Mysteries of the Ancients

[Argonavis]

Do you know how, when you see books in the shops titled "mysteries of the ancients" or "secrets of the aztecs" and wonder - if it is so secret, how come you know it? Well I think this bloke has genuinely solved one mystery, and it doesn't look like he will be made rich from royalties from the gullible:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0


I remember a similar claim for the building of the pyramids some time ago, but can't recollect the details.

And your point is, argonavis?

well the ancients were just as clever as we are, but they didn't posess any special knowledge. Since the Enlightenment, our knowledge of the world around us surpasses by many orders of magnitude the knowledge of the ancients.

I often thought that the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria and the sacking of that Monastry/Catherdral thingy in the UK by the Vikings around 1000AD was a great tragedy, but I suspect that much of the knowledge thereby lost was mostly superstition and belief, like the dead end of alchemy and astrology, rather than science and knowledge.

[Alchemy]

RE Great pyramid.... built on the longest land latitude AND longest land surface longditude (need an accurate world map to determine).....reflective sides gave accurate winter solstice summer solstice ,equinoxes etc.....if the height of the pyramid to its apex be taken as the radius of a circle, the distance around the pyramid is found to be exactly equal to the circumference of that circle (a knowledge of Pi and more complex mathmatics, ...so much for pythagorus)........the square base circuit of the pyramid equals 36524235 inches, the ante chamber length multiplied by Pi equals 365.2423 inches,the distance from the Ante chamber to thr south wall of the kings chamber is 365.24235 inches ( anyone know how long a solar year is). the form arrangement and detail of the pyramis exterior, interior passages and chambers implies a knowledge of mathmatics geometry and astronomy ..... i could go on


oh and my demise hmmmm. alchemy is the transforming of one substance to another ..... it happens in supernovas...

[citivolus]

Wow, the ancient Egyptians used imperial measure?

[citivolus]

Impressive stuff.

[Alchemy]

yes they did ( we adopted it and called it our own) history gave many of the old measurements to us.
you would be suprised at the antiquity of some if you look hard enough.

[netwolf]

Necessity is the mother of invention. Why is it assumed that our knowledge of today is a magnitude higher, perhaps thats just our ego.

I really really enjoyed watching this video. Simple machines 101.

[OneOfOne]

and on a daily basis in stars like our Sun.

[OneOfOne]

I was actually in Central America a few years ago and visited a number of the locations cited in "Chariots of the Gods" and actually saw many of the objects discussed in the book. I must say the local guides did not have much respect for any of the claims made in the book. My impression when I left was that the original builders of these structures where pretty clever people. To belittle their achievements by saying they are impossible without the benefit of modern technology is abhorrent.

I have always thought that if an ancient civilization could traverse the galaxy, why would they need pictures on the ground to show them which way is north? If they needed to build something to launch rockets to get home, why didn't they need something similar to land? Why would they build all these high tech buildings out of only rocks? Surely someone would have accidently left a bit of technology behind at some time, but they haven't found any 4 thousand year old computers.