Lixus the ancient atlantic harbour

Picture of Mystery Real X-File ID: 637

Report Date: 07/20/2016

Country: Morocco

Place: Lixus

Fingerprints: Traces of ancient advanced engineering-skills, Traces of ancient advanced technology

Existing Facts Sources: Book

Summary Report: 

In the 7th century BC, the Carthaginians built an ancient port city called Lixus, located one hundred kilometers southwest of the present city of Tangier in Morocco. The port city was built on the monster blocks of an older Phoenician city called Liks. The Phoenicians had settled at this site as early as 1200 BC after coming across the remains of an unknown megalithic culture.

In his book “Der Mittelmeerraum und seine mysteriöse Vorzeit” Erich von Däniken quotes the world-famous experimental archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, who started his Atlantic voyage with the papyrus boat RA north of Lixus, with the following words: “… Stones cut in different sizes and shapes, but always with vertical and horizontal sides and corners that fit exactly into each other, like the stones of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. Even when the blocks had so many rectangular irregularities that sometimes the outlines could have been decagonal and dodecagonal instead of rectangular…”. The original builders of Lixus, the unknown “megalithic builders”, must have handled imposing blocks of stone. The harbor breakwater was literally papered with colossal blocks and hundreds of huge granite boulders, some of which were artificially worked, served as a protective wall.

In the same Book Erich von Däniken mentions the following: “… In his “Natural History”, the historian Caius Plinius Secundus (23-79 AD) relates that the original Lixus was once a temple of Hercules. Surrounding this temple was the much-treasured “Garden of the Hesperides with the Golden Apples.” The Hesperides were singing nymphs, and as the Greek poet Homer (c. 800 B.C.) recounted, also daughters of the gods Atlas and Zeus…”.

This archaeological site is another example of “reverse evolution of stone working” as we can observe in many ancient sites around the world. The oldest prehistoric cultures used the most advanced methods of stone working with the largest and most massive megalithic stone blocks. More recent cultures have often built on this but with far less precise stone working and with significantly smaller stone blocks.

How can this “reverse evolution” of stone working be explained? What knowledge did the prehistoric cultures possess that seems to have been lost in later cultures?




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Details of Book:  Der Mittelmeerraum und seine mysteriöse Vorzeit, Die Steinzeit war ganz anders,Erich von Däniken,Kopp Verlag, Kopp Verlag,10/01/2012, 05/01/2012


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