For more than four decades, a mysterious array of granite slabs, weighing 119 tons and containing sandblasted text for rebuilding humanity in several languages, was demolished in Georgia for “safety reasons” after an explosion reduced one of the slabs into rubble.

CCTV footage captured the explosion at the Georgia Guidestones site on Wednesday in the early morning hours. A car can be seen leaving the scene shortly after the blast in Elberton, Georgia, near the South Carolina border.