A lengthy (100 minute) tour, quite nicely done in terms of image quality and absence of any of the inane audio commentary that accompanies so many similar videos. I would have liked to have seen more closeup detail of the Sphinx, which is only visible at some distance in the closing ten minutes. Via Kottke.
I did find this screencap particularly interesting:
The hole is an entrance to an underground chamber. Above it, prominently displayed on a plinth, is a stone in the shape of the state of Wisconsin.
Over the millennia the Door County peninsula has weathered away, and perhaps Napoleon's soldier's damaged the Indianhead area when they were vandalizing the Sphinx, but it is clear that the ancient Egyptians must have had extensive knowledge of Wisconsin, perhaps on their trips to the Keweenaw Peninsula to mine copper ore before returning down the Mississippi to the Gulf - leaving behind some small pyramids at Aztalan State Park.
Or maybe they just came for the cheese curds.
Clearly the builders of this monument were aliens, because no human could move a stone that big. Plus, they must have been able to see the future because they produce a map of Wisconsin thousands of years before it became a state!
ReplyDeleteStay tuned for our next episode where we prove that McDonalds is an invention of the ancient Etruscans. Or at least that the food was cooked back then.
And that sort of precognition makes it all the more remarkable. In fact, this may be an image of Wisconsin even further into the future, after global warming has led to the Lake Michigan eroding away the Door County Peninsula.
DeleteLet's not overlook the nod to Wyoming and Colorado.
ReplyDeleteAh, Americans.
ReplyDeleteThe stone is not in the shape of Wisconsin. I mean, come on, how could it be?
No, the stone is clearly in the shape of Kenya, from which we conclude that ancient Egyptians had discovered time travel but not how to cross the Atlantic.