This is a rather epic site, I was lucky enough to go there twice while living in Spain. Might as well review and go through some old adventures seen as they don’t seem as possible as they once did. They say this is a neolithic site, so we’re looking at around 5,500 years old (ish).
The stones were huge, inside was impressive.
You feel very small in there.
The ceiling slabs were just massive.
A bit of the pretty outside, a beautiful location.
(c) K Wicks
It looks better in real life than i expected 😁 Very pleased with this, a prezzie for my husband as it was his photo taken in Egypt 🇪🇬 something to remind him of it. He’s aphantasic so appreciates reminders for visual memories.
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Last year my husband went to Egypt to see some of the ancient structures and history. I thought I would share some of the photography of that trip with you as it is such an epic place. Enjoy 🙂
This small opening off to the side of the temple is apparently access to more tombs that have been found. It’s astounding how much is still hiding under the sand that we may never fine.
(c) K Wicks and M Wicks
I have been to Cheddar Gorge a couple of times and was impressed. It’s not amazing to everyone but the geology is quite spectacular to me. Plenty of stalactites and stalagmites to appreciate.
Also, in 1903 Britain’s oldest complete skeleton was discovered there dating to around 9,000 year old they say. A cave painting of a mammoth is also visible in one of the smaller alcove caves within the site. So to know the cave has also had ancient human habitation makes it even more interesting.
They had some crafty colourful lighting throughout so the pools of water had an other worldly quality to them and worked well for photos.
Even just with the regular lighting great shadows were cast across the strange calcified rocks.
All in all it was an enjoyable day out and reminds of just how much history and geology is lying around or could be hidden just beneath our feet.
(c) K Wicks
I am going to start this section,with the technical side of these boxes. To show how precise in design they are. We have to understand that there was no room whatsoever for error, when constructing these boxes, any tiny deviation and the whole box would be incorrect in design. Twenty five of these boxes were […]
via The Serapeum of Saqqara part two. — MKW Explores Ancient Places
Clear evidences of lost ancient technology in Egypt. Today having a conversation with my explorer friend @explore_with_antonio we decided to review our photos from this mysterious granite box in the Cairo museum. This is a pink granite sarcophagus, found in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. It is said it’s from 21st Dynasty of ancient Egypt. As you can clearly see, the granite has been melted through with some kind of tool.
The melting temperature of dry granite at ambient pressure is 1215–1260 °C (2219–2300 °F);[5] it is strongly reduced in the presence of water, down to 650 °C at a few kBar pressure.[6].
This is clear evidence of ancient lost technology. The circles point to a drill type tool that melted through the solid granite.
There are many ancient artifacts found in Egypt that defy what we are taught, which is these artifacts are created using copper tools. When looking at the photographs, it is clear to see extreme heat was used to penetrate the granite.
The precision of the cut granite and the heating of the granite is not easy to achieve. Yet here it is, thousands of years old, with no physical evidence of technology left, but the evidence of its use does. To me it is undeniable.
What kind of technology was used, who built this technology or created it? Where is it now? Have we just not discovered it yet, or is it hidden from the public. Many ancient sites across the world show clear evidence of advanced mathematics and technology. We are not the first to walk this earth, not the first to use mathematics, not the first to create technology, not the first to understand science. It seems every discovery is a rediscovery, nothing is new, it’s just different somehow.
(c) M Wicks – Photography by M Wicks and Antonio
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Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. It’s not known when this chalk earth mound was ‘built’ or put together, or why. It’s huge and can be compared in size and height to the ancient pyramids. Sat in between Avebury stone circle and West Kennet Long Barrow, it’s right in the middle of the neolithic history but we don’t know how it fits. Clearly visible as you walk up the hill to the barrow, it really is a sigh to behold. I just don’t know why.
Apparently dating to around 4,500 years ago, with no burials found inside, it remains another of the landscapes mysteries.
There is another hill to this which is strikingly similar in Poland, so who knows how connected everything was in the past.
(c) K Wicks
In May 2016 we were lucky enough to arrange a visit to Stonehenge on a private tour after all the main tourists had left. This is one of my photographs of the sunset, animated by MKW Publishing…
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As full spring approaches, the neolithic map of England shall be set upon once more.
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It was my husbands suggestion for us to go, we have a mutual interest of history and archaeology, his for ancient sites, mine used to be more recent encompassing from the time of the Romans through to present day. That is the bulk of what i was told about growing up, what we were taught at school and led to believe was ‘accurate’ history, but seems more to me now as lots of guesswork and a just a few shreds of evidence, albeit one sided. We arrived at Stonehenge as part of the normal daily lines of sightseers, funny when i thought how close i had lived for years and never been. It was very impressive, i won’t lie. The stones looking stark against the flat surrounding landscape and the people looking so much smaller than i thought they would, the stones were huge. But so close, yet so far away, the lines and pathway led us round and back away from the stones. It was great, but not enough. Unwilling to visit on either solstice due to the sheer numbers of people, we felt we needed to be able to get up close and really see the stones. A bit more research and we found that you could book to go on a private tour and actually walk through the stones after it closed to the public. That was more like it. So we did, we went back and got to walk up The Avenue, leading us to an epic view on approach, got to be among the stones and really see them up close. Although told no one was allowed to touch them, we made a point of touching them, that was our intention before even going, after all, these were thousands of years old and they allowed people to climb all over them twice a year. I knew i wasn’t about to topple one of the oldest monuments we had. And it was worth it.
When we started going to ancient sites, we realised it was different from more recent history. No-one could say for sure what these sites were for, who built them or even how they built them. No writing, no history from either the winners or losers of this time, just the stone left behind. We are unable to move these stones with today’s machinery and technology, yet do not give them the attention i feel they deserve. This is an ancient mystery of epic proportions. There are sites all over the world, strikingly similar sites which show that apparently unconnected people, all took up the same method of building and created megalithic structures still very much standing today. Followed by pyramids found all over the world too with no real idea of where they all got the same idea at the same time. You have to see for yourself and make your own judgement.
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