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The Megalithic

The Lost World Civilization

Megalithic Culture One"For all the world it feels as though both Megalithic Man and the Sumerians shared the same teacher. The sudden development of brilliant cultures after more than

5,000 generations of humanity and the absence of any audit trail strongly suggests the intervention of a third party that is no longer known."

"Unfortunately there are no documentary records of Neolithic traditions - but we know that the Sumerians and Ancient Egyptians specifically stated that a group of

people with, what appeared to them to be, god-like powers arrived from somewhere unknown to instruct them in the sciences and teach them skills in

manufacturing. These ‘Watchers’ were thought of as gods, but it is said that they looked like normal people and they lived and died just like everyone else. While it

is fashionable today to dismiss old myth and legend as little more than fairy stories, we believe that this explanation holds more water than any other. Is this

solution so preposterous that we have to overlook the obvious? Stepping back from the arrogance of the belief that our current civilization simply has to be thepinnacle of all human achievement leaves us wondering, ‘Why on Earth do we have to accuse our forebears of writing down nonsense?’ The first response of any

archaeologist to this thesis will be, ‘So where is the archaeological evidence to support the notion of such a group of advanced people?’ This is an entirely fair and

reasonable question but our answer lies in information that we have brought forward from our forensic examination of measurement systems. The evidence

outlined in this book appears to have demolished the standard idea that there was a slow, incremental improvement of humankind’s understanding of science and

nature from Stone Age to Internet Age. Like Char les Dickens’ Mr. Gradgrind, we love facts, and we set out to find more facts than had previously been available.

The whole idea of a ‘Civilization One’ is not going to appeal to many academics - and we fully understand why. This kind of notion has to be treated with great

caution. Yet it does explain how these fantastically sophisticated units existed in cultures that were otherwise rather unsophisticated. Could it be that there was once

a single, highly-advanced group that virtually kick-started the world’s first civilizations? If so, it appears that it failed in the case of the Megalithic culture because

it seems to have died out...Others may identify a different solution, but in our estimation it would be impossible to create this interrelated Megalithic/

Mesopotamian measurement matrix from a cold start. In other words, the Earth, Moon and Sun as well as the speed of light and the orbiting Earth would have to be

measured using some arbitrary units before it would be possible to create units that produced such wonderful integer results. If we are correct regarding this point,

the inference has to be that Civilization One was as advanced as the modern world, though far, far back in time during the period we refer to as prehistoric."

(http://sociologyesoscience.com/cult_archeology/cultarch.html)

"In 2004, Alan Butler went to work with Christopher Knight, and together they authored an excellent book on the significance of the Megalithic Yard. In this book,

entitled Civilization One: The World Is Not As You Thought It Was, Butler and Knight successfully demolish the long accepted fallacies concerning theprimitivism of ancient man. They write:

Generations of investigators have assumed that stone circles and other prehistoric monuments were built for some unknown pagan ritualistic purposes by

otherwise unsophisticated Stone Age tribes...The evidence of Thom's Megalithic Yard has demolished any notion of the naivety of its creators assumed by most

archaeologists. We have to respect these forgotten people for the great astronomers and geometricians they certainly were.

It seems that there must have been a Civilization One; an advanced people who trained the rest of the world in science and technology, thereby leading it out of

the Stone Age."

(http://www.irishoriginsofcivilization.com/appendices/recentdiscoveries.html)

Egypt's Elder Culture"There is compelling evidence to suggest that the Ancient Egyptians inherited their great wisdom from a much earlier Elder culture which was able to pass on the

flame of knowledge before its own apparent demise. As we see, all the indications are that the Elder gods inhabited Egypt some between c . 12,500 and 9500 BC .

They build the Sphinx and the earliest megalithic temples of Giza, and they achieved a high level of sophistication later encapsulated in the design of the Great

Pyramid ... "

(http://alvidk.tripod.com/id35.html)

The term "Elder Culture" seems to be a term created by Andrew Collins. This term may relate to "elder gods" of the Titan/Olympian gods of the Greeks.

"Archeologist T.C. Lethbridge, formerly of the Cambridge Archeology Museum, suggested an alternative perception of mythologized traditions. Lethbridge

concluded that the traditional enigma of instructional "gods," is that the traditions are histories. Myths were historical memories of possible relationships, which

tradition holders were at a loss to totally comprehend. An example is the account of Ptah, one of Egypt's greatest "gods." Ptah was a creator of things. In the

Pyramid Text of Teta, Ptah is the owner of a "workshop." He was a great worker in metals, a master architect. Egyptologists consider Ptah mythological. Yet, it is

Ptah to whom Egyptians credit giving them their cultural knowledge. What is interesting, is that the early Egyptians created the greatest of all megalithic wonders

of the world - the Great Pyramid - and never, in all Egyptian texts, do they take credit for it? What they do is defer to an archetype/role model for having given

them basic knowledge."

(http://www.biped.info/articles/missingrace.html)

Egypt: The gods Move West"Egypt has recorded and kept eternally the wisdom of the old times. ...all coming from time immemorial when gods governed the earth in the dawn of civilization."

Megalithic http://www.firstlegend.info/megalithic&neol

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a period of perhaps 1500 years evolved into a culture in the Mesopotamian plains which in turn, within a thousand years, developed into a series of high cultures

scarcely paralleled until comparatively modern times. And finally, after this sudden burst of activity lasting possibly a further 1000 years, which witnessed some of

the greatest cultural achievements in Babylonia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley which the world has known, the process once more slowed up until many prosperous

centers decayed and disappeared, and much of India, Africa, and Europe remained in a s tate of semi-barbarism till well on towards Roman times, and in some

instances much later.

The sequence is, then, an unbelievably long time with almost no growth; a sudden spurt leading within a very few centuries to remarkably high culture; a gradual

slowing up, and decay; followed only much later by recovery of lost arts and by development of new ones, finally creating our modern world."

(http://custance.org/old/incarnation/ch3.html)

"It is chiefly by the many thousand broken pieces of pottery found in the lowest deposits of the Susa mound that the story has been built up, bit by bit, of these

unknown immigrants from an unknown land; something like the reconstruction of the unseen, lame, half-blind camel in "The Arabian Nights." This pottery is

wonderfully hard and thin, not much thicker than a couple of postcards, and it rings like porcelain, though it is not so transparent. The forms are simple andgraceful; they were produced on a rudimentary potter's wheel, used with a skill that was probably due to the inherited experience of many generations of craftsmen.

Nearly all the bowls and vases were elaborately decorated either inside or outside with s trange designs, most of which have no similarity with any designs found in

other parts of the world, so that we have no due to the country where these potters learned their art, though we can be fairly sure that they brought it from some

centre of civilization where it had been undergoing a long period of development. For it is now admitted that ornamental designs in all countries and in all ages are

not the chance product of the craftsman's brain-they have a regular evolution from the simple to the complex, most of the s imple designs being evidently based on

natural forms of men or animals."

(http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Persia/Susa.html)

The Megalithic occurs in parallel with the Neolithic, the New Stone Age and spans into the age of metals. If we accept the date of 9,000 B.C. for Göbekli Tepe then

the start of the Megalithic has its first evidence at about the same time as for the Neolithic. Not only that but at Çayönü the use of copper has been found and dated

to somewhere around 7,000 B.C. The term Megalithic means very large stones (used in structures). Just previous to the Neolithic is the Mesolithic Age when

hunting and gathering were all the rage. It was the Neolithic when things really started to happen and it very roughly dates between10,000 and 2,000 B.C.

overlapping the ages of metal. The end of the Neolithic is open ended due to the varying technological advances of differing locations. All dates relating to these

differing ages are relative as they do not appear within a smooth continuum. Rather they come into being at differtent times in different places so using "about" is

appropriate. Thus there are many differing opinions about these dates. The starting date for the Neolithic on this website is based upon the beginning of farming in

Anatolia. Also all dates regarding the beginnings of civilization are being pushed back farther into the past.

The engineers of the megalithic monuments were the Andites. They were big thinkers as evidenced by what they built. Not only were these constructions

impressively large but many contain methods and meanings not which all is understood. When looking at the scope of these projects like Baalbek, Stonehenge and

the pyramids one is drawn to the conclusion that whoever oversaw these constructions were well informed civil engineers skilled in mathmatics, geometry and

astronomy. These people who carried megalithic building skills were seemingly professionals schooled in many disciplines. Concerning astronomy if you were

really really smart you would be aware of the precession of the equinoxes and they were. Yes, cave men sitting around the fire discussing the problem of sighting

the point in empty space upon which the wobble of the earth's rotation revolves around. I love this stuff. To understand astronomy requires a long time of

observation over the lifetimes of many generations. Then you would have to accumulate these observations and continue to pass on this collective knowledge over

an enormous length of time. As to passing on of this knowledge one theory has it that the structures encoded the math and geometry as a pneumonic device that

would last long after the original builders were gone. This knowledge of say knowing the earth was a sphere and that latitude affected observation would help you

navigate vast distances over land or water and discover America in 2200 BC.

This sophisticated knowledge always passed through the ancient shamans. They were the carriers of culture. They were the lawyers, doctors and politicians all

rolled into one. They became priest kings. But the crux of the argument is this: to explain how geometry and astronomy combined with mathematics was laid down

by a Paleolithic culture which used such knowledge to build these awesome structures with no previous evidence or source from which such knowledge was drawn.

The megalithic culture (first world civilization) was a world wide phenomenon.

After 10,000 BC Megalithic culture started to spread. One main reason for this is climate. We must never underestimate the importance of climate in the spread of

culture. The last ice age was ending and it was getting dryer. As the glaciers retreated avenues opened for migration to the north. The way to the north and west had

been blocked by the expanded Mediterranean which connected with the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. (The expanded Black sea is called the New Euxine Lake.)

Five Examples of What They BuiltStone CirclesThere are numerous stone circles (about 900 - 1000) found throughout the British Isles. The most famous stone circle is of course Stonehenge.

This megalithic monument on the Salisbury Plain is perhaps the most studied stone circle of all. The earliest date for its construction is about

3100 BC with 2300 BC for the start of erecting the stones. Some stone circles like Stonehenge besides being open air temples were

astronomical observatories marking both solar and lunar phenomenon (Castlerigg is another one). Not all circles do this. Many sites have an

orientation to some type of celestial phenomenon such as soltices, helical rising stars, constellations and such. Others have only a mortuary

purpose. There are so many in some places that they are referred to as a field of tombs. The Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery has more than

60 megalithic tombs forming a ritualistic landscape and it is Ireland's largest dating from about 3,000 BC. It contains dolmens, passage tombs and circles refered to

as stone kerbs. It is not unusual to find a tomb within a circle. The earliest stone circle, if we can call it that, is located at Göbekli Tepe and dates to about 9,000 BC.

Three of these ceremonial circles have been unearthed so far and contain T shaped monoliths weighing on average 10 to 20 tons. These monoliths are carved with

animals and abstract designs which is a sophisticated achievement for these pre-neolithic hunters and gathers. The largest circle is located in Avebury England and

spans within the henge about 1300 feet. A henge is an earthen bank with the usual accompaning ditch. Some sites are henges only such as the Thornborough Henge

complex.

DolmensDolmens in Britain are called Quoits, in Portugal they are called Antas. They are megalithic mortuary stone chambers. Although they come in

a variety of styles the classic construction is of three or four vertical slabs supporting a large capstone. Some are more walled in but the vertical

stones and large capstone is the hallmark of the dolmen. A great number of these dolmens have vertical supports that are pointed giving the

impression of having the roof lightly resting on them. Even when a flat surface was available the stone support was often rotated to a corner up

position. Some of the capstones are over 40 tons. The Urantia Book says the Andites built "stone huts" in which the dead were cremated.

Originally, say archeaologists, these stone structures were covered with dirt thus forming a mound. Related to Dolmens are the megalithic

cairns which are also called passage tombs or graves. A good example of these structures can be found in Loughcrew Ireland, with the most famous cairn being

Newgrange which was most likely built around 3200 BC. Like Newgrange these cairns have clear astrological alignments. The Loughcrew cairns may represent the


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oldest cemetery in the world. And related to the cairns are the tumuli (plural for tumulus, or small mound). These look like cairns as they are completely cover by

stones. A large field of these dolmen/tumuli is located in the Golan heights. But dolmens are found from western Europe to China and India. Denmark also has

many as well.

Standing StonesAlso called menhirs these standing stones usually are erected as a single stone. These simple stones may in fact be the most complex of

megalithic monuments when trying to understand their reason for being. They are used for circles which can be very impressive looking, used

in rows both single and double with or without circles, used in constructing dolmens and found to be used as a line of sight for alignments.

Some think they are boundry markers and even as representing locations on earth by referencing the pattern of stars within constellations. You

could call them Neolithic star maps. Another way of explaining this placement of stones is a land survey by astronomy. These stones have

been found in Turkmenistan and were elaborately carved during the Iron Age. They could be the inspiration or out growth for the stele of the

Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Mayans. To enlarge on this idea they could be the forerunners to the Egyptian obelisk. And depending on how you wish to

interpret the meaning of these ancient stones they may be represented in the colonnade surrounding the first Egyptian temples. This concept of the colonnade was

later used extensively in Greek and Roman architecture.

PyramidsThe first pyramid built in Egypt was at Saqqara at about 2,600 BC. This pyramid was designed by Imhotep. The largest is Khufu the Great

Pyramid and also the oldest in the group of three. Date for Khufu's pyramid is about 2,500 BC. The math associated with Khufu is as amazing

as the pyramid's precision. This pyramid also contains the golden ratio. Average weight of the blocks is 2.5 tons. Pyramid building was a world

wide phenomenon. China has many pyramids a number of which are impressive. The legendary White Pyramid has been reported to be almost

980 feet hight and about 1,640 feet wide at the base. “The pyramid is about 1,000 feet high (other descr iptions estimate 1,000 to 1,200 feet

high) and roughly 1,500 feet at the base, which makes it twice as large as any pyramid in Egypt. The four faces of the structure are oriented

with the compass points” (Shroeder in 1912, http://www.world-pyramids.com/china3.html). There are other massive pyramids elsewhere in the world. The

so-called Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun in the town of Viscko is one. Its height is estimated at 720 feet. Other European pyramids are located near Milan Italy. These

are the pyramids of Montevecchia discovered in 2003. There are 16 known pyramids in Greece. Many countries have pyramidal shaped mountains that could

contain a pyramid. Locations include Croatia, the Koreas, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sicily, Spain, Turkey and the Ukraine. In the New World we have more famous

pyramids. The Incas of Peru built a number of them. At Tucume 26 have been unearthed. The most famous Mayan pyramid is El Castillo at Chichén Itzá. Other

major Mayan pyramid cities include Copan, Tikal and Uxmal. The Aztecs built pyramids as well. Just north of Mexico City is Teotihuacan with its Avenue of theDead and three pyramids.

Foundations and WallsThe most notable of megalithic walls are the stone walls at Sacsahuaman and the lower foundation is built in the polygonal style of

construction. It was these walls that the later appearing Incas built upon. However, many web sites consider all Peruvian and Bolivian

polygonal construction as Incan. But a wall of polygonal blocks exists on Easter Island (one of the last) and is considered as from a pre-Inca

civilization. "Perhaps the upper part of the walls, constructed of small, regularly-shaped stones was the only part of Sacsahuaman that was

built by the Incas and "finished in 1508." This could explain why no one at the time of the conquest seemed to know how those mighty walls

were built." (© 2003-2004 by Richard Nisbet http://www.world-mysteries.com/gw_rnincas.htm)

"The possibility also exists that the Inca’s were latecomers to the area taking over pre-existing building sites and adding to them. This theory is given some

credence by the fact of the obvious differences in the quality and style of architecture, where later generations of Inca added to and in some cases expanded existing

structures.

Many of the sites further a field in Mesoamerica fit the same pattern, many show two distinct and different architectural styles and levels of technology, this is true

for the Mayans and the Aztecs and not just the Inca." (http://personalpages.tds.net/~theseeker/Viracocha.htm) Lixus Morocco also has megalithic foundations

resembling those in Peru. The Romans built upon these the same way the Incas did in Bolivia. Machu Pichu also has in some locations polygonal construction. Thispolygonal style is also found in several places in Greece. A retaining wall at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and locations about the Acropolis have examples of

this style of building. There are other sites with what is called cyclopean constructure named after the folk legend of Cyclops. These large blocks are the usual

rectanglular shape and although megalithic in size they are not as interesting or unique as those of the polygonal style. There cannot be a complete discussion on

megalithic construction without mentioning the great terrace at Baalbek. There are three famous blocks laid end to end at the top of the back wall that are called

the Trilithon. They are estimated to weigh in at 1,100 tons each. They were quarried about a quarter mile away, transported up hill and lain in place with the usual

exacting precision so common with Andite megalithic construction. No mortar was used. These are the largest stone blocks used in construction in the world. There

are also polygonal stones in use at Baalbek. There is a stone block not fully quarried at Baalbek named Hajar el Hibla. It weighs an estimated 1,200 tons. This is the

largest block of stone in the world. Additional places for polygonal construction are Turkey and Egypt.

Metal and the AncientsCopper Slab SawsThe Egyptians used the copper slab saw, a toothless band of copper, that used an abrasive to cut through the

stone. There is undisputed evidence that slab saws were used to cut stone blocks in Egypt. Note how the slab

saw to the left could be used to clean up the adjoining faces insuring a very tight fit when pushed together. The

Egyptians also used circular saws. However the question as to who used the saws first still remains

unanswered. No one knows how old Baalbek is where there is evidence that saws were used to cut s tone. The marks are from a

circular saw. Friedrich Ragette suggests that a circular saw with a radius of 4 meters was used in the quarrying of Baalbek's largest

blocks. This would mean the saw blade would be about 26 and a quarter feet in diameter.

(Ragette, Baalbek, p. 115 1980 from: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/esp_baalbek_4.htm).

Copper Boring Tools

As with slab saws there is unquestionable proof that the ancient Egyptians used copper boring tubes also

called bow drills. These copper tools have been shown to work but the stone ate the copper at a fast ratio of

approximately 3:1. That is one inch of cutting used three inches of copper. The Egyptian illustration is from

inside the Saqqara pyramid. So at the time of the building of Egypt's first pyramid the bow drill was already in

use. Examples of both saw and drill technologies are in the Cairo museum. Use of the copper boring tool can be also found at

ancient Argob. Sketches made of the hard black basalt window shutters at Argob have cleanly bored holes through them.


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Copper was the most widely used metal in the ancient world. The Egyptians mined tons and tons of it from what is considered the world's oldest copper mines.

These are the copper mines of the Timna Valley. "The Hathor Temple of Timna provides the first archaeological evidence for actual and lengthy Egyptian control of

this area." (Timna, Beno Rothenberg, 1969 AD) Egyptian mining dates from 2000 Bc to 1200 BC. It would hardly have been a secret that copper was in abundant

supply at this location. And everyone wanted it.

Copper, Bronze and IronThe above tools are made of copper. Experiments have used copper in this way and it works but it does not work with all tools such as chisels. This brings up the

question whether archaeologists are right about Egyptians using only copper tools. The traditional view is that the Egyptians used only copper for tools and other

implements. It seems odd that Egypt would not know about bronze in light of their familiarity with copper and their closeness with the Phoenicians. One of Egypt's

closest trading partners was Phoenicia. It was in Phoenicia where bronze may have f irst been smelted. "Bronze Age smelting techniques arrived in the region [the

Cyclades] with settlers from the East, probably Phoenicia, about 3,000 B.C..." (http://iaphomepage.org/int108/no108pg1.html) All dates for the earliest smelting of

bronze are estimations but between 3,500 - 3,000 BC is the accepted timeline. The first stone pyramid in Egypt dates to about 2600 BC. Evidence is mounting that

we must include Anatolia as the birthplace of smelting bronze as well. Even the date for smelting iron is being pushed further into antiquity:

"On Friday May 26th 1837, during the Vyse excavations at Giza, one of the excavators, J R Hill, found an iron plate embedded in the cement of an inner joint at the

southern `Star Shaft' of the Kings Chamber. It was around 12 by 4 inches and 1/8th of an inch thick. 1 More interestingly it was deeply embedded in the masonry

and had to be removed by blasting apart the outer two tiers of stones.

In 1989 a fragment was taken from the plate found by Hill, and was tested by two eminent metallurgists Jones and Gayer who concluded that it was very ancient.

Significantly they stated that the metallurgical evidence supported the archaeological evidence that it was incorporated within the pyramid when it was built. More

importantly they went on to determine that the iron was not meteoritic, had been smelted at a temperature of between 1000 and 1100 degrees centigrade, and bore

traces of gold on one of the surfaces of the plate.

What holds back the acceptance of iron in antiquity, apart from the rarity of f inds, is the erroneous assumption that it must have been poured to make it useable....A

temperature as low as 900° Centigrade in a charcoal furnace will easily separate iron from its ore....To smelt copper from its common ore of Malachite a

temperature of between 700° and 800° is required, which would easily have been achieved by the kilns of the ancient world." (http://www.gizagrid.com

/egyptian_iron.html © Keith Squires 2005)

Keith Squires goes into much more detail on the ancient smelting of metals and makes a convincing argument for dating the smelting of iron both in Anatolia and

Egypt to a much earlier time. He also explains why the scarcity of metal from this very early time frame and the technology of these early furnaces to smelt copper

and iron.

"The earliest iron was probably a byproduct of copper smelting, as copper ores almost always contain iron. Chalcopyrite, for example, contains about thirty percent

iron. When iron ore was smelted, what would be produced would be a spongy mass of iron, slag, and cinders which has to be hammered to remove the slag and air

bubbles. This was so-called wrought iron. Wrought iron was forged while still in its heated, soft, and ductile state." (http://www.asa3.org/aSA/PSCF

/1993/PSCF12-93Yamauchi.html ©1993 EDWIN YAMAUCHI Department of History, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056)

These two above authors taken together demonstarte that the chances of iron smelting by the Egyptians is wholly probable even unto the time of the building the

pyramids at Giza. The Egyptian mined tons and tons of copper. Even if there was only a small amount of iron present it still would have been a considerable

amount. The Egyptians did smelt copper and had furnaces that could have smelted iron. This hot iron could have been hammered into useful tools and implements.

A French archaeologist named Gaston Camille Charles Maspero wrote a book called a MANUAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY and Guide to the Study of

Antiquities in Egypt. It was published in 1895. In it he also argues for the use of iron tools by the Egyptians explaining that only iron could work stone as hard as

diorite, basalt, and the granite of Syene. As for losing their edge the tools would be returned to the forge to be fixed. This observation was made by M. Maspero

first hand of local artisans sculpting stone statues for tourists while in Egypt. (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14400/14400-h/14400-h.htm)

Megalithic Tool Kit:

Copper and Bronze - Megalithic building spanned both the Copper 5500 BC and Bronze 2250 BC Ages

Wheel - discovered by the Sumerians but may have been used by the Egyptians

Levers - probably one of the first simple machines discovered

Wedge - Egyptian

Copper slab saws and copper boring drills - Egyptian

Counterweights - Egyptians knew how to use them at the time they built the pyramids

Surveying Skills - self evident

Mathematics/Geometry - this has been confirmed through reversed engineering

Astronomy - same as above

Standard Units of Measure - the "megalithic yard"

Square

Level

Plumb Line

Theories on Raising the Blocks of Stone"An alternative method of raising the blocks is suggested by a comment the Greek historian Herodotus made in the fifth-century BC. When Egyptian priests were

showing him the GP, they told him that the stones had been lifted with levers made of short timbers. Some theorists feel that this clue may offer a better solution

than the ramps...

Some theorists suggest that a simple machine using levers and counterweights was used to elevate the blocks. Such a machine, called a shadoof, has existed in

Egypt for millennia and is still used to elevate pots full of water from the Nile River to the irrigation canals. Though a shadoof itself could never lift a 2.5-ton

block, engineer Olaf Tellefsen (1970) observed three men using a similar machine to lift very large stones while he was riding up the Nile. Even so, a few

considerations must be met before one can propose a machine that could be used on the GP. First, it must fit and be capable of operation on the pyramid's stepped

face. Second, it must be manageable and controllable so that damage would not be done to the blocks being lifted and so that workers would face a minimal risk of

falling or being knocked off the edge. Third, it should be simple so as to align as closely as possible with the scant archaeological record that such machines can


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claim. Finally, it must be capable of lifting at least 5000-6000 pounds."

(http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbaldrid/papers/pyramid.htm)

Why the Megalithic Culture did not SurviveThere has been an on going speculation on why, as in Egypt for example - and other locations, high artistry and technology did not continue on as a cultural force.

Archaeologists are puzzled by certain digs in that the older the pottery the more advanced it is. The most direct answer is that the highest knowledge in Megalithic

culture was partially artificial and not evolutionary. The knowledge was not home grown, it was inherited from both the Nodites and the teachers from Eden. The

Andites were a superior race and in a small part divine. So this culture just suddenly appeared without any evidence of slow evolutionary growth. This is a

reflection on the Garden of Eden which was artificial from the start. Artificial in that there was no evolutionary growth. All knowledge and technology was

imported. For example, Adam and Eve were well versed in agriculture and animal husbandry (per Genesis). Quite astounding for the "first humans". Apparently

they bypassed the Paleolithic entirely and went directly to the Neolithic. (Now that is awesome!) No hunter/gatherer culture for them.

There was a long and very s low evolutionary growth of human knowledge that was radically up stepped by the ideas, ideals and technology of Eden. This high

culture of Eden was carried out to the emerging world by the Andites - the pre Sumarian stock that came to be in the fertile crescent. The Urantia Book describes

the circumstances that lead to the appearance of these Andites. First these gifted people were part Adamite, part Nodite and the rest indigenous human. They made

their appearance in the fertile crescent and not in southern Mesopotamia. It was in the region of the fertile crescent where the Adamites and Nodites migrating

outward to this pastoral land, interbred with the original inhabitants and started the cultural revolution that would encompass the entire planet. This is the

megalithic culture that some archaeologists speculate as the "hidden high culture" found around the world. Theological concepts from Mesopotamia found in

Mesoamerica, tobacco and cocaine found in Egyptian mummies, stepped pyramids found in China, dolmens found in Korea and the academic jury is still out as to

how all of this fits together. But eventually numbers won out and the overwhelming genetic pool of indigenous peoples absorbed the Andites into their ranks. When

the Andites were gone so was their culture.

"These civilizations [Indus Valley Civilization, the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Mesoamerican cultures] were formed fully intact with no known pre-cursors having

fully formed sophisticated writing, mathematical and technological systems. These civilizations had advanced medical knowledge, agriculture and law. All of

these civilizations claim that they got their knowledge directly from their celestial gods and goddesses. These civilizations also claim that their “Gods” actually

established “Kingship” and sat the thrones of their lands from earliest history.

One accepted theory of the time strongly argues that there had to have been an as yet unnamed or undiscovered civilization whose influence must have spread

independently to each of these civilizations. This theory would best explain the common features and the fundamental differences between one civilization and the

next...

Another example of diffusion is the history of human languages. Almost all the languages of Europe, Asia and northern India share enough common points of

vocabulary, syntax and usage that it’s obvious they stem from a single “Proto-Indo-European Language group”."

(http://personalpages.tds.net/~theseeker/New%20Evolution%20of%20holy%20books.htm)

One reason why there were Edenic influences moderately intact is the Andite domestication of the horse. It was the speed of the horse that allowed culture to

spread to the west in a more cohesive fashion. As far as migrating into India the Andites were first known as the Dravidians and later as the Aryans. In fact

anywhere culture has been discovered the Andites were there first. This culture included agriculture (and therefore stone circles), metallurgy, writing, legends and

of course megalithic building skills.

Making the Stone Weightless

Archimedes once said, "Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth". We will move something slightly smaller. When moving a stone of great weight from

point A to point B there are only two things to consider: raising the block and moving that block forward. The technique discussed on this page is credited to W.T.

Wallington where I first encountered it. It was from his web site at http://www.theforgottentechnology.com that I first learned these principles involved for

accomplishing this task. If you wish to see how this is done he has videos for sale demonstrating how he moves large concrete slabs. Also his web site has images

of his experimentation with this technique. There are other web sites that duplicate the technique of raising the stone but use a different way to move the stone

forward.

Raising the StoneOK. The principle of raising the block of stone is by using two fulcrums placed just either side of the central point of balance and then use the stone as a teeter-

totter. Simply build up the alternately the height of each fulcrum by rocking the stone back and forth. When the stone is raised to a height that it can be handled

comfortably, then go to moving it forward. Lets say the stone slab weighs ten tons. When it is balanced on it's center point each side counterbalances the other so in

effect the stone becomes nearly weightless to work with. Those surrounding the block control it by keeping it steady.

Moving the Stone ForwardOnce the block is at a comfortable height a pivot is placed under the block further away from the fulcrum. Then a counterweight is added past the pivot shifting the

center of gravity to over the pivot. The block now balanced on the pivot can easily be raised to remove the fulcrums. With it so balanced the block will be rotated

on it's pivot toward the direction of forward movement. A second pivot is put into place and the ten ton block is gently rotated over and rested on this new pivot.

The counterweight is then changed to it's new location on the other side of the pivot and once again rotated 180° to it's new location. This is the principle of the

cantilever. Huge slabs of stone can be moved with about six men and they don't even break a sweat.

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