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originally posted by: Gapkid2020
Ancient Indians carved an entire mountain into multiple temples Kailasa, from top down. The mathematics and engineerinf accuracy needed to achieve this is beyond even our modern Skyscrapers technology. Historians claim they did all this using chisel and hammer. But to have rock cutting & shaping technology to do so, is what we can't figure out. There is absolutely no nearby signs of them discarding the excess rocks anywhere locally, like as if the rock crumbs just disappeared. So I indeed believe Ancient Indians had advanced technology & weapons that was lost through time and civilizations waging war.
Kailasa Temple carved out of an entire mountain
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originally posted by: nugget1
If a cataclysm were to strike earth today and only a few thousand people survived in pockets around the world we'd be back to where we were in ancient times.
Those most likely to survive would be the ones who still live close to the land; those dependent on technology wouldn't last long.
The elders would tell stories of a great civilization where skyscrapers dotted the city landscapes; where great wars were fought in the sky. Pass that knowledge down several generations after all that technology was lost and the 'ancient' past will seem like a magical world ruled by outside forces (aliens) since nobody living had any kind of knowledge of how these things could be created by mere mortals. ET or Gods; take your pick.
Thousands of years later archeologists will begin to try and unravel the mystery of all the artifacts found and dated back to the 2000's.
It seems quite possible a planet as old as earth has gone through many cataclysms in the past that wiped out all but a handful of civilization. They'll have to start from step one, reinventing everything we rely so heavily on. Will they even know how to decipher any written records they may uncover in 6,000-12,000 years down the road?
As populations continue to grow and repopulate the earth, what kind of universal belief system might be needed to control a massive amount of people?
Maybe we're just caught in an endless loop.......
originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
So say an ancient civilization did exist and wipe itself out with a nuclear war. There would be mountains of evidence left behind of its existence that a few nukes could never erase. Civilizations leave behind an incredible amount of detritus.