Mysteries of Ancient Cultures
It is as if these blocks are made of wax or clay
, and not set in stone: they are ideally suited to the wall, forming slim mosaic of polygons. Separate blocks of about 8 meters in diameter weighing 350 tons.
How can both dock giant boulders irregularly shaped, they will not pass even a razor blade? It would be much easier to erect the walls of rectangular blocks, than to process a formless solid granite. Perhaps the builders of the fortress was used unknown technology that will allow the stones to soften the surface state of plasticine.
Apparently, when fitting the huge boulders to each other used a liquid with high dielectric constant. If the imbue a substance of such a liquid, due to electrostatic forces of the molecular forces between particles of the substance will weaken the value of the dielectric constant. And this is how the action of some known solvents. Among the inorganic substances has the highest dielectric constant water, nitric acid, among the organic - N-methylformamide.
The composition of such a universal solvent Indians of South America was known: in a cave near the mummified corpse was discovered a leather bag, from which emerged an unknown liquid is black, and partially dissolved the stone floor of the cave.
In the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes lives a little bird, like a kingfisher, which is to build their nests in the cliffs using leaves of unknown plants. Juice of this plant softens very strong mining minerals, and the birds beak just removed the excess rock, thus hollowing deep burrows in the rocks.
British army officer, Colonel Percy H. Fawcett, engaged in surveying in different countries of Latin America, in his diary that tells a story of one traveler who committed pyatimilnuyu trip to the virgin forest along the Pyrenees in Peru. His horse gone lame, and the rider had to dismount and lead her over. Having overcome the dense thickets of scrub with fleshy leaves, he discovered that his spurs rusted nearly through. Stunned, he showed a friend Boots the Indian, who confirmed that it was bush "ate" spurs, and said that the Incas used these plants for the processing of stone.
During the excavation of ancient burial Fawcett and his colleagues discovered a large earthenware jug with the remnants of a black viscous and foul-smelling liquid. Rough handling of the discovery led to the fact that the bottle was smashed, and its contents flowed puddle on the stone. Soon the liquid absorbed into the stone, and the surface of the boulder has become a kind of putty, which is easily deformed.
This universal solvent sold in the Peruvian antique shops, even now. Thus, in the middle of XX century the British company went on an excursion to the ancient Inca structures. Along the way friends bought at a local grocery store sealed the ancient clay bottle, believing that it is old wine. The shopkeeper was trying to explain something to customers, but those little owning local dialect, did not understand. After the tour, friends opened a bottle - inside was a thick black liquid. Englishman recalled:
Fortunately, we alerted the smell - a sharp and unpleasant. Only then we guessed to ask our guide, also from the Indians, what is this swill? The conductor took the presentation to the glass, sniffed the liquid turned pale and ran away. Engineer, holding a heavy bottle, the unexpectedness of dropped it from his hands. Shards flew in all directions, and strange content flowed over the stones.
In the eyes of astonished friends stones under the influence of a mysterious fluid "flowed" like melted wax.
The British were asked about the origin of Aboriginal unusual substance and attempted to buy another vessel, but to no avail. Did just find out that the ancestors of local Indians produced softening solution of the juice of some plants. The secret of its preparation has been lost, and only occasionally is still possible to find vessels with this wonderful composition in the ancient ruins of destroyed cities.
Perhaps the builders of the ancient fortress Saksauaman used a similar composition to soften the surface of the giant stones. Dampening granite boulders, they chased them with such precision, they will not even left the gap.
With the miracle of the solvent, probably produced and the famous crystal skull.
In 1927 during excavations of the ancient Mayan city Lubaantune, located in the Honduran jungle, the daughter of an archaeologist Mitchell Hedges - Anna was found the skull of a single piece of transparent colorless quartz. According to Hedges, the skull was not less than 3,5 thousand years, and he used the Maya priests in religious ceremonies. In a detailed study of the cranial cavity and the bottom of the eye sockets were discovered precisely targeted and well-honed convex and concave lenses, prisms and optical fibers that allow the use skull as a kind of projection. When the light beam falls into the cavity of the skull, eye sockets glows and they sparkled like diamonds. Write like a work of art (especially the internal cavity), even with modern instruments is almost impossible. According to experts, to produce a similar view of the very strong quartz can only be a gradual removal of the mineral unknown solvent.
Later, archaeologists found several skulls of similar people and animals made of rock crystal, they are stored in the vaults of the British Museum and the Museum of Man in Paris.
Another mystery of South America - excellent roads, which have survived to our time. Who built them and why, is not known. It is believed that the civilization of the Indians did not know the wheel, even though they were toys on wheels. Perhaps there was some sort of taboo on its use.
The Incas not only use roads constructed mysterious predecessors, but also they laid about 16 thousand kilometers of new roads, designed for all weather conditions. One of them stretches along the Pacific Ocean at 4055 miles from Tumbes to the river Maule (Chile) and had a standard width - 7,3 meters. Andean mountain road was somewhat narrower (from 4,6 to 7,3 meters), but longer (5230 km). It was built a hundred bridges - wood, stone or cable. Every 7.2 kilometers located pointers distances 20-30 miles - the station for leisure travelers, and every 2.5 km - courier station. Couriers (Chaskey) broadcast news and orders for the relay, and thus for 5 days the information could be transmitted to a distance of 2000 kilometers. Why did the ancient Indians built the wide roads, spending on the construction of such a huge number of man-hours? Because of caravans of llamas, laden with packs and riders, pedestrians track 2-meter width would be more than enough. Perhaps the line should be built to the gods, aliens, who toured with the comfort them in their vehicles.
In 1931, young Americans led by Robert Shippee decided to find the monuments of culture pre-Columbian period from the aircraft. They made hundreds of images of previously unknown ruins. One day, returning to Trujillo through the valley of Santa, the photographer of the expedition, George Johnson of the airplane noticed a strong stone wall that stretched for miles from the mountains to the coast. Since then, this magnificent building was called the Great Peruvian wall. As it turned out, the length of this defensive structure is more than 80 kilometers. The wall thickness of 5 meters at the base and a height of 5 meters is built of stone, sealed adobovoy crumbs (Adobe - raw clay with finely chopped straw).
At regular intervals, were erected towers. Who built analogue of the Great Wall of China in Peru? On this question, scientists still did not answer ...
Another mysterious construction of South America - Tiwanaku ruins of the city on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Spaniard Pedro de Siesa Lyon, who traveled through the territory of modern Peru and Bolivia, after the conquest of the Spanish conquistadors, wrote about the structure of Tiwanaku:
I asked the natives whether these buildings were built during the Inca. They laughed at the question, repeating my words, and then told that all this was built before the arrival of the Incas, but they can not say or even suggest who built it all ... I personally can not imagine by what tools and devices that could be done because the gun, through which could be processed by these huge rocks and taken to the place, should greatly exceed those of currently used by the Indians.
He had no doubt that the "two stone idols with human figures and faces, carved with great skill and ... like little giants, involved in the erection of these huge structures of massive stones.
Studies conducted in the ancient city ED Skuayerom, A. Shtubelem, M. Ole, Arthur Poznanski, and the latest excavations have allowed scientists to suggest that the underground and above-ground buildings were a metallurgical enterprise "tin city", and huge blocks of stone were part of the port facilities on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
The famous Gateway of the Sun has a relief depicting the deity, which some scholars take as the symbol of the sun. According to other researchers, this tetradigitate figure is more like paintings and statues of the giants of other South American cultures. A characteristic detail of relief from the Tiwanaku - two staves with the heads of vultures.
A similar picture can be seen on the cotton Chavin culture, perfectly preserved in the dry climate of the Andes. In the extant pieces of tissue tiauanakskoy culture also has pictures showing tridactylous and fanged giants contraction in the hands of weapons or tools. It is possible that the ancient city of Tiwanaku is really built on the orders of the giant alien.
The adventurer Thor Heyerdahl wrote about this ancient city:
And local residents told that the huge, now abandoned, monuments were erected by the gods who lived here before the Incas took power into their own hands. Missing architects described as wise and loving teacher, who came from the north at the dawn of history and the ancestors of the Indians taught the art of building and agriculture, gave them their customs. They stood out among the Indians, white skin, long beard and tall. In the end, they left Peru as suddenly as they came back. The Incas themselves were to rule the country, and white teachers have disappeared forever from South America, having gone to the west, the Pacific Ocean.
Mysteries of Ancient Cultures
By: Kathy Wue
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