Exploring the mysteries of our past, civilizations, cataclysms, and what it all means for us today
UnchartedX Podcast! Ollantaytambo, Coricancha and the Temple of the Moon with the Snake Bros!
Taking a close tour of 3 enigmatic sites in Peru: Ollantaytambo, The Coricancha (the megalithic structure in the heart of Cusco) and the rarely visited Temple of the Moon! Thanks again to Kyle and Russ, the Brothers of the Serpent, for joining me in this video review.
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Also asked him via facebook, that its OK for me to have done like that, but i have the pictures in a hidden link, i think.
My question is, do you have TIFF (or RAW) format to this place and especially from that wall, i would like to “Photoshop” and se, if the app can se what the eyes can’t se. If you go to link above you understand, there is before and after of the screen pictures, to eddited.
But saw halv of your last youtube video, and your library of pictures most where JPG and does are not good to go over the “histogram” in photoshop, a lott is lost by JPG vs TIFF (or RAW) pictures.
Hi Ben,
To me it looks like the mountain was molten and that it slowly made its way towards objects forming an impression and that the objects were removed lateron. this is the only “easy”way to get the forms into the rocks.
Maybe the mountain was molten lava-ish many many years ago and flowed into a city making all the impressions. maybe parts of that were taken by the lava stream forming all these starways etc. and then later the original material eroded away completely.
The nice walls with tight fitting look like they were made of clay that hardened over time.
maybe the builders were using the lava to create the buildingblocks.
Imagine a big ancient castle on a hill, and then a meteorite comes down in front of it, the heat would melt everything above ground and pieces of molten castle would splash around.
That would looks alot like what i see in your video, the caves could have been rooms where the molten walls would flow inside causing these narrow passages.
I was listening to your most recent podcast (Ollantaytambo) and while I am not an expert, I was wondering if perhaps the mysterious rounded nubs and scoops on the megalithic blocks might have something to do with earthquake-proofing? It is a very seismically active region, and with the treatment of the cornerstones (one ‘solid and shaped’, the next simple blocks), it feels like they have truly built this to last. Is there any indication that the blocks with nubs might be repurposed ones? If they originally were meant to slot into scooped-out holes to keep walls from sliding apart during earthquakes, that would just be in the way once they were used for new structures, thus they would end up pointing out where they were less in the way. There were traces of attempts to remove some of them as well. We wouldn’t really know if there were nubs inside the joining surfaces of original structures unless they had fallen down in modern times.
It’s certainly an aspect of megalithic building – being earthquake proof. I think theres more to it, but even if that was one of the reasons behind the work, it says a lot more about these ancient civilizations that we currently credit them with.
Looking at the Huge wall parts you see almost rectangular impressions on most of the smaller stones in the second layer. these look like impressions of planks that look like there were angular supports standing up from the ground to keep the clay like second layer from sinking over the lower stone.
Maybe they even used bags or hides to keep the shape, maybe the extrusions sometimes seen are parts of the hides where they sowed the legs close in the hides. (think Mammut hides for the big blocks?)
I am pretty convinced that the builders were able to get the stone in a cement like form. and maybe all stone was like that ages ago, and it was hardened by UV light or some other radiation.
Maybe limestone mud pits that was mined from the underground and hardened under the influence of sunlight. and the thousands of years in from then to now transformed into the same stuff as the mountains themselves. I think that if real Higher technology as what we have now it would have probably been mirror flat, so i think the builders had the advance of the stone being soft being a normal feat. at the time of building,
Ben,
Just watched your video from 3/11/21. Always fascinating.
I want to point out at 52:26 / 2:18:11 in the video there is a large rectangular stone with a recessed keyway for joining stone joints in the top lefthand corner of the stone. Thete is no adjacent stone nor would this be a place it was commonly used. This stone has been posinly repurposed in it’s current position. It shows that they were using metal key joints at the time of the construction of this wall.
Ben,
Just watched your video from 3/11/21. Always fascinating.
I want to point out at 52:26 / 2:18:11 in the video there is a large rectangular stone with a recessed keyway for joining stone joints in the top lefthand corner of the stone. There is no adjacent stone nor would this be a place a keyway would be commonly used. This stone has been possibly repurposed in it’s current position. It shows that they were using metal key joints at the time of the construction of this wall.
Hi
i havet “screened” Brian Foresters youtube video from hires video, to this link https://www.flickr.com/photos/njohan81/albums/72157697547242872
Also asked him via facebook, that its OK for me to have done like that, but i have the pictures in a hidden link, i think.
My question is, do you have TIFF (or RAW) format to this place and especially from that wall, i would like to “Photoshop” and se, if the app can se what the eyes can’t se. If you go to link above you understand, there is before and after of the screen pictures, to eddited.
But saw halv of your last youtube video, and your library of pictures most where JPG and does are not good to go over the “histogram” in photoshop, a lott is lost by JPG vs TIFF (or RAW) pictures.
//Johan
from Sweden
I can’t see anything from that link, it wants me to log in.
Hi Ben,
To me it looks like the mountain was molten and that it slowly made its way towards objects forming an impression and that the objects were removed lateron. this is the only “easy”way to get the forms into the rocks.
Maybe the mountain was molten lava-ish many many years ago and flowed into a city making all the impressions. maybe parts of that were taken by the lava stream forming all these starways etc. and then later the original material eroded away completely.
The nice walls with tight fitting look like they were made of clay that hardened over time.
maybe the builders were using the lava to create the buildingblocks.
Definitely looks like it was flowing or something, but I can’t explain it!
Imagine a big ancient castle on a hill, and then a meteorite comes down in front of it, the heat would melt everything above ground and pieces of molten castle would splash around.
That would looks alot like what i see in your video, the caves could have been rooms where the molten walls would flow inside causing these narrow passages.
I was listening to your most recent podcast (Ollantaytambo) and while I am not an expert, I was wondering if perhaps the mysterious rounded nubs and scoops on the megalithic blocks might have something to do with earthquake-proofing? It is a very seismically active region, and with the treatment of the cornerstones (one ‘solid and shaped’, the next simple blocks), it feels like they have truly built this to last. Is there any indication that the blocks with nubs might be repurposed ones? If they originally were meant to slot into scooped-out holes to keep walls from sliding apart during earthquakes, that would just be in the way once they were used for new structures, thus they would end up pointing out where they were less in the way. There were traces of attempts to remove some of them as well. We wouldn’t really know if there were nubs inside the joining surfaces of original structures unless they had fallen down in modern times.
It’s certainly an aspect of megalithic building – being earthquake proof. I think theres more to it, but even if that was one of the reasons behind the work, it says a lot more about these ancient civilizations that we currently credit them with.
Looking at the Huge wall parts you see almost rectangular impressions on most of the smaller stones in the second layer. these look like impressions of planks that look like there were angular supports standing up from the ground to keep the clay like second layer from sinking over the lower stone.
Maybe they even used bags or hides to keep the shape, maybe the extrusions sometimes seen are parts of the hides where they sowed the legs close in the hides. (think Mammut hides for the big blocks?)
I am pretty convinced that the builders were able to get the stone in a cement like form. and maybe all stone was like that ages ago, and it was hardened by UV light or some other radiation.
Maybe limestone mud pits that was mined from the underground and hardened under the influence of sunlight. and the thousands of years in from then to now transformed into the same stuff as the mountains themselves. I think that if real Higher technology as what we have now it would have probably been mirror flat, so i think the builders had the advance of the stone being soft being a normal feat. at the time of building,
Ben,
Just watched your video from 3/11/21. Always fascinating.
I want to point out at 52:26 / 2:18:11 in the video there is a large rectangular stone with a recessed keyway for joining stone joints in the top lefthand corner of the stone. Thete is no adjacent stone nor would this be a place it was commonly used. This stone has been posinly repurposed in it’s current position. It shows that they were using metal key joints at the time of the construction of this wall.
Ben,
Just watched your video from 3/11/21. Always fascinating.
I want to point out at 52:26 / 2:18:11 in the video there is a large rectangular stone with a recessed keyway for joining stone joints in the top lefthand corner of the stone. There is no adjacent stone nor would this be a place a keyway would be commonly used. This stone has been possibly repurposed in it’s current position. It shows that they were using metal key joints at the time of the construction of this wall.