A new study on the Altar Stone of Stonehenge has concluded that the Altar Stone came from Scotland, more specifically from the Arcadian basin, which encompasses Inverness, the Orkney Islands and Shetland. Remember how important Orkney was for The Secret of the Druids?...
I came across this excellent 360º tour of the Great Pyramid of Giza, from the inside. It is, by far, the best representation of the interior of the Great Pyramid that I have seen so far on any media (including several videos which were live videos and not CGI...
There is something about megaliths and stone circles that draws me inexorably towards them. No matter how remote, how distant, they become something of an obsession for me. So when I visited the Lake District (have you checked out the video on my visit to the house of...
I recently visited the Lake District with my daughter, and spent a week there. It was beautiful and the weather favoured us, with glorious sunshine every single day. I will be sharing some videos of the time I spent there, starting with this one, which covers my visit...
If you have read The Alexander Secret, then you have a good idea of what I think Olympias's tomb would have looked like. If you haven't read the book (do read it!!) Olympias was the mother of Alexander the Great. Now, even as the book was being launched in 2014,...
Join me on a tour of the Allahabad from The Mists of Brahma, as we wander through the locations in the book. Check out the two Hanumanji Mandirs, the Coffee House, Company Bagh and the two schools mentioned in the book - Boys High School and St.Josephs College, in...
Here's a short video I created from my visit to the Sangam at Allahabad. Since this features in The Mists of Brahma, and is a sacred place, I thought I should share it with you. This is a 6 minute video and I hope you enjoy the views and tour of the Sangam.
As a Quest Club member, you have probably figured out by now that the UK is one of my favourite places for archaeological sites. And one of the reasons is the sheer number of ancient megalithic sites, most of which are 4000 years old, or even older. Not only are they...
Elsewhere at The Quest Club, you will find videos about Stonehenge, its origin, the archaeological excavations and studies and the secrets revealed therein. But was there a "lost Stonehenge"? This BBC video from 2021 seeks to answer this question and examines the...
Elsewhere at The Quest Club, you will find videos of interviews/presentations by Dr. Lee Clare, who has been reference in this article. This article gives an overview of Gobekli Tepe and explains how the interpretation of the site has changed over the last two...
You may have heard me talk about Denisovans and seen photographs in my TEDx talks about this species of humans that was discovered as recently as 2009. Now, we don't know a lot about Denisovans, and not too many fossils or fossil fragments have been found of this...
You may have heard me talk about Gobekli Tepe (an archaeological site in Turkey) and seen photographs in my TEDx talks about this amazing site. Here is a video I came across a video with a very recent (December 2021) lecture by Dr. Lee Clare, who is the research...
You may have heard me talk about Gobekli Tepe (an archaeological site in Turkey) and seen photographs in my TEDx talks about this amazing site. Here is a video I came across with a 2022 interview with Dr. Lee Clare, who is the research co-ordinator and archaeologist...
Here is a selfie of myself with a hill in the background. I’m not very good at taking selfies, so there was more of me in the photo than the hill! So, this hill is where the Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple is located in Padmanabham mandal of Andhra Pradesh,...
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Here's Part 2 of a BBC series on the Hidden Landscapes project, an investigation into the landscape around Stonehenge, which attempts to unravel the secrets of Stonehenge. Do leave a comment and let me know how you liked the video. Note: if you want to watch the video...
Here's Part 1 of a BBC series on the Hidden Landscapes project, an investigation into the landscape around Stonehenge, which attempts to unravel the secrets of Stonehenge. Do leave a comment and let me know how you liked the video. Note: if you want to watch the video...
Here's another video, this time by Discovery, which provides some background information in addition to everything I've written in The Secret of the Druids. Do leave a comment and let me know how you liked the video. Note: if you want to watch the video with...
