Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
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Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
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Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#2How Lovecraftian. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#3One reason for the seeming obscurity is that science now calls this megalithic masonry.
But fascinating nonetheless.
[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=mega...
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#4The pictures and locations are fascinating, and all new to me.
The accompanying text is BS from beginning to end, solely excepting the complaint that modern historians wish we would stop asking them about these things.
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#5This is pure crackpot drivel. Cyclopean ruins were covered in my high-school Art History textbook, there's certainly no cover-up. The lack of discussion is simply because we know nothing about the culture that created them - yet there are countless historical cultures we know even less about, because they didn't leave any impressive stone buildings behind.
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#6This is pure crackpot drivel. Cyclopean ruins were covered in my high-school Art History textbook, there's certainly no cover-up. The lack of discussion is simply because we know nothing about the culture that created them - yet there are countless historical cultures we know even less about, because they didn't leave any impressive stone buildings behind.
Reads like a classic Erich van Daeniken piece.
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#7This is pure crackpot drivel. Cyclopean ruins were covered in my high-school Art History textbook, there's certainly no cover-up. The lack of discussion is simply because we know nothing about the culture that created them - yet there are countless historical cultures we know even less about, because they didn't leave any impressive stone buildings behind.
Some pretty wild conclusions come up, but much of the base material is compelling. Extremely ancient megalithic stone constructions can be found world wide. While it is certainly not the case that "scholars are silent" as asserted here, there is still no particularly well accepted explanation. And it could be coincidence that some of the earliest societies built with large blocks with minimal ornament. It is unfortunate that crackpots dominate the discussion and so hamper reasonable exploration of the subject, but the idea that some extremely old human societies built monuments in this way is not actually all that radical.
And the cyclopean thing is an odd tangent, but does have a pretty well accepted modern explanation. Some fossilized skulls have extremely prominent nasal and sinus cavities that have long led amateur investigators to conclude that there were one eyed giants in the past. This is most likely nothing but a basic error of anatomical analysis. It is difficult to correctly understand fossilized skulls if you don't have a reasonable grasp of the kind of skulls that creatures living today have.
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#8Big and beautiful rocks but smaller than Giza pyramids which are from 2500 BC. But of course the cover up failed there. Everybody knows that aliens built them /s
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#9There is no cover-up going on here, it's just that we know very little about preroman and especially preetruscan populations of Italy.
There is a wikipedia page[1] concerning megalithic architecture in Lazio (the region of Italy in which Rome is), which unfortunately is only available in Italian but contains some information about the estimated age of most of the structures from the linked submission, as well as attempted explanations. For example archeologists suppose that some of the most advanced walls where built by local populations helped by wandering Greek builders based on similarities with the temple of Delphi and Greek acropolises. Wikipedia also has individual pages for some of the ruins[2][3] (also not available in English) where other theories are suggested, for example the acropolis of Alatri could have been built by the Hernici[4].
[1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architettura_megalitica_del_...
[2] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropoli_di_Arpino
Re: Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013)
#10Whoever built them, it's clear it wasn't one people at one time. The architecture diverges quite a bit, the same way nearly all cultures' architecture evolved. Some walls are rough and patched together, some are uniform, some have right angles, some have no right angles, some have gaps, some have no gaps, the sizes and materials vary. You see the same thing from the Mycenaeans and other prehistoric peoples (who also built massive temples and cities out of variously constructed boulders) as their building methods changed.