Discovering the secrets of Portugal's 7,000-year-old cromlech - BBC REEL

The Cromlech of the Almendres is a megalithic complex in Evora, Portugal, dating back 7,000 years ago. This makes the sacred stone sites 2,000 years older than the world’s most famous Neolithic monument, Stonehenge.
The Portuguese megalithic structure is believed to have been used for religious or ceremonial purposes as well as an astronomical observatory.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh
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  • @yarrowwitch
    @yarrowwitch Жыл бұрын

    Portugal's neolithic monuments - standing stones, circles, passage graves - are amazing, and so prolific! ❤

  • @ministryoftruth8499
    @ministryoftruth84992 жыл бұрын

    The names of the cities of Évora in Portugal (where this cromlech is located), Évreux in France, and York in England all share the same Celtic etymology, 'eburos' (yew tree). These names are linguistic fossils that remind us that once upon a time, long before most of Europe was unified under the Caesars, there was a Celtic Europe.

  • @diogorodrigues747

    @diogorodrigues747

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Évora" comes from the Roman name of the city, "Ebora". The reality is that the "v" instead of "b" is a phonetic change that occured in Classical Portuguese, because in Galician-Portuguese both "v" and "b" represented the same sound - and that still happens in numerous Portuguese dialects.

  • @ministryoftruth8499

    @ministryoftruth8499

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@diogorodrigues747 Évora, Alentejo, Portugal From Celtic *ebora- 'plural genitive of the word eburos (trees)'. Proto-Celtic: eburos, noun (yew).

  • @ralphyork4996

    @ralphyork4996

    2 жыл бұрын

    At 5,000 bc this is pre-Celtic.

  • @ministryoftruth8499

    @ministryoftruth8499

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ralphyork4996 Correct. My original comment is about the origin of the name currently in use for the place where this cromlech is located, not about the cromlech itself. The name is Celtic, the complex is Neolithic.

  • @rogeriopenna9014

    @rogeriopenna9014

    2 жыл бұрын

    Roman history can be clearly divided between before and after the sacking of Rome by the gauls under Brennus. It started its Italian expansion after the sacking, as if trying to build a buffer zone around the city. The Romans early expansion into celtiberia and Gaul is probably related to this scar in the Roman psyche

  • @alientejanopt9066
    @alientejanopt90665 ай бұрын

    PORTUGAL ROCKS 👍 In Portugal there are structures like these everywhere, from north to south, east to west , the oldest in the world, and that's AMAZING . I'm proud to be portuguese.

  • @johnedwardjones999
    @johnedwardjones9992 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Been to Stonehenge. Had no idea this place existed in Portugal. Thank you!

  • @1715905950
    @17159059502 жыл бұрын

    In 2014 we had a chance to visit this cromlech and they neolithic burial sites that surround Evora. It’s a great exploration and Evora is a wonderful town with a wonderful Parador and great food Going through the Cork forest was a great experience. I was so glad to find this video as it explains a lot about these sites. Thank you so much A fan of Portugal

  • @BernasLL

    @BernasLL

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dafuq is a Parador? xD

  • @chuckspencer8540

    @chuckspencer8540

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BernasLL ?

  • @GregoryJByrne

    @GregoryJByrne

    2 жыл бұрын

    Message from the not so distant pas warning about the impending cataclysmic future. We are in the Precession END TIMES because our solar system is crossing our galaxies double torus electromagnetic gravitational plane now and for the next 1,000 years. Nothing new under the sun save for the Electromagnetic energy that comes from the Galactic Nucleus via the Sun. Grade 5 science could debunk CO2 caused climate cycles. Temp is rising first and Co2 follows. Cause and Effect. Earth is a closed CO2 loop that self regulates Co2 with LIFE by combining CO2 with H2O to capture the Electromagnetic energy from the galactic Nucleus/Bulge to create life. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. On this planet. All EM energy comes from and or returns to the Double Torus Magnet we call the galactic Nucleus/bulge. The GALACTIC Milankovitch cycles cause our climate cycles. With the 240,000 years rotation of the galactic bulge regulating the amount of energy our solar system receives. Trending US fro mice age at aphelion to tropical age at perihelion every 60,000 years. The reason the global Elitists are lying to you about the cause of climate change is because every 12,000 years NOW, half the 26,000 precession cycle our solar system eclipses crosses over our galaxies electromagnetic/gravitational plane for a 1,000 years causing the END TIMES with EMP pillars of EM fire, Z pinching, Oort cloud comet impacts and Noah’s east to west Tidal waves that wash over the continents and freeze into the continental glaciers lowering sea levels again. We started crossing the Milky Way in 2012 and are just experiencing the birthing pains of climate change cycles so far it is going to get a lot worst. Build that WALL like the CARNAC stones using 1/2 buried sea containers to channel stop the e->W tsunami’s to come. Build underground cities like what the people of Gobekli & Karahan tepe did with Derenkuyu & Capadoccia. Build more garden of Eden Znamya solar sail laser spotlight satellites Implement an END TIMES Marshal plan. Build more Ezekiel Musks VTVL rockets and above all else worship Jesus and speak the truth no matter how inconvenient lest the evil ones rule over you.

  • @mafaldavalentepinto

    @mafaldavalentepinto

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BernasLL é uma pousada.

  • @Hallands.
    @Hallands.2 жыл бұрын

    I love that the Portuguese preserve this so well. We have the exact same burial chambers, grave mounts and boulders with little, round indentations in Denmark, but few of the standing stones are preserved and those only partially…

  • @ruidadgmailcanada8508

    @ruidadgmailcanada8508

    2 жыл бұрын

    A dry climate and NOT having winters like Denmark helps preserve things. Much love to all, Canada

  • @vascoapolonio2309

    @vascoapolonio2309

    2 жыл бұрын

    To tell you the truth, my friend, I think that was pure luck... Or maybe a foreigner had noticed these rock formation... Couse I'm Portuguese and I know how we work now, and have worked in the 20 century... 😂😂😂

  • @andrepereira744

    @andrepereira744

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vascoapolonio2309 "To tell you the truth" em vez de falares merdas em inglês a rebaixares os Portugueses para te fazeres de engraçadinho para os "outros" lá fora, vai estudar um bocado. Pois o espaço está preservado desde a sua descoberta em 1964 e quem descobriu foi um Português.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vascoapolonio2309 It's a shame you didn't pay attention to the video. Vai rapar o taicho

  • @joaosampaio4039

    @joaosampaio4039

    2 жыл бұрын

    É um povo que não se governa nem se deixa governar

  • @suginami123
    @suginami1232 жыл бұрын

    A complete revelation. Love this. Presenter is very clear and precise. Thank you.

  • @luizenahte8181
    @luizenahte8181 Жыл бұрын

    I went there yesterday with my family.The rocks, the land, the beautiful trees… magic. I made my prayers, touched them feeling grateful for their resilience and resistance thru time. I’ll never forget the experience.

  • @proudhon100

    @proudhon100

    Жыл бұрын

    To whom did you pray?

  • @skelleyd9097

    @skelleyd9097

    5 ай бұрын

    @@proudhon100to deez nuts

  • @luisalmeida1391
    @luisalmeida13912 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, BBC, for showing our treasures to the world.

  • @presbiteroo
    @presbiteroo2 жыл бұрын

    I visited this place with Ebora Megalíthica, the group that this woman is part of. It was extremely interesting. So nice to see them here!

  • @sacriptex5870
    @sacriptex58702 жыл бұрын

    in my grandfather little vilage (Near Bragança) theres a lot of Celtic Dolmens and old celtic stones... There´s a fresh beautiful feeling around that place... something like a old dorment pagan Europe

  • @vitorjpereira2547
    @vitorjpereira25472 жыл бұрын

    I Am So Proud Of My Ancestors From 7,000 Years Ago. 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

  • @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    2 жыл бұрын

    Olá. Os meus tb. Sou desta região.

  • @vitorjpereira2547

    @vitorjpereira2547

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MariaCardoso-fg2it Olá Maria. O Alentejo é Mesmo Maravilhoso. ;)

  • @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vitorjpereira2547 Ola'.Ta' bom? Eu adoro, sou de perto de Évora .A natureza ,pôr do sol ,visão privilegiada das estrelas, amplos horizontes ! Não esquecendo as comidinhas saborosas!

  • @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    2 жыл бұрын

    E as pessoas são simples,humildes ,amistosas genuínas e filósofas !

  • @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nao estou la' mas tenho imensas saudades!

  • @margarethinton3840
    @margarethinton38402 жыл бұрын

    So happy to see this video since at age 90 I won't be able to visit. I believe more like these stone circles will be 'discovered' since early peoples lived all over the globe. I would be delighted to hear of any new 'findings' in Portugal - there MUST be more.

  • @sancho_panca

    @sancho_panca

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are more cromlechs in the area, much smaller, but just as beautiful as this one. I recomend you to search for the Cromelechs of Portela de Mogos, Vale Maria do Meio and Monte das Fontaínhas. They're all amazing!!!

  • @bluebird3281

    @bluebird3281

    2 жыл бұрын

    They are using LIDAR technology and finding circles and squares of stone in the Amazon. If you don't know about them already you may like the documentaries on those.

  • @wendylow5748

    @wendylow5748

    2 жыл бұрын

    90!!! What's your secret to a long healthy life?? Besides staying away from doctors? LOL

  • @GeppettoVonWalid
    @GeppettoVonWalid2 жыл бұрын

    Just a correction. At 1:50 she says people associate the stones with Moors, that's false. It's a very common misconception, because the words are so similar, but people associate them with Mouras from the celtic "Marwa" (which means dead) and not Moors (or Mouros in Portuguese) from the latin "Mauri" (referring to North-West Africans). Moors were real people who inhabited the area from the 8th to the 12th century (and some even stayed longer up to the 16th century). Mouras are mystical beings of the Portuguese and Galician folklore with pre-roman celtic origin. If people thought they were giants, it's most certainly referring to the mystical Mouras and not the North African Moors. There's no way people thought North African Moors were giants since they lived with them, they knew they weren't stone-laying mystical beings.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup, subscrevo. Embora se ouça mais das lendas das Mouras/Moiras no norte de Portugal junto dos castros.

  • @GeppettoVonWalid

    @GeppettoVonWalid

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bulletsfordinner8307 Sim são mais populares no Norte, é verdade (são de origem galaica se não me engano) e é no Norte que melhor sobreviveram, mas existem algumas no Sul também, provavelmente devido à presença Celtici no que é hoje o Alentejo. A confusão vem do facto da grafia ser a mesma e de existirem algumas lendas sobre Mouras, neste caso falando de muçulmanas/norte-africana, como a lenda da Moura de Faro ou da Moura Salúquia. Mas essas lendas ocorrem no Sul do país e estão diretamente ligadas a narrativas da Reconquista, e também têm uma componente mística muito reduzida (Moura de Faro) ou até inexistente (Moura Salúquia), ao contrário das Mouras/Moiras célticas que são seres puramente místicos e mágicos. Eu acho bastante fácil de diferenciar as duas mas ainda há pessoas que as confudem. Também parece haver muitos casos de reinterpretação a posteriori, isto é pessoas que criaram novas lendas a partir de Moiras célticas, pensando que se tratava de Mouras Norte-Africana (como a mulher está a fazer no vídeo). Conheço um caso assim aqui em Monção, com povoações ligadas ao Rio Mouro.

  • @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    @MariaCardoso-fg2it

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GeppettoVonWalid Mouras mágicas encantadas que se transformavam em animais ?Conheço lendas dessas, contadas no Alentejo .

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930

    @hogwashmcturnip8930

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that. I lived in this area for 13 years and I had Never heard anyone attribute any of these sites (there are Hundreds) to Moors! But I had never heard the word Moura, so now it all fits, I did know about the giants ,so it all makes sense for me now.

  • @DavidPereira-ot2xi

    @DavidPereira-ot2xi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MariaCardoso-fg2it De Mouras só conheço uma (Moura encantada) agora de bruxas e bruxos feiticeiros e feiticeiras é o forte (corredor, sarrom, a deusa dos animais, a caminheira, etc.) aqui ainda existe alguns rituais, vais fazer uma caminhada por locais pouco frequentados e afastado das localidade e em cruzamentos encontrares, cabelos sangue, cabeças de animais, fruta da época, espelhos, vestuário, calçado, velas de cera, e tc. e depois a tradição no dia das bruxas (à noite) uma cabaça com o interior limpo para colocar uma vela arder, para ficar com aspecto fantasmagórico

  • @zipinha
    @zipinha2 жыл бұрын

    What an amazing communicator! Her English is perfect! Congratulations!

  • @o.portista
    @o.portista2 жыл бұрын

    Somos Grandes 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

  • @ilidioalves7
    @ilidioalves72 жыл бұрын

    the only thing bad about this site is the fact that it still technically sits in private property, in a huge ranch estate, typical of the South of Portugal, called 'herdade', and so only the site of the Cromlech, the menhir and a small dirt track that connects the two and the main road (with fences on both sides) is accessible, because you are in someone's farm. I pity the Portuguese state in all these years haven't realized the huge importance of this site - the oldest megalithic site in Europe, the blueprint to all the others you see in Western Europe - and hasn't put more of an effort to secure it, by buying out more of the surrounding area, building an interpretation center, in short making it more accessible and not making you feel like you're trespassing when you go there.

  • @ChrisShortyAllen

    @ChrisShortyAllen

    2 ай бұрын

    Zzzzzzzz

  • @luciatheron1621

    @luciatheron1621

    Ай бұрын

    I think it's a good idea. Those who really want to see them, will respectively. No huge impact of indifferent tourists.

  • @brixcosmo
    @brixcosmo4 ай бұрын

    Thanks! Best Regards from Portugal!

  • @stephanieyee9784
    @stephanieyee97842 жыл бұрын

    I love this video, it I'd so interesting and the information given is good. I would love to visit this site, I think it would feel magical. I visited Portugal way back in about 1984 and I loved it.

  • @andrepereira744

    @andrepereira744

    2 жыл бұрын

    And Portugal loves you!! Come back some day!

  • @whosewineisitanyway3184
    @whosewineisitanyway31842 жыл бұрын

    Really cool to come across this video. This couple from Puerto Rico and I took a tour to Evora from Lisbon and it was amazing! We went to the temple of bones and the sites shown in the video here. Very interesting stuff.

  • @jjohnson5014
    @jjohnson50142 жыл бұрын

    Well done presentation!

  • @emilymcfadden4360
    @emilymcfadden43602 жыл бұрын

    Genetic haplogroups from peoples still living in the area and northwest Spain are also found in the western isles of Scotland, Wales, the West and Northwest of Ireland. There also you find similar structures pre dating the obvious similarity to England's Stonehenge.

  • @andalacomessenome

    @andalacomessenome

    2 жыл бұрын

    People from this area went to those places after the ice age so they are Iberian too :)

  • @viveanaalmeida7854

    @viveanaalmeida7854

    Жыл бұрын

    Portuguese people have nothing to do with brits Irish anything if u look at our haplogrouo it's still different to british Isles also Portuguese people just don't look like any Irish or English person I've seen just cause we are European doesn't mean we are all the same let us have our own history

  • @mariadaluzmoutinho5701
    @mariadaluzmoutinho57012 жыл бұрын

    Este local é fascinante e o torna especial porque é a etapa mais antiga do desenvolvimento cultural humano...Que histórias poderiam revelar se estas pedras pudessem "falar"?! Que interessante explanação e conhecimento...mas os mistérios continuam!!

  • @manic2360
    @manic23602 жыл бұрын

    The same style cup marks at the top of the stone, are found on top of the T-stones at Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.

  • @prof.cecilycogsworth3204
    @prof.cecilycogsworth32042 жыл бұрын

    That was a lovely start to my day. Thank you very much.

  • @MotoTvWoodsFarm
    @MotoTvWoodsFarm2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this movie available. i enjoyed watching it and it brought back many memories of visiting the area, we weren't able to understand fully at the time what we were looking at when we were there. i am looking forward to returning there again later this year

  • @paulskillman7595
    @paulskillman75952 жыл бұрын

    Today I think it is difficult to realize how important it is to tell what season it is. Very long ago people needed to know when to plant their crops. Stone Henge allowed them to look at the stars to see when to plant their crops by the position of the stars.

  • @STICKlaPISSSE

    @STICKlaPISSSE

    Жыл бұрын

    I am so sory but your logic is a total crap! What are you trying to say? That farmers didnt know the diference between spring and winter? That they need to build cromeleques in order to look at the stars and then plant crops? The moon and the sun are the true engines of agriculture. If you were a farmer you would know this! This were monuments for rituals! Those rituals served to agregate the neolithic people into some kind of unity, passing the clans and family levels.

  • @picksalot1
    @picksalot12 жыл бұрын

    Cool. Never heard of this place before. What condition was it in when found? It looks well-preserved. The "smile" reminds me of the crescent moon. Perhaps the depressions in the Cromlech are for placing offerings on the rounded stones or are some sort of calendar. Very interesting. I hope to hear more about this. Thanks 👍

  • @TheZombieGAGA
    @TheZombieGAGA2 жыл бұрын

    beautiful places in Alentejo

  • @tlacahetl
    @tlacahetl2 жыл бұрын

    Why is this not common knowledge!! Its amazing what the ancestors built.

  • @evangelinegilbero8211

    @evangelinegilbero8211

    2 жыл бұрын

    They were so industrious than people of today.

  • @paulosergio-yi9jr

    @paulosergio-yi9jr

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because its in Portugal! It seems the world "discovered" this country after Ryanair... 😂

  • @truthismycause2800

    @truthismycause2800

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@paulosergio-yi9jr Ahahah brilliant joke.

  • @thevisit630
    @thevisit6302 жыл бұрын

    Great knowledge Thanks BBC Real❤️👍

  • @jpmtlhead39
    @jpmtlhead397 ай бұрын

    7.000 years old... Uauu.👍👍

  • @olgierdogden4742
    @olgierdogden47422 жыл бұрын

    Loved the slight uncertainty from our narrator who keeps a valued interest in the myth’s come history which is tantalisingly just out of reach, and as it should be.. drawing more intrigue and shaping the ghosts of the past..

  • @algueiraovelho
    @algueiraovelho2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this awesome video.

  • @etraudnoslen
    @etraudnoslen2 жыл бұрын

    amazing video. BBC could do a proper documentary on this. Extremely interesting subject, particularly because of its age and size.

  • @PanglossDr

    @PanglossDr

    2 жыл бұрын

    They never will because of the myth that Stonehenge is the oldest and most important pre-historic monument in the world. I took my Father to see Stonehenge. Our guide made the statement above. When I challenged him saying the Pyramids were older he got furious and insisted 'No, Stonehenge is far older. To put the BBC in perspective, when they did a series years ago on the Celts, who arrived in Britain about 1500 years after Stonehenge was built, what picture did they use at the beginning of every episode? You guessed it.

  • @queroemigrar4154

    @queroemigrar4154

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is not 7000 years old

  • @PanglossDr

    @PanglossDr

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@queroemigrar4154 Quote your source please.

  • @queroemigrar4154

    @queroemigrar4154

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PanglossDr Quote your fake source.

  • @PanglossDr

    @PanglossDr

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@queroemigrar4154 It is readily available on the internet. Ever heard of using research rather than ignorant opinion?

  • @tacodias
    @tacodias2 жыл бұрын

    Time to visit Évora!

  • @debbiehenri345
    @debbiehenri3452 жыл бұрын

    I'd heard there were other stone circles in Europe besides the numerous, much-publicized British ones. Interesting to see there is one in Portugal, and remaining in such good condition. I wonder if those cup-shaped markings identify with certain Neolithic settlements, clans, or families instead of constellations (because I'd have thought that it would have been quite easy to relate the marks to groups of stars). Perhaps it's where the clan can make personalised offerings or it marks out where each settlement/family gathers during important events like a solstice.

  • @Predatorkick

    @Predatorkick

    Жыл бұрын

    There is much more than jus one of those in Portugal. In fact there’s more like this in Portugal than in England

  • @Alfablue227
    @Alfablue2272 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating stuff...

  • @lydiawaterreus
    @lydiawaterreus2 жыл бұрын

    From the south of Europe.. along the coasts…Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, Ireland, Denmark and the south of Sweden (Ales Stenar) they stand there. Our history of the Celts

  • @truthismycause2800

    @truthismycause2800

    2 жыл бұрын

    These monolithic structures pre-date the celtic diaspora. They were built during neolithic age, not Bronze or Iron age when protocelts and Celts spread throughout Europe. Their connection with the Celts is merely because the celtic tribes acknowledged them as holy or mystical sites from ancestral cultures.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@truthismycause2800 they are proto-keltic that is correct. We even have found writings that haven't yet been decoded, or so called "rosetta stones". There were also humanlike sculptures found that suggest some kind of different cult where people painted themselves all around the face some even tattooing

  • @pbohearn
    @pbohearn2 жыл бұрын

    I just saw the Dolmens in Andalusia, Spain today. 2 mounds with a hallway into a room built of huge rocks. So cool! 5k years old!

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes the people spread out in large groups all through the peninsula! Check out the castros and the legends associated with them. Those are more to the northern parts, Atlantic but also interior. It's magical

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    *When I mention Castros, from Castreja Culture I mean Hill forts but here usually built in very mistical spots

  • @akashsolenkar7545
    @akashsolenkar75452 жыл бұрын

    Those stone called shiva linga's humans developed energy points they also in India. Specifically energy points made by black stone in also India

  • @josecarlosfernandez3619
    @josecarlosfernandez36192 жыл бұрын

    Excelente sitio!

  • @namibianodetombua
    @namibianodetombua2 жыл бұрын

    In the Évora region there are, as far as I know, 2 more megalithic structures like this one. The Cromlech of Xerez, near Monsaraz and another one, which do not know the name, not far from Évora though.

  • @user-tk1ti1wx8e
    @user-tk1ti1wx8e4 ай бұрын

    I salute u from Northern Portugal ,Tras-os-montes Pagan still

  • @JTCGiantz56
    @JTCGiantz562 жыл бұрын

    It's crazy this was only discovered in 1964 for a relatively small country such as Portugal.

  • @diogorodrigues747

    @diogorodrigues747

    2 жыл бұрын

    They actually knew about this before, however this was a very remote site until some decades ago and the owners of these lands didn't care that much about history. Even nowadays they close down megalithic monuments to every people (even historians) because "those are their lands and no strange should enter on them"! This happens when 95% of the country is private land, and in the case of Alentejo they are very rich and influent people - no politician wants to say no to them, and they have lots of support from most locals!

  • @cmarq817

    @cmarq817

    2 жыл бұрын

    “Discovered” means only studied by academia.

  • @brunoamaral4759

    @brunoamaral4759

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@diogorodrigues747 maravilhoso ver que nós no Brasil herdamos os problemas portugueses também 😂

  • @diogorodrigues747

    @diogorodrigues747

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@brunoamaral4759 Normal quando a própria família real era portuguesa e os terrenos privados do Brasil ainda hoje são geridos por pessoas descendentes das famílias dos jesuítas colonos, maioritariamente portugueses!

  • @SpectrumX9

    @SpectrumX9

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are several of these stone circles around Portugal territory although not so big. There is also Perdigões, still being digged and may be the cherry in the cake.

  • @marcelobarefoot3549
    @marcelobarefoot35492 жыл бұрын

    I wish you could present legends in portuguese...thank you!

  • @ivanbarbosa81
    @ivanbarbosa812 жыл бұрын

    adoro.

  • @MissRenee_X
    @MissRenee_X4 ай бұрын

    Portugal has exquisite untold history. We have some of the highest history of rh negatives

  • @RosaLux776
    @RosaLux7762 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting! I live in Portugal but didn't know about this site. It's on my agenda now!

  • @marcusviniciusborgesesilva7629
    @marcusviniciusborgesesilva76292 ай бұрын

    Bom demais

  • @crookedpaths6612
    @crookedpaths66122 жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t nomadic persons also observe the rising on the moon or sun too? Nomadic tribes usually settle for the summer and migrate for the winter. It doesn’t mean they can’t return to same places again and again. A lot of assumptions being made.

  • @anthonygustafson4713

    @anthonygustafson4713

    2 жыл бұрын

    I understand what you're saying. But think you missed the point they're making on this. One would have to be in the exact same spot consistently to make precise astronomical alignments. One couldn't do that just eyeballing it and hoping for the best.

  • @malavoy1

    @malavoy1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@anthonygustafson4713 True, but then there's Gobekli Tepe 5000 years earlier than this and a good 2000 years before farming which itself was 1000-2000 years before nomadism. This is another wonderful puzzle piece in the mystery that is prehistory.

  • @free22

    @free22

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DianaAtena It’s incredible the variety of monoliths that have been built across the world. Europe, Middle East, the Americas, Africa, Asia. It heralds back to our similar origins as humans.

  • @free22

    @free22

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Pertinax You don’t have to dream. Monoliths are made out of stone. See for yourself. Get out of your house and travel sometime. It’ll be good for you.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@malavoy1 observe Gobekli Teppe, it has all animals and adoration and first humanlike figure representation. But of all the sculptures are of the wildlife before farming and shepparding. There's another site north to Gobekli that I believe has more evidence of this new places of cult. Cromeleques de Almendre was to record data regarding other things, and of course to gather too. I love Gobekli Teppe and everything they are discovering finally

  • @chipwalter4490
    @chipwalter44902 жыл бұрын

    How were these "discovered" in the 1970's?... Were they unearthed due to being buried? Or maybe were they so remote in the vast Portuguese landscape that no modern person had yet stumbled upon them? Please do another video where this is explained.

  • @devojah9512

    @devojah9512

    2 жыл бұрын

    They won’t

  • @mariorosario4428

    @mariorosario4428

    2 жыл бұрын

    In the 60’s, the Portuguese government carried out a nationwide survey regarding geological charts and many prehistoric sites were discovered in the process, including the Almendres Cromlech.

  • @rogeriopenna9014

    @rogeriopenna9014

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mariorosario4428 that would not result in such sure being discovered, rather, in it being officially cataloged. Consider Stonehenge for example "Roman coins and medieval artefacts have all been found in or around the monument but it is unknown if the monument was in continuous use throughout British prehistory and beyond, or exactly how it would have been used. Notable is the massive Iron Age hillfort known as Vespasian's Camp (despite its name, not a Roman site) built alongside the Avenue near the Avon. A decapitated seventh-century Saxon man was excavated from Stonehenge in 1923.[41] The site was known to scholars during the Middle Ages and since then it has been studied and adopted by numerous groups." It never was "lost" to be rediscovered

  • @eduardoserrao7372

    @eduardoserrao7372

    2 жыл бұрын

    They were known by local people but not by scientists. The same is true for the Foz Coa engravings.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rogeriopenna9014 muito interessante. Adoro a cultura castreja e todas as lendas que a rodeiam.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307
    @bulletsfordinner83072 жыл бұрын

    Adorei visitar à uns anos! 😍😍😍 Foi especial porque apanhamos um belíssimo pôr-do-sol e ficamos para a Lua e as estrelas! Muito lindo e misterioso! Há muitas "gravuras" nos cromeleques, não sei se existe um registo de todas as gravuras, se não existe devia! ❤️

  • @silveriorebelo2920

    @silveriorebelo2920

    2 жыл бұрын

    há uns anos...

  • @wadeparker8695
    @wadeparker86952 жыл бұрын

    What I like is that main stream archaeology is so often wrong, narrow sided and it’s a lot of guesswork. In the end we do not know how old these things are and that is the fact of it.

  • @alexgabriel5423
    @alexgabriel54232 жыл бұрын

    Quite amazing, but under-reported. Portuguese archeologists or reporters should write a book> Neolithic Portugal. You ll get tourists for these sites.

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930

    @hogwashmcturnip8930

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are Hundreds of Neolithic sites in that area and across the border in Spain. Valencia de Alcantara has 147 identified dolmens. You can't get to most of them! Lost opportunities. Yet they keep saying they want Eco tourism! Makes no sense to me. By their nature, these places are not going to attract the guiris. They will attract people who respect the land. They have rare, endangered species, historic towns and cities, with everything from the Neolithic through to the Conquistadores (Merida has more Roman sites than anywhere but Rome) yet you can drive past bits of Roman column lying in fields! A Camino de Santiago cuts straight through it. Not the one that has become the Holy Benidorm, one most people have never heard of. The Ruta de Plata. Used by the Romans to get all their purloined silver to Seville and back to Rome. Later used by pilgrims coming from the other way and from North Africa. The landscape is amazing. In a way I am glad it is 'Lost' but in another it needs visitors, if only to preserve it.

  • @STICKlaPISSSE

    @STICKlaPISSSE

    Жыл бұрын

    So now that 8 months have passed, I hope you have google it and bought the most recente book about the portuguese Neolithic! Btw go look and study about Bell Beackers from Portugal, I garanty that you will get one of the biggest treats in archeology, since the british think bell beakers came from North and Eastern Europe... Dumb things!

  • @giuseppersa2391
    @giuseppersa23912 жыл бұрын

    Happily not caged in as is Stonehenge 🧙‍♂️

  • @AntonioCalado75

    @AntonioCalado75

    2 жыл бұрын

    they want to

  • @fernandoveiga0738
    @fernandoveiga07383 ай бұрын

    Another point. When She says that is a face, a mouth and the nose, its note. Its a observatory, if you see with open eyes that is one representation of one face of the Moon.

  • @Amitdas-gk2it
    @Amitdas-gk2it2 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @jaridkeen123
    @jaridkeen1232 жыл бұрын

    I dont think ancient humans were thinking "lets make a Dirt Uterus to burry our friend" Its probably more of a Shrine

  • @AhJodie
    @AhJodie2 жыл бұрын

    Cool looking.

  • @lf1496
    @lf14962 жыл бұрын

    The Stone Megaliths in Sudan at Napta Playa are 11-13,000 years old. They chart the Orion Star Constellation

  • @ricardo82carvalho

    @ricardo82carvalho

    Жыл бұрын

    Napta playa circles were built around 7000 bc that's 9000 years!

  • @theaquariancontrarian3316
    @theaquariancontrarian33166 ай бұрын

    You dont need logs to move stone. Just make the stones round and roll them.

  • @legitbeans9078
    @legitbeans90784 ай бұрын

    Shes great! Give her a show 😁

  • @selfiekroos1777
    @selfiekroos17772 жыл бұрын

    Italy, Coliseum Pantheon and temples Egypt, Pyramids Sphinx and temples Greece, Parthenon Temples Spain, Homos and Chile con Carne Portugal wine and giant stones

  • @ellejane6667
    @ellejane66672 жыл бұрын

    do you know what is also bananas shaped, the coast line, and the pitting is fishing holes

  • @michaelshaw5019
    @michaelshaw50192 жыл бұрын

    Are the indentations on the stones not remains from hitting the stone to make different tones? This has been established with other similar stone pieces elsewhere in the world from a time before.

  • @sophiasummers1637
    @sophiasummers16372 жыл бұрын

    The pock marks might be small grinding areas for different herbs used in worship or healing ceremonies.

  • @mariorosario4428

    @mariorosario4428

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been to the Cromlechs and the first time i’ve seen the holes I thought exactly the same thing.

  • @sophiasummers1637

    @sophiasummers1637

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mariorosario4428 Interesting. I just thought of things that have been used in ceremonies before and if the preparation was done at the holy site, then it might become a holey site. 😂

  • @AugustinTomasOBrienCaceres
    @AugustinTomasOBrienCaceres2 жыл бұрын

    Portugal and Ireland then have the oldest human constructions on earth

  • @JPVillalobos27
    @JPVillalobos272 жыл бұрын

    Those types of oval shaped stones were also sacred in ancient Ireland… In India they’re Shiv Lingams.

  • @Chompchompyerded
    @Chompchompyerded Жыл бұрын

    Were the stones sourced locally, or did they bring them from a distance away?

  • @XofHope

    @XofHope

    11 ай бұрын

    They're local, you can still see where some were cut from the larger rock formation.

  • @thealexprime
    @thealexprime2 жыл бұрын

    Legal

  • @aleisterseverusgrey3778
    @aleisterseverusgrey377827 күн бұрын

    Directly west is Escoural Cave.

  • @abrahamboniface6305
    @abrahamboniface63052 жыл бұрын

    I believe Early humans were more in touch with nature and their individuality creativity. And appreciated everyone's contributions to community.

  • @FranciscoSmirsley

    @FranciscoSmirsley

    2 жыл бұрын

    Something we have lost, alas, looooong time ago.

  • @jeanlundi2141

    @jeanlundi2141

    Жыл бұрын

    History is circular. Yes, there were times when we lived very differently. For better and for worse as well.

  • @nelsonsoares2975
    @nelsonsoares2975 Жыл бұрын

    I believe who ever built these beauties in Portugal also built Stonehenge , it must be connected some how or its possible some other peoples came across these in Portugal 2000 years later & copied the idea & then built a bigger Stonehenge in England ... I read 4 years ago that investigations into Stonehenge showed a high probability that an Iberian culture built it (human bones & artifacts found under & around the complex).. whatever the case they are here to stay & we so called know it all's :)))) have lots to learn still not to mention giving more credit than we have to our ancestors ... One more point,, tests were done for 10 years to find the most unique blood & DNA , the Portuguese blood & DNA came up as the most unique , they even found Neanderthal DNA in the Portuguese blood , if that's not interesting I don't know what is.. Portugal not only is 1st or 2nd oldest country - culture in Europe but may also have the oldest blood line in Europe today or at least a higher percentage than any other blood line...,... this is very interesting stuff.

  • @jpribeiro7694
    @jpribeiro76942 жыл бұрын

    Did she really say the the banana shape was an ancient stone smiley face??? Ummmm... Coastal people, I`m going to go with it`s a boat hull and the corresponding shape above is not a nose but is instead the mast and sail. I love this part of the country, also around Sintra.

  • @DaisyMaeMoses
    @DaisyMaeMoses7 ай бұрын

    I wish we could be in the minds of our ancient ancestors and figure out what the reason was for these structures. They are in many places in Western Europe. I would love to know the purpose for them.

  • @tunaofacasfilmes
    @tunaofacasfilmes2 жыл бұрын

    We call them "covinhas"

  • @diasgoncalvesportugal6533
    @diasgoncalvesportugal65332 жыл бұрын

    PORTUGAL the port of the GRAAL.

  • @1770-p9p

    @1770-p9p

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was just going to say this. To my brother and everybody I'm trying hard to beat this thing I'm facing Giants right now.

  • @alexgabriel5423
    @alexgabriel54232 жыл бұрын

    Mrs Sira Camacho says that Neolithic people had logs...what did they cut the logs with?? They had no saws! How long does it take to find logs of the same size??

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did you not watch the tools they showed that were found on the sites? Come to Portugal those are preserved in the museums but you can see them, stone axes

  • @AncientHistorySecrets
    @AncientHistorySecrets2 жыл бұрын

    Nice 🌟👍🌈

  • @hartung692
    @hartung692 Жыл бұрын

    I was their in my early twenties…I wish I had the same intrigue and interest in ancient history then as I do now!!! 😢

  • @brucestrachan7873
    @brucestrachan78732 жыл бұрын

    5:58: crescent moon, not a happy face emoji.

  • @colinellicott9737
    @colinellicott97372 жыл бұрын

    Putting rocks in a pattern ... have you ever watched a young child playing with their toy blocks? Gobekli, Stonehenge, Pyramids of _____ (fill in the blank). Now we build space ships. Science good.

  • @romanzelgatas
    @romanzelgatas2 жыл бұрын

    In my own studies, it seems most stones were connected to moon & tide sequences, as in when sea levels were higher, the boats could see the stones via within water inlets & guide them thru natural channels during high tides, Do they measure in "megalithic yards"??

  • @ciarandevaney385

    @ciarandevaney385

    Жыл бұрын

    Presenter is very unusual looking

  • @XofHope

    @XofHope

    11 ай бұрын

    Not a chance this was seen from the ocean or even a river.

  • @NOSFERATU_ONE
    @NOSFERATU_ONE2 жыл бұрын

    whatt's beneath them?

  • @diogorodrigues747

    @diogorodrigues747

    2 жыл бұрын

    Beneath the cromlech or the dolmen?!

  • @HypoliteMaindron
    @HypoliteMaindron2 жыл бұрын

    the banana-shape looks more like a moon-fase they didn’t have smileys then 😀

  • @marielambert7441
    @marielambert74412 жыл бұрын

    Could it .be à game those holes?

  • @Sirikazy
    @Sirikazy2 жыл бұрын

    Porque a guia fala em inglês? Não existem subtítulos para os inglês o franceses? E já agora bom exemplo a guia da ao tocar a pedra. Que bom! já vou aí colocar "eu estive aqui ..."

  • @999carlosjorge

    @999carlosjorge

    7 ай бұрын

    talvez porque a BBC é Inglesa,jà deve ter ouvido falar da BBC?? ....eu explico ......

  • @eva.alsoofi
    @eva.alsoofi3 ай бұрын

    👍✔👋🏻

  • @bokzdantv3360
    @bokzdantv33602 жыл бұрын

    Come to meghalaya u will find thousand of monoliths and the tallest one is 8 meter and 2 meter widths

  • @fernandoveiga0738
    @fernandoveiga07383 ай бұрын

    Hello. I have problably the solution to the constellations and the Holes, "Covinhas in Portugueses". Yes they are constellations if we remember that cromlech its a observatory. If any part can reach me i have the pleasure to say what i found. Best regards, Fernando Veiga

  • @cleverclogs2244
    @cleverclogs22442 жыл бұрын

    Those dents would stop something slipping - like a pile of clay, so you could create a headdress from flowers and leaves... just a thought...

  • @samnfg
    @samnfg2 жыл бұрын

    ✨Rocks✨

  • @MrDerebail
    @MrDerebail2 жыл бұрын

    Circle of Life

  • @hilarykirkby4771
    @hilarykirkby4771 Жыл бұрын

    Ring and cup markings such as these are found also in Scotland, usually on rising ground. The most convincing theory I've heard is that the depressions were filled with fat and ignited, to communicate with neighbouring peoples.

  • @XofHope

    @XofHope

    11 ай бұрын

    They're too small to be able to produce a fire visible from the distance. The area is quite flat and, considering the vegetation, they'd hardly been seen from even 1 km away.

  • @theaquariancontrarian3316
    @theaquariancontrarian33166 ай бұрын

    Maybe the Egyptians had round and cylindrical boulders then cut them down to size once in place???

  • @808_rafa
    @808_rafa2 жыл бұрын

    ANCESTORS! What does it all mean?! 🧐

  • @GiannisVeronis
    @GiannisVeronis2 жыл бұрын

    @3:30 try to do what you describe as the method they did it now with the same way...I bet you wont be able as this has been debunk already for all the rest of the megaliths around the globe

  • @animalpower7315
    @animalpower73152 жыл бұрын

    Just an ancient hardscape store

  • @benwilson6145
    @benwilson61452 жыл бұрын

    Similar age to the Stones of Stenness.

  • @brucestrachan7873

    @brucestrachan7873

    2 жыл бұрын

    They're cousins!