Cyclopean architecture

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Hugh Newman explores the remarkable megalithic site of Norba in Lazio, Italy. Officially it dates back to around 500 BC, but it may be much older. It has pol...

Entrance to the area for viewing the Sphinx is though the Sphinx Temple.

LAS MARAVILLAS DEL CUSCO PERÚ Las Maravillas de Cusco Perdurables en el tiempo: Develando los Misterios de los muros Incas. Ubicada en los...

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Miles of prehistoric polygonal stone walls still survive scattered across Italy―ancient ruins so stunningly unique, bizarre, and futuristic that scholars, historians, and philosophers once believed they were built by a now-extinct race of giant human beings called the “Cyclopes.” Their building technique resembles that of the Incas/pre-Incas of Peru: enormous stones cut into interlocking angles, placed without mortar. Sadly, modern scholars ignore these ruins while the wider world is…

Tiryns is a Mycenaean site in Argolis in the Peloponnese. It was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from before the beginning of the Bronze Age. It reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it was one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world, and in particular in Argolis. Its most notable features were its palace, its cyclopean tunnels and especially its walls, which gave the city its Homeric epithet of "mighty walled Tiryns".