I am living in the west of France. There's cart ruts just close my house. I can send you pictures if you want. Thank you for this video.

Thanks for all your videos, I'm working my way through them and they are fantastic! You should have far more subscribers!

There is so much we do not know. Thank you for being curious. Thank you for the video.

Maybe the ruts had hard fired clay balls in them and they helped roll heavier loads...? Just throwing stuff at the wall, see what sticks. This guy said it first, roll with it.

All of this rutting: the mind boggles (or ruttles)💙. Thanks for the video and your insights 👍

Interesting video, thanks! :)

I'm thinking they could be the result of some sort of large scale pump drill / stone grinding machine - that would be used to grind the stone to dust for use in geopolymer molds (as bricks etc) - poss easier than quarrying stone - and a way to extract stone from seemingly useless non-quarryable sites. have just made a vid on the symbolism of the wheel in India etc - relating to this.

Irrigation system for a less lush time in the island’s history? Freshwater access is essential and sometimes scarce on islands.

It's just proof that the Flintstones really existed . The big deep ones are Fred's and the smaller shallow ones are Barnie's

Some good inspirations here :)

Good video. I'm thinking irrigation and a French drain with plants growing in it hydroponically. But I don't like how so many of them are a specific width.

I’ve studied the Maltese ‘cart ruts’ extensively. They aren’t cart ruts. But I can’t work out what they are.

Seems related to water management. Malta is a small island with no fresh wter source surrounded by salt. Managing rainwater is a key to survival there.

Thank you and congratulations for this documentary ! Please pay attention to the Cavoni of Sorano, Sovana and Pitigliano in Italy or those in Anatolia in Tutkey for example They are artificial canyons made by a kind of vehicle. I think the rock was softer during this period and then hardened (petrification). It has nothing to do with laylines to me...

Thanks a lot for the video it's really interesting. I just had a funny thought maybe it is an ancient amusement park where people could drive around in their Flintstones vehicle?

I think that in Malta (being such an arid area a lot of the time) these could possibly have something to do with water movement or distribution. The wells and various cutouts could have been used for keeping live fish in when they were unable to go to sea. I doubt that they were made by carts as some of the wheels would have been massive and there would have been very little - if any ground clearance under the carts. They would have just got bogged down.

It must be some type of vehicle that left those marks on a soft ground. How long ago? Well long enough to make the ground turn into stone. Perhaps there was a Cataclysm, tsunami, the sea invaded the land, filled with sediments, survivors drove their "carts" all over trying to escape to higher ground, or adjacent islands that no longer exist, maybe it was so long ago before the Gibraltar channel opened up and filled the shallow lake that was the Mediterranean. What kind of Vehicles? Perhaps so many different types, just like we have today.

Gr8 video 👍

Great vid. Some observations: The trench shown at 9.00 is probably Victorian and runs under a major fortification built in the late 19th century aka the Victoria Lines. As for the cart rut theories themselves, although some could have been intended or subsequently used to facilitate transportation, the most popular theory for the majority points towards agricultural use. Roman-era vine-yards have been discovered with such features with some trenches cut for vines while others were aimed to provide an irrigation system. In many cases, quarrying evidence has indeed been found and relates to the trenches. People back then made strategic use of all-natural resources, there was no waste, and even if a pit was quarried into the rock for stones to be used in masonry, the cavity would have been made in an area whereby it could be used too, as a trough perhaps, or deepened further and used as a grave. It is clear that the ruts were made over a wide spate of time, or modified and re-adapted in some instances by later civilizations. It is also clear that not all were meant for the same purpose, as suggested by the diversity and wide-spread scatter across the islands.

Great information! I believe(no proof) that they are the marks left behind when they harvest the stone for their buildings. Some how, they carved the stones they wanted, from the living rock. I also noticed that there are circles in the stone next to the cart tracks. The balls in the museum reminded me of the "butter balls" found in the circles in Ireland etc. Those monolithic stones would have crushed the balls. Don't think that was the way they transported the cut stones. There are a Lot of stones in the ocean. Was the sea lvl a Lot lower 500,000 yrs ago? Maybe the ppl lived lower down the Island, & has all been lost to the ocean? Pls keep filming & thinking 👍🏼😀

I think they were for moving water as in viaducts, why 2 ? well in case 1 gets stopped up you will still have some water coming in until you can clear the blockage, even if there is no apparent source the ruts could still collect water from rain, the water would have naturally flowed into the ruts and would be a good way obtain water in a drought area, this could also explain the convergence of many ruts into a junction

min 04:00: Afaik they' ve found a lot of those rock spheres all over the world and currently it's not clear what they were used for. Interesting sidekick to show them together with those ruts. Ball bearings...great! As those ruts are imho way older than the invention or use of wheels, they can't be caused by wheels - but balls is quite possible. Wheels would not crry such high loads, but a lot of balls would easily. Those balls would wear out and be dumped when broken or used as construction material. Also the "knobs" on large stones: maybe they were used as lever joints or counterbearings to push the stones with simple wooden rods in small steps. As long as there were smooth and hard surfaces, they could have used round logs as bearings. I doubt they used hundres of slaves with ropes if a small number of workers could do it with levers.

How long does lime stone take to harden to that level? thinking it was mud petrified

They had wood. And they had rocks. And ropes. I have a theory regarding tranportation of big blocks and stones: A-framed structures with ropes around a block and you can hop forward. That way cou can cross any kind of soil. But it is a lot easier if you don't have to go up and down all the time, so they levelled the paths the two legs of an A-frame would need. AND: if you want to prevent the legs from slipping outward, you place them in: cart ruts. They even don't have to be parallel, this would alter just the width of the a a little. If you want to go up or down a hill: don't go straight. If you need to go around a curve: let the ruts make a slight slope. To prevent the ropes from beeing damaged by the rocky ground, you place the block on logs each time. That's why we don't see scratches on the bottom + erosion. In some areas the used nubs to attach the ropes. The reason of finding them all over the world is because they all used the same simple technique. Wheels are absolutely unsusable in any sort of terrain - and they DID not have wheels simply because of the lack of roads. How the ruts were made? Easy: metal mirrors concentrate the sun heat on a tiny spot, that's why gold was so desired: it can easily be polished and formed into large bowls with little material and it does not stain. Riddle solved.

Very nice. I would like to hear an official explanation of how cart ruts in limestone is possible.My guess is they will ignore or avoid the topic.This appears to be made when the mud was still soft, shortly after the great flood.

Stone is formed quickly at volcanoes. This is due to the ash from volcanoes. Mud and ash from volcanoes have the same effect as sand and cement. Cement is made from lime that is burned. This was known before the Romans.

ropes... if you want to use ropes to transport stone blocks the blocks will press on the ropes and damage them.. if you can prevent the blocks from crushing the ropes you can use ropes and levers to flip blocks up or down in any direction.

The cart ruts are probably ancient quarries. The quarry workers cut down on both sides of the stone and than removed the stone along the grain leaving a shallow trench on both sides. The randomness of the "tracks" would indicate that the quarry ws used over many years and possibly by many different people.

Those aren't cart ruts! Those are really ancient railroad tracks after a huge cataclysm and the metal has since rotted away.

Yeah, I’ve seen these before. Seems like limestone and water erosion. Whatever they started out as is anybody’s guess, but they look extremely ancient. I love mysteries and the distant past of humanity is a big one. There are so many things that we may never know the answers to. These could be clues to dramatically different climate patterns or fresh water collection from many thousands of years ago. Some of the seafront holes look like seafood collection or processing stations but who knows. Back to nature? Yes please.

We have cart ruts in Austin, Texas also and they're not in places that have anything to do with water movement...besides, they're like two inches wide and the depth is inconsistent so they weren't dug for water movement as there is plenty of creeks and rivers in the area and you would need ruts the size of small ditches at least for effective irrigation

Ruts are to collect water mostly, and a few for transport.

Oh I must add: you could use this technique even under whater...or for loading ships.

I think they should be called rainwater ruts or channels! Nothing to do with carts. Logically, for collecting + channeling precious rain water. In arid areas where rain was less frequent. The smaller holes would act as a reservoir for local use. If we could lower the sea water height, we'd see these ruts continuing on in a downward direction to collection points. Approximately 11,000 yrs ago, or so were told, the seas were were getting larger and deeper from ice melt, covering lands. What's needed is some under water archaeology, to trace the lower lying channels / ruts and the lands beneath the sea now.

Pretty obvious to me - as with those grooves in Turkey - they were made while ground was soft or muddy. Perhaps only passed over once or only a few times on some sort of migration and then left to fosselise into rock. Since it takes many millions of years to harden untouched, it means there were civilisations with motor driven vehicles many millions of years ago folks! Either our ancestors or extraterrestrial colonies that came and went - when the seas were much lower evidently...

stretchers/sleds being dragged by elephants in soft ground, hardened over millennia

Yes, also to grow plants.

if you explore a current atv / 4x4 track they look very similar , different weighted carts will deffentitly not always follow the same rut /path that was laid before it , water management ...i doubt that as many ruts are found on level ground , and FYI you don't corry and shape your stone were your building unless they are human transportable ( they can be hand carried , between the ruts it looks like animal track fossils like the carts are being pulled by oxen

Ruts also in Texas USA.

It looks like some ancient peoples went muddin

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Looks like four wheel tracks in mud that have set into stone, the single ruts, trail bikes.

what rock are ruts in?

Umm these "cart ruts" are in reality natural geologic features. Limestone which covers large portions of the Mediterranean coastline can be easily fractured via tectonic forces to make geometric looking cracks. Erosion starts in fairly quickly creating the landscape you see. No doubt early peoples may have utilized these features for their own purpose.

Wouldn't be surprised for easier (ox?)cart transportation. But why (going seemingly nowwhere particular)? This we have all seen with the lineways (lijnbanen) for rope production. They need a track to span the cords, sometimes hundreds of meters. By twisting the different strains, the cord get tighter. Typical machinery to do so, is a moving cart (lopende bok). Azoren&Malta were very important hub for further sea-faring, especially tools and equipment were there produced/repaired. Wouldn't be surprised that early advanced rope production was one of the typical activities there. The depth in more corosive stones is by time, I think initially they weren't that deep.

Common sense to me is if your island is rock and you want to grow something then this would be best way to do it. fill with dirt,plant and then just run water through every now and then if you have to water. Who knows maybe they even used some kind of material for capillary action from the ocean but only salt water plants or maybe a water filter of some kind using the same method to filter ocean water for drinking. At first i thought sewer system but that would stink.

there were cars 8000 to 2 million years ago, and some are similir type of cars people use today.

If the cartwrights do indeed Go off into the ocean, are they just as numerous and where is the furthest extent? And perhaps underneath the ocean is a place where we will find undisturbed Clues

Gosh there's so many things they could be. Even flood control.

And also found at Bull Creek, Austin TX.

I don't think those are cart ruts I'm pretty sure that's where they quarried the megalithic stones that they used to build with, just like notching a 2x4 you make a bunch of random cuts across and break out the pieces, well they were cutting deep groves leaving a slab standing up and then breaking it off at it's base that's why the ruts are all so random, it's a quarry

there are wagon wheel ruts in stone along the Oregon Trail....it doesn't take long for them to happen.

I imagine somewhere in the not so distance past there was a massive vulcanic eruption, plums of ash and other materials rained down, it is soft and muddy, people were trying to escape to higher ground on their carts, making the cart tracks on this soft layer of vulcanic mud which sets like cement in few days. The land subsided in some parts and got flooded by the sea, and other parts the land got uplifted, all after people and their carts passed by leaving tracks, so it now appears the tracks go off cliffs and under the sea. Vulcano calderas do that to a huge land are, one example is a lake in Yellowstone park which has one shore been uplifted several feet, now imagine one eruption sending ash all over from Malta to Turkey, it would have cause the land to sink in some places, creating islands and rise in other making hills and cliffs. It must have a logical explanation.

when the last of the great chambers of water canopy were rent unto the earth, the changing pressure and oxygen level and u.v. light and solar radiation etc., etc., were no longer the same as before the global deluge. It had an interesting effect on the elements of the earth. Realize that and you can unlock a great. many mysteries.

Maybe they were SUPPOSED to have plants growing in them: a form of agriculture.

These look like they were formed in a soft mud, this probably occurred while the rock was still silt under the ocean, water flow or even tracks of prehistoric shark fins dragging in the ocean bottom probably formed the original ruts but the other carvings and round holes were made later by stone age people. People often placed temples where strange natural formations already existed, they will even copy the natural formation in their own stonework making it hard to differentiate. Actual carts are a modern illusion, we see what we expect to see, two parallel furrows equals a cart?

Some aerial photos might help.

Petra had a rut alongside of it as well. I seem to remember a study being done on some malta chambers that resonated at 110ush hz. People that would have been exposed to that frequency in an environment that amplified it, would have had decreased prefrontal cortex functionality yet increased right brain emotional processing.

It shows that the Ice Age ended around 2000 BC (over the course of hundreds of years, of course) rather than the conventional date of 10-12K BC. That is why the ruts are now covered with water at the coasts - they probably run to the other small islands near Malta. All those Bronze age cities and structures that are now underwater off the coasts of the Med countries is proof that the 2000 BC date is correct.

I bet it started WTH. The carts then rain made them wider

The one thing missing is the rut for the animals or humans who were supposed to pulled these objects,

aquaponics system

Unfortunately they are building a hotel on the site of some of these ruts and unbelievably an underground car park on site of Roman baths

How about sleds for dragging those great big rocks about the place? You know sleds had great symbolic significance and still today Santa rides a sled to give gifts.

So the period of "Mortal Engines" was a possibility then ?

Stay focused, guys: the "big cartrut" is clearly younger and clearly a part of an irrigation or draining system. I'm sorry you are confusing such stuff, doesn't make you serious.

Watch also: "Prehistoric Cart Ruts around the World" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fL2dfq2dmp_Goo0.html

Any vid mentioning Eric Von Daniken is immediately suspect.

Did the “carts” have motors? If not, where are all the footprints of the animals (or people) who pulled them?

no way around it..the material was wet when the tracks we're made. these are tracks from mining machines or something similar from ancient times we don't know about yet. the material was wet when the tracks we're made

Cart ruts? That's not smart. That's nuts.

i heard there where some in Wyoming

IF they are "cart ruts" there must be organic naterial (from branches to leaves) that would've been impressed into the channels that could be dated from core samples. Has there ever been a core sample study done on them? Anywhere?

what if the ruts are deliberately deep so that you dont need a cart driver? the drey animal is forced to walk between two locations and , tied to the cart has no way to find food and water but to walk to his destination. it would be just the kind of elegant solution for goods people wont steal. like rocks.

Its as if at some point in the past everything turned to stone. The ruts could have been made by a single pass through the mud by carts or wheel barrows before everything turned to stone.

More cart ruts in Austin TX.

When you say cart, think sledge or sled rather than wheels.

Some of the ruts might be gold sluices...

They are for moving water. If you y Think they're cart ruts that's pretty r ridiculous

Could be lightning strikes started it and erosion did the rest

They look like sled marks made after a volcanic explosion,that stuff looks like that, in Pompeii the anyway. Hard grey solid.The area is active with a history of explosions going way back in time.Nobody knows how long we have been around there really, Idea's about ancient human co magnum populations in the area and homo-sapien migration out of Africa are still in debate this place could have had people back in the earliest times when it was active? I'd like to live there perfect weather The ruts could have been made quick on the run in deep ash then left to dry because people were fleeing the island,it sets quick & hard. Then people move back & what was soft is now hard?

ruts of solid rock, could they have been soft when they were formed ?? Over time became rock. This would explain much. I really wonder if what we are taught about the time man has been on this planet. There was a human figure pulled from a well drilling and dated 1.2 million years. Explain this.

They look like they were made when the ground was soft at one time which must have been many many thousands of years ago if not longer!! The problem with the cart rut theory that no one has noticed, is that if they were made when the ground was soft you would see evidence in the middle of the ruts of something pulling the carts!! Like tracks from an animal of some kind or maybe even human tracks but there is nothing but the ruts themselves!! So if they were made by carts, WHAT made the carts move??? There is no evidence of anything pulling or pushing them!! The problem with them being cart ruts is

this would be very interesting if only you would not go into energy and tellurian and alien ,,,

Earth dron to search earthlanding sites as well as in THe Martian whith Matt daimon

these are not carved. they are fossil. there are hollow super strucutres benath these surface patterns.

Great vid but you’re not accounting the thousands of years effect on soft limestones

Their places for water to run that's irrigation that's how they got the water to the cities two places they needed it you're wrong or not cart marks

Petrified snakes. End of story.

Hydroponic gardens, Malta has little top soil, so feeding a large population would be impossible. There probably are many ruts that are actually made by cart wheels, delivering organic waste, sewage, crushed sea shells, fish wastes, etc. Those "ruts" would be an excellent place to grow vegetables, and they would make irrigation easier, I'd bet that the round basins connected to the ruts were for water, poured into the central location, and carried to the rest of the "garden" by the ruts.

So you're saying they were smart enough to build carts, but, dumb enough to stay in the same tracks long enough to wear rock down?

It's called Hydroponics People you put soil in there and the water naturally goes to the plants when it rains! BOOM

why not a more logical explanation. Find the age of the rocks and look at the animals that lived there when the rocks were still sand. I think that we are very tempted with our knowledge of technology. seen our world now being formed by it.

We think about it, but have only our programming to do so. So we say, they look like trails from transport, as we know the trains of our time. But they aren't transport routes, they leed to nothing and cross over every know and then. You find them, all around the globe, so it once whas the regulair thing to do. Scientist do not give an answer, as they have only their findings to work with, they cannot reach beyond that, it's the prison theire in. After all, we see all around us, questionable constructions, which 'our' civilisation cannot be accounted for. So it seems to us, there must have been earlier civilisations, maybe many different onces, from which we only see a glimpse. These ruts, are very old, they might have been there, as being the leftovers from before the former civilisation, we simply cannot know. The presepitation on the ruts is a havy one, so they might be many thousands of years old. And one thing is surtain; they needed stones to build. Every civilisation does, if they exsisted long enough, and shurly the later civilisations will find it, as rock is the only thing which surfives. Machines, from which we see the evidence, are gone for shure, after so many worldfires and floods, because they apeared by cycles as impact-results and are facts. So, what should I say about this, loaden with my programming of today? I think.., these are leftover marks, of a different way of quaring the stones they needed. The ruts are like 'scooped' like we also see at the unfinished obelisks in Egypt. ( which does not mean made by Egyptians!) 'Scoops' are find on the surface of megablocks in Peru, and again are not made by the Inca's. The with between the ruts, is the with of the stone they used, and might be verying in length as it brakes by itself when taken out. ( Like we do with the core after using a coredrill, so easy to do.) What we see here, seems likely to be a quarry from the top down, instead of tunnelquarying. We only have thoughts about cutting stone with mechanical force, that's our programming, using something harder then the rock, like tungsten and diamond bits. But 'they' from long ago, did approached this from another angle, using their knowledge to loosen the atomic bonds of the rock they worked on. In this way, it must have been easy to do so, and costed no force. This 'scooping' the rock, seems to us with our programming, unbelievable..but is clearly what we see. Maybe we have more problem with the fact, that at a surtain time, by cycles, our 'fantastic' civilisation will be lost. Our technical atchievement gone forever. Maybe we should really need to become humble first, in order to see the facts. Lurning our programs, becoming better then others, is the fight we are forced to do, and out of that arrogance is born, mixed up in our thoughts. This 'arrogance' keeps me from seeing the facts, even after myths being told, even after seeing the defastation of minor floods like in Asia, saying 'this will not happen to me!'.. This Earth is not ours, it's the other way around. Thanks for the post, I liked it much! :-)

maybe drainage channels.....natural and manmade

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Cart ruts = Atlantis lol

forget the cart theory ... it's wrong

For all the nay sayers, as the narrator says, they have been found all over the world, in some places where the tracks run close to a wall, you can find a mark, as if left by the cart while running over the tracks and scraping the walls. I think that's in Turkey. Get your heads off you butts people, the truth is that we have no idea what most of these sites were, and mainstream archeology has only academia and "debunking dialectics" on its side.

Not explored at all. Liars!