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The Theory Evidence Exists That Seems to Illustrate That a Relatively The Theory Evidence exists that seems to illustrate that a relatively advanced culture, capable of ocean navigation, who were artistically gifted, and were capable of constructing incredibly precise megalithic buildings coded with information about the cosmos once spanned the globe in ancient times. Over the next few episodes, I’ll guide you guys on a tour around the world as we visit places like Peru, Egypt, Japan, and as remote as Easter Island, to prove to you that this ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ civilization left its telltale signature at all of these locations. We will ask the question, was this one global civilization? Or is this the result of many ancient civilizations coming into contact with each other, and sharing their resources and knowledge, far further back in time than anyone in the mainstream is willing to allow? Origins I think the origin of this Conspiracy comes from the fact that all across the globe, Ancient Civilizations built similar Pyramids, all carefully aligned to celestial points. These same cultures mummified their dead, and built with remarkably similar techniques and peculiarities. Archaeologists and Anthropologists argue that this is all the result of these being the most obvious or simple forms of construction. While this may seem like a valid argument, as soon as you start looking at what they claim to be the “simplest” methods, it falls apart. Scientists are still to this day unable to explain many of the construction methods of ancient megalithic sites. (as we saw in our Pyramids episodes) We’ll look at more examples of this, such as the Megalithic Polygonal Architecture found all across the globe, ancient maps that depict the “new world” far further back into antiquity than is accepted, as well as evidence of Pre-Columbian contact with the Americas. We will see several out of place artifacts, and then we’ll round it out with an analysis of how plausible this would have been in ancient times. To prove my theory that ancient megalithic sites hold clues that an advanced ancient civilization may have either spanned the globe, or at the very least, trekked & traded across the oceans, we need to look at several examples and understand not just their construction I believe the scale, magnitude and precision of these megalithic sites remove any doubt that this civilization existed. In addition, there are countless pieces of supporting evidence. We will take some time and look at some of that supporting evidence later in this series. For now, I want us to focus on a very interested megalithic construction method that oddly seems to pop up all across the ancient globe. Polygonal Stone Walls - 1438-1471 CE (Possibly MUCH older) ​ Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Perú By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43175184 ​ Sacsayhuaman is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ of the Inca Empire. The complex was expanded and added to by the Inca from the 13th century; ​ ​ ​ ​ (1438-1471 CE) they built dry stone walls constructed of huge stones. The workers carefully cut the ​ ​ ​ boulders to fit them together tightly without mortar. The site is at an altitude of 3,701 m (12,142 ft). ​ ​ I want to point out that just like in Egypt, the stone work gets shoddier as time progresses forward. The theory here is that the Inca, and all the other Civilizations that are credited with the construction of these monuments inherited them, at least in part, and expanded on them. The thing about the dating of these sites is that you can’t date the stone. So, it’s extremely tricky to say when exactly a megalith was constructed. Most of the dating comes from ancillary artifacts found around the sites. Sacsayhuaman continues to be studied by specialists. American researcher Derek Cunningham analyzed the design of the fortress and reached the following conclusions: ● The mysterious zigzag of the walls of Sacsayhuaman reveal an ancient knowledge of astronomical alignments of the moon, the sun and the planet. ● Dr. Cunningham proposes that this architecture system would be a type of writing more than 30 thousand years old. ● In an article published by the magazine ‘Popular Archeology’, the American doctor proposes that this type of writing also existed in other ancient cultures of the world. Vitrification (ie: stones that have been melted to a point where they form a glass or glaze.) ​ ​ appears on different kinds of stones and structures at the site. It is found on the perfectly fitted walls with irregular blocks. Additionally to all that, they had no suitable timber for moving/ maneuvering. The plentiful trees in the area now were only widespread after the 19th century. Egypt -- At least 2510 BC See below, the casing stones of Menkaure’s Pyramid in Giza. These are more trapezoidal that their cousins in Peru, but they do share a certain similarity. For reference, The Pyramid of Menkaure was allegedly constructed in 2510 BC. Polygonal construction in the Valley Temple in Egypt Polygonal construction of the “paving stones” near the Great Pyramid. Also, don’t forget the 3 dimensionally cut basalt slabs near this areas as well. More basalt slabs Italy - 900AD // Foundation - 500BC or older Walls of the Castle of Santa Severa. This castle is built on old ruins of an earlier civilization on Ancient Italians call Pyrgi. The Pyrgi Tablets were found in a 1964 excavation of a sanctuary of ancient Pyrgi.Three golden ​ ​ ​ ​ leaves that record a dedication made to the Phoenician goddess ʻAštart in 500 BC. ​ ​ ​ ​ Greece: From Wikipedia: Cyclopean Masonry (3200-1050 BC) ​ ​ “Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. The boulders typically seem unworked, but some may have been worked roughly with a hammer and the gaps between boulders filled in with smaller chunks of limestone. The most famous examples of Cyclopean masonry are found in the walls of Mycenae and Tiryns.” It reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it was one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world. [1] The masonry used to build the citadel wall surrounding Mycenae was of limestone. ​ Due to the ​ ​ ​ size and weight of these stones, too heavy to be lifted by an average human, later Greeks that discovered these fortifications believed them to be the work of the Cyclopes. Therefore, the ​ ​ stone walls' design was named "Cyclopean" masonry, due to the belief that these "giants" built [1] the walls. ​ c. 3200 BC – c. 1050 BC ​ ​ Necromanteion of Acheron - 800BC By Evilemperorzorg at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33181804 The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ to Hades and Persephone. It was first described by Homer in the 8th Century BC. ​ ​ ​ ​ We can see similar polygonal construction. Norba - (1000BC) "The ancient town of Norba features massive and quite picturesque 'cyclopean' polygonal masonry walls, probably dating from the first millennium BC. Megalithic wall, Norba, Italy. Photo by author / researcher Richard Cassaro. Turkey - 5000 BC Alaca Höyük is the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement and is an important archaeological site. It is situated in Alaca, Çorum Province, Turkey, northeast of Boğazkale, where the ancient capital city Hattusa of the Hittite Empire was situated. The mound was a scene of settlement in a continuous sequence of development from at least the Chalcolithic Age, when earliest copper tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools. ​ SIDE NOTE: Gobekli Tepe -- 10,000 BC ​ Just wanted to jump in and talk a little bit about Gobekli Tepe, the oldest known megalithic site in the world, is also located in Turkey. Not much is known about the people who populated this area, and the site is still being excavated. But what we do know, is that it completely rewrote the timeline of antiquity. The site was in use for at least 2000 years, when it was purposefully buried, and abandoned around 8000BC. Prior to the discovery of Gobekli Tepe, scientists had dismissed the idea of a civilization prior to 3300BC. They still don’t accept Gobekli Tepe as evidence of a civilization. Crediting it to hunter gatherers. Interesting, considering less than 5% of the site has been uncovered. From Wiki “It is one of several sites in the vicinity of Karaca Dağ, an area that geneticists suspect ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ may have been the original source of at least some of our cultivated grains. Recent DNA analysis of modern domesticated wheat compared with wild wheat has shown that its DNA is closest in sequence to wild wheat found on Karaca Dağ 30 km (20 mi) away from the site, suggesting that this ​ ​ is where modern wheat was first domesticated.” Japan - 794 AD - Possibly Earlier. Many of the imperial castles in Japan also show the Polygonal Construction method. The Palace is said to sit on a much older Megalithic site. It was built on top of what was called the Edo castle. The warrior Edo Shigetsugu built his residence here around the end of the Heian period. Approximately around the year 794. Brien Forester, author of “A Brief History Of The Incas” suggests that the polygonal stone ​ ​ architecture of the current castle is part of an older megalithic structure that the newer castle was built upon. Malta -- (3600-2500 BC) Ġgantija ("Giantess") is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic on the Mediterranean island ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ of Gozo. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of the Megalithic Temples of Malta and are older than ​ ​ ​ ​ the pyramids of Egypt.
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