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Conspiracy Theory: a cyclopean structure on the site of the Alexander Column October 19th, 2016
I already thought that the topic of the Installation of the Alexander Column in St. Petersburg was closed by the post "". However, the blogger levhudoi did not stop there and put forward another bold theory, which we will now discuss as we close the topic of this long-suffering column.
So, at the beginning of the post you see the infamous painting by the artist Grigory Gagarin, which claims to be confirmed official version, which depicts a column in the scaffolding.
There are no hints about the installation and, accordingly, the manufacture of the column. There is no inclined wooden flooring, ropes, capstans, that is, everything that is connected with the lifting of a 700-ton stone structure. This painting only shows scaffolding, which is used for repair work and not for the installation of the column. It corresponds alternative version, according to which our primitive civilization only made repairs to the column installed by the previous high-tech civilization. So, Gagarin most likely does not participate in falsification.
The question is, what is this structure under the column, covering the pedestal? Let's say this is a temporary brick structure to support the wooden pillars of the tower. But why is she so dilapidated? In theory, it should be taken apart last, when the scaffolding is completely removed. After all, the scaffolding is based on this structure. How can you first disassemble the support, and then what is on it? Absurd.
And why is there no official information about the fact that in the middle of the palace square there was some kind of grandiose structure? Let's figure it out...
The history of the creation of the Alexander Column is described in two albums published by Montferrand in Paris. The "old" color album was published in 1832, the "new" black-and-white one in 1836 under the title "Plan and details of the memorial monument dedicated to Emperor Alexander".
The old Montferrand album is posted on the website of the French National Library http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7200387b (Or with lower quality here http://and110.ucoz.ru/gub/piter/06/sam. html). The caption to the album says that this is Montferrand's album of 1832, on the site fr. libraries published in 2012.
The cyclopean dimensions of the structure are visible on the 57th page of Montferrand's album:
Installation of a pedestal for a column.
The pedestal is located inside some kind of brick walls of some long corridor in the middle of an empty Palace Square? What jokes? The height of the walls is like that of a fortress - by eye 5 human heights, that is, 8-10 meters, 3 floors!
The dimensions of the impossible structure are precisely indicated on the previous page 56:
And now attention. Wall thickness... Attention... drum roll... 2 meters! In the thinnest part. And on 2 adjacent corners of the square part around the installation site of the column, the wall thickness is ... 7 (SEVEN) meters!
The height of the walls is 9 meters. This is a three-story house.
Now let's find out how this building is oriented on the palace square? The stone was unloaded at the nearest pier to the place where the column was to be installed. On the 54th picture of the album, which shows the beginning of the pedestal's path from the pier, to the right of it is visible Peter-Pavel's Fortress, and even more to the right - the facade of the Winter Palace from the side of the Admiralty:
So, the stone was dragged along the same path as the column. That is, the 30-meter corridor, inside which the stone was dragged, begins from the side of the Admiralty.
Where did this huge building come from? Or it was built a long time ago previous civilization, or it was built immediately before the installation of the column.
According to the official version, of course, there was nothing on the square before the column - to confirm this, there are several old art paintings with an allegedly empty palace square. So, if you believe the official safecrackers, Montferrand built this structure for temporary technological purposes, and then it was dismantled brick by brick.
The only reason it had to be built was for the supports of the future lifting tower to lift the column. (Because after the installation of the column it was demolished). The shorter the wooden support, the stronger and more reliable it is. Thanks to these walls, the supporting pillars of the lifting tower did not start from the ground itself, but 8-10 meters higher:
But, in this case, it is not clear why build a whole wall if it would be enough to build a few stone pillars, like pillars for a bridge? And why build long walls corridor where there will be no lifting tower at all?
The square part on the right in the drawing can be represented for these purposes, and a long 30-meter corridor with 2-meter walls has nothing to do with this.
Further. This square room has only 3 walls. In place of the fourth - the end of the corridor. This means that the lifting tower has nowhere to support its vertical supports, of which there are 6 on each side. Namely, on the side where there is no wall, the lower, thicker and heavier side of the column was located just before the start of the process of lifting it.
So, this structure with 2-meter walls did not play any role for the supports of the lifting tower.
The column weighs 700 tons. Do you know how much only a 7-meter corner of this temporary structure weighs? 7 * 7 * 9 * 2.6 = 1200 tons! And the second angle is 1200 tons.
A 30 meter corridor wall 2 meters thick and 9 meters high weighs 30 * 2 * 9 * 2.6 = 1500 tons. And there are two walls. And also the walls of that square. In short, in order to lift 700 tons, they build a meaningless stone fortress weighing about 10,000 tons.
On page 65, Montferrand drew a top view along with a column:
As you can see, the two center lines of vertical supports do not hit the walls of the structure, except for the rearmost pair. But they rely on internal walls that have appeared from nowhere.
Figure caption: Plan du grand échafaudage en charpente avec l "indication du massif en maçonnerie qui lui servait de soubassement
Google translation: Plan of a large scaffolding structure showing the massive masonry that served as the base
And so, masonry appeared where it was not on the previous schemes - on the previous ones there were only external walls, and now there are also internal ones, on which the tower actually rests, indicated by masonry.
But, the question arises - why build 2-7 meter outer walls in the middle of the Palace Square, if the tower rests only on the inner ones? Exactly where the thickness reaches its maximum, 7 meters, there are no supports!!!
Conclusion levhudoi such is that this structure, together with the inner walls, was there before the reconstruction of Montferrand, and for us they drew bullshit to explain why this structure was allegedly built.
Why was it drawn to us that at first there supposedly were no internal walls? To explain how the pedestal stone was dragged there. He wouldn't go through the walls.
Compare with the above image of Gagarin:
This is what we see with high windows on the side of the structure where the thin part of the column was turned. And a long corridor on the left side of the picture, from the side of the Admiralty. From there they dragged a stone and a column. This corridor is partially dismantled, as is the square room.
And this structure is also drawn on the 66th page of the Album:
It is difficult to understand from the drawing what kind of ladder-like things they are. The distance between the steps of the "ladders" is comparable to human height. Too big to be used as stairs.
Here is the full image from page 66:
ALL TILTING MASTS REACH THE GROUND. There are 3 on each side
Now get ready for a sharp turn.
As you can see, all inclined elements rest against a stone structure, none of them reach the ground. Inclined beams are not 3 on each side as in the new album, but 7.
The outer sloped beams rest on additional walls built at right angles to the outer walls. In this old album, again, the outer walls do not carry any significant load. Only the third row of supports, the furthest from the column, rests on them. Moreover, even these supports require only a small central part outer wall. third part of the length. Why build another two-thirds is not clear. And 7-meter corner walls do not carry any load at all. What were they built for?
The conclusion is unequivocal - Montferrand did not build the outer walls. He doesn't need them. But they didn't interfere. Sense from them, as from a goat's milk, but no harm, however, either.
But this thing is very similar to megalithic structures around the world. main feature the walls slope slightly inward, forming a trapezoidal shape.
Egypt and Peru:
More Peru (Taravarsi):
Japan (Edo Castle):
Let's return to Montferrand's albums. And the 33rd page of the old album. View from above:
Ordinary walls are marked here in place of the corner seven-meter walls. In the new album from 1836, there were 3 supports on the sides against 2 in the old album from 1832:
The question arises - for what could the ancients use the building from which these outer walls remained?
Who has other hypotheses - write.
source - https://levhudoi.blogspot.ru/2016/01/strannoesooruzhenie.html
Some more riddles that aliens probably threw at us: here you are, and here is the amazing one. It appears and exists.
The most impressive buildings in terms of size are the defensive walls of Mycenae and Tiryns, Sardinian towers, religious buildings Balearic Islands and islands of Malta, ancient Mexican and Peruvian architecture. The ruins of cyclopean structures are found in Mesopotamia, India, Transcaucasia, Crimea, Tajikistan, and Siberia. Who and at what time built these colossal structures is not known for certain. It is noteworthy that some architectural elements buildings are clearly “out of height” ordinary person- these are too high steps of stairs, huge doorways and windows, gigantic stone benches, etc. Tiryns - ancient city in Argolis (Greece), the birthplace of the legendary Hercules. The first settlement on this site existed in the Neolithic era. According to the Argive myth, the fortress was built by the giants: Seven chryso-armed cyclops came from Lycia to the Tirynthian king Proyt and built him a stronghold of the city from huge stones. At the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. e. Tiryns became the capital of the Achaean state. The city was surrounded by powerful stone walls, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad and later described by Pausanias (Description of Hellas). The thickness of the fortress walls fortified with towers in some places reached 10 and even 17 meters, inside them there were living quarters, pantries for weapons and food. From the fortress, an underground passage led to a source of water. Tiryns was burned during the Dorians' invasion. In the 1st millennium BC. e. Tiryns remained a small policy. Around 470 B.C. e. the city was finally destroyed by the Argives. Middle and late bronze age on the island of Sardinia, unknown "architects" erected towers of huge stones, called "nuraghes". They have an oval shape in plan, the inner chambers are covered with a false vault. These fortified structures vary in size, from one-room one-story buildings to 20-meter "skyscrapers" tapering upwards with additional turrets. Nuraghes were connected to each other by underground passages and were surrounded by stone walls. Under the ground were living quarters and warehouses for products and passages. Usually nuraghes are found in areas where the production of copper products was carried out. According to Professor Giovanni Lililu, only giant people could build such structures from huge stones, which are about 3600 years old. The island of Malta was inhabited as early as the 5th millennium BC. e.: a mysterious highly developed civilization left behind numerous monuments and structures made of huge stone blocks weighing up to 30 tons. The most famous of them is the Hypogeum temple in Khal-Saflieni. On the islands of Malta and Gozo, majestic megalithic temples- stone sanctuaries of Khal-Tarshyen, Khadzhnar-Kim, Mnaidra, Mdzharr, Dzhgantiya. Ggantia (translated from Maltese - "tower of the giantess") is the oldest of them. According to legends, this building was erected by a woman of gigantic growth, capable of lifting and placing huge blocks. During the excavations of the temple, archaeologists found an unusual stone figurine depicting a woman with magnificent forms, reclining on a bed. Perhaps this is the builder of cyclopean structures. Quite a lot of figurines of the "fat goddess" were found. According to one of the legends, the island of Malta was a certain sacred place where the goddess-giantess Sansuna (Saracen) lived. It is believed that she carried huge blocks of stone from the cliffs of Ta-Chench on her head when she built her temple of Ggantiyu. IN right hand Sansuna held a stone slab, and in her left she carried her baby - the great-grandfather of the current Gozitans, that is, ordinary people. There is another attraction in Malta. From a bird's eye view, you can see hundreds of mysterious furrows that, like rails, cross the island in different directions. The width of the furrows is from 63 to 123 centimeters, the depth is more than 70 centimeters. These footprints on the rocks cross high hills and continue along the bottom of the sea. Many of them are parallel to each other and sometimes merge into one track. What the network of these lines was intended for is unknown. It is noteworthy that on Easter Island, researchers found the same grooves in the ground, extending into the depths of the ocean. Perhaps these giant drawings are similar to the geoglyphs of the Nazca desert in South America, which are now impossible to see - they were flooded with water when the level of the oceans rose. Megalithic structures also existed in Russia. Of particular interest is the Devil's settlement, located near Kozelsk in the Kaluga region. Hieromonk Leonid in the book "History of the Church within the current Kaluga Region" gives a description of this place: Not far from the ancient Rzhavets in the wilderness of the forest ... there is wonderful place- these are the ruins of some historical building, on which stones of enormous size were consumed, taken, apparently, from afar, because there are no stone fragments near. The building was brought to a large space and lined up to half the windows; around at a considerable distance lie the same large stones, and some of them are scattered in one direction, on the way to the building from the field. The antiquity of this building is evidenced by centuries-old trees growing inside it, and walls long overgrown with moss. Popular imagination inhabits it mysterious place spirits, calling it "Devil's settlement". At the end of the 19th century, a correspondent of the Kaluga Provincial News visited the Devil's Settlement and also saw a cyclopean building from giant stones: The road went at first through an ordinary dense forest, then a valley with a moat below opened before us, and after this a steep climb to high mountain…. On the way to the mountain, we began to come across stones of unusual size. Climbing, or rather, climbing higher up the mountain, on its cliff we saw a large stone wall, overgrown with moss on the sides and trees at the top. At first glance, it is clear that this building has existed since time immemorial, and now there is a semblance of some kind of house. The wall is made of huge stones. On the right side of this wall appears something like a porch. Under the very house, or rather, the wall, there is a cave with two exits, one of which, according to legend, goes to the Good Monastery near the town of Likhvin. The very place where this building is located is in the wilderness, far from habitation, except for forest gatehouses. When examining the “fortified settlement”, one involuntarily takes thought and bewilderment, how it was possible to build a wall of stones, from which a thousand people, it seems, are not able to lift each, they are so striking in their incredible size. The same stones are scattered in disorder near the wall itself. Another riddle ancient history- great pyramids. Pyramids and pyramidal structures in the distant past were built in many regions of the planet: Africa (on the territory of the former state of Meroe), the Black Sea region (mounds of Ukraine and Crimea, which previously had the shape of pyramids), England (Salisbury Hill), Canary Islands(Pyramid of the Guanches), China (earthen pyramidal structures up to 300 meters high, located north of the city Xian), Malaysia and the Pacific Islands. Most of the pyramids are located in South America (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru), at present there are more than 200 of them. In Russia, pyramidal structures were found in Altai, the Far East and the Caucasus. Archaeologists have discovered in the Charysh region of Altai step-shaped burial structures lined with stone. Built in the 5th century BC. e., in their structure they resemble the pyramids of the Yucatan Peninsula and Peru. Special passages and manholes provided the priests with access to interior spaces pyramids. Angkor Wat - common name majestic temples, palaces, reservoirs in Cambodia, located near the border with Siam on the shores of Lake Talesabe and occupying an area of about 260 square kilometers. The largest of them are Angkor Wat, Nakhon Wat and Angkor Thom. Many temples that have survived to our time were erected on more ancient foundations and exactly repeat the previous buildings. The existence of this grandiose complex of 200 buildings was first told to the world in 1601 by the Spanish missionary Marcelo Ribandeiro, who, wandering in the jungle, stumbled upon ancient ruins. Ribandeiro's discovery was not believed at the time, as Khmer traditions did not allow them to build stone buildings. Ancient buildings testify that a highly developed civilization previously existed here. According to Khmer legend, the god Indra entrusted the construction of palaces to the divine architect Preah Pushnuk, "whose strength and learning were endless." It is estimated that as many stones were used to build the temples as were used to build the Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt. The central temple of Angkor Wat symbolizes sacred mountain Meru is the center of the universe and the abode of the gods.
First of all, explain what is hidden behind the intriguing name "cyclopean wall"?
Cyclopean buildings are structures made of huge unhewn stone blocks of mortarless masonry of a horizontal plan. The ancient Greeks attributed them to the Cyclopes, hence the name. On the territory of mountainous Ingushetia, such buildings were found at the beginning of the 20th century in the region of the Assinskaya basin. They were studied by prominent scientists: Leonid Semenov, Evgeny Krupnov, but the dating results are ambiguous. The fact is that fragments of ceramics were found next to them, the age of which Vladimir Markovin dated to the Middle Bronze Age - the second millennium BC. I agree with this assessment, since not far away, in the village of Egikal, archaeologists have found crypts of the same time. They were built of processed stone and covered with megaliths. We know that if there are funerary monuments, then settlements of the same period must also be located in the same zone.
By the way, Ingush legends also indirectly indicate their dating, according to which these buildings were erected by giant vampals, who were popularly called "devs". Perhaps the legends about giants originated among the Ingush because of the size of these stones. People could not explain who lifted and turned such massive stone blocks.
But what were these buildings for?
Issues of war and peace have been relevant at all times, and the stone was the best protection. Dimensions stone structures could depend on the mythological component, cult, religious, their construction required collective efforts. But I can not give a definite answer - they are little studied. There is no mass material on these objects, although Professor Maksharip Muzhukhoev worked for several seasons at objects of this type. These structures are very interesting for science, and our center has been planning their study for several years, we are waiting for funding. Research will allow not only to date the monuments, but also to trace material culture population, understand the evolution of construction.
And you, as an archaeologist, admit the existence of giant people in the past?
I will not take the liberty of talking about giants in the form in which we imagine them from fairy tales. But there is a very interesting scientific fact. Recently, we, together with colleagues from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology. Miklouho-Maclay conducted anthropological research. In the crypts of the Bronze Age in the Assinsk Basin, which we spoke about above, they found burials of people who turned out to be much taller than those buried in the medieval ground crypts of the same zone and modern people. The difference in height averaged about 20 cm. Moreover, we measured not one skeleton, but several. Anthropologists were very surprised. I know of a case when a skeleton of a man 220 cm tall was found in a crypt of the Middle Bronze Age. Very large tibia bones were also found. Travelers of the 18th-19th centuries also reported on huge bones that were kept in the temple of Tkhaba-Yerdy and taken out during a drought, after which it rained. There is also a three-meter stone stele, which, according to legend, was put in its height by the ancestor of the Ingush teip of the Tumgoevs - Giy. And yet these are particulars. To talk about the growth of people of that era, we need, of course, more facts and research.
From huge boulders without a binder solution (cement, lime, etc.) can be seen in the most different countries peace. The ancient Greeks attributed the construction of these buildings to the legendary giants - the Cyclopes (Cyclops).
Some colossal massive structures (mainly of a defensive or cult nature) scientists attribute to the Neolithic era (3rd millennium BC), but most of them were built later - in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (late 2nd - early 1st millennium BC). n. e.).
The most impressive buildings in terms of their size are the defensive walls of Mycenae and Tiryns, Sardinian towers, religious buildings of the Balearic Islands and the island of Malta, ancient Mexican and Peruvian architecture. The ruins of cyclopean structures are found in Mesopotamia, India, Transcaucasia, Crimea, Tajikistan, and Siberia. Who and at what time built these colossal structures is not known for certain. It is noteworthy that some architectural elements of the buildings are clearly "not tall" for an ordinary person - these are too high steps of stairs, huge doorways and windows, gigantic stone benches, etc. Facade lifts of that time could have been used in the construction of ancient objects, but information about their use has not come down to us.
Tiryns is an ancient city in Argolis (Greece), the birthplace of the legendary Hercules. The first settlement on this site existed in the Neolithic era. According to the Argive myth, the fortress was built by the giants: “seven chryso-armed cyclops came from Lycia to the Tirynthian king Proyt and built him a stronghold of the city from huge stones.” At the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. e. Tiryns became the capital of the Achaean state. The city was surrounded by powerful stone walls, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad and later described by Pausanias (Description of Hellas). The thickness of the fortress walls fortified with towers in some places reached 10 and even 17 meters, inside them there were living quarters, pantries for weapons and food. From the fortress, an underground passage led to a source of water. Tiryns during the invasion of the Dorians, was burned. In the 1st millennium BC. e. Tiryns remained a small policy. Around 470 B.C. e. the city was finally destroyed by the Argives.
In the middle and late Bronze Age on the island of Sardinia, unknown "architects" erected towers of huge stones, called "nuraghes". They have an oval shape in plan, the inner chambers are covered with a false vault. These fortified structures vary in size, from one-room one-story buildings to 20-meter "skyscrapers" tapering upwards with additional turrets. Nuraghes were connected to each other by underground passages and were surrounded by stone walls. Under the ground were living quarters and warehouses for products and passages.
Usually nuraghes are found in areas where the production of copper products was carried out. According to Professor Giovanni Lililu, only giant people could build such structures from huge stones, which are about 3,600 years old.
The island of Malta was inhabited as early as the 5th millennium BC: a mysterious highly developed civilization left behind numerous monuments and structures made of huge stone blocks weighing up to 30 tons. The most famous of these is the Hypogeum temple at Hal Saflieni, built between 3200 and 2900 BC. e. During its excavations, archaeologists found the remains of 6 thousand people buried along with various ritual objects.
On the islands of Malta and Gozo, majestic megalithic temples have been preserved - the stone sanctuaries of Hal-Tarshyen, Hajnar-Kim, Mnajdra, Mjarr, Jgantiya. Ggantia (translated from Maltese - "tower of the giantess") is the oldest of them. According to legends, this building was erected by a woman of gigantic growth, capable of lifting and placing huge blocks. During excavations of the temple, archaeologists found an unusual stone figurine depicting a woman with magnificent forms reclining on a bed. Perhaps this is the builder of cyclopean structures.
Quite a lot of figurines of the "fat goddess" were found. According to one of the legends, the island of Malta was a kind of sacred place where the giantess goddess Sansuna (Saracen) lived. It is believed that she carried huge blocks of stone from the cliffs of Ta-Chench on her head when she built her temple of Ggantiyu. In her right hand, Sansuna held a stone slab, and in her left she carried her baby - the great-grandfather of the current Gozitans, that is, ordinary people.
There is another attraction in Malta. From a bird's eye view, you can see hundreds of mysterious furrows that, like rails, cross the island in different directions. The width of the furrows is from 63 to 123 centimeters, the depth is more than 70 centimeters. These footprints on the rocks cross high hills and continue along the bottom of the sea. Many of them are parallel to each other and sometimes merge into one track. What the network of these lines was intended for is unknown. It is noteworthy that on Easter Island, researchers found the same grooves in the ground, extending into the depths of the ocean. Perhaps these giant drawings are similar to the geoglyphs of the Nazca desert in South America, which cannot be seen - they were flooded with water when the level of the oceans rose.
Megalithic structures also existed in Russia. Of particular interest is the Devil's settlement, located near Kozelsk in the Kaluga region. Hieromonk Leonid in the book “History of the Church within the current Kaluga Region” gives a description of this place: “Not far from ancient Rzhavets in the wilderness of the forest ... there is a wonderful place - these are the ruins of some historical building, on which stones of huge apparently from afar, because there are no stone fragments near. The building was brought to a large space and lined up to half the windows; around at a considerable distance lie the same large stones, and some of them are scattered in one direction, on the way to the building from the field. The antiquity of this building is evidenced by centuries-old trees growing inside it, and walls long overgrown with moss. People's imagination inhabits this mysterious place with spirits, calling it "Devil's Settlement".
At the end of the 19th century, a correspondent for Kaluga Governorate News visited Chertovo Gorodishche and also saw a cyclopean structure made of giant stones on a hill: “The road went at first through an ordinary dense forest, then a valley with a moat below opened before us, and after that a steep climb to a high mountain …. On the way to the mountain, we began to come across stones of unusual size. Climbing, or rather climbing higher up the mountain, on its cliff we saw a large stone wall, overgrown with moss on the sides and trees at the top. At first glance, it is clear that this building has existed since time immemorial, and now there is a semblance of some kind of house. The wall is made of huge stones. On the right side of this wall appears something like a porch. Under the very house, or rather, the wall, there is a cave with two exits, of which one? according to legend, it goes to the Good Monastery, near the city of Likhvin. The very place where this building is located is in the wilderness, far from habitation, except for forest gatehouses. When examining the “fortified settlement”, one involuntarily takes thought and bewilderment, how it was possible to build a wall of stones, from which a thousand people, it seems, are not able to lift each, they are so striking in their incredible size. The same stones are scattered in disorder near the wall itself ... ".
Andrey Perepelitsyn and his colleagues have been studying the ruins of this ancient structure for many years. According to eyewitnesses interviewed by researchers, just half a century ago, huge stones “the size of a house” and a gallery of the same stones stood on the hill of Gorodishche. The ruins were hidden by artificial underground corridors that formed a vast labyrinth under the hill. This building is now completely destroyed. At the top of the hill, blocks of sandstone are randomly scattered, an earthen rampart has been preserved, and there are only shallow grottoes in the rocky cliffs. According to the testimony local residents, after the war, explosive work was carried out in Gorodishche, but the local administration does not confirm these data. Who so barbarously destroyed ancient building and why is unknown. Probably, the walls or underground corridors of the Devil's Settlement kept some kind of secret, shedding light on the events of our ancient past, which do not correspond to modern history books.
Another mystery of ancient history - the grandiose pyramids
Pyramids and pyramidal structures in the distant past were built in many regions of the planet: Africa (on the territory of the former state of Meroe), the Black Sea region (mounds of Ukraine and Crimea, which previously had the shape of pyramids), England (Salisbury Hill), Canary Islands (Guanche pyramid) , China (earth pyramidal structures up to 300 meters high, located north of the city of Xi'an), Malaysia and the Pacific Islands. Most of the pyramids are located in South America (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru), currently there are more than 200 of them.
In Russia, stone pyramidal structures have been found in Altai, the Far East and the Caucasus. Archaeologists have discovered in the Charysh region of Altai step-shaped burial structures lined with stone. Built in the 5th century BC. e., in their structure they resemble the pyramids of the Yucatan Peninsula and Peru. Special passages and manholes provided the priests with access to the interior of the pyramids.
Angkor Wat is the common name for the majestic temples, palaces, reservoirs in Cambodia, located near the border with Siam on the shores of Lake Talesabe and covering an area of about 260 square kilometers. The largest of them are Angkor Wat, Nakhon Wat and Angkor Thom. Many temples that have survived to our time were erected on more ancient foundations and exactly repeat the previous buildings. The existence of this grandiose complex of 200 buildings was first told to the world in 1601 by the Spanish missionary Marcelo Ribandeiro, who, wandering in the jungle, stumbled upon ancient ruins. The discovery of Ribandeiro was not believed then, since Khmer traditions did not allow the construction of stone buildings.
Ancient buildings testify that a highly developed civilization previously existed here. According to Khmer legend, the god Indra entrusted the construction of palaces to the divine architect Preah Pushnuk, "whose strength and learning were endless." It is estimated that as many stones were used to build the temples as were used to build the Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt. The central temple of Angkor Wat symbolizes the sacred Mount Meru - "the center of the universe and the abode of the gods."
In the northeast of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, there is a whole complex of gigantic buildings - Mycenae. According to Greek myths, this ancient city was built by Perseus, and the fortifications in it were erected by the Cyclopes (Cyclops). Mycenae was almost completely destroyed by King Argos in 468 BC. e., but a few inhabitants lived here throughout the Hellenistic period. In the 2nd century A.D. e. the last inhabitants left the city forever.
During the excavation of ancient ruins, a palace, fortress walls and many shaft tombs (tholos) were discovered. The most impressive tholos, also called the tomb of King Atreus (XIII century BC), is made of stone blocks of incredible size: the largest of the two ceiling beams measures 3 × 8.5 × 12 m and weighs about 120 tons. The palace and fortress walls were built later. They are made of colossal boulders, roughly hewn, but perfectly fitted to each other. The underground masonry of the domed tombs is unique and is not found anywhere else. Main entrance on the acropolis - the famous " lion gate"- crowns a monolithic pediment depicting two lions leaning on a double altar. Lions, whose heads have not been preserved, guard the column - a symbol of the palace of the Mycenaean rulers. According to experts, this is one of the oldest architectural structures that have survived to this day.
The excavations at Mycenae were started by the famous amateur archaeologist G. Schliemann, a German businessman who made a fortune supplying food for the Russian army during the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Having no special education and based only on the descriptions of Homer and Pausanias, in 1874-1876 he discovered the ruins of Homeric Troy on the coast of Asia Minor, and two years later excavated at Mycenae. He discovered five royal burials with the remains of nineteen dead, numerous objects made of gold and silver (vases, various decorations, funeral masks, etc.). G. Schliemann himself wrote later: "All the museums of the world, taken together, do not possess even one fifth of these riches."
The archaeologist Evans, who excavated at Mycenae, was convinced that he had discovered the legendary labyrinth of King Minos, who built Daedalus: “There can no longer be any doubt that the huge structure that we call the palace of Minos is identical with the legendary labyrinth. Its horizontal plan, with long halls and blind corridors, with empty passages and a complex system of small rooms, is indeed chaotic.”
In the Bekaa Valley (Lebanon), at the foot of the Anti-Lebanon Range, northeast of Beirut, there are grandiose terraces consisting of huge stone blocks. On the western side of the complex, there is a section about 19 meters long, made of especially large boulders. Their height reaches 4 meters, and the thickness - 3 meters. Three stone blocks (the so-called Trilithons) have an unusual large sizes, the weight of each of them is about 1000 tons. Michel Aluf, the former guardian of Baalbek, wrote: “... despite their grandiose size, they (the Trilithon stones) are so neatly stacked and so precisely connected to each other that it is almost impossible to stick even a needle between them. No description can give any accurate idea of the amazing impression that the sight of these giant blocks makes on the observer.
During the heyday of the Roman Empire, three temples dedicated to Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus were built on the Baalbek terrace. They look like toys compared to the huge foundation stones. At 800 meters from the terrace on the slope of the quarry, you can see the "South Stone" - an incompletely cut giant block measuring 23 × 5.3 × 4.55 m and weighing about 1500 tons.
The Lebanese patriarch of the Maronites wrote: "The stronghold of Mount Lebanon is the most ancient building in the world." In his opinion, it was built by Cain, the son of Adam, who in 133 from the Creation of the world during his "violent insanity" lived in this area along with the giants. They were punished by a flood for their iniquity and perished.
D. Arviks, who traveled in these parts in the 17th century, wrote in his “Notes” referring to ancient manuscripts: “After the flood, when Nimrod ruled Lebanon, he sent giants to rebuild the Baalbek fortress, named after Bal, the god of the Moabites who worship God Sun."
The legendary Tower of Babel, according to some documents, was built by giants and ordinary people. in ruins ancient tower stone slabs were found, now stored in the British Museum. They are badly damaged, but the cuneiform writing on them has been preserved so much that the general meaning of what was written down can be understood. The text says that Babylon was inclined to sin, big and small people began to build some kind of stronghold in order to penetrate the dwelling of the gods, but the Gods, in their anger, decided to instill fear in them, made their language strange and thus made it difficult for the further success of the work ( Records of the Past, VII, 131 and 132). In ancient Sumerian texts big people were called giants.
Babylonian priest Beross in the III century BC. e. wrote: "... the first people of this earth, glorious in their strength, began to build a tower, the top of which should reach heaven." But the gods, angry, destroyed the tower strong winds and introduced "a difference in languages between people ... who up to that time all spoke the same language."
The Bible tells of the post-Flood people building a tower in Babylon, which, according to the builders, was supposed to reach the sky:
“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built.
And the Lord said, Behold, there is one people, and all have one language;
And this is what they began to do, and they will not be left behind from what they planned to do.
Let us go down and confuse their language there, so that one does not understand the speech of the other.
And the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth; and they stopped building the city” (Genesis XI, 1-8).
According to later Jewish traditions, King Nimrod began to build the tower. Having founded a strong state, he was proud of his successes and planned to found a world empire, contrary to the will of God, which determined the descendants of Ham (to whom Nimrod belonged) to be slaves of others. To this end, as a sign of their power and as the center of world power, the Hamites decided to build a tower as high as heaven. Thus, this enterprise was not only insane and impracticable, but also contrary to the divine plan. Therefore, when work began to boil, bricks were fired, and earthen tar was prepared, the Lord decided to punish the builders. He confused their language so that they no longer understood each other and could not continue building.
The reliability of ancient legends and biblical texts is confirmed by archeological excavations. Around ancient Babylon ruins of several huge structures were discovered. To the north of the city are the ruins of a tower called local population Babil, and to the south-west of it, on the right bank of the Euphrates, is the tower of Birs-Nimrud, that is, the tower of Nimrod. The ruins of these structures are grandiose, an incredible amount of time and millions of bricks were spent on their construction. Rawlinson, who was the first to excavate the ruins, estimated that such a building would require at least 35 million bricks of the big size. The tower of Nimrod is especially majestic, and since Arabic name it directly corresponds to the Jewish references to Nimrod, then most researchers are inclined to identify these ruins with the Tower of Babel.
During the excavations, an inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar was discovered, which says that he, having found the ruins of the tower of seven luminaries in Borsippa (a suburb of Babylon), decided to rebuild it, but he did not succeed. Tried to recover tower of babel and Alexander the Great. For two months, 10,000 people were engaged only in the removal of debris that had accumulated around it over the past centuries. Convinced that the attempt to repeat the feat of the ancient builders was futile, Alexander ordered to stop and burned the plan of the tower so that no one else would try to recreate it.
The fortress of Sacsayhuaman, the ruins of which have survived to our time in the Peruvian mountains near the city of Cusco, is one of the most mysterious buildings South America. grand building located on steep mountain, it is protected by three zigzag walls rising one above the other. The thickness of each of them is about 3 meters, the height is 6.5 meters; the total length of the walls is 3 kilometers. The walls are made of huge stones of irregular shape, tightly fitted to each other. Some of them are 3 × 8 m in size, the weight of one such boulder reaches 350 tons. It took at least 300,000 stone blocks to build the fortress. The height of the stone doors in the walls is more than 3 meters. Inside the fortress, channels, passages, tunnels and strange niches are cut in the rock. During the excavations, a perfect circle made of stones was discovered, which, according to scientists, served as an astronomical calendar or a reservoir for water.
The Spaniard Garcilas de la Vega wrote with admiration about this fortress: “The first wall demonstrated the power of the power of the Incas, and although the other two are no less than the first, the first one impresses with the size of the stone blocks of which it consists; it is hard to believe that anything can be built from such stones, they inspire horror to those who examine them carefully. According to the historian, the Spaniards were convinced that this structure was built not by people, but by demons. According to local legends, the fortress was built by giants in ancient times.
Huge cyclopean structures, erected in various regions of our planet, may indeed have been built by giants or gods, and not ordinary people. This is stated in the legends and myths of the ancient peoples. Other information about who built these colossal buildings, in historical documents No.
