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The Georgia Guidestones: The Anonymous Monument With No Known Maker and a Message for the End of the World

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For more than forty years, on a lonely hilltop in rural Elbert County, Georgia, there stood a monument that no one could fully explain. It was a great arrangement of polished granite slabs, taller than a house, weighing many tons, set with astronomical precision and inscribed in eight languages with a set of ten cryptic commandments for the guidance of humanity. It had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, in the year 1980, commissioned by a man who gave a false name and then vanished, leaving no trace of his true identity behind. For four decades it drew the curious, the devout, the frightened, and the furious, who argued endlessly over its meaning and its makers. And then, in the summer of 2022, an unknown person destroyed it — a bomb shattered one of its pillars in the dark before dawn, and the authorities demolished the rest for safety. The Georgia Guidestones are gone now, but the mystery of who built them, and why, was never solved, and it was carried into oblivion along with the ...