| Season 1 - Before The Egyptians Tiahuanacu - Show #11  Tiahuanacu is a very mysterious prehistoric ruined city, apparently an ancient harbour, located in the Bolivian Andes some 15 miles from Lake Titicaca, currently 12,500 feet above sea-level. In the port area of Tiahuanacu, known as Puma Punka, enormous stone blocks weighing between 100 and 150 tons
now lie scattered.
One of the construction blocks from which the pier was fashioned weighs an estimated 440 tons (equal to nearly 600 full-size cars). Arthur Posnansky of the University of La Paz, Bolivia excavated Tiahuanacu extensively between 1900 and 1940. He made a careful study of the principal alignments of the site and, after applying the accepted astronomical formula for calculating regular slow changes in the earth's obliquity, concluded that the very large megalithic corner-stones of the Kalasasaya enclosure were originally set up to mark the points of sunrise and sunset on the winter and summer solstices as far back as 17,000 years ago. Such a date would explain the depiction of elephants and toxodons - extinct for 12,000 years. |