Evidence of a sky without a moon appears on the other side of the world at the ancient site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia.
Myths also reference stone architecture, such as pre-Inca sites like Tiwanaku, and astronomical alignments in temples.
The Altiplano in Bolivia, home to Tiwanaku ruins, appears often in these tales.
Sites like Tiwanaku predate Plato's timeline and were not submerged.
The western coast of South America was not mountainous—the prehistoric city of Tiahuanaco, Peru, now at 12,500 feet above the Pacific, was then at sea level.
Astronomers of Tiahuanaco used telescopes like ours of today, and they had a huge satellite orbiting the Earth—west to east, 449 times per year—which they used as a time standard, its orbit so accurate.
About 11,500 years ago—in 9550 B.C., as dated by astronomers from Potsdam Observatory from writings in the ruins of Tiahuanaco—the 60-mile thick shell of the Earth shifted its position once more in half to a third of a day, 7,000 years after the previous shift.
The evidence in Tiahuanaco shows that their great civilization was wiped out so suddenly that people were caught in the middle of their normal daytime activities by catastrophic inundation.
Further, evidence shows that this fabulous city suffered the same fate as Easter Island: although the Rockies and Andes were started in this cataclysm, Tiahuanaco was buried under the Pacific, to remain there for 5,000 years, then to be heaved up to its present altitude of 12,500 feet in the last cataclysm 6,500 years ago.
His research in paleosciences has led to new explanations of such enigmas as the Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, the ancient cities of Tiahuanaco and Baalbek, and the giant statues of Easter Island.
"In 1883 I found the Louvre a collection of objects excavated from Tiahuanaca, in Central America.
Cieça de Leon mentions it great edifices "that were in ruins at Tiahuanaca, "an artificial hill raised on a groundwork of stone," and "two stone idols, apparently made by skilful artificers," ten or twelve feet high, clothed in long robes.
Tiwanaku, Bolivia: Stellar misalignments and high-altitude port structures suggesting a different sea level.
When the waters fell, the wind carried the box to Tiahuanaco, the great ruined city near Lake Titicaca.
Around 9550 B.C., as dated by astronomers from Potsdam Observatory from writings in the ruins of Tiahuanaco—the 60-mile thick shell of the Earth shifted its position once more in half to a third of a day, 7,000 years after the previous shift.
Around 9550 B.C., as dated by astronomers from Potsdam Observatory from writings in the ruins of Tiahuanaco—the 60-mile thick shell of the Earth shifted its position once more in half to a third of a day, 7,000 years (16,550 BCE) after the previous shift.
Tiwanaku, an ancient archaeological site near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, was the heart of the Tiwanaku Empire, which thrived between 300 CE and 1000 CE.
Renowned for their impressive architectural and engineering achievements, the Tiwanaku people developed intricate agricultural systems and maintained extensive trade networks across South America.
One of the most significant structures at Tiwanaku is the Akapana Pyramid, a large terrace mound standing approximately 16.5 meters high and spanning a base area of around 200 meters by 250 meters.
Puma Punku, part of the Tiwanaku complex, is known for its extraordinary precision stonework.
He was particularly struck by the similarity of these structures to those found in Peru and Bolivia, such as Machu Picchu and Tiwanaku.
The bird at the top of this spatula is worked in a style found in the art of Tiwanaku, an influential city-state of the second half of the first millennium A.D.
Evidence of a sky without a moon appears on the other side of the world at the ancient site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia.
The German-Bolivian scientist Posnansky believes in the existence of an enormous empire in the region of the Bolivian city of ruins, Tiahuanaco.
The German-Bolivian scientist Posnansky estimates that Tiahuanaco was destroyed around 10,000 B.C.