Posted on 03/25/2015 11:41:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
On a remote Pacific island not much bigger than Manhattan, there are ancient pyramids built out of living coral. New evidence reveals that these tombs could be up to 700 years old much older than experts had previously thought.
The royal tombs are tucked away in an artificially built ancient city called Leluh just off the mainland of Kosrae, a Micronesian island. Leluh was home to Kosraean high chiefs (as well as some lower chiefs and commoners, too) from about 1250 until the mid-1800s, when foreign whalers, traders and missionaries started to arrive on the island.
With impressive canals and walled compounds built from basalt, Leluh is often considered a companion city to the more famous Micronesian settlement of Nan Madol, on the nearby island of Pohnpei. While the tiny islets of Nan Madol were built on top of a coral reef, at Leluh, coral was actually incorporated into the construction material of many buildings, including the royal tombs.
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re: the cargo cults:
You mean, like so many of the ancient indigenous religions?
Ha! I knew it! You’re a secret Ancient Alienist!
PS. After seeing that pic, today, of that amazon dude with the earphones and boom mike, I’m not so sure I’m not one too now. Is there a secret handshake or code phrase I should know?
Someday he's gonna come back and give the people a PX crammed full of American stuff!
Normally, yes, but you don’t have enough fingers on both hands to do the handshake right.
Nice imitation uniforms!
Dang!
Betrayed again by my parents’ lack of proper illegal alien from outspace jeans.
Well when someone shows me how to quarry, move, float, host and place thousands of 10 - 50 ton basalt logs quarried, lifted and transported from islands, across the ocean, and into precise elevated placement at the site using stone age technology, I’ll stop thinking the natives are telling the truth when they say they didn’t do it. Because to me, a flying machine with a hot exhaust is exactly what one of these natives would call a dragon. And those stones are so heavy they’d make assembly even today staggeringly difficult, if not impossible. That’s just a fact. To me, that’s called a mystery, but I’m easy.
They were just clobbered by a typhoon.
Nan MadolThe ruins of Leluh are right on an island.
Don’t stick around for the anal probe.
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