Comments by "Mentat" (@_Mentat) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

I've watched all Unchartedx's videos and he makes some persuasive points not rebutted in this video, viz : 1) how was the schist disk manufactured, 2) some of the overcuts don't seem intentional and would not be made with handtools, and 3) how were the boxes in the Serapeum moved along the tunnels and lowered into the alcoves?
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@armcie5080 I'm not really convinced. The builders seem to have had capabilities we don't yet understand. The schist disk looks like the schist has been cut and folded; impossible for us since schist is brittle. A rock softener would explain a lot of what the builders achieved; especially if they really were using copper tools. And I'm not buying "seaweed". You can't get many people into those tunnels even if the friction is reduced and seaweed is not going to help lower 40 ton boxes by 10 feet into their alcoves. You may have made overcuts with hand tools, but they weren't two feet long. If you're progressing at an inch a day then you will notice an error long before you've gone far wrong. There are buzzsaw type mistakes on some of the statues. A lot of what the builders did, they seem to have done because that was the easiest way. Why carry a thousand one-ton rocks when you can with less effort carry one thousand-ton rock? Assuming you have some easy way of carrying rocks. Why build and bury fifty-ton sarcophagi anyway, unless it was no great effort. They're not full of gold! Those bulls didn't need massive stone boxes. They could have made little pharaoh style tombs if they wanted to bury bulls with ceremony. Everything the builders did, they seem to have done the most difficult way possible - unless they had techniques unknown to us.
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Do an image search of "priest with aspergillum and aspersorium" to see these "buckets" and "pine cones" in modern use. The Catholic church still uses them.
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There are two layers in the geological record that show evidence of prior advanced fossil fuel using civilizations: the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and the Eocene Layer of Mysterious Origin (ELMO). These are 56 million years and 50 million years old respectively. Both show a sudden rise in global temperature and a sudden rise in Carbon-12 in the atmosphere. But you can forget about finding a 50 million year old car; they would all be dust. As for the cities: being scrapped by ice sheets and subducted under other tectonic plates tends to wipe the archeological record. (It goes without saying the PETMers and ELMOites were not human; probably not even mammals.)
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Cataclysm theory turned out to be right. A giant meteor really did extinguish the dinosaurs; another one really did cause the Younger Dryas. When I was at school the dinosaurs all died of "climate change". Turns out that was right - a sudden fiery change.
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Hancock's core premise, that sea levels have risen so archeology needs to go underwater to find the pre-ancient cities, is proven. The current dogma that civilization arose simultaneously in several parts of the world is likely untrue and just an artifact of that sea level rise.
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@twonumber22 The 30,000 years ago civilization is a recent theory of Hancock's from his most recent book America Before . In fact he posits humans in America go back 100,000 years. His seminal work Fingerprints of the Gods did not make claims of such antiquity. Regarding ET origins, I haven't seen any evidence he believes this; also he avoids any suggestion that the people of the theorized ancient civilization were not H. sapiens, which would have been possible 100 Kya.
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Science advances over the bodies of dead scientists. (Paraphrasing Max Planck.)
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