There's something decidedly strange about ancient history.
On the one hand, everything looks primitive. The statues are stylized caricatures. The inscriptions and symbols are primitive. There is none of the elegance and sophistication of more recent history. Everything is rough and base.
However, on the other hand, the stones that were used were enormous, and often crafted into shapes, impossible to reproduce without power tools.
It is as if they were super-primitive on the one hand and at the same time highly advanced. It makes no sense. Yet it all has to add up.
So, let's start by enumerating some of the observations made in the video mentioned above to see what we can make of it all.
First and foremost, we are reminded that we are talking about buildings and artifacts. They were built the way they were because it was the quickest and easiest way to get the job done.
This means that doors and walls were crafted in their size and shape because this was relatively easy. Invariably, this leads me to the conclusion that the stones were poured into molds at the building site, much like we pour concrete today. That would be much easier than cutting them at a quarry before transportation and positioning.
However, there are rocks littered around the quarries not too far from the building sites, presumably badly cut stones that were not shipped. If the quarries were producing raw materials for liquid rock, how do we explain the stones?
One thought that struck me is that the rocks at the quarries may not have been bad production runs, but sample products that clients could look at before placing an order for the ingredients to make liquid granite.
This is admittedly a little far fetched, but the alternative seems quite bizarre. High precision power tools sounds just too weird, considering the primitive nature of their art. Some magic formula for liquid granite comes across to me as more reasonable.
Assuming that the people who built the ancient monolithic structures were in possession of a recipe for liquid granite, most of the mysteries of the ancient buildings disappear. If this recipe could be used to soften existing rocks, then buildings cut out of solid rock become less mysterious too. What looks like saw-marks in rocks may have been made by a blade of bronze or wood.
When it comes to transportation of large amounts of building materials, water transportation seems like the most likely method. If the buoyancy of water was greater at the time these megalithic structures were built, then all the more reason to suspect water transportation to have been used.
By looking at the unfinished obelisk at Aswan in Egypt, it looks very much like it was cut by a method in which the stone was made soft. The spoon shaped indentations look like spade marks more than anything else.
Once finished, the idea was probably to transport the obelisk to its destination by water. It was to be equipped with floaters, the quarry was to be flooded, and the stone was to be pulled to its destination. However, a crack appeared in the obelisk, so the project was abandoned.
A combination of liquid rock, rock softening, and transportation by water would solve just about all the mysteries of ancient monolithic architecture. If gravity was less and water was more buoyant, the mystery becomes even less mysterious.
What remains strange, though, is the fact that so many different cultures in very different locations on our planet developed very similar building techniques. This could hardly have been due to random chance.
Adding to this mystery is the fact that many of the statues found in South America resemble people from far away places, like Africa, the Middle East and even Scandinavia. Was there a world wide network of trade and commerce in ancient times? Was that the way knowledge spread across the globe?
From the available evidence, it seems that the answer to this would be yes.
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Unfinished obelisk |
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