Scott Wolter
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's just incredible.
And then the light box moves down and it illuminates the egg at nine o'clock.
So when do you think this was then in the 14th century?
Yeah.
Well, we know that they began to lay out the alignments because we have in the Cremona document material we haven't talked about yet, it says that in 1368, they started laying, they put standing stones and sticks up to capture the alignments within a circle of stones on the ground.
So they created an artificial horizon so that they could mathematically determine
document these alignments on the ground first, then they built the structure.
So we think that construction probably ended around 1400 or maybe a little bit before that.
But it was constructed between 1368 and 1400.
And it's been standing ever since.
And there it is.
That we know of, yeah.
So yeah, absolutely.
And I mean, every single aspect of it screams Knights Templar.
Now, the other thing that we know
And I talked to you a little bit about Brad Lidge, the former baseball player who's now an archaeologist, who was a guest on my show in our fourth season when we did an episode that included the Newport Tower.
And I gave him a tour of it and I pointed these things out.
The more I pointed it out, he goes...
Windmill doesn't make any sense.
I go, no, it doesn't.