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Göbekli Tepe. Pillar 74
📷 S. Matzerath via © DAI
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A rare early 19th-century photo of the Great Sphinx from a hot air balloon.
#colorizedfromblackandwhite
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@No_Curve
You're right. And they're everywhere...1000s and 1000s of 'm. Below some examples (for scale). Last one is about 2 km in diameter. Dig that!
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Göbekli Tepe (left) versus Khakassia (right). Khakassia is a natural & archaeological marvel in Siberia, Russia. It's Russia’s smallest region, but is also one of Russia’s undiscovered historical gems and considered a mecca of archaeological discoveries. To be continued...
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Which theory holds water when it comes to the dating of the Sphinx?
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The base of the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan (Mexico) is virtually identical in size to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt) 👇. Just an interesting observation, and in case you didn't know...now you do 😉.
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Rare Great Pyramid footage from 1940, but...what's that👇🤔? (wait for it...and see at what the red arrows are pointing to). Had never seen this 'layer' before and was wondering if anyone knows. Thnx.
@DGr8Awakening
@FoMaHun
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Starforts around the world. Just a few examples. Who, when, how? Lots of theories, but it seems no one can fully comprehend them (yet). 1000s spread around the world...S,M,L and XL. Ask your local engineer and/ or architect what it would take to have one build for you 😉.
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Kept digging...and found another one.
📷 Figure 108: Göbekli Tepe F Structure, K9-87 Trench, Obelisk No. PXXV and Human Relief
Via : 'Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi Çanak Çömleksiz Neolitik Dönem Dikilitaş Geleneği ve Simgeciliği, E. Bingöl, 2018.
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You wouldn't have known if you hadn't started digging.
12,000 years of human history beneath our feet.
Source: 'Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi Çanak Çömleksiz Neolitik Dönem Dikilitaş Geleneği ve Simgeciliği, E. Bingöl, 2018. 📷 Güler ve Çelik, 2015.
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Found deep in the jungles of Costa Rica in the 1930s: ca. 300 round stone balls. They vary in size from a few inches in diameter, to seven feet across and weighing 16 tons. Scientists don't know who made them, how old they are or what purpose they might have had.
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When the Great Pyramid was first opened incrustations of salt were found inside. Chemical analysis has shown that some of the salt has a mineral content consistent with salt from the SEA. I highlighted some in this old pic of the Queens Chamber. Salt deposits were removed in '98.
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@Earstohearyou
Ground = Return path for electric current, or a direct physical connection to the Earth.
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The Unfinished Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan. Only the base, made of natural bedrock was finished along with the floor of a chamber, covered with massive granite blocks, each being 4.5 m (15 ft) long and 2.5 m (8.2 ft) thick and weighing up to 9 tons each. Giza in the background 👊🏻.
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Almost impossible to move and transportation turned out to be a real technological challenge -> The colossal statue of Ramesses II. Discovered in 1820. It stands about 12 meters high and weighs more than 80 tons. Made of limestone with hardly any imperfection being visible.
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Ancient and everywhere. From ancient petroglyphs in the Americas and Russia, to more recent depictions in Europe and Asia. Like some sort of global ancient hallmark...(random selection 👇).
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Pillar 74, formerly known as Pillar XXV.
Same pillar...or not? Seems the top is missing in 'b' 👇.
More info and sources -> see the image in 2/2.
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Granite in and above the The King's Chamber (Great Pyramid, Egypt). Located at a height of about 43 meters, it's lined with red granite of which the blocks are estimated to weigh 25 up to 80 tons 🤯. A remarkable feat of engineering and craftsmanship that still baffles us today.
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Hatshepsut. Great statue which measures approx. 262 cm/ 8.5 ft. But what's up with the 'flaky' granite?
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Terracotta figurines from Ur (Iraq). Circa 4,000 B.C.
Images from 📙 'The art of Mesopotamia' by E. Strommenger, 1964.
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Work from 'Mundus Subterraneus' (The Subterranean World) by Athanasius Kircher, 1664. Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar. He published many books on a wide variety of subjects such as Egyptology and geology. The amount of information, drawings, maps etc. he left us is...🤯 1/3.
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Stone monoliths in south-eastern Nigeria 🇳🇬, Africa...🧐.
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Head of The Sphinx from behind showing the broken headdress.
The Sphinx: "...older than the desert itself that is ever trying to bury it...".
Text and photo from 'The Concise Universal Encyclopedia Vol. 2 by J.A. Hammerton, 1924.
Photo by H. Fawcett.
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Baalbek beats it 2...Doorway at the Temple of Jupiter.
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Is there any evidence or good theory on how the Egyptians removed ‘the red parts👇🏻’ out of these vases, made out of incredible hard intrusive, igneous rock? Removing the core was supposedly done with a copper drill, but what about the rest of these ultrathin vases? Any tutorials?
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👇🏻...Those Indians just reshaped mountains. Without the use of modern machinery and/ or powertools. Blows my mind 🤯.
Karla Caves - India. Built into a rocky hillside...🤯.
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As if the pyramids aren't already impressive enough, they were even much more mind-blowing a long time ago. A layer of ca. 144.000 super thight-fitting casing stones covered them. Perfect angles/ slopes all the way to the top had to be perfectly calculated of course 📐🤯.
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12,000 years of civilization blended in with nature...
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The Stelae of Quiriguá, Guatemala. Stela E 👇 is the largest monolithic monument ever erected in the New World. It stands a monstrous 10.6 metres tall and 3 metres of it is sunk beneath the ground.
📷 Alfred P. Maudslay's 1894 photo of Stela E before it fell in 1917.
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Artifact stolen on the night of 25-09-2010 from Göbekli Tepe?
Anybody familiar with this story? Click pic 1 to enlarge (text translated from Turkish). Anyone here who can translate the article? (pic 2)? Sources are vague. See 2/2.
@MattSibson
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@BrightInsight6
Great view for scale. More than 2,300,000 blocks. The average weight of a block is about 2.5 tons. The largest stones (granite) in the pyramid weigh 25 to 80 tons each. Let that sink in 🤯.
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Göbekli Tepe. Wondering what exactly it is Klaus Schmidt (left, standing) and the other two men are looking at. (
@ckoeksalschmidt
?)
📷 picture posted by Çiğdem Köksal-Schmidt, wife of the late Klaus Schmidt, the archaeologist who oversaw the excavation of Göbekli Tepe.
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'Dogū' are small (clay) humanoid figurines made during the later part of the Jōmon period of prehistoric Japan 🇯🇵 (14,000–400 BC). There's been a lot of debate about their true origins, purpose and what they actually represent.
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A lesser-known archeological site far, far away...
The House of Taga/ Guma Taga: an archeological site on the island of Tinian (US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) in the Marianas Archipelago.
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1/2 Great Pyramid nubs. They're there, but they're rarely seen in photo's or video's...Watching a video by the World Scan Project (🇯🇵) on the so called relieving chambers (sit. above the King's chamber inside in the GP), I spotted some 👇🏻. Not sure which chamber is seen in pic 1.
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Some keyhole archeology. Makes sense, doesn't it?😖. 1. Saudi Arabia/ 2. Japan/ 3. Italy/ 4. Turkey...
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Another restoration of an old b/w photo.
Giza plateau, circa 1917.
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Early rare photo The Great Sphinx. I colorized it and gave it a postcard look. Just love old postcards👊.
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Some more megalithic Japanese 🇯🇵engineering enigmas...Always seems that the further we go back in time, the more impressive it gets.
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@andtartary2
And...notice the resemblance between the 'rays'/ halo's as seen in many ancient depictions👇🏻...Could refer to mankinds 'mindset' or abilities to 'globally connect' back in the day (?). Just some food for thought...
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Baalbek beats it...Colossal hanging keystone at the doorway of the Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon 1872.
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The Colossi of Memnon, located west of Luxor in the Theban Necropolis, Egypt. Found this pic on a Russian website...Credits to the maker/ owner of this photo, of which I could not track or trace a name...
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The Great Sphinx as seen from the back. 1923. The Nile seems pretty close here...
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The "twins" at El Azuzul, Veracruz 🇲🇽. Found on the south side of a large pyramid/hill and apparently undisturbed since they were placed there in Pre-Classic times. Now on exhibit at the Museo de Antropologia, Xalapa.
📷 Olmec: colossal masterworks of ancient Mexico, K. Berrin
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Colorized still from the 1940s documentary I posted earlier -> To highlight the 'crusty layer' a bit more.
PS. For those who thought this is/ was about the casing stones/ outer layer of (white) limestone that once covered The Great Pyramid -> it's not 😉.
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More French Polynesia 🇵🇫. This time some pics of the mysterious stone monuments of Nuku Hiva. A 'paradise island' and like the island of Raivava (see earlier post) a pretty remote place. Notice these locations and statues compared to Easter Island (pic 3).
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Far, far away...The House of Taga/ Guma Taga: an archeological site on the island of Tinian (US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) in the Marianas Archipelago.
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Pillar 43, Göbekli Tepe.
Apparently it's on the front (Stirnseite) of the 'famous' pillar 43 🤔. You know, the one with the 'handbags' etc.
From 📙 'Sie bauten die ersten Tempel: das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeitjäger' by Klaus Schmidt, 2006
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🇬🇷 The Kouros of Apollonas, or, the Colossus of Dionysus. A 10.7 metre tall unfinished statue of marble with a weight of around 80 tonnes. It's located in an ancient quarry near Apollonas, a small town in the northern part of Naxos, one of the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea.
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Some (lesser known) locations where 'The Keystone cut blocks hallmark' are found. To emphasize its worldwide spread and use.
#globalancienthallmarks
#gah
#tracingorigins
1. Japan 🇯🇵
2. Malta 🇲🇹
3. Turkey 🇹🇷
4. China 🇨🇳
5. Iran 🇮🇷
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Some additional photo's of the Nigerian stone monoliths. Around 400-450 engraved standing stones are distributed around thirty communities in the Ikom area of Cross River State, Nigeria 🇳🇬, and are thought to be up to 1500 years old.
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The mysterious stone monuments of Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia 🇵🇫. This paradise island is one of the remotest places on the planet. Again, a positioning of the hands as we've seen before 😉🤔.
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1978. An attempt by Japanese researchers trying to find out how the pyramids were actually built. Spoiler alert: The experiment proved to be a failure by all standards.
Watch a short clip👇or read more here ->
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Stone monoliths in south-eastern Nigeria 🇳🇬, Africa. Around 400-450 engraved standing stones are distributed around thirty communities in the Ikom area of Cross River State, and are thought to be up to 1500 years old.
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The perfect pillar...The Osirion at Abydos, Egypt. Among the most precisely made GRANITE structures found anywhere, with massive single piece blocks weighing up to and beyond 70 tons.
Enigma /ɪˈnɪɡmə,ɛˈnɪɡmə/ noun-a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand🧐
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Hilltop? No, The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico. What else lies beneath...?
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The Ishi no Hōden (Japan🇯🇵) is a megalithic monument located in the grounds of the Ōshiko Jinja, a Shinto shrine located in the city of Takasago. It's huge 🤯 and of unknown age.
#nub
?
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Amongst the most mysterious and debated artefacts from the ancient world -> the Olmec colossal heads 🇲🇽 ...sculpted from large basalt boulders. They range in height from 1.17 to 3.4 metres. Nice one for scale 👇🏻. How many will still be underground?
📷 R.H. Stewart, NG
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The eyes. The facial expression. Another level of being a human being a long time ago. Smart guys.
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Another Tlaloc statue image. I added some additional info which might give you a better sense for its scale. It is said this is largest existing monolith in the Americas.
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The Osirion (Abydos, Egypt) was excavated about a 100 years ago. Once completely buried.
The massive pillars that were revealed are made of (Aswan) rose granite, are about 2.4 m/ 8 ft square, a little over 3.5 m/ 12 ft high and weigh up to about 100 tons.
📷 EES
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At the first pylon of Karnak Temple, Egypt.
📷 kairoinfo4u
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Example: this is (translucent) granite...GRANITE. Supposedly carved by hand with primitive tools.
Is there any evidence or good theory on how the Egyptians removed ‘the red parts👇🏻’ out of these vases, made out of incredible hard intrusive, igneous rock? Removing the core was supposedly done with a copper drill, but what about the rest of these ultrathin vases? Any tutorials?
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Four pyramids at Giza seen in old drawings and maps (late 1700s/ early 1800s). There's some information to be found on this fourth pyramid online, but I still have to dive into it. If you have any good sources, please let me know.
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@andtartary2
Awesome. Please have a look what we can see on other old, mind-blowing maps from the 15th and 16th century. Seems a lot was going on back in day in Africa 😉.
@BrightInsight6
@RjNol
@My_TeslaModelS
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Italy 🇮🇹. Megalithic. Polygonal. Pre-Roman. Rarely studied, barely known. Just a very, very small selection below.
Sources, credits, photo's: M. Kulig, D. Baldassarre, S. Aglietti, R. Lenci, L’Opera Poligonale in Italia. Le Mura del mito (Facebook).
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Before and after. 'The Sphinx saved from collapse'.
From 'The Illustrated London news', May 1926.
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Pre-dynastic Egyptian ultrathin translucent GRANITE artifact.
"Predynastic Egypt"->At the end of prehistory, traditionally defined as the period from the final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6200 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000 BC.
📷thnx
@UnchartedX
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The Great Pyramid: once surfaced by about 144,000 casing stones: slant-faced, flat-topped, polished limestone and fitted together with great precision. Imagine them being placed all the way to the top, considering no errors in calculating the slopes/ angles could be made. Just...
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Living megalithic culture in Sumba, Indonesia -> Thousands of monstrous stone tombs dot the island. Appears the Sumba people still practice their ancestors' animistic religion and rituals that first emerged 4,500 years ago 🤔.
📷 credits to the people who took these pictures.
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The Colossi of Memnon. Short clip from: Ancient Lives: 2 - The Valley of the Kings, 1986, VHS
🔊on
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Found underground in the early 1850's. The mysterious stone (granite) boxes at the Serapeum of Saqqara Egypt, each weighing about 70 -100 tonnes. Some early rare (colorized) photo's 👇.
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Clamps, cramps, keystone cuts (or whatever they're called) at Pumapunku, Bolivia.
Source: The Stones of Tiahuanaco, A study of architectecture and construction by J.P. Protzen an S. Nair, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013.
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Dolerite pillar, India. 🔊“Can you talk about a particular feature that is remarkable...?"
From ‘Warangal 100 Pillars Temple, Telangana’. Source Cinema Vision India, Mumbai (CVI), 1994.
@ancient_view
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Great slabs of granite used for the construction of the floor, walls and (arched!) ceiling. And a perfect polished granite sarcophagus to top it off -> probably one the most precisely made objects ever found in Egypt. (Pyramid of El Lahun, 12th dynasty ~ 1955-1750 BC).
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Another graphic to get an idea. 🇲🇽 vs. 🇪🇬.
The Great Pyramid (Egypt) vs. the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán (Mexico).
The two are very nearly equal to one another in base perimeter and the Pyramid of the Sun is almost half the height of the Great Pyramid.
'Almost'...Interesting though. Analysis:
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Olmec.
This work is an “hacha,” a type of (head)sculpture associated with the ballgame in ancient Mesoamerica. Not so sure if that's the case, but who does?
The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization.
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PRE-historic rock-paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer/ Sahara. Numerous prehistoric works that date to the early Neolithic era at the end of the last glacial period. WhAt was going on...?
📙 The search for the Tassili frescoes, rock-paintings of the Sahara by H. Lhote, 1959
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In search for answers I sometimes see things...Knowing there's salt found in pyramids, I happend to find pyramids found in salt (chrystals)...😉.
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Check 👇🏻. Could this be it? Located on the southside. Pretty recent pics. But then again, what is it 🤔? Is it still there?
Thanx to
@lvxintenebris
for pointing this out!
@DGr8Awakening
Rare, never before seen footage of the Great Pyramid of Giza from 1940‼️
What in the world is this “crust” like sediment on the outer casing stones?? 🤯
Outstanding work by
@history_rev
for sharing this!!
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Menkaure mortuary temple. Appears some of the blocks (of local stone) in the walls weighed as much as 220 tons 🤯. The heaviest granite stonework, imported from Aswan, weighed more than 30 tons...Isn't that something 🤔...!? (please correct me if I'm wrong here).
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Unifinished T-shaped pillar at Karahan Tepe 🇹🇷.
Karahan Tepe is located about 35 km (22 mi) east of the 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site. Karahan Tepe is said to be even older than Göbekli Tepe, which makes it the oldest monument ever discovered.
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Sometimes, watching old stuff never gets old. Megalithic Peru, 1936.
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Underwater Cities of Ancient Egypt. An area just west of the Nile Delta was once subject to rising sea levels, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, and submerged after a process of soil liquefaction. These now underwater cities are filled with fascinating secrets.
📷C. Gerigk
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Some more Dagmawi Lalibela (the second Lalibela), Ethiopea. Also check my earlier post.
Another shot of the infamous 'handbag' (last pic). You know about the handbags, right 😉?
📷 S. Butler (among others)
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Egypt, Colossi of Memnon, ca. 1880.
🗸 Location: West of Luxor
🗸 Material: Quartzite (sand)stone
🗸 Height: 18 m (60 ft)
🗸 Weight: 720 tons each
📷 Bechard, H.
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Another find of a lesser known temple in ruins in 🇬🇷: The Temple of Zeus at Stratos. A few photo's, a study on its reconstruction and some fine artist renditions show these nubbed columns again.
@ancient_view
More info/ credits->
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Temple of Tutmosis III, Karnak ~1870-1875.
What could've caused this devastation?
Source 📷: Karnak Temple de Thouthmes III, les statues d'Amenhotep I/ Photoglob-Schroeder
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#Nubs
? A rare stone sarcophagus from Ngarchelong State in northern Babeldaob. Babeldaob is one of the most underdeveloped populated islands in the Pacific Ocean (the 2nd largest island in the Micronesia region of Oceania).
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Rare image of the Oseirion in Abydos, Egypt. The Osireion can be called an anomaly. Enormous blocks of granite with an an estimated weight between 50 and 60 tons. And (of course)...nubs
#globalancienthallmarks
#gah
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As I said...to be continued. The Göbekli Tepe - Khakassia comparisson was firstly done by Semra Bayraktar
@sby1932
. Had a hard time to check and verify, but thanks
@NzmDeryaVarol
for pointing out who's to be credited.
📷👇 Wikipedia. Statues Okunev culture, Khakassia Nat. Museum
Göbekli Tepe (left) versus Khakassia (right). Khakassia is a natural & archaeological marvel in Siberia, Russia. It's Russia’s smallest region, but is also one of Russia’s undiscovered historical gems and considered a mecca of archaeological discoveries. To be continued...
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Miniature (pre-dynastic) Egyptian 'vase' at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
- Place of discovery: Abydos, Egypt
- Materials: breccia and gold
- Height: 3.8 cm (1.4 in)
- Width: 4.5 cm (1.7 in)
- Diameter: 4.5 cm (1.7 in)
📸 kairoinfo4u, Le Louvre.
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Nias is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Megaliths here are found all over. Based on carbon research, they are dated to the Stone Age, or around 3500 years ago, one of the oldest sites of this importance in Southeast Asia.
#statues
🧐
#nubsinpic1
🤔?
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Giza. 09/13/1913. Spot the Great Sphinx.
Source: The Giza Project at Harvard University/ Digital Giza.
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