MORE Nubs on Columns

The curious phenomenon continues. Two more sites: Hosn Suleiman in Syria and the Temple of Adonis in Lebanon. That makes four sites in total so far. I also go over other interesting aspects of these sites and sites nearby.

[ancientalternativeview]

Hello Andrew fascinating episode really well said and excellent points there are some awesome connective motifs you show on this specifically 4:31 is an excellent example of the staircase motif you kept that quiet lol great work! 15:41i am speculating but if that is a snake motif could this be a similar marker to what we see at ushnu on the block with the similar marking to gobekle tepe as some kind hallmark or stamp to the builders origional origion ie serpent and crocodile lion another?.... 33:02 x1 nub I can only summise this could be either repurposed completley and this is the only one left or I propose a theory that maybe we find a certain number of nubs at a certain site to show the grade of the building maybe... Ie the syrian work had 3 (grade 3 building)this site has 1 (grade 1 building)... I know this doesn't say what they all meant as some are a byproduct from its making of course but this system could of been introduced to later sites the more building tech they acquired the higher the grade (just a thought) I must say the connective hallmarks on many different sites you have shown on you channel and I have had the privalidge to study with you do indicate that there was a set of builders that were passed around this world and showed different cultures the same building techniques they can't be credited to the romans either because we have evidence of connective hallmarks alot further than there territory ever expanded ie ushnu koah ker ollytaytambo etc.... India Russia China and many more that you and I have studied.... Maybe there was a central hub of learning and these enginners passed knowledge for thousands of years for later civilizations such as the romans etc to work over the top of and legacy build there new empires on what they had seen before.... Rome wasn't built in a day but there ideas of grandeur came from far more ancient bevel block and megalithic builders well for me anyway great work my good friend absolutley brilliant work... All the very best look forward to researching with you asap.... Thanks for bringing all these hallmarks to everyone's attention maybe now the community will work together to put them together our team is strong!! The gang is here!! 👍😊

[cfapps]

Saw some things I had no clue about. Thanks Andrew.

[andanssas]

10:14 the small hole between blocks is a technique used by megalithic builders which allows the structure to be flexible enough and vibrate without collapsing when earthquakes happen (learned this from a BosnianPyramidsTV video about an Australian church which has a megalithic stone wall surrounding it).

[ZiggyDan]

Well worth the wait, so much to see. Ill have to look again.

[andanssas]

9:56 I believe you're right about the doors, small one for locals, big one for visitors or important people. Charles Kos in his pyramid's book mentioned his visit to an Irish museum where they used 2 doors for this and for another reason: if the visitor seemed to pose a threat, the dwellers could kill him/her while passing through the big door in an easier way.

[HistoryMaze]

Hi Andrew - been looking forward to this one...

[incandescentwithrage]

Another great video. Thanks.

For me, the bevel blocks seem to be re-used the most, even
appearing to have been placed in the structures which have nubs.

Bevelled blocks appear to be in the lowest courses when undisturbed, more often than not.

Low relief art seems perfectly plausible, heavy weathering of course.

All of the alternative history coming out recently is great food for thought, although terrifying at the same time if you imagine (realise) there have been repeated cycles of technological advancement and regression.

Here's hoping this is the one 😁
Keep uncovering the length of our real past so we can learn from previous mistakes.

[HistoryMaze]

Really excellent Andrew - I love the detail you go into - being able to get a thorough picture of these sites helps the brain formulate whats going on (as you say)....and something about all these sites feels a bit wrong to me! I'll get to that in a sec....
whilst I remember - @49.00 or so...those round structures - very similar to towers of silence - which im sure stemmed from kilns (as did poss the whole Zoroastrian fire temple belief)...I show a plan of one of them which has 2 airflow shafts coming in from underneath.
the two nubs on that one pillar, and not on the recall I found some writing (maybe Pliny) talking about how they transported these huge columns from the quarry, and needed new cart axels...point being...they turned them on a lathe in one big length...i think this is how they get the curve (as with Parthenon columns) - as when its a large piece, you can lathe cut it all and see the curve youre doing (fatter at the base etc). however - these columns are in sections...so could it be that the nubs are for transporting the one-piece columns, and when on site, they cut up into sections - drill through for supporting rods (maybe) and reassemble in sections. Im thinking they leave the nubs on as some sort of poss anthropamorphic superstition...maybe its terribly bad luck to remove a nub - this could have gone back eons - and just be one of those traditions (like christmas) that can never be ended.


and getting back to the 'all a bit wrong' comment.
youve done a great job of pointing out anomalies - bevelled blocks in this course, but not the next, lipped stones here, but not there etc...
and the thought came to me...
this is all bs
!!!!
and i dont mean your videos lol!!
no
all of these sites! - and i first had this suspicion with baalbek - that took 3 centuries to
i think i know whats going on - these sites were never finished....and they were never meant to be. they were a roman campaign to wipe out history - to romanize everything, so that in time - after a couple of generations - people would forget their heritage - they would only know the roman way. thats why so many of these sites just dont make sense - they demolished then recycled older temples, sacred buildings/ kilns or whatever - and hastily (in many cases without too much care) put them back together in a roman style. maybe they did some extra nice work on certain sections - just to seal the deal . most of rome was built in red brick, and just clad to look nice, so why go to so much effort in these locations?.many of these places are seemingly very cut off....i think the silk road sites like Palmyra may have been a bit more 'finished' - but many of them perhaps not....they could have sent gangs of builders and slaves to live at these sites and do whatever they felt best i reckon.

is this a crap idea? lol
i just cant quantify the seemingly random use of building materials - some of it is literally quite bonkers.

[Charles_Kos]

The 'gap' at 12:57 looks like a high-middle-ages loophole, of the crusader era, with expanded area at the bottom. Maybe the gap was converted into that.

[Charles_Kos]

27:46. The columned facade is like the little old church at Bradford on Avaon, a very roman feature.... Maybe they reused the older blocks?!

[Charles_Kos]

That inca doorway is very suspicious and cool. Holy crap! I have to watch more of your vids ahhahaha. This is another shamir construction, just like the former temple of solomon and baalbek! OMG!

[AtkinsAtelier]

I'm really starting to wonder if anything we see is original, that first mini temple at the beginning here looks totally rebuilt. I'm feeling everything but a few sites were rebuilt to a certain degree, the bevel block and nub features I mean.

Column nubs were to fit into the wall, if you notice the column has been rebuilt and has been spun 180°, so the nubs don't fit into holes in the wall pieces as they should.

I know I'm a broken record, yet find it funny these little square holes always fill up with foliage. In a gigantic city of stone a hanging garden makes sense.

The stippling (small holes drilled) imo is to resurface the stone with a stucco style coating. This is almost a scoring technique used in pottery and I've seen tons of it in Egypt and some in Petra, just a thought. And I agree so much of that grey stone is nearly modern concrete, in fact I'd put money on it.

Keep the videos coming!

[Charles_Kos]

19:08 is a roman church. VERY interesting! Very catholic too! And yet it's polygonal!

[JuanitaGrande]

@20:00 Those little squares, not unlike the circular ones in doorways in Malta.

[shermanatorosborn]

: ) Thanks In the final photo, the central column, between two doorways, looks like it carries a relief carving but large . I do think that was a serpent with the three Knobs . I have to tell ya ;
I would be a rubble removing m-fer at claudius' tower !! I guess the task was too daunting . It is a lot of big blocks, You come up with amazing stuff ... and present it very well : )

[QuestionsStuff]

I'm waiting for your next vid Andrew :)

[nancyvolker]

NUB'S NUB'S NUB'S I wonder if the are stone polymers molded instead of carved and was it done on site during construction or in a work area near by?

[justinwelgemoed]

Cool video as usual, Andrew. The only nubs that I've seen that would have an benefit for lifting are those that come in pairs on the bedstand-style sarcophagi. If these blocks with the round nubs needed to be carried around by hand like a CRT television then such nubs could be useful, but I doubt it happened that way. I know you know that, but just saying because I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard that laughably implausible idea :-)

[andanssas]

23:12 the clam shell motif reminds me the Indian nagas (those snakes also show up behind the person's head).

[squiddles]

Could the pattern of circular holes have been done to lessen the weight of the blocks? Once installed the builders could have then plastered over the holes for the final finish? Over time the finish layer would have deteriorated out to reveal the holes.