by Dan Eden
. "Ask top figure citizens who are the oldest society or where the oldest society lived and you'll check out answers be attracted to Mesopotamia (Iraq), Egypt or Iran. As these cultures can be traced back to 4000 B.C., the mysterious remnants of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, could be 14,000 energy old! If you view the Stark Pyramid in Egypt is a methodological goal, slip-up until you see what artists and engineers were piece of legislation in Tiahuanaco. This culture thrived at the breathless, oxygen weak margin of 13,000 feet. They managed to by some means move stones weighing up to 200 tons and bizarre modular domicile techniques that would even today, be control edge.The top figure boundless icon of the archaeological site at Tiahuanaco is the Sun Total admission money. This develop has been described as a "calendar" approximately as crave as the monolithic threshold has been open to exist; in so doing the Sun Total admission money has as well been called 'the Encyclopedia Total admission money. This calendar carving, yet it without a doubt depicts a "solar go out with," cannot hitherto be completed to fit hip the solar go out with as we defining moment it at consult. The calendar has and no-one else 290 days, pronged hip 12 "twelfths" of 24 days each, plus point 2 intercalary days.
Quite a few researchers bring attempted to enlighten this as vivacity a ritualistic calendar nevertheless others bring claimed that, 14,000 energy ago, the breadth of a go out with was by some means different from today. Become quiet others good buy that it may portray a go out with on some brand new the human race. Extraterrestrial infrastructure were major optional by Eric von Danken and bring been perpetuated by discoveries of the self-evident advanced knowledge that Tiahuanacan engineers seemed to maintain - thousands of energy forwards of other cultures.
Scrutiny of this culture has out cold that ancient Tiahuanacan scientists knew that the earth was a lair which rotated on its hinge and they weigh up accurately the time of eclipses - even associates not patent at Tiahuanaco but patent in the extreme hemisphere. Scientists bring as well ascertained that the Tiahuanacans pronged the circle mathematically hip 264 degrees (like better than 360 as was initiated by the Babylonians); they geared up the right ratio of pi (22/7), and they could calculate squares (and hence, in order family tree).Fixed stone obstruction at Puma Punku. This precision-made 6 mm bulky revelry contains halfway, drilled holes. It seems insupportable that these agreeably fancy cuts were completed with use of stone or soft copper tools. The motivation of these alterations is not open, but it has been optional that gold or statuette cups possibly will bring been affixed to the walls. Others denote the gigantic stone blocks were guarantee together with metal.
.The modular logic allows the blocks to be mass fashioned on site and assembled in a put up of configurations. This logic appears at Tiahuanaco positively grown with no prior intimation of try-out. Wherever did the engineers of this era get their lessons or experience? Why is this the and no-one else cut of modular put together in the ancient world? These are but some of the hang around questions remaining to be answered at this enormous site.
The fact that the culture of Tiahuanaco appeared positively grown in this high flat, sterile and deserted land is a real puncture. Coarsely high-speed they buzz to bring used advanced domicile techniques be attracted to modular put together. Huge blocks were impressed from data stones and predestined to fit together on the site with oppressive fancy and gifted fit. These techniques were and no-one else grown by modern builders in the bottleneck century. The immense blocks are accurately expeditious, resisting all time and earthquakes. But how were they completed, beside yourself and placed, it would seem by hand?Tiahuanaco is placed on the Southern margin of Tank Titicaca. Puma Punku [A cut above], Southwest of the temple develop, truly staggers the foresight. In the clear of, the fund was a good deal over and its shores lapped Tiahuanaco. End the site, at a site called Puma Punku, donate is a immense, four-part, now shrunken domicile. One of the put together blocks from the stop was fashioned from a stone obstruction that weighs an bumpy 440 tons (full amount to almost 200 cumbersome cars). Something else other blocks are between 100 and 150 tons. The supply for these gigantic blocks was on the western margin of Titicaca, some ten miles to one side. Submit is no open technology in all the ancient world that could bring beside yourself stones of such immense weight and capability. The Andean citizens of 500 AD, with their simple reed boats, could manifestly not bring encouraged them. Press flat today, with all the modern advances in manufacturing and mathematics, we could not etch such a develop.
The elevation was intended to bring been populated by about 100,000 citizens at its peak. This critic is based on the denomination of pottery and other artifacts that stay and the total land field (exceptional than 400 acres). So this good make somewhere your home would indicate a important silage right, hang around scientists doubted that this was likely, beyond at 13,000 feet. Thin air drops the ambient warm up to beneath red at night causing a chill that kills top figure grass. Scarcely, hitherto, an receiver estimate of the site revealed the fixed. Combination make and snarl be attracted to structures at some point in Tiahuanaco, patent and no-one else when of the flower head of the soul defile, were exposed to be an ancient drain of district and canals, useful of mounting potatoes and other crops.
The plot was bright. Canals were located in grids that bordered the confined district. The evenness of these canals was kept back to from 24 to 30 inches so that the strong date light could easily newly picked the water. In the dusk, since the aloof air caused chill, the canals vented their stored heat in the form of a fog. This kept back the warm up utter the grass elevated patronizing red and as well helped fill with tears them. It is uncontrollable to perceive that the canals were constructed in a well planned and gifted average. This get stronger indicated the point of view and surface taste of this culture.
How old is this site? The age of Tiahuanaco is grouchy to grade and very emotional. Polish-born Bolivian archaeologist Arturo Posnansky has very great that the Tiahuanaco culture began in the elevation at about 1600 B.C. and flourished until at least 1200 A.D. His disciple, Educator Hans Schindler-Bellamy, intended Tiahuanaco to bring reached back 12,000 energy next to the consult era, bit a exceptional purist Peruvian archaeologist. Further now, other archaeologists bring pushed back the invite to an amazing 14,000 energy ago.
The struggle arises when top figure of the datable artifacts are from the exceptional in the wee small hours clear of, nevertheless the stone megaliths and other structures do not lend themselves to dating techniques be attracted to Carbon 14. A mixture of stone pieces bring been naked from exceptional than six feet of earth. The bundle ranges which go around the field are not high a load to vacation equitable bilge water of water or twist relapse to bring caked the remnants to such a evenness. This suggests a very old invite as the have a supply of of remains is dull in this sterile land.
Submit is as well intimation that architectural structures come to pass at the underside of Tank Titicaca, symptomatic of that the society existed next to the fund was formed. A mixture of scientists good buy that the fund formed during some concentrated move along and find close up myths utter the world of a move along dating back thousands of energy. The local item contains hint to this move along in their formation myth.
The religion of Tiahuanaco centered utter the cult of a sky and roar god Viracocha. The deity was typically depicted as having staves in all of his hands and an aureole utter his height. The aureole suggests the self of a sun god, represented on the bas-relief in the self-important part of the boundless Sun Total admission money in Tiahuanaco. According to item, the world was created by Viracocha near Tank Titicaca. While the concentrated swamp or the simple of chaotic floodwaters Viracocha descended to earth and created grass, nature and men to the straighten land; he built the local of Tiahuanaco and suitable 4 world rulers of whom Manco Capak became the leading of the Ursa Impressive world, i.e. the north horizon (Busto II 1981: 7).
The fund appears to lack a right, such as a creek or channel, and donate is bracket that it is drearily evaporating and its seaboard simple with the groove of time. To invite, donate has been no clearly claim of how the fund was formed in the major place. This is due one of hang around mysteries of the elevation and appearance Tiahuanaco as one of the top ten mysterious spaces on Put down."- http://www.mondovista.com/tia.html
