pyramid larger than the great pyramid found?! (south american archaeology content)

TOMMYTHUNDERS · 11-03-2009, 09:35 AM

awesome stuff!
Mayan City of Mirador May Be Home to World's Largest Pyramid

Kate033 · 11-03-2009, 09:39 AM

I was reading about this a little while back. Good stuff!

Sometimes I think it's amazing that in this day and age we are still discovering new stuff -archeology wise. How'd we miss an enourmous Mayan city (even through the jungle) for so long?

TOMMYTHUNDERS · 11-03-2009, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Kate033

I was reading about this a little while back. Good stuff!

Sometimes I think it's amazing that in this day and age we are still discovering new stuff -archeology wise. How'd we miss an enourmous Mayan city (even through the jungle) for so long?

i know. it fascinates me to no end that there is still more to discover and learn.
who knows what lies beneath dense jungle?

JM Vasek · 11-03-2009, 09:54 AM

Hundreds more to be discovered? I sure hope they can get to them by 2012...

zeppelin101 · 11-03-2009, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by JM Vasek

Hundreds more to be discovered? I sure hope they can get to them by 2012...

geochem1st · 11-03-2009, 10:13 AM

"El Mirador covered an area larger than downtown Los Angeles"

Wow.

LazyDays · 11-03-2009, 10:42 AM

Thanks for posting that Tommy. I love stuff like that. Can you imagine being the one to see that for the first time? And then to keep finding more and more?

TOMMYTHUNDERS · 11-03-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by LazyDays

Thanks for posting that Tommy. I love stuff like that. Can you imagine being the one to see that for the first time? And then to keep finding more and more?

i know! it's truly amazing. how much fun would it be to go to that site and just poke around and uncover things that haven't been seen for centuries?

brianugly · 11-03-2009, 10:51 AM

Finding things like this these days is amazing! And we thought we had discovered everything on the earth

I can't wait to find that crazy pyramid in Antarctica where Predators fight aliens...jk

snaredrum · 11-03-2009, 11:19 AM

awesome. wonder if they'll find Aliens and Predators fighting to the death inside?

River · 11-03-2009, 11:30 AM

I feel that on some levels ancient engineering was superior to modern engineering. And I don't think we've figured out the half of what they were able to accomplish.

TOMMYTHUNDERS · 11-03-2009, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by River

I feel that on some levels ancient engineering was superior to modern engineering. And I don't think we've figured out the half of what they were able to accomplish.

Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

River · 11-03-2009, 11:39 AM

SKATTERBRANE · 11-03-2009, 11:45 AM

In Boliva there are ruins built well before the Egyptian pyramids. The structures are made of a rock that only diamonds are harder than. They are cut with laser precision, and have channels and grooves laser straight an accurate some only a few centimeters deep, and completely uniformly deep. They all fit together perfectly without mortar. How did man get such technology thousands of years ago?

Donal · 11-03-2009, 11:47 AM

Amazing that even today we discover new things on the earth despite Satellites with all types of cameras and lenses.

Maybe we know more about the moon or mars than our own planet (not to mention the whole underwater would that we know practically nothing about).

thanks for posting
cheers
Don

geochem1st · 11-03-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by SKATTERBRANE

In Boliva there are ruins built well before the Egyptian pyramids. The structures are made of a rock that only diamonds are harder than. They are cut with laser precision, and have channels and grooves laser straight an accurate some only a few centimeters deep, and completely uniformly deep. They all fit together perfectly without mortar. How did man get such technology thousands of years ago?

Post a link to this. I never heard of these ruins.

TOMMYTHUNDERS · 11-03-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by geochem1st

Post a link to this. I never heard of these ruins.

+1, color me intrigued

SKATTERBRANE · 11-03-2009, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by geochem1st

Post a link to this. I never heard of these ruins.

I saw it on Discovery Channel a couple of weeks ago. I have no link. The program was about the idea that aliens helped man to accomplish some of the ancient wonders. They said that this site goes unnoticed and laymen, and the general public are not interested in it because it is not a spectical, but historians and such consider it much more significant than the pyramids or another other structure, technology-wise.

And I have forgotten the name of the site, unfortunately. But, I am sure that SOMEONE here can find it on the internet somehow?

Kate033 · 11-03-2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SKATTERBRANE

I saw it on Discovery Channel a couple of weeks ago. I have no link. The program was about the idea that aliens helped man to accomplish some of the ancient wonders. They said that this site goes unnoticed and laymen, and the general public are not interested in it because it is not a spectical, but historians and such consider it much more significant than the pyramids or another other structure, technology-wise.

And I have forgotten the name of the site, unfortunately. But, I am sure that SOMEONE here can find it on the internet somehow?

Was in Puma Punku? Kind of like a South American Stonehenge, but I daresay more impressive.

River · 11-03-2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SKATTERBRANE

<snip>How did man get such technology thousands of years ago?

For me the question is "how did man forget such technology we obviously had?". Arrogance of conquering and later societies and "ain't shit if we didn't think of it" attitudes are my best guesses.

Cookie-boy · 11-03-2009, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Kate033

Was in Puma Punku? Kind of like a South American Stonehenge, but I daresay more impressive.

MORE impressive????? Than Stonehenge????????

Bugger!

Kate033 · 11-03-2009, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cookie-boy

MORE impressive????? Than Stonehenge????????

Bugger!

Yes!

Sorry Brits!!!

The technical skill and precision of these stones is far more advanced than Stonehenge.

But you guys get the prize for most popular circle of rocks of all time!

LongBeach · 11-03-2009, 12:18 PM

The "Aliens" built them all.
The earth people just sat around and scratched their heads.

Thanks for the link, I love that stuff!

geochem1st · 11-03-2009, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TOMMYTHUNDERS

Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look at the projects homepage.

The designers of the device actually included an instruction manual that was inscribed on the faces.

Project Overview | The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

KSG_Standard · 11-03-2009, 12:43 PM

Angkor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2007 an international team of researchers using satellite photographs and other modern techniques concluded that Angkor had been the largest preindustrial city in the world with an urban sprawl of 3000 square kilometres. The closest rival to Angkor, the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, was between 100 and 150 square kilometres in total size.[2] Angkor could have supported a population of up to one million people.[3]

The one ancient thing that really blows my mind and that I can't figure out are the Nazca Lines...
Nazca Lines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hamtone · 11-03-2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TOMMYTHUNDERS

i know. it fascinates me to no end that there is still more to discover and learn.
who knows what lies beneath dense jungle?

We had better hack it all down to make sure we dont miss anything

I agree it is mind boggling what this world still holds for secrets.

SKATTERBRANE · 11-03-2009, 12:52 PM

I think it is humans from the future messing with his ancestors heads! They intended to only go back to 1959 to buy a new Burst, but accidently went back a few thousand years and made the best of it.....fucking with the primatives, building neat stuff, etc.

SKATTERBRANE · 11-03-2009, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Kate033

Was in Puma Punku? Kind of like a South American Stonehenge, but I daresay more impressive.

Yes, after just now seeing it on Google searches, that is it.

SKATTERBRANE · 11-03-2009, 12:57 PM

Remember if time travel is EVER possible, it was ALWAYS possible. (Get it?)

River · 11-03-2009, 01:06 PM

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Remember if time travel is EVER possible, it was ALWAYS possible. (Get it?)

I personally don't think the present is as "special" as those of us living in it like to think it is. I think that perception is just the human ego at work. Similar to our "just now" figuring out that many animals have thoughts, feelings, and capabilities we "never" knew they had. Sure we knew. We chose to deny, ignore, and forget. I think it's pretty safe to assume that some dinosaurs built nests that were engineering marvels too.

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Kate033 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 914 Thanks: 23 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: pyramid larger than the great pyramid found?! (south american archaeology content I was reading about this a little while back. Good stuff! Sometimes I think it's amazing that in this day and age we are still discovering new stuff -archeology wise. How'd we miss an enourmous Mayan city (even through the jungle) for so long?

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LongBeach Premium Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Long Beach Ca. Posts: 7,061 Thanks: 7 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: pyramid larger than the great pyramid found?! (south american archaeology content The "Aliens" built them all. The earth people just sat around and scratched their heads. Thanks for the link, I love that stuff!

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