Colossi of Memnon

Real X-File ID: 7292

Report Date: 03/29/2023

Country: Egypt

Place: Thebes, Egypt

Fingerprints: Traces of ancient advanced engineering-skills

Existing Facts Sources: TV documentary, Book

Summary Report: 

The Colossi of Memnon is 3500 years old. The original two huge statues have been carved out of one single stone, after an earthquake they have been partially reconstructed. Erich von Däniken states that measurements gave 21 meters of height and each of them weighs a staggering 1000 tons of quartzite sandstone. The stones have been transported over 600 kilometeres away from the Mokkatam Hills.

Up to date it is not clear how these stones or statue have been transported and how this task has been accomplished with the methods and engineerings skills back then. For better understanding the following example is given, to give an impression, what labour and engineering skills must have been available back then. As example the relocation project of the Abu Simbel Temple is given. The Abu Simbel had to be relocated during the building process of the Aswan Dam. Multiple countries were involved in the planning and relocation project. 3000 measurements were made for the relocation plan and all parts of the temple, including statues as well, had to be cut into many parts. It was a giant challenge to accomplish. Also the most powerful cranes of the world were challenged as the cranes stock capabilities were maxed out and further assistance through machinery with hydraulic technology was required to achieve the goal. Now the question arises how the people over 3000 years ago did achieve this incredible task, where no hydraulic assisted super powerful cranes existed.

Dr. Erich von Däniken points out and emphasizes that the transportation and entire building process of the Colossi of Memnon statues was an impossible task to accomplish back in these ages where people lived in simple houses, in consideration with their engineering skills, level and technology available back then. Hence there must have been a kind of knowledge transfer to the ancient people, how to plan and construct. The possibility is given, that the information how to plan and construct at this level of engineering has been given from extra terrestrials, as well do countless stories exist in different cultures, how knowledge from so called gods or other beings has been transfered to humans. Until we dont know for sure how this extremely heavy statue has been transported back then or how they managed to aquire the necessary knowledge and the possibility exists for real, that extra terrestrials may have been involved, it remains a great mystery.

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Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossi_of_Memnon


Facts Source Details:
Details of TV Documentary:  Chariots of the Gods, German: Erinnerungen an die Zukunft,Sunn Classic Pictures, Terra Film,04/26/1973, 04/26/1970,Erich Von Däniken
Details of Book:  Chariots of the Gods, Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit,Erich Von Däniken,Putnam (US), Econ-Verlag,01/01/1968, 01/01/1968


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