How did the Ancient Egyptians carve and move their megalithic obelisks? Here’s a thread with some clues showing how they might have done it…

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

It turns out that while at Joe Rogan, Ben showed the modern replica core instead of the famous Petrie core #7... Turns out the modern bow-drilled core is exactly identical to the one in the museum, proving that there is no mystery on how it was done. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=sscwoWtV…

Nuclear physicist: "There's no such thing as precise ancient Egyptian vases." Max Zamilov (@MaxZamilov) analyzed countless vases from multiple sources, including museums and private collections. Here's why "precise" vases are most often modern handmade fakes:

This is the third in a series of videos exposing @Megalithic12000's fake Incan history. This video critiques his claim that the Incans did not have the engineering skills to build the megalithic structures. youtu.be/3xzXbxYXoao

The view from atop the Maya La Danta pyramid of the sprawling pre-classic city of El Mirador. It’s one of the world’s largest pyramids, slightly bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, but only the upper temple is exposed, where most of the foundation is still covered by jungle.

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Some were mounted on the tips of royal scepters, and broadly speaking there were symbolic connections to lightning with eccentrics and obsidian, but the symbolism beyond that really depends on the specific shapes and iconography being represented

What was the purpose of these Maya eccentrics? Do the shapes and faces have a symbolic meaning? Seen at Museo de Arqueología Maya, Copán, Honduras.

Exposing @Megalithic12000's fake Incan history. Thanks to @FlintDibble @DrDavidMiano @SoilManDan @adancingferret @PeterBrandEgypt @Majora__Z @JosephAPWilson1 @AUSegyptology @DrHughT @sdhaddow @JasonColavito for sources & support & especially @TonyTrupp. youtu.be/rbWMWIvsUoQ

Seeing as the term ‘hunter-gatherer’ is too confusing for some, I suggest we rebrand it to: Eatie Eatie wild plants & meaty Happy to workshop other suggestions

In this “New Technologies in Ancient History” video, @DrDavidMiano gives a good breakdown of the Ancient Egyptian vase study by @DrZamilov, which revealed that the precise private collection vases are statistically outliers when compared to the authentic vases from museum collections. “His overall conclusion now though is that the most precise vases are not from predynastic and dynastic egypt, but are consistent with modern techniques, while authentic ancient ones reflect skilled hamd craftsmanship” youtu.be/3W7cwTfhlt0?t=302

​Something I was looking for but missed while visiting Machu Picchu is this example of an elongated stone roller underneath one of the megaliths. I had seen these other spherical stone rollers in a museum, but was hoping to also get a shot of something like that being used. Source: youtu.be/2bv3lURfTNE?t=1332

The Mayan Stele F of Quiriguá, Guatamala, dating to 766 AD. Photo by Alfred Percival Maudslay, British explorer and archaeologist, late 1880s–1890s.

I don't understand how they keep doing this! "The inca were too primitive to make sachsayhuaman" right next to "Prehistoric people are underestimated." How do they think these two things at once?!

calling yourself the “Comet Research Group” because “Confirmation Bias Group” would have been too on the nose