Ancient Stone Wonders and Brick Structures
There seems to be one thing about our ancient ancestors, they loved to build in stone. Stone structures are all over the world and some are even under the ocean where they were once on dry land. Such is the hazards of living on a dynamic planet.
Every great society in the past built structures out of stone. It was not always the same type of stone, but it was stone
never the less. Was this material used because these races were trying to preserve their history for future generations? In other words, was this material used because they knew the stone structures would be there after they were gone? While this is one of the reasons for stone structures is not mentioned much, I think it could have played a part in the selection of the material. Think about this why would the ancients lift huge stones weighing many tons to put on top of two other standing stones on a grave when all they had to do was dig a hole and put the body into it. They did it to protect the deceased in the best way they knew how for eternity and wanted us to know there was something very important about the structure.
It is almost as if these ancient societies were showing off by demonstrating they could move stones no matter how much they weighed and lift them. This is still puzzling to us today because even with the most powerful machinery we have today there are stones which were used that are too big for us to move. Is there a lost secret to moving large stones we have forgotten? It sure looks that way.
In Megalithic times there were monuments that were called Dolmens. They seem to appear all over. Some are very simple, just a capstone on two other stones where others are far more complicated. They are prehistoric tombs. What drove these early people to feel that they had to erect a complex marker for a dead body? Again, these structures sometimes required huge stones to be lifted and moved. Most of these Dolmens date from 3500 BC to 2000 BC.
One unusual site is Stonehenge. So much has been written about it, it would fill an entire library, but even with all these articles and books floating around, it is still an interesting topic. People still wonder what its purpose was. The most popular theory is that it was a calendar, followed closely by the theory that it was a holy place and there may have been sacrifices there. This is one of those sites that contains huge stones that were put on top of other stones. The strange thing about the huge stones which the ancients used and lifted is if we didn’t have the evidence, they did this, our engineers and scientists would have said this was impossible for them to do. Stonehenge seems to go back into the dawn of time. What I mean is that wooden post holes have been found near the circle and these date back to somewhere around 8000 to 7000 B.C., but Stonehenge is not the only stone circle in Europe, not by a long shot. Another example of a stone circle is Swinside. Also located in England in Cumbria it has 55 stones. What I really like about it is the fact that it is very circular. Another name for the site is Sunkenkirk.
Maybe this knowledge was more common than we think? Could the Egyptians have also known the secret and used it to build the pyramids? In South America stone structures exist where it would seem to be impossible, at the tops of mountains. But taking all this into account, was the secret rediscovered and used to build the Coral Castle in Florida? Ed Leedskalnin built an entire building, furniture, walls, towers and garden from coral using pieces that weighed up to 9 tons without machinery. If you think this is amazing, he moved the whole structure to its present location in one night from another location. No one ever saw him build anything or move anything and he did this by himself.
Man has erected some strange stones that stand as markers, but markers to what or for what? If these strange stones could talk, boy what a tale they would tell. England seems to be full of ancient stone monuments and circles. In Dartmoor, England stands a stone sentry that is forever staring out over the countryside. It is the guardian of a stone circle along with other stones and a burial chamber. Could this stone mark the area as holy?
If the ancients thought stone would survive, they were correct. We have many ancient stone structures around today. Among these structures are buildings inside towns and cities which were build by different ancient races. We really do not know how many more cities are in South and Central America which are undiscovered due to dense jungle growth. If we move to the other side of the world instead of jungle, we have sand and sand is notorious for moving and covering structures. Because of this we do not know how many undiscovered structures exist under the sand anywhere where there is a desert. I have cited this statistic before, it is said 90 percent of all structures in Egypt lay under the sand undiscovered. While no one can really give an entirely accurate figure for this, let us just say there is probably a lot more stuff to discover there.
There are jungles and sand in other areas and even ice in other places which could be hiding almost anything. A while back some of the internet dwellers got very excited at something which was found on Google Earth. It was found in Antarctica and was claimed to be a dome which was coming out of the ice. To be honest it didn’t look like much to me except cracked ice, but to some it meant there could have been an advanced civilization which lived in the South Pole before the ice formed.
The first civilization is said by many to be the Mesopotamian civilization. It was said to exist from about 3300 B.C. to 750 B.C. It built huge structures known as ziggurats which can still be seen today. Did they start the idea of building stone structures? The ziggurats were made of brick. Another ancient society was Babylon which existed from the 19th to the 6 century B.C. While grand structures were built it was hard to get stone to the area so a lot of brick was used.
Since there was not a lot of rain in the area where Mesopotamia and Babylon was located, the brick help up.
