Phil of The Ancient Alternative View and Andrew of Ancient History Criticisms join Nikkiana Jones to explain the "nubs," the small stone protrusions they catalogue on megalithic sites around the world. In this first part, they introduce themselves, describe how they hunt down photos of these hallmarks, and lay out the main theories about what nubs were for.
Phil describes moving from Royal Navy engineering to researching ancient sites, and Andrew explains how his background as an art historian led him to the work. Together they describe building their photo catalogue, which they call the "technological Alexandria," from Google Earth, Street View and submissions, and Nikki shares how she found nubs in her own photos from Mahabalipuram in India without knowing it at the time. Phil says nubs appear on every major megalithic site, describes standardized circular, square and triangular shapes, and argues against the mainstream lifting explanation, pointing to a 16,500-ton megalith at Yangshan. He offers his idea that some nubs were astronomical markers, and the group discusses nubs in ancient amphitheaters, at Hampi and on the Brihadeeswarar temple, where Phil sees a possible "nub language." Nikki retells a story she read in an Erich von Däniken book about a boy trapped in a tomb at Saqqara where lumps on the wall glowed, Phil talks about internal nubs at Ollantaytambo, and the part closes with quartz, piezoelectricity and Phil's thoughts on resonance. These are the speakers' own observations, theories and retold stories, not established fact.
Highlights:
- How Phil and Andrew search the internet and Street View for photos of ancient stonework
- Nikki finds nubs in her old travel photos from Mahabalipuram
- Phil's case against the "lifting" explanation and his star-alignment idea
- Nubs in amphitheaters and a possible "nub language" at the Brihadeeswarar temple
- Nikki's retelling of the glowing-lumps story from a Saqqara tomb
Chapters:
00:00 Meet Phil and Andrew
00:36 Phil's path from Royal Navy engineer to researcher
02:31 Andrew, the art historian
03:20 How they hunt for nub photos
05:44 Nikki's overlooked photos from Mahabalipuram
07:18 What nubs are and where they appear
07:52 Standardized shapes and the lifting theory
08:32 Phil's star-alignment idea
08:57 Nubs in ancient amphitheaters
09:49 Hampi, Brihadeeswarar and a "nub language"
13:02 Nikki's glowing-lumps story from Saqqara
14:19 Internal nubs at Ollantaytambo
15:22 Nikki's guide and the lifting claim
16:31 Stone type, quartz and piezoelectricity
17:10 Phil on quartz and ancient mining cultures
This is an archival replay, not current news. Original YouTube publish date: September 23, 2021. Source timestamps: 0:00:13.550–0:18:32.700. Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1c1nQNUIs
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Original YouTube description:
Phil of The Ancient Alternative View channel and Andrew of Ancient History Criticisms channel talk about the anomalies that are hiding in plain site all over the worlds oldest ruins. There are threads that can be found in almost every sites from multiple different cultures, for example; nubs, pinch holes, inverted indentions, zipper shape, the stepped motifs, scrap marks, etc.
What went on in our past that we do not truly know about? There are obvious things that are just staring us in the face and these guys are tackling in it a new, honest and critical way!
Check them out and send them any photos you have of anywhere that needs to be added to the lists!
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Twitter: @ancient_view
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