Hey guys, today we are going to look at the mysterious Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia,
which has many strange secrets hidden inside.
Historians say it was built about 900 years ago with simple tools , but by the end of
this video, I think you will agree with me that this is not true at all.
You may have already known that this is the largest religious monument in the world, but
how big is this temple?
The temple stretches more than 400 acres, that is more than three times the size of
the entire Vatican city, or about 300 times the size of an American football field.
So you can imagine the size of this temple.
Even if we take out all the walking space and empty land, the sheer area covered by
stone blocks is at least 10 Million Square Feet.
And we are not looking at just a 2 dimensional ground area, we have to look at the volume
in 3D because it is made of layers and layers of stone blocks, pillars, ceiling, and towers.
The Iconic central towers in the middle, which almost look like drill bits, they are still
the tallest structures in this city, even after all these years.
The central tower is 213 feet tall, and this view is actually printed on the Flag of Cambodia.
So imagine what would be the sheer volume of rocks needed to build a temple which stretches
for 10 million square feet and has a pyramidal height of more than 200 feet.
If we calculate the weight of all the sandstone blocks which make up this pyramid, we get
about 52 Million tons of rock.
I have used a calculator to calculate this weight, using the density of sandstone.
Now, we have already not included the rocks in the foundation, we have not included the
millions of stone blocks going many feet deep in the moat, and the rocks placed around the
moat.
And that is already 52 Million tons of rock.
Now what I am going to do is take only 20% of this number, so this way we know this is
a very very conservative estimate, because Angkor Wat is not a true solid pyramid, there
are lots of hollow spaces in between.
Let us actually take even less than 20%, we will only take 10,000,000 tons.
So this way we know at least this much of rocks would have been used to build the temple.
Okay, so why are we calculating the weight of the stone blocks in this temple?
Because, archeologists and historians argue that the entire temple was built in just 37
years.
You know the standard theory, people using chisels and hammers to build temples.
Now let us assume that these people worked from sunrise to sunset everyday for 37 years.
So they worked straight for 12 hours with no breaks, they don't eat, they don't even
blink, and no rainy days, no war, no festivals for 37 years.
That is a total of 162,060 hours.
So if you do the math, if you divide the amount of rocks by the number of hours, this is the
answer we get, approximately 60 tons.
This means that they would have to cut and place at least 60 tons of rock every hour.
This is 1 Ton of rock every minute.
So for every minute they have to measure, cut, carve, lift, place and align one ton
of rock.
This is simply IMPOSSIBLE.
We cannot accomplish this even today, even with modern machinery, we have not yet developed
the technology to cut, position and polish one ton of rock of every minute.
That is more than 2000 pounds of rock every minute, or 1000 kilograms every minute.
But there is something even more bizarre about this temple, there is no rock quarry anywhere
nearby.
So where did all these rocks come from?
Archeologists have located two different quarry sites from which the rocks have been cut and
transported.
The main sandstone quarry is from Phnom Kulen mountain which is 50 miles away.
So, today, with modern vehicles, modern equipment, and good roads, imagine the amount of time
needed to move 10 million tons from a mountain top 50 miles away to this location.
Remember how ancient builders processed 1 ton every minute, this one minute must also
include transporting these rocks from 50 miles away.
So to put the mainstream theory in a nutshell, this is what happened 900 years ago: Every
minute, ancient builders were cutting 1 ton of rock from a hill top, transported this
rock for 50 miles, measured it, cut it, lifted and aligned it, polished it and even carved
on this one ton block.
All this happened within that one minute, and they were doing this without even blinking
for a second everyday for 37 years.
Do you honestly think this is possible?
The standard archeological theory is very conventional.
You take a lot of elephants and bullock carts, and a lot of slaves.
You cut the rocks from the mountain using primitive tools, move them using elephants
on land, and put the stones on primitive boats and move them in water, again use elephants
on land and reach the temple location.
If this is how they worked 900 years ago, looking at the sheer volume of rocks in the
temple, it would have taken many centuries to build Angkor Wat.
Now we understand why this temple is printed on the Flag of Cambodia, because it a giant
mystery.
I have shown you hundreds of ancient temples on my channel, but this temple's architecture
is completely unique, it does not resemble any other Hindu temple in India, and it also
does not resemble any other temple in Cambodia.
It has 5 unique - drill bit shaped towers in the central structure.
There are 12 staircases built around them in perfect angles, all leading into the same
central chamber.
This architecture is not seen anywhere in the world, which indicates that the builders
did not copy from anybody, they were absolute original thinkers.
And what is even more strange, none of the future generations even dared to copy Angkor
Wat temple, nobody could even conceive or attempt to build another temple like Angkor
Wat.
This is why this ancient temple has remained the largest temple forever, right?
Today, humans build a new tallest structure every 10 years.
Some country builds the new tallest building, and within a few years, another country will
build a structure taller than that.
But that has not happened to Angkor Wat, it has remained the largest religious monument
for at least 900 years.
Not only is Angkor Wat designed with grandness and originality, it was also built in alignment
with the heavens.
The original name of Angkor Wat was Parama Vishnu Lokha which means the 'Sacred World
of Lord Vishnu' and the architect made sure he aligned this temple with the heavenly bodies.
Every year, on a specific day, tens of thousands of tourists from around the world come to
this city.
This day is called the equinox, where the daytime is exactly equal to the night time.
All the tourists wake up at four a clock in the morning and rush to the temple to see
the sunrise.
Why?
Because this is how the sun rises when you see it from the entrance, and this happens
only on this day.
How could they have calculated and built it with this incredible astronomical precision?
But this is just the tip of the iceberg, the temple is built with so many details about
astronomy, we can write an entire book about it.
For example, here is the Sun God Surya, he is the personification of the Sun according
to Hinduism, but look below him, you see these guys doing Namaste to Surya?
Who are these guys?
Who depends on the Sun in our solar system?
The planets of course.
Let's count the number of guys, and you will count 9 planets including the dwarf planet
Pluto.
But this is crazy because text books say pluto was discovered only in 1930, less than a century
ago, and Pluto cannot be seen unless you have a high powered telescope.
Even Neptune, which is the 8th planet from the Sun, is said to be discovered by Galileo
only about 400 years ago.
Yet, the sun and 9 planets were carved at least 900 years ago in Angkor Wat.
How do we explain this?
If Angkor Wat was built by people using primitive tools, how did they know about Neptune and
Pluto?
The entire temple was built as a giant symbol of cosmology, originally it had a total of
12 towers, symbolizing the 12 signs of Zodiac, but they were destroyed by the people who
came later, this is why some of the towers have been flattened.
It is sad to see such a beautiful monument face plenty of destruction.
So who built this temple and who tried to destroy it?
Archeologists argue that this temple was built by a King called Suryavarman who was a Hindu,
and after his death, he was immediately succeeded by his own son who became a Buddhist.
So the father builds the world's greatest temple, and what does the son do?
The son did Nothing but destroy all the Hindu carvings carved by his own father and created
a few Buddhist Carvings.
Let's take a look at the son's work.
Here is the main Buddha statue supposedly carved by the son.
But right away, you realize that this is really bad quality carving, you can see the multiple
stone blocks, and the stones have not even been joined properly.
I refuse to believe that this poor quality work was done by the same builders who built
Angkor Wat.
Take a look at this pillar, you see how smooth this is, this was built by the original builders
and you may think, this pillar is made of one stone, of course you don't see any joints.
But that is not true.
Look at this line, this is not one block of stone, it is 2 blocks perfectly aligned.
In fact you see pillar after pillar, tourists wondering about how ancient builders cut these
giant stone pillars made of one block, while they are all made of several stone blocks
but aligned perfectly.
This is the level of quality of the original ancient builders.
Now, let us go back to the Buddha statue.
This is a terrible alignment, you can literally see all the stone blocks and you sort of have
to tolerate this.
What is even worse, this is one of the main Buddha statues in the temple, so this is the
top quality Buddha they could make.
This raises a lot of doubt about what really happened.
According to mainstream theory, there is not much difference in timeline, the father made
Hindu carvings, and the son made Buddhist carvings.
And it was the same dynasty, it is not like some barbaric invaders came from somewhere
else, captured this site, and made terrible carvings, because they did not know how to
carve.
The son would have had access to the same sculptors and stone workers.
Yet, why is this Buddha looking so bad?
There is something fundamentally wrong with this theory.
It seems obvious that the carvings which were done later, were created by a primitive group
of people, while the original temple was built by a very advanced civilization.
It was definitely not built by the same group of people or even their immediate descendants.
Many centuries must have passed between these two civilizations.
Forget about the quality, let's look at the size.
Here is another structure, this is a Buddhist stupa built by the primitive builders.
Look at the size of this Stupa, and compare it with the size of Angkor Wat.
It is a lot less than 1% of Angkor Wat's size.
Look at how basic it is, and it is falling apart because it was not built strong enough.
This is clear evidence that this stupa was not built by the same civilization as the
Angkor Wat Temple, it was clearly built by a very inferior civilization which came much
later in time.
This is the logical conclusion, because the original construction is simply far superior
in terms of size, quality and construction techniques.
So who really built Angkor Wat?
Was it built 900 years ago, or is it a much older structure?
One thing is clear, what we hear from historians is not the full picture.
Angkor Wat could not have been built in 37 years using primitive tools.
Now it is your turn to tell me how they built it.
How was it built?
Was it built with advanced technology which would have reduced the time?
Did they build it for many centuries using primitive tools?
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section, I am Praveen Mohan, thanks a lot
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