Telmessos (Fethiye)
Rock-CutTürkiye
Ancient Lycian port city on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, near modern Fethiye. Famous for the rock-cut necropolis carved directly into the cliff face above the bay, including the Tomb of Amyntas (c. 350 BCE) — a temple-form tomb cut as a single monolithic facade from the living rock. The interior chambers are cut to such precision that the doors close perfectly against the stone jambs. The cliff complex contains dozens of similar tombs in various scales, all carved using techniques that mainstream archaeology attributes to iron chisels but that independent investigators (Proto Civilization, others) have demonstrated cannot be replicated by modern steel against the same stone.
Look Closer — this site carries open questions: stones fitted without mortar, almost no gap; polygonal, interlocking masonry.
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Hydraulics of the Ancient World. The Remains of Telmessos | s05e06 (Proto Civilization, ru/en dub)Proto Civilization