This is an hour-long deep dive into ancient prehistoric Europe.

If you'd like to see me making shorter historical videos,

go subscribe to my second channel, where I'm currently uploading every single week. The French province of Brittany has always had a unique history, jutting out as it does into the cold Atlantic.

Seafarers have called these shores home for almost as long as people have used boats.

From fleets of Celtic Venetiae fighting against the power of Rome, to Brothonic refugees crossing over the waters

from war-torn post-Roman Britain, to Scandinavian newcomers claiming the region for their own.

Our story, however, takes us much further inland, and much further into the past,

to the rugged centre and the southern coasts of this storied peninsula.

For there, astride marshland and forest sits one of the most impressive megalithic monuments in all of Europe.

Like similar, but much later, massive sites in Britain, such as Avebury, the only stone circle to contain a village and a local pub within its Henge.

Karnak can only truly be appreciated from the air.

Home to as many as 3,000 standing stones. This is a monumental area.

Added to and remolded down the long millennia since its initial construction. Long before Rome or the Celts even existed,

before metal had even been moulded here for the first time,

this was a sacred landscape.

When they were first investigated during the 1700s, the stones had initially been

attributed to Druids. Older legends suggested their origins as unfortunate Roman legionaries

turned to stone by the wizard Merlin.

We know now thanks to radiocarbon dating that though the stones remained important

down the centuries since their completion, gaining new meaning for each new people that came into the area. Their origins are far older than

the Roman or Celtic worlds, possibly originating as early as around 5,000 BC.

Today, this landscape remains one of the finest and most captivating examples of megalithic architecture found anywhere in the world.

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