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Earth Ancients

Hugh Newman & JJ Ainsworth: The Mysterious Origins of the Olmec

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Newman is an explorer, megalithomanic, author of 'Giants on Record', and a contributor to 'Megalith: Studies In Stone'. He is a regular guest on History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens' and 'Search for the Lost Giants.' He has articles published in Atlantis Rising (US), New Dawn (Australia) and numerous other publications. As well as organising the Megalithomania conferences and tours, he has spoken at events in the UK, Malta, France, Peru, Egypt, Bosnia and North America. He lives in Wiltshire, England. His websites are www.megalithomania.co.uk and www.hughnewman.co.uk

Jj Ainsworth is an alternative archaeologist, history buff, world traveler, and explorer. She focuses mainly on megaliths, and symbol decoding, but loves solving any kind of ancient mystery.

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0:00.0

This week on Earth Ancients we head to Mexico and the land of the Olmek. This is

0:05.8

Central Mexico places like Laveenta and San Lorenzo, home of these very, very sophisticated people who were extremely old.

0:18.7

We don't really know where they came from.

0:20.6

We don't really know a lot about them.

0:22.0

We don't have any bones, any skeletal remains of these people.

0:26.1

So we have to do a tremendous amount of guesswork. My guest today are Hugh Newman and

0:30.8

J.J. Ainsworth who have discovered some fascinating facts and

0:37.0

revelations about these people known to us as the Olmek. Later, Gendeo takes us to Jordan in the Middle East and a discovery of tiny Neolithic figures. These are small figurines carved in stone and left in a tomb.

0:56.3

Thousands and thousands of years ago, why they did this is really the question.

1:01.7

All this in the news today on Earth Ancients. Peace good

1:17.0

and love in our love in our own way. Oh, oh, well, it's a good thing.

1:25.0

He is the good

1:30.0

and he is the good and. I'm your host. This is Cliff

1:45.0

Earth Ancients. I'm your host Cliff Dunning.

1:49.0

Hey, how are you? This is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients. I hope you're doing well. Today, it is Saturday, the 11th of July. Wow, the year's moving very, very fast.

2:04.2

I've been looking through my photographs from last year,

2:10.2

October in Egypt, first trip for me, and I had to basically write off 2020 and when I say

2:18.5

right off I mean we can't travel now Americans are America is the Pariah of the world.

2:26.8

And I don't say that lightly.

2:28.6

This is the first time that we've been banned from most of the civilized world.

2:34.6

I think I read the other day that in Forbes,

2:37.9

there's five, no excuse me, there's nine different countries

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