Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this week's ancient history news my headline story is about the discovery two megalithic stone circles in Devon. I then discuss the reevaluation of an earthen and stone monument in Cornwall known as King Arthur's Hall and the discovery of an inscription in Syria that may push the invention of the alphabet back by five hundred years!
#ancienthistory #Neolithic #RealArchaeology
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles found on Dartmoor
05:06 Earthen and stone enclosure found to be 4,000 years older than previously thought
06:46 What may be the earliest example of the alphabet discovered in a tomb in Syria
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✨ REFERENCES
Metcalfe, T., (2024). ‘2 Stone Age circles discovered on English moorland may have been part of a 'sacred arc',’ Livescience, 21 November. livescience.com/archaeology/2-stone-age-circles-discovered-on-english-moorland-may-have-been-part-of-a-sacred-arc
Addley, E., (2024). ‘Cornish monument is 4,000 years older than was thought and ‘without parallel’,’ Guardian, 7 November. theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/07/cornish-monument-king-arthurs-hall-4000-years-older-without-parallel
Naddaf, M., (2024). ‘Evidence of oldest known alphabet unearthed among Syrian tomb treasures’, Nature, 24 November. nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03876-3
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Merrivale menhir, credit: Herbythyme
Grimspound hut circle, credit: Herbythyme
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Grimspound Bronze Age settlement, credit: Vince Hogg
King Arthur’s Hall, credit: Dietrich Krieger
Serabit el-Khadim, credit: Roland Unger
CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Merrivale stone rows, credit: Sandy Gerrard
Public domain
A standing stone at King Arthur’s Hall
Proto-Sinaitic script
Other
Photographs of the Dartmoor stone circle, © Alan Endacott.
Photographs of the clay cylinders, © Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University.
In this week's ancient history news my headline story is about the discovery two megalithic stone circles in Devon. I then discuss the reevaluation of an earthen and stone monument in Cornwall known as King Arthur's Hall and the discovery of an inscription in Syria that may push the invention of the alphabet back by five hundred years!
#ancienthistory #Neolithic #RealArchaeology
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles found on Dartmoor
05:06 Earthen and stone enclosure found to be 4,000 years older than previously thought
06:46 What may be the earliest example of the alphabet discovered in a tomb in Syria
✨ RELATED VIDEO
How Turquoise Miners In Ancient Egypt Invented the Alphabet
youtu.be/tPdQKo8FIWs
✨ JOIN MY CHANNEL
youtube.com/channel/UC0Hs5t0U6Uf993Tba22YmKA/join
✨ FOLLOW ME ON SOCIALS
BlueSky: @MegalithHunter.bsky.social
✨ REFERENCES
Metcalfe, T., (2024). ‘2 Stone Age circles discovered on English moorland may have been part of a 'sacred arc',’ Livescience, 21 November. livescience.com/archaeology/2-stone-age-circles-discovered-on-english-moorland-may-have-been-part-of-a-sacred-arc
Addley, E., (2024). ‘Cornish monument is 4,000 years older than was thought and ‘without parallel’,’ Guardian, 7 November. theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/07/cornish-monument-king-arthurs-hall-4000-years-older-without-parallel
Naddaf, M., (2024). ‘Evidence of oldest known alphabet unearthed among Syrian tomb treasures’, Nature, 24 November. nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03876-3
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Merrivale menhir, credit: Herbythyme
Grimspound hut circle, credit: Herbythyme
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Grimspound Bronze Age settlement, credit: Vince Hogg
King Arthur’s Hall, credit: Dietrich Krieger
Serabit el-Khadim, credit: Roland Unger
CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Merrivale stone rows, credit: Sandy Gerrard
Public domain
A standing stone at King Arthur’s Hall
Proto-Sinaitic script
Other
Photographs of the Dartmoor stone circle, © Alan Endacott.
Photographs of the clay cylinders, © Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University.
