India is such a complex place with varied accounts of its history. I'm excited for more archeological work being done in this region of the world.

The Mahabharata is now dated to approx 5000 BC…thanks for bringing these cart ruts to light to many Indians

Maybe Praveen Mohan Could help you decipher the writing near those cart ruts. He's a ancient India expert on a lot of things down there in India. He has his own channel on youtube. You should reach out to him and see if he can help you decipher those Or at least what he knows about them. If he knows about them. I don't know if he can. But to me, he'd be the most likely person to start with.

Thanks a lot! I'm an architect from Spain specialied in megaltics constructions and I've visited cart ruts in Valencia, Malta and Sardinia tired to listen they were romans or iberians.... And no Roman nor Iberian ever step on India lands that we know. So thanks again, because like you, I travel around the world looking for these unique traces.

Hugh Newman, thank you for taking us along to see these wonders!!!!!

What interests me is the propulsion system that these “ carts “ used . If it was a draft animal in harness … there would be a trail worn between the ruts . If it was a team , the ruts themselves would be worn at the top . Modern vehicles make ruts like this , because they have internal power to the wheels .

Jai Sri Krishna! The glories of the Supreme are pleasing to His devotees.

There are N number of miraculous things exist in India, the more you explore, more you discover, more you will be surprised

The optical illusion at 2:22 is truly mind-bending. I had to keep clicking around that section to finally see it from the right perspective, but even knowing the illusion, I couldn't see it correctly from the opening frame no matter how many times I tried.

Thank you for exploring and documenting these megalithic sites in India. Enjoyed it immensely. Looking forward to many such videos in the near future.

Where’s Praveen?

Thank you once again, Hugh!

Thanks! Never knew about these, and impressed that the width is close to match with Malta. what a mystery!

That was incredible Hugh, thanks for the share 👍😊😎⛰️

please explore more in india

Many sincere thanks for drawing our attention to this🙏🏻

Hugh, I *did* think you were on Malta again at the beginning of this video post. Wow! India? Thanks for posting! ☮️❤️🐾

Thanks for sharing 👍

This was amusingly informative. Thanks Hugh.

Hi Hugh 😊🙋🏽🥂✨! Amazing 🤩!!!! Thanks for sharing 👍🏽!

Fascinating, thanks Hugh.

Nice one Hugh!!!

Thank you for doing this ❤

Great work, thanks for sharing. Do let us know, if you make any progress on the script.👍

They have these in Northern Ca, looking just like Malta.

Fascinating. I look forward to the day when tech such as Luminescence dating becomes affordable. Photogrammetry really helps convey the subject and LIDAR is getting close to affordable now. Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating indeed

Keep it up guys you rock

Fantastic footage. All the best from GRIMSBY U.K

Here are my thoughts…. The cart ruts look man-made due to their linear nature, the fairly consistent rut width, the fairly consistent distance between ruts and their polished nature. This consistency combined with the effort needed to carve and polish a hard rock (e.g. basalt) suggests that one or more machines (animal-powered?) were used with a harder rock to make the ruts. The fairly uniform polished nature of the ruts suggests they needed to be smooth, which with their linear nature suggests an object was moved along the ruts (e.g. sledge, cart). A smooth surface reducing friction making it easier and faster to move along the ruts. The use of ruts would make for a smoother ride as fewer bumps would be encountered and reduce the risk of the cart sliding or over-turning. The lack of obvious linear grooves in the ruts or surface marks between the ruts suggesting that any object that move along or parallel to the ruts had a significantly lower hardness than the basalt. For example, wood wheels and animal hooves moving along or parallel to the ruts would be significantly softer than the basalt and unlikely to abrade the rock and leave marks. The ‘knee prints’ in the ruts could be locations where the cart was stopped for some time (e.g. loading, left over night) with stones placed in the ‘knee prints’ to prevent the cart wheel from moving. One intriguing observation is that the reported average width of the rut is 1.4m, which is broadly equivalent to the standard Roman cart gauge of 4 ft. 8 1/2". This supports the idea that carts were used in the ruts and suggests that a standard cart/chariot axle width was adopted by several states in Ancient times. The reason for making the ruts is implied in the video and could be to speed-up the supply of stone or other supplies for the construction of the nearby cyclopean walls.

If it's a religious and/or historically significant site, the ruts could have been created both as a reminder or memorial, and to inspire awe and devotion, in the same way relics were created during the Middle Ages.

Awesome. I didn’t know there were cart ruts outside of Malta. They look industrial. As if they had pipes or hoses laying in them.

What is the distance between the parallel ruts here and how does that compare to the measurements in Malta? This is fascinating. I've never heard of this site. Thanks Hugh, JJ and crew for all you do. Sorry, I missed those stats on my first view. Appreciate much

Interestingly enough the Sea Peoples are frequently mentioned in the vedas and the Upanashads. They may have carried the concepts to Malta where they worshipped the ancient stone worms.

Amazing. That looks REALLY old because there is no way it was in that state in its day otherwise you couldn't t get a horse to safely traverese along it. Imagine how many thousands of years its took for that rock to look worn down? Astonishing

Glad you got into the track widths. Amazing find. Scientists may work out the kind of weight would have caused this track in this type of stone. They may even work out the speed it took to make them. It would have been nice to have the measurement of the track that stone statue cart would have made if it were a real cart. Can't wait to see what you find on Malta and Turkey. Many have gone there before you did. Russian scientist said those are 60000 years old...

The giant footprints at 5:20 are unlike those in the Paluxy river in Texas USA artificial.

Really fascinating stuff Hugh, thanks for sharing. These ruts are not straight they swerve around slightly, it looks like heat or water may have been involved in the making of them because of the cricked smooth surface of these ruts ? And at 4:24, could those so called writings/carvings, be the imprint of the tool or tools, or machine that was used to made the cart ruts ?

Guess these ruts were not as deep at the beginning but the down floating rainwater being slightly acidic deepened these over tens of thousend years.

Cart ruts were apparently the Neolithic railroads. In Malta and apparently also in India and other areas cart ruts gave purchase on the bare stone escarpments encountered by the solid wheeled carts, which would otherwise slip and shimmy on the bare stone surfaces, especially when wet. SZ BA MA Art History and Architecture UW

If those are cart ruts, where are the hoof prints of the animals pulling them or people pushing them?

Can not wait for your video on Barabar!

Just found you. Got a feeling I'll be seeing more of you, my dude! Sending all the likes and notes are on I thought you were Andrew Collins for a sec...

All over the world things like this are 😮❤

Ty for the vid. GPS Coordinates please.

I'm shocked that there's no hoofprints or footprints showing that a cart was dragged!? So even if the rock was soft at some point in deep antiquity the "cart" would have to be self-propelled

Either solid rock formed a lot more recently than we think it did, or those are not cart ruts. If the rock was solid then cart wheels could not do that. There are no foot or hoof prints. That leaves a superheated sled as the device that melted into the rock. The surfaces are polished.

08:23 how wide apart are those wheels on the stone chariot? 🤔

There are tracks, like the ones shown here, in Anatolia/Turkey. Also there is a subterranean city that has 8 levels> Derinkuyu. It is not exactly known who made the excavations, nor the reason why. Anatolia was inhabited by indo-european populations, the Hittites were maybe the oldest. The Mittani in the general area worshipped Vedic gods and were breeding horses. A horse raising treatise from the Mittani was found. And let us remember the first temple in the world Göbekli Tepe, was discovered in Anatolia...

The Mahabharata has 10 volumes...700 pages each. The one volume versions are tight abbreviations.

How do the width measurements add up to the ones in Malta and other countries

Hey Krishna

Looks like a good channel to fill with water & grow frogs & turtle's in.

A former german police man Johannes Horn has profen by tool marks that the cart ruts in Malta were marks of machinery (of rotating stone saws) of ancient stone mining. The cart ruts in India seems to be of the same origin. Any one should investigate them more closely and pay much attention to the sides of them.

When it rains, does the water just sit there or does it run like a creek?

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Very interesting! I wonder if there is any directional significance of the lines/ruts. Such as astrological or symbolic alignment. Or if the ruts maybe had a practical use originally, and then carved at a later point, for example…

Both the Ruts and the carvings look to me like they have been pressed in to the Basalt when it was moleten! The carvings of the 'writing' in particular appears to be like made using stamps - like you would use to create engravings with a steel spamp and a hammer in to the rock when it was softer....

We have this kart markings at our farm house too in vikarabad south india deep in the forest on hard rock 🪨

I am curious as to how closely the center distance measures up with Malta and Sardinia?

5:47 but the whole roadside had been quarried away, correct? It is not the natural surface, but a man made road. So, why wouldn't there be tracks of the chariots? The direction seems straight and alongside the quarried roadside, making it rather logical. It cannot match the haphazard way the cart ruts are laid out in the "Clapham Junction" on Malta.

Fun Fact - The Word Chariot Comes From Sanskrit/Hindi Word Char-Rath As does the word Wagon, Which comes from Sanskrit word Waahan. Entire English Language is Based on Ancient Hindu Indian Language Sanskrit.

The carvings look like battle scenes. One looks like a fighter throwing objects with two helpers handing them throwables.

Mahabharat times have been multiply correlated to be about 5165 BCE, on the basis of the vedas, puranas and astronomical data therein. Some of the same astronomical data is mentioned in the Mahabharata, which narrows down the period very closely.

3 : 50 Center of frame looks like a CART of some kind being pulled by some Animal but strangely I couldn't see FOOTPRINTS between the RUTS ?

It would be interesting to see where they go. Maybe with imaging technology someone can see..

Looks like something ancient with wheels that were evenly spaced apart came through many many times before the rock hardened

Does anyone know for sure what type of rock we’re looking at here? I can’t imagine, if they are actually cart ruts, that they’re in an igneous formation. If so we’re gonna have to rethink our idea of what made them. I’ve always assumed most of them were made when the rock was in a mud stage, the same wouldn’t apply with lava 🤷‍♂️

There is the chariot, trams, narrow gauge rail (3 ft. 6 1/2") debate. Considering the long term use of roads, I myself would use the same distance between wheels, if building a cart.

0:51 🤯🤯🤯

Show us the walls you mentioned!!!

Just in case nobody noticed, "Cart ruts" usually have something pulling it, Where are those prints? No push\pull indention left behind with the "Cart Ruts" leaves us with no option but to conclude the "Cart" was powered by some other means. I keep telling everybody, Its the Annunaki! They had to have SOME kind of tech, besides footwear! just like I tell people, Enoch (or the dude that was tasked to measure a building for the watchers, was taken to puma punku!) but, I digress. Something powered had to be involved with the "Cart Ruts" or foot prints of SOMETHING would be left behind with them. What do you think?

Needed a high axle, so did the early warrior chariot have an axle high enough, or did they use the tall cart in the indian sculpture, pulled by elephants? Caro

How does the width of the ruts, and the space between compare to the ones everywhere else?

Nice.

Yes Cart ruts make lasting impressions. In fact Railway tracks were laid over long lasting Roman Chariot ruts in UK.

any work done on finding out if glaciers did this?

It was once mud & has now become stone! But there seem to be no horse hoof imprints left...

If they go from high to low it’s probably an irrigation canal to move water to crop/reservoirs

These have been explained in Spain as volcanic ash that was softer when the ruts were put there, then rained upon. Is there a volcano near? If an eruption could be dated then you will have the age. ❤ Megalithomania! Are handicapped folks accommodated on your tours?

There is a Sikh temple (now in Pakistan) called punja sahib. It has a hand inprint of Guru Nanaks hand in solid rock.

This was an important trade route of the ancient India,, and the ruts were made by bullock carts, buffalo drawn carts and horse drawn carts.

Has anyone measured the Indian stone chariot to see if it's an exact match to the spacing of the wheels to the with of the wheels?

the clearance must have vert high for a chariot? anyone who has been around a lot of horse trails would wonder why the horses left no worn ditch like they do ? a couple of horses or oxen are as heavy as the cart and rider? their hooves dig deep and make ruts on trails.

Humanity was popping off 2k ago

it was mud before solidified into basalt rock... which makes this sites into much older than its claim

The ground was soft to create cart ruts and after it oxidation kicked in

Ruts from wagons on the Oregon Trail can still be seen.Some even deeper than those shown.Metal wheels are harder than most stone and after much use eventually grind out the path most used.Yawn...😊

make you wonder if they are so old that they were dirt or mud when the rutts were dragged 30 000 or more years ago ty so much

has anyone done comparative analysis with similar phenomena found around the world ?

Texas USA too!

Has anybody figured out what it would take to make these cart ruts? I recon pulling a regular cart of the type peasants would use to take their stuff to market over most types of rock once wouldn't leave anything noticeable. The same sort of carts going over the same rock many times, perhaps over centuries, would that do it? Would the rock need to be soft? Would the carts need to be ridiculously heavy? There are some similar ruts in North America (one lot's in the Cypress Hills in Alberta, Canada) which are put down to early European settlers but I'm not sure that isn't just an assumption.

I wonder if the ruts fit with the megalithic stone chariot...?

An ancient sport involving rolling something down the ruts.

There is these cart-ruts also in USA

You find the same in malta They end up going into the ocean

I think they are for water disposal

Like Malta, perhaps these were for power and or plumbing of a typev ? I:E ... @Paul Cook

5560 BC was the last great flood, the same that destroyed Dwarka and created the Black Sea.

I see history being REWRITTEN!!!