Megalithic Marvels - Unearthing the Royal Kurgan

Episode Date: March 1, 2021

Host Derek Olson, takes listeners on a journey back in time to 1837 for the unearthing of one of the greatest megalithic marvels ever discovered between Europe & Asia. SHOW NOTES Strange markings at Saywite, Peru   Great Pyramid video  Youtube channel 

Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Derek Olson of Megalithic Marvels here to reconstruct the prehistoric past with you yet again. So in this episode, we're going to travel back in time to 1837 for the unearthing of one of the greatest megalithic marvels ever discovered between Europe and Asia. So get ready for that. But before we get to it, I want to tell you about a few insights. insightful things that I've recently featured on our Instagram account. And I just so you know, you don't have to have an Instagram account to view these. You can just go to Instagram.com forward slash megalithic marvels. So anyway, I recently posted a photo from a location known as Sewhite in Peru. And this is a site that is known for some pretty amazing ancient megalithic architecture. But in the photo you'll see I posted was something I had never seen. before and it's really insane on the side of one of these ancient stone megalithic structures

is a very strange design that appears to be literally cut into the rock with almost a laser-like precision it's really thin it snakes down from one line into two and then there's these two strange rectangular objects on the ends of each so i would love to know what you think might have been going on in this photo when the ancient architect or builder was creating this. So please leave a comment on that photo. Also on Instagram, I recently featured a short video of really rarely seen footage from a fellow explorer who was just on a tour in Egypt and visited the Great Pyramid. And in this highlight reel, you will see this explorer is exiting the Great Pyramid from deep inside its bowels and traveling all the way out into the daylight where you see the outside of the structure.

A really rare video, amazing to see the deeper inside of the pyramid. So check that out on Instagram.com forward slash megalithic marvels. Or you can click the link below in the show notes of this podcast to see both of those. well let's travel back in time to 1837 for the unearthing of one of the greatest megalithic marvels ever discovered between Europe in Asia February 1837 Kirch Crimea after several years of exhaustive excavation trying to find a way inside the giant earthen mound archaeologist Anton Ashik and his weary team of explorers finally opened the hidden entrance

to one of the greatest megalithic marvels ever discovered between Europe and Asia, what has come to be known as the royal Kyrgyn. As a light pierced through the dank darkness, what Anton saw next probably left him utterly speechless.

He would later describe this once in a lifetime experience as follows. quote, huge walls form the entrance to the tomb. The mound consists of a tomb in a long corridor made of rusticated slabs. The burial chamber is built on a rock. In plan it is almost square. The walls consist of ten rows of masonry. At the level of the fifth row, they gradually turn into a stepped circular dome.

The chamber height is almost nine masonry. meters, end quote. Now, Kurgan is a Russian ward that means burial mound, and this mound stands almost 65 feet high. Many layers of clay, algae, rubble stones cover the inner structure beneath and protect it from erosion by atmospheric precipitation. The entrance is located on the south side of the mound, and the stonework is made of this yellowish limestone. In 1856, a Swiss artist named Carlo Basoli visited the Royal Curgan and painted his experience. When you look at this photograph, you'll see that Carlo was seated deep inside the far end of the mound in what is known as the tomb, and he was painting the view he saw looking out towards the southward entrance.

In this photograph, notice the precision. mortalist architecture. The long corridor made of rusticated slabs and how it gradually merges into the circular shaped, corbled dome. Archaeologist Anton Ashach also wrote,

quote, if you look back from the chamber of the tomb, you will find that the exit appears to be much further than the distance to the tomb outside. This effect was achieved by the unequaled width and non-parallelism of the walls of the Dromos.

It is likely that the ancient Greeks sought to achieve this effect on purpose. The path to the afterlife is close, but the way out of it seems so far, end quote. Now, Anton obviously assumed, based on his testimony, that the ancient Greeks built this structure. This is most likely due to the fact that Kirch was founded approximately 2,600 years ago as an ancient Greeks. ancient Greek colony. Yet, Kerch is considered to be one of the most ancient cities in all of Crimea. And archaeological digs near the city have ascertained that the area had been inhabited as far back as the 17th centuries BC. While mainstream academia assumes that the Royal Kurgan was the final resting place of a ruler of the Basporan kingdom somewhere between 400 and 300 BC,

but could it be much, much older? Is it the massive size of the Royal Kyrgyn that prompted archaeologists to conclude that this structure was built by and for a king, hence naming it as such in the first place? Anton Aschik made no mention, and I have found no record that a sarcophagi or skeletons were found, during his excavation of 1837. Was this mound completely plundered in antiquity?

At the beginning of the 19th century, there were apparently more than 2,000 mounds dotting the Kerch Peninsula, but sadly today, most of them of all but disappeared. Now, estimated to be as old or older than the Royal Kyrgyz by mainstream academia, almost all of these other burial mounds really appear inferior in their construction methods as they use mostly wood, rocks, and mud, not the precision mortalist architecture we see with the Royal Kyrgyn Mound.

This brings me to my next question. Why is the Royal Kyrgyzum mound so spectacularly different from the other mounds of the region? Now, some might be quick to answer that these other burial mounds must have been made for the commoners of the day. But again, this cannot be the case as these other mounds are thought by mainstream academia to be the tombs of the Scythian royalty, who ruled the plains of the region some 3,000 years ago. Inside these other Kyrgyz have been found vast amounts of pure gold objects, depicting primal battles between monsters and animals. Many of the mummies unearthed inside were found covered in tattoos

and clearly members of the ruling class of that day. Are these other Kyrgyzans the Scythians' best attempt to emulate the splendor of the royal Kyrgyn, similar to maybe what we see in Peru, where the small rough stone and clay mortar construction style is built around the superior, precision, mortarless architecture that seems to predate it. Now, some of the components of the Royal Curgon look eerily similar to that of other ancient superstructures found around the world. Two that come to mind are the Grand Gallery inside the Great Pyramid, where you can see incredible similarities.

Another one is the subterranean well of Santa Christina in Sardinia. The similarities are striking. Archaeologist Anton Ashik made the intriguing comment that, quote, all blocks of the crypt and dromos were laid dry without binder. In many places, traces of the instrument have been preserved on the walls, small rectangular grooves in the walls, end quote. Is Anton describing here the traces left behind from some form of lost technology that the ancient architects were using to build this megalithel.

masterpiece. Something else to mention here is that all over this region of the Black Sea have been found ancient skeletons possessing strange elongated skulls, very similar to those seen in places such as Paracas Peru. Many of these Black Sea elongated skulls seem to possess approximately 25% more cranial mass than normal human skulls. Now, cradle headboarding can alter the shape of a skull, but it cannot produce more cranial mass on a skull, as these elongated skulls appear to have. Elongated skulls such as these have been found near the area of the Royal Kyrgyn.

Is there a connection between these ancient elongated skull people, or humanoids, and the precision megalith known as the Royal Kergan. Could the Royal Kergan have been built as the final resting place for one of these humanoids? So many questions, yet a few things are for certain. The Royal Kergan is an ancient architectural masterpiece that holds many secrets, and we are very lucky that it is still standing. Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please subscribe to this podcast and give us a good rating on iTunes,

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