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I have seen and heard (in bits and pieces over the years) all of the information before.
Originally posted by bottleslingguy
reply to post by Flavian
so what kind of low tech do you suggest could lift a thousand tons? are you saying they had low tech steel cranes or just really big logs?
Originally posted by Sahabi
Stones weighing tens of tons were carried almost 8,000 feet to the tops of the Andean Mountains in Peru. The structures were built without mortar or other bounding agents. Stones weighing tons, stacked and interconnected seamlessly. The advanced architecture of Machu Picchu has survived wind gusts and earthquakes for hundreds of years. It's remarkable really.
There was great knowledge in the Americas. In my opinion, it was destroyed and suppressed by conquistadors, colonists, the papacy, and various missionaries.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Man has been on this planet for million and millions of years. It is time to accept the notion and explore the great possibility that we only know a small fraction of our past which is vague beyond 6000 years. If the world history was a library, what we know about our past would take up the space on a one page news letter in the trash.
We are immune to evolution while everything around us is not?
Originally posted by Sahabi
reply to post by Xtrozero
We are immune to evolution while everything around us is not?
Mankind is not limited to only Homo Sapien Sapien. There is Neanderthal and Denisovan blood running through our veins. If mitochondrial DNA is sequenced from the other non-modern human hominids, I bet we share their gene pools also.
Homo Sapien Sapien is the new kid on the block... he is not the first or only man.
I figured this was a good time to tie it all together.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
You are on a roll of ignorance old fella.
We are all bored with posters that offer nothing new to the table. Try a new approach old feller.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by bottleslingguy
reply to post by Flavian
so what kind of low tech do you suggest could lift a thousand tons? are you saying they had low tech steel cranes or just really big logs?
Don't need to lift anything...just drag, and to put it upright all that was needed was raw rocks, wood and rope.
Ingenious maybe, but not what I would call advance tools..
www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk...
How was it done: It is now known that the main tool employed for carving the granite were small balls of Dolerite which is a mineral harder than granite, as seen at the open air museum/quarry at Aswan, Egypt today. The discovery of this obelisk and several others in their unfinished states allows us to see how they were made. The means of separating the stone from the bedrock was a common technique used around the ancient world, in which small cavities were made in the stone, which were then filled with wood, which was soaked in water causing it to expand
Originally posted by Sahabi
Our ancient ancestors held great mathematical, cosmological, scientific, and architectural knowledge that we as modern Homo Sapien Sapien are only recently understanding ourselves.
If there was nothing spectacular about the ancient megalithic sites (mathematical formulae, cosmological knowledge), why have we been playing catch up for so long?
I'm not saying the ancients were magical, special, or assisted by anyone. They were our normal ancestors, they got wiped out, and we had to start over.
We have evidence of genetic bottlenecks in our gene pool. Points where humans nearly became extinct. Is it a stretch to speculate that there was a collapse of knowledge at the same time as the mass human die offs?
We have megalithic structures submerged under water, created before the last glacial melt. Is it a stretch to say there were lost civilizations that were destroyed?
This isn't about creating any spectacular mysteries. These are speculations based on taking facts from many domains of mankind, and attempting to mesh them into the most probable and logical theory.
Originally posted by bottleslingguy
how were they gonna lift that obelisk out of a 15 foot deep trench after detaching it from the bottom? how could anyone cut that thing loose with such a small space to work? I don't think you know what I'm talking about.