Bolivia South America here 45 miles west
of la paz isolated high in the andes
mountains lie the mysterious ancient
ruins of puma punku spread across a
desert plateau at an altitude over
12,000 feet the megalithic stones found
here are among the largest on the planet
measuring up to 26 feet long and
weighing more than 100 tons each
these are the mysterious ruins of puma
punku nearly 13,000 feet in the
Altiplano of Bolivia what you have here
are massive blocks of granite scattered
like some kids toy blocks around the
site it's like some giant Cataclysm just
wiped out this entire area
archaeologists are baffled by what puma
punku was how it looked and what the
purpose of this enormous structure would
have been
mainstream scientists believe the site
was originally constructed about 2,000
years ago but in 1945 archeologist
arthur posnansky proposed that puma
punku was much much older by examining
the structures and what he believed were
their original alignment with the Stars
he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC
Arthur posnansky was a researcher part
bolivian he had worked at the site for
many decades and he concluded that the
site must have been built about 17,000
years ago by studying the
archeoastronomy of that particular site
we don't know how old puma punku is we
have had some circumstantial dating but
we have been unable to date the stones
of puma punku themselves they could be
thousands hundreds of thousands of years
old we don't know I think the
fascinating thing about puma punku is
how did these structures get built we're
talking about stone that is 25 feet high
Stone that is hundreds of tons
Pumapunku is so unique in the way that
it was constructed and shaped and
positioned that it is the most
intriguing ancient site on the planet
of all the places I've ever visited puma
punku is the one that i go back to time
and again because no one can solve the
mystery mainstream scholars believe the
andesite blocks found at puma punku were
formed by hand with primitive stone
tools but some researchers point to the
intricate stonework as evidence of the
use of advanced precision technology one
of the amazing things here at puma punku
is the precision of the blocks you can
see with this block of granite that it's
really been cut at very accurate right
angles
not only do these granite blocks have
precision corners but they also have
these difficult drill holes that are
going right through the rock but how
could such primitive people living
perhaps tens of thousands of years ago
have produced such flawless stonework
might the ancient builders of puma punku
have fabricated the megalithic stones
with advanced technology technology of
an otherworldly origin as ancient
astronaut theorists believe if you look
at the stones carefully and you get a
magnifying glass on some of them you can
see some intricate stonework as though
they used machine tools or even lasers
it's absolutely incredible
I've seen nothing like it anywhere on
the planet
when an architect or an engineer looks
at puma punku one thing jumps out
immediately that whoever built this
place had knowledge of planning of
logistics and had access to advanced
technology
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