Megaliths, Pyramids, Obelisks, Ziggurats, Tumulus's, etc. - Sperg about Ancient Structures here.

[Alex Hogendorp]

Some of my favorite's include Gunung Padang, Gobekli Tepe, Pyramid's of the Sun in Bosnia, Derinkuyu, etc.

I'm also convinced the Great Pyramid's of Egypt are giant obelisks.

 

[Tablet County]

I prefer SACRIFICING THREE MONSTERS TO SUMMON OBELISK THE TORMENTOR IN ATTACK MODE.

 

[Tequila Jong]

On a more serious note, I've always believed the Pyramids and the Sphinx are much older than is generally accepted. I imagine the ancient Egyptians stumbled across them and thought "Yeah let's fucking live here, why not?"

I always loved when they started digging up Gobekli Tepe and archeologists just shat the bed en-masse. Karahan Tepe is really interesting too - In fact, haven't they discovered more than ten sites in that area of South Eastern Turkey? I wonder who they were.

I often wonder about what cultures lived back then, what the climate was like and just how different the vegetation and stuff all was. Shit was wild before the Holocene. Brazil was mainly grassland at the Last Glacial maximum. I imagine there's a whole bunch of shit hidden in the Amazon that we don't know about yet.

 

[Named User]

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I'm also convinced the Great Pyramid's of Egypt are giant obelisks.

The big void discovered during 22017 2017 in the Great Pyramid of Giza is intriguing to me and I wonder what else might be discovered as the scanning technology evolves with time.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

I’ve always been interested in the gigantic Baalbek stones, the heaviest stones ever moved in the ancient world.

What gets me is the insistence by archeologists that the Trilithon foundation stones were built by the Romans despite no evidence to support that.

And how they completely ignore the far more obvious origin being the Phoenicians, despite Baalbek being the most important Phoenician holy site and located in the heart of Phoenicia.

 

[Monolith]

sup

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

On a more serious note, I've always believed the Pyramids and the Sphinx are much older than is generally accepted. I imagine the ancient Egyptians stumbled across them and thought "Yeah let's fucking live here, why not?"

I never found that very convincing because we have their attempts at pyramids that were kinda shit before they figured out what worked and got it right three times, and then a few centuries later messed up again. It's just such a typically human way to learn/develop.
My favorite is the bent pyramid where the angle just didn't take at the last moment and they had to adjust. The black pyramid would probably have been pretty if they didn't make the inside out of mudbrick encased in heavy stone and close to sea level so it flooded and collapsed.

Big at least you tried energy.



Still not as meh as the baby pyramids Nubian kings produced because they wanted to be like senpai.

 

[plagiarismmaximum]

I'd like to recommend this guy's channel, as some of his interpretations of the pyramid sites are interesting.

Specifically the pyramids being active religious sites during their time (ventilation that wouldn't be effective until construction was nearly complete), and the Bent pyramid not being a wholly flawed design.

 

[FamicomGorby]

I'm actually fond of obelisks, think it's interesting how everyone in Europe thought they were cool too and imported a bunch from Egypt to plop down wherever. Even though it was a complete bitch to transport them and then raise them up, like the one at the Vatican.

 

[Incel Death Note]

On a more serious note, I've always believed the Pyramids and the Sphinx are much older than is generally accepted. I imagine the ancient Egyptians stumbled across them and thought "Yeah let's fucking live here, why not?"

There's a book called 'From Atlantis to the Sphinx' by Colin Wilson that makes this argument. It makes constant reference to another book called 'Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings' which talks about maps that supposedly show the coastline of an ice-free Antarctica and suggests they're copied from older maps made by an ancient seafaring civilization before Antarctica was frozen. Pretty fun schizohistory rabbit hole to go down.

 

[Tequila Jong]

There's a book called 'From Atlantis to the Sphinx' by Colin Wilson that makes this argument. It makes constant reference to another book called 'Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings' which talks about maps that supposedly show the coastline of an ice-free Antarctica and suggests they're copied from older maps made by an ancient seafaring civilization before Antarctica was frozen. Pretty fun schizohistory rabbit hole to go down.

Ah that's right, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings was by Charles Hapgood IIRC. I read Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock in the 90s, and it sent me down that rabbit hole for years. I mean it's fun thinking about it but I dunno, some of it did give me pause for thought. To the point where I actually think there's a whole bunch of human civilisation we haven't discovered yet.

On a related note and more on topic, I loved the obsession people had with Cydonia on Mars back then. I remember hearing about it in the 90s, but I remember staying up into the early hours with a girl back in 2008 or so who told me all about it. There's a five-sided structure that supposedly points to the other features of the area. I have a book about it I bought after talking with said girl, I think it was called The Mars Mystery - featuring contibutions by Graham Hancock, funnily enough. The whole second half of the book was all astronomy and geometry 'proving' that the structures were Martian man-made.



There's lots of cool shit on Mars that people think are monoliths and obelisks etc, but even if they're just geographical features, it'd still be interesting to explore them. So NASA sent their rover to some barren desert where there's nothing of interest. Imagine landing a rover on Earth for the first time and choosing the middle of the Sahara as the landing point.

lol, lmao

 

[cybertoaster]

I often wonder about what cultures lived back then, what the climate was like and just how different the vegetation and stuff all was.

Well we know the sahara was a savannah, apparently it has this cycle where it becomes a desert and then a savannah and then back to desert, a clear demostration of how the climate shifts with or without humans.

The big stuff IMHO is how the persian gulf used to be a very fertile valley and civilization might actually originated there and not the fertile crescent. Take the sumerians who are the oldest civilization in recorded history (gobleki tepe is not recorded, we don't even know their name) who had a language that's a complete isolate not just from the other languages in the area but the entire world. The deluge and noah were originally sumerian legends, odds are the sumerians are the descendants of a much older civilization that lived in the valley before the sea level went up and submerged it. Even their records talk about "fish people" (some archeologists theorize just people in boats) teaching them how to do stuff.

We know that the garden of eden used to be in bahrain because that's another sumerian legend, even the word 'eden' comes from the sumerian 'edin' or 𒀀𒇉𒂔. Modern excavations there show that bahrain, then know as dilmun, was a far nicer place.

show the coastline of an ice-free Antarctica

Now that's insane, even in the age of the dinosaurs antartica was already at the south pole, and during the ice age the glaciers from there extended almost to the patagonia in south america.

 

[not william stenchever]

Sorry, I built most of these while I was way too drunk.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I never found that very convincing because we have their attempts at pyramids that were kinda shit before they figured out what worked and got it right three times, and then a few centuries later messed up again. It's just such a typically human way to learn/develop.
My favorite is the bent pyramid where the angle just didn't take at the last moment and they had to adjust. The black pyramid would probably have been pretty if they didn't make the inside out of mudbrick encased in heavy stone and close to sea level so it flooded and collapsed.

Big at least you tried energy.

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Still not as meh as the baby pyramids Nubian kings produced because they wanted to be like senpai.

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Those remind me of those fairly small pyramids scattered around the country of Sudan.