It has always been my belief that the alleged carvings into the outer walls and the colonnades were far too impressive to actually have been done with a hammer and chisel and as I have looked at more and more of these images I find that they seem to be almost too exact to each other. Can't call them exact until someone measures them. It has also been my belief that a paste of some kind was spread over the SMOOTH walls and the SMOOTH colonnades. As a proof of this I offer up just a couple of images .Please note how it looks like about 3 or 4 inches have fallen off and underneath is a smooth surface on both the walls and the colonnades. I have suggested maybe a stencil was used but I am pretty sure none have ever been found.

Here are two images to ponder:

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If I am wrong could someone offer up an alternate explanation for what we see

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