Mike Collins
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first heard Jan 2025
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Which they are still digging and finding. But
That's crazy. Yeah. And we don't even, you know, most people assume that there's, like I was saying before, like most people assume that some
team of specialists and experts and archaeologists are sitting there sorting through every stone and trying to find and place them right back into their proper position that's not what's going on right right that's not at all what's going on in the reconstruction of these sites that's depressing i'll tell you so when you're traveling through mexico what you want to look for is first of all look for mortar because they'll use mortar and different stuff
and look for little dots. So in between the stones and the bricks, when they put these little dots in to the seams, it shows that it's been reconstructed. It's a signifying mark that they leave to show the reconstruction portions versus the original. And so when you go through Mexico and different places in Central America, you'll find that something to look for.
And I wish I had a shot to show you, but if there's any kind of close-up shots you can find at Teotihuacan or probably even Chichen Itza, you'll find those dot patterns. And that's an area that's been reconstructed. And so the areas that are not reconstructed and that are original don't have that dot patterning between the stones and brick and stuff. But yeah, it is depressing.
And then you have things like what's happening at Longview Caves and different places where they're actively, purposely and intentionally changing the site.
I mean, Stonehenge is an original. Stonehenge is in its original shape. It's not like we found Stonehenge that way. I don't think most people know that. But Stun Hinge was reconstructed. We don't know that it was in that shape and stacked the way it was. When was it restacked? I think sometime around the turn of the century or 1900s, maybe. I mean, there's photographic evidence.
Just blocks lying around? Yeah. Wow. And then using and lifting them with cranes. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize that. Yeah, and placing them like that. So there's a bigger picture to all of this stuff around the world. So it's not... You know, there you go.
This is the price. This is the price you pay for peeking behind the curtain. And I can't, I can't emphasize to people enough that, The level of perspective that, you know, there's been arguments I've argued with people in the community about the importance of seeing things in person.
And one person specifically saying that it's not important that they can look at pictures and determine things for themselves. And you're wrong. you're absolutely wrong. You get a greater sense of perspective. You understand things better. You're seeing things in person. And I encourage anybody that's able to, to do it, to go see things in person. If you can, if you have the opportunity, do it.
Because it will change you. It will change your perspective on the world and things. And you're right, it is depressing. But it does give you a greater understanding of how important it is to question everything, to document things when you can, because they're not going to stay the same.
The Sphinx that I've seen in my lifetime is not going to be the same Sphinx that the next generation is going to see. unfortunately. And for people who decide to, somebody out there maybe seeing this episode and decides that they want to go see Longyu Caves and explore China, it's going to be a very different China than the one that I saw just five, six years ago.
The more practical thing to do is to leave all these sites in the state that they're in. I fail to see how reconstruction Chichen Itza is from archeological perspectives provides us any benefit at all. There's no archeological, what is the archeological benefit of building on top of that site or encasing the Sphinx? Yeah, just tourism.
What is the, and I'd love for somebody in the archeological community to please answer that question. What is the archeological benefit of encasing the Sphinx in modern stone? What is the benefit to that? Well, it's only money. It's only turning it into a more appealing visual tourist attraction. That is it.
Because if archaeologists really cared about these sites, they would be fighting against restoration in the terms of encasing these places in stone, changing the structure and the shape in which they're found in, recreating and rebuilding them into some approximation of what they think it used to be. And not taking the time.
If they said that they were halting excavation at Gobekli Tepe to slow down the process and look at every single pebble individually and try to place them together so that they were actually genuinely recreating the site, that'd be one thing. But they're not doing that. That's not what's going on. They're controlled by money and it's about money.
So these guys work for and say what they're paid to say ultimately. Now, maybe there was no handshake and agreement that was that specific, but that's what's going on here. If they don't toe the line, they don't get funding.
Because clearly it's a pyramid, right? And then clearly you can establish that you have tears, yes.
Yeah, trust the expert, bro.
Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, they're pulling off, there's plenty of examples of,
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