Ancient megalithic ruins from around the world

[Social Warlord]

Anyone else think there was an ancient global civilization that dominated the planet and had the technology to efficiently cut rock? I personally think there was.

Saudi Arabia:
Mada’in Saleh

Peru:
Aramu Muru

Rosaspata

Turkey:
Midas

Fethiye

Jordan:
Petra

Iran:
Naqsh-e Rostam

Bali:
Gunung Kawi

India:
Kailasa

Ethiopia:
Lalibela

China:
Yangshan

Egypt:
Abu Simbel

Afghanistan:
Takht-e Rostam

Feel free to add anything I may have missed!

 

[Social Warlord]

The damage to some of these temples and sites is indicative of high heat rather than invading armies. Looks like there was an ancient great reset.

Peru:



Egypt:


India:
Masrur Rock Cut Temples

 

[phoenixikki]

Nothing you can't acomplish with a simple hammer and chisel

 

[RemyR]

No

 

[elreece]

Anyone else think there was an ancient global civilization that dominated the planet and had the technology to efficiently cut rock? !

No

 

[MicroBrew]

Nothing you can't acomplish with a simple hammer and chisel

And lots of time with no social media , TV and the internet to waste it on.

 

[davidlemonparty]

Post iron Age there is really nothing stopping the construction of a stone megalith other than time.
Still crazy respect to those who took the time to build such amazing structures.
Equally, a lot of it was probably slave or indentured labour so I guess Boo to them?

Quite the moral quandary

 

[phoenixikki]

 

[Rimbaud82]

Well, no.

 

[ModernMatt]

No, I don't think so. Like someone mentioned earlier...people back then had a lot of time, might be hard for some people today to think about not having TV and internet. In those times you weren't just going to sit around your hut all day and day dream...esp if you're a slave, which a lot of them were

 

[SammyPops]

I saw the Longcock dude on JRE, and yeah there is something there.

 

[Social Warlord]

Nothing you can't acomplish with a simple hammer and chisel

The amount of rock that is removed and the hardness of some of the stone makes it impossible to do without some sort of machine. There's clear evidence of uniform machine marks.

China:


Japan:


Indonesia:


France:

 

[Social Warlord]

Turkey:


China:


Spain:


Sicily:

 

[Social Warlord]

No

Why do you think there wasn't?

 

[Texan6533]

Most things in the ancient world were created with two main things: unlimited time and mass labor (at times slave labor)

 

[Social Warlord]

And lots of time with no social media , TV and the internet to waste it on.

Plenty of war and the struggle for food would keep people occupied. Let's not forget pandemics, the earliest recorded one was in 430 BC.

 

[Social Warlord]

Egypt:


Petra:

 

[Social Warlord]

No, I don't think so. Like someone mentioned earlier...people back then had a lot of time, might be hard for some people today to think about not having TV and internet. In those times you weren't just going to sit around your hut all day and day dream...esp if you're a slave, which a lot of them were

Too much rock removed and in places where there weren't that many people and slaves.

 

[Social Warlord]

Most things in the ancient world were created with two main things: unlimited time and mass labor (at times slave labor)

Why do you think people were just sitting around doing nothing?

Also the population size of dynastic Egypt was only 1-1.5 million.

Look at the construction techniques of Babylonia it was all mud brick.

A few thousand years later the population size of ancient Greece wasn't that big either.

You're going to need some type of machine or other advanced tech.

 

[Social Warlord]

You don't downgrade this bad unless the people with the tech were wiped out.

Peru: