The Trilithon at Baalbek
| The real story behind the Nazca lines in Peru isn't the big shapes of monkeys and hummingbirds that get the tourists excited. True, their purpose can't be explained readily, but we know how those were made: you figure out a shape and dig until you get to the different colored rock. What's really interesting are the straight lines criss-crossing the plains. These stretch for up to 15 miles in some cases, but remain perfectly straight the entire way across. One theory is that stakes were connected at either end with something stretched across, and these stakes have even been "found," but carbon dated to after the time the lines were thought to have been drawn. Also, what could be produced by ancient Peruvian peoples and then stretched for over a mile? And only be appreciated as a straight line from the air? |
The Palpa Flat Mountain
Oh and you know what? Large piles of stone are scattered around the plateau. But not randomly. These piles, when connected like a "connect the dots book," are believed to be Phoenician writing. From across the Atlantic Ocean.
Sacsayhuamán
Again, in Peru, this massive fortress displays a knowledge of stonework that modern man is simply unable to duplicate. These walls of stone are cut and stacked in ways that boggle the mind, fitting together so precisely that even today the seams are so tight that a piece of paper or a razor blade can't fit between. All stacked without any mortar, held in place through sheer engineering. The stones can weight up to 360 tons, yet were carried from over 22 miles away using... we don't know. We don't know what carried these stones that far, we don't know what could lift them up in the air and on top of other massive stones, we don't know how they were cut in irregular puzzle shapes and then stacked together in such perfect precision.
1) Puma PunkaWhat makes this even more amazing is that many of these blocks were cut from diorite, an insanely hard rock that was used in ancient times to cut other rocks. The grooves in the diorite are machine-made, some as small as a centimeter deep with only 1 mm variation. And all these blocks are cut like this. Even today's engineers are daunted by this task, and then carting them up a 13,000 ft mountain? Fuck it, we're saying it's aliens.