that is awesome, i love anything that defies modern science, engineering and the history books... we think were so smart..

Cool, I like the work the ancients do. It reminds me of the time my friend and I, at age of 8, started digging a hole to China on the edge of his parents property. In 3 days we had dug a hole 8 feet in diameter and 12 feet deep(we hit water,we lived on an island). Years later, the land behind his parents house was developed for a subdivision. The contractors did not fill the hole due to the fact that they would have to fill it with one inch of dirt at a time, compact it, test it, and then fill it with one inch of dirt again and repeat the process. Instead, they incorporated it with the sewer run off and capped it with a 6 foot diameter iron grate.

Now the average thickness of the earths crust is 4.7 miles. 1 mile equals 5280 feet. So the earths crust is on average 24,816 feet. At 4 feet a day, it would have taken 6204 days to break through the earths crust, or 17 years for 2 people working at an 8 year olds pace. To build an 8 meter high wall is not so impressive, and to bury it in 3,700 years it obviously wasn't a rush project.

I believe that humans today are to lazy to do anything by hand, except for the Amish. People 4,000 years ago had loads of time.

We should start a thread, "The New Wonders of the World, because the Old Ones really are not that Impressive"

I'll start with the super highways that cover the U.S.A, they are larger than all the pyramids in the world put together. Way more impressive.

what about Baalbek? how could a human being lift that colossal stone of 1200 tons?

if modern machinery can't lift the 1200 ton stone how could a bunch of workers do it with primitive tools? levers and ropes? sorry man but i dont buy that bull#

and i didnt said anything about aliens, but i believe levitation through sound was used, a technology that has been lost. there are recent accounts that monks used it in tibet to lift large stones.

i believe it more than the alien intervention and the ropes/levers/brute force theory you are proposing

The heavier stones at Baalbek were never moved. The three very large stones that were moved were around 800 tons.

The Egyptians were able to moved stones around 1,000+ but they did so very rarely due to the difficulty and expense.

The heaviest stone moved without modern powered technology was 1,600 tons by the Russians.

Reply to an earlier query. Nothing to debunk, just good old science looking deeper into mans past.

Thanks for posting this article, nice find. Of course as a poster above mentioned that if you dug pretty much anywhere there you might find other structures, but this is the largest found to date, that is significant, also the time period of it, and the fact that the spring is currently in use and has ties to the location yet it has only now been found.

What is nice about this discussion is the fact that people here are interested in the old ways.
I make my own axes and spear points (arrowheads also).
My friend can make a rope from a roadside weed in a few minutes.
Another showed me how to fire a ceramic pot in an open air frying pan.
What I have found remarkable is that a technology that endured for literally millions of years,
(stone tools) actually evaporated in most parts of the world less than four hundred years ago.
Man survived by stone tool use for millions of years .
You would think flint knapping would have become genetic but it didn't.
I encourage everyone to do all the research you can do on the past.
It has broadened my perspective and faith in humanity completely.
Knowing where you come from can light the way for your future.

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Originally posted by Bspiracy
It's been proven time and time again that we know nothing of our history in the mainstream. I'm pretty darn sure that someone knows who and how these were created but it's probably buried under a mountain of other knowledge deep within some Vatican chamber labeled "Stolen Secrets Vault 0035".. which of course is next to all of the other 4 digit number vaults labeled "Stolen Secrets"

There needs to be a thread started regarding all of the ancient structures that "Baffle" scientists. The OP would be very long indeed.

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Most probably 'The Holy Grail' explains it all....

This is great stuff... this is what i look for on ATS... proof! Proof of things that are visible to the all seeing eye... things that we can go see ourselves... Ancient or not... there's still a lot out there to discover...

Frankly, I don't believe anything Zionists say even if it sounds legit because I assume they only make up stuff to justify their stealing of territory. It's always "see, we were here before you so this land is rightfully ours". I wouldn't doubt they dug a hole and made the contents look ancient. I'm surprised no one has commented on this.