spiral past

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

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

📍 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.

📌 Images:

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

Image Credit: Vladimir Kubarev/IAET SB RAS.

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

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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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”