10 Ancient Structures in New York No One Can Explain

Get My E-book + Expense Tracker Now! https://ko-fi.com/s/5f0087ca5a New York State is not what most people think it is. Long before the Dutch arrived in sixteen twenty-six, this land was home to cultures that built stone complexes, earthwork monuments, burial grounds, and one of the most sophisticated systems of government the world has ever seen. In this video, we explore ten ancient structures across New York that remain unexplained or largely unknown — from over two hundred corbelled stone chambers hidden in the forests of Putnam County, to a prehistoric stone complex in the Finger Lakes that was documented, debated, and then destroyed by farming before anyone could explain it. We cover the African Burial Ground beneath Manhattan, ten-thousand-year-old artefacts at Lake George, ancient earthworks in western New York, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy — the oldest participatory democracy on earth. The land is older than the state. These are the structures that prove it. #NewYork #AncientStructures #Archaeology #HiddenHistory #Unexplained #StoneChambers #BluffPoint #Haudenosaunee #IroquoisConfederacy #AfricanBurialGround #FingerLakes #NYHistory #HudsonValley