Posted on 02/02/2011 7:29:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In Morocco, not far from the Atlantic coast and away from major tourist attractions, lies a remarkable and enigmatic megalithic site. The Mzora stone ring (also spelled variously as Msoura/Mezorah) is situated roughly 11km from the nearest town of Asilah and about 27km from the ruins of ancient Lixus. It is not easy to reach and a small display in the archaeological museum at Tetouan is the most the majority of visitors see or hear of this very interesting site.
Plutarch, in the first century CE, may have referred to Mzora in his Life of Sertorius. He describes the Roman General Quintus Sertorius being told by local inhabitants about a site they knew as the tomb of the giant Antaeus who had been killed by Hercules. There are many other ancient accounts that place the tomb of Antaeus in close proximity to both Lixus and Tangier and it is quite plausible that Mzora is the inspiration behind these stories.
The site itself is a Neolithic ellipse of 168 surviving stones of the 175 originally believed to have existed.
(Excerpt) Read more at stonepages.com ...
"Edited from Lost Cities & Remote Places (13 January 2011), The Heritage Journal (27 January 2011)"
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(More pictures at this site, slow loading though)
Fascinating and reminds me of a code.
Common religion, math, language???
Thanks!
looks like they marked every degree in a circle.
Amazing! Thanks for the sleuthing.
OGaDogga: Hey, Umak, my cousin, the Scottish Pict says the guys up in Britain are using trees nowaday to build their henges. Takes a lot less work than these damn stones.
Umak: Take a good look around you, OGaDogga. You see any trees? Never believe anything from a guy who’d paint his face blue.
Looks like someone was trying to learn quadratic equations by graphing conic sections.
It almost looks like they may have been guided by a magnetic north instead of true north. However, in “recent” times, the declination is about 10 degrees east, so the opposite of this circle. (Found some calculations all the way back to 1000 BC!)
I need to read the article, but it may have been quite different if it is 10,000 years old.
But because each length is different, apparently unintentionally, it gives it the appearance of a code, no?
You may be right. More coffee may produce a stronger concurrence as the morning advances...
According to the article this site shares design features with megaliths in Britain. The article also says this important site is currently unprotected.
“His last job was in the Sahara Forest.” “Don’t you mean the Sahara desert?” “Sure, *now*.”
May have been the inspiration for the ST:TNG pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint”.
Lauding a lot of alliteration, ‘lam.
The problem with megalithic structures is, they often appear to be made by a common culture, but there’s no record left by the builders, anywhere these things are found. Another problem is, maybe they aren’t from a common culture, but just look so similar because they are often unshaped stones stood on end or piled up, not a difficult idea to come up with.
The crowning phase of Stonehenge appears to have been followed fairly closely by abandonment of the site, with no further development during the last century or so of use. The last construction on the site was about 1600 BC. By contrast, Mystery Hill a.k.a. “America’s Stonehenge” in New Hampshire yielded radiocarbon results of 2000 BC (iow, it wasn’t built during colonial times, unless they had time machines back then), and the Arctic “Red Paint” cairn-building and such dates five or seven thousand years before Mystery Hill (hence, probably unrelated).
If Morocco wanted more tourists, they’d be sure to tout this site, fence it, etc.
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