Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa are located in Alexandria, Egypt. Half a kilometer to the northeast is the Serapeum of Alexandria, which is another archaeological site in the area. The Serapeum of Alexandria is considered to have been built by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC. Coordinates 31.178942, 29.893170 Description The site is thought to date to the Hellenistic period, and Roman, Greek, and Egyptian cultural attributes can be found throughout. The site is considered to have three levels dug into the rock, being up to 35 meters deep. The Catacombs consist of a triclinium, dining room, rotunda, Hall of Caracalla, and sarcophagi. The entrance is from the southeast side near the staircase at a 40° angle. The Catacombs' size is 25 metres by 50 metres. It is thought the site was an earlier burial ground where visitors brought clay pots of food for themselves, leaving the pots as they departed. Hence, this is where the name derived from. Analysis The tomb...
Carnac Stones
The Carnac Stones or Alignements de Carnac in Bretagne, France, were built by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany.
There are 3000 stones of local granite, and the sites date to 4500/3300 bc.
There are a number of monuments built in this area about this time, and they are the Kermario alignments with 1029 stones, the Kerlescan alignments with 550 stones, and the Ménec alignments with 1050 stones.
One possible reason for the build is an alignment with glacial movement. This is partly because the rows vary slightly from each other and the Gravinis site, which is suggested to date to 4655 bc. The site of Gravinis has an eleven metres capstone, and the site at maximum tilt was about 11 metres above sea. Other sites in western France from a later date pertain to connect with Gravinis and Carnac by their builds at an altitude of 11 metres. Some have also been altered to be 19 metres above sea level.
Stones
The stones have been quarried and erected in lines. They vary in angle between the left and right sides.
The angles are as follows:
Left
19°,19°,21°,21°,21°,20°,20°,20°,19°,18°
Right
21°,19°,20°,17°,17°,16°,18°,17°,16°,17°
If the two sides depict glacial melt, they then suggest an increased melt from the left side as the build progresses before slowing and increasing on the right side.
Conclusion
As a depiction of glacial melt, it is difficult to confirm as the ice has long ago melted. A yearly melt would seem quite extreme, and then it might depict every ten years giving a total of sixty years.
Why these people felt they needed to follow it is unknown, also even in the 21st century this area of land is above sea level.
What someone might expect after would be a melt rate depicted in either stone height, number, or as saros patterns. It is unclear if these exist.
Another possibility would be a stone erected per event. This could be the death of a person or marking a year or a seasonal tracker. In the latter, the stones could depict a harvest yield.
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