spiral past

places/artifacts/theories from/about distant past...

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Cross sections of rock-hewn ancient chambers & tunnels in Austria…

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Wheel system for transporting columns and architraves by Chersiphron and Metagenes Vitruvius, Claude Perrault, The Ten Books of Architecture, 1684

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Very interesting find in Austria by Tagu-experience & Roman Pollak

Rock-hewn chamber could be user for sound/resonance… one of many

Images: Gunnar D. Hiptmair

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Map of Newark Earthworks, Ohio

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Aboriginal bark painting

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Osirion model... the water covered shafts are 15m deep.. “In 2007, after the seismic survey, an archaeological mission, directed by James Westerman determined the depth of the central island of Osirion. It is about 15 meters below its surface. Studies of the Westerman's mission also showed that there are cavities and voids inside the central island, which purposes are unknown.  (human for scale) https://isida-project.org/egypt_april_2018/osirion_en.htm

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Ephraim George Squier and E. H. Davis, "The Serpent;" entry 1014, Adams County Ohio. Pl. XXXV, Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley: comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations, Washington: Smithsonian institution, 1848

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📍 CHULLPAS DE PUNO | Regarding these chullpas, Tschudi and Rivero (1851) mention: "The chullpas seen over the hill that bathes the small lagoon of Clustoni in the department of Puno, offer a particular construction, and we do not know if e Stas were rooms, or served for keep the grains and potatoes, or maybe from the graves [...]. []. “All we have examined are coated with limestone, sandy, and with pieces of mycacean sheath, with their windows half-high and split in half with breaded slabs inside, and covered with straw, or chunks of stones.”

ente Source: Peruvian Antiquities - Tschudi and Rivero, 1851.

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1. Different sized dips, in one of them you can see sculptures of lizards.

2. Condorhuasi near Azangaro.

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5,000-Year-Old Rock Art Depicting “Celestial Bodies” Revealed in Siberia…

Image Credit: Vladimir Kubarev/IAET SB RAS.

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Cahokia woodhenge solar calendar…

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"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

– Nikola Tesla

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The architectural model of Prambanan temple compounds in Java. The model depicted whole reconstructed temples within Prambanan temple complex.

The Prambanan temple is the largest Hindu temple of ancient Java, and the first building was completed in the mid-9th century

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“Magic mushrooms simply reroute our way of thinking and our perception, and, in many ways, offer a reset that would otherwise not be possible.”

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Using a combination of satellite imagery, aerial photography, ground surveys and excavations to survey an area of 160,000 square kms, the researchers recorded more than 17,800 ‘pendant’ tombs in their primary study areas of AlUla and Khaybar counties, of which around 11,000 of the tombs formed part of funerary avenues from 4,500-years ago…

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الهيئة الملكية لمحافظة العلا, مقابر قديمة تكشف أسرار شبكة طرق عمرها 4500 عام في شمال غرب شبه الجزيرة العربية

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Over the past century, dozens of carved megalithic stone slabs of unknown origin and function have been uncovered in the southern part of the state of Mexico and the north of Guerrero, mostly around the small archaeological site of San Miguel Ixtapan, Tejupilco.

Further excavations, beginning in 1995, have revealed the remains of extensive megalithic architecture consisting of huge blocks of basalt and andesite, many weighing several tons, showing remarkable similarities with South American artistic and architectural styles.

“…surprisingly little is known of these mysterious slabs, with only a handful found in an archaeological context. Their function (altar stones, ornamental panels or elements of megalithic architecture?), Their age and their provenance are totally unknown. What civilization or culture produced them? How many centuries or millennia ago? Another mystery lies in the accuracy of the engravings in hard andesite or basalt, which would have required the use of hardened metal tools of which there is no evidence in the archaeological records of Mesoamerica”

Mexique: les mystérieuses dalles de San Miguel Ixtapan

Des dalles gravées de formes géométriques découvertes récemment reflètent une similitude avec les structures du Lac Titicaca en Bolivie, cel

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Plan of Labraunda's tomb, Turkey.

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The Zodiac of Dendera decorated the ceiling of a chapel in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, where the mysteries of the resurrection of the god Osiris were celebrated.

The vault of heaven is represented by a disc, held up by four women assisted by falcon-headed spirits. Thirty-six spirits or “decans" around the circumference symbolize the 360 days of the Egyptian year.

The constellations shown inside the circle include the signs of the zodiac, most of which are represented almost as they are today. Aries, Taurus, Scorpio, and Capricorn, for example, are easily recognizable, whereas others correspond to a more Egyptian iconography: Aquarius is represented as Hapy, the god of the Nile flood, pouring water from two vases.

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#ancient Egypt