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New episode out now: Easter Island: Older Than We Think?🗿
I traveled to Rapa Nui to see the moai, the sacred landscape of Rano Raraku, the extraordinary mortarless walls, and the real difficulties archaeologists face when trying to date these monuments.
And I left with questions. Could the largest moai actually represent an older building tradition? Were the “abandoned” road statues really failed transports—or part of monumental avenues leading to a sacred center? And why do some of Rapa Nui’s symbols and stonework look so familiar when compared with ancient sites around the world?
#EasterIsland #RapaNui #Moai #AncientCivilizations #AncientMysteries
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A few thousand years from now Archaeologists will stumble upon the Hoover Dam and say it was an ancient “religious temple”
Then, they’ll ridicule those who suggest it was a lost technology, kinda like they did to the Great Pyramid
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NEVER BEFORE SEEN RUINS FINALLY EXCAVATED!
Today is a massive victory to all “conspiracy theorists & pseudo-archaeologists” who rightfully called out the Olive Trees that were planted on top of ancient ruins at GOBEKLI TEPE
As a result of the global backlash, authorities in Turkey have initiated excavations on the North side of the hill. Yet a significant % still awaits excavation
This is a great first step in the right direction, which is literally decades overdue
Now we wait and see to what extent the roots (of the nearly 1,000 olive trees) have done to damage the ruins that layer buried all this time…
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Navajo petroglyphs in the Crow Canyon Archaeological District outside Farmington, New Mexico.
Photo: Lora Little.
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“They found giant skeletons…”
That’s what early reports from Lovelock Cave claimed after miners uncovered thousands of artifacts in Nevada over a century ago. @derek__olson explores the legend, the archaeological discoveries, and why the site remains so controversial.
So what was actually discovered - and why is the site still surrounded by controversy today?
Checkout the Full Episode Here: youtu.be/pyoSo2TWTcQ?si=so3L…
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Take a look at this 1931 excavation photo of the Pre Rup pyramid in Cambodia. Check out the size and quality of the stonework, especially in the top left part of the photo, compared to the small brick structure in the top middle. According to archaeologists, ALL of this was built by the same culture in 961AD. – at Cambodia
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Bird effigy pipe from the Spiro, Oklahoma mounds. A human appears to be its prey.
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Colorized image of the excavation of a stone "monument" at Tres Zapotes, Mexico.
From: Stirling (1943) Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin # 138.
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These old photographs of the San Agustín shrines in Colombia are the kind of archaeology I can stare at for hours.
The San Agustín culture left hundreds of monumental sculptures and elaborate tombs across the Colombian Andes, many created long before European arrival.
What gets lost in modern museum displays is the landscape. These figures were not made to stand alone under gallery lights. They belonged to tombs, springs, ridges, pathways and ceremonial places built into the mountains themselves.
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Mid-1900's excavation photo of the "Cote Sans Dressin" Mound in Missouri. A stone "vault" was found at the bottom of the mound. This was one of many stone tombs found in Native American mounds.
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@CassieCoppersmith joins the @MattBeallPod
to discuss the megalithic mysteries of Cambodia, India, Easter Island, and Peru.
From LIDAR discoveries beneath Cambodia’s jungles to precision-carved stone and unexplained engineering, this conversation asks whether we’re missing a forgotten chapter of human history.
Which ancient site raises the biggest questions for you?
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Back when I first posted these spectacular photos, naysayers attempted to claim it was part of the SAME stone; a “natural crack”
Nope. It’s evidence of a lost ancient tooling capable of ‘laser-like’ precision cuts on Granite 💯
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The weirdest crop circle of 2026 looks like 3D abstract art or an origami experiment in a field. It's also located right next to an ancient long barrow in Tidcombe, Wiltshire. The farmer is even allowing people to visit this one.
Full 4K video: youtu.be/q8D9R8FRNRM
#cropcirclesfromtheair #cropcircle #cropcircles
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Ceremonial "spud" excavated from the Shiloh, Tennessee mounds, when it was displayed in the Tennessee River Museum in Savannah, Tennessee.
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I love all of the little mysterious artifacts you can find at ancient sites. This one was tucked away in the corner of the courtyard at Chinchero in Peru 🗺️ – at Peru
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What were the ancients trying to show us here? 🤔
This is a 3,400 year old Bronze Age petroglyph from the Tamgaly gorge in Kazakhstan.
What do you think its meant to depict?
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9,000 BC.
That’s when some researchers believe North America’s oldest mound was built.
Now add the Path of Souls, sophisticated astronomy, continent-wide trade networks, and the enduring mystery of giant skeletons…
The deeper you dig into the Native American Mound Builders, the stranger the story becomes.
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