Hey guys, I am at the Koh Ker Pyramid in Cambodia, and today we are going to look at a mysterious
stone technology called Knobs.You see this protrusion here,this is very fascinating to
see.
Why does it have a projection like a door knob?
If you look at the neighboring blocks, they don't have this protrusion, but this block
does.
What is the purpose of this knob, why was it created more than a 1000 years ago?
Perhaps you may think this is just an exception.
So when I explore this level of the pyramid, this is not the ground level, I am walking
on one of the steps of this stepped pyramid, again look at this block.
See that block which has a plant growing on top of it, that is the block which has a knob.
It clearly has a protrusion, a bump facing outside.
Why were these created, what is the purpose of them?
Let me show you another Temple in India, this is the famous Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur.
This is also built around the same time as the Koh Ker Pyramid, this is also at least
a thousand years old, this is also a Shiva temple, and this is also a Pyramid, some fascinating
coincidences, even though both of them are separated by about 3000 miles.
But perhaps the biggest coincidence is their giant lingams, the lingam at Thanjavur temple
is 13 feet tall from the ground, and it also goes underground for many feet, and remember
I talked about the Giant Crystal Lingam which existed in Koh Ker Pyramid.
But let us go back to the mystery of knobs.
We are able to see knobs in this temple as well.
I shot this in 2013, because it has some very very intriguing details.
This is all solid granite, huge blocks perfectly fit together, you cannot even insert a needle
between the blocks, they look as though they are molded and assembled.
But look at the knobs.
I noticed something strange about how they were set up.
If the walls have no carvings or inscriptions, then we can see a lot of knobs.
Here, look, you can see a cluster of knobs on these walls.
The entire wall is full of blocks with knobs.
But if the wall was designated to have carvings or inscriptions, then there are no knobs at
all.
They are perfectly smooth.
The more I observe this, the more I find this to be true.
Another fascinating detail, look at this wall.
No knobs at the eye level, but the stones with knobs are used where people would not
normally see them.
It appears that the stone blocks with knobs were used in unimportant places, as though
they are defective pieces from a mass manufacturing company.
What do I mean by this?
Today, let us say you want to build a nice big house and you mass produce 50,000 bricks
and you end up with about 500 bricks which are deformed or defective, what would you
do?
You don't want to throw away 500 bricks, so you would use them in unimportant places or
in places where they won't be seen.
This is exactly what we see in this temple.
The blocks with knobs are used in Unimportant or places where they won't be noticed.
And you may think, wow that’s a lot of knobs, but the stone blocks with knobs just make
up 1 or 2% of the temple.
And these knobs are not only found in Cambodia and India, they are found in Egypt, Peru,
Turkey and in almost all ancient megalithic sites.
You can see these knobs in any ancient site, even though the purpose of this has been a
mystery, until now.
Mainstream archeology gives a strange answer to this, experts say these knobs were cut,
while the stones were quarried.
Why?
So they could put ropes underneath the stones and lift them.
But when we carefully observe the position of the knobs, many of them are not symmetrical,
if you take this stone for example, and put a rope underneath these knobs, the stone would
tip forward or to the side.Many of the knobs are not symmetrical and it would be impossible
to use them for putting ropes underneath and lifting them.
A lot of these knobs are also too small, you cannot put ropes underneath this knob for
example, the knob is just too small, even to put your finger underneath and lift it.Archeologists
don't have an answer for this.And then, there is another question that should have popped
into your head already.
If these knobs were cut for the purpose of lifting, , then all the stone blocks should
have these knobs.
But they don't.
Why don't all the blocks have these knobs?
The mainstream explanation makes no sense.
This explanation is quite simply, wrong.
Let us take a look at it from the engineering perspective.
Why we were these knobs created?
The question itself is wrong.
If the knobs were deliberately created, then all the blocks would have these protrusions.
So, they were not created on purpose.
And some knobs are too small for having any meaningful purpose.
And Look, out of about 300 blocks of stone, one block may have a knob.
So, what are they?
These knobs are actually very common, if you are familiar with casting or Molding technology.
These are called 'Drops' in the field of casting.
When we melt some material and pour it into a die, sometimes if the material has not fully
liquefied, it creates a projection like this, these are common defects,technically known
as 'Drops'.These drops or knobs reveal something important, ancient people were not using solid
rocks, they were melting and casting rocks, just like how we cast concrete blocks today.
In engineering, out of several hundred jobs, one or two will be defective, this is well
known.
This is exactly what we see here.
Out of several hundred blocks which were cast, you see one knob, So, these knobs are not
purposeful creations, these are defects.
The ancient builders in Cambodia definitely altered the natural property of rocks, they
melted them and added some other ingredients, this is why these guys were able to build
these incredibly large temples.
However, I think this is also why these temples were also taken over by plants and trees.
In Cambodia, plants somehow grow on these ancient sites, but you don't see this often
on natural rocks, the plants grow only on the stone blocks of ancient temples.
I think it is because these blocks are softer than natural rocks.
Workers at Koh Ker pyramid tell me that even though they clean the Pyramid regularly, removing
the plants, theystart growing on these blocks immediately.
This reveals more insight into what the ancient builders were doing.
When we look at more and more evidences, it clearly shows that they were melting rocks,
possibly even adding more materials to convert them into geopolymers.
This liquid polymer was then cast into different sizes and shapes according to requirement.
If you look at my channel, I realized I have posted many many examples of this stone melting
technology.
You can see how they created floating rocks, this is found in the ancient templesof Warangal.
Experts now agree that yes, these rocks were artificially created many many centuries ago.
In the same area, there is an ancient temple called Ramappa temple.
There is a pillar in this temple, it looks quite normal, but when I observed it from
the bottom, you can see that this is bent, like some flexible material.
Solid rocks don't bend, they are supposed to break.
These are all clear examples of rock melting technology.
But this idea, that stones were cast artificially may seem new in our age, but in Hinduism this
is a well known concept.
I often see priests of Hindu temples telling me that stones were created artificially.
In Hinduism, it is believed that there are herbs which can soften or liquefy stones.
In the Preah Vihear temple in Cambodia, I also showed you how perfect arches were created.
Look at the bends in the topmost blocks.
This is also a clear evidence of Rock Bending Technology.
So what do you think?
Are these knobs, casting defects while ancient builders were mass producing geopolymer blocks?
Is this why we see one or two of these knobs every several hundred blocks?Or do you think
the mainstream explanation is accurate?
Were they used for lifting the blocks?
If so, why don't all the blocks have these knobs?
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section, I am Praveen Mohan, thanks a lot
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