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@ronsimpson3198

Ай бұрын

Face hugger😂💀

@EuroWarsOrg

Ай бұрын

Looks like a pregnant women to me...

@beatapl4903

Ай бұрын

Brak napisow po polsku szkoda?

@ellinmakedon1216

Ай бұрын

Ancient Turkey???😲 April Fool's Joke???

Bonus points for the Xenomorph photoshop!

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

The style of these artifacts do nicely tie together. Thanks Matt!

Thank you for the fun and informative video.Well done!

I've always thought it to be a female lifting her dress and shows her giving birth to the child from the hole. Also as a possible fertility idol, where you place the afterbirth ( placenta/ umbilical cord) as an offering in order to protect the child until puberty. Interesting and informative video as always.

Right when I was interpreting a preachy attitude toward a non-alien history, you saw that face-hugger!! Brilliant comedic timing and an interesting video altogether.

... and let's not forget the striking similarities to the Moais of Easter Island.

Always good to get more detail on the way human cultures developed before, during, and after the last ice age.

ET obviously

@badlaamaurukehu

2 ай бұрын

Yakup

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Phone Home!

@bornagainbornagain6697

2 ай бұрын

Eliottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

@OLD2NEWCREW

2 ай бұрын

premature

@pierrot8358

2 ай бұрын

​@@OLD2NEWCREWHey! :) Premature alien or premature conclusion ? :)

The whole statue seems a bit phallic

@LiveFreeOrDie2A

10 сағат бұрын

Long erect shaft of a body, bulging veins snake their way up to the swollen mushroom-like head.. nah i don’t see a resemblance?

One wonders what they were thinking! The back part of the head could be an Egyptian style headress. But the stooped posture and skinny arms are weird.

This narrative is joyous with excellent subjects.

Top content as always mate, superb work. As a layman only, I see the hole as somewhere a wooden peg or shaft would be inserted, a symbolic phallus maybe,? It also appears to me to be so very much more stream lined than a stand alone figurine or statuette . It looks like it was fashioned to be part of a larger object, for want of a better word. Maybe herbs and other substances were ground down in the cavity using a stick and used to make potions or salves. Maybe a rudimentary candle or torch would be inserted onto the hole. A symbolic axe , who knows?Alas, we will never know. I look forward to you next episode.

Looks beautiful , ancient people were so talented .

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

I love it

@mattharvey515

2 ай бұрын

Sarcasm, I suspect.

@TWIXTIMA0

Ай бұрын

@@mattharvey515 definitely not .

@gilorillos

Ай бұрын

Looks really bad.

Great Job Team . Explore More . We audience looking forward for more interesting Videos

Love your awesome vids, mate!

If the hole is ancient, it's probably the birth canal.

@MrHathaway1337

Ай бұрын

Massive gaping hole, dusty, and with cat statues? Sounds like a middle aged woman.

You don't outright mention it, but I guess it's not lost on you that this, and the Urfa Man figure, have holes in similar locations.

Another great video from Mr A. Architects!

@francisfischer7620

Ай бұрын

I love input from hamsters! Very insightful perspective!

Loved this one.

always interesting! thanks

I came across an archaeological discovery of a people who got trapped in the Younger Dryas by being surrounded by Ice walls, they had just enough land and a strangely temperate place, to survive and thrive, they practiced, learn't, animal husbandry and crop growing as a means of survival. pretty sure it was Russia, maybe Siberia where they found this place. I can't find the study again, have you heard of this? i thought these would have been the people who taught others their skills. I thought the Harran Plain looked like a good contender but didn't see an article to confirm it. I am Delighted to have found your channel, wonderful, thank you.

@russellmillar7132

Ай бұрын

Where was this that you "came across" this tale? Sounds like a good premise for a series like "Clan of the Cave Bear" or something. Very imaginative.

Nice. Cheers Matt.

i don't want to do the rest of the video a disservice but that final comment... *chef's kiss*

Made me giggle, thanks for posting!

@glennllewellyn7369

2 ай бұрын

You naughty boy you!

There’s only one explanation.

Good work. I like it.

It looks like a little old man, wearing a cape with a voluminous hood perched on an admittedly, elongated head.

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

The weird head looks like an old man going bald (a bit like me in my 40s!)

@theodoresmith5272

2 ай бұрын

Sex toy. 😊😊

@NiobiumThyme

Ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects 1oz castor oil, 3 drops of oregano oil. massage into your scalp daily. Im not a doctor, but my hair is thicker. I love your content. much love, keep on.

@Dr.Yalex.

Ай бұрын

it looks like a woman who just bore a human being, and who is lying on her stomach cuddling the baby's head with both arms...and below is a round hole where it came out...

Oh my😑 Until you showed the movie clip I didn't even notice anything. I'm still not sure that I do even now. Of course most of the time I don't see Aliens anyhow. It is an awesome find. Thanks for sharing this with us. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you Matt

ancient statues are very cool and interesting ty

Thank you

Thanks, Matt.

Thank you sir!👍

Looks like it could be one of the elongated skull people found in Peru and Russia and on the Isle of Crete and other places as well . The elongated skull people are a mystery themselves . It was a world wide culture at some point in history which has been left out of our books . I think by now we all know who has done the most research on this people and revealed their DNA structure as well as a mapping of it around the world . There is still much to be discovered about this culture. They were very very strange indeed . :O) Thanks for the share. :O)

My first thought was that it depicts a mother and small child. And it’s not the shape of a head but some kind of head covering. But, what do I know? This thing was carved a little before my time.

@juliam248

2 ай бұрын

Lol, it looks like an old grandma from Eastern Europe to me... the scarf on the head, and the zig-zag pattern looks like a short coat. She's probably about to offer everyone food! Joking aside, it did give me a mother and child vibes too.

@jandrews6254

2 ай бұрын

I’m think mum and child, and the bulge at the back of the head is a bag she’s carrying

@bathsheba.b8656

Ай бұрын

The bulge at the back of the head could be representing the hair of the mother with child, I also though that the carved lines going from the back to the front of the body could be some kind of sling to hold the young child.

@bathsheba.b8656

Ай бұрын

@@juliam248 I live in Bulgaria, my neighbour Baba Kriska looks just like that and offers food at any opportunity.

@juliam248

Ай бұрын

@@bathsheba.b8656 I grew up in an area with Eastern European immigrants from different countries, and all the old ladies looked like that! They were super sweet, too, and made the best food. I'm 100% OK with the idea of elderly Eastern European ladies as ancient cult goddesses, lol.

Thank you.

I almost fell for it! You nearly got me. Saying it’s NOT aliens this close to April Fools. Haha good one. I almost fell for it

fascinating video, thank you AA! somehow these figurines remind me of the small three-fingered "alien" mummies from nazca, peru .... .

Actually, it's a representation of the handheld laser weapon. The point end of the hands are where the trigger would be, the hole is the power supply point, crystalline in nature. The laser weapons used in Space 1999 have very similar attributes in the manner of which the object would be used.

While the Face Hugger comment was humorous, I noticed two things on this pillar that I had not been able to see before your video. 1. The head covering is similar to the Egyptian pharaonic cover that will become ubiquitous there in later history; that type of draped cloth, though, will continue to be used as a kerchief or nun's habit later in history, too, so its shape in no way indicates gender clearly. 2. The smaller second figure seems to be emerging from the first (breach birth), and the hole could indicate the 2nd figure is female, so that this pillar could, as a whole, symbolize the blood ancestry possibly practiced by this culture, since women would have been the ONLY blood relatives (they could not have determined that males play a role in pregnancy yet; see my book, Pitiless Bronze: A Postpatriarchal Examination of Prepatriarchal Cultures) they knew, so this pillar, in particular, could be a totem marking the importance of knowing one's bloodline through a matrilineal form of social classification.

He's saying "suckkkk it" DMX style

Is there a detailed Lidar mapping project underway in the discovery zone? Or is that just too hard ;(

TY 🙏🙏

Neolithic stuff is fascinating.

@francisfischer7620

Ай бұрын

Isn't it just astonishing!

big big energy on that tue

Not just you. That's TOTALLY a Facehugger!😎

You truly don't know just how complex our reality is. Historically or contemporary.

My great grandma looked a bit like that!

My considered opinion is... I haven't got a clue 😂 interesting though, thanks mate 👍

After observing this sculpture, which was bound to draw modern comparisons to aliens, I see something more common. The head is distorted by clothing, like a primitive hoodie. Even the diagonal carved line below the arms appears to be part of the garment. With the head leaning forward, the character appears to be old. So perhaps age equals wisdom, thus representing a Shaman??? Thanks for your research and videos on the fascinating world of the ancient... Humans.

This statue looks EXACTLY like the tallest statues in the Gobekli Tepi stone circles.

The parents proudly displayed it on the refrigerator.

I realised today that I have not heard from Ancient Architects for quite some time, several months in fact. I logged in and discovered that whilst I was still subbed the 'None' option was ticked instead of the 'All' option. I didn't do this, obviously. Are you being shadow banned? Can't imagine what you have done to deserve that. This has happened to me on other channels as well.

Reminds me of elongated skulls

There are some stone 'collars', from South America that I have seen in a video from Klaus Dona, I think. The 'collar', does seem to be a support for that elongated head, doesn't it. Quite an incredible piece of sculpture. I did think the larger T shaped stones from the Tepe's, was a depiction of elongated head 'ancestors'. Perhaps very early Neanderthal hybrids?

Never cease to be amazed by how much ancient art embodies phallic symbols.

@springbloom5940

2 ай бұрын

Its even veiny 😐

Curious if any one did an exploration of the area where that came from? Though wonder if that information was divulged where the statute came from originally. If they that information is known. Curious if an archeological study was done

So strange. So little we know about the distant past.

clearly just the old guy that owns the bodega on the corner

The tau is the precursor to the cross, being the pillar of heaven and the crossing ecliptic band. Its not so weird honestly, graveyards are full of cross stones. I suspect its creation/birth and death, linked to the concept of time/astronomy itself. It could well be the reason for the elongated heads, to make the body appear like Tau.

Perhaps a re-carved “T-shaped pillar “ taken from the original site? Repurposed by another culture for fertility rituals. Good video!

Quite interesting! Are you sure it's NEVER aliens? It's nice to think I might be. Such a huge universe.... Kinda lonely....

It's "Çori", pronounced Chori... Regarding the statue, it seems like the pillar at Göbekli Tepe. In my interpretation, these pillars represent a hunter, with its belt. It is Orion, the constellation. It is also a pillar to hold a wool roof. All references to the Younger Dryas event.

@turistomer3702

Ай бұрын

what is a "younger Dryas event" please

I was thinking Grey Aliens :-) I’ve just dropped a video explaining where these creatures might come from. Good video Matt Steve W Bright Weird

To me it seems like a pregnant woman giving birth, the hole clearly being the birth canal the baby is exiting.

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Nice idea!

@cordeliafitzgerald8714

2 ай бұрын

Me too.

@ian_b

2 ай бұрын

The linear feature can be interpreted as clothing pulled up perhaps?

@karenbaxter2318

2 ай бұрын

That was my first thought too.

Hans Ruedi Giger must have talked to ancient spirits when he came up with alien paintings which Ridley Scott adopted in to movies

@ian_b

2 ай бұрын

So it's an Ancient Alien?!

Today you even showed you had a sense of humor!🤣

1:02 "Discovered in this area"? Might as well say, "Discovered in Asia Minor".

He’s wearing a hoodie!!

That sculpture is a phallic symbol. Which was common back then

in tropical West Africa many stone age soapstone figures, called Nomolies (sp?) are found depicting oddly shaped anthropomorphic figures. Tody, these are typically unearthed while digging for diamonds. Considered to be supernatural in origin, those finding them would drill holes into their heads in order to place ritualistic materials (herbs, chewed cola nuts, etc) into them as an offering to the spirit that created it. So, the hole drilled into this sculpture may well be from a later culture.

The hammer head and elongated body look quite like Gerald Scarfe's teacher in his art for Pink Floyd's The Wall.

These actually remind me of those infamous Ubaid lizard headed statues. While they are not aliens those Ubaid statues look like these statues but with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B stone masks at the front. Likely just common iconography blending into the Ubaid period, but still... creeps me out because it's like some creature is mockingly disguising itself.

It’s a tool for grinding stone it’s like a swinging arm motion and the arms are pointing at the center of gravity now it’s balanced and they can move it with no effort should be a hollowed out stone box with a arched top close by that would be the base the arm would rotate on like the one in Egypt

What seems odd isn't the "aliennness" of the scuplture as much as the resemblence both with this and Gobeklitepe, but also the Easter Island Statues.

You never go full Alien. 😉

Ancient Astronaut theorists say 'Yes'.

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

😂

💜🐾

Cool hammer

folks, Gene D. Matlock's book (What Strange Mystery Unites The Turkish Nations, İndia, Catholicism and Mexico), will answer some of your questions to a good extent. Thanks for the video.

I saw the alien head before you said it, I dont believe in Aliens!!! But I´m locking my door just in case... ;-)

Could be a double hybrid from the later film.

the lil mourh 😍😂

Babushka? If it was a face hugger, there wouldn’t have been any ancient peoples to relay the information!

I have a horrible brain cuz I saw that hole in the statue and my brain told me “That’s a ‘glory hole’ for sure!!! Just the right size too”. Be too dam funny if it turned out to be that sometime in the future 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Space Jokeys confirmed.

An elongated skull, makes me think of the Ubaid figurines of Mesopotamia dating between 7500 and 5700 years ago

What if the t shape design was both artistic and functional, like it looks top heavy and i bet you could rotate it horizontally on its head to haul and move it around. also the elbow position could be the point of balance between the head and body idk tho just guessing.

Never say never!

New AA night complete 🎉

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

@JGProspecting

2 ай бұрын

❤❤​@@AncientArchitects

The Engineers were here. Giger, Ridley, and Matt know 😅👍

Neolithic centerfold minus the staples.

👍🏼

What I like about this, is there was a race of people that had time to create things. 5000 odd years before people got to building Pyramids.

Pillar 43?.....yes. Definitely a facehugger.

Kilisik statue Vs Shigir Idol

Now if only aliens weren't stupid and made up....

@realDonaldTrump420

Ай бұрын

Raciss

Looks like one of those belly bursting creatures from the Alien movies.