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Ancient megalithic ruins from around the world

the Romans et al may not have featured the megalitic structures. But even the largest megalith pales in comparison to a built structure from component construction.
Those amazing stone cities and temples and such are nothing compared to these true marvels of imperial engineering - pictures below.

The Imperial goals were different. i.e: Add all the precisely laid stones in the roman roads spanning europ, euraisa and north africa and it equals a feat of engineering, skill and raw effort that is an order of magnitude beyond any individual megalith with perhaps the exception of the great pyramids.

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They are impressive.

But I have to say the megalithic temples in India do give it a run for its money. For some reason this region wasn't hit as hard as the rest of the world.

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The temples in Cambodia are pretty much the same as the ones in India:



Banteay Srei

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Angkor Wat :

Polygonal wall
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Massive granite doors

India:
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Jordan:
Massive granite doors at Qasr al-Azraq

Notice the polygonal stone work above it? It was found ruined and repurposed into a castle.

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Doors Made of Stone in Irbid
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Umm Qais
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These might be basalt

Egypt:
If you look at the corner of this box you can see the hole where the door would have been placed.

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Had no idea there were carvings on their backs.

Easter island:

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I highly doubt they buried them that far down.

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Polygonal walls are there too:

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A lot of the Olmec heads made of baslat were found buried in Mexico

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This is one was clearly damaged by high heat and it looks similar to the damaged Egyptian statues. Granite and basalt doesn't weather like that.

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Zapotec cruciform megalith in Mexico
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Skills and knowledge are lost all the time.
When the Romans left Britain, it took less then 50 years and there was no one left in GB who knew how to bake bricks to build houses.
The Brits had to go back to chissling out rocks to build houses.
People also used cranes thousands of years ago but then they were gone for centuries.
Knowledge gets lost, sometimes for centuries.
There is more knowledge lost to us, then we have available to us, even today.
 
Skills and knowledge are lost all the time.
When the Romans left Britain, it took less then 50 years and there was no one left in GB who knew how to bake bricks to build houses.
The Brits had to go back to chissling out rocks to build houses.
People also used cranes thousands of years ago but then they were gone for centuries.
Knowledge gets lost, sometimes for centuries.
There is more knowledge lost to us, then we have available to us, even today.

This is true. This video was uploaded a few weeks ago
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The Romans left because of calamity.

The ancient high tech was lost because of a cataclysm.
 
Another thing connecting all these sites together is the lintel:

Itally:

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Peru:

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Greece:
Treasury of Atreus
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Cambodia:
Phimeanakas at Angkor

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Mexico:
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Mexico:
Temple of the feathered serpent

We're just going to stop and downgrade the shit out of our marvelous temple.

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What if it's not carved, but sculpted onto the side of something?
 
Remember when people thought this was the millennium falcon?

Baltic sea anomaly

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Peru:

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Mexico:
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The Etruscan pyramid:

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Are you referring to dolmens?

I have no explanation for them but they show signs they were made by the same civilization.

North Caucasus:
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Korea:

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India:

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Ireland:
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Orkney Islands:

Yes, for me megalithics would be like that. Some of what you posted, IMO, are some really fine sculptures from some of the most important ancient empires. Anyways, i can be wrong and they are really rad.
 
Yes, for me megalithics would be like that. Some of what you posted, IMO, are some really fine sculptures from some of the most important ancient empires. Anyways, i can be wrong and they are really rad.

Personally I believe ancient empires took credit for the stuff they discovered. They either made lesser quality additions or lesser quality repairs. I think they all were inspired by them.

India:

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