Hello my friends at Steemit. Happily, today we explore a few odds and ends of some miscellaneous items as to just why North and South America might be the ancient lost Atlantis. I hope you enjoy our armchair archaeological dig and we try to piece together years of work using the tools of the internet. It all in good fun and some of the things presented are certainly very interesting.

Roads and Bridges

The Inca superhighway’s are 25,000-miles in total length. As the Amazon rain forest disappears, more highways are being found from ancient civilizations in Brazil and other parts of South America.

A part of the ancient Inca Highway that still exists.

A portion of the Mayan road that still exists which was Sixty-seven miles long and below is the map of Mayan roads of southern Mexico.

Excellent link on the Mormon opinion of these two roads
The Blackfeet tribe are said to have a trail that runs across the Rockies in Canada through the United States and down to Mexico which takes four years to journey. They have used this ancient road for thousands of years.

This is the last known Inca bridge left in operation. The site is thousands of years old. The bridge requires repair every so often but still uses the original masonary anchors at each end.

Tombs

This tomb was found intact near a pyramid southwest of Lima, Peru. It was the sight of the burial of a ring of babies.

A mummy of a sacrificed human

This is a great tomb carved into the rock at Caja Marca, Peru

We can see that the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs, Inca and Mayans built elaborate massive roadways and fantastical, magnificent tombs with elaborate funerary rites and similar to the Egyptians. The first mummification and tomb building was supposed to occur in North and South America 3,000 years before the folks on the east side of the pond.

Roads, as anyone who drives through a construction area sees, are a massive undertaking of effort by a large number of people. What is surprising about these roads is that they have lasted for the longest time. Throughout the American west it is not unusual to see an abandoned road not far from a newer highway. After fifty years, those roads are often very difficult to traverse, full of pot holes or big cracks with weeds growing through the asphalt. That is in the dry western deserts. These roads are built where it is wet and the roads still seem to be there which is amazing.

As far as the tombs of the Aztecs, Inca, and Maya they are very elaborate and thousands of years old. The bodies are often mummified by desiccation and sometimes even wrapped in bandages. There are ornamental funerary masks and intricate coffins for the rich with gold and silver items from life.

I left this as one of the last pieces because the first time I heard about it was in 1972. My grandfather who was a Mormon gave the presentation in his house on a slide projector. He was a miner by then working at the great Kennecott Mine in Salt Lake City. On the slide show he showed the roads and hardened copper surgical tools as found as they lay in a tomb.

We did not have hardened copper tools at the time anywhere on the Earth. We have rediscovered this process after that time. So, that is why I put this near that end of the "Regular Stuff". The next posts will be about my own experiences and they are daunting and exciting.

Link to a Guide Book of ancient South American Highways – PDF

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Image Sources:

1. www.intisuntrek.com
2. laht.com
3. ancientamerica.org
4. ancientamerica.org
5. www.incatrailexplore.com
6. ancient-origins.net
7. ancient-origins.net
8. hiddenincatours.com

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