The Megaliths

In Lebanon, in a place called Baalbek, are several huge carved stones. They are ancient. It's one thing to carve and shape rock without using metal, but it's quite another to then move said block of stone ...weighing over 1000 tons. Comprising a nearby wall in fact there are other stones weighing 800 tons each. This is truly puzzling. The largest land-based cranes in the world today can only lift 200 tons.

These cyclopean stones are certainly not Roman. The square cut Roman stones are heaped on top of them by the Arabs or Crusaders, whoever turned the ruins into a medieval fortress.

With respect to architecture and moving large stones, there is also the mystery of ancient Egyptian temples and famous monuments, such as The Sphinx, to consider. However, in the middle of the Mediterranean, is the island of Malta and its megalithic structures. Adding to their mysterious construction, and not to mention the strange Cart Ruts, are the thousands of elongated human skulls found originally deep inside - and now removed.

Across the ocean, in Costa Rica are the enigmatic Stone Balls, perfect spheres, weighing up to 30 tons each - now modern lawn ornaments. Further south and west, in Bolivia, in a place called Tiahuanaco, located on the shores of Lake Titicaca, and carved upon an ancient wall, comprising the famed 45 ton Sun Gate, is a calendar, which they claim dates this civilization as early as 16,000 BC. There are only ruins left now at Tiahuanaco.



Tiahuanaco is found at a height of some 13,000 feet, and lies on a plateau that looks like the surface of a foreign planet. Many of Tihuanaco’s buildings were constructed of massive finished stones, many tons in weight, that were placed in such a manner that only a people with advanced engineering methods could have designed and transported them.

According to Incan mythology, after a catastrophic flood, it was from Lake Titicaca that the creator god Viracoca rose up to create the sun, moon, stars, and first human beings. Recently, a large temple was discovered submerged in the lake, adding to its mystery and fascination.



The ruins at Tiahuanaco are intriguing. Between 10 to 20 thousand years ago, in the Neolithic era, Tiwanaku was apparently in its glory. The massive fallen stones which were used to build this massive city now lie oddly scattered about, seemingly tossed about. The stones are so large that even today, it would be a technological marvel to take them from the mountainous quarry they were brought from, fifty miles away.

Adding to the dilemma... there is evidence that Titicaca was once a saltwater sea. Its shoreline is littered with millions of fossilized seashells. The marine fishes and seahorses in the lake are all oceanic types found only in salt water. Some researchers are convinced that these 3-mile high ruins once lay at sea level.