Khortytsia, Bragarnya, Stone Circle

The forests of Khortytsia hide several ancient pagan shrines that were used by the ancient Slavs. The biggest of them is a circle made of stones, located on the Bragarnya height. The archaeologists that explored this site believe that it was used by astronomers. This sacred place dates 2000 years back, and it took two archaeological digs to uncover it completely. 

The stones used for building this shrine are local granite. The site consists of three cromlechs and fifteen granite steles. Historians believe that it was not constructed at once. It’s safe to assume that the complex of ritual sites grew along with the local community.

Members of the local pagan community renovated the shrines in 1997. Since that time these sites have been visited by thousands of tourists. Even today, neo-pagans perform their ritual around these ancient shrines. These people follow old traditions while wearing Slavic costumes that make them look like true Ancient Slavs.

These festivals are a sight to behold. It’s not only the grand celebration that can impress those who watch the proceedings. It’s the atmosphere that is completely magical, because it makes you feel like you’ve traveled back in time. click here to read more

Kamyana Mohyla - Stone Mound

Often compared to Stonehenge in Britain, Kamyana Mohyla (meaning Stone Grave or Stone Barrow in Ukrainian) has been an unsolved mystery located amid vast Ukrainian steppes. 35-feet tall boulders are scattered around the mound compassing an area of 3000 square meters. How did they get here and what was there purpose? click here to read more


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Phoenician shows European ancestry: 2,500-year-old skeleton



DNA taken from an ancient Phoenicians could has shed new light on one of the great early civilisations of the Middle East.

Researchers have sequenced the first complete genome of a 2,500-year-old body discovered in Carthage,Tunisia and found the man had European heritage. Click here for more info

The High Man - full documentary about ancient Ireland's myths and monuments

Mysterious Dolmens of Korea

Dolmens are graves made of stone which are found in many parts of the world. They belong to the prehistoric era. Dolmens appear in many parts of eastern Asia, including China and Japan, but, due to unknown reasons, in Korea there is a surprisingly huge number of these constructions, especially in the sites located in Hwasun, Gochang, and Ganghwa.

In Korea, dolmens are called ''goindol'', meaning ''the propped stone''. 40% of all of the world’s dolmens exist within South and North Korea. In South Korea, there are more than 30,000 dolmens, and up to 15,000 are found in North Korea.

Unfortunately, due to the political issues, it is nearly impossible to explore the dolmens that are located in North Korea. All of the dolmens that have been examined are dated to around 1,000 BC, and they are proof that the society was already technologically advanced during this period. The number of dolmens may suggest that many people died in the same historical period, or that they were heroes from ancient battles between different tribes.

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Exploring India’s megalithic culture

Megaliths are spread across the Indian subcontinent, though the bulk of them are found in peninsular India, concentrated in the states of Maharashtra (mainly in Vidarbha), Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

According to archaeologists R.K. Mohanty and V. Selvakumar, around 2,200 megalithic sites can be found in peninsular India itself, most of them unexcavated. Even today, a living megalithic culture endures among some tribes such as the Gonds of central India and the Khasis of Meghalaya.

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Serpent Mounds of Scotland and America Similarities

Today the Loch Nell serpent mound is in a ruinous condition, although the cairn at its head, as well as the undulating ribbing of piled stones, are still partially visible.

COMPARISONS WITH OHIO'S SERPENT MOUND

Regarding the comparisons with Ohio's own Serpent Mound, located in Serpent Mound Park, Adams County, the matter becomes that much more tricky, even though the similarities between the two are striking to say the least.
They include the fact that an oval shaped mound held in the jaws of the serpent's head once possessed a mound of stones, according to the ethnologist Frederic Ward Putnam, who investigated the site back in 1890

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Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge

Variously claimed to be a 4000-year-old megalithic astronomical complex ancient built by megalithic Native American Culture, the lost monastery wreckage of a migrant group of Irish monks, the creation of ancient Middle Eastern peoples or – by most academic archaeologists – the misinterpreted work of 18th and 19th century farmers, no one knows the origins for sure. However, the site has enough of a sordid past, outstanding questions and strong opinions about it, to leave it in a permanent state of archeological chaos.

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Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1970's Recordings Digital Remastered)

Thought-provoking interviews probing the legend of Atlantis known to Plato, the Egyptians, and much of the ancient world. Among those participating in this four-program series from the 1970's are: 

1) Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) iconoclastic thinker and author of "Worlds in Collision" (1950), 
2) Hugh Lynn Cayce (1907-1982) son of psychic Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), 
3) Dr. J. Manson Valentine (1902-1994) palaeontologist and biologist, 
4) James Sturzaker (1917-1993) founder International Order of Kabbalists, 
5) Egerton Sykes (1894-1983) renowned scholar, explorer, and Atlantologist. 

Also interviewed is Oxford-educated authoress, linguist, mysticism scholar, and patron of the arts Princess Marthe de Chambrun Ruspoli (1902-?). The princess was authentic European nobility who could claim Marquis de Lafayette and President Theodore Roosevelt as blood ancestors. Ruspoli's works include "The Divine Hawk" (1969) and "Christians Before Christ" (1980).