Brit-Am Megalithic Bulletin Update (7 January, 2015, 16 Tevet, 5775)
Contents:
1. Extensive Ancient Underground Networks Discovered Throughout Europe
2. Radar finds HUNDREDS more megalithic monuments, chapels, and shrines around Stonehenge -
3. Megaliths of Israel. The foundation of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
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1. Extensive Ancient Underground Networks Discovered Throughout Europe
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/extensive-ancient-underground-networks-discovered-throughout-europe-00540
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Archaeologists uncovered thousands of Stone Age underground tunnels, stretching across Europe from Scotland to Turkey, perplexing researchers as to their original purpose.
German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch, in his book, 'Secrets of the Underground Door to an Ancient World' (Original title in German: "Tore zur Unterwelt: Das Geheimnis der unterirdischen Grunnge aus uralter Zeit ...") revealed that tunnels were dug under literally hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over Europe and the fact that so many tunnels have survived ... that the original networks must have been huge.
'In Bavaria in Germany alone we have found 700 metres of these underground tunnel networks. In Styria in Austria we have found 350 metres,' he said. 'Across Europe there were thousands of them - from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.
The tunnels are quite small, measuring only 70cm in width, which is just enough for a person to crawl through. In some places there are small rooms, storage chambers and seating areas.
While many believe Stone Age humans were primitive, incredible discoveries such as the 12,000 year-old temple called Gobekli Tepe in Turkey and Stonehenge in England - which demonstrate advanced astronomical knowledge - indicate that they were not as primitive as many believe.
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2. Radar finds HUNDREDS more megalithic monuments, chapels, and shrines around Stonehenge -
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/top-ten-archaeological-discoveries-2014-002497#sthash.q3gQyzfj.dpuf
In a groundbreaking news release in September 2014, archaeologists revealed the results of a four-year-long project to map the hidden landscape beneath the surface of the Stonehenge environs, and what they found was nothing short of amazing. Through their high-tech devices they could see a landscape teeming with burial mounds, chapels, shrines, pits, and other structures, which had never been seen before. The biggest surprise was a 330 metre long line of up to 60 buried stone pillars, inside the bank of a large, bowl-shaped feature called Durrington Walls, Britain's largest henge, which sits beside the River Avon.
The discovery dramatically alters the prevailing view of Stonehenge as the primary site in the landscape. Instead it presents the Salisbury Plain as a an active religious centre with more than 60 key locations where ancient peoples could carry out sacred rituals and fulfil their religious obligations.
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3. Megaliths of Israel. The foundation of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
http://survincity.com/2012/07/megaliths-of-israel-the-foundation-of-the-temple/
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The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Â A holy place of Israel, for me, interesting for its amazing Tunnel Temple Mount, leading to the foundation. He was dug out in the late 20th century and its main feature is the megalithic masonry, separate blocks which weigh up to 600 tons! Megaliths stacked without solution and have little or no gaps between them.
Herod's Temple was burned and destroyed by the Roman emperor Titus in 70 AD Currently Only fragment outside the Western Wall of the temple, which in Hebrew is called "haKotel haMaaravi." As of today - this is the most sacred building of the Jewish people. To her flock to pray for deliverance and renewal.
Next to the Temple Mount excavations in recent years of the XX century discovered the invisible part of the Western Wall and the remains of ancient streets and buildings of the city. From the open part of the Temple Mount goes underground long tunnel, which is called differently, Tunnel of the Temple Mount and the Kotel Tunnel, not quite right, the Hasmonean Tunnel.
In this tunnel you can see the giant stone blocks, "megaliths", weighing up to 600 tons, the production and the construction of which is attributed to Herod. Used in their construction masonry, typical megalithic the lack of slots and a cementitious material. Building blocks were fitted tightly together. The size of one of the largest megalithic blocks in the Kotel Tunnel is 4h4h11-13m (various sources), and the weight of 500-600 tons! Underneath it are megalithic blocks of smaller size, and on top, later masonry, most likely the time of Solomon, Herod (formerly the IV. Century BC - I century AD)
The nearest similar archaeological site is located 85 km north-east of Beirut, in Lebanon, in the fertile Bekaa Valley, in the town of Baalbek. This - the magnificent ruins of which are called the Temple of Jupiter. Once - it was one of the most sacred places on Earth, but in our time of Baalbek all forgotten for thirty years of war and terrorism. It is the capital of the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Ancient history Baalbek is unknown. At the reign of Augustus the city was turned into a Roman colony and had a Roman garrison. There were several places of worship were built, but the most significant and most majestic ruins are larger temple of Jupiter, which was built in the Roman period by the Emperor Nero.
Compared with the temple of Jupiter, the Parthenon in Athens, it may seem a dwarf. But no matter how glorious temple of Jupiter, the foundation on which it rests, pre-Roman buildings, built of enormous blocks of stone, even more grand. It consists of blocks of stone. In the south-eastern wall of the temple grounds are nine series. Each unit is about the size of 11h4, 6-3, 3 m weights, respectively, more than 300 tons. At the same level in the adjoining south-west wall has six 300-ton stones, over which are three huge megalithic blocks, called Trilithon or Miracle of three stones. Three granite block Trilithon sixth visible form of masonry walls. Each of these incredibly huge stones reaches an average length of 21 meters, a height of 5 meters and a width of 4 meters. They weigh 800 tons each!
On a large scale Trilithon can be judged by the value of the largest bloc, known as the "Southern rock" ... It weighs about 1,000 tons.
If you compare the foundations of the Temple of Jerusalem and Baalbek, then immediately catch the eye the same technology and the installation of megaliths: straight and level surface, precise installation, the rectangular holes on the sides of the blocks, which appears to have been used for transporting them.
It is clear that in both cases the builders upper superstructure, temples, used by the ancient foundation.
... Among other things, we have no evidence that the Romans possessed the technology with which could transport blocks of stone weighing 800 tons. Moreover, there is no evidence that would prove that any known civilizations possessed technique with which to raise such huge rocks!