The huge
blocks of stone at Tiahuanaco were held together by copper,
and sometimes by gold rivets, a method of building-constructions
found also in Assyria and Etruria. Some blocks of stone used
at Tiahuanaco weighed a hundred and others even two hundred
tons. They were brought from Kiappa, a distance of forty miles
as the crow flies. Solid stone wheels have been found which
could have been used to move them. The Sumerians themselves
are the first people of whom we have evidence who used a solid
wheel. The blocks were probably sawn out of the rock face by
a method used by the Cretans, who sawed rock into ashlars with
bronze saws. The use of cyclopean stone blocks has passed out
of fashion in the Mediterranean by 1500 B.C.
There are
other similarities to New World and Old World architecture.
Thus, there little round holes in the top slabs of graves at
Tiahuanaco, precisely as in Egyptian tombs, to let through the
soul, presumed as being essential by the burial ritual of the
Egyptians.

There are
double parallel walls at Tiahuanaco, with large stones outside
and the center filled with soil, a method of building used in
Crete and indeed all over the Middle East.
The reed
boats plying on Lake Titicaca, and on the eastern coast of Brazil,
both in construction and material, resemble the Egyptian papyrus
boats.
The Aztec
name of temples was teocallis, for their ancient city
of priests was Teotihuacan, for this center of culture
in Peru, ruled by priest-kings, the name was Tiahuanaco.
The Mykenaean word for god is teo and in Greek Cretan
Linear B, wanak means king
At Tiahunanaco
there were swastika designs, found engraved on the building
stone, as in the Indus valley. It was also used on Tiahunaco
ceramics.
In Utah,
obsidian discs or coins have been dug up identical
with discs found in the valley of the Nile near the Egyptian
pyramids. Mrs Verrill maintains that the symbols on these Utah
coins are: Of the type found in Hittite glyphs and in
the archaic, so-called Sumerian script. This script was employed
by the earliest dynasties of Egypt and also in the pre-dynastic
period.
She elsewhere
maintains:
At Lake
Tizcoco, at depth of fifteen feet below the surface of the mud,
a ceremonial stone mace head was dug up and is now in the Chicago
Natural History Museum. This is unique and unlike any other
caved stone object ever found in America but is almost identical
in shape with stone mace heads found in the Near East known
to have belonged to Naram-Sin and his grandfather, King Sargon
of Agade, and with existing portraits of identical features
and helmet or headdress. Anyone comparing the Mexican specimen
with those shown (the Old World heads) will instantly see the
striking similarity between the Mexican portrait mace head and
Near Eastern portraits in bas-relief that are known to represent
Naram-Sin. The beard and features are the same. The helmets
with the chin covers are identical, even to the links under
the chin, as are the segmented or quilted top of the helmet
and the twisted rope like decoration encircling the lower edge.
It is utterly inconceivable and beyond reason to believe that
any ancient Aztec, Toltec or other Mexican artisan could have
conceived such a human being as is so obviously accurately carved
on the mace head. Even admitting the bearded men were common
and frequently are depicted in sculptures and paintings of the
ancient Mexicans, the beards were never of the type shown on
the mace head.
Even more
convincing is the remarkable stone pendant found in August,
1936, in Gallo Canyon, near an ancient Pueblo ruin in New Mexico,
by Dr. Charles F. Elvers. The pendant or amulet is of very hard
dark gray stone of pear shape, about three inches in length,
with a perforation at the upper or narrow end and has incised
carvings on both sides. On one side there is the figure of a
man holding a crooked or serpent-like staff in his right hand
and apparently climbing up a slope while looking over his right
shoulder. There is a crown on his head but no garments are indicated.
On the other side of the pendant is an inscription composed
of an elephant head, a triangle, a cross, a circle and two six-pointed
stars. These are all symbols of glyphs used in the archaic Sumerian
Linear Script
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