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June 16, 2025 - Project Camelot
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HUGH NEWMAN AA17
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And I've been there.
It's a fabulous conference, highly recommended.
And I also, we've been to South Africa speaking.
I see him.
It seems like I run into you wherever I go.
Egypt.
Malta.
Now Malta, you know, he's come with me on the Egypt trip as well.
So he's really a world traveler and an investigator par excellence.
He did a wonderful book about the giants in America.
Is it all?
Okay, giants.
And he really can show a map, which is extraordinary.
So his talk is going to be absolutely fascinating.
And so without further ado, Hugh Newman.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
Doises.
Okay, thank you very much.
So, I think you got a taste of Sardinia yesterday from Maria, is that correct?
I wasn't here yesterday, so she gave you a bit of an outline of some of the sites.
This has become an obsession for many of us in this country.
Any of you been to Sardinia?
A few of you, yes.
Have you been to the megalithic sites of Sardinia?
The strange thing about it, it just sounds like some random island in the Mediterranean, but this kind of keeps coming up in my research around the world when I'm looking at incredible megalithic sites, giant skeletons, mythologies that seem to stretch across the whole planet.
And some of the sites here are so incredible that I've kind of dedicated a serious amount of research to it.
I've been there twice in the last six months, just got back from a trip there recently.
But when you start seeing what's going on there, you're realizing the context of this place in relation to other sites and other cultures around the world.
Going back about 8,000 years is very impressive and very important.
What we see here, for example, is a pyramid.
This is the only known pyramid in Europe apart from the Bosnian Pointy Hills.
Now, so this is literally like, it goes back to about 3500 to 3800 BC.
So it's the oldest, one of the oldest pyramids in the world.
And it's in northern Sardinia.
Have any of you ever heard of this before?
I mean, this is what I mean.
This is the tip of the iceberg of what we're dealing with here.
And I want to get into some different aspects here.
But first, this is just a couple of books I've done.
The Giants on Record.
I co-authored this with Jim Vieira.
It came out in October 2015.
And this is our research just in North America.
We found over a thousand accounts of seven foot, 13 foot tall giants discovered in the mounds, the earthworks, the megaliths and the caves going back 10,000 years.
Even mummified remains with red hair.
Now, the strange thing is we found the same things in Sardinia and other parts of Europe and all around the world.
This is another book I did a few years ago, Earth Grids, The Secret Patterns of Gaia Sacred Sites.
That came out way back, actually, in 2008.
And this is a new book that's coming out this year called Stone Circles, which looks at stone circles all around the planet, not just in Britain.
Gobekli Tepe, Adelaide, Yemen, Israel, and many other sites, Karahunjin, Armenia, and so forth.
So I'm constantly researching, mainly focused on megaliths and giants.
But when we look at Sardinia, we have all of that and more.
It gets very, very strange the more you look into this.
The location is very important.
We'll look at a map in a moment.
And all the coasts, it kind of sits in the middle of the Mediterranean, the slightly western part.
But it's surrounded by all these different countries, North Africa, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, of course.
And all of these have a very strong megalithic culture, which may have originated from Sardinia itself.
We'll look at some of the sites here, obviously, the very early sites, the dolmens, the standing stones, the stone rows, the incredible rock-cut hypogeums, very similar to what we find at Halfosini in Malta.
We find this all over Sardinia, but possibly from an even earlier date.
Spiral carvings like we find in Malta and other places, even England, goddess worship, the pyramid I just showed you, and even these great giant statues, which I, Now these were discovered relatively recently, but we'll get more into those shortly.
There's also the famous giant's tombs, which are said to have actually contained giant skeletons, and the bull cult associated with these, and we'll look at some of the symbolism.
The holy wells have this incredibly sophisticated rock cut.
We've got sacred springs and holy wells that go back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
And the most famous, really, the most famous historical part of Sardinia is the Naraji culture, which is the Naraji megalithic towers.
But these are just one small aspect I've found in my research.
That's what attracted me there in the first place.
They're these huge megalithic towers.
Over 7,000 have been recorded just on Sardinia alone.
Obviously, people believed they were built by giants because some of the blocks are 50 tonnes apiece.
And then we have to question what happened after the Bronze Age, going into the Iron Age, and we see the spread and potential cataclysms and how these so-called giants who may have been ruling Sardinia spread around the world from there.
This is the area we're looking at here.
This is Sardinia here.
You can see the sort of central part of this whole kind of Mediterranean area, which obviously goes down here as well.
But this is what we're focusing on.
Corsica, I'm not even going to barely mention in this talk because there's just too much going on, but there's a whole load of sites there as well.
But if we look here, look at the location, we'll see North Africa.
So we're looking at Tunisia, Libya.
Morocco, and all over here we find sites.
We've got Portugal, Spain, going out of the Straits of Gibraltar, a bit of France, and all along the western coast of Italy and Sicily.
Every one of these has very important megalithic sites, including of course Menorca, the small island there, and Mallorca.
A famous holiday destination, which I'm actually going to in August.
But if we just have a quick look around this part of the Mediterranean, we can see in Portugal, we have some of the oldest stone circles, or Cromlex, they're called there, in the world.
And these date back to at least 6,000 BC.
So we're talking 8,000 years, which many people don't realise the magnitude of time we're talking about here when we start looking at this area of the planet.
And this is how it developed over different periods.
This is kind of what it looks like now.
But this is what it did look like.
In its final phase.
And this is kind of, this is some photos of these beautiful, sort of, almost like rounded, sort of female-type stones.
They have beautiful carvings on them.
I know they're like the shepherd's crook.
Some of them have spirals.
And we have many examples around the town of Evora.
I've got a few videos on YouTube if you want to check out my YouTube channel.
I've made like five videos on my trip to Portugal.
I'll give you the link at the end.
And if we're going to Spain, I'm just going to flick through some countries quickly, some of the most important sites.
This is actually the Menga Dolmen near Antiquera in Spain.
It's just north of the Costa del Sol, about 45 minutes north.
But look at the size of this.
It's beautifully cut.
It goes back to at least 3000 BC.
There's about three or four of these on the hills up there.
This is what it looks like from the outside.
We can see these huge megalithic blocks.
Again, they all have intricate carvings.
And interestingly, back in about 1912, They were actually discovered by the Vieira brothers.
Now, the Vieira brothers are my colleagues who I co-wrote the book with, which kind of baffled me somewhat.
I didn't think they were that old.
But if we head out into Italy, all around the Italian west coast, we find these massive polygonal walls, much like we find in Peru and in Egypt, in fact.
This is just one example.
I can't even remember exactly where this is.
I went here nine years ago.
But you can see some of the shaping is quite remarkable.
And someone's spray painted that, which I thought was quite fun.
Probably not good to recommend doing that.
Here's another one.
This was actually another town.
I've completely forgotten the names of these, but this was another town that the entire town was surrounded by this wall.
It was almost like a circular or egg-shaped wall.
30 feet high.
About all the blocks were this bit.
I mean, look at the size of that.
That's taller than me.
So this is probably a 40-ton block.
And they were just putting them up in the walls.
And so, therefore, we have legends of giants about questioning how on earth they did this.
This is a more cyclopean wall.
Polygonal is more shaped and cut and precise.
Cyclopean is more like rough-hewn blocks piled together, but then almost like cut across.
You can almost see they sliced it across to get this flat surface.
This is something we also find in Sardinia.
This is when I had dark hair.
And this is one of the hypogeums we find in Western Italy as well.
This is most certainly, potentially, they think it's the Etruscan culture.
You've probably heard of the Etruscans.
They were the pre-Roman culture, which kind of rules.
The whole of Western Italy, really.
But before them, there was a sort of legendary tribe called the Pulaskians, who were like these seafarers who travelled around the Mediterranean, building these megalithic sites, teaching the arts and sciences.
And potentially, they were the ones who founded many of the sites in Sardinia as well.
But look, just note the kind of the Hypogeum-type carvings here.
They almost look like wooden beams.
Now, we'll see very similar examples in Sardinia.
And here's some more examples from Italy.
And we see these doorways cut into solid rock, just carved right out.
And you can see these little kind of circular top parts here.
This is again something we find in Sardinia.
This is just more Etruscan rock carving.
The mounds.
Now, off the coast of Sicily, now, Sicily's quite well known.
There are actually pyramids in Sicily, which is something that Antoine Gagall has been doing some research on.
But more recently, they found, off the coast of Sicily, in very deep waters, a massive megalithic block, like a men here, which is shaped and cut.
They think it's actually 10,000 years old.
And there's various researchers and geophysicists have been looking into it.
I'm trying to get some idea of this.
But whatever it is, it was placed on land and it either fell off the coast or the sea levels have changed.
But it's so precision cut, they know it's not natural.
So they're finding things like this at the bottom of the sea, off the coast of Sicily, in the direction of Sardinia.
And this is kind of where it is off the coast here, so it's not too far from the coast.
But if we continue around, go to some different islands, obviously Malta and Goza, very famous megalithic islands.
And these were the oldest known megalithic temples on the planet until Göbekli Tepe was discovered in southeast Turkey.
And again, many of you have probably been here.
I was there actually when Kerry was there a while back.
And this just shows you some of the shaping and cutting of the rock.
It's very beautifully done.
And no one really knows who did this to this day.
One of the interesting things is these cart ruts, which we find all over Malta.
And when I went to Sardinia just literally two weeks ago, we found a site almost identical and had hundreds of cart ruts covering about a square kilometre.
Which blew our mind because they're not known really.
There's only a few examples outside of Malta.
And to find such an elaborate one in Sardinia really did stun me.
And I've got some beautiful aerial shots, which I don't have with me today.
You'll have to wait for the video.
There's massive megaliths.
This is like Standing Stone on Gozo.
This is Gigantia or Gigantia on the island of Gozo.
It's a massive megalithic temple said to be built by the goddess Sansuna, who was a giant.
And she strided across the landscape and dropped stones from her apron, creating the megalithic sites, including this one, as well as Sansuna dolmen and another megalithic site on the edge of Gozo.
In Menorca, we have these huge T-shaped pillars.
I went here in October.
I just spent a week there looking around with my friend Neil MacDonald and a small group.
We have these massive pillars.
These are remarkably similar to what we find in Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey.
You probably know about that site already.
We also have multiple megalithic cities almost all over Menorca, and hardly anyone knows about this.
We even find on the north coast of Africa, we find sites like this, which have been mostly destroyed now.
And these are like Stonehenge-type trilithons.
So this is around below, this is like the south coast, sorry, the north coast of Africa, but south of Sardinia.
Look at these, there's hundreds of these all around Tripoli in Libya.
There's even classic stone circles in Libya as well, recorded in 1882, and there's multiple examples.
This is just a couple I'm showing you here just to give you some idea.
What's interesting to me is that...
So the stories of Stonehenge-type stones coming from this area matches what's actually there.
So it's very interesting that this was recorded in the 1100s.
Even in Morocco, we have one of the world's largest stone circles called Masura, and it has a massive, massive standing stone here.
And this is the circle.
It used to have a large mound in it, and this was supposed to be the burial place of a giant king.
And it also fits into many of the Greek myths that stretched out to this area.
This is one of the early plans of it.
It's absolutely huge.
Even on Tenerife, if we go further out, Past the Pillars of Hercules into the Atlantic Ocean down the African coast, we do get examples of pyramids, blackstone pyramids, much like we find on Sicily, Mauritius, and many other places.
This is one example that I spotted when I was in Tenerife.
And there were many accounts of giant skeletons and even tribes living in Tenerife up to about the 1500s when it was invaded by the Spanish.
This one was a 14-foot skeleton that they found.
And even Thor Haradil was involved in this.
This is supposedly one of the mummies.
They had a tribe called the Guanche tribe on Tenerife.
They mummified their dead just like they did in Egypt for thousands of years, right up to the 1500s.
They kept out the Christians but couldn't keep out the Spanish.
But this is a slightly doctored photo, I think, unfortunately, because I actually went to the museum in the Gran Canaria where these are kept, and they're not that big.
This is a bit of a trick photography, unfortunately.
They're about six foot, though, some of them.
This is where Corsica and Sardinia meet.
We've got Corsica here.
We've got many sites around this area of Corsica.
Not so much in the mountains, but literally all over Sardinia and heading south, we find many sites.
Potentially was written about in the Odyssey by Homer, going way, way back, where the hero encounters the Lastragonians, and they're a race of giant cannibals at the foot of a sheer cliff that were on either side.
And this could have been this area here, because it's known that in the Odyssey the hero did go through this area.
And so the fact that he's talking about cannibalistic giants is very interesting, because just down here, Two eight-foot giants were discovered in 1953, which we'll have a look at shortly.
We've also got accounts of very ancient skeletons going back to 6750 BC being found in this area, suggesting that fairly sophisticated people lived here because this was a proper burial with red ochre.
As well.
This was discovered in 1972 at the bottom of the gully in Bonifacia, which is the area just at the south of Corsica.
We had just a few other very ancient remains.
These go back to potentially 8,000 BC.
BC, I think I'll put that twice.
And this is further south-west.
There was an extremely ancient occupation in this particular part of the world.
The most interesting culture really here, there's this culture here, the Bona Uginu culture, the Aziri culture.
These ones little are known about because they're so old.
They go back 15,000 to 11,000 to 6,000 BC.
But these ones here, we know the Middle Neolithic, some of the early Neolithic as well.
We know some of the sites and some of the discoveries do go back that far.
And this really is, you know, this is before Stonehenge, before the pyramids, etc.
This area here, around here, the Filagosa, then we go into the Neuragic and other such things, where we start finding the more famous megalithic sites in Sardinia.
but there is a deep antiquity in this area and all around the Mediterranean that is really not discussed by academics too much.
They kind of The mountains in Sardinia, they're volcanic, so you get this beautiful obsidian that comes from there.
So even as far back as 6000 BC, they were trading obsidian with different countries, which is a very important substance because it's the only real, very sharp cutting tool they had.
It's actually the sharpest cutting tool there is still on the planet, sharper than any metal they can produce in the labs.
And it's still used in some operations where extremely fine cuts are required.
Some of the oldest pieces on Sardinia come from 6000 to 4000 BC.
This is a classic style we find also on Malta.
There's also examples of a very similar style.
Even from as far as Macedonia.
So there's connections with Macedonia and Malta around the area of Sonorbi in northern Sardinia.
This is the Venus of Macoma.
It's very badly destroyed, but this goes definitely back to 8,000 years or 6,000 BC.
And this makes it contemporary with the earlier structures on Malta and Gozo.
There are other strange...
So some of these, this is a Bogu-Ighini culture.
We have almost like an owl.
We have more obsidian.
So I'm gonna move fairly quickly through some of this.
I'm gonna skip through some slides because I've got This is the Aziri culture, which is some of the major, the older stuff that was found.
This is an example of one of their burials.
And we're going to start looking at the hypergeums.
This is some of the things that was found in the hypergeums, these beautiful kind of geometric figurines.
And we even have examples of slight cranial deformation and trepanning.
So this was happening.
On Sardinia, and we know it was happening in Malta, and we know it was happening in many different parts of the world.
This is the beautiful geometric goddesses that we start finding, which are from the middle to late Neolithic, going back, you know, roughly 4,000 to 3,000 BC.
Then we start finding spiral carvings in many of the artifacts.
This is something that compels me because I find examples of these all over the world, even in South America.
Then we find these what are called bettels, and these are kind of like strange, you get, I can't really, they're really hard to explain.
They're kind of like, almost like spiritual kind of statues.
They're almost like Omphali or Axis Mundi statues that are placed.
In the sacred site.
And they were worshipped.
But then they started developing these sort of faces on them.
Most of these ones here are on Corsica.
In South Corsica.
You only get a couple of examples in Sardinia.
But these ones here you find all over Sardinia.
Now, the meaning of these isn't clear.
But we find examples all over this part of the Mediterranean.
We also find these beautiful relief carvings.
Very similar in style and quality to Gobekli Tepe about 5 or 6,000 years earlier.
And you can just see this like an upside-down person flying towards the ground.
Whether this represents the female going into the earth, we're not too sure.
But we find these from about 2700 to 2000 BC.
There's more examples here, a place called Laconi.
And these are examples from Corsica.
Beautiful examples.
We're going to go here on our next trip.
We're going to actually go to Corsica itself.
There's lots of words there.
And then we get the dolmens.
There's an amazing amount of dolmens that go back to the Neolithic in Sardinia.
This is one of the most depressive ones, but it's actually the largest in that part of the world.
Just note the shape here and the entrance, though, because this is something we'll start seeing in the giant's tombs.
More examples here.
We went to a few of these.
Some of them are quite small, but if you're interested in dolmens and obsessive megalithomaniac like myself, you will go to all of them.
Drag whoever is with you along, and then we get some very large standing stands.
This one's four meters high.
Sorry, this one's 5.75 meters high, or 19 feet high.
These ones we just spotted by the side of the road, about eight feet high, just as we're driving around central Sardinia.
And this just gives you a little flyby.
It's a bit dark.
It was a sort of nighttime, there's me standing over there.
But just to get a sense, I mean, there's many of these around.
I mean, all over the island, really.
Obviously, we find these all over the world.
But it was the cloud formations that grabbed my attention more than the megaliths.
Like these ones here.
Yeah, so I don't know if we were being visited or what.
Yeah, a little suggestive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I didn't see any aliens or anything.
But in Central East Sardinia, we found this as well.
This is actually in the back of a B&B in someone's garden.
But we know this is ancient because there's many other stones found in the garden as well.
But what it is, you've got concentric circles and spirals carved on a solid piece of black granite.
We know this is a Neolithic site because of the context around it.
Many other bits of pottery and other such things were found in the area and a few other stones.
And we took us ages to find this.
We had no GPS coordinates of it, so we, you know, eventually we just walked into the back garden of a B&B.
Luckily, no one was there.
But you're allowed to, apparently, we found out afterwards when they were shooting it, so we ran off.
This is some of the entrances to the Hypogeums.
Now, they tend to go into the ground, some of them.
Some of them are just classic caves.
They're called Domus de Janus, which means fairy houses, and are supposed to be the realm of the fairies.
This is where they live.
This is like the underworld of ancient Sardinia.
Many of them have bullheads, relief carved on them, and there was a major bull cult, very strong in Sardinia.
We find similar things going way back to Çatalhöyük in Turkey.
We find other examples all around the Mediterranean.
But these particular hypergeums If you think the one in Malta is impressive, these are almost as interesting as that.
this is one that's actually been completely destroyed not really so it's been this is found i think back in An archaeologist called Antonio Taramelli found these.
These were Aziri culture caves, and unfortunately, when it was found, the government didn't want anything to do with it, so they cemented the entrance over.
No one's been in since.
Luckily, one guy, And these are the only photos ever taken inside this particular tomb.
Check this out.
You've got beautiful, kind of, almost like a wooden ceiling carved into the solid rock.
Red ochre paints.
You've also got, these are like black, it's almost like a checkerboard thing.
You see the diamonds here, black and white, painted on the ceiling.
Beautiful spirals, double spirals, much like we find at Newgrange.
More examples here.
Unbelievable, and this is completely, you cannot go in here, unfortunately.
And this is totally, and we were desperate to kind of try and go in this place, but not possible, unfortunately.
You've got orbs here, maybe, aliens, and so on and so forth.
So there's many good examples.
And this is a place called the Necropolis at Vangela Ruhu.
Again, we find beautiful kind of abstract bull shapes here, but this shape keeps coming back.
We'll find this isn't just This was used in the style of actually the layout of some of the giant's tombs.
This is one we took ourselves, I think.
And this is...
Yeah, this is another place.
JJ, what's the name of this place?
I completely forget it.
She's forgotten.
This is another HyperGM site, a very important site, which I've...
It's written on that board, probably.
But this has got the largest hypogeums in Sardinia.
This has been converted into a church, unfortunately.
There's lots of iconography of Christian things and Pictish things and other such things.
But on top of there, this used to have a head on it, not at this end, at this end, facing out over the mountain into the valley.
This is actually carved out of solid bedrock, even though it's on top, above.
Clifftop above where the caves are, had this massive bull's head and it was facing out.
And you can actually climb around.
It's quite large.
And this is like the bull cult representing, you know, right on this particular plateau.
sorry about that, this is This is really interesting.
This is like, This is exactly like we find all over Peru and Bolivia.
This really blew me away because there's other examples over here.
I haven't got all the photos with me.
But just carving out solid granite, just steps for no reason, going to nowhere.
I couldn't believe the similarities we find with Peru and Bolivia.
Even like footprints.
Carved into solid rock at the entrances to these hypogeums.
This is at the entrance to this hypogeum.
And you can see how beautiful this is.
It's just stunning.
It's almost like, you know, you're inside a room or something on a ship or something like this.
And you can see the intricacy of the carvings are really quite stunning.
Here's this nice impression of what this particular one looks like.
They've got little rooms here for the dead.
As well, and it faces outwards where the little sort of paw print is in the solid stone.
Absolutely amazing.
And you can see the similarities with the Etruscan, yeah?
So you've got the Etruscan style going on here in Italy, or is it Pulaski?
And then we even find this is something we keep finding as well in Sardinia, but these are all Etruscan.
And we have other connections with Etruscans here.
This is an Etruscan statue.
This is one found at a place called Divulce in Sardinia.
So we're finding the same kind of head hat with the hats, the kind of plaits or whatever they're wearing around their neck, you know, and other such things.
So we do find there are connections.
This is a place called Sucrusifissu Manu.
This is a very interesting place.
This is, again, more hypergeums with the kind of carved men here.
This is all carved out of the bedrock, yeah?
And they've left these men here.
They kind of left it when they've carved everything else out.
And these are the little hypergeums.
If you head further back, probably 100 metres, you get into this hypergeum, which has these two bullheads carved in 3D high relief.
and you know suggesting this is most certainly a bull cult site and we have these We have these cart ruts, which surprised me somewhat when we found these, because there's not just a couple of these.
These go on for about a square kilometre, at least.
I had to get the drone out and fly it all over them to kind of get a sense of what was going on, and it completely blew me away.
So JJ and I, who's in the photo, we're writing an article about this, and I'm going to make a video, because...
No one goes here.
There was literally no one there all day.
It's just next to some farm or factory.
It's not on the tourist trail.
No one knows where it is.
There's no signs up, nothing.
It's just there.
And it's near the pyramid site, the Monteocodi Pyramid.
But it amazes me.
This is potentially one of the most important sites in the Mediterranean.
And it's ignored completely.
This is something that happened strongly.
Very Christian influence in Sardinia.
Here's more cars.
Sorry, but these are the only ones I've got.
And you can see how deep some of these are.
Some of these are a foot deep.
They're about eight inch to ten inches wide.
And they see the way that there's always two of them together.
They're always together.
So it's like it is like a cart row or a car tracks.
There are examples in Turkey.
There's one example in Spain, one example in Portugal, one in France.
Malta, there's about ten different sites all over Gozo.
Some of them go into the sea.
One of them is even called Clapham Junction in Malta.
There's so many of them, like the train station.
And this is where that little chamber was we just looked at.
Where the standing megalith is.
But these go on all the way back there.
I don't have any aerial shots with me, I apologize.
But if you keep an eye on my YouTube channel, you'll see that in the next month or so.
More, it's just more.
Don't wish to Janus, more fairy houses.
This is called Janus Elixi.
Now this is really interesting.
This is quite close to where the Cartruts site is.
This is Monte de Cote pyramid.
The earliest phase of this dates back to 3650 BC.
So we're talking a thousand years older than the pyramids of Giza.
So this is really, it's been called a ziggurat.
It's very similar.
To the ziggurats, which I'll show you some examples in Sumeria and Ur and other such places.
And it's actually slightly older than the oldest pyramid in the world, which is really interesting.
Corral in Peru is technically the oldest pyramid in the world, and that goes back to 3600 BC.
So this is 50 years older than the oldest pyramid in the world, and it's in Sardinia, northern Sardinia.
It went through many phases.
It's not just one phase.
It kind of translates roughly as stone mountain and mountain with a tail, depending on which dialect.
But because it's got the ramp, it does suggest that this is influenced or it influenced the Sumerian structures.
And it was the Bono Uginu culture in this area first.
Then the Aziri came in.
Then it got used.
It didn't really get used too much by the Naraji culture.
He just shows you some examples.
These are actually the ones on Sicily.
So you can see even on Sicily, which is not too far, obviously, from Sardinia.
And this is the famous Ziggurat of Ur, which is only 2100 BC.
Obviously there's the ones on Tenerife as well, which I showed you some examples of, the Blackstone Pyramids.
This is the first phase of that particular That's the slope going down.
There's the egg stone, which has got cut marks all over it, which is really strange.
It's like an omphala stone, omphala stone.
it's like marking the center and it's cracked as well like an egg which I find quite And it's supposed to have things linking it with fertility, much like we have the Eggstone on Glastonbury Tor.
Is it similar to the Navel of the World, Tipito Kuru on Easter Island?
It could be a similar thing, which is marking the centre, the beginning, the birthplace of their culture.
That's it from above.
You can sort of see the shaping of it.
And this is some of the things they found there.
This is one of the superb goddess figurines.
And this just shows you the dolmen structure which is there, which is this thing here, which is sitting on several other stones underneath it, but this is one of the earliest things there.
We also have these men here, here as well.
This is the dolmen of Monty Akody.
There's JJ there as well.
And this just shows you the men here of the, you know, stands next to the ramp.
Why's it not playing?
This just shows you an aerial shot, so you get some sense of the site itself.
But it just intrigues me that this is so heavily ignored, like really, you know, they put effort into ignoring this.
And it's not recognised as a pyramid.
It's not even recognised as a ziggurat.
It's just called a mound or a platform, something like this.
but I think there's something more going on here, and it could have influence if it was studied This just shows you an angle from the back end of it.
Around the back here, we have this very strange stele, which has got some kind of, you can see the markings on it, and then the arms of it go around the back.
This is just very abstract, very strange.
This just shows you what it looked like.
I don't know if any of you can make head or tail of that.
Almost looks like some kind of alien waving its arms around with big eyes, but probably not.
This is just at the same site.
I'm just giving you a bit more detail than you probably require.
This is the altar, which is also at the back of the pyramid.
They found votive offerings in here.
This area here.
Suggesting that, you know, this altar area was used for ceremony.
It was used for magic and rituals and sacrifices of animals was also found here.
This just shows you another angle on it.
A nice sunset shot.
And over in the distance, over this area here, There's actually a very interesting Hypogeum, which could actually link to the underneath of the pyramid.
So the earliest data of this does link with the Hypogeums that were being built here, around 3,500 BC.
It's one of the earliest sites, actually, in the entirety of Sardinia.
So the fact that it's got Hypogeums right next door, we actually tried to find that on our recent trip there, but it was all on private land.
We couldn't get access.
So unfortunately we couldn't go in there, but we did find a photo of it.
This is what it looks like.
And you can see the beautiful rock cartoon made out of like this white rock.
You can see these zigzags all over this.
So was this here first, then a pyramid was built marking this particular site.
Also a very ancient site, this goes back to 3500 BC, is the necropolis of Lemuri, which is a series of stone circles and tombs.
In Azacena, this is like, Again, there's multiple different cultures in northern Sardinia.
It was in use to about 2700 BC.
It's also very close to one of the giant's tombs, which we're going to look at shortly, which shows you some other shots of it.
I'm not going to go into detail on this.
But it's got stone cysts, which we find in many different parts of the world.
This was an elongated talk I did at the megalithomania, so I'm kind of rushing through little bits of it, just so you can get a sense of it, really.
And there's a little flyover.
But this is, you know, again, this is completely ignored.
This has actually got a sign-up and a little gate, so this is like part of the official thing.
But it's got stone, you know, standing stones, little mini stone circles, burials inside them, and so on and so forth.
But before we look at the giant's tombs, we're going to look at the stone giants of Monte Prama.
These absolutely fascinate me.
These are the most important discovery probably in the Mediterranean in the last 50 years.
And no one's really that interested in them for some reason.
So I hope you are, slightly.
But these are massive.
These are like seven foot tall.
They were found beginning really in 1974.
In farmland near a place called Monte Pram, which is near Cabras on the east coast.
Beautiful area.
We stayed there for a couple of nights in the province of Oristano.
They're between two and two and a half metres tall.
They were all broken up and buried underneath these stone slabs.
So they were decommissioned and then buried, but we know It's taken them years to do this.
It's a huge amount of work, huge amount of effort.
So I do respect their efforts.
So it's this area here, really, we're looking at.
That's the area of Monte Prama.
We actually went to the site and had a look at it.
That's the kind of plan of it.
Very strange.
There's not much to see there.
They found an Egyptian scarab there, which I thought was very interesting.
So there's connections with Egypt and these stone giants, but did they actually represent the size of the people there?
This is the big question.
This just shows you when they found, this is how they found it, all in different parts, and they eventually pieced them together, and this is what they look like now.
These date back to at least 1400 BC.
Sorry, I think the oldest of 1400 BC, and to about 1200 BC.
These are called the Boxers, for some reason.
There's a lot of sort of punching looks, which you'll see in a moment.
And they made bronze figurines as well, of the same statues, but much smaller, obviously.
And this looks a bit like C-3PO, perhaps?
JJ did a little post about that.
It's quite amusing.
And this is more the boxers, and they're kind of doing their armor.
So these were like the warriors of this particular culture.
These were the neuragic culture.
These were the people who built the massive round towers that we're going to look at shortly.
Obviously, they enjoyed beating each other up.
These are the archers, and these are not the radio show.
And this is sort of plaits they have in their hair, which is quite interesting, which we saw earlier from the Etruscan statue.
And again, we have the...
And these are actually the stone kind of bow and arrows which were found.
And then we have the shields.
These are the warriors.
But they have big horns on their head as well.
Which you can see in this bronze statue here.
But they used to have big stone horns.
This is probably what it looked like.
So quite fierce, quite scary.
Imagine seeing that guy.
This is actually JJ's...
And this is kind of, imagine meeting one of those guys, seven foot tall with three foot horns.
Quite scary.
But within the structure itself, they actually had these mini nirajis.
The nirajis are the large towers.
I'm not showing you a picture of those yet.
But these are like, these are like megalithic structures, almost like castles made out of megaliths.
And there are 7,000 of these all over Sardinia.
And they put these models of them inside the centre of their particular sacred space.
Why they did that, we don't know.
More bronze Naraji models.
Another one with zigzag carvings.
And this one, this is the same one.
Very interesting.
You get this 3D, see this 3D relief carving here of an animal?
This is very similar to what we find at Göbekli Tepe.
And this interior And these are the bettles, the strange spiritual statues I was telling you about.
Many of these were found on the site as well.
But obviously the site was decommissioned.
It was destroyed and buried.
Whoever did that didn't want this to come out, but it did come out and it's all been reconstructed now.
So, yeah, Monte Prama, I thought I had some more shots of that.
I might have put them in the wrong place, so we'll have a look at those in a moment.
But, with giants in mind, I wanted to give you a quick outline.
There's not too much to go on here, but we found that on Sardinia, this is all the research we've done all over Europe.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
We have probably a hundred more accounts across the whole of Europe and North Africa than what's on here.
This was done a couple of years ago.
But we've only got a couple of accounts from Sardinia, but the traditions of giants there are so strong that there's, you know, really old farmers who tell these stories about finding 7-foot to 10-foot bones, skeletons, on their property, often in these classic megalithic giants' graves.
This is an actual newspaper report from 1953.
It talks about, on the north coast, not too far from Monte Cody Pyramid, Of two eight-foot giants that were discovered, surrounded by weapons, furnishings and vases.
They were more than eight feet tall, both intact.
So that is interesting.
These are the same account from two different sources, two different newspapers.
And so we're finding that we thought, well, if that's the case, because we hear about all these giants' tombs all over this part of the world.
So we looked into it a bit more.
In fact, there's a couple of documentaries.
You may have seen one of them.
Before that, let me just show you.
This is the area, if we head back south to the area around Monte Prama, around Sidi and this area here going into the east coast or central east area, there's many accounts of old farmers finding skeletons on their land.
And even this turned up.
This is supposedly a giant part of a giant's jawbone being held here by Luigi Muscas.
The pick credit goes to Paola Harris.
Unfortunately, when they got it tested, they found out it was actually probably a horse.
So, unfortunate, because I genuinely wanted it, you know, I want to find evidence of giants, but you have to kind of, you know, you have to kind of go through this process.
This was also found and claimed to be a massive tooth of a giant.
Unfortunately, it wasn't either.
It was, again, from a cow or a horse.
So, that kind of kept annoying me when I kept researching this.
But we have many, you know, accounts of people talking about finding bones.
Now, there's a documentary, a couple of documentaries.
This is from actually the 14 Times Forum.
I found this a little while ago.
Talking about finding a human skeleton four to five meters in length, which seems outrageous and ridiculous, but who knows?
But he got so freaked out by it, he covered it up and carried on ploughing his field.
But this, you know, I'll let you have a look at this for a minute, but this is something that keeps coming up.
We've got, like, maybe ten different people who've said the same thing, yet not one of them took a photograph.
Not one.
Not one of them kept the bones, either, which is very, very frustrating.
So this documentary was made for Yesterday's channel.
That's Jamie Theakston.
He hosts it.
Remember him from Children's TV.
Also, my friend Andrew Goff's on this as well.
And they really went to Sardinia looking for the evidence of giants.
They looked at all what we just looked at now.
They didn't know about the 1953 accounts, mind you, which kind of intrigued me.
But this was handed to them.
These are supposedly giant skulls by Tonina Muru.
This is a gentleman called Ingino Argiolas.
He's a woodworker in Turalba.
And apparently he found three huge skeletons way back in 1950.
Including a child holding a small bowl.
He informed a local Jesuit priest.
And then within a few days, two large black cars arrived and took everything.
And never heard from them again.
That's his story.
These were also found in the area, in the area of Sabras.
We couldn't find them when we went there.
And these are two very small, you know, thumbnail-sized tablets, which have carvings on them and writings on them.
Now, this was a case This was talked a lot about in the yesterday TV channel episode and they claim that the actual words on them talk about giants.
If you translate it, you actually get...
And they claim that some of the writings on here claim it's Giangoli, which is written, which means giants.
So we're actually finding written evidence of the word giants.
Whether they're talking about the stone giants, because it's just near the area.
Whether they're talking about actual human skeletons.
All these other people are reporting.
We're not sure.
But we've just started our research on the giants of Sardini, so we're going to keep looking into this.
This was another documentary which I paid £11 on Vimeo to watch it.
And these are like Christian giantologists.
You get a lot of these in America.
They're quite cool.
This guy, Steve Quayle, is like a legend.
He's actually really cool.
This is Timothy Alberino.
I'm not sure who this guy is.
But they went to Sardinia because they were looking at giant skeletons from the biblical narrative, really, and how this connects with anything else they found.
So they went to Sardinia and started looking.
And all the stuff I've just looked at.
For the last few minutes, they covered some of it.
And they got lots of accounts and stories of giants.
Again, there was even a big excavation.
This is just an artist's reconstruction of various things.
But in 1982, there was supposedly a big excavation took place.
And all these giant bones and skeletons were stored in this church.
And then removed a few days later.
And they're making a big deal out of it.
But unfortunately, no one took a photo.
Or, what was it, I think, and this guy, sorry, I'm just trying to remember here, I watched this a couple of months ago, this guy here claims to have been sent all these photos of these giants and skeletons and so forth, but then he claimed, oh, they all got lost because his house burned down, which I thought was kind of like a dog-eating-your-homework kind of excuse, because then he got sent them by email, so surely he can just go to another computer, anyway, whatever, I'm not going to get into that.
I'm just going to let it go, Hugh.
Let it go.
So these are the giant's tombs of Sardinia.
They're called the giant's tombs.
No one's exactly sure why, but it's because of the legends and stories that have existed all over Sardinia.
And these are generally shaped a bit like this.
They have a curved forecourt.
And this is something that JJ and I have been researching.
If you look at them from above, they look like the bull head shape.
You know, the kind of horns.
With the shape of the head.
And you look at the front, but they're always that shape.
And they often have this huge, thin, megalithic entrance stone here, with the curved forecourt and the megalithic chamber behind it.
And in the area we were just talking about, there's a site called Oku, which is this one here.
This doesn't have the large, flat stone.
This is more cyclopean.
Blocks making this up.
It's a Mycenae style, which I'll describe when we go inside it.
But over 800 have been discovered.
700, what's left of them, apparently, you can still see.
But most of them, we went to one that was so badly destroyed, you couldn't even work out the shape of it from an aerial shot.
That was a little bit annoying, wasn't it?
Yeah, checking that out.
But these are really important.
These are some of the most important series of sites.
These were built in the early Bronze Age, potentially by the Nuragic culture, but they could be much earlier, and they were adapted and used again by the Nuragic culture.
So this is just an aerial shot so you get a sense of the scale of this.
I mean, it's about, I think it's probably 50 feet long, 40 feet wide, something like that.
You have to crawl through the entrance slightly.
And this is what it looks like from the interior.
You can see this kind of cyclopean structure on either side.
And you can actually come in through the top and so on and so forth.
It's very similar.
I found two Hittite sites in central Turkey, near Ankara and other such places.
It reminded me of those, and they go back to about the same era.
They're very megalithic.
They have like this Mycenaean style, sort of sloping in roof, corbelled roof.
You find that in this particular style of giant's tomb.
This just gives you a sense of being inside it.
So it's got a feel like West Kennet Long Barrow, really.
It's got that kind of vibe.
It's the same kind of thing, but not quite.
It's a little bit different.
It's got its own kind of thing.
It's got chambers on the side just there.
Lots and lots of spiders.
So enjoy that when you go there.
This just shows you the curved edge.
But yeah, just giving you, you know, I'll just flick through these.
This is what's left of some other giant's tombs.
Some guy obviously didn't like this one.
If I just shoot the sign.
This is a tomb of the Gigante in Batigi, which is near Barore.
And this is the classic kind of upright entrance.
There's nothing else really left of it, just a few stones.
Again, you sort of see this classic kind of shape.
It's almost like a tablet shape.
It's got this relief carved entrance with the squares and...
Abstract in the way I feel like a Bekley Tepe.
It's got very abstract art carved all over it.
We do find a similar thing here.
It's very artistic to me.
It's not just, you know, ceremonial and it's not just practical.
This just shows you, you know, where it sits in the landscape nowadays.
It would have had a tomb going all the way back with megalithic blocks making it up.
Yeah, and over there we have a Naraji Tower, what's left of one.
So they were often built in the same area.
The same complexes had giants' tombs and these Naraji Towers and these very beautifully carved holy wells.
What the hell?
What the hell's going on here?
Whoopsie-daisy.
Sorry, that wasn't me.
Yeah, so that's the Naraji Tower right next to it.
This just shows you another one very close to that, very similar.
And the tower is called Toskunu nearby.
The center of Banzu is another what's left of a giant's tomb.
But me and JJ have become completely obsessed by these giant's tombs.
We went to see as many as we could while we were there.
That's a niraji near that one.
That's what's left of it.
Now these are quite large blocks.
I'll probably come up to about there.
So it's probably about six foot, just that area there.
Again, this is a giant's tomb of Tamuli.
And there's many other things here at this site.
And they have three giant tombs all in a row.
You can see the beauty in the detail of this, but it's much, again, like symbolism of the Great Bullhead.
Just one of the signs there.
I'm just going to move fairly quickly through these to keep on time.
And this is just a destroyed one, really.
There's not much left of this.
You can see the portal entry here to A. And this does look like...
This is the lower part where they have the entrance.
And so this could well have had one of those amazing oval-shaped pieces.
We're walking into the tomb now.
The Giants' Tomb A. The back here even is a very large, thin chunk of stone.
Also, we have a perfectly curved piece here.
And I wonder if you put all these together, you're going to get what we find at the other Giants' tombs.
One of the amazing large open front pieces.
And then here's the model.
Again, this is beautifully cut as well.
Look at this.
Beautifully cut piece of stone.
See this?
Alright, that's me just starting to shout at JJ now.
Yeah, I didn't realise the sound was on that.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, there's just a whole bunch of these here.
I'm just going to go through these fairly quickly.
There's one of the other tombs, tomb B. And you can see not much left of this one.
These are the strange betels, which we talked about earlier, but these are strange.
These have got, like, sort of women's breasts on them, apparently, I think.
All of these, there's about six or eight of these at this particular site.
Very odd, very beautiful, and they've been kept in situ.
So whether there's any meaning to the alignment here, we're not too sure.
They're about 1.2 to 1.5 metres tall.
This is the Niraji.
This is a multi-tower Niraji at Tamuli.
And we even have these kind of rock chambers here as well, which are very interesting, much like we find around Ireland.
Even in New England as well, we find examples.
I didn't tell you where we were.
Oh, I'll just skip that bit.
And this is one of the famous giant tombs.
You can just see the shape and style here.
It's got an interior elongated chamber made of megaliths.
With stones going across and an outer wall.
This is all filled in, this part.
This is empty.
And then it comes out into the big stone here with a curved forecourt.
That's what it looks like.
You've probably seen this before, maybe on the front cover of Julian Cope's book called The Megalithic European.
This one goes to about 1800 BC.
And this is up north, just north of Olbia, which is a beautiful area up there.
That's what it looks like from above.
And you can see, part of the reason these were called giant's tombs is because They're very long.
They're like 12, 15 feet, sometimes 25 feet, interior chamber.
But this site here, even on the sign at the site, they talk about these telluric currents being trapped and used in the construction of this site.
And this is something they've been researching on and off for years.
And all through Saad De Anir, we do find examples of this where there was an awareness of this.
They were most certainly working with the earth energies, and you can see they would trap the energies in this area here and drag it inside.
They would place the seeds underneath the little entrance here.
This is where the telluric currents would build up.
This is scientific.
This is being researched scientifically, probably tested by people like John Burke and Philip Callaghan and others.
It's not been done in Sardinia.
It's just speculation, but it's the same principles would work at the sites here.
Which I find really quite interesting.
It shows you an aerial shot of it.
Just to give you some idea of the setting.
Sorry about the crazy movements.
But yeah, it just gives you a sense of it, I think.
I mean, I find these completely fascinating.
You can go up on here and get a view of it from behind.
Look how thin that is.
They're really thin stones.
Similar to what we find at Gobekli Tepe, the thinness of them.
This is the same one.
Again, you can see the thinness of that there.
This is the chamber behind it.
And nearby is this Neeraji.
That just shows you what they look like if you fly a drone over it.
Just to give you a sense.
Many of the narajis have this kind of style and shape.
They're multi-towers.
They have settlements and villages built all around them.
They're not just one tower like we get the Brocks up in Scotland or things like this.
This is the low key.
This is one of the most impressive ones, probably the most famous one.
Again, 1800 BC.
You'll see the beautiful curved forecourt and the intricate relief carvings on this.
Just look at the pretty pictures.
My holiday snaps now.
That just shows you it from behind.
There's different theories about the purpose of these.
This is one further south, called Tomes.
This is further down the east coast.
Similar style, built by the same people.
Massive megalithic blocks on top of it.
Just to give you a sense of scale.
You can sort of see that here.
Almost looks like a footprint, doesn't it?
The footprint of a sandal or something like this.
But again, we have this very small entrance.
So this is not useful for a giant to get in and out of.
But it is useful if you want to place your seeds there and get them charged up.
So potentially it could have that purpose.
There's different ideas and theories about these giant's tombs, which we're going to sort of get more into in our research.
But we do find similar styles, even up in the Caucasus, towards Russia, where we have, you know, what looks like polygonal cyclopean blocks with holes in, you see?
Yeah, and this is what, this is being found in different parts of the world.
This is again in Caucasus.
We even have a curved forecourt on this one.
So I find this really intriguing.
So why would they have these hole stones at the entrance to these chambers?
What is the purpose of that?
But we do find this in different parts of the world.
We do find holdstones in various places.
In this area as well, you know, these aren't really called giant tombs, but in this area they have found giants, ten foot tall ones.
In fact, there's actual photos at this time.
Someone took the camera, actually took a photo, which is great news.
So there's actual, you know, reports here and with skeletal evidence to back it up.
And this is more found in this area.
Massive skulls were found as well.
But let's get back to the Naraji culture.
I'm not sure we've got too much time left.
Let's get back to the Naraji culture because these towers are very, very interesting.
This is a place called Santa Cristina.
And they have an amazing Bronze Age holy well carved here as well, which is something like you would find in a precision carved stone in ancient Egypt.
Just some megaliths.
Some information about the Naraji.
And this is the classic Naraji Tower.
And the interior looking out.
And many of these were aligned.
I mean, the giant's tombs were often aligned southeast.
So we're looking at a winter solstice sunrise alignment.
So most of them are southeast.
Some are east.
and some are almost south, slightly east.
So most of them though, do seem to be focusing on So I find that quite intriguing, whereas the Narajis have various different entrances, orientations, some of them east, though, suggesting an equinox alignment.
This was found, this is actually the chamber, sorry, the holy well of Santa Cristina.
This is now a kind of nunnery, like a monastery, this whole area.
And you can see some of the structures all built around it, the Naraji Towers down over this way.
But as you go into it, and you can actually walk down into it, it's quite a remarkable experience.
It's beautifully cut, and you've got these sort of fake stairs on top, which reflect in the water.
So it's very odd.
And these are all natural springs.
And the water, somehow, water, I should say, gets kind of charged up with the kind of different types of rock they use here, because they use basalt, they use granite, they use nice rock.
And a couple of other types often mixed together in the construction, which is thought to enhance the water quality.
If you go further down, you can actually see this precision stonework here just gets amazing.
It's almost like what you find in ancient Peru and Egypt.
And it's thought that these were actually older than this.
You know, these were here before the Naraji people turned up and no one really knows who built them.
But the importance of the water, you get the experts in to do the job.
And this is all staggered down, yeah?
So each one below it is slightly out by half an inch.
Yeah?
So it kind of, then it sort of leans inwards as it goes to the top.
That looks slightly different, man.
This is just what's out on the surface here.
This is the hole at the top which you actually look through.
But actually, I think it's on the equinoxes at midday.
The two equinoxes in March and September.
On midday, the sun shines right down through that hole and lights up and illuminates the interior of the chamber.
That's what it looks like when you look out from it.
You get this sort of almost like window shape.
And there's some other examples here.
This is one more example of one of these wells.
Beautifully cut stone again.
And no one really knows who did this.
I think they're pre-Niraja.
Again, with the fake stairs on top.
Which reflect in the water.
We have another one here.
We actually visited this one.
I didn't manage to get my photos in here.
And from the air, it looks like a kind of keyhole, which is something we do find.
But these are the Narajis.
I mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I think there's 8,000 were recorded, but 7,000 were definitely there.
On this size island, and it's smaller than Wales.
It's not that big, Sardinia.
It's not a big place.
And yet, all over the country, we have these massive cyclopean towers.
This is one of the most impressive ones called Baramuni Sunaraxi.
And I managed to cheekily get an aerial shot of this 100% illegally.
And this just shows you the magnitude of this one.
This is almost like this sort of chaotic kind of It's just massive.
This is probably a hundred feet across.
These are all megalithic cyclopean blocks with the whole village kind of built around it.
Absolutely amazing.
That's another view of it.
You know, each of these is probably six feet wide.
I'm talking here.
You see some of them, you see the way this is sort of put together.
Incredible amount of work.
This is why they've said to be built by giants.
And this is what the plan of it looks like.
Gives you some idea.
They remind me of Bronze Age castles, like we find in England, but made with megaliths, and yet much, much older.
This is a nearby hill, which is very strange.
This is almost like a sort of conical mound.
I'm not sure if this is natural or whether it's been built.
This is about half a mile away, or maybe a mile from Sunaraxi.
This is Lhosa Naraji.
This is another one, one of the more famous ones you have to pay to go in.
So I flew my drone over it after it closed instead.
And many of them you can just wander into.
There's so many of them, you can just drive about and you'll see Narajis.
and you can pull over and take a walk.
The main residents now are spiders and snakes, just to be warned of the ones that are not officially And this is the interior of this one just to give you some idea of what we're dealing with here.
And this is an aerial shot of the whole site.
This is quite an unusual one because it's so triangular shaped.
these are some sunset shots of this one but one of the things You know, one of the big question marks is, were they for, was it because they were warrior culture?
Or was it because, were they some kind of sacred precincts?
And one of the strangest things is that from all, the entire island was covered, like, pretty equally.
So you could set up a beacon on one of them and light a fire or do a smoke signal.
And the entire island would get information.
You could set one up, literally the whole island.
But the strange thing is, none of them were near the coast, particularly.
They were all inland.
So if you're dealing with an enemy coming from the sea, they're kind of useless because you're not near the coast anyway.
So what was going on?
Why did they feel the need to do that?
or did it have some more spiritual purpose was it like to enhance Was it to, you know, create kind of harmony within the landscape?
Or was it a dominance thing?
Were they trying to control people?
This is the sort of big question marks that have never really been answered about the Narajic culture.
And then this area here, the whole area really of southern Sardinia, there was some kind of...
And if you actually go down, in many of the sites in southern Sardinia are covered with mud and sand.
Quite deep, in fact.
So there was some kind of destruction here, which some people have put down as, you know, a regurgitation of the story of Atlantis.
And they believe the pillars of.
It wasn't out over here.
This was the original Pillars of Hercules, and you come through here and this was, you guessed it, Atlantis, this whole area here.
So there's even been quite serious, this has been in major newspapers and everything, that Sardinia was Atlantis.
So, anyone believe that?
Oh good, all of you.
That's fantastic.
So we have this, this idea has been going around for some time because when you start looking at some of the Naraji towers and some of the complexes, they're huge.
I mean, there's a couple of sites that I didn't have a chance to put in here, which JJ and I went to and they're vast.
They stretch for like a mile square.
Massive trenches dug, big henges.
Megalithic constructions, and no one, they're all closed down.
They're all just, no one's interested.
And they're all over this country.
So there was a major megalithic civilization dominating probably the entire Mediterranean, at least going back to the Bronze Age and probably before.
I mean, there's some archaeologists have even, you know, quoted as saying that It's like a marine Pompeii submerged by mud, this whole area down here around the capital city of Calgary.
And then you have a question, where did all these people go?
Because the Neeraji culture suddenly stopped.
It kind of finished around between 1100 and 900 BC and they kind of disappeared.
But it's thought that the Neeraji culture first came in.
From somewhere else in the Mediterranean, they could have been the Shardana people.
This is where the name Sardinia probably came from, not sardines, as many people think.
And they were like a warrior navigation culture, probably originated from Italy, in my opinion.
And they were actually the Pulaskians, later became the Etruscans.
There was so much movement going around, even with the trade of the Obsidian in Sardinia, that we have to question the timelines as well.
So there's probably lots going on.
People moving around at different times, so it's hard to nail down what really happened.
But if we look at the location of Menorca compared to Sardinia, we know that as things were closing down here, and this destruction on the southern part of the island happened, around that time, Menorca suddenly started building what they called taleotic towers, hypergeums and megaliths, and these T-shaped pillars, much in the style of what we find in Sardinia.
This is just one of the hypogeums.
There's very precise-cut hypogeums also, which I didn't manage to get into the slideshow.
But these are the teleotic towers, and these are virtually the same as the neurages.
These are all over Menorca.
You get some examples in Majorca, which I'm going to in August.
And people have compared them and suggested they're the exact same people.
And this just shows you the sort of complex here of the Taliotic Towers and the T-shaped pillars.
This is the one we saw earlier.
And this is another Taliotic Tower with, again, it just looks like you could just imagine it was a Naraji.
So this is the whole area that's really not being looked at properly, and it really frustrates me that we find such remarkable sights.
Around this area, and they're pretty much ignored.
You get a few tourists turn up, like this bunch.
Here's some other T-shaped pillars that we find in Menorca.
And one of the, you know, one of the things is that this is actually a representation of a bull's head.
Very abstract representation.
But these are like the horns and this is the head here, I guess.
Down the back of some of them There's actually sometimes, you can't see it on this one, there's actually a sort of spine going down the back.
It's kind of raised, coming out of the stone in relief.
This is one of the megalithic cities we find in Menorca.
Again, we find the Taliotic Towers here with the sanctuaries, which were bull sanctuaries, revering the sacred bull.
We have these strange nebetas also in Menorca.
Now these are That's the interior, so it's hugely megalithic, going back to the Bronze Age.
This is the most famous one, Navetta des Tudons.
Not as big as it looks, it's only like 10, 12 feet high, and two levels in it, but quite neatly cut megalithic polygonal blocks make up this whole shape here.
That just gives you an aerial view of it.
So, even, you know, as Sardinia is itself, the influence from Sardinia is probably wider and more influential than we realise.
And I think, you know, it could have been the influence from many of the cultures around here, considering the deep antiquity of some of the sites.
With the polygonal walls we find all along western Italy, the massive monolith under the sea in Sardinia, the T-shaped trilithons all in this area of Libya.
And so forth, this area here, going up to Tunisia and so forth.
And even with the France here, who control Corsica now, we do find huge mounds.
There's actually an 11 foot 6 giant was discovered near Montpellier at a place called Castlenoe back in the early 1900s.
So this area is giant landscape country, really.
Admit to that now, I think, the archaeologists.
And so, yeah, that's it really.
I just wanted to give you that as an idea.
But we're going to do more research in Sardinia because we believe we want to follow up and try and find actual evidence of giant bones here because it's just part of our kind of obsessive research that myself and Jim Vieira do with the giants.
And JJ and I are looking more thoroughly at Sardinia and Corsica because it's such a unique and interesting place.
So thanks very much for listening.
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