Archaeologists Find A Mysterious 5,000-Year-Old Cathedral

[@karinpeterson5366]

How refreshing to see so many archeological experts commenting on this! And with so much positivity. You are really such a happy bunch of knowledgable folks. Such a joy to be around, I'm sure.😁

[@CitizenSmith50]

So your snide and sarcastic remarks further and benefit the Archaeological discussion, HOW, exactly ?

[@helenbartoszek243]

I found the comment funny and I can't see anywhere in the text that it was made to further archaeology.

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

​@@CitizenSmith50 nice Semitic handle. What happens when it turns out the Jews were Celts? 😂

[@driveboy317]

@@CitizenSmith50 the fringe theorists are over there in the wacko corner i think they want you join them

[@earlatkins9559]

No one bothered to mention that John Gater of Time Team discovered the site while doing a Geophys survey 20 years ago.

[@voraciousreader3341]

Does it really matter to what’s being discussed here?? There’ve been only a few times I’ve heard the discoverer of archeological sites mentioned, which was the owner of Sutton Hoo and her chosen archeologist, for obvious reasons, and the woman behind the discovery of the burial site of Richard III, which was obviously a terribly important discovery, and quite an eerie one at that. _Time Team_ is well documented and represented on YT, so people who are interested in that will find it out.

[@LatishaBradley-k5o]

What's a Geophy survey ? Thanks

[@pcoristi]

Please add the year these programs were made? Helps with context. And is something history buffs care about.

[@MikeWood]

Series 3 episode 3. February 2015.

[@agresticumbra]

Looked around, and it appears this was originally broadcast Nov 12, 2015, covering archeology from 2014.

[@jeanlee1911]

the guys shirts say 2012? time stamp 18:47

[@johnvaughan8239]

@@jeanlee1911that bxvbffffff free

[@funwithFred]

Yes.....I can't believe these sites are NOT including important information. Pisses me off, and they lose credibility in my eyes.....put the dates, the place, etc.

[@gerardhogan3]

Greetings from Australia. Of course Professor Alice Roberts is looking just absolutely stunning as always, but mostly your enthusiasm is infectious. The respectful and humble way in which you interact with everybody is admirable.

[@AR-mu4zq]

Dude she's not reading your flirty comments.

[@driveboy317]

@@AR-mu4zq grow up

[@voraciousreader3341]

@herardhogan3 - And why do you see fit to comment on a woman’s appearance, as though that has had any effect on her brains?? Big effing deal, keep it to yourself, please!!

[@driveboy317]

@@voraciousreader3341 Go easy he is just another mindless sychophant

[@gerardhogan3]

Hahaha people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones....ohhh wait you wankers wouldn't understand that tee hee

[@RandomRangerRambles]

BTW for those that didn’t hear this at the beginning, it was stated that no evidence of household activity was found on site. Hence the hypothesis that it was ceremonial.

[@williamsoltes1658]

Thank you for this video. Not only was a lot of content of knowledge, but the production value was outstanding. Hello from the United States. Really great work guys.

[@artificercreator]

Game dev here at 6:18 those objects resemble utility objects used in a game. The thing the scientist hold like a weapon (6:48), could be like a pin that is designed to be set on the ground and stay there to mark a spot, maybe some sort of bowling-curling game. Just look at the set, it is a pair of each one except for the ball and the "pedestal" (for the ball maybe?) A score counter? Unless there is one missing from the set in wich it could be working more like a dice.

[@williamfarrelly]

Probably agricultural

[@Stumpybear7640]

All that effort for a game? 🤔

[@artificercreator]

@@Stumpybear7640 @Stumpybear7640 Well yea, for example: the Mesoamerican ball game had a lot of "implications" in society back in the day (there were even special "arenas" builds for it.) Analogy: How far the Romans went when building the Coliseum.

[@darrelld.paveyjr.1477]

Matthew & Alice another excellent episode of Digging For Briton, I am so glad your careers have flourished!!

[@CitizenSmith50]

Digging for BRITAIN : it's in the Titles ‼

[@Watcher1852]

Always great to see you Matt. Hope things are going well for you. You're looking good. Be safe out there.

[@DarthSpectros-io4ir]

Did any of these finds happen to be re-digs of the excavations Time Team did in Orkney during the 90's? I have I remember them finding a ship burial with the iron rivets still in situational context. Also remember a dig done on one of the stone circles in that complex as well.

[@GodfreyMann]

11:36 - what utter nonsense: people don’t give up their cathedral because they’ve out done themselves, once it’s built they make use of its utility…until they stop believing (assuming the builders themselves buried it over).

[@sineperil]

That whole section annoyed me. By definition, you can't have a 5,000 year old Cathedral. Very poorly done by a team that is usually spot on.

[@peekaboohidenseeken5722]

Oh be careful, I believe our ignorance is showing. Consider please the need for a gathering of people who have heard of a trove of warriors who are engulfing villages and even kingdoms to take over the rights to lands. Right now we need to think out of the box. These are called real life scenarios. Praise whomever, that we have been living in a more peaceful time in "The ages". The discovery of land as it was called at first, we should now admit, that most of the time was actually .....THE TAKING OVER OF LAND! What in the total fuck was going on? It wasn't as if tribes or even kingdoms had way more than enough land to share with one leaders millions of supporters.

[@c567591]

I don't understand how we KNOW they abandoned it? They went to massive effort to construct it, why would they not just continue using it? They either are wrong or omitted critical details.

[@shinywarm6906]

absolutely. It seems like a perverse suggestion. Present day Christian cathedrals actually gain in prestige by virtue of their age and accumulation of artefacts. It seems very counter-intuitive to imagine any people looking at a building that's consumed many thousands of hours of work, i nvolving thousands of people, only to think, "OK, that's done. Let junk it and start gain with a little hut"

[@jamesharper4671]

I found this extremely informative. Keep up the good work guys and don't let all the trolls in the comment section get you down.

[@janinebean4276]

Wow that Roman barracks is a goldmine! A perfectly preserved barracks complete with a Roman toilet, bathhouse, and altar stones with inscriptions, AND it was perfectly preserved because it was filled with rubbish! (more archaeological good!) what a find!

[@junestanich7888]

Another awesome program again. Happy to see Matt again.

[@MaryAmesMitchell]

I was particularly interested in the Conyers family. My ancestor Leonard Conyers was the rector of Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire from 1670 to 1707. Wish I could find his family.

[@saberx08]

Was cool to see Matt briefly. He didn't do much presenting, so I wonder if he was just hanging out with Alice and decided to just sit in during the taping. 😄

[@MariaPalmer-xo8eb]

There have been ponies in the British Isles for thousands of years. The Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies are small but their ancestors were here since forever ( a technical term ) . Also the south of England wasnt under the ice at the last most recent ice age .

[@tinkerbellbetty]

Romans did not build those they were the indigenous peoples.

[@ZiggyWhiskerz]

So, for the emergency archeologists, it's weird to me that they didn't put up a sea wall around their dig site. There are many different kinds and many different price points. Shoot, there's even a new invention that came out recently for it that's made with plastic. Seems strange to me.

[@gariusjarfar1341]

We always look at neolithic lives through 19th century religious eyes. It's always a ceremonial site with ceremonial objects. We never interpret theses sites and objects as indications of a scientific view of neolithic people.

[@user-ne1vx7mj1b]

No we dont

[@FischerNilsA]

Oh, in many ways we do. When ruins line up with patterns in the sky, we look into how good their astronomy knowledge was. We analyze their building technology, and trade connections spanning cultures. We analyze the genetics of their domesticated anaimals to get a look at how they bred dogs, sheep and cattle. What do you think "the science of neolithic people" you want to look into - is, exactly? Graham Hancocks fantasy folks chanting stones through the air?

[@gariusjarfar1341]

@@FischerNilsA But just not if it's history that is suspicious from before the younger Dryas.

[@peterthomas4533]

I agree. The probable use is always pushed towards a mystical theme. The probable use will never been know, but I suspect it’s more to do with predicting seasons and time .

[@peterthomas4533]

I agree. The probable use is always pushed towards a mystical theme. The probable use will never been know, but I suspect it’s more to do with predicting seasons and time .

[@brendapolar8506]

In my next lifetime I’m coming back as a paleontologist and or an archaeologists amazing work that you wonderful people do thank you so much for us supposing us non-educated people in those very specialized fields about our history I’m extremely fascinated!

[@lesleythomson2823]

Me too

[@littleredhen3354]

The alter stone at stone henge being from Orkney says to me that the religious center was moved south. But thats just my impression.

[@cathjj840]

I believe that is a more recent discovery, made after this production from 2015. How it got from Orkney to Stonehenge is still in question with several theories. See recent reports.

[@littleredhen3354]

@@cathjj840 Correct. Fascinating nonetheless.

[@TheZapan99]

6:23 The level of speculations by those two ladies who most probably were never involved in armed combat is truly comical. "With something like this, you could keep it in your fist and deal somebody a horrible blow with the spiky point." Yeah, and break your own knuckles in the process, hun. Peak ceremonial object enjoyer, right there.

[@zoespencersound]

My thoughts ENTIRELY! NOTHING primitive about us -

[@CrackCatWantsPat]

Since I am not a seasoned call of duty veteran like yourself maybe you can explain why she's wrong? If you hit someone with this in your fist then it would make your punch harder wouldn't it? I don't see why it would hurt my knuckles if I hit somewhere soft like the face

[@joeyr7294]

@@CrackCatWantsPat Must not be seasoned with common sense either! That thing under your facial tissue, called a skull.....it is surprisingly hard. Foreheads in fact can ricochet a bullet under the right circumstances. Stone object..and a hard object evolved to protect your brain collide, flesh with a way less dense bone structure than your face stuck in between, add force.....hopefully you're a little bit more seasoned with common sense physics than you are with needless insults. lol

[@CrackCatWantsPat]

@@joeyr7294 My guy you should read the entire comment before making embarrassing remarks. I specifically said "somewhere soft like the face" and you retort by saying the skull is hard while completely ignoring the softer parts like jaw and nose. Goodness gracious the average reading comprehension and common sense has gone down hill. Hope those aren't your kids in the pic otherwise I feel sorry for em

[@shinywarm6906]

I do agree with the gist of your comment, though not the gratuitous misogyny. None of those objects appeared to me to be weapons. They really needed to add any evidence they might have had to support that interpretation.

[@darthkittenn]

To everyone: Religion and a belief in something more has always been a huge part human life because there was so little we knew about the why and how of the universe and earth. Religion and spiritual belief gave us answers to things we didn’t understand, so usually, yeah a lot of archeological finds are connected to religion, symbolism and spiritualism.

[@Joyride37]

This is more of a philosophical pondering: now that we know way more about the world and how it actually works, and speaking VERY generally here, organized religion is on the decline bc strict belief in supernatural explanations for, say, the weather or where we come from, are no longer complicit with our current scientific knowledge. (Or if a particular religion is on the rise or people identify with it in a casual sense, it may often be due to the ethnic/tribal/community identity it brings rather than any attachment to the actual beliefs. Excluding the people where the actual beliefs matter to them bc that’s still a motivation for them obviously) However, in a sense, our brains need religion or some kind of spiritual/religious ritual customs and the community around it, because of the way we evolved and how our societies developed (we’re deeply social creatures and particular set of religious beliefs/spirituality is a better community unifier than solely intellectual bonds, though those can make communities too) Japan has an interesting culture around that, where in practice beliefs aren’t exactly necessary in Shinto and Buddhism, but ritual is deeply ingrained in the culture. It makes me wonder what the future will bring for various religions. I’m not a “religion is terrible and we all should just stop having it” bc it serves a genuine function for our community health, even if some are very flawed or have an ugly history at times. Or currently cause harm in some way in addition to whatever positive impact it has. But I do think we’re in a time of flux where the people who find identity with religious groups, or take comfort in the beliefs or motivation to be a good person, may feel out of sorts wondering what the future or place is now. And the people who don’t affiliate themselves with a particular religion also feel out of sorts in a different way, bc communities may be harder to find or more specific to a singular hobby or interest The archaeological record of now is gonna be very interesting 1000 years from now

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

Circse, Circle, Church, Nome, Grove, Synagogue, Basilica, Temple, Vatican. It's all a reference to the Great Mother, Asherah, Ashoura, Ashura, Kythera, Anat, Pipitunaka, Amaru, etc The Great Dragon or Serpent 🐍 representing Hydra, which appeared at Saturnalia One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4) There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000. One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666.... 360 ÷ 6.66 is 54 54 x 2 is 108 108 x 2 is 216 To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400). This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present based sixty or seximal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years. 6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects. Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. This shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, which effects the arc of a Pendulum like that in a Grandfather Clock, the Sun also does this in the sky over the seasons. But first, they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160! This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This is the basis of the Olympics, to mark a Leap Year, starting with the first Full Moon of the Summer Solstice. This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions. Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light. 1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333 11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid. The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years 72 x 3 is 216 2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333 The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC, and ended with one on June 5 2012. The double headed Phoenix. This whole code can be encrypted into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66. 100 is the "perfect number" because it represents Ten (6 unit) metrics times ten 6 unit metrics: a unit being 6.66 ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27. 11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star of the Dog days of Sirius, in Assyria, and the star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the # of years in a 'Great Solar Return'. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) This is why at every Megalithic site we find Theatres, like in "Nazereth" and Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point, as well as in New Zealand. Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David: 13 x 360 is 4680 4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666.. The circumference of the Earth in Nautical Miles is 21,600 This means the basis of the Nautical Mile is the Moon. Calculate the Circumference of the Earth in kms by multiplying the Diameter of the Moon by 18.6, the period of a Metonic Cycle in years to get 40,175.

[@rickwrites2612]

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[@lookslikeiwin]

@@Uncanny_MountainThis is a lot of gnostic nephilim dmt shit.​​⁠​⁠ The Bible explicitly lays out that the serpent/dragon (likely a fallen seraphim) is a deceiver and the enemy of mankind who has basically been defeated by Jesus Christ (seed of the woman who crushes the serpent's head although the serpent bites his heel). It is weak now. Also, Enoch was righteous and taken up to Heaven. If he was later deified, wasn't his fault people are desperate to find anything but the actual creator to worship. No true professing Christian is worshipping a weak demon dragon coughing up its last fiery breaths. It is literally the dragon that gets stabbed through in Revelation. Not worthy.

[@hughbean6785]

Thanks Alice and all involved great sites and history

[@AquariusGate]

7:39 all those artefacts could be held in ropework and held on leashes in combat.

[@ColdHawk]

Archeology cliché incoming: It didn’t fracture at the weakest point during use, right at the hafting hole where the stone is thinnest and most susceptible to shock, and any lateral stresses would be transferred from the handle to the head during a mis-struck blow. Instead it was… ceremonially… broken because “we are finding so many fractured mace heads.” Archeologists in 10,000 years will have fun deciphering the dog grooming brushes, the handles of which I have snapped at their thinnest point in the past year as I pulled them (un-ceremonially) through the coat of our freakishly large Bernadoodle. I keep them because I can still use them by grasping the back, so I expect they will be deposited together when I eventually decide to throw them in the rubbish. Must be ritual, no doubt.

[@debdenny7552]

It really does make one wonder how they determine what some objects are and what they were used for, doesn’t it?

[@Hamiltonharty]

They mentioned that it had more to do with context, i.e. the objects being consistently found in the same place possibly deposited in burials with bodies among other grave goods that also possibly could have been ritually broken. They didn't really discount the possibility of accidental breakage and said many likely were. Whether you ritually break something or accidentally break something it probably will still break in the same way but the context of where the object of found tells much more of the story. Archeologists rarely ever say anything for certain and generally only make positive assertions when an abundance of evidence can back up that assertion. Even still it's only a hypothesis and likely disputed by other archaeologists

[@auroraborealis6009]

Absolutely! Consider the number of modern people with hardware of various descriptions such as artificial joints, rods, screws and plates. All with serial numbers. Then there are things like breast implants, chin implants, etc. I wonder what they'll think of those

[@tgmickey513]

Two of my favorite TimeTeam alums still feeding my brain!

[@chikaka2012]

We still know almost nothing about the why and how of most of the universe including the human brain and our oceans that cover the large majority of this planet.

[@moriko07]

I can hear the echo of the Ainulindalë in the distance as I listen to this video. Keep digging, you are doing a great job.

[@Dishfire101]

What a great series ❤

[@flyinggreenpeace]

Inspirational and informative video, thank you very much

[@MichaelSimpsonLegal]

Matt seems used as a prop, using his popularity and pleasing face rather than involving him for his knowledge and experience to be a leader in the narration of the story. I hoped for more information and details coming directly from him. Has he never been tried out as a younger Sir Tony?

[@andrewmckeown6786]

The objects are for weaving grass/fibres into rope

[@PickleSammich-nd7pv]

Yeah! I was thinking something to with rope. That ball makes me think of card weaving.

[@janetwebb2701]

Wonderful work. Here is an idea...sea walls? Wouldn't a bit of effort in that area be beneficial to extend archeological study. If a high profit dock front were in the offering the $$$$$ would be found.

[@lizzietheoldbiddy262]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you both so much 😊

[@Junyo]

Just remember that if an archeologist doesn't understand something the automatic (almost 'knee jerk') answer is "it must be religious".

[@Chrisprusse]

And pseudo-archeologists' automatic reaction is "aliens."

[@kathykonkle1097]

It's easier to dismiss things we can't understand as ancient people creating "temples" for "ceremonies" or illogical extreme burials rather than consider the real original usage of a structure. Just like we do, the ancient people built water gathering, filtration and transport systems, sewage systems, fertilizer and other chemical processing plants, cold storage facilities, grain storage, irrigation systems or retaining walls. They used lightning rods and knew that currents could pass through rock and so on but religious archaeologists just project it was all built out of fear of "God" or worship of some supernatural entity.

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

i was wondering if it was the place they brought their girlfriends for a date.

[@Johnny_Appleweed]

Yeah but they do that for a reason... because of how many times that has proven to be the answer. It's also a reasonable explanation for things that don't otherwise make sense, because religion and spiritualism are the aspects of human behavior which are the most nonsensical.

[@davescott7680]

And if the history channel doesn't understand something... "Aliens!!"

[@janeknight3597]

Could this be linked to the new discovery about the altar stone at Stonehenge??

[@monicabritt3769]

More Matt please. ☺️❤️

[@Texasborn99]

I enjoyed this video very much. ❤ thank you

[@AntPDC]

Cathedrals are the seats of Christian Bishops. There is no such thing as a "5000 year-old Cathedral". Silly title.

[@arturofuente4832]

They were ahead of their time.

[@mirandamom1346]

He did say “the so-called cathedral”. It is a familiar term for large buildings used for ceremonial purposes.

[@lenabreijer1311]

A cathedral is just another word for a ritualistic complex.

[@dogrudiyosun]

​@@arturofuente4832😂❤

[@terryyakamoto3488]

Dear Christians, as you happily watch shows on the internet, which developed through the scientific method, whilst contentedly living in an age of increased life expectancy, which increased due to applying the scientific method, do you ever feel a bit silly that you obsess over a religion that is scientifically ridiculous, with its virgin births and people coming back from the dead, etc, etc. No.... I thought not

[@TheQueensWish]

I loved the program. So many interesting discoveries and projects. Thank you.

[@francesbernard2445]

Thank you for sharing a lot of interesting information about British history. Except for one thing. Horses for a long time were often being demanded from local peasants to be shipped to any war front. Nomadic shepherds and peasants were not often being the horse killers. Like the number of horses which got shipped overseas across the Atlantic ocean during the Polish-Russian war. That had nothing at all to do with killing horses just for the horse meat. The large city called Edmonton, Alberta Canada in some neighborhoods have been built on top of some very large obsolete now old coal mine tunnels which were built that city maintenance crews are sometimes finding to be more than just a little bit problematic now that climate change is happening which makes flooding more of a possibility. A lot of the coal miners who used to work in them may have been from Asian ancestory, Metis/Irish ancestry, or they could have been adopted indigenous orphans. Later on maybe Jewish forced migrants too.

[@thelastdruidofscotland]

I tend to think that this place was the capital of a whole culture, the site also bears a resemblence to what plato described as atlantis, although far fetched, its the only remaining site to fit his description

[@dinahjackson8146]

I looove this show!❤ THANK YOU, ONE and AAALL!❤🎉❤

[@SuzanneCoe]

So glad the site was saved, so very fascinating brilliant 👍

[@norajensen5673]

I enjoyed that enormously. And feel a ‘family history’ feeling because I am Welsh and Scots. I noticed a Viking DNA video , recently, saying that though there were😊 signs of Viking culture on Orkney, the skeletons they have found had local DNA

[@norajensen5673]

The emoji was a mistake 🙄

[@nancyphillips2049]

Love these shows. Thank you!

[@Narghul100]

nice video man!

[@knowcoiner5599]

Was the writing on stone that was done before it was repurposed into the building structure?

[@bethbartlett5692]

Matthew !!! I adore Matt. ☀️ Scotland, may he part of the UK, but I will never consider Scotland to be Britain.

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

@ 1:07 I think they mean Alba.

[@Jake-vh6jp]

Alba is the north of Britain...

[@peterthomas4533]

Why does an emotive word like cathedral have to be used. Why can’t it be seen as a building that the community are using to predict time and the seasons.

[@ITSONLYMEWATCHING]

Matthew Williams is all grown up.

[@rosehart341]

I'm amazed that people on here are getting so riled up about the use of the word 'cathedral'! It's being used as a metaphor, ffs!

[@suemowat222]

It should be in inverted commas.

[@benjaminollis]

Call it a mosque then, just as innapropriate

[@sansserif8839]

​@@suemowat222 Not in every country!

[@violetlight8138]

I appreciate the positivety, but is it not possible that the scratches on the stone were just cut marks? Also, how is it that the standing stone is an altar. Isnt it kinda thin? Maybe just a bit more info how you came to these conclusions would help.

[@SUMMER_C]

It's an auction house for the breads and pottery etc ffs. Then the stones elsewhere are like the market stones , billboards for the main stall holders . The markets held on timing relevant to the moon and stars so many could come trade

[@RandomRangerRambles]

Facts?

[@voraciousreader3341]

I have no idea where Alice Robert’s is from, as I’ve not looked for her biography and it doesn’t really matter, but her regional accent is surely interesting!

[@martinemjt]

regarded the 5000 years old cathedral, perhaps the flooded plain remained flooded for too long and they had to flee and leave everything behind!

[@forbesmeek6304]

There must be some way of screening pedantry from the comments.

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

Probably originally aired 2015 from what I can see

[@rogergriffin9893]

So this was filmed clear back in 2014?

[@Unsolicitedbias]

Or pieces of machinery? You may not have the schematic to draw conclusions, but things could have been interlocked with wooden shafts, I wonder like an early clock or celestial time keeper, maybe the seasons or the solstices. Just mechanism to measure out time.

[@airyanashayana6133]

30:35 : Scottish Abu Simbel ! Respect ! Can I support ?

[@ericafarkas7626]

I love seeing a time team archaeologist on this

[@stephkluske423]

Would have been better if they included some footage of Matt speaking. He is a very accomplished archeologist. A few scratches on the wall which could have been done by a bored kid, let's blow it out of proportion and call it 'Ritualistic Artwork' 🥴🤔

[@TheScamper44]

I couldn’t help but note how u stated: “… wall divided the ‘wilds’ of the North, from the Roman occupied South of Scotlaand…” because they were not understood, the ‘Pict’s’ and other “clans” or tribes of ppl in the North, were referred to by the sophisticated Romans, as ‘wild.’. ridiculous, eh?! after witnessing just how civilized these early settlers of Scotland really were. good job, you!

[@onlyme219]

Calling it a cathedral is a bit of a stretch, was/is the Ness of Borodgar a city? I thought that was the rule for cathedrals, maybe church would be a better name for this

[@RKHageman]

It’s a metaphor- don’t take it literally. They don’t mean it was a Roman Catholic cathedral in +/- 3100 BC

[@loua1519]

Does that woman not realize how asinine it sounds to say people spent hundreds of years building a gathering site but since it couldn't be outdone they destroyed it and left.

[@auroraborealis6009]

They could have easily abandoned it due to famine or disease wiping out most of the local population, a bad storm, or they got tired of it.

[@judysowell290]

Given the time period, how did they make the hole in the mace heads?

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

The word ''Cathedral'' suggests Christianity. Christianity is only 2,000 years old. So, whatever else the building might be, it WASN'T a cathedral!!

[@lisakincaid3974]

It is true that many people will think of large Christian houses of worship first, but the word "cathedral" itself is not limited to Christianity. The site being uncovered has been hypothesized to be a large centralized place for ritual activities. That fits with the original meaning of "cathedral".

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

@@lisakincaid3974 The word ''cathedral'' comes from the Latin word for 'seat'. It is a word specifically, and exclusively, relevant to Christianity. All other places of worship are called 'temples', 'shrines', 'synagogues', etc. You are wrong.

[@lisakincaid3974]

Language usage changes over the course of generations. If you would kindly refer to a dictionary or two, you might observe the definition has expanded to analogous usage. In the case of this program, the term cathedral is being used to give modern viewers a point of reference for the scale of the site being excavated by the archaeological team. While it may be wanting for the precision you would prefer, it may be the step up a less learned individual may need to improve their understanding.

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

Yes, God only existed according to your personal feelings, before white people, no one ever worshipped a God of any kind, or built anything You're basically God after all 😂

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

​@@v1e1r1g1e1actually you're wrong Church comes from Circse and Circle Literally means a Stone Circle 😜 😳

[@Dawnsdelightsart]

It's not like stores existed then to buy food. I don't blame the humans for just trying to survive in a very difficult time.

[@BeeNotDismayed]

14:10 That might be a military thing. I remember a friend of mine who attended USMC Officers Candidate School at Quantico telling me about the _esprit de corps_ of their communal toilets. I remember because I was horrified! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

[@hgriff14]

a cathedral that is 3,000 years older than christianity? is this like “anglo saxons are indigenous to england”??

[@alexisdespland4939]

no it an anglo saxon alfred the great who invented the idea of england.

[@ditzygypsy]

@@hgriff14 This place of worship/temple has nothing to do with Christianity. There were people before Christ. There were religions before Christ and all throughout history. They actually call it a temple in the video. Did you watch it?

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

Yes you are a maroon incapable of thinking beyond your own personal ignorance Basically the entire universe revolves around your feelings

[@mirandamom1346]

Why is this such an irritable comment section? You have an extensive complex of buildings with signs of enormous feasts, but lacking signs of domestic use. It seems likely that whatever went on at the Ness of Brodgar involved the whole community in some non-prosaic activities. Why couldn’t those activities have been religious?

[@CharityGal]

It could have been the celebration of a new king or birth of a king's son and rituals to bring good fortune to him and the community. That's my guess.

[@mirandamom1346]

@@CharityGal I doubt those buildings were built to commemorate any one event. They were built over a very long period of time.

[@jhall7327]

Why would it have to be religious? Also....Cathedral before....LONG before Cathedrals existed? the Jewish faith was just starting to come together. Have they found religious materials? Nope, but they found WEAPONS....I know as a soldier, where ever we met we ate slot and had weapons....sooooo, your go to is religion huh?

[@Str8Maddeness]

Because they said the same thing about Stone Henge and Gobleki Tepi until they dug a little deeper. That's why they're afraid to go deeper. They're scared of the truth.

[@NosyFella]

It's a certain type of atheist who is not content with just challenging religious ideas in our contemporary society, so they like to project a modern atheistic subjectivity onto ancient peoples.

[@jeanlee1911]

if you connect the dots it looks likt one of the constellations of the big or little dippers...

[@JohnDelong-qm9iv]

Dolmens are found worldwide there are 80,000 . They are shrines to Noah’s ark. Noah has hundreds of names . Every religion has his activity’s encoded in temples and tombs . Dolmens were constructed from soft flood sediment, which petrified. Stonehenge has scooo and trowel marks on the megaliths. Stonehenge was inspired to celebrate the end of the deluge . Hindu temples are genesis theme parks in granite.

[@johnmclaughlin5660]

Amazing & ancient place jst been today! More intelligence than we could ever imagine 🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TheSouthernLady777]

I believe those megalithic stones represent leaders/fathers as a way to stay connected to them, like the tombstones today.

[@alanbatten5548]

thank goodness-- the first in six utube posts which actually have a real human doing the presenting. So the first which I can believe has some value.

[@andriesscheper2022]

No, they didn't. They even probably don't know WHAT they've found... except for a structure.

[@kathykonkle1097]

Looks like a place to store food like grain.

[@CitizenSmith50]

EXACTLY ! And a "Standing Stone" in it, implying that it might be an outstanding religious/ritual item ! It may have just been part of a roof support, like the T-shaped pillars at Gobekli Tepe are now presumed to be !

[@davedixon2068]

Is there hard evidence that the various sites on Orkney were contemporary, I am nothing to do with archaeology so this is a simple inquiry for interest sake.

[@lulumoonwoodmurakami8734]

It looks AMAZING! A lot of work, but I can’t wait to see how this evolves!

[@katakalyptica]

Thank for the insight in the adventure of humans journeys

[@SillyMoustache]

Far beit for me to contradict the wonderful Alice, but 5000 "cathedral" ???? Three thousand years before the start of churchianity? Might be a gathering place but Cathedral with a Bishop and smells and bells and stuff. C'mon keep archaeology real!

[@saberx08]

Merrium-Webster gives one definition of a cathedral as "something that resembles or suggests a cathedral (as in size or importance)". The site does indeed fall into those parameters. It being from about 5,000 years ago, we have no idea what language was spoken by the people who used that structure - and therefore no idea what they themselves called it. Our best word to understand the context of that building is indeed "cathedral".

[@CitizenSmith50]

👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

Circle, Circse, Church, all have the same root. The Temple is the night sky. One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4) There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000. One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666.... 360 ÷ 6.66 is 54 54 x 2 is 108 108 x 2 is 216 To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400). This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present based sixty or seximal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years. 6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects. Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. This shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, which effects the arc of a Pendulum like that in a Grandfather Clock, the Sun also does this in the sky over the seasons. But first, they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160! This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This is the basis of the Olympics, to mark a Leap Year, starting with the first Full Moon of the Summer Solstice. This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions. Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light. 1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333 11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid. The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years 72 x 3 is 216 2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333 The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC, and ended with one on June 5 2012. The double headed Phoenix. This whole code can be encrypted into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66. 100 is the "perfect number" because it represents Ten (6 unit) metrics times ten 6 unit metrics: a unit being 6.66 ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27. 11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star of the Dog days of Sirius, in Assyria, and the star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the # of years in a 'Great Solar Return'. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) This is why at every Megalithic site we find Theatres, like in "Nazereth" and Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point, as well as in New Zealand. Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David: 13 x 360 is 4680 4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666.. The circumference of the Earth in Nautical Miles is 21,600 This means the basis of the Nautical Mile is the Moon. Calculate the Circumference of the Earth in kms by multiplying the Diameter of the Moon by 18.6, the period of a Metonic Cycle in years to get 40,175.

[@sandradanforth8524]

If those bones are from small horses they don't match. Large spinal bones and yet very small feet????? That's hard to visualize. 😮

[@Amanda1234-nqc]

That's why one man's rubbish is another man's treasure. Excellent, Thankyou.

[@kevgermany]

Cathedral - 3000 years before Christmas?

[@RKHageman]

It’s a metaphor, dude. They don’t mean it was a literal Catholic cathedral in 3100 BC .🙄

[@alexisdespland4939]

@@RKHageman but that is what the net search function will r think.

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

😂 Where do you think the Solstice Calendar came from buddy, Scotland was called Caledonia. Israel is the Canaan word for Saturn or El, Fruit of Isis and Ra Esus aka Isis is the Celtic God of Death, Wife of Amun Ra, aka Set Saturn, celebrated at Saturnalia I and the Father are One Your Father is the Devil It's Accusations in a Mirror 🪞

[@SUMMER_C]

They're not weapons . They're for marking pottery and bread in baking . It's a bakery and pottery house. Not a temple.

[@RandomRangerRambles]

How do you know this?

[@PickleSammich-nd7pv]

I think they’re meant for weaving and rope making. Pottery or baking is good thought too.

[@jessehickman668]

Those anl beads on the coffee table look terribly uncomfortable. I love watching these, but I think people put too much emphasis on the theoretical stuff like mythology and spirituality. I’ll bet our ancestors were far smarter and more practical than we give them credit for. I’ll bet that they behaved pretty much exactly as we do with the exception of technology and access to information. Otherwise I’ll bet they’d be just like us

[@pinstripesuitandheels]

altar, temple, cathedral... isn't that going a bit far with the interpretation?

[@Sickoftheinsanity]

Matt doesn’t mention he’s excavated those caves with Timeteam

[@durstondarden8765]

I really hope you're radiocarbon dating everything that you can from these sites.. It's almost criminal not to excavate sites when they are found. You're losing the history of the people, not just the individual archaeologists, and schedulers. These sites should be completely and totally excavated, especially when they're in danger. There will always be something for future archaeologists to study.

[@christineg8151]

There's a limit to how much excavation can be done. Funding and archaeologists are limited, and you have to focus on what you have manpower and money to do, with sites that are in imminent danger a priority. As "in danger" as sites on shoreline are, you also have to deal with sites that are in danger from buildings, roads, etc that are planned. As much as I would like to have every site completely excavated immediately, it's just not practical. Also, so far as the future archaeologists are concerned, in theory the past is limitless. However, it's not uncommon to leave areas of a site unexcavated because archaeological technologies change. You have no idea what you might be destroying that someone 20 (or 100) years from now might be able to make sense out of. If you dig it all, you risk destroying that evidence. Look at Pompeii, for instance. Only a small fraction of the city has been excavated, and it has taken literally hundreds of years. When excavations first started, archaeology was in its infancy. Items were dug up with a focus on retrieving art and identifiable artifacts, primarily from the upper class. Now, we're able to take tiny scraps of items and piece them together in ways that just weren't possible previously, and we can say a lot more about the lower classes, the more ordinary people. We're just barely starting to be able to analyze the text on carbonized scrolls, but 30 years from now, that may be a relatively trivial task, and who knows what else we'll be able to make sense of that never would have occurred to us to even try to look for. If we dig up everything as soon as we find it, we lose all that potential. Better to take things slowly and carefully, outside of rescue archaeology situations.

[@Trotoloko]

A 5.000 yo cathedral? This is misinformation.

[@morganrasmussen5071]

Really? Really? Most people would understand this usage, definition, and derivation. Apparently, not everyone.

[@Trotoloko]

@morganrasmussen5071 Most people should understand what anacronism is.

[@morganrasmussen5071]

@definitivamenteno-malo7919 im curious, which is it, misinformation or anachronism? Are they allowed to be poetical and metaphorical without being accused of misinforming? Perhaps the building was used as a school, would it be misinformation to lable it a university? I wonder where the line is? It's possible your objection is focused on the 'clickbait' aspect. However, I clicked BECAUSE of the 5000 YO cathedral, intrested to learn of a scared structure from prehistory If they'd used the word Temple, would that have been misinformation? Considering the buildings' use is unknown, any lable could be misinformation, and 5000 year old building really dosen't stir the imagination. I look forward to your opinions, thank you.

[@cjhawk9308]

prof mark edmonds talks like a cryptic crossword, "in other words" the answer is hidden in the words he uses. and must he have been aware that others have used the same words in another place, both further north and perhaps even in an essay as far south as oxford.

[@littlemouse7066]

I'm a bit uncomfortable when I see archeologists taking scheletons from their graves those are people not objects people who were generally buried with a ceremony and meant to lie there in peace. Is it possible to study them without disturbing them?

[@pauloldman804]

Why do they never ask the central question of archaeology? Why is there so much soil over objects?

[@cathjj840]

1. Cosmic dust settles on Earth in large quantities every single day. 2. ..3. .4... 5..... Maybe because geologists, gardeners, etc, amateurs and professionals have figured out long ago the many contributing factors to that ubiquitous phenomenon already; it's a given on this planet .

[@Anonymous-sc7qs]

Mace head had a perfect round hole. Now how did that happen without a Diamond Head Drill bit?

[@AWICKEDVIXEN1999]

Its a war fort or hunting or both..social area

[@magsrankin6166]

Ad after ad after ad. Constant disruption by commercials.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Archeologists are the only people who study what they will be in the future.

[@hallitoff3883]

Interesting that Scotland has a "national" museum!