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Caral is one of the oldest centers in the ancient Americas.
Bandurria may be older. Radiocarbon dating pushes activity back to 3200 BC.
Does that change your story?
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Göbekli Tepe is older than writing by at least 6,000 years.
Carved with foxes, vultures, scorpions and snakes. No writing to tell us what it means.
What do you see in the vulture stone?
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The remains of two colossal stone statues once standing approximately 18 meters tall can be found at Biahmu in Egypt’s Fayum region.
Believed to have been erected by Pharaoh Amenemhat III of the 12th Dynasty, these monuments were described by ancient Greek historians as towering above the waters of Lake Moeris. Today, only their massive stone foundations and fragments remain.
Egypt's lost labyrinth is being excavated at Hawara.
"This is the first time we are seeing it since it was buried."
What do you hope they find?
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The Intihuatana at Machu Picchu is tilted about 13 degrees.
On the equinox it casts almost no shadow.
A calendar in stone or a coincidence? I lean calendar.
Which way do you lean?
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A plague emptied Akhenaten's capital. That was the story.
In 2025, a team examined 11,000 to 13,000 burials. No mass graves. No spike in deaths.
Ancient covid or a slow move-out?
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Everyone flies to Egypt and Turkey for the ancient world.
Aspero in Peru is about 5,000 years old, and it runs out to the antenna, still unexcavated.
Would you have guessed?
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The fake mysteries of Egypt are the loudest.
One post about a "second Sphinx" under Giza pulled 10 million views. Newsweek rated it false.
Which fake mystery fooled you?
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Anyextee retweeted
Hi thanks for a great, interesting question. To set obelisks on their pedestals, the Egyptians lowered them down through a sand filled mud brick "funnel" like draining sand from an hourglass.
When it got to the bottom, one side of the obelisk base came to rest leaning to one side along its sharp edge in a groove carved in the pedestal base to catch it.
Some obelisks even wobbled a bit off center as the diagram shows. The third image shows the pedestals in front of the colossal statues with turning grooves cut into one side
Anyextee retweeted
Photos of turning grooves on the pedestal of one of Queen Hatshepsut's obelisks at Karnak shows the turning groove on the right edge of the base. There is even a piece of flat granite that was placed to hide the groove. The rest of this cover stone is missing after 3400+ years
The other photos show the back of the Ramesses II statue with Ptah and Sekhmet in my original post. It has columns of repetitive text with his royal names and titles. You can see the grove in the lower part of the image.
Ramesses must have taken the pedestal of an earlier obelisk and repurposed it to make this statue group. It's impossible to say whose obelisk it belonged to. Likely an 18th Dynasty king. The likely suspects are Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, who are known for making multiple obelisks.
Presumably the obelisk was no longer standing so the pedestal was up for grabs and Ramesses repurposed it.
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Vichama's builders used nets.
Not just for fishing. Nets holding up to 1 ton supported the layers of the architecture.
Would you have guessed?
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Qorikancha's walls were once covered in gold.
Not to display wealth. To reflect the powers of the sun.
Its stonework even has nubs, like some temples in Egypt.
See the similarities?
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What we know about #Göbeklitepe
WHO BUILT IT? A local hunter-gatherer population becoming increasingly sedentary. There is no clear evidence for domesticated plants or animals. Cultural connections extended eastwards towards the Tigris and beyond, and southwards into the Levant.
HOW WAS IT BUILT? Mainly from locally available limestone, used first for domestic and communal architecture, and later also for the carving of monumental T-shaped pillars and sculptures.
WHEN WAS IT BUILT? The earliest evidence of occupation dates to the beginning of the Holocene, in the mid-10th millennium calBC. The settlement remained in use for at least 1,500 years.
WHY WAS IT BUILT? As a settlement for a growing population. Communal buildings provided spaces for gatherings, rituals and storytelling, helping to foster social cohesion during a period of profound transformation that ultimately led to food-producing lifeways and the emergence of the Neolithic.
NOTABLY: Research and excavations continue, with new results published regularly. At this UNESCO World Heritage Site, we seek to balance our research objectives with the conservation and presentation of this extraordinary archaeological heritage.
