Homer was right about the Trojan war. Could he have been right about Atlantis?
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Interesting. Reminds me of a thread I followed on glp for a long time.
Good stuff. Thanks.
Archeology clearly documents many rise and fall of civilization.
I doubt their analysis of drill penetration speeds. I have seen plenty of modern drill holes that look quite similar.
They certainly look like modern drill holes.
While working on my third book in an on going series about a two-headed turtle, I have been doing a lot of research into civilizations pre-flood. I came to the conclusion that moving large mutli-ton blocks of rocks were done with sound. The rocks were carved using sound to make the stone almost putty like so that it could be formed into shapes. At least that is my conclusion for this fiction novel.
I was surprised to hear on a podcast recently that my sound theory might actually have some basis. I find the whole topic interesting.
For this book, it is my contention that Mu was based in Sundaland. Migration from there spread westward and eastward. Atlantis was actually a far-flung colony of Mu. It was a civil war involving Atlantis versus the proto-Athenians (backed by Mu) that is referenced by Plato in Timaeus and Critias. (sic).
Personally, I believe that Earth had prior civilizations that were lost due to various catastrophes. The most recent revelations of Gobeckli Tepe and Gunung Padang (sic) point to this fact. Did we advance far enough to create flying machines and space travel? I don’t know about that, but it is not out of the realm of possibility. Did Ancient Aliens have a hand in all that we marvel today. No. Did aliens ever visit Earth and impart some knowledge. Could be possible.
SO the question is, how could the Egyptians drill holes using copper tools? If the stone were softened first, copper would not be an issue, otherwise diamond bits and machine tools would be needed.
As for lifting the blocks. Block and tackle and pulley would work for the one to two ton blocks, after that something else would be needed. Today we barely understand how sound and vibration works, but there has been some interesting work using sound for levitation. I could go on, but I think I will stop here.
I’ve seen some pretty impressive drilling holes by the Native American Woodland Indians accomplished around the time of Christ. They were drilling pipes, necklaces, and weapons out of rock and have been excavated in this area often. Some of the drills have been identified but the hole drilling was labor intensive even though it was precise.
I’ve watched a lot of Brian Foerster’s videos on YouTube. The evidence of tool marks on the stones of many ancient monuments is there for anyone who cares to look.
Couple that with the sheer size, precision, and weight of many ancient megalithic structures, and it’s clear that someone in the distant past had more advanced technology than we do today.
Men lived for almost 1000 years before the flood. That _alone_ can explain the extremely advanced things they were doing, I think. Many of us, if we lived that long, would develop techniques like they did in whatever fields of study we decided to pursue.
I wonder at times about how much was lost when the library at Alexandria burnt. It had information from much of the known world.
It's easy to believe. Just look at today's young people in the USA after 50 years of communist stupefying public schools.
Not so surprising - otters use rocks to crack shells, some birds (in Africa?) stick twigs down ant holes to get them to cling and bring them out to dine....not so hard to believe humans were able to devise certain tools - they sure didn’t have TV and comic books to distract them....
Drill holes in sandstone is not “high technology”. Stone work has ALWAYS been accomplished with drills that are hammered into the rock.
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Pyramid construction shows a development from the rather crude to the more sophisticated, not a sudden high level technology.
Likely the Nile Valley became a refuge for survivors of the desertification of the Sahara area, which was quite lush until 5000-6000 years ago. There may be much info about ancient Egyptian technology buried in the Sahara.