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184 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
Three -giaut blocks from Baalbek now serve as
the base of a
Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The largest of these blocks
measures 21 by 4 by 4 m, exactly: the two others are each 19.50
by 4 by 4 m. Together all three represent 60 m in length and 960
cu m in volume. These exact measurements make it nearly impossible
to beheve that the ancients who built Baalbek didn t
know our metric system. Evidently they did not use our standard
meter, but a cubit of 500 mm and a foot of 333 mm. For them,
the length of 1 degree at the equator was equal to 222,222
cubits and their 1 minute of longitude measured 5,555 Baalbek
ft.
For the constructors of this ancient site,
the circumference of
our globe was 80 million cubits, or 120 million ft, and this
measurement unit of length seems to have common ground with
the Sakkara foot, where metric dimensions were discovered and
even a double meter standard found engraved on a wall.
The huge stones of Baalbek were cut out from bedrock 400 m
away from the edifice and the quarry was set at a much lower
level than the building site. It is there that another unfinished
block was found, measuring 21.33 by 4.66 by 4.33 m; obviously, a
block that would eventually have been cut to the exact size
21 by 4 by 4 m, like the largest stone of the temple foundation.
We will probably never know what caused the constructors of
Baalbek to leave suddenly without finishing what they had
begun, just as the statue carvers of Easter Island did, probably at
the same time and for the same reason.
There is another group of stones that is probably related to
the catastrophe of Atlantis. These are the megahthic monuments
found only near the shores of the Atlantic in Europe and North
Africa in the areas where people still speak the strange dialects,
another confirmation of the theory that they all came from the
same race of Atlantans, at one time spoke the same language,
practiced the same sun cult, and constructed very similar megalithic
monuments.
It appears now that as a group of refugees who survived the
sinking of the continent and landed first 01^ the West African
coast, a majority of them moved north and reached first Morocco,
then Spain, Portugal, France, and finally the British Isles.
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