(CNN)A mysteriousGeorgia monument when an explosive device exploded near an attraction on Wednesday. 8} was damaged and the authorities then destroyed it for safety reasons, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
According to GBI, the explosion occurred around 4 am in Elberton, about 100 miles east of Atlanta. No one was injured, officials said.
Immediately after the explosion, the car leaves the site and a second video is shown.
The four vertical slabs that dominate the guidestone are engraved with ten principles, each in a different modern language. Capstones are engraved in the alphabet of early human civilization-Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform, Sanskrit, classical Greek.
Since its construction in 1980, it is a mystery who paid for and created the monument.