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The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science

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On a desolate plane near the Peruvian Andes is evidence that thousands of years ago, man may have known how to fly. Mega machines cutting through solid rock,

the transportation of multi-ton stone blocks.

Modern aircraft carrying millions of people each day around the world.

And space shuttles, sending humans to the stars.

But are these examples of modern technology or is there evidence that these incredible

achievements existed on Earth thousands of years ago?

Great Pyramid of Egypt.

Built as a tomb for the Pharaoh Kyots, it's made of two and a half million stone blocks.

Some of the biggest weigh up to eighty tons and were transported from quarries hundreds and hundreds of miles away.

And that was a thousand years before the invention of the wheel.

To Ehr von Daneken that posed a huge question. Not why the aliens didn't give us the wheel, but another big question.

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