Ancient megalithic ruins from around the world

[Blayt7hh]

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

I know at least in Egypt that is actually a myth and not true that slaves built their wonders. They maybe had some role in it but most of the work was done by skilled craftsmen that were well payed

 

[Blayt7hh]

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.

Most of these were built during the golden ages of the civilizations. They would have been prosperous and not hard up for food.

 

[Texan6533]

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.

Im not saying they were sitting around doing nothing, the mass labor worked around the clock to get things done. If you have enough labor with a specialized skillset you can do things relatively quickly for a small job and would have enough “foremen” overseeing the larger projects that took much longer.

and there are good videos on YouTube that show how ancients cut through stone and lifted/hoisted heavy stones. Again, these wouldn’t take the time of a laser cutter or something, but because they would have had the hours to do it, it was no big deal for them to sit and get the work done.

Most ancient structures weren’t done in weeks or months or even years, but decades or over hundreds of years. So sitting there getting millimeter by millimeter of stone cut, you would notice minor imperfections along the way.

 

[ModernMatt]

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

there used to be civilizations in Troy....and in Carthage....so whats your point?

 

[Social Warlord]

There's a common theme you'll see at these sites are the extra large doors/false doors. Some of them are high off the ground too which makes no sense.

Armenia:

 

[Social Warlord]

Most of these were built during the golden ages of the civilizations. They would have been prosperous and not hard up for food.

The Dynastic Egyptians did build incredible monuments but nothing like the larger more precise stuff there. The damage done to the temples and giant statues isn't indicative of siege warfare.

 

[AbominableJoman]

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

Bingo. Slaves, and a lot of them.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

No, I don't think so. Like someone mentioned earlier...people back then had a lot of time,

Also your generally talking a relatively small amount of infrastructure, a handful of very eye catching buildings.

In terms of resource allocation humanity has tended to shift in the modern era, you don't get that degree of focus on a single structure anymore from society. Most of our modern construction technology is based on building MORE not automatically building better. So you can have an ancient structure and looks like its to the standard of the modern era but the difference is it needed far more resources poured into it to achieve.

I mean really if you look were looking at a pre modern structure as being remarkable I'd be less inclined to mention these "megaliths" and more inclined to mention something like a European cathedral or Ankor Watt. Those are buildings that we actually cannot replicate today because we can't "short cut" the amount of resources put into them in terms of fine stone work.

 

[Bobby 3 Sticks]

Sure was. The Atlantieans. They became a water living race and will be coming back to reclaim the earth from us. Who do you think all the water UFOs belong to?

 

[Blayt7hh]

The Dynastic Egyptians did build incredible monuments but nothing like the larger more precise stuff there. The damage done to the temples and giant statues isn't indicative of siege warfare.

Is that a misquote?

 

[Social Warlord]

Im not saying they were sitting around doing nothing, the mass labor worked around the clock to get things done. If you have enough labor with a specialized skillset you can do things relatively quickly for a small job and would have enough “foremen” overseeing the larger projects that took much longer.

and there are good videos on YouTube that show how ancients cut through stone and lifted/hoisted heavy stones. Again, these wouldn’t take the time of a laser cutter or something, but because they would have had the hours to do it, it was no big deal for them to sit and get the work done.

Most ancient structures weren’t done in weeks or months or even years, but decades or over hundreds of years. So sitting there getting millimeter by millimeter of stone cut, you would notice minor imperfections along the way.

It's impossible to do it on this scale.

There aren't videos that show how the global ancients cut polygonal stone walls that required no mortar. Why do you think global populations downgraded so badly? Why was the technology lost?

Show me a video of someone precisely cutting a basalt pillar with primitive hand tools.

 

[Social Warlord]

Is that a misquote?

Just disagreeing with the idea that everything was built during the golden age of civilizations we know about.

 

[thehighking]

What if ancient civilizations actually had highly modern technologies but they noticed how they were polluting the Earth and so they discovered how to make their technology natural and biodegradable?

 

[Texan6533]

It's impossible to do it on this scale.

There aren't videos that show how the global ancients cut polygonal stone walls that required no mortar. Why do you think global populations downgraded so badly? Why was the technology lost?

Show me a video of someone precisely cutting a basalt pillar with primitive hand tools.

Based on what I’ve seen on YouTube, this is possible; it just takes a very long time using abrasive saws, abrasive pipes, water, and heat. It’s a masterpiece for sure, but it’s made of simple shapes stacked on one another into a complicated form / it’s probably one solid piece in some points which is amazing (at least until you get to the capital). If you took just one of those forms and worked it until it was smoothed out it wouldn’t seem like such a big deal just time consuming.

Also, with several master craftsmen working on these at the same time, it wouldn’t be such a daunting task. As far as a video showing the exact technique of cutting a basalt column there probably isn’t one, but the basic technique needed showed on smaller objects is. I assume a similar technique was used.

 

[Social Warlord]

The tapered door ties all these different civilizations together.

India:
Barabar caves

Bali:
Goa Gajah

Peru:
Machu Pichu

Japan:


Turkey:

 

[Social Warlord]

What if ancient civilizations actually had highly modern technologies but they noticed how they were polluting the Earth and so they discovered how to make their technology natural and biodegradable?

They wouldn't give up and destroy the ability to precisely and efficiently cut hard rock and move it. Civilizations were always advancing.

 

[Social Warlord]

there used to be civilizations in Troy....and in Carthage....so whats your point?

I don't think there were enough people and logistical support to accomplish the removal of that much rock.

This is apparently attributed to the Phoenicians who colonized North Africa.

 

[Social Warlord]

Ankor Watt.

This guy has some great footage of Ankor Watt and all the temples in the region.



These stone chains are incredible:

 

[Spounman]

Yes I believe there was an ancient advanced civilization that created Gobekli Tepe. Probably created the Sphinx too. Do I believe they were advanced in our sense of the word, no. But they were prob a lot more advanced than modern scientists give them credit for. Modern humans have been around for at least 100k years, prob as far back as 300k years. Our historic record goes back what 14k years at this point?

 

[Fatality]

Megalithic ruins are impressive and can be explained away in various ways but the more interesting thing in my opinion is examples of ancient high precision.

Take for example the so-called 'schist disc', carved from a single piece of stone dated approximately 5100 years old.
View media item 34447The symmetry and precision necessary to create such an object is far beyond the tools of the period. Not to mention the question of what was the object's function?