Mike Collins
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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Right.
But when you get to these places with megalithic construction, you know that this is the original state of the site. 100%, beyond a shadow of a doubt, this is what this looked like however long ago when it was made. Because this couldn't have been moved. No one's moved it. And we can't recreate that. So...
It makes it really difficult because you go around the world to places like the Great Wall and you go to the tourist areas, it's all redone. For the most part, you're not looking at anything original anymore. You go to places like... It's sad. It's sad to see. I go to Egypt and you look at the Sphinx. They're completely encasing the Sphinx in modern stone.
to the shape of the Sphinx, but they're covering it with modern stone. So I don't know how much longer it's gonna take for them to complete that, but the original shape and structure of the Sphinx will be gone. It's gonna be 100% gone when they finish, if they're not done.
Yeah, there's no way to know for 100% of fact that it was like that when it was originally built.
Yeah, and it's a pile of rubble. Here's the other thing is that's not the oldest picture. There's pictures of it in greater states of ruin with trees growing out of it as well.
That's supposed to be a photograph, I believe.
that serpent on the solstice but if they're actually adding stones to it and changing what the exterior looked like for the serpent to do what it does now they would have had to rebuild the site so that they they they wouldn't have been able to just excavate it and clear it and then have that happen
Right, yeah.
Yeah, which is what I believe they did.
More than likely.
Yeah, Chichen Itza is a great example because there is documented proof here showing the state of ruin that it was found in. and it did not look like it looks today. And that's the case for the majority of the sites.
It took me quite a while of traveling the world to realize that a lot of times, not only am I not seeing what I think I'm seeing in terms of what this is, it's been completely reconstructed, but a lot of times what you're seeing that people don't even realize that they're seeing is plaster molds at sites. covering up entire faces and portions of structures. It's plaster molding and casing.
There's quite a few sites in Belize like that. So it's not even stone. But Chichen Itza is a great example because that is one where it's, like we were saying, the serpent that comes down the stairs and stuff, That's not, they didn't, none of that was happening. None of that was happening when they found the site. I mean, look at the site. That's a great picture of before and after.
The place was in total ruin, and it was a pile of rubble.
The outside of the structure has been encased, and a lot of times what you'll see, I've seen, I've gone to places in various stages of reconstruction all over the world, and a lot of times what you'll see is behind these stones and the outside of the structure, take Chichen Itza here for example, if you removed some of these outside exterior blocks, right behind it is just a pile of rubble.
They filled up... Does that make sense? So they filled it up with piles of rock.
So if you peeled off everything from the bottom right picture, you'd get what's on the left. It's been reconstructed, the tops of it and around it. But the most extensive amount of damage has been done to the exterior of the pyramid going down. So that's, even in that picture there, on the left, those stone steps, that's recreated. So that's not excavated, they built that.
And then they built, you can see if you go back down to that picture, you can see, do you see any snake heads there? Because I don't.
And I don't see any railing going up alongside those steps. It's all recreated.
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