But it is from the Iron Age, many millennia later.
@ElsieDreamWorld3 жыл бұрын
Too similar to the T towers of Gobekli tepe.
@megret18083 жыл бұрын
Possibly an evolutionary descendant of GT
@ConstancaClara3 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@michelolsonhookedx84083 жыл бұрын
Very close to the circles at Gobekli Tepe. One T shape pillar in the center not two but reminiscent.
@RogEdwardsTV2 ай бұрын
Great video brought back loads of memories. I first visited the site in the late 1970s when there was an Oxford team there. Ground level was much higher (you can see the level stain on the Taula). I even wrote an article about the visit for the Blackpool Evening Gazette! Went again on my honeymoon in 1993 when it looked much more like in your video. 😀
@gotMylky3 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine how much covid tests/isolating is costing you mate thank you so much for still providing such awesome content :D
@righteousred7233 жыл бұрын
You mean you cant imagine how much money a very few are making. The truth would destroy you
@gotMylky3 жыл бұрын
@@righteousred723 Oh really? Could you please explain to me how it is you know what truth I know or don't know by my comment? xD A quite inappropriate response to my light hearted comment wouldn't you say?
@cargumdeu3 жыл бұрын
Hugh's nose is swab central these days...
@cargumdeu3 жыл бұрын
@@righteousred723 his company will be making a great deal less than previously because he's not running tours, i expect thats why we've seen so much of him lately.
@julianbrowne70263 жыл бұрын
@@righteousred723 Its not actually that few, many more are accessing the piles of loot so that it can be defended with more gusto but Hugh in this rather modest setting is most certainly not one of them although if he reads this unrelated bunkum I can tell archaeolgise the future, more profitable.
@williamozier9183 жыл бұрын
1:57. Holy Gobekli Tepe Batman! That enclosure is IMO obviously inspired by the enclosures of Gobekli Tepe!
@christinehede75783 жыл бұрын
What springs to mind with this circular structure is that it is designed as a building much like the yurt, with the central pillar being there to support the roof as are the taller uprights around the perimeter.
@LuisAldamiz3 жыл бұрын
No evidence that you're right but it's a good idea that maybe needs some attention. Shouldn't there be some sort of grooves or rings to attach the carp or ceiling?
@FairyFrequency3 жыл бұрын
This is such a fascinating location! Thank you for taking us along on this amazing adventure. ♡
@HughEvans7113 жыл бұрын
Another must-go-to place. Thank's Hugh and team Megalith. The Balearics have cart-ruts and so much pre-historic interest.
@carole56483 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to travel to Menorca and do field work as a student at Torre D'en Galmés, a while ago, before i'd heard of Gobleki Tepe. But as soon as I saw GT i thought, those look like Taliots.
@adriancarter8253 жыл бұрын
I was due to go there again this year we go there every year . I have visited nearly every site there in menorca most several times , I have come to the conclusion that a lot of these sites are much much older the site at st Agusti near Santa Thomas is a site where the blocks in the taliots are huge and I believe this site to be very old the blocks are huge but very weathered also a polygonal wall there very weathered but if you look carefully you can see how it fitted together quite tight , the taula enclosure there has been disturbed by farming , then you have the site at de dalt huge taula there which I think is older than Torabla den salort it is more weathered but very huge , then you have the Cyclopean wall at son catlar. Huge megalithic blocks well weathered but still very impressive and the shear size of them , the list goes on in menorca it is megalithic heaven I love the place but as I said before for me a lot of it is much older than stated , also look out there for the Neolithic walls they are everywhere some very impressive.great video Hugh I’m itching to get back there .the necropolis at cala moral is very impressive to , and how can I forget my favourite Torre den galmes.
@gitmoholliday57643 жыл бұрын
horns are often a depiction of a connection between earth and heaven.. like antennas, ancient Europe churches have vertical carvings of deer, antlers down, to show a connection between earth and heaven. even our classic view of the Ark of the covenant could be considered a box with horns on top.
@Pure-Crystal-Fire Жыл бұрын
Amazing Island Menorca , filmed lots of places over there before my channel got banned some years back , but yea totally amazing places , we where like not there for the sand and the sea really , and its amazing their tourist industry doesnt advertise them more too, but I like it like that I reckon far more acess , sometimes there is no one else but you at these places :)
@kimskomars4973 жыл бұрын
Looks related to gobekli tepi, also partially rounded enclosure
@ElsieDreamWorld3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for this. More fuel added to my investigation on lost civilizations
@maryfayard-newman92303 жыл бұрын
I cannot help but think of “Altar” when I see these Tau towers .. as in “al-TAR”. As in Taurus The BULL. The ancient altars had horns on either end . Also let’s think about the other pieces of this ancient past of ours.. where during the reign of Ramses II the Israelites/Hebrew who awaited Moses at the foot of the great mountain Sinai build a GOLDEN Bull (Taurus) to worship. This was because the Pharaohs claim that they were descended from gods (fallen angels) from the constellation Taurus and the Pleadies . (For a pretty accurate discrimination of why, take a look at a movie called “Stargate, in 1994 towards the end when you’ll understand more than you realize. The truth is right in our faces but our focus is always being shifted to fear based propaganda.
@shanosantwanos39083 жыл бұрын
I fully agree..sacrificial bull alter performed by the high priests.
@beethimbles88013 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@adriancarter8252 жыл бұрын
Hugh you really need to go to son catlar cyclopean wall there is mind blowing I’m here now been again brilliant.great instalment Hugh.
@ckotty3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing mate. 👍🏽😘
@TheTimeDetective423 жыл бұрын
OMG It's Gobekli!!!!!!
@joearchuleta75383 жыл бұрын
Hugh does that t shape pillar point east to west?
@adriancarter825 Жыл бұрын
Hugh got back from menorca last week again , strange thing about this taula it does not face south as do all the others on the island , did you spot the tall pillar with the deep cuts on it sharpening stone used by the giants .
@chrisdelagarza80483 жыл бұрын
WHOOP 🙌
@wendysalter3 жыл бұрын
The similarity to G. T. is astounding, Hugh, great find! Now we have to ask ourselves, "Have we got these dates right, or have we jumped to some conclusions because of our poor conditioned minds and incredulity?" I think this must be reviewed.
@LuisAldamiz3 жыл бұрын
They are Iron Age (he says some are as old as 2000 BCE but the reference I have from the 1980s is that the Talayotic period only begins in the Late Bronze Age c. 1300 BCE), nothing points to much earlier dates. Also the Balearic islands were first settled only with the arrival of the Neolithic, some 7500 years ago (those Cardium Pottery people were the first real sailors of the Mediterranean and also their descendants of the European Atlantic shores).
@greedybadger13 жыл бұрын
We were not as thick or backward as the powers that be try to tell us. Interesting days ahead as more of our true history will be revealed.
@99deks3 жыл бұрын
if thats a quarry, then how is it that the visible stone has scutch marks. the scutching is to provide a key for render or plaster
@susanmyers18992 жыл бұрын
It is like the very ancient sites in Turkey.
@derekwatson92073 жыл бұрын
What are the pies like in Menorca?
@thetruenolan66553 жыл бұрын
I see that Torralba means "white tower". Could it instead mean "white bull"? If the pillars were symbolic bulls, did the word for "bull" and "tower" get conflated?
@LuisAldamiz3 жыл бұрын
The pillar structure is traditionally called "taula", which means "table". Toro and torre do not get confused, r vs rr are very distinctive, two clearly distinct phonemes (probably not so much in English, whose "r" sounds are different but in Catalan, Spanish, Basque or even Italian there's no possible confusion: tap and thrill are not the same, certainly not before vowel).
@thetruenolan66553 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz Very helpful! Thank you Luis!
@LuisAldamiz3 жыл бұрын
@@thetruenolan6655 - Also if they spoke Vasconic (almost certain), the word for "bull" would not be anything related to "taurus" but rather to "zezen" (which is how it is in modern Basque).
@InheritTheField3 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz table->taBULa
@LuisAldamiz3 жыл бұрын
@@InheritTheField - The opposite is the case: tabula > tableau > table, separately tabula > taula.
@GIANTSECRETS2 жыл бұрын
A Bull lion or Ram showing the force. This was used to show force applied by the Sun and the Planets particularly the Sun and Jupiter.
@GIANTSECRETS2 жыл бұрын
A good video in an important historical area.
@GonzaloCalvoPerez2 жыл бұрын
The taula exhibits writings of three greek letters...
@Critter1453 жыл бұрын
Why does everything ancient have to be bulls and overly simplified animal representations? Why couldn’t it be a scientific instrument or have to do with mathematics?
@LuisAldamiz3 жыл бұрын
Ditto. Or just a ver schematic athropomorphic idol. I never read any notion that it had to do with bulls. The name of the megalith is "taula", meaning "table". There were some bull-related beliefs in Southern Iberia but this is a rather isolated distinctive group.
@muddywitch90163 жыл бұрын
T - shaped pillars? Stone outer walls? Circular enclosures? Globekli Tepi, anyone?
@kiriltzenev59553 жыл бұрын
Gobekli tepe style
@nCUonnection3 жыл бұрын
Moon temple (of resurrection religion?). Moon to menstrual cycle to birth, moon reborn regularly, thus -- in worship of, hope for the same treatment. Bull horns as being 'of the moon'. Big white cow.