Mycenae - Cyclopean City

[Sirius]

There is some interesting stonework here that looks similar to other megalithic sites.  Apparently built by cyclopses, reminds me of all the bigfoot posts.



The Original Cyclopean City - Mycenae

[Sirius]

cyclopean masonry, wall constructed....found on Crete and in Italy and Greece. Ancient fable attributed them to a Thracian race of giants, the Cyclopes, named after their one-eyed king, Cyclops. Similar walls, though not called cyclopean, are found at Machu Picchu, Peru, and at several other pre-Columbian sites in the New World.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/cyclopean-masonry

The levels of masonry in the video is interesting, the #3 stone type looked like stones from Peru and that would place these Greek sites as older. Could also have been casts are classes of people, maybe the gods who knows.  20 000 years ago? The sites in South America is 12k years ago or older I think.

Level 2-  Maybe this is the same as Peru?

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

cyclopean masonry, wall constructed....found on Crete and in Italy and Greece. Ancient fable attributed them to a Thracian race of giants, the Cyclopes, named after their one-eyed king, Cyclops. Similar walls, though not called cyclopean, are found at Machu Picchu, Peru, and at several other pre-Columbian sites in the New World.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/cyclopean-masonry

The levels of masonry in the video is interesting, the #3 stone type looked like stones from Peru and that would place these Greek sites as older. Could also have been casts are classes of people, maybe the gods who knows.  20 000 years ago? The sites in South America is 12k years ago or older I think.

Level 2-  Maybe this is the same as Peru?

Though no one EVER likes my answers, the Cyclopean walls were most likely constructed by the Minoans around 3300 years ago, in 1300 BCE. 

But your probably right and they were likely constructed like the Pumapunku walls.  Which is very slowly and shaped into place with stone tools. 

All is mystified when you look at these Bronze age civilizations construction and realize the walls all have "pit marks" around their "molded edges." 

it is also a misconception that Pumapunku is 12,000 or 17,000 years old. This is Ancient Aliens making people stupid again. It's them parroting the bad science of a shit-peddling author named Arthor Posnansky, who made an assumption based on the earth's precession and little else. 

The real Pumapunko is about 1500 years old and built by the culture that preceeded the Inca. 

Your wall was built by the culture that proceeded the Myceans. The Minoans, in reality, are very likely the "great seafaring culture" of Atlantis, which was likely a port on an Agean island called Santorini obliterated in a day by the VEI7 eruption of Thera. 

Credit to the late Dr. Michael Heiser for instilling in me the same type of disdain for the Ancient Aliens product, and their go to sources like Zechariah Sitchin and Erick Von Daniken.

[Sirius]

Though no one EVER likes my answers, the Cyclopean walls were most likely constructed by the Minoans around 3300 years ago, in 1300 BCE. 

But your probably right and they were likely constructed like the Pumapunku walls.  Which is very slowly and shaped into place with stone tools. 

All is mystified when you look at these Bronze age civilizations construction and realize the walls all have "pit marks" around their "molded edges." 

it is also a misconception that Pumapunku is 12,000 years old. This is Ancient Aliens making people stupid again. It's them parroting the bad science of a shit-peddling author named Author Posnansky, who made an assumption based on the earth's precession and little else. 

The real Pumapunko is about 1500 years old and built by the culture that preceeded the Inca. 

Your wall was built by the culture that proceeded the Myceans. The Minoans, in reality, as likely the "Great Seafaring culture" of Atlantis, which Iwas likely a port on an Agean island called Santorini. 

Credit to the late Dr. Michael Heiser for instilling in me the same type of disdain for the Ancient Aliens product, and their go to sources like Zechariah Sitchin and Erick Von Daniken.

The Minoans had some cool art, they look like the kind of people with the free time needed to build this.

[Byrd]

cyclopean masonry, wall constructed....found on Crete and in Italy and Greece. Ancient fable attributed them to a Thracian race of giants, the Cyclopes, named after their one-eyed king, Cyclops. Similar walls, though not called cyclopean, are found at Machu Picchu, Peru, and at several other pre-Columbian sites in the New World.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/cyclopean-masonry

This kind of construction is found all over the world, and is basically "discovered" by people who ask "how do we get a tight join between stones?"  It's part of the easy early discoveries, including "I wonder if I can use dried mud to carry fire coals?" and "I wonder if I dry this meat can I still eat it safely?" and "can I make a rope from this grass?" and so forth.  Once people settle down, making houses and other buildings from stone becomes something they want to do because they fall down less often than tents or mu brick, etc.  

And that leads to coming up with stone technology.

A lot of the shows on "unanswerable archaeology" are by people who actually can't figure out how these things are done ... and therefore see the result as something "science can't explain."

The walls are nice, but if someone advanced had REALLY done it (or explained how to do it - or if it had been done with "advanced technology") then the blocks would be nice and square and identical sizes (much easier to place and shift and construct) and the surfaces would be nice and smooth.

[Sirius]

The walls are nice, but if someone advanced had REALLY done it (or explained how to do it - or if it had been done with "advanced technology") then the blocks would be nice and square and identical sizes (much easier to place and shift and construct) and the surfaces would be nice and smooth.

This is wrong, your wall would just fall down.  The reason the shapes are irregular is so that the walls are stable and the fact that they still stand is pretty strong argument for how effective is.

The stones are as old as the mountains they come from and impossible to date, so we look at other artifacts and if found then go humans made this. We are the lions of the apes, opportunistic scavengers.


IdeomotorPrisoner was wrong also but scary