Prehistory Stone Pathway with Tunnel and Stairs at the Giant Buddha

[@peterhofmann665]

This is the best channel i have discovered on youtube for a long time. As interesting as "Ancient Architects", but with a better voice ;-), and i like it much better than PraveenMohan's clickbait.. Thanks for all your research and efforts to shine a new light on ancient history.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the support Peter! I really appreciate it.

[@Li_Ao]

The well kept Chinese literature is really a help to disclose the mystery of these stone works. Great job!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Yes. Thank you :-)

[@Li_Ao]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Thank you for bringing up so many new findings :-)

[@lipsynthia]

Isn't it odd how restorations are often credited as original works? Very good analysis and proposed hypotheses once again Tina! Definitely a reused (repurposed) site like so many around the world. Fascinating! Thanks for the great content!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

I concur. Many restorations are initially and mistakenly credited as original works. This can confuse some researchers by concealing the truth. Thank you for your continuous support! ❤ Happy New Year!

[@lipsynthia]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Happy New Year! Looking forward to seeing many more of these quality research videos in the new year. And wishing you an expanded following!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

@@lipsynthia Thank you! Hope you have a great new year as well!

[@cshing6018]

Nice video! I appreciate your efforts in researching literature and various old photos about the site. So dedicated👍!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Glad you liked it :-)

[@Vlda2393]

I wish that somebody would do similar scan of the Buddha like they did on Great Pyramid at Giza. That might give us a picture of how it looks under all that plaster....

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

I agree - it'll be very interesting to see what is underneath the plaster. There are some ancient stone caves in the same mountain not far from the Buddha, if someone can do a scan there might be more to be discovered...

[@yvettekosta7994]

Thank you for your brilliant and logical insights, as always you address the discrepancies between what is assumed by lazy and sometimes pompous archeological conclusions and more analytical observations based on all the facts no matter how much they don't fit into the current belief system.

[@toniprince4192]

This structure is remarkable, and reminds us of the size, layout, machining methods used and quality of megalitic structures shown in many of your other videos, Tina. Yet, as you say, the statue, though it literally fits, seems oddly flat, cramped and is made of a peculiar mix of materials, with parts (like the toes) of high quality, while other, more modern parts are much less impressive. I suspect that the original space was created for a completely different purpose than as a place for a giant statue, and that the internal cave systems you show tend to confrm this.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thanks Toni. I agree it's possible that the original site was created for a different purpose. Thank you for sharing your insight. Much appreciated :-)

[@dancingking9535]

Tina, this is a wonderful work!! I visited the site before, the statue's art feature and conditions are not consistent with other Buddha statues. Your attention to the side path and stairway is right on!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you! So glad that you enjoyed it :-)

[@dennisbanks8606]

Excellent detailed insight! All the world's coastlines have been terraformed, the canals in Vietnam, ocean break walls from Mexico all the way around Alaska over half of Northern Canada, old dams deep in deserts, someone did a lot of work in the past!!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Well said - thank you Dennis!

[@root_dnb]

Amazing work! I can't stop watching your videos.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Glad you enjoy it! Welcome :-)

[@PokeManPro1]

Your channel is the most thorough and well-educated channel I've found on ancient ruins and talking about the machine tool marks at many of the ancient sites. On top of that, your videos are pleasant to watch and super well put together. Thank you so much for your time making and researching these videos!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Wow, thanks! I really appreciate your support.

[@mikeofjack8518]

Great insight as always! I only discovered your Chanel a few weeks ago and it's already on my top list of chanel's covering our remote pass. Keep the fresh insights coming.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Great to hear that! Thank you for the support and encouragement :-)

[@darrensanimalsvideos]

I agree with you there, i think they came upon a site that was already cut out, perhaps it was a different god or person or wasn't finished (stopped by the cataclysm that left all quarries "mid cut") and they cut it back and used mortar to make it look more like Buddha. I don't think it was cut from the full cliff. A lot of ancient sites we utilised by later civilisations. Many we incorrectly give credit to building most of the time. I am going to watch your other videos on this subject now.

[@SteveAttwood]

Great Video, well researched and a plausable explaination for this clearly repurposed site..

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you Steve :-)

[@kingaogiegloabstractpaintings]

amazing! I visited this site in 2010 and was looking on KZbin for some more info on the place and found you...now im binging on all your videos😀😀🤩

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Awesome! Thank you and welcome :-)

[@orlandosanchez3605]

Yes , this is also coherent with the previous evidence and reasoning you have made about other ancient sites.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thanks Orlando :-)

[@craigcampbell6690]

Someone so smart and so beautiful , I , Cannot, Believe. that you are not followed by more people🙂

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you :-) I hope I get more followers soon.

[@craigcampbell6690]

Marvelous 💚 😎 Once again, the machine marks 🤔 Found a piece of sandstone when I was a boy , it was soft enough ( Like a harder wet beach sand ) it was relatively easy to work with but , most likely some differences...Thanx Tina..have a Great day🙂

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the support, Craig. Have a great weekend :-)

[@cathyd74]

Fascinating video, thank you.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Glad you enjoyed it - thank you :-)

[@jetpetty1613]

Very thoughtful and informative 😊

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you - glad you like it :-)

[@facundorutherford9114]

Excellent work

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the continuous support!

[@jahpreast]

Today I found pictures of a temple in Lebanon that is believed to be from first century Roman empire. It's called Niha, Zahlé. If you watch this musical video you can see the same giant, horizontal marks on the stones on the upper levels where the DJ in this video is: Ghenwa Nemnom live at Baalbeck Festival 2021. The marks are longer than the man's torso... and parallel.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for sharing with me! Much appreciated. I will search for the video ☺

[@nat7x7]

I just searched for the video and Yes wow those are some giant machine marks - clearly visible at 4:08min into the video

[@jeffjeff4477]

Watching this segment reminded me of ,Can't wait for the next one! Best channel Thanks again Hope you are doing well

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the support, Jeff! I appreciate you!

[@rodanderson5464]

Great research and another excellent presentation as always! Keep it up

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the support, Rod!

[@kiriltzenev5955]

Amazing investigation, thank you.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you!

[@daroniussubdeviant3869]

beautifully presented. thank you.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you :-)

[@stephenbost5892]

Love your presentations

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Glad you like them! :-)

[@68Mie]

Hello 👋 Tina. Todays archeology must see these toolmarks seen all over the world 🌎 and be ready to rewrite history. You are doing an important job to inform us all who found your chanel. I try to tell others about your chanel too. I like 👍 your sherlock holmes reasoning to get to the essentiell evidence. They must see someday. Keep up the good work 👍😄.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

👋Hi Mie Mie Thank you for the support! I really appreciate you sharing my channel with others 😄 I hope more people can see these tool marks the way they are - they are not chisel or pickaxe marks. Thank you! 👍

[@K22channel]

8:52 look at this immage❗You can still see imprint on the wall of ancient houses before catastrophies 🙏 👇

[@rogerschumann513]

Another 'very' engaging and fascinating video.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the support!

[@billywhyte6693]

Very very interesting. Photographs and information I did not know. Aspects of the larger rock carving are kinda similar to those in Egypt (style & size). The stairs, tunnels & old dwellings are also very similar to the many found in Turkey. Without a doubt - the 'conquerors rewrote history' so many times we don't know what WE SHOULD KNOW. As a result - we must look at everything again with fresh eyes & no 'education' in our head. The truth is right in front of us.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for sharing your insight - I appreciate it. I made a series of videos on ancient megalithic sites and prehistory civilization. Hope you will enjoy them as well :-)

[@jimleane7578]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina just found your channel. Thanks for your input on ancient China. I watch Ben and Jimmy, but the China connection is missing. It seems to me all these sights link back to pre younger drias event. Thankyou again.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

@@jimleane7578 Welcome Jim :-) I thought that the Younger Dryas was the event ended the previous civilization, but I changed my mind after finding data on the human population bottleneck. I think it's very possible that the real culprit was an earlier disastrous time period. I made two videos on this topic. I hope you will find them interesting: Was an Advanced Civilization Wiped Out by a 12,800-Year-old Comet at Younger Dryas? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aom7h2Z3rZh-hZY When Humans Faced Extinction - the Ending of a Previous Advanced Civilization? kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKSXq3-Bl9Vnf8U

[@jimleane7578]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina thankyou, will have a look..

[@matthewperry5121]

Amazing

[@humanphillips3091]

Love your videos and the work put into them.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you! I appreciate that.

[@forcesightknight]

Great content once again. Your right about them using a machine to chisel those lines. But it was a simple driver mechanism that lifts a weight and drops it onto a chisel. If it is sandstone, it's super crazy soft.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thanks for the info! I appreciate it :-)

[@shanedavison7473]

Your guessing it was simple. I think they had more advanced machinery than that.

[@philoso377]

Soft stone gradually turn hard. Stone are made of discrete crystals, crystals of a specific composition and proportion, mixed, compact and bind together by a chemical binder of various ph scale either, deposited naturally or artificially additive. At first the mixture flows like larva and slowly turn plastic like wet clay that can be sculpted before hardened to a hardness we experience today. Through the intermediate hardening stage, bamboo tools can be use to sculpt stature or excavate tunnels. Alternatively the mix can be pour and and stamp in a mold-slot created by previous blocks on both sides and over blocks beneath, such as the building blocks of the great pyramids

[@pennypop408]

Wonderful.

[@Aixynwo]

This seems like a good place to go LIDAR scanning :)

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

🙂 That's an interesting idea.

[@James00037]

I like looking at the old photographs they have very interesting details. Its a bit creepy actually. Have a good new year, take that for whichever new year you want :D

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thanks James. I like old photographs too. Happy New Year!

[@korpze206]

Creeped me out too, glad its not just me :)

[@redwoodcoast]

Your previous Part I escaped my attention, but now I'll have to watch it since any curious being is hungry for the facts that you uncover. I have a suggestion that springs from my perspective about cast stone...something you should cover in your next video on the Buddha. It is this: it is a certainly that the hair curls on the head were all formed in molds since it is not the work of stone masons to carve rounded and semi-spherical shapes. That is the work of clay sculptors who can do it by freehand with soft clay. Flat chisels cannot do that without expending a ridiculous amount of time...which stone masons would never waste their time on. So, if the curls are added on, then what else was created in molds? You mentioned the ears...which are also totally rounded and not straight surfaces like chisels are meant for. So the statue's creation involved not just stone removal but stone concrete addition...and entire sections may have been added in order to produce the final shape if that shape was not possible with the remainder of the previously quarried site. Perhaps that raises the question of the head itself and whether or not it is an add-on in its entirely. Hmmm... I do want to express my appreciation for bringing forward the previously unknown fact about the advanced quarry marks. I just recently had the insightful thought that what was used world-wide (and especially in the staircase and tunnel) was not an equivalent to our huge machines but instead a more miniature version that was highly mobile and compact (which would be the only good choice if choosing machinery to bring to Earth from another world.) Such a machine would trade size and speed for lesser weight and tool width but with plenty of time in which to work, a slower rate of stone removal would not matter. And if such machines were built with great reliability then they could operate around the clock either by control of operators or by Artificial Intelligence and clear instructions. It all makes sense. Now I have to consider creating a post with all of these points, both yours and mine. :) Ancient Stonework Mysteries ....Facebook Group.

[@vasopel]

what a joke...

[@Hitngan]

Excellent research Tina. In Liverpool UK we have the mysterious Williamson Tunnels. A network of underground tunnels below the city linking up key landmarks and buildings. Im convicted they are much much older than the official narrative 1820. It would be interesting to hear you view.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you! I just searched the Williamson Tunnels. Wow! Such an amazing site! Thank you for sharing with me. I agree with you that they are probably much much older. There were no machines in the 1820's that can leave these markings on bedrock. Maybe the official narrative is based on the brick work but the excavation on stone is something else. Once I'm done with the current projects I'll try to dig more on this site :-)

[@Hitngan]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Amazing thanks.

[@wojciechszeremeta2502]

Ooohhh sweetheart 💕 greetings from Poland!!! Your channel is a diamond

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you! Happy New Year from New York :-)

[@erickruger6604]

Thanks for revealing more ancient sites in China.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

My pleasure :-)

[@craigcampbell6690]

Amazing 🙂

[@erikistrup3477]

This would have taken a lot of effort to research. It would be interesting to know how the rock looks behind the Buddha.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

The back of the Buddha is attached to the mountain.

[@criticalthinkingtryit]

BUDDA-LICIOUS

[@jayrozario3258]

I like the way you present information to support your opinion. If there's anyone I think you might benefit from sharing information with, it's Jimmy for Bright Insight. Steer clear of anyone you see on TV. They will only taint the facts.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thanks Jay 😊 I love Jimmy's videos! He is one of the people that inspired me to start my channel! He actually left me comments once: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6bXiaxmfZqNj7s

[@jayrozario3258]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina that's so awesome. I'm excited for all the new information surfacing thanks to people like you.

[@philoso377]

In prehistoric ancient times there were large scale debris and hydrocarbon rain down from the heaven, one at a time. Soon after, the debris began its chemical process after successive chemical rains, influenced by volcano eruption to be more or less acidic or alkaline. If ancient people leave it alone it will be hard hardened in sand stone or granite in their natural shapes. Otherwise shaped must begin following a tight schedule if they want meant to be finished it in a buddha statute, cave to recover prior rivers or something. Because the hardening process does not end suddenly, ancient people were able to complete most of their projects. Projects over running the hardening period will and cannot be complete because the stone was harder than their tools. eg (1) Stone of the Pregnant Woman in Baalbek. (2) Largest unearthed obelisk in Egypt. (3) unearthed Moai of Easter island.

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

How do you know all these things... thank you.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

I did a lot of reading :p

[@steelstanding8005]

Looks like small stone blocks on the neck of the Leshan budda in the old photos. Almost like the entire thing is square.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Yes, the Buddha was very blocky looking.

[@ashevilleaugmentedrealityq1777]

I am curious if the stone blocks exposed on the knee's are later renovations. The last caves shown of unknown origin/use do highly resemble caves of great antiquity in other parts of the world like Turkey and Israel.

[@jkid4855]

she has a strong Chinese accent so she probably got a lot of her source material in Chinese. Good research.

[@tmastersat]

That sign is recessed into the wall using the same marks but the sign is smooth. Perhaps a older sign is underneath

[@godblesschild808]

❤❤❤nice channel hi from America

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you :-) Hope you enjoy my other videos too.

[@randomdude2832]

the way the arms and hands are resting on the legs is just like the egyptian statues.

[@shermanatorosborn9688]

Happy new Thanks from me

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Happy new year!

[@shanedavison7473]

Your correct that the original statue is ancient... 15,000 years old I estimate.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the support. Hope you can check out my other videos as well!

[@caryccharlson]

Is it possible to identify the size of the machine based on any Niche or narrowing of the staircase in which it would have had to have been traveled to operate?

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

If I can go to the site, I will try to take some measurements. The machines must have been pretty compact to create the staircase and tunnels.

[@stephenrocks7004]

Have you gotten anymore information on the 1984 tunnel and pathways. This would solve a lot of questions. Thanks for your detection

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

I haven't heard about these. What are they?

[@stephenrocks7004]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina sorry I should referenced the Giant Buddha show December 30, 2020.

What makes people make hidden places of shelter in far way places? Proof of these things throughout history, virtually everywhere on this planet. What makes us think things aren’t the same today? These cycles are happening all around us, all the time. We’re at the end of another cycle. Cheers regardless.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Interesting. Are you referring to the current cycle we are in similar to Kali Yuga? I do think civilizations rise and hall in cycles.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Or "climate change" ?

[@eddycoronado8381]

👍😊

[@rudedawg2495]

There is a tunnel system throughout the statues it looks like.as was the stone of mt.rushmore.there was something much bigger under it all

[@noname-dv5py]

Something strange is with this statue. Just remember similar examples of cutting something huge in the rock; for example: Lalibela churches in Africa, Kailash temple and caves of Elora in India, Petra Temples in Jordan, Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan... And this sitting Leshan Giant statue reminds me more Egypt Colossi of Memnon, than Buddha. 1) this statue and "cave" is very primitive made (if we know, that builders used ancient advanced technology and if we compare it with others huge ancient cut examples/buildings); 2) as sculpture, this Buddha(?) is very strange made. Or very bad if you treat it as a work of art. If this statue would built in our "modern" time, we could call it as contemporary art. But it is not. This statue was built without using any known for as art canons; 3) the head of this statue is above the rock surface. So in the rock surface must be left griding residues; 4) if for ancient builders was very easy to cut out huge amount of rocks, so why they left such uneven "walls" but not cleaned surfaces like in Mount Nokogiri (Chiba) in Japan? 5) if this statue was cut from one solid rock, what must happened in the past, that some huge parts of this statue were destroyed and later restored(?) using bricks? P.s.: a) I suspect (or I'm sure in 90%), that this all statue was built of bricks. And to hide bricks structure, builders used thick plaster surface which now for us looks like stone/rock surface. b) and when this Buddha statue was built? Remember one old photo with monastery in this place which You put in Yours video? If You try to remember, how today looks scaffolds of big buildings...

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Interesting thoughts - thanks for sharing. This statue is indeed unusual. The Buddha project started at 713 and completed in 803 with on and off work. According to the preservation crews, the Buddha is mainly made out of stone. Btw the sites you mentioned are all enigmatic places!

[@noname-dv5py]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Thank You. And you are right if you rely on official historical sources. But I do not believe in official history (there are many reasons why I do so) because many historical artifacts doesn't fit with official history facts; for example, in this video, how can you explain buddhism and advanced technologies in the same place? Do you have any official source about technologies were used to built this place? NO. But you have plenty official information about everything except technologies and the owners of these hightech. So... officials: 1) don't know? 2) lie? 3) know, but don't say?

[@isupportyou9929]

You deserve 👍

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

I appreciate that :-)

[@blacklodgecooper9328]

I'm not sure that is machining. There are very similar marks where I live in Chester UK where a canal was cut through red sandstone bedrock. I suspect each line represents a days work chipping away at the rock. Having said that , the markings are very similar to the modern machining pics that you have included.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Thank you for the information. I found an ancient Chinese canal (about 700-year old) which has similar markings as well. Is the canal you mentioned the Chester canal?

[@blacklodgecooper9328]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Yes. And/or Shropshire Union canal. Most of the information that comes up in a search talks about work initiated in the 18th century but there is clearly older work there. Particularly in the area of the ravine under Northgate street. You can see later work that has been added on top much like other sites but the bedrock has been carved through to a depth of about 20 feet (not including the depth of the canal) and a width of about 35 40 ft in some places. It is very hard to find information on the Roman's having excavated it perhaps while building the walls. Most articles only reference the walls in respect to the Romans and not the canal. You can see some of the evidence I refer to in these images. britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101375967-bridge-of-sighs-chester-city-ward#.X_ytJRbLjcs. & www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.geocaching.com%2Fwaymarking%2Fdisplay%2Fc0fe2ea5-dd83-4ff4-9055-94c342775dfb.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waymarking.com%2Fwaymarks%2FWMWF61_Bridge_123H_Over_Shropshire_Union_Canal_Chester_UK&tbnid=W-IRZTnPLmZcLM&vet=12ahUKEwjyo4HSy5TuAhUX8IUKHS43DaIQMygLegQIARBE..i&docid=OD_MgUe8RQn3CM&w=400&h=300&itg=1&q=chester+canal+ravine&client=firefox-b-d&ved=2ahUKEwjyo4HSy5TuAhUX8IUKHS43DaIQMygLegQIARBE I will look into it further and let you know if I find anything.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

​@@blacklodgecooper9328 Thank you for the information and the photos! The long vertical tool marks look like the ones on Yangshan Quarry. The canal and the city wall look ancient.

[@blacklodgecooper9328]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina The Walls are Roman but there is evidence all over Chester of huge cut and placed blocks and carved bedrock at the bottom of structures. I should know more about it really, living here. Perhaps I will make a video myself. If you ever want any footage of locations in the UK give me a shout. I have a camera which shoots in 4K 60fps and higher.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

@@blacklodgecooper9328 Thank you! That's very kind of you :-) I would like to see the walls and the canal. If you decide to make a video, please share with me. It will be great to see some close-up shots.

[@outgoingautismhowtoovercom8512]

I think it was recarved

[@ancientbuilds3764]

Happy new year Tina! Interesting video. I have been thinking that no machines were involved, but rather that a person would sit down with their left side parallel to the wall, with their left hand holding a metal spike, and the right hand striking the spike with a mallet. This would explain the inward curve of the striations, produced by the fulcrum of the arm travelling downwards and the short distance between line levels. (Sitting position) This is easily tested, as you just need to grab some local dude, have him sit in that position, and trace the movement of his arm to see if it matches.

[@ancientbuilds3764]

Darn it. Think I just proved you right! Look at the photo of the tunnel staircase. (12:10, left pic, 4th row up) They dont follow the curve of an arm at all. If a person was to do this, it would be a fantastic way of getting all kinds of gunk in your eyes. One would presume you would strike vertically, and not side to side. To get that curve, you would have to literally be lying underneath it... Weird.

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

:D Yes that photo of the tunnel is pretty telling. Happy New Year!

[@noname-dv5py]

I have several questions: 1) 2:11 I clearly see bricks construction; so may the whole statue(?) was built by bricks? 2) what is this space? What is special with this place? 3) may this statue(?) was built to hide something?

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Very perceptive :-) 1) Some broken parts were repaired with bricks, but the majority of the Buddha was made in stone. 2) This Buddha is facing the convergence of three rivers. I think there is more to this particular spot because I found some historical records indicating that Mount Lingyun and a nearby island were shaped and separated at least 2,000 years ago which is about 800 years before the Buddha project. I am still looking into this area. Thanks for the comment. Happy New Year!

[@noname-dv5py]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina Thank You. Happy New Year and successful discoveries for You!

[@Cliffwalkerrockhounding]

So, I have watched a couple videos of yours on the topic of the Buddha. You compare it to other statues of similar period, but I do not believe the comparison is valid. Here are my reasons; The other examples are carved into the lower portion of a cliff face, typically inset beneath an overhang of sound stone. This allows protection from the elements and even plants. In comparison, the giant Buddha's head is carved from the top layer of the stone. The top layer will be broken up by erosion and the encroachment of plants, especially roots penetrating the stone and the freeze/thaw cycle. So, this top layer of stone is inferior and lends this trait to the head. Also, the location of the Leshan Buddha is directly above the water at a confluence of rivers. This location and elevation leads to a high relative humidity which will help support plant and moss growth, as will the hour or so of sunlight per day to most parts of the statue. In summary, utilizing the inferior top layer of stone for the statue and in such a way that the entirety was exposed to erosion is why this statue is in the condition it is in. This does not invalidate any of your claims regarding machining tool marks or earlier civilizations, it simply speaks to the effects of erosion in dissimilar environments. I enjoy the levels of research you display.

[@Evuelect]

👉🔥👍🎬

[@PatriceBoivin]

the serpent shaped stair... whatever that old civilization was they seem to have liked reptiles and turtles.

[@mikeb9522]

One thing that I question is. If the people of the past had the technology to build amazing structures. Would they have evolved like us with our technology computers . Planes etc. If they didn't get wiped out and lost. Look what we have done in 100 years..dosent make sense. If they were around for 1000s of years making things we can't do today? Surely they would have made advances like we did..!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

I wonder that as well. I assume that since these people could make much better constructions it's very possible that this civilization, in general was more sophisticated. Because many fields are involved in achieving high construction quality, such as mathematics, physics, engineering, metallurgy, material science/ chemistry, precision instrument and machinery etc. Therefore they might have technologies like computers and planes too.

[@mikeb9522]

@@CuriousBeingbyTina OMG..they mite have had what we have now and more but it all got lost. That is so scary.. wonder how many resets there have been up until us. Absolutely mind blowing ! Thank You for your amazing answer your the best !

[@ancientbuilds3764]

Come on you... Time to enrapture us!

[@GrayTeam83]

I'd bet it was originally an Egyptian Pharaoh

[@ithink2616]

Could this have been Lord Shiva changsed to Buddha.His half closed eyes.Is that common on Buddha statues?

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Half closed eyes are common on Buddha statues in China...

[@aarongoodwin4845]

Maybe it was defaced at some point and restoration efforts didn't have the required technical skills to get it done!

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

Yes, it's possible.

[@superdiver.]

There's something hidden inside the Buddha.

[@Branch977]

怪不得不在更新中文频道了，真的会引来太多争议了

[@CuriousBeingbyTina]

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[@evgeniyan2426]

This all made by extraterrestrials from parallel Earth. There is no machinery technology. This is a civilisation of alive "machines". I say machines, but they aren't. They are look like alive metallic "instruments". Imagine the parallel Earth, were everything is alive: stones, "metallic ants" able to carry tens stone blocks. And with their teath like our machinery teath cutting the stones. So their traces are very similar. Our Earth machines are very rough (because they are not alive) and can do very primitive moves. Alive "machines" can do very complex , impossible moving , demonstrated for example in this video. They born, grow, live and die like we are. But they are "mechanic" from our point of view. So the UFO. They are absolutely the same. In other words , all this made by UFO - the not biological creature of parallel world. We see them in very small intersection. They live in their own Earth. If the intersection is big , then this impossible sculpters, Nasca's drawings, piramides, caves appeares in our Earth. But it's impossible to detect this action. It appears like it existed always here. And it looks strange, because they don't have our history. Close parallel Earths has very close objects and history , but anyway different. Take the piramides for example. Our piramides are similar, but ours much smaller than the giant in parallel Earth. Because we dont have their advantages. But intersecting mixed this piramides (not only piramides , but a great territory ) and we get this unexplainable objects. Sometimes intersection leads to underwater appearing of structures. Or our structures looks like falling into water - mental memory of Atlanta. And I repeat, don't try to explain with our concepts. This is absolutely not nessesary. Sometimes this intersections very significant and course catastrophes on the Earth. And Earth civilisation dies. But not the catastrophe is reason of it. The Intersection is. After this intersection the civilisation (all or part) dissappeares without traces - this is intersection ! Not material destructing. And immediately new civilisation appeares. In other words, this is the extraterrestrials wars. Local intersection causes appearence of new creatures and human races on the Earth. This true explanation of human appearence, not the evolution. Evolution leads to small continuous changing but not for new sort of alivings, appearing with a jump.