5 Archaeological Finds We Still Can't Explain
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Stone spheres: I guess they were the most fashionable lawn ornament back in the day. You had more status if you had a larger sphere on your lawn than your neighbor or maybe more of smaller ones.
In the future archeologists will find small (1-2ft tall) ceramic 'statues of god or a protective spirit' all over 20th-21th century suburban areas that look like bearded, rather stocky men with tall pointed hats.
My entire answer was "they rolled them and used them for furniture". I'm so simple.
"If I was not Alexander the Great, I would like to be Diogenes."
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"If I was not Diogenes, I would still like to be Diogenes."
- Diogenes the Cynic
It would be worth it just for the opportunity to shut up Socrates with a plucked chicken.
"If I had a time-machine, I would like to be Christiano Ronaldo" - Alexander the Great
Simon needs to award a trophy to the first topic he will have covered on all 15 of his channels. He could call it the “blood from a stone” trophy.
Stay tuned for “The Giant South American Stones Killer” on The Casual Criminalist 🤣
Is this the same huy from the babish channel
Hey, this would be a great reason to create the Casual Conspiracy Theorist channel.
I feel like the answer to most of these is "you'd be surprised how ingenious humans can be when we want to do something, have time on our hands, and a lot of people around to help".
Absolutely agree. Amazing what you can accomplish with no safety rules, environmental agencies, government interference….and a crap ton of workers/slaves…….
This is one of the best insights into humanity I've seen in a TH-cam comment.
Yeah like you have no idea how long it took to make these things it could have been done extremely slowly over the course of several generations. Like how a lot of really old things in Europe were built over a long time in some cases over a century to complete.
I have a theory that since apparently they had not invented / used the wheel to transport their quarried rock / building material , they instead turned the rock into sphere's to roll them to the site of whatever it was that they were building .I realise it doesn't answer all the question's but there it is , my theory
Touche.....
Ancient South American civilizations did build large roadways through what is now jungle, so moving the stones may not have required as much trailblazing as one might imagine.
I assume they carved them first and then just rolled them afterwards.
The jungle was actually grown from their gardens, foraging, moving etc all these plants/pigments/materials/medicines/foods will have had a use in their day to day, fun fact the amazon with all its amazing and unique plants, trees and species where created from the destruction of the dinos, most of the planet was pine forest before
i mean, it would only make sense that a civilization that lived in the jungle would create some pathways through it. why didn't i ever think of that?
@Nate Cross there's a difference between animal trails and human-made roads in the jungle that have since grown over. there are animal trails in every area with lots of plant growth on the planet.
Ive said this to people before. They rolled them to where they carved the heads.
"Ceremonial/ritual use": Archeologist speak for, "We have no freaking idea."
Yeah, it's like archaeologists just assume everything was a temple or a tomb, and not, idk, maybe a market or center of government, or even just an art project?
😏 Not only are archaeologists occasionally clueless, this is the 2nd time in 2 days I've learned that Plato was pretty freaking clueless when it came to at least a few different scientific and philosophical genres!
yup ! and dismiss anything they refuse to comprehend
A logical conclusion, considering how important ceremonies and rituals were to these cultures.
@@ominous-omnipresent-they but, how do we know how important these rituals were to these cultures? Oh yeah, because archeologists told us so
Surviving tourism is a true testament to the quality of those Walls, I can't think of any force more destructive.
I can't find the article now, but about a year ago I read an article by a chemist who proposed that the Inca used a paste which created an exothermic reaction powerful enough to melt stone. He started from the only two Spanish records of Incan construction, both of which reported that they used "mortar" although no traces of mortar have since been found. He proposed that using sulfuric acid which accumulated in their mines and the crushed leaves of a local plant they made a paste which they applied as they built which "melted" the stones enough to make them mate perfectly. He demonstrated the feasibility of the idea by making some of the paste. It doesn't prove they did it but it pretty definitively proves they could have done it with materials available. Of course, we'll probably never know the truth but it's an intriguing theory. Ancient people were much more creative and technologically advanced than modern people have typically given them credit for. If the Incas could make a substance that softened stone, it's not impossible that the natives of Costa Rica could have done the same.
Some trees produce an acid in their roots to grow through rocks, it’s this acid I believe you speak of, but still kinda don’t add up considering the amount needed to produce such megalithic structures
@@Sumcant The Inca did a lot of mining for silver and sulfuric acid commonly pools in active or abandoned mines. That's what he used in conjunction with a plant which he named but I can't remember. They probably had plenty of sulfuric acid but I don't know about the plant. Obviously we can't prove whether they did or did not use an exothermic chemical reaction to melt rock but it would explain why the stones fit so perfectly and why their edges give the appearance of being melted. I absolutely would not rule it out because we are continually learning that "primitive" cultures knew some pretty sophisticated chemistry. Heck, Neanderthals were distilling birch bark to make a very tenacious glue 200,000 years ago.
This makes allot of sense, during a recent trip I found out through an old Maya guide that indigenous people used magnesium found in cenotes to do a special mortar in between the rocks used for construction , would be interesting to find out the “recipe” might yield some clues
I’m sorry… WHO MADE A PASTE THAT MELTS STONE?!?! That’s a fairly extraordinary claim, so please give us ANY PROOF AT ALL.
@@jerkfudgewater147 "Melt" may not be the right word; perhaps "dissolve" is a better term. There are plenty of chemicals that will dissolve igneous and sedimentary stone, sulfuric acid being one. Even the extremely dilute sulfuric acid of "acid rain" will visibly etch stones; a more concentrated solution would be even more potent. If such a substance was placed between two stones, it would dissolve the stone until the reactivity of the substance was "used up." The dissolved stone would either run out of the crack or re-solidify. Either way, the result would be two stones perfectly fitted together. Obviously, not all stones will react to the same acids.
Simon - "Nature tends to not build perfect spheres"
Moeraki Boulders - "Am I a joke to you?"
Someone should explain to them concretions exist.
On the subject of the giant stone spheres and their distance away from sites where the stone could have been quaried: dispite their weight, their shape is *optimized* for rolling.
I can't be the only person that thinks it is insanely obvious that they would just roll them to destination despite their weight? Due to their size careful use of a long lever can greatly aid what a limited number of people can do.
Round objects don't work well with levers, especially not up hills (at the top of them) that are nowhere near the quarry site. It would be extremely dangerous to roll these up hills by way of lever as they would likely slip to either side and roll over the squishy humans instantly leading to their demise.
If that is the case they should see some evidence of them shaping the stone at the quarry site. I haven't heard anything about the location of the quarry site, or if they even know. I know many of the spheres were found buried as if by sediment from a big flood. I am not convinced they have the dating right.
@@soulshine64 Unless they were buried by the people that made them (or the Spanish after they took over), then it would take probably more than 2000 years to bury them that much without the help of a flood like you say, or perhaps volcanic activity or a large meteorite hitting nearby and burying the area in soil.
@@TheFriskySquid A meteorite and a volcano would leave permanent lasting damage/indicators, no?
Seems like there's only one possible option.
@@thatguyharambe8757 Probably, but I haven't researched the area that's why I said that. Just a possibility that I haven't looked into. Likely it was buried by the Spanish though or they were made much longer ago than the archaeologists believe.
I love this old “How could they possibly have done it before our modern tools?” Idea. People have been made so physically lazy and mind numb by this great technology that they can’t fathom that people did great things by hand with nothing more than shear physical strength, some planning with original ideas, and creative tools….
I think it’s hilarious that such an advanced species can’t fathom how those ancient marvels were created when in fact, it was the genius of our ancestors, generation after generation that had brought us to such an advanced level.
Humans had to start somewhere, they did, they built, they kept building, and here we are…. So advanced that things like watching pre-recorded videos about archeological discoveries through wireless Internet connection on a high definition screen that I can hold in my hand while sitting on zee pooper, is something we all take for granted LOL.
And a near limitless supply of expendable slave labor.
It's ego. If we can't figure it out it must be aliens. Meanwhile almost none of these idiots with computers in their hands can even explain how the electrical grid works. Spoiled Kardashian fans convinced they're better: only because they were born.
Same ego in racisim, sexisim, and a billion other ways humans try to find value in themselves before they actually step up to do anything of value
Also, time and patience. Ancient peoples spent a lot of time and patience accomplishing what they wanted to do. Modern day peoples, especially those of us in the West with all this modern technology, are lacking those 2 qualities. Especially the patience
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Stone spheres in costa rica
4:20 - Chapter 2 - Saksawaman
6:30 - Chapter 3 - Nazca Lines
9:00 - Chapter 4 - The dropa stones
10:45 - Chapter 5 - Longyou grottoes
I guess, in archeology speak, "for rituel purposes" means "we absolutely have no idea"
Agreed
Yeah, there is always one like you, thinking you are being profound or smart with this tired answer...or maybe its you every time, whatever. You ignore the fact that "ritual purpises", religious or otherwise, has always been a big thing, and still is today. Technically commuting to and from work, or work itself is a ritual, as are many thkngs. It is perfectly acceptable conclusion to arrive at, it tends to be the most mundane, and requires the least number of conjectures.
@@owenshebbeare2999 facts
@@owenshebbeare2999 and yeah, there is always one like you who can't see that this is a stupid joke having nothing to do with "profound or smart" answers.
You're right, it's an archaeological in-joke now.
If they were smart enough to carve perfectly round stones I would assume they were smart enough to realize the easiest way to move them would be to roll them.
I've been there, they are def not perfectly round. Some are downright oblong.
Its difficult to move a 12 tonne round sphere 30 miles in a tropical jungle with trees and uneven topography
concretion
The creators of the saksaywaman walls appear to have used a lifting device of some type along with a clamping system which attached to the stones from the sides so each one could be carved from the bottom and continually moved up and down into place for a perfect fit. If you look at the pictures, a lot of the stones have two "dots" carved into the lower bottom portions. Not hard to imagine those being used as gripping points for an ancient crane.
The spheres located in Costa Rica aren't, technically, proportionally perfect. As for how they were put in place, I don't know, but I assume they were shaped on-site and then rolled to their destination via a premade path. Also, I don't see what the big deal is about the Nazca Lines. I mean, think about it, people create even more elaborate designs in wheat fields without the convenience of a bird's-eye view and do so in the middle of the night.
They do? So why is none of those people ever captured while doing those crop circles? Not to even mention that they are a lot more than circles.
@@villehytonen7279
Probably because it's illegal, and that would be highly incriminating.
The thing about those big, heavy stones, is that they respond well to machines that use leverage and balance. There was an Eastern European immigrant to Florida who bought a plot of land, and would go out there in the middle of the night to move these huge stones around into monolithic structures, by himself. You get this thing on a pebble, and all of a sudden you can walk it around, no big deal.
As for the precision of the cutting of the stone... I have been working with craftsmen of various sorts for my whole career, and something I've learned, is that if a person performs one narrow subset of a skill for eight hours a day, every day of his life, he's going to get really goddamned good at that one specific thing. Being apparently as precise as a dedicated, purpose-build machine is absolutely achievable for a human. Whoever cut those stones, that was what he dedicated his life to.
Well said
I have seen this in practice. There is an old guy on youtube that moved monoliths with his body utilizing gravity. However it doesn't explain most of these mysteries.
My God. The first person to know basics of their world and craftsmanship. Thank you for restoring a bit of faith.
@@Bitchslapper316 cutting and moving stones has been done by every civilization. Today, people claim they're increadably smart... but they can't even explain how the electrical grid works with a doggamn phone in their hand... that they also can't explain how the cell phone works nor even have any clue how many mines it took to get the materials. Humans are egotistical morons. That's it.
The most difficult tasks neurologically, physically and mentally we ever do are learning to walk and talk and we do that by the age of two.
4:24 Fun fact, Costco, Peru is known for it's delicious hot dogs found there!
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Unless that potion was a weak acid that dissolved calcite in the natural stone. You just need a little fruit to do that.
I've always thought that the stonework at Sacsayhuaman is interesting in that it seems to exist in two separate and distinct construction layers in many places. On the bottom, superior megalithic tight fitting joints. On the top, an inferior level of stacked rubble. Some have suggested a culture prior to the Inca built the megalithic works and the Inca finished it. There is archaeology evidence there that shows there was a different culture existing just prior to the Inca's arrival. Their pottery is distinctive but little is known about them.
I think the Nazca lines were an attempt by the people living there to communicate with UAP's or shooting stars, whom they no doubt saw as gods.
I definitely buy the first part - on the Ufos/Uaps, at Nazca, I remain agnostic.
I do believe it's been pointed out that the Incas don't even take credit for Sacsayhuaman - that could be a wives tale though.
there are many preinca cultures in peru, Lima, Moche, Nazcan Tiahuanaco ect
i think the other interesting thing about the lines is that, whether they knew it or not, the location experiences basically no weathering, so these lines that were drawn centuries ago just sit there, never getting covered or blown away by time.
How did they move these perfectly round spheres? I don't know, but I guess I will just ROLL with whatever suggestion the archeologists say.
concerning the stones, i recently came across some information about how ancient civilization had the technology/recipe for their own 'concrete' this makes me want to look deeper into this now. thanks.
I remember reading that they found this fossil of a Trilobite (maybe the wrong spelling) with a human footprint on it that both shouldn't have co-existed at the same time.
You have to be *very* careful with such reports. Because I guarantee they didn't specify the depth of the Trilobite fossil nor the depth of the human footprint fossil (assuming the 2 were even found together).
Oftentimes, the best environment for fossil making is a silty mud. This type of soil is laid down in *millimeters* thickness over thousands of years.
It's why you occasionally find dinosaur and human footprints side by side in really good fossil beds.
Except, when properly excavated, the human footprints are inches higher than the dinosaur ones, proving they're *much* later.
This is what happened with your Trilobite and human footprint, I can promise you that
I saw a documentary years ago where 1 guy made one of those round stones in less than 3 days just using another about 3 pound stone and 3 or four guys could roll the stone along a path pretty much all day long.
I was thinking about this just as I clicked the video and I'm glad someone put it out there. A lot of these great mysteries have been solved by simple common sense, like how the pyramids were built, but I think people in general just want things to remain a mystery.
Any chance you remember where you saw it?
@@harvestkitty This isn't what they were talking about specifically but it's still super interesting: th-cam.com/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/w-d-xo.html
@@harvestkitty It was on The History Channel or Discovery Channel sometime around 2000-2006 back when they were still kind of true to their names.
@@Doodlebob563 that's a braindead comment.
What common sense explains the pyramids? Or explains carving multi ton granite blocks and moving them 1000 miles before the invention of the wheel with copper tools.
Common sense isn't what you seem to think it is, because you lack it completely
Gawd I get so tired of, "how did they move these? It's so much work!" arguments. Um, they had _time_ to do so. "How did they shape stone without lasers and machines?" They had _time_ to do so with basic tools. Hell, the very first task I was instructed to undertake as a machinist student was to hacksaw a chunk of steel rod, then, using a file, turn it into a perfect cube. Not hard at all, all it took was _time_ and patience.
Yeah how they move them it's an easy one there round they roll them
The makers of these stone spheres didn’t need a reason to make them…that's just how they roll…
Such ballers.
"After that, the disks disappeared forever until 1974". Literally.
I’m pretty sure the spheres relate to a person’s rank in the community. The bigger your balls the higher you rank. Some things never change…
I can't remember where, but there was an island where they used big rocks as currency.
Oooh, another mysteries. Let me sit back, relax and enjoy this. This is going to be fun.
So glad you mentioned Saqsaywaman as the multi-ton stones are truly a site to behold. There’s a lot more to them and they’re all over Cusco. They’re also always underneath known contemporary Inca walls, going against the idea that the Inca’s built them after generations of experience. I’ve seen you slowly accept the possibility that all mainstream ideas may not be correct and I hope you continue to question things (within reason) you big brain.
I have a theory that since apparently they had not invented / used the wheel to transport their quarried rock / building material , they instead turned the rock into sphere's to roll them to the site of whatever it was that they were building .I realise it doesn't answer all the question's but there it is , my theory
In Perú, civilization upon civilization, they had more than 7000 years of experience building temples before any Inca temple was made. The Inca, also, were quite clever. Most of what we say "are Inca" are from previous civilizations and other cultures that the Inca subjugated. That's why they build such and impressive, and big empire, in such short time.
Visit Sechin Bajo, the Nazca irrigation infraestructure, Chavin or Kuelap. Suddenly you'll find the Inca temples unimpressive and just a natural evolution.
In fact, most of what you identify as "Inca" are from the Wari culture. The Inca just made their temples using their knowledge and on top of them. As the Spaniards then do.
@@harryhanz1690 Visit Perú, the north of Perú. And stop saying crap. You'll find one of the places where civilization was born (the Casma Sechin and the lesser, but better known, Norte Chico civilization). And, apart from the religious nexus (civilization started because of common religious beliefs in one particular area) that we could also find in places like Jericho or Göbekli Tepe they have nothing more in common with the other two.
There's also thousands of years of difference between those sites (the precursor civilization must have had time travel machines and really poor organization).
I've been to Nazca and you can clearly see the figures from the surrounding hills. More impressive to me were the canals and aquifers in the area.
Where I grew up, down in the creek bed and soil around there, were 'stone spheres'. Some as small as marbles, some as large as the end of a barrel. The smaller ones I'd bust open. They seems to be made of a layered chert. Not geods' .
I have a couple to this day, odd things. My theory was that they were rolled up and out during the last ice age from rocks or soil, deposited there under the leading edge of ice. Then compacted. When the ice melted back they were left to erode out over time.
BTW, this was in Middle Tennessee, US
I can send pics for proof!
There are many a ways south of me ,Small granite rocks , they lay in a strip a hundred yards wide by two hundred miles long . Theory is that it was the shore of lake Agassi , that the action of small waves over one thousand years wore them round
@@outinthesticks1035 Good to hear from someone else who has seen these things. I believe that the 'monolithic' stones covered were created by the same actions. Were they perfectly round like some of those seem to be? Probably not, but it wouldn't take too much work to make them that way. Just really big, naturally occurring rocks.
The Ancient Greeks moved stones that size to much more difficult locations, 1000 years before that, and nobody says God or Aliens were involved. They simply rolled them, or fixed 2 large wooden disks either side with a framework in between.
And the Ancient Egyptians carried stones that big on boats, 2000 years earlier.
The Ancients were much cleverer than we are now.
You have answered nothing.
The ancient Egyptians didn't have the wheel, the amount of granite they moved is insane. Noone know how they did that, certainly not some loser like you
Head scratching mysteries. Love them. Thanks for sharing.
The spheres are just very large projectiles for trebuchets. To move them just roll them along a gravel road. It's easy to bash a rock into any shape using harder stones, or grinding them with sand and wooden planks (with water). It just takes a long time.
"They learned how to build these rock walls with trial and error."
Well yeah no shit John. Isn't that how everything is figured out???
Simon I love ya but why put that in?
Inca's used pre-existing rock formations as foundations for buildings that they expanded upon. When you compare pre-existing structures with structures built by Incan's there is a significant difference.
The Inca themselves said the structures were already there
But half the people in the comment section, who have no idea of the evidence, will just say - oh that easy if you just do this.
Humanity is generally braindead regarding these topics
"...more than a dozen tons..." is so vague it shouldn't be used. Ever.
Just say how much it weighed.
It boggles the mind that these ancient civilizations were able to move multi ton stones. I've been to the pyramids and the sheer size of the stones are astonishing. Great video!
Leverage makes anything possible
Simon, your videos are awesome. I came here to say that, thank you.
They were very intelligent and resourceful. Just because we don’t have a clue how they did things, doesn’t mean they didn’t completely understand much more than we know. Obviously they accomplished these and many other things all over the world from Egypt to South and Central America and Asia. The existence of these things are proof that they did in fact know secret ways of shaping stone. I’m impressed.
9:56 the disks then disappeared forever…….until 1974
Dang forever is a lot shorter than I thought
youtube autoplay has been nice to me tonight, a few hours of all your content so far :)
To make those near perfect spheres I'm guessing it would be possible to slowly grind them down via smoothing it with something rough rubbing against them for possibly hundreds of hours or maybe rolling them around in a same manner.
like with another stone perhaps
I like to think that all the weird stuff we've found so far are just ancient Memes.
Nazca lines are amazing, but I'm puzzled as to why people feel it required an aerial view from the top to build them.
Any two men and a couple of sticks can plot a straight line. Romans and in fact South American peoples plotted and built miles of roads in straight lines. And we built our cities and roads without needing helicopters to view them from above. All you need is to design in small scale, then multiply and plot the scaled-up life-sized version using the measuring and surveying methods of the time. They are flat, so no need for models; line drawings would do just fine.
As to why? Maybe to see if we could? No way to know without written records or time travel.🤣😂
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yeah, and some like to invent crazy alien theories about topics about which they have no expertise. It would be great if we could say, I don't know" more often instead of pretending we have answers.
Good day we were working on a remote pipeline station in Northern Alberta Canada a number of years ago. The site was in an area where the North American Ice age had been. While excavating some trenches to install the larger pipe the backhoe dug up three of these round rock spheres from the ground. The largest was about 4 ft across or a little over a meter across. The geologist on site told us they were formed by the glacier rolling these rocks across the ground in between the ice sheet and the rocky ground. Then after the ice melted the silt and dirt covered them. The welders on site built some nice "stands" to mount these spheres on and we put two of them at the entrance gate. One on each side of the gate and one by the site office main entrance.
Pretty cool how even today man reacts to them, eh?
Considering I'm currently writing little SGC episodes for a rpg campaign rn, these channel had been brilliantly useful 🤣
Kroist, Simon, I've found one that' only 4 days old!
I usually just glom onto whatever presents itself because you have a billion of the buggers popping out of nook, crannies, old wells, seams between rocks in centuries old walls and ghod know where else and I'm happy to just look a them and that's up to your inimitable charm, fast moving presentation and much appreciated British humour. Canadian here. Fanboy, no. Admirer, absolutely.
Keep cranking them out, they've provided an invaluable service while the world outside is being trashed by an invisible shape-shifting lethal little bastard we haven't gained control of yet.
You're an absolute mad lad and we Thank you for your service of diversion, humor and facts. Reality sucks sometimes. Ta for being a bloody good antidote to that as well.
Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
The description is hilarious!
The nazca lines can be seen from the near by mountains and that is likely how they mapped them out
Very interesting! Thankyou.
Nature does like making perfect spheres. If you blow a bubble that is why it is round, spheres require less laws than squares. The planets and moons are spherical for the same reason, if they spin like earth they slightly deform and when they don’t, like the moon, they remain spherical. Nature loves the sphere.
No doubt each one of these has been the subject of an "Ancient Aliens" episode.
Glad I found you again sir. Missed you.
I go with the hypothesis of time traveling pranksters, creating all of these things to confound everyone until time catches up to the pranksters 'present'.
My theory on the Hazca Lines is what if they were like the cave paintings of the Australian Aboriginal Peoples or the hieroglyphs of Egypt, for all we know it could tell a very important story that nobody has figured out how to read
Second mystery solved. See my other comment. I think there's a theme here.
"Hey Bob, what you doing before the sun goes down?" "I'm sortta thinking of making this stone round Jack." "Cool Bob, I'll help, but we gotta name it after your daughter, Benz." "No way Jack, let's name it after your daughter, Wheel."
Some will get that, most won't.
Internet: "Round things roll!"
Sisyphus: "..."
Granted it’s very likely that getnohappy below is right, I’d love to see the look on Simon’s face if Aliens showed up.
These are all very well explained phenomena, no mysterys here... exept the disks, never heard of them.
That rock wall was already there as one big rock face. They just chiseled in all the groves to make it look like individual rocks. Occums razor.
7:03 Spider-Whales?
Dang, I'm not sure if I am happy or sad that those aren't around anymore! Little of both?
Simon: If you want some head scratching mysteries while you're bored at work...
Me: I feel very called out
So much effort went into these! I love that some were super practical like Walls and the caves; and then others went for Big Balls and Graffiti
😂😂😂 well said
Thx Simon... cheers from across the pond 🙂
If you only knew how much I listen to your stuff while at work, haha
Ah, yes - the ancient city of Costco, Peru.
He needs to hone his pronunciation for sure.
Good video 👍
Just making my daily round of Simon's videos..
Spherical boulders are also found on beaches in the Arctic, where there was no civilisation!
So, the spherical rocks. Hear me out, some civilization tried to build massive stone structure somewhere in today's costa rica. They tried to solve the logistical problem of transportation by smoothing a little the sides of the stones, then the wet weather, coarse sand and the act of just rolling them everywhere turned them in spheres. That where left there untouched for spite.
Those dropstones are almost certainly loom weights. Found at archaeological sites all over the world, although it's certainly not the first case of s (usually male) archaeologist who's never done a day's housework musing, "Hmmm, IT IS A MYSTERY FOR THE AGES!" until some local paid to cart dirt says, "Oh, my wife uses those." (I think the last time I saw such a story was at the museum in Mycenae.)
Literally got into the argument regarding why the fuck the washer and dryer is always the farthest from any bedroom, and usually across the kitchen and living aallllll the way out to the damn garage --- no one who does laundry every said "let me take all this shit downstairs just so I can bring it back upstairs". Only 1950s designs by men for men that tradition keeps because its what we grew up with. . So we put the damn laundry as far away as possible. --- God men can just be idiots.
We have massive round Boulder's like that in New Zealand on one of our beaches.. The are made from sand constantly rolling together to form the boulders..
Round stones, for when you're smart enough to not make the same mistake as the Stonehenge builders.
How to move giant perfectly round stones? Hmm. Call me crazy, but how about rolling them?
5:00 if you put 2 rouchly cut stones ontop of each other and start moving them (maybe with sand in between), they will grind each other until they fit perfectly!
That's a great thought! And water could help make sliding them easier.
The stones in question are the size of cars and sheds. They weight thousands of tonnes. Lots of time and effort involved.
That is just not how it works, unless you have 20 years per stone.
People are so stupid
@@zm5668 so aliens then?
@@berndbernd3464 grinding one stone against another will flatten one side and make it fit , but that would only work on one side , some of these stones have up to 14 individual faces and you can't grind and slide them all .
@@kawasakikev8905 why?
they are hella uneven... the walls look exactly how i would imagine them to look like if you build them in this way!
I've heard this in many of Simon's videos. What style of music/chanting/??? is playing at the beginning of chapter 2 and 4?
It would seem good for meditation.
The stone spheres there and in other parts of the world are due to long-term seismicity in unconsolidated deposits. Shaking for many thousands or millions of years results in the largest pieces (clasts) rising to the top, and being eroded on all sides. It is a well known sedimentological phenomenon.
1:42 "A New Morning Has Come" from Gantz starts playing...
Art, no further explanation required.
Spheres : They're not perfect. They were carved, probably by getting them nearly spherical by eye, then putting them on some sort of slippery base and chiselling off whatever bits stuck up too far (some sort of pendulum arrangement probably). A lot of work for no reason? Yes. That's what happens when you have enough corn and you don't have to survive a Scandinavian winter.
Well fitting stones : They were carved, by getting them nearly right by eye, then using a grinding paste (and reciprocating action powered by people) probably made of hard volcanic sand.
Nazcar lines : people who were REALLY bored used string to scale up drawings they'd made earlier (like a large pantograph), the same way people make crop circles now.
Chinese disks : Faked, like half the transitional fossils 'discovered' in China.
Caves : A lot of work.. got enough rice, too much time on your hands, difficult boss?
Wooooo. Was early to this one!
'if you want some head-scratching mysteries to ponder while you're bored at work' actually this is more the kind of thing my brain likes to ponder while I'm trying to go to sleep late at night, lol.
The Saqsaywaman walls were made of limestone, which is a very easy material to cut into blocks. The fact they fit together so nicely without a mortar, might partly be a product of limestone's tendency to break into geometric shapes of certain angles. It is not nearly as random as other sedimentary rock in how it fractures and breaks. They could have used the natural tendency to break at certain angles to reliably create pieces that fit together with minimal carving. The content of this limestone could be particularly well suited for the situation as well, as limestone varies a lot in grain size and formation environment. Just my thoughts as a geologist on the mystery... they chose the smartest stone for the job at hand.
It's laughably obvious:
1. Giant's marbles
2. Natural occurrence
3. God's leftover blueprints
4. God's LP collection (he needed them back)
5. Real world Minecraft underground tree farm
I had to rewind ninety seconds because 'presented him with a plucked chicken'.
I don't know why that was so funny.
Tears.
Yeah, carving out the longyou grotto with chisels seems like science fiction too, it would take an eternity. And the carving patten on the ceiling suggests other tools were used. I don't have a time machine, so i have no idea how it was done.
Just look at some of the Hindu temples in India which have been carved out of the rock in the ground...
@@TheRealRedRooster yeah, i have seen them, Kailasa temple for example.
I suspect that with steel chisels (as opposed to stone, copper, or bronze) highly-skilled people could do it a lot faster than most of us think. Skilled workers would take advantage of existing fissures, etc. Also, just knowing how to position the chisel and how hard to strike it would give them an advantage. I've seen old films of miners at work with chisels and picks and they can move an astonishing amount of rock in short order. Yes, no doubt it was time-consuming but probably not as much as a "normal" modern person would think.
All of these examples proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are an ancient colony of a space faring civilization that stopped visiting because every time they did people started sacrificing each other in honor of their arrival. And that was just the dinosaurs.
In my college microbiology lab there was a sign that read, "science doesn't provide answers, only more questions".
Playto was the guy that invented the plate. According to Holly.
5:50 ish I like the idea that sand bags would take on that shape and then go away over the ages. Someone has to dismantle one of those walls and see what there is to see.
Ooooh! "Electricity-conducting metal!" Oooohhh! Some people would be stunned by a fly on a turd, too.
PUMA PUNKO in Bolivia. I would just love to see those inside cuts explained.
I've solved it: the people who created all these unexplainable objects were simply living in "create" mode instead of "survival".
I am curious of your take on the Baalbek Trilithon; the three stones that weigh 800 tonnes each, and the two others that weigh approximately 1000 tonnes, that were transported almost a kilometer uphill.
For Saksaywaman it is very questionable if the giant monolithic boulders are indeed made by the Incas considering if you compare it with the "repair" work done with very small stones, because it very unlikely that their technology evolved backwards. See f.e. the channel of Uncharted-X. Also it not only in South America that these monolithic wall are found like the base of a Roman temple in Baalbek in Lebanon.
It is actually very easy to make these orbs, if you know the technique. They use mountain creeks, where they make holes in stone and put roughly rounded rocks in them. Then the flowing water turns the rocks and makes them perfectly spherical. Idk if the water has to be channeled in a special way (like from the bottom of the hole), but it is an old existing industry.
And yes, don´t underestimate the abilities and genius of our ancestors!
Can you do an episode on the Smithsonian on here or on Megaprojects.