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BRIEN FOERSTER:
Arkaim is a massive fortress
in the Ural Mountains of Russia.
The most intriguing thing
about Arkaim is its name.
"Arka" means sky or heaven
and "im" means earth.
So it's possible that Arkaim
means "the place where
the sky, or the heavens,
and Earth connect."
Arkaim is one of
northern Europe's
most enigmatic facilities,
built approximately
at the same time as Stonehenge.
It was actually, uh,
an observatory,
a temple and a scientific
research center.
HUGH NEWMAN: So, Arkaim
was discovered in 1987.
when a local company
was digging the waterways there
and creating a basin.
What they found was
some kind of temple
or some kind of construction
that was about 500 feet wide.
It once had very tall walls
up to 16 to 20 feet tall
and it was surrounded
by a great moat.
But within it,
there was concentric,
circular constructions and in
the center was a temple complex.
And so it's
a very complicated site.
I call the Russian Stonehenge,
um, one of the most
incredible discoveries ever.
The structures
put Stonehenge to shame.
They're huge.
The precision is unbelievable.
If you compare it to what's
in the United Kingdom,
it's like looking at
a modern building
next to something prehistoric.
It's truly remarkable.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Arkaim is thought to be
at least 3,000 years old.
It has 30
astronomical alignments.
It's shaped in a mandala,
as in the Sanskrit mandalas
from India.
It has had some skeletons found
that have elongated heads.
It seems that the site
of Arkaim, too, is-is put
in a very special spot.
It's in some kind of magnetic
anomaly area.
Compasses go crazy here.
And, in fact, there's evidence
the site has been
destroyed and rebuilt
several times.
NEWMAN:
There are theories that it was
once influenced by
extraterrestrials
coming to that part of the
country in the distant past.
With all the light phenomena,
the UFO sightings
and the magnetic and
strange energies there,
it does kind of suggest
that in some way.
But also, since the discovery
of the skeleton
with a very elongated skull,
that has got
everyone talking about
who these people were.
Were they alien-human hybrids,
or visitors from outer space?
