5.3 – ALIEN POWER PLANTS (1.4.13)

SOURCE OF ANCIENT ELECTRICITY ^[4b]

The Western Stone, Jerusalem, Israel. 1.2 million pounds. The Rammeseum statue, Thebes, Egypt. Two million pounds. The Trilithon at the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon. 4.8 million pounds. All over the world, ancient sites reveal engineering feats that mainstream archaeologists believe were achieved with slave labor and simple tools.

“The reason why I am convinced that sophisticated technology was implemented in these ancient rocks is because if we go to a stone quarry today and look at the scope of machinery required to accomplish similar things, well, those machines are huge. They’re power machines. Powerful tools. And if the mainstream archaeology explanation is given that all of this stuff was accomplished with obsidian or with chicken bones…I’m sorry, it doesn’t hold up.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

“There are temples that are built using blocks that range from 50 to 200 tons. They’re just far too big for people who didn’t have the wheel, who didn’t have the pulley, who didn’t have any facilities to move these blocks. So, to me, there is a mystery there that needs to be explained. Either a technology that we don’t understand, or, if one wants to go very speculative, an external influence.” – Robert Bauval (Egyptologist), (Author, The Egypt Code), (Author, Secret Chamber Revisited), (Co-Author, Black Genesis)

But could the strength of men alone have been enough to manage such colossal efforts? Or did these marvels of engineering require something more?

Stone Valley Materials Quarry; Riverside, California. February, 2012. A massive 680,000-pound granite monolith is prepped to travel over 100 miles to become part of an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Workers from 100 utility crews, a 1.4 million pound crane, and a 44-axel tractor-trailer rig with over 2,400 horsepower are needed to move the rock.

“It’s going to require hydraulically jacking the boulder up off the ground, which is incredibly difficult in itself, building steel girders underneath it, placing 208 tires underneath those steel girders, having one power unit pulling it and one pushing it, and still, after all of that, only achieving about five miles an hour.” – Stephen Vanderhart (Co-Owner, Stone Valley Materials)

The boulder, called “Levitated Mass,” is a gigantic payload by modern construction standards…but it is small when compared to many of the solid blocks moved by ancient builders.

“From my perspective, it is almost impossible to take the 340 ton rock and move it without modern day technology. It baffles my mind. I have no idea. It’s crazy to think about.” – Stephen Vanderhart (Co-Owner, Stone Valley Materials)

How did our ancestors move monoliths, some over five times the size of Levitated Mass without the aid of high-powered machines? Researchers believe the ancients not only used power to move solid stone, but to cut it as well. And the evidence can be found on a remote cliff face buried in the Andes Mountains.

Ollantaytambo, Peru. The walls of this ancient mountain stronghold tell the story of what some experts believe to have been thousands of craftsmen, shaping and cutting solid stone with a precision that today could only be matched with high-powered machine tools.

“We find huge cube-like sections of stone andesite, which is very hard have been removed from the mountain with such accuracy that that we can’t find a scratch in the surface. The corners, also, are not sharp they’re perfectly rounded and no one can explain how this could have been achieved. The ability to fit perfectly fitting stones of several tons in weight together so that a single human hair can’t fit in between them is not a question of sweat or man hours. It’s a question of technology.” – Brien Foerster (Expert, Inca and Pre-Incan Civilizations), (Author, A Brief Introduction of the Inca), (Elongated Skulls of Peru & Bolivia), (Nazca: Decoding the Riddles of the Lines)

“It’s really done to perfection. And not just perfection with small blocks of stone, but with blocks of stone weighing many, many tons. I believe that Ollantaytambo is evidence of really advanced human civilization on Earth that was world-wide and had power tools.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

But if our ancestors really used sophisticated tools that ran on some sort of power, might there have been other applications of this technology, beyond moving and cutting stone?

“All over the world we have extraordinarily advanced civilizations with urban systems. The things we have today in delivery systems for water, for handling waste, pumps, very sophisticated farming and agriculture techniques that they should not have had given the level of technology they worked with.” – Bill Birnes, J.D., Ph.D. (Author / Publisher, UFO Magazine)

“The only thing that we have leftover is the original stone that all these ancient structures were built in. Everything else that was built on top of it, that had to do potentially with electrical components, that has disappeared because only stone withstands the test of time.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

Is it possible that the most dominant civilizations of antiquity were able to achieve such status because of energy-driven technologies? And if so, what was the source of that power? Perhaps clues may be found among ancient Mesopotamian artifacts.

The National Museum of Iraq. In 1938, the museum director discovers terra cotta pots and copper cylinders in the archives that may have been used as galvanic cells. The nearly 2,000-year-old devices called “Baghdad Batteries” are believed to predate the invention of the cell battery by more than 1,000 years. Archaeologists speculate they may have been used to electroplate gold onto silver for decorative jewelry.

“The Baghdad Battery that we’ve currently found in Iraq, about a dozen of them, it can generate around four volts. Now, a current modern-day flashlight could be run by a nine-volt battery. So, if we think of a Baghdad Battery around this size generating four volts, what if we increased the size to around six feet? That might generate 20, 30, 50 volts and have the sufficient power to actually utilize energy in a way that we do today.” – Jason Martell (Founder, AncientSchool), (Author, Knowledge Apocalypse)

Mainstream scientists agree that the Baghdad Battery is evidence ancient man had the means to create power and the understanding of how to apply it. But is there proof of even more complex devices that may have run on electricity? 370 miles south of the Giza Plateau stands the Hathor Temple. Approximately 4,000 years old, the halls of this monument are lined with curious images, but one relief depicts what many Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe to be proof that the ancients used power. They call it “The Dendera Bulb.”

“Here is a replica of the bulb that’s shown in the Dendera reliefs in Egypt. What’s interesting about this bulb is the fact that on the wall relief, we see the bulb is actually plugged into what appears to be a power source.” – Jason Martell (Founder, AncientSchool), (Author, Knowledge Apocalypse)

“The whole idea that the ancient Egyptians had some kind of electrical lighting, and this was something that happened in probably temples around the world. It baffles Egyptologists how people deep underground would be able to paint these ceilings without fires and lights. Their explanation right now is that they used a complex system of mirrors to move light, at just a few minutes during the day, down deep inside these tombs. But another explanation, of course, would be they actually had electrical lights.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

Did our ancestors have an understanding of how to generate power thousands of years before modern man?  Or is it possible that they received the knowledge from some otherworldly source, as some Ancient Astronaut Theorists contend?

“Electricity is one of those things that ancient cultures seem to be harnessing in ways that we still can’t wrap our brain around. So, it’s very possible that when we look at things like electricity, where would they get this information?” – Jason Martell (Founder, AncientSchool), (Author, Knowledge Apocalypse)

“We have all sorts of stories, mythologies and legends that could be interpreted as gods who, in reality, were misinterpreted extraterrestrials gifting man with technology in the form of power. For example, when God said, “Let there be light” in the Old Testament, or when Prometheus gave fire to man. The Burning Bush and the Eternal Flame at the Temple of Apollo, all of that conceivably could have been technology.  The question is not if they used power, the question is where did they get the knowledge with which they created the power?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

Is there really evidence among the ruins of ancient civilizations that man had access to sophisticated technologies that ran on power? If so, where are the mysterious power plants that generated the energy? Perhaps they’re still here, hiding in plain sight.

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