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My name is Eric Graziano, a tool Design Engineer with 30 years of experience. I explore our ancient history, megalithic sites, archeoastronomy & more.
Feb 23 7 tweets 3 min read
Have you heard the “Land Of Chem” Egyptian Pyramids Hypothesis?

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It asserts that the Egyptian pyramids were not built as tombs but as industrial-scale chemical production facilities. Engineered to produce chemicals like methane, ammonia, & acids. Image Step Pyramid: This pyramid produced methane gas, from organic sources like manure or natural gas deposits. Stating its design is suited for collecting and processing methane as a base material. Image
Sep 21, 2024 23 tweets 15 min read
The ancient apocalypse that was the Bronze Age collapse.

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It's been described as one of the great apocalyptic events of the ancient world. In 1200 BCE, the Bronze Age collapsed. And it did so rapidly and with disastrous consequences. But how did an epoch that had flourished for over 2,000 years suddenly end, and why did so many ancient civilizations fall with it?

Click through and relive the remarkable series of catastrophes that brought down the Bronze Age and changed the course of history.Image The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BCE. In Europe, the epoch was characterized by settlements such as Grimspound, a community situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England.

It was the first epoch in which societies became irreversibly linked in their co-dependence on ores and metallurgical skills. The age of mastering metal had begun.

Previously, in the Stone Age, flint was shaped and used as tools and weapons. In the Bronze Age, stone was gradually replaced by bronze. Bronze was made by melting tin and copper, and mixing them together.

Most of central and northern Europe in the Bronze Age was made up of agrarian societies where communities depended largely on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.Image
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