The Bible speaks of several cataclysmic events that shook the civilized world. We read of the destruction of the tower of Babel and the flood of Noah. Then there are smaller events that destroyed more localized areas like Sodom and Gomorrah, and the walls of Jericho. In AD 363 an earthquake put an end to the city of Petra leaving us with more modern mysteries. While the bible addresses the first man Adam, and Jesus as the last Adam there is much that the bible simply does not address. How one is to fit the ancient South American pyramids and cultures into a biblical context is a bit of a challenge unless you are willing to fabricate a false narrative as the Mormons have done. Josephus (A.D. 37- A.D. 100) goes into detail describing where the descendants of Noah settled but it is confined to Europe, Africa and Asia. There is no mention of the American western hemisphere. In the bible we read of fallen angels and demons, of giants and or Nephilim, which parallels the legion of Greek giants. The God of the universe is outside of time and the bible gives only vague hints of the actual timeline of the early events. How much of Greek mythology, Hindu tradition and American native traditions are based on some distant reality is merely an educated guess. Josephus makes mention of historical writers outside of Jewish tradition that mention the flood story.
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Sphinx with no face and no feet
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Covered in sand with face disfigured
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Face unmolested, body covered in sand
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The limestone that makes up many of these Egyptian treasures
contain marine fossils call nummulites (little coins)
Feet exposed showing lack of weathering but walls of limestone around it, as Dr. Robert Schoch points out in his book Forgotten Civilization, show water erosion from a much earlier time. Egypt was not always a desert. Oyster fossils can be found on the Giza Plateau not far from the pyramids. Later upper level erosion is from wind driven sand. Much of the other dynastic era tombs and temples dating back to as early as 3,000 BC show little or no water erosion yet much of the wind driven variety, and huge statues toppled by earthquakes and other unknown events. As in other megalithic sites around the world such as South America, at some point about the time of the end of the ice age something happened that brought civilization to a screeching halt. Then technology changed. While huge pre-bronze age megalithic stones were being fit together with some unknown ability, and signs of highly advanced machining, then suddenly there was a step backward in craftsmanship. As Brian Foerster in his book Aftershock points out the following people stacked much smaller recycled stone on top or used softer stone like limestone and sandstone rather than the granite or basalt of earlier builders. Often man resorted to baked bricks instead of cut stone. That certainly does not fit with the idea of man evolving upward.
Something like the Stonehenge of England, the Gobekli Tepe limestone columns of southeastern Turkey were mysteriously backfilled about 8,000 BC almost as though man was preserving a time capsule. The artwork has been preserved in fine detail. What had been going on there for hundreds of years remains a mystery. Did it have something to do with the stars? One of the oldest text of the bible refers to the constellations of Orion and Pleiades (Job 38:31 and Amos 5:8) and it appears from the layout of megalithic stonework that quite sophisticated study of the stars was common in cultures around the world.
Easter Island carvings, what was the point?
Who carved them and why did they stop?
There are nearly a thousand of these guys facing inland with backs to the sea
Where did all the dirt come from that covered them from eight to ten feet on a small island out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and how much time was required to do so? Are they downwind of volcanoes that could have covered them in ash? No. The amount of time required to bury these huge moai might very well put them back at the time of the ice age. Why did the people suddenly decide to neglect their precious work? Why were their unfinished pieces left still lying in the quarry? Did they suddenly lose faith in some ancient vision or god?
Some moai statues are as much as 32 feet tall and 82 tons. How were they moved from the quarry? Some have suggested that there was some paranormal power employed. While that might sound rather farfetched we have biblical stories of Moses dealing with magicians in Egypt and the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea on dry land. Do we throw that out as fantasy as well?
Pre-Inca stonework in Peru
When the Spanish rode into town like gods on horseback carrying steel swords the locals were overwhelmed. So what was the global fascination with pyramids?
