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🇩🇿Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania🇩🇿
 
This staggering feat of ancient megalithic stonemasonry is located near Algiers, in Tipaza Province, Algeria. Although it is said to be the tomb of Numidian royals, no human remains have ever been found. Furthermore, because the entire construction is made of stone, it is impossible to definitively date. The exterior of the structure features massive false doors, which served an arcane purpose for the original builders of this mysterious temple.

Sitting on a hill some 250 metres (756 feet) above sea level, its blueprint is circular in form with a square base topped by a cone or pyramid. The structure's square base measures 60 to 60.9 metres square or 200 to 209 ft. Its height was originally about 40 metres or 130ft, but due to extensive damage throughout the ages, only stands 32 metres today.

When the french first occupied Algeria in the 1800s, the French Navy used the ruin for target practice, and several unsuccessful attempts have even been made throughout the centuries to destroy the monument completely. In 1555, an order was issued by Salah Rais, the Pasha of Algiers, to have the mausoleum demolished, but it was miraculously saved when wasps swarmed out, stinging some of the workmen to death which resulted in the abandonment of the undertaking.

Most of the ornamental stonework has been stolen and what remains of the structure is a shell of its original self. Inside, the centre of the mausoleum there are two vaulted chambers separated by a short passage. One chamber measures 142ft in length by 11ft width and is 11ft in height, while the other chamber is smaller. The innermost gallery is reached through huge stone doors which can be moved up and down with levers. Access to the inner chambers of the Royal Mausoleum is off limits, and photographs of the inner chambers are virtually non-existent. 

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I've barely posted any pictures from Colombia but here are some more statues.

These guys are some of the only remaining statues with the original colours! They're dated to around 2,000 years ago and like the other statues at nearby San Agustin, they were all found buried underground along with dolmens.

They were in a separate park that was a 5km or so walk out of town. The San Agustin culture vanished before the Spanish arrived and next to nothing is known about them as they left remarkably little. Even their name is Spanish as nobody knows what they called themselves or what language they spoke. 
Some of the statue's penises have been tied shut which indicates they may have come from the Amazon basin. In the Amazon river, there's a fish that can swim up your pee stream and eat your dick from the inside out. That's the only reason archaeologists can think of as to why they would depict people like that.

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The archaeological park of San Agustin is the largest in all of South America! It contains over 500 statues, all of which were found underground in burial mounds. The culture dates back around 5,000 years, but the statues were said to be erected between 1-900ad. The San Agustin people abandoned the site around 100 years before the Spanish arrived. Nobody knows why.

While I was there, I noticed, and my guide reaffirmed, the fact that a lot of the statues are quite similar to those of the Bada Valley in Sulawesi, Indonesia, or the Moai of Easter Island.

Even more similar however, are the statues from Nuku Hiva, in French Polynesia. Especially when compared to the final picture here.

Could this Polynesian civilisation of statue builders be the same ones who created San Agustin in Colombia?

At first thought, it sounds absurd. According to conventional wisdom, we're taught that Columbus was the first outsider to find the Americas (aside from a brief spell of the Vikings in Canada). Therefore, they must have developed independently... Well, the coincidences stretch further than simple similarities in stonework. 
Did you know that indigenous South Americans have been found to have Polynesian DNA? This alone proves that the Polynesians found South America long before the Spanish arrived, but does it suggest that their culture influenced the San Agustin builders? 
It's no mystery that the Polynesians were capable of long distance sea voyages around the exact time that the San Agustin culture started building statues (after previously living in the region for 3,000 years and not building any). What do you think? 
Also, unrelated but still interesting is the fact that the first two pics (taken at different sites) depict an eagle eating a snake. This was the foundational myth of the Aztecs, still present on the Mexican flag to this day. Central American cultures supposedly never came into contact with South American ones. Is this just a coincidence? According to mainstream history, all cultures in the Americas crossed over the Bering strait around 12,000 years ago (which has since been pushed back to 20,000). (Continued in comments)
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