Megalithic stones and stone use all over the ancient world, why ?

Strap yourselves in lads this is going to be a long one ... i tired to keep it relatively short to hold the attention span but there is so much information and evidence out there that keeping it short is no small task. I will provide pics for your visual pleasure but ill try and limit it to 1 to 2 pics per area just for efficiencies sake, if you would like more pics just google any of the areas i will show and im sure there will be plenty.

Now this is a subject that has baffled me my whole life, megalithic stones just everywhere in the ancient world across all cultures from one end of the globe to the other. One of the most remarkable prehistoric human achievements was our ability to work with stone on a seemingly gigantic and effortless scale, which apart from the technical implications, reveals the presence of sophisticated and complex people, who proved themselves to be anything but primitive.

There are many theories on how these stones were moved cut and transported i am not here to advocate one over the other because the fact is like many things in the ancient world we weren't there and can only offer theories on what we think may or may not have happened, my job here is to bring this to the attention of people who are interested and want to know more or people who have no knowledge that this even exists.

Ok lets start with the more famous ones and work our way into some that you may or may not have heard of before.

EGYPT /AFRICA
Well obviously we have the pyramids but im assuming you have all seen them, so here are some more that you may or may not have seen.

Aswan

Measures 120-feet (42m) and would have weighed over 1,168 tons when complete.

Colossal statue of Ramses

Thebes Egypt Colossal statue of Ramses 1,000 tons was transported 170 miles (270 km) by ship (apparently) from Aswan to Thebes

The Colossi of Memnon

Including the stone platforms on which they stand (about 4 metres (13 ft) themselves), the colossi reach a towering 18 metres (approx. 60 ft) in height and weigh an estimated 700 tons each.

Inside The 'Great' pyramid of Khufu

The 'Kings chamber' in the Great pyramid is covered over with several granite stones estimated at 50-70 tons each. The Gable stones over the entrance and several of the stones covering the descending passage are also several cubic meters in size.

The Valley Temple and The Osireion

Made of 'rose-coloured Aswan granite', the ten central columns each measure 2.096m² (5) and 4.19²m high (5) most weigh between 49.68 tons and 59 tons.

... many many many more in Egypt alone but ill need to move on or the Egypt part alone will take up to much

Ethiopia - The Stellae of Axum
The Obelisk of Axum (today, especially in Axum, also called the Rome Stele) is a 1,700-year-old, 24-meters (78-foot) tall granite stele/obelisk, weighing 160 tonnes. It is decorated with two false doors at the base, and decorations resembling windows on all sides. The "obelisk" ends in a semicircular top part, which used to be enclosed by metal frames.

SOUTH AMERICA
once again im assuming you have all seen the pyramids there, ill try and include some things that you may not have seen before.

Tlaloc Statue

This statue was made of Basalt and weighed an estimated 168 tons.

La Venta

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Costa Rica (stone balls, these have also been found in many other places including bosnia)

Sacsayhuaman, Peru

They are about 6 meters tall. The estimated volume of stone is over 6,000 cubic meters. Estimates for the weight of the largest limestone block vary from 128 tonnes to almost 200 tonnes.

Tiahuanaco, Bolivia (for those who know what Pumapunku is dont worry im dropping that bad boy at the end)
Tiahuanaco sits in the Bolivian Andes at a height of over 12,500 ft.Inca tradition spoke of the founding Inca male and female coming to Cuzco from the 'Island of the Sun' on Lake Titicaca, nearby. When the Spanish first encountered Tiahuanaco in the sixteenth century, they went to great efforts to destroy it. Early in the 20th century, Bolivian railway workers broke up many of the blocks as ballast for the railway beds. The remains of the site are now finally being restored.

ENGLAND/IRELAND/SCOTLAND/EUROPE
Stonehenge , England ... you know it im not giving a speel on it

The Cove, Avebury, England
Avebury is the largest stone circle in the world: it is 427m (1401ft) in diameter and covers an area of about 28 acres (11.5 ha). The site is formed by a huge circular bank (roughly a mile around), a massive ditch, now only a half its original depth, and a great ring of 98 sarsen slabs enclosing two smaller circles of 30 stones each and other settings and arrangements of stones.

Chun Quoit, England

Newgrange, Ireland

Kilclooney, Ireland

Maes Howe, Orkneys, Scotland

The largest of these huge slabs are estimated to weigh around 30 tons

Callanish Stones
The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.

Obviously there are many many more but i do want to get to the end of this presentation some time this century lol.

Hal Tarxien, Malta
Location of the great 'Earth Mother' statue, which once stood at 2.4m high. Blocks carved weighing up to 50 tons each. The temple complex at Hal-Tarxien contains examples of spirals, animal carvings, concrete, holed stones and much more.

Cueva de Menga complex, Spain
The Cueva de Menga is famous for being one of the largest dolmens in Europe, if not the world. Largest stones estimated at 180 Tons.

Cueva de Viera

Mycenae, Greece : The Lion-Gate.
The primary entrance to the city is flanked on either side by the city wall. Over the entrance is placed a triangular slab of stone into which the now famous carved lions face one another, separated by an upright column.

Cyclopean Walls
The renowned cyclopean walls of Tiryns and Mycenae are attributed to the Mycenaeans, also called the Achaeans or Pelasgians, and are generally assigned to the 14th and 13th centuries BCE. Greek tradition asserts that they were built by the Cyclopes, mythical one-eyed giants.

Tholoi: Omphalos-shaped chambers
Nine significant Tholoi have been discovered in ancient Mycenae, with the so-called 'Treasury of Atreus' being the most impressive. Tholoi are characterised by their internal domed chamber, normally referred to as 'Beehive-shaped'. No cement was used with the masonry. The blocks were cut to fit together perfectly, with the largest (the lintel), weighing around 120 tons.

Parthenon, Greece
Although the Parthenon is architecturally a temple and is usually called so, it is not really one in the conventional sense of the word. A small shrine has been excavated within the building, on the site of an older sanctuary probably dedicated to Athena Ergane.

The Gollenstein (Goldenstein and Güldenstein), Germany
The Gollenstein of Blieskastel has a height of 7.6m and stands as the second-largest menhir of Central Europe. It is estimated to weigh around 100 tons.

Dolmens of North Caucasus, Russia
The dolmens have a limited variety in their architecture. The floor plans are square, trapezoidal, rectangular and round. All of the dolmens are punctuated with a portal in the centre of the facade. While round portholes are the most common, square ones are also found. In front of the facade is a court that usually splays out, creating an area where rituals possibly took place. The court is usually outlined by large stone walls, sometimes over a meter high, which enclose the court. It is in this area that Bronze and Iron Age pottery has been found - which helped date these tombs -, along with human remains, bronze tools and silver, gold and semi-precious stone ornaments.

MIDDLE EAST / ASIA
The Lamassu of Nimrud, Iraq
In 1847, after discovering more than half a dozen winged pair of colossal statues of lions and bulls also known as lamassu weighing up to 30 short tons (27 t) Henry Layard brought two of the colossi weighing 10 short tons (9.1 t) each including one lion and one bull to London.

The Ziggurat of Ur
The Great Ziggurat of Ur was a temple of Nanna, the moon deity in Sumerian mythology, and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar. The temple was built in 2,100 B.C. during the reign of Ur-Nammu and stands 70 feet (21 m) high.

Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
This is the site of the worlds currently known oldest shrine or temple complex in the world, and the planet's oldest known example of monumental architecture. It has also produced the oldest known life-size figure of a human.
Compared to Stonehenge, Carnac or the Pyramids of Egypt, these are relatively humble megaliths. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are both the exquisite and intricate carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions.
At Gobekli Tepe, 15 km northeast of the city of Sanliurfa, stand four megalithic limestone pillars, 7 m tall and weighing around 50 tons each.

Very good read, s+f.

I find the absolutly massive stones, ashwan and Ba'albek to be fascinating for their size. Who would actually want to move that anywhere?

It is very clear to me that there is a technology which has become lost to our planet, that allowed our ancestors to move great stones with ease.

I am absolutely convinced that at one time we had knowledge that allowed us to fashion great structures with complex designs to a better standard than we can today.

Ancient Astronauts? Ancient Tech? Who knows - I don't.

I do know that we had some very, very clever and ingenious ancestors though.

for me it doesn't matter that much what all it represented, though I find it interesting, it doesn't matter that much.

Because I look at what it represents now, we are still loosing our skills and crafts thanks to technology and laziness.

I am glad that I was carpenter a long while back, I am thinking to pick up the craft again in the near future because there is a shortage.

Thank you for your time King Loki, this is one mother of a thread! So many great sites you've included. North America being noticably absent I would suppose we have no contenders in this area which is interesting in itself. If there were a world-wide culture it somehow didn't get to where the US is.
My personal theory is that ancient man knew how to levitate stone, purely mechanical means of moving such giant stones must be ruled out. They didn't have our giant machines and even they can't move 80 ton blocks.
I also believe that the stone was important for religious/spiritual reasons and that they act as amplifiers of consciousness.
I don't necessarily agree with the alien intervention theory as there is really no good evidence for it IMO.
Thanks again King Loki, i just love them rocks!

Once again oh King Loki you have shown why you are a great contributor to this site.

Massive stones all around the world. Maybe the massive stones could have something to do with time/space somehow. All of the ancient sites are incomplete do to age, wars, what have you. Maybe the mass and shape of the sites could produce some sort of effect if a source of frequency where introduced into the equation. What frequency? Who knows.

Once again you have created a great thread. I look forward to your next. I learn a lot.

I think its about time the mainstream archelologists put their money where their mouth is and demonstrate to the rest of the world how they can move blocks over 1000ton using only materials that were supposed to be available at the time. And I dont mean just give it a little budge, many of these stones have been moved into very awkward spaces and precise positions or long distances, even up the side of mountains.

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Wow, a lot of info presented here I have never seen before, Thank you King Loki!

It makes me wonder if we were alone on this Planet in the past, or did we share it with beings from other Dimensions or Space, who knows.

Maybe Earth was a Club Med for interstellar travelers? and now having a higher population of Humans, they gave it up as not to upset the natural balance.

Uses of stone all over the ancient world, why?

Because stone is a material which lasts a long time. It was the best material to use and had many advantages over wood.

I'm wondering if any of these massive stones were used for basic needs?
You would think they would use them for things like bridges and housing.

I think they may be some type of markers - used to send a message to future visitors. Kinda like putting a flag on the moon.

David Wilcock made mention of these stones in his new video and suggest the possibility that the stones amplify energies is why they may have used them.