THE FOLLOWING POST IS AN AMALGAM OF TWO ARTICLES: ONE AT WORLD MONUMENTS FUND AND ONE AT EXPLOGUIDE
Scattered across 72 different locations along a remote mountain ridge, the Hintang Archaeological Landscape is a collection of prehistoric megalithic sites in northeastern Laos. Hidden throughout the region’s lush jungle vegetation and nearly inaccessible to the outside world [...]
No, not Stonehenge, not Avebury, Newgrange or even Callanish. I’m talking about Carnac, of course, in Brittany, North West France.
I have looked very hard but surprisingly, there isn’t a really good website or blog that does justice to this amazing site – or more accurately – these sites. The website for the Carnac Musée de [...]
One of the things that really bugged Rupert and I while we were filming ‘Standing with Stones’ was the absence of evidence of activity that we could relate to as ordinary human beings. Stone circles, standing stones, henges and even burials don’t tell us what people were doing with these places. We have to bend [...]
It seems that there are moves afoot to move the London Stone from its present, rather forlorn location to a setting where its historical significance can be somewhat more appreciated. Below is the clip from Standing with Stones in which Rupert takes a look at the London Stone. At the time, the premises were inhabited [...]
Rupert and I had a great time while filming in Ireland. It wasn’t always easy – the exhaust fell off the camper travelling north from Killarney – and in some areas we felt we didn’t quite do it justice, but the experience at all the sites was just great.
However, there was one major disappointment. Newgrange [...]
This might be slightly Off-Topic for this blog, seeing as the site talked about is mostly Roman, but the huge stones must be worth a mention!
Original article here.
If you are fascinated by the massive stone structures of Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, the temple ruins of Baalbeck will put you at your wits’ [...]
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