Ancient Places

There are several places in the world that are a wonder, for their age, and their incredible construction. One being the Pyramids in Egypt. There are many other interesting places too. The ruins of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan Pyramids, and so on down the line.

There is one thing that I have always been intrigued by, and that's the fact there are some similarities throughout all of them, not exacting similarities, because each place is it's own wonder, but just enough to make a person stand back a moment and go Hmmm.

In the most recent decades sciences in general are pulling away from the notion that the Ancients simply could not have know how to do this stuff. At least now we have serious speculation, instead of the Phallic Symbol explanation. But what does it all mean, how did they manage to pull off some of those feats of building, as well as the sheer engineering to create monoliths that would outlast its builders by a hundredfold. Also, could we do it again, if we really wanted to?

Sometimes I am drawn to the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis.  A story of the collective intelligence of men, their excess confidence, and their dispersal in separate languages and such to prevent such stuff again. There is nothing in the world of Archaeology that points to such an enormous tower, I don't know if we ever will. But just what if Humans all over the globe were truly in touch with each other,, and easily to boot? If we could find a tangible link that says indeed we were, I think that would be just as incredible as all the sites.  It also makes me wonder just how much knowledge had been gained and lost, and regained again over the years?

Are we at the top of the game as far as knowledge, indeed we have some means that were not present for them, but does that put us on the leader board just yet? Looking at some of this stuff I have a tendency to say perhaps not, at least not in all of it. Obviously we are missing a few things, there has to have been some interesting tech knowledge around to know how to place multiple ton stones in place, and quite precisely too.

There are messages there too, about these places. Messages about ourselves and our technology, messages about our social structures, and where we can go as a result of those things. So many questions, so much wonder. It is likely that there may never be concise answers to many of the questions surrounding these places. The two greatest being the how and why for starting of the civilizations that built them, and their in some cases overnight halt. Perhaps the how and why  for their getting started may not be as important as the how and why for their cessation, and for some devastating and complete collapse. The part I would really like to know is, were they all linked in any way? And if so, how?

The possibilities for the answers are from a simple No, to as far as imagination can carry us on what the answers may be. That's part of the fun, and challenge really, to ponder, and imagine. We keep pondering and imagining enough we may find a few more clues to explain what out Ancients were truly up to.