Paths Unwritten

Practical Guides to Archaeology Travel, Historical Monuments, and the Ancient Cultures Who Built Them. #archaeology #travel

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Located 1 hour away from the famous Leshan Giant Buddha, the Rongxian Giant Buddha is 36.67 meters tall (roughly half the height of its Leshan counterpart). The seated rock-cut statue dates from the Tang Dynasty and depicts the Sakyamuni Buddha.

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@4gottnHistory You have zero positive evidence for your claim, either. Until such time as you do, there is no reason to discount the theory most supported by the available evidence.

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@Megalithicmyste @East10Outpost Why do all these psueudoarch YouTubers think no one has been to the temple of the moon? You can literally hop off the tourist bus outside of Cusco and walk there in five to ten minutes. You aren’t making some grand discovery.

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@DrDavidMiano An outside perspective is great for critiquing internal viewpoints and provides a good dialectic.

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@derek__olson This is a temple built in the 1200s CE by a culture that had a fully functional iron industry, centuries of contact with China and India and written about by regional contemporaries including the early Thais, the Chana, and the maritime Indonesian empires.

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@Iz77491 @derek__olson No one suggests that. This is a temple built in the 1200s CE by a culture that had a fully functional iron industry, centuries of contact with China and India and written about by regional contemporaries including the early Thais, the Chana, and the maritime Indonesian empires.

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@Megalithic12000 There are no ‘secrets’. There is research into monuments and sites still being done, but intentionally positioning them as hidden is just poisoning the well.

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@Megalithic12000 The Uyghur Khanganate was a mostly settled civilization, not purely nomads like the Xiongnu and Mongols. They built relatively similar fortified cities through the eastern steppe of Mongolia and China.

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@Michael80519393 @archeohistories Is this the first post you ever seen from this account? It’s something that is advocated often.

There is no mystery here.

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@Michael80519393 @archeohistories That's what they're implying by 'archaeologists can't explain the similarities'.

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@Clif1956 @TheSkepticWiz "this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them."

The verse doesn't say he's angry at humans being prideful, only that he doesn't like that they're working together in a productive way. He's just being a dick.

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@Clif1956 @TheSkepticWiz If peace and cooperation are a such sin or a threat to this god's fragile ego, then he really is a whiny, petulant tyrant rather than a moral and just being.

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@Clif1956 @TheSkepticWiz “The Lord said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language”

He didn’t want them working together

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@Roderickrodder @MichaelButtonX So if you're ok with accepting a biologist to study rocks, what do you make of the original claims from a 'psychic' that originated the whole Bimini Road debacle?

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@Roderickrodder @MichaelButtonX They're rocks, so presumably someone with relevant qualifications in a field like geology. Hancock never provides any reasoning for bringing a biologist to look at rocks in the show.

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@UnearthedHQ Posting fake AI images now, huh?

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@TheProjectUnity This site is certainly not closed off to the public. You can literally just get off the bus and walk there from Q'enqo and then walk inside.