The little we know

I have stopped being amazed at the enigmas ancient civilizations pose to us modern people.  Out of the jungles of Mesoamerica emerges a metropolis that has a temple with a square base that is the same size as the Great Pyramid of Giza.  The base held a half pyramid but the size was the same with tunnels dug throughout (just like the Egyptian pyramids).  It  was amongst other great stone buildings which were configured after part of a constellation (also like the pyramids of Giza).

It's also pretty symmetrical that they are half a world away from each other and date back to roughly the same time.  If the two happen to be connected, then there is one site for the side of the planet facing the sun and one for the side in the dark at any given time.  One notable difference is that the stones used to build the Mesoamerican city contained mica and transparent quartz throughout it all.  Mica has properties of withstanding heat from radiation, the kind used for spaceship reentries through the atmosphere.

Perhaps, the explanation of such phenomena includes alien help in our ancient history, or perhaps, it merely means the humans had access to much more than we know about, that they were very advanced and then, for some reason, they were destroyed and humans lost some prior knowledge and had to start over again.  Either way, the history books need revising.

Life gives us wonder and beauty if we but look hard enough, and sometimes those two elements are not at all found in what we expect but derive from what is surprising.  We end up playing the "what if?" game to see if the surprises could be true.  I like the taste of the "what if's" that have surfaced and they tantalize me to keep looking for what could underlie our simple understanding of times gone by.