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Hi Steves and Vivian, apologies for not responding earlier, I somehow forgot to check the feedback on this section. Vivian - your questions are again highly relevant to all the topics listed here. In many instances we have no idea why these monuments were constructed, not to mention how it was done. One of the strongest arguments in support of the existence of an ancient civilization with advanced technology is the very fact that we no longer know how these monuments were built. Under normal circumstances technology will only continue to grow and will never regress to a lower state, unless interrupted by natural catastrophe, disease, war or similar disasterous events. Such an interruption would usually mean that those who developed the technology are killed before being able to pass their knowledge on to a critical mass of a younger generation. I believe that this is what happened to the survivors of the 'Atlantis' destuction and subsequent Flood. Speaking of pictures, I have little doubt that hieroglyphs were the only means by which the Atlantis surviovors could teach the uneducated natives around the world how to read and write. The latter may have had no use for maps and drawings and may even have considered such items to be evil, destroying everything in the end. Speculation on my side, of course. Vivian - yes, you are spot on. The should-have-done's you mention are exactly the reasons why the Ica Stones are generally believed to be forgeries and I tend to agree. I nevertheless thought it appropriate to list it as well, if only to make readers aware of forgeries that may exist. Steve S - I have read elsewhere about the stone softening process, but I must confess that I am skeptical about this possibility. I have not the slightest doubt that the ancients possessed certain advanced technologies that we do not know of today (e.g. the 'Fire of the Gods'), but the physical nature of rock and stone does not seem to lend it to softening of any kind. It could not have been achieved by applying heat only and for the stone to become soft within a reasonable volume, it would mean that a magical liquid or something else would have had to penetrate the rock. I cannot imagine how this could have been achieved. By contrast, machinery of some kind seems to have been used to work the (hard) rock and stone. However, until such time that we know exactly how they did it, we will not know how they did it and we may continue to speculate. Steve D - thanks, the very idea of this section is to get people to think about what they see!