an intelligent person might realise I'm simply discussing the reality of the way that ancient monuments and relics were treated by the christian rulers of the islands AND the current rulers whose mentality is firmly moulded by the Catholic faith in particular,with 98% of the population claiming to be catholic,it's one of the MOST catholic countries in the world! Where did you get the idea that christians ended slavery? The American - and various European - Christian, plantation owners had little problem reconciling their beliefs and owning human beings like cattle! It was intelligent liberals of various faiths who quite rightly outlawed it worldwide. And yet the latest figures for 2016, show that unfortunately and disgustingly, there are 40.3 million slaves WORLDWIDE, the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania in 2007! Slavery has been around,unfortunately, in one form or another for most of the history of humanity. Just read your bible. So I'm not terribly sure what you're actually referring to regarding "Christians ending slavery"?!? They certainly did a lot to start it off in the best known form - that of the export of Africans to the west indies and the USA & Europe - , by issuing a 'papal bull' - a directive from the Pope,head of the then mostly unified christian faith - in 1493,which gave almost all of the new world to Spain. The first enslaved Africans arrived in Hispaniola in 1501 and it wasn't until late in the 18th century that liberals - some christian, some not;both sides used biblical passages in their arguments for and against ,what would seem to be an obviously inhuman practice - managed to abolish the practice in the USA in 1865.It had been abolished,by Royal Assent in the UK in 1833. For their shame ,in the British Empire as in the French,Spanish,Dutch,Portuguese etc,it would go on for at least another Century. The committed christians, for so most of these aforementioned were, who imposed their beliefs on Indigenous People across the World, had little problem,reconciling their beliefs and the inhuman treatment of these People ,across the globe! In fact even in the recent past ,the opposition to the US civil rights movement was founded in quite a large part by the same Christians that opposed the abolishing of slavery in the USA. For the record, slavery was technically abolished during the middle ages in Europe, in favour of Feudalism and ever more disgusting form of behaviour, which saw the religious - mainly christian ruling classes ,take zero responsibilities for the poor who worked their land and enabled their life style;so slaves in all but name! The church was one of the worst offenders and fought hardest against the abolishion of feudalism as it did against slavery. So if you'd be so kind as to give me or anyone else reading this an actual example of "christians ENDING slavery" as you say above, I'll happily alert the media AND the poor unfortunate 40.3 million people still in servitude around the world! If we were on one of those demented creationist or flat earth sites,which trades on ill informed people and their gullibility, I might just have let this go,but, this is an excellent channel,run with great integrity by an excellent man,who works extremely hard to present FACTS, about the ancient world - it's kind of in the title. Unfortunately for you there innumerable accounts of Christians destroying - through dogmatic stupidity - some of the greatest sites in the ancient world and before you tear off on a rant about old Islam - Spain under the Moors,who took it from the Visigoths,who had been mainly christian since the 4thC (who sacked and plundered the great wonders of Rome and took Europe back to the Dark ages),was a time of unparalleled culture on a continent that saw nothing like it until the Renaissance in 1300-1600 at which point as I've already established the nascent Christians, were establishing their Pauline version of a story that had been told multiple times and in multiple forms for thousands of years , before he got his hands on it. And his successors consolidated it by building palaces, torturing and murdering people and using slaves and peasants to embellish their repugnant lifestyle! Right up until last century when the United nations were formed; abolished slavery ,in name,worldwide and now we have MORE slaves than probably at any one time during human history. For the record I don't even hate ignorance,I empathise with people who've been conditioned to think a certain way OR haven't taken or had the luxury to take, the time and energy necessary to form a factual view of the history and present reality of the world. Time far better spent than insulting and assuming things about someone you don't know and have never met,but,then from my experience and that of history that's the Christian way of dealing with life! Have a wonderful week👋🌟✌
@@wms72 _"Christians ending slavery"_
What a load of ignorant BS. Pretty sure the confederate army called themselves 'christians'. As do the Ku Klux Klan, the Nordic brotherhood and every other white supremacy group. All of whom absolutely believe in the subjugation of non Caucasians.
The original poster is quite correct in that the island of Malta has been historically marginalised by the most clandestine christian fundamentalists ever known. The Sovereign Order of Knights Malta is just the most conspicuous / wealthy of their corrupt groups of tax evading criminals and they have influence everywhere, including the UN.
Had things gone a slightly different way, the founders would have been burned at the stake by the Catholic Church - as devil worshipers.
I suspect this is where the 'collecting' of Maltese artifacts started. These were people who had been blackmailing the vatican for a century with something they found while digging in the Holy Mount.
I calculate that the original landing parties of the E.T. colonists that spread East from their first landing site on Easter Island, followed later by Peru, upon arriving in the Mediterranean region had just one guiding bit of wisdom for picking a new landing site, and it was:
Islands are the safest places, so explore and populate them before approaching the continents.
And what do we see in the Med.? Every island seems to have been a settlement of an advanced people. That sure makes perfect sense.