Delphi, Greece; a photo album of stone surfaces

[Huaqero]

I recently visited Delphi, with an 'eye' for lost technology stone masonry.
Here is a little photo album, without many comments...

These stones near the entrance of the museum...

Looks like work on soft stone...

The surface of the Omphalos, looks cast...

Polygonal masonry...

Close-up of a curved joint...

These...

And these...

Close-up of a (machined) surface...

Look closely for the perfect pattern of parallel lines on this surface...

And a close-up of it...

Looks like working on soft stone, again...

This cut...

Was the 'nerve' in the centre (2-3cm) created during the coagulation?

T-shapes, yeap, here, too...

Lego...

And, finally, a guess of mine...
IF the stones were soft while being created, then, maybe the letters in the ancient inscriptions were actually Cuneiforms
and the Serifs in the antiquity fonts were the preliminary prints to help level the letters before their lines where drawn-'printed'...

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Date: 2019-10-01 00:42:55
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Shades of Peru and all her antiquity sites with polygonal masonry and blocks with knobs on them. T-shaped metal clamps. High speed saw marks. Earthquake proof constructions. Impossible accuracy. Just a coincidence? I think not.
This site probably predates the Greeks themselves. Like many cultures, they may have just wrote upon the stones that were later reconstructed.
I know a lot of folks here on SH believe history is younger than we're taught, but the opposite may be true as well.
I think parts of this site are Prediluvian. The lion's share of the really advanced stuff might be, and its worldwide.
JWW

 

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Date: 2019-10-01 06:40:19
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Shades of Peru and all her antiquity sites with polygonal masonry and blocks with knobs on them. T-shaped metal clamps. High speed saw marks. Earthquake proof constructions. Impossible accuracy. Just a coincidence? I think not.
This site probably predates the Greeks themselves. Like many cultures, they may have just wrote upon the stones that were later reconstructed.
I know a lot of folks here on SH believe history is younger than we're taught, but the opposite may be true as well.
I think parts of this site are Prediluvian. The lion's share of the really advanced stuff might be, and its worldwide.
JWW

I 100% agree with you. I think there were time periods of brilliance. A "dome and cathedral" period not too long ago, a temple building period prior, and then a pyramid-megalith period before that. How long was between each of these eras is beyond my way of knowing. It might be a thousand years between, it might be tens of thousands of years between.
The photos of Delphi above show signs of coming perhaps from 2 or even all 3 of these periods. The old "inca style" masonry, a more temple like style with columns, and then even a more simple almost like a "do the best you can with it" style. Makes me want to head there and explore this site personally in far more detail. thanks for the share

 

[Huaqero]

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Shades of Peru and all her antiquity sites with polygonal masonry and blocks with knobs on them. T-shaped metal clamps. High speed saw marks. Earthquake proof constructions. Impossible accuracy. Just a coincidence? I think not.
This site probably predates the Greeks themselves. Like many cultures, they may have just wrote upon the stones that were later reconstructed.
I know a lot of folks here on SH believe history is younger than we're taught, but the opposite may be true as well.
I think parts of this site are Prediluvian. The lion's share of the really advanced stuff might be, and its worldwide.
JWW

Exactly!
In two cases I heard tourists around me discussing 'Peru' and 'Machu Picchu' but had no time for joining the discussion with them.
People start noticing the connections.

Before visiting Delphi I had only seen a video from the Mystery History channel which focused on the floor of the amphitheatre.
Well, it turned out that this was the least interesting item on the site.
I did not expect to find so many knobs, so many machined surfaces, so many cement-like stones, etc but it was all there!
"Como Cusco!"

The area around Delphi is minerally very interesting, there are bauxite mines and the soil is reddish.
My guess is that some of the Delphi mega-stones were blocks from ancient mining-related facilities.



There is also an area with cyclopean walls which is not open to the visitors even though it is just next to the street but I guess that in my second visit there I will sneak into it, it is not difficult at all.

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Like many cultures, they may have just wrote upon the stones that were later reconstructed.

Oh, yes, that too!
Most of the stones have shallow writings on them, they are everywhere.
Unlike the inscriptions with the deep letters which I call 'cuneiform-like', they look like scratches on the surfaces and from a quick view there are many names on them.
Like mentioning their names on the 'sacred stones' for good luck.
Here is a silly-sounding (in modern Greek) name I noticed, 'Aristarhides'...


And here are some childish scratchings of human figures, I noticed them only thanks to favourable sunlight...

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The photos of Delphi above show signs of coming perhaps from 2 or even all 3 of these periods. The old "inca style" masonry, a more temple like style with columns, and then even a more simple almost like a "do the best you can with it" style.

You guessed right, it's got that too, lol...