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Stone Riddles
Приєднався 8 вер 2023
There are loads of videos and documentaries about Egyptian, Peruvian, Cambodian and other famous archaeological sites. But in and around Italy there are thousands of minor sites neglected and unknown to most people. On this channel you will find in-depth reviews of some of these sites to show how they could help better understand the global history of our past.
Polygonal walls EVERYWHERE!! In Delphi
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The towers of Lilaia
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The walls at the acropolis of Proerna
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The ancient oracle of Dodona
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The enigmatic Necromanteion
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The polygonal city of Cassope
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Unique polygonal vaulted arch at Oiniades
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Massive walls and unusual constructions at New Pleuron
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Mixture of architectural styles at the city of Messene
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Colossal walls at Messene
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Polygonal masonry, megalithism and precision stone cuts at Epidaurus
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The Treasury of Tyrins
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The Mysterious ruins of Ogas
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The Acropolis of Methana
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Little known polygonal walls at Kazarma
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Beautiful polygonal walls at Agios Adrianos
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Beautiful polygonal walls at Agios Adrianos
The Gigantic Treasuries of Mycenae
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The Gigantic Treasuries of Mycenae
The polygonal pyramid of Hellinikon
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The polygonal pyramid of Hellinikon
Presentation of our trip to Greece in the search of megalithic and polygonal sites
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Presentation of our trip to Greece in the search of megalithic and polygonal sites
The amazing aspect of these stones (2:32 for example) is how FLAT they are with their perfect 90° degree angles. I can't believe these were hand carved with a chisel for example. They look like they were cut with some type of saw(perhaps some type of wire saw).
Very very nice. what the heck were they doing there?
Non so se siete già stati, ma ci sarebbe anche il sito di Pietrabbondante, in Molise. E' considerato sannitico preromano ma l'anfiteatro in realtà è costituito interamente da pareti poligonali...
Delphi is where Alexander the Great went before he conquered the world. The Oracle advised him, he left from Delphi and conquered the world. Failing to incorporate that in some way into your video was a lost opportunity. Very disappointing to me for I was looking forward to this video.
Were the inscriptions ledgable, could you read them?
Thank you For producing and sharing this extraordinary footage!! Are there any translations of the writing at 7:47? Great Video!
impressive, much appreciated.
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Different techniques used by different craftsmen at different times.
04:50 - NUBS !, Love Nubs. Can't get enough of them . . . More Please . . .
7:22 They look like skin cells under a microscope. Which Greek burned enemy ships at sea before they could reach land? They must have had polished lenses to focus the sun. Polygonal-type walls representative of epidermis, maybe? They say there is a fault line under here that releases hallucinogenic gasses that the Oracle breathed to make predictions. Moonie laughs and wonders if that's where the term joint comes from...as in masonry joint and doobie.😂
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If you were bought up a,a Greek, i guess you would of asumed all theses Polygonal walls were Greek, right? Yet this,Worldwide Megolithic Society is dominatly superior in design, quality, & high tech, with their Structures that no Greek ever understood.
Excellent video. So sad about the ropes and restrictions. These should only be for children and tourist groups that are not there to really admire and study it. What they have done is prevented any further study in these places.
Wow that complex is huge! Awesomely preserved history ExtraordinarY ruins Straight Up the side of the mountain so much work! Awesome thanks for the tour bro!
The most famous polygonal Greek work,and most similar to Peruvian master work's.the drainage was a bonus,the broken stone looks like it held a giant bronze,the hole's surgest the stance of a figure
Yes, drainage polygonal stones! Another Megolithic Classic high tech first.
I went to Sacsayhuaman (Cusco, Peru) today and the resemblance is uncanny. Makes me wonder the transfer of technology, even the nubs and drainage are very similar.
MAGNIFICO! I felt I was there! 3000 years ago. Thank you
WHAT AN ELEGANT CITY. thank you so very much, Humor I s perfect. people cant imagine how working, cutting, and moving rock is H ard, and you have rock dust everywhere...the Masons creed. STANLEY park 3rd Beach, BC rock artist Billy Brown
Watching your videos from the comfort of my house, I can see that some parts of the wall were the original construction. Some parts were repaired at different times with recycled stones from the original walls. That is why you saw many sections with different variations of the same style.
Could You please start to focus upon the displaced joining faces of the stones, this will reveal how they TAMPED the softened edges to create the flat surface foe the next stone to fit to, it is not all the way across the faces.
Perplexing site , lovely vocals .
Id be looking for the tunnel under the towers, either linking them or an escape route. There's gotta be one. LoL
magnificent, I absolutely love your videos showing me things I didn't know existed
Thank you, more to come!
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Lilaia means water in propably the language of these people,,
HYpogeic=basement. A romanised word of Greek origin υπο-γειο(γαια=ground= earth.
Thank you for all of these wonderfully informative videos.
Not lions zoom look at legs carefully
Hello at 2+38 left next to the window zoom slowly and we have image have seen in most almost every stone tattooed bronze statue of king Leonidas tattooed from top. To toes as in cemeteries green statues all tattooed a good one in Brussels Hello again
Yiassou at 2+40 where you standing if you zoom at that black corner slab you can clearly see an image have seen megalithic walls carefully all stones are tattooed wherever is black yellow or whatever zoom slowly and there it is thank you
Thanks
It has nothing to do with primitive people or more advanced people. It is far more logical that with the parts that were rebuild on top of the larger stones much less people were involved. In order to build with large stones you need an entire infrastructure, or a system if you will, with a lot of specialized people who are all involved in the same task. You need people who are specialized in quarrying, you need people who are specialized in transporting, you need people who are specialized in carving, you need people who are specialized in lifting, and so on. To make a long story short, that requires a lot of specialized people. When you build with much smaller stones you do not need that many specialized people or a large infrastructure to be able to build a relative large structure in a relative short amount of time with relative low costs. It is that simple.
Thank you for your comment. What you say is correct. But isn't your description exactly an important part of what we usually associate with "civilized" or "advanced" people? A complex society, with specialization of labour, where masons, miners, transporters, architects, engineers, etc., besides having an educational infrastructure in which they were taught their work (another indicator of civilized or advanced society) could afford to do "non-essential" work (work which doesn't directly provide food or basic necessities) to work on such a project, while others provided the basic necessities for them.
@@StoneRiddles No, it is not. The people in medieval times were far more advanced and they had far more advanced technology. They just used their resources and people for other things. And it seems to me that it is an advancement when you can built large structures with less effort and less people and less resources. That's called progress. That is the reason why we use small bricks today. A single man can build an entire house because small bricks are easy to handle. And the production of bricks has become so advanced that a relative small amount of people can provide a huge number of people with the bricks. And because of that other people can design computers and grow crops and make art, or do scientific research, and so on. Not only is your type of reasoning illogical, but there is also no archeological evidence for your type of reasoning. In fact the archeological evidence shows exactly the opposite of your reasoning. Look for example at the type of weaponry, the tools, the type of transportation, the art, the writing, and so on. It was all far more advanced in medieval times compared to the stone age.
@@StoneRiddles Another example. An army from 2000BC would not stand any chance against an army from the Romans. Why? Because the Romans were far more advanced, and they had far superior weapons and strategies and means of transportation, and so on. The Romans were building roads, bridges, they changed the course from rivers so that they were easier to navigate. All according to a fixed standard that the Romans developed and designed. You do not see that in the archeological evidence from the civilizations in stone age or the bronze age at such an enormous scale.
Well, a little politeness is the basics of any discussion, we are not at war here, but are trying to commonly understand the past better. So, first, we're not talking here about a stone age artifact. According to official explanations, it is later than that. The people who allegedly made these walls knew how to use clay (there's a lot of pottery), so the fact they used stone was a choice. The issue here is why would they go into such a big job when they could use other materials which, as you correctly state, would have made the construction much easier. I can hardly see the point in saying that they were organized and knowledgeable enough to build a stone wall, with nice joints, but not enough to build a brick wall. Then, if we broaden our area of interest, there's the issue of moving huge blocks (in the order of hundreds of thousands of tons) as can be seen in other areas (Lebanon, Egypt, Peru). Some of these works would challenge our own technological capabilities. So, your reasoning, if I get it correct, is: the older people built with massive blocks of stone because they were primitive and hadn't invented bricks yet, which would have made things easier. So, they were advanced enough to have architects and engineers and quarry, carve, move and position with high levels of precision hundreds of thousands of tons of stone, but, despite having pottery, they didn't think once that they could have made the walls with small bricks, making the job a lot easier. That sounds counterintuitive to me. But of course you're free to have and express your opinion. I just ask you to do it politely here. Thanks
@@StoneRiddles There can be all sorts of reasons or a combination of reasons why the older civilizations chose for large stones instead of smaller stones or bricks. Large stones are heavier and larger, and perhaps better resistant against earthquakes than the inferior clay mortar that was used during the ancient times to lay bricks. They could use slaves to do all the hard work with the large stones, and it didn't matter if many workers would lose their life. Using large stones can be a way to showoff their power. They might not have had access to enough clay rich areas and everything else that was needed to produce bricks at such a large scale, because wars happened often if not most of the time very locally with rivaling neighbors. But it can also be that producing bricks and resourcing the clay and the wood to fire the bricks was simply not faster than producing large stones, and that the production methods for producing bricks at such a large scale was not yet advanced enough to be able to compete with quarrying large stones. Perhaps the it was just a simpler process to quarry and carve and to built with large stones, and the skills for that were passed on from generation to generation. Building with smaller stones is cheaper, easier, safer, and faster. And it doesn't necessarily require slaves or a vast amount of workers. And today it would cost a lot more to built with large stones than it is to built with smaller bricks because the production of bricks at a giant scale has become very efficient. And the bricks are made much better, and today the mortar is also much better and stronger and easy to produce at a huge scale. The average ancient people were very skilled in producing a bow and arrow and using a bow and arrow compared to the people in our modern time, because that was the most advanced and most commonly used technology for hunting and warfare in those days. Today that technology has become irrelevant, so there is no need for people to have that sort of knowledge and skill set. Yet today our technology is far more advanced than the technology from the ancient people.
They must have had a need for these defensive structures as I'm sure they were not built for aesthetics ! 🤙
Wow. OLD school. Dressed stone. Same pattern. Same SCHOOL. Very hard work. Very very good work. Very good work, thank you. (I worked with a master mason and I was a rock artist in stanley Park vancouver,BC)
Thank you! If I may ask, what is your expert opinion on the effort necessary to do kilometers of walls with this type of sizes and masonry?
Cool ! Looks like such a nice trip to do :)
Those joints are from the forming not hand carved and set giggles
They did not drag and carve each block giggles. You need to look past this notion.
The stones were formed not carved and set. What your seeing is the effect of time. These all were formed similar to how we do concrete
🤣Nonsense, you can even see the chisel marks on the stones.
Soften stone tech. As everywhere in ancient world.
If that's half or even a quarter of what it looked like 700 years ago, that tower was huge thousands of years ago.
Lilaia was in the catalogue of ships at the Trojan war.
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It's amazing how much effort they put into these buildings. So sad it's now all in ruins.
I am so baffled by polygonal masonry...I think it would be thousands of times harder to build a wall like that than it would be to cut stones into cubes/blocks to build a wall. It's so difficult, it just doesn't seem like people would EVER do it ...but there it is for all to see!!
It's still quite skilled masonry for an unknown site . I find these obscure sites more fascinating.
They copied the method of building roadways by using as much of each block of stone available..If you took a roman road and stood it on its side you would see the Polygonal pattern..They applied this same technique to the walls as a means of using as much of the given material as possible and reducing waste.They may have built sections spread out on the ground and then reassembled them as wall sections..
Interesting idea, but this assumes that all blocks are perfectly polygonal also in their depth, otherwise you couldn't verify if it really fits as nicely as it does in these sites. This is how we'd do it today ua-cam.com/video/nSs_qrM_5No/v-deo.html . Not a viable way of doing it on top of a steep hill, with 200-2000 kg blocks and no machinery whatsoever
There are many forms of polygonal masonry. Some are easy to understand, but some are completely beyond understanding. Without separating out the inexplicable ones from the understood ones this is not helpful, and only makes the confusion worse.
Thank you for your comment. Please elaborate on your idea of "inexplicable" and "understood" types of polygonal walls.
The room inside a room could be a valt for valuables, a jail, or an armory