Ancient Civilizations

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It's a good bullshitter test actually.

Any grifter is going to lap this shit up, maybe Bigfoot built it.

Ancient Architects has gained a lot of credibility with me for calling it out and I already thought he was decent.
 
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TJT said:
The modern Egyptian populace are all descendants of the Muslim Conquest that happened in the 7th and 8th century. If you watch lots of AA videos his most interesting ones are when he digs up journals of British aristocrats and other Orientalists who went to Egypt in previous centuries.

The locals had no idea who built the Pyramids or any of the monuments then. Strabo visited the region in the 1st century BCE and even then nobody knew who made them. They were just ruins laying the sand. Memories of a bygone age.

The most compelling thing about all of this ancient architecture to me is the scale itself. If you look at anything humans build there is a constant theme. Most structures humans build are generally built with what? Objects that the average human can reasonably carry. See cobblestone, modern uniform bricks, and so on. Logically human beings will build with things they can move around. You see this in all of the megalithic sites. It's very glaring in Japan, Peru, and Egypt.

Yet, in the distant past, people instead took the time to move things far beyond reasonable human ability. Only to totally forget how to do this and go back to the logical way of building things with materials that can be reasonably carried or moved. They did this with copper and stone tools and not a single modern convenience.

Baffling.
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Well what about Stonehenge
 
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BunkyChutt said:
How did these civilizations have sex anyone know
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Harems bro.

homer simpson dancing GIF
 
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Can't believe I'm linking a Mr Beast video, but it's actually good.

Seems clear to me, and he mentions this, that the Great Pyramids pre-date the Egyptian tomb-pyramids and were made much earlier by a much more advanced civilization. The 12,000 years ago Thoth the Atlantean group before the collapse of Laurentide obliterated everything? Who knows.

Got me thinking though, if WE 99% ceased to exist due to a massive tidal wave / polar shift / tectonic plate shift, how much of our current architecture and tech would be anything besides dust in 12,000 years?

The Hoover Dam, maybe Mt Rushmore would be vaguely recognizable. Washington Monument? Statue of Liberty? Eiffel Tower? Our work with metals sets us apart from past civs, most likely, but I think stone is still the thing with the most longevity on it. The Vietnam War Memorial in DC might stand partially as a "written word tablet" ala Uruk's tablets. We, unfortunately, don't write much in stone, and books only last a couple thousand years at best. I've got a whole assortment of books from the 1800's and most of them are incredibly worn and aged / ready to fall apart. Plus we're putting most of the knowledge base of our civilization into digital formats that would completely cease to exist in a cataclysm.
 
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"What if the neolithic revolution wasn't the start of civilization, but a reboot?"

Good video
 
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Rajaah said:

Can't believe I'm linking a Mr Beast video, but it's actually good.

Seems clear to me, and he mentions this, that the Great Pyramids pre-date the Egyptian tomb-pyramids and were made much earlier by a much more advanced civilization. The 12,000 years ago Thoth the Atlantean group before the collapse of Laurentide obliterated everything? Who knows.

Got me thinking though, if WE 99% ceased to exist due to a massive tidal wave / polar shift / tectonic plate shift, how much of our current architecture and tech would be anything besides dust in 12,000 years?
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imagine only some shitholes in africa survive. It will be dust in 50 years.
 
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