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whole monstrous block stands on its head. So the steps run down-ward from the roof; the holes point in different directions like the indentations of a grenade; strange depressions, shaped rather like chairs, seem to hang floating in space. Who can imagine that human hands and human endeavour excavated, transported, and dressed this block? What power overturned it? What titanic forces were at work here? And to what end? The fortress of Sacsahuaman is surrounded by a wall sixty-feet high, containing stones weighing as s much as two hundred tons. Two hundred tons! Morris K. Jessup, a qualified investigator, tate 14 aaa AH of them crudely rough quarried and were then ground into their designated niches in the structure by pushing them back and forth in situ, until they fitted so closely, completely, and accurately that a knife blade can not be inserted between them. This is a logical and practical shortcut to effective stone fitting, which we have not qualified in modern engineering. Science writer Joseph Goodavage questioned Jessup's theory in Flying Saucers - UFO Reports, No. 4. The stones, he pointed out, ... had to be lifted into the air. placed roughly into their proper positions, and then by some force inconceivable to us, shoved back and forth, grinding down the roughly hewn surfaces until they fitted smoothly and perfectly into their proper niches. To lift, swing into position, then rub the massive weight back and forth (against enormous friction) without loosening its snugly fitting neighbours was no job for simple aborigines or even for an advanced Inca culture; the fact is that Sacsahuaman was ancient long before the Incas appeared on the scene. To add to the mystery, some of the larger stones found in the Andes ruins were quarried in a valley two hundred toiles away. Somehow these enormous blocks of stone had to be transported up and down mountains to their final resting place. Those fond archaeological inventions, wooden rollers and rafts, couldn't have been used. So how did the ancient builders accomplish alt. 42-19 this task? A possible explanation taken seriously by some scientists - and loudly berated by others - is that these monuments were built in a time when the surface of the earth was actually different from what it is now. A time when the Andes were level with the rest of the land. Hans Schindler Bellamy prowled around Lake Titicaca and claimed that he found traces of marine sediment indicating that the Great Deluge had once engulfed the area. This of course was evidence that the ruins had been built before the deluge and were many thousands of years old. Two Frenchmen, Louis Pauwels, editor of the magazine Planite, and Jacques Bergier, a nuclear physicist, seem to go along with Bellamy in their book, The Morning of the Magicians. They propose that the Earth was once inhabited by a giant race which built the mounds and monoliths and maintained a worldwide civilization with key centres in the Andes, New Guinea, Mexico, Abyssinia, and Tibet. They were the true Atlanteans and were destroyed by some great cosmic disaster. viewed the fortress and described these stones. * See Road in ike Sky by George Hunt Williamson, Neville Spearman.