A recent study by Michael Hawking, an astronomical historian, involved cataloguing 2000 Neolithic tombs and studying 1000 other tombs in France, Portugal, Spain and North Africa. His paper submitted to the Royal Astronomical Society pointed out that thousands of Neolithic buildings built before 1000 BC were obviously built for the sun or key constellations.
Commenting on the study, E.C. Krupp, an archaeologist at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, said: "This means that some social organizations are committed to building these monuments and an astronomical observation system."
However, Hawking talked about part of the research: "We don't know much about the constellations seen by the ancients because they can't read." Illiteracy is a common assumption of ancient and unknown cultures-but what do we think of the huge stone structures, stone tombs, sarcophagus and Stonehenge (such as Stonehenge) built according to astronomical coordinates and accurately aligned?
The belief that "transcendental" means "primitive"
If the myth tells us that there was a time when man often read the stars, communicated with the earth and heaven, and usually learned from natural books instead of symbols on paper, can we really say that he is illiterate?
Most early educated explorers did not realize the astronomical arrangement and mathematical characteristics inherent in pyramids, Egyptian temple ruins and other ancient boulders. Because it is assumed that the people who built them must be more primitive than the later Greeks, especially the Romans, no one is looking for architectural features that need to be calculated by nature.
It was not until the late19th century that Sir Norman Lockyer, a famous British astronomer, carefully observed ancient temples all over the world for the first time, and noticed many astronomical arrangements. Even so, most archaeologists downplayed this observation and thought it was a coincidence of primitive religious beliefs or just a structural problem.
Astronomical arrangement and mathematical achievements of the Great Pyramid
Surprisingly, it was not until the 1960s that we began to seriously study the arrangement of celestial bodies at Stonehenge (which we now know can be used to predict solar eclipses).
It can be said that due to people's lack of interest in connecting these points, the important clues in the temple that are aligned with the two solstices (winter solstice and summer solstice), the two vernal equinox (vernal equinox and autumnal equinox) and other celestial phenomena have been completely ignored and have not been discovered for centuries. To this day, many archaeologists still think that this astronomical information is not important because it is inconsistent with the accepted explanation of ancient civilization.
However, in the past few decades, with irrefutable evidence that complex astronomy, mathematics and other advanced sciences have indeed been integrated into many ancient buildings, this trend has gradually changed. The most obvious research object is great pyramid of giza, which is bigger than any known pure stone building and is still the largest pure stone building on earth.
With its original white (or possibly gold) roof stone and limestone siding, it must be an amazing sight, which can be seen from six kilometers away (the ancient Egyptians called it "light"). It is aligned within 1/20 degrees of the earth's rotation direction-this is not an easy task. Today, the bottom of the great pyramid looks less than a centimeter level, but it is said that this achievement was completed with a stone hammer, which is an incredible assumption.
J.H. Cole used modern measuring technology to accurately measure the pyramid, found the ratio of perimeter to height, and perfectly simulated a sphere (twice the pi, which is the ratio of radius to perimeter of the sphere). Peter tompkins also pointed out several other mathematical expressions in his book The Secret of the Great Pyramid.
The figure obtained by dividing the surface area of the Great Pyramid by its foundation area is very close to the golden mean line (1.6 18). "This is a famous proportion in art and architecture." In addition, he pointed out that the layout of the three great pyramids completely conforms to a rectangle aligned with the basic direction, and the length is 14 14 elbow (about 45 cm) multiplied by 1732 elbow, "which is the square root of 2 and 3/kloc-respectively.
More interestingly, in 1993, Robert Bull (co-author of many books on pyramids) noticed that the three main pyramids on the Giza Plateau were mirror images of three banded stars of Orion, a constellation that was very important to the Egyptians.
Bowar also pointed out that the vertical shafts extending from the rooms of the king and queen in the Great Pyramid also represent the arrangement of stars. Cut these stones into precise angles and put them in a position so that their two sides form a diagonal axis aligned with key astronomical coordinates (due to precession, this coordinate must be calculated when most stars are invisible at this position).
Without tools, instruments, mathematics and even wheels harder than stones, it is quite amazing that a "primitive" culture embeds them into a huge structure composed of millions of stones (some of which weigh 70 tons). This also shows that it is obviously absolutely stupid to continue to ignore the precise cultural choice of these megalithic buildings!
A symbol of early advanced civilization?
The remains of these ancient civilizations, especially the remains of Egyptian civilization, have left a great mystery to people, that is, they seem to have risen rapidly from scratch. The Great Pyramid is believed to be built near the origin of this mysterious civilization.
As John Anthony West, a writer and enthusiastic Egyptian archaeologist, said, "The evidence of these advanced civilizations is almost universal, because they all seem to reach their peak near the beginning ... Almost all books have flood myths, and almost all books talk about an earlier era-the golden age, when people lived longer, were more enlightened and advanced."
When Mesopotamia was excavated and the names of some royal families and cities in the Bible were recognized as real historical sites for the first time, people had every reason to literally understand the myths and legends about prehistory around the world.
There may really be the flood described in the Bible, which brought almost everything before. It may not be exactly what happened in the story, but large-scale floods may have erupted all over the world at the same time, which may have washed away many evidences of early civilization. How did the civilizations of China, India, Babylon and Egypt develop from scratch 5,000 years ago? Plants may be cut down to the ground, but the roots are still there.
It seems that a series of discoveries tell us that the existence of prehistoric civilization is very likely to be completely true! The precision, magic and high-level astronomy revealed by many ancient civilization relics, as well as the mysterious substances left by our modern science and technology, clearly remind us that there is a big secret hidden among mankind about the "cosmic village"!
If the prehistoric advanced civilization has declined to the level of the realistic ancient relic civilization we now know, then the beginning of the ancient civilization initiated by the "ancestors" of modern human beings seems to be only a midpoint between us and prehistoric civilization. Will the development from the intermediate point to the end of civilization be the beginning of the next cycle?
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