Meydan Kalesi | Giant Polygonal and Cyclopean Walls in Turkey | Megalithomania

[@justinyang5989]

Absolutely amazing! The polygonal stonework worldwide says it all!

[@anzacman5]

Well what does it say? For a start it was global, on every continent. (No sure about Antarctica). Secondly it was antediluvian - apart from the stonework, nothing else survived. Thirdly it was a race of giants, going by the proportions of the architecture, doorway dimensions, etc. Not to mention the legends. And NONE of this gets taught in our schools. Definitely a race with amnesia.

[@Zukalski]

@@anzacman5 and everyone that believes in this very plausible story is set aside as e right wing extremist conspiracy theorist... WHAHAH what a CLOWNWORLD we live in

[@anzacman5]

@iumaser3219 I sense an underlying theme here, but I don't think it's of much interest to me

[@Les537]

@@anzacman5 lol

[@Outrjs]

It's concrete.

[@larry3591]

Awsome thanx

[@enalb5085]

ill bet there is a vast tunnel system under that

[@sparrovski]

Yes. Like the one in the jungle up the top of the mountain. They said there was rooms under it but didn't look for the entrance?

[@AliBuba33]

I am a local guy and yes I can confirm that there is at least one tunel contact to Cyprus. But we know many exist nobody interested part from turesue hunters.

[@atromitos7094]

*ALL ACROSS TURKISH SHORES ARE FULL WITH ANCIENT GREEK MONUMENTS*

[@ike4425]

Wow, as a Turk over 40s of archaeology enthusiast i thought i knew most of the ancient site in Turkey but this one shocked me that i did not know exist

[@claudioshivatabasso8078]

Wonderfull... fantastic.... no words to describe this example of ancient ingeniering .... they carved the stones blocks as they were butter!

[@lcmlcm2460]

Wow I’ve never seen this site before. I love Turkey, amazing and mysterious megalithic structures, plus was home to the great Sumerians. ❤

[@thugmessiah]

Another good one Hugh, thx. 🍻🚀☄🎭

[@SandyRegion]

The scale of this is incredible.

[@Pany1Galanis]

Amazing that you were able to visit/get to, this remote Megalithic site and to be able to share it in such detail with us. Bravo to you and your team!

[@pamwarman]

Amazing!

[@vladghelu516]

New history!

[@Janet-Jupiter2025]

Thanks for a phenomenal share Hugh👍👍😊😊

[@JohnBrown-cn2qz]

Agree! Excellent drone footage, Hugh. 👍

[@JohnBrown-cn2qz]

@12:00 Yes. I agree with you about the Pelasgians. I wish there was more research about them.

[@polygonalmasonary]

Astonishing video, with much construction that ought to be examined scientifically.

[@moranmike36]

Another great video! Thanks! Bedrock

[@gordonmculloch4904]

Amazing site, I bet there so much more in Turkey to be found. Thanks for uploading. Cheers 👍

[@paulanderson5389]

Megalithic jigsaw puzzle. Amazing! Just amazing

[@daveb8323]

Wish I had a Time Machine. Great show, thanks.

[@Stonecutter334]

Never heard of this place before. This place looks extremely old. The erosion here is pretty intense. How in the world did they get all these giant blocks up there ? Great stuff as always Hugh and JJ.

[@doomoo5365]

It looks like it's been used as a Quarry just like the sites in Peru

[@braxtonmay391]

that was one hell of a cornerstone there. Love the iconic polygonal masonry

[@Carolevw]

Wow! That was amazing! So isolated and yet so huge! Thanks Hugh ❤

[@yaseminberitan7525]

Greetings from Turkey, Kale is not castle, it means Fort in Turkish. Thank you for the video, hope you have a nice stay .

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Thanks for this info. There seems to be a few slightly different names from different sources, but generally kalesi and kale are the most used. In English it's 'castle' on wikipedia.for the video.

[@Alarix246]

Thanks for this. I said something similar elsewhere and got one Turk responding in a quite agitated manner. Nevertheless, I'm almost sure that if the namme and original history of this site is forgotten, I'd love to believe that they were rather pre-Hellenistic and correspond to the Plato description of pre-Athenians, the pre-Younger Dryas culture. But of course until some vast excavations prove this point, it's only our collective wishful thinking. There must be vast underground spaces below. The question is how was this fort destroyed: if by another military force, there will be hardly anything left to prove the actual age. But if it was destroyed by the YDB cataclysm, there might be a lot left underground.

[@mkultrasearch123]

@Ευτοπία Iumaser Nobody said above it's been build by Turks so chill out, u also sound kinda racist, arrogant and ignorant at the same time as u said "Turks don't even have a Mythology"

[@elleshar666]

@iumaser3219 Many ancient civilizations lived around these lands at one point or the other. Greeks also didn't just brought civilization to these lands. Yes Turks arrived at 1071. Turks took ownership of what's there and built upon existing structures. Just like Greeks were not the first people in Anatolia. I think facts don't hurt anybody but there are some Greek people who act as if the first bacteria was of Greek origin and they own the earth entire.. You were the invading force in Anatolia at one point were you not? So when you invade a place it's your in perpetuity? That's a wrong way of looking at things. These structures have been in Turkish care for so long people of Turkey claim them as their own and protect them. The sentimentality is that if you come up and claim these sites "today" that is seen as the Greeks seek ownership of these lands today. That is the dispute I believe. Otherwise nobody claims ,say, Seljuks built the Ephesus. Also, there is this crippled idea that Turks have been here for a thousand years and didn't build a thing. I mean, it's a castle, you stack up rocks. I really respect the great Greek architecture but as I said, the orientalist approach that turks are so dumb they can't build waterways, towns and bridges is silly. I for one believe that the borders have no meaning against the time frames spoken about these lands. I wonder who were the people built Gobeklitepe and all these sites many millennia ago.

[@lahaina4791]

Dudes...castle and fort are synonyms. 😮

[@ZiggyDan]

Thanks for looking out for Nubs. I'll be all over this place a.s.a.p.

[@MichaelMartinussen]

Love it! Turkey really hides lots of lot VERY ANCIENT STUFF :)

[@ryanadams68]

I'll bet its great to not have to share all of these hidden gems with throngs of tourists. Thanks for the rare insights. I appreciate you. Much love from New Mexico.

[@Super-lucky-7777]

Another amazing site

[@DActual-yn9mb]

Fascinating. Thanks for the tour.

[@jamesevans3492]

Amazing Stonework . . . Wow . . .

[@burneye]

absolutely amazing site! and top notch work! thank you for this!

[@watcherspirit2351]

Thank you for the wonderful and important video. You do great work.

[@elusive323]

Thank you so much for showing us this.

[@elusive323]

Cool outtro standing in that gate man !

[@alexgabriel5423]

Anatolia Baby!!! Speechless!! BRAVO FOR THE SOLID COVERAGE including the Aerial!!!

[@nancyM1313]

Excellent 💜

[@ajkaajka2512]

the carved circle on the lid at 9:51 looks like Maltese cross

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

This could be a later addition.

[@michelrea2403]

Im a construction contractor and I just am amazed at when I see this ! Just can’t wrap my mind around these sites, and there all over the world.

[@bluJ-76]

Awesome!!!

[@nicksothep8472]

The picture in the thumbnail looks amazingly like a site in Italy, I bet many of the Mediterranean and middle Eastern sites were originally linked, built by the same people. It would be intresting to see it from above, like very, satellite above, as some of these are built from the same type of stone, I wonder what else they share..

[@scottzema3103]

Well, terms like 'the same people', or 'the work of a much higher technology' veer into tropes about Neolithic monuments being built by Atlanteans or aliens. Wrong direction of speculation and demeans the capabilities of our ancestors in these locations.

[@mazrio128]

Best channel there is !!

[@TheMastaSelecta]

Excellent video as usual. Walls are amazing.

[@sergiomadrid2545]

Great! Very similar all constructions of Peru.... Thank you for sharing with us

[@Leo-nine]

omg the niches!!! just like that whole area of quenco, sacsayhuaman, templo de la luna, and beyond. love love love

[@elsrozemond9912]

wow fantastic thank you for sharing❤

[@pauloleao6547]

Congratulacions, you always descovering news sites

[@thelastaustralian7583]

Imagine the Wooden Doors ,windows,roofs, etc must have looked amazing at its peak...

[@robertodebeers2551]

It is impossible to believe that this kind of stone craftsmanship simply appeared in Turkey and Peru independently of each other at roughly the same time by chaps using copper chisels and mallets.

[@polygonalmasonary]

1:17 It is signifying the 'Negative Terminal', you need to look on the opposite corner for the positive connection symbol, seriously!!

[@artificiusintelligence4996]

1:23 The “ears” looks like the top of wheat 🌾 plant.

[@Mary-t5d5c]

That sign on the edge is so crazy. Thank you

[@JeffM---]

Wow...what this must have looked like in its heyday, you can only wonder. Thanks for another great journey.

[@dabow692]

I notice the wall in Turkey from end on at 3.04 is only A facard ... the cut does not go right through to the other side , Like the face is polygonal but not the infill in the middle . I'd like to see a big stone lifted in Peru to see if the cut is as perfect after the first few inches , may give us some insight as to how they where assembled

[@hermes3883]

That is so mind blowing. Thank you.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

It's hard to believe that it's just left to erode away without being catalogued!

[@__user__name__]

Do you have any idea how much old stuff in Turkiye to catalog?

[@S-T-E-V-E]

@@__user__name__ Do you have any idea how much of it is fake!

[@__user__name__]

​@@S-T-E-V-E My parents home in town in Turkey has a Roman marble for door entrance. Many amphoras around. Until 1990s there were 2 mounds in the center of farmland.

[@zandrarose2258]

Big walls like that would keep out big animals.

[@SmokeyTreats]

So amazing, thanks! I wonder if the person who created the circle design on the cornerstone at 1:25 ever imagined it would last for Millennia.

[@finnjake6174]

such a beatiful place. i could only imagine how it looked like in its glory in the past.

[@sandrajones1609]

How exciting 😲 more confirmation of ancient civilization ! Much Gratitude For Your Videos and Telling ✌️

[@tomforfor]

Super good work Thanks to show us

[@mindbender3379]

Wonderous Hugh - thank you!!!! The skill of craftsmanship, planning, fitted stone... and all across the world this building style is present; astounding! Its much older I think. Stone - our ancient past, the most prevalent, durable material, and built to last, a statement to stand with the march of Time. Every time I see places like this I want to acquire the Site Sketches (charcoal or pencil) & Surveys to have as records, to admire and show my children that we were, are, will always be skillful, have boundless creativity, whilst always keeping in mind; when there's a will - there's a way!

[@TimFaulkner-qb5kl]

Great video of a fascinating place.

[@Thebes77777]

Ancient present day Turkey, was covered with advanced architectural stone work, from walls to temples. Excellent doc. Thank you.

[@elizabethdiane6791]

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@ReturnViewersGuide]

Wow what an amazing site. The two stones fitted together at the top of the doorway shown at 15:40 is very interesting. That style for the top of a doorway might be fairly common I don't know but I don't recall seeing another doorway like this one. Thanks for the video

[@00leaveralone]

And there were giants on the earth in those days….and also afterward….mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Very round-eyed individuals. Woulda been a trip to encounter one for an interview; however without becoming a menu item for dinner.

[@GANAPATIIIII]

VERY VERY COOL 👀

[@12TribesUnite]

Super interesting video!

[@howardfreeland5595]

Thanks, this is a very good presentation! I still believe that there was a world wide culture that had special technology to cut and lift the megalithics. If we look the word over, there are many ancient ruins that are very similar in the size and shape of the huge rocks. We could not place the megalithics with modern technology and equipment that we see today in widely spaced areas.

[@v4skunk739]

We could do it now. But it would be very hard making polygonal stones. The ancients 100% had tech at least on par with todays tech imo.

[@howardfreeland5595]

@@v4skunk739 Even if we could cut the megalithics today, I do not beieve that we could place them at Machu Piccu and other extremely remote areas.

[@v4skunk739]

@@howardfreeland5595 We could use helicopters like Chinook lifting one stoner at a time.. You get my point, you are not doing it with out tech.

[@howardfreeland5595]

@@v4skunk739 Many of the megalitics are 500 to 1000 tons (1,000,000 to 2,000,000 pounds). The largest megalithic rock that I've seen in a video was about 1200 tons, I believe. No helicopter could lift something that heavy!

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Watch the engineers video where he explains how the arch was designed without mathematics, just using a rope. There's some common building technique that spread during antiquity. Or the human brain worked it out independently.

[@eviltrickyspider5266]

That was absolutely amazing thanks for sharing

[@rossnolan7283]

Hard to see what it was for -not situated in farmable land or appearing like residential construction . Has it been excavated for artifacts, remains or dating ? How were the rock cut 'caves' done and why ? Building on a cliff edge seems difficult to understand -fortifications against whom ? The fitting of unique shaped stones together doubles the mystery , little chance to test fit and 'cut to size' whilst stacking them - 'amazing' doesn't adequately describe ..

[@juhaaavalaakso455]

Pocket image quality is phenomenal. Shoot 50 or 60 fps when bright sunlight to make it even more crisp :)

[@Super-lucky-7777]

Nice to see this video doing well.

[@larryoilund3377]

Thanks!

[@xrotor7813]

Really excellent shots of the internal wall construction vs the visible portions. To me at least, the rough fitting of the interior wall stone work indicates that polygonal construction was a labour saving method allowing stones to be used in closer to their quarried or found forms.

[@rayerscarpensael2300]

Labour saving would be square. Imagine the hassle to fit those and the trial and errors and how to shove lift drop them in place.

[@xrotor7813]

@@rayerscarpensael2300 suggest you take into consideration that the method shown allows for minimum rock shaping. If you are shopping rocks with other rocks this will be an advantage. Especially if stone hammers are trying to beat stones into multiple equal size, straight and square, blocks

[@rayerscarpensael2300]

@@xrotor7813 you just assume you find the exactly fitting megalith next lying there somewhere to fit, impossible

[@xrotor7813]

@@rayerscarpensael2300 No, you are making gross a misinterpretation about what I have said. Please reread my xomments.

[@petermuller3530]

Solche Mauern bieten bei Erdbeben eine gewisse Stabilität.

[@grazhopprr]

Have you been to Tekkadın Harabeleri ? More polygonal walls there. Pasli also.

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

we went to three other sites, or at least near them as there are several in the area.

[@keithbill310]

Wonderful Place

[@DrVektor]

So similar stone walls have in Datça peninsula in turkey.

[@wojciechwitulski6075]

Do you know exactly where they are?

[@StephanieSmith-qh8kr]

Thanks

[@afternoobtea914]

Beautiful and interesting indeed!

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Beautiful. I'll take two please.

[@funkb0x]

Polygonal stonework is everywhere on earth. Japan hardly ever gets mentioned & has the most precise massive stones with nodules, the same as Peru. There was definitely a shared global culture 10,000+ years ago with vast knowledge. What secrets are being hidden?

[@99rkrouse]

It's amazing that there are so many megalithic walls around the world that can't be duplicated today with our most advanced technology. Were they so easy to make for the people of that time that they didn't even feel the need to leave a record of how the construction was done?

[@oval1740]

Get in a have a look 😊

[@paulanderson5389]

At 9:50 it looks like a Templar Cross or something similar. The site is much older but it shows how long people have been using that site.

[@rayerscarpensael2300]

On a terrain where nothing rolls because of the stoney underground,there goes the roll on wood megalith transportation

[@HorusOne-p9o]

after all that time and the wall is still straight from above, wow

[@customsongmaker]

You saw 2 protruding relief carvings, and those are in fact a type of nubs.

[@lynwoodreed9032]

I notice that some of the stones have knobs like those seen in other places around the world. There is also the trapezoidal doorways.

[@wag0NE]

15:39 that lintel tho

[@barbarayates6392]

Never saw stones with holes in them before.

[@Op1zilla]

This Earth in which we Live on has an Amazing History, even as a kid i was like no way in Hell we will know everything that went on, I only wish to visit Old sites like these 👽👍🏻✨ 9:54 Symbol looks like Knights Templer Shield 🚲💥💨💨💨

[@toddincabo]

DAMN ! just Damn !

[@shanedog9082]

Cool video. I have to think Peru and turkey must have had some connection in antiquity. The megalithic construction is really similar, no exactly but close

[@ike4425]

The name of the town where Meydan Kalesi is called Silifke a Turkified name derived from Seleucids.

[@misewixe2777]

Great vid! At 5:33, are these things sticking out from the wall - shells? Maybe mixed in? Looks like a block of roughly mixed concrete :)

[@jntdvs]

The polygonal stone cuts are extremely interesting! They have to be from the ancient culture that was over the whole earth. I also has to be pre flood. Beautiful 😮❤

[@monkeyearcheese420]

15:09 small keystone at the bottom right of the giant one. I've seen that shape of small stone in almost all of the different videos on this kind of stone work

[@jasonsfun31]

15:41 look at that top of the door way. 2 blocks. On the left, weighted down and has the proper angle for the right side stone to lay on top and they both do not collapse. Very cool. Could have easily have cut 1 single stone but made it fancier.

[@alainraux5075]

La Turquie est à coup sûr la Terre des origines . Félicitations pour cette vidéo très intrigante et bien filmée .

[@CMCrockett]

Some of it definitely has that Cusco look.

[@TheRotnflesh]

That side of the huge stone @5:30 the interior of the stone looks like concrete, very similar to our modern high-density concrete. Large chunks of rocks, medium sand, and fine powder binder. Sampled must be tested!

[@roykelly5486]

this is new to me. thanks 4 shring:) eh