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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Thousands of years ago, prehistoric people dragged massive stones for miles. |
0:08.0 | They arranged them in patterns across Europe, standing in circles, forming rows. |
0:13.0 | These monuments puzzled researchers for centuries. |
0:16.0 | Then came Alexander Tom, a Scottish engineer, an Oxford professor obsessed with numbers. |
0:22.6 | He surveyed hundreds of ancient sites, measured every stone, calculated every angle, and found something impossible. |
0:30.6 | A single unit of measurement, exactly 2.72 feet. This wasn't random. The same length appeared everywhere. |
0:40.3 | At sites separated by thousands of miles, built across thousands of years, Tom called it the |
0:47.3 | megalithic yard. Archaeologists called it nonsense. Stone Age people had no writing, no metal tools, |
0:53.3 | no advanced mathematics, but the number appeared everywhere, at every major site, in every structure. |
1:01.0 | This wasn't coincidence. Tom believed he'd found the blueprint of a lost system, a universal ruler connected to the stars, the sun, and the Earth itself. |
1:11.6 | The system required knowledge these ancient builders shouldn't have possessed. |
1:15.6 | So if Stone Age people didn't create this technology, who did? |
1:21.6 | The Alexander Tom was a retired professor of engineering from Oxford University. |
1:36.3 | He had the best survey equipment available. |
1:40.3 | On weekends and holidays, he'd load his car with measuring tools, then drive to remote locations, |
1:45.8 | visit stone circles that had stood for thousands of years. |
1:50.4 | Tom wasn't looking for artifacts or treasure. |
1:53.2 | He was looking for patterns. |
1:56.0 | Over decades of fieldwork, he studied more than 600 megalithic sites across Britain and France. |
2:01.6 | Then Tom made an extraordinary claim. |
2:05.6 | These ancient builders were using technology far ahead of their time. |
2:10.6 | These Neolithic people were thought to be primitive, no writing, no advanced mathematics. |
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