Posted on 04/17/2026 6:10:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Paul Whitewick explores the incredible journey of Pytheas, an ancient Greek geographer who first mapped Britain and ventured into the Arctic Circle. Despite being largely forgotten and doubted by contemporaries, this explorer's detailed observations of the North and tidal patterns were ultimately proven accurate.
The Greatest Explorer - You've NOT Heard of - Just VANISHED | 15:59
Paul Whitewick | 246K subscribers | 91,617 views | November 30, 2025
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Pytheas the Greek in the fourth century BC was the first literate explorer to reach England and visit Stonehenge which he identified as a Temple to the Sun. From his description of the priesthood, we can tell that the monument was still in use. He recounts how it had been visited in what he called ‘ancient times' by holy men from Greece bearing gifts. This could allude to the early Mycenaean era, likely recorded at Stonehenge by the carving of a Mycenaean dagger. Temples typically accommodate one or more idols to divinities in their inner sanctum. Stonehenge has two. One is a significant, hitherto unrecognised, carved phallic icon, now fallen and overlooked, which used to stand axially near the middle of the monument. The other is the female-symbolic recumbent Altar Stone which is united by shadow with the external Heel Stone at sunrise in midsummer week. Also discussed is the integrated lunar-solar calendar planned into the stones of the sarsen circle. Pytheas' onward journey included the Cornish tin mines, St Michael's Mount, Scotland, Shetland, Arctic packed sea-ice, and the amber coasts of Denmark.
Prof. Terence Meaden, M.A (Oxon) M.Sc.(Oxon) D.Phil. (Oxon), is a physicist, meteorologist and archaeologist with doctoral degrees in physics and a MSc in archaeology from Oxford University. He has made significant contributions to archaeology and his books include Stonehenge: The Secret of the Solstice, Secret of the Avebury Stones and Stonehenge, Avebury and Drombeg Stone Circles Deciphered.
Filmed at the Megalithomania Conference, Glastonbury, May 2024.Prof. Terence Meaden | How Pytheas the Greek
Discovered Iron-Age Britain, Stonehenge and Thule | 41:36
MegalithomaniaUK | 258K subscribers | 5,533 views | July 14, 2025
Quite the explorer that Pytheas. AMAZING individual. Thanks, ‘civ.
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