Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> And I've never understood the purpose of 'encoding
> information' in monuments. Why not just spell it
> out, I mean they had these funny things called
> 'heiroglyphs'.


What's the fun in that? I believe that in the 'encoded monument mythos' the reason the ancient encoded stuff is so that only brilliant same-thinkers as them selves will be able to puzzle out 'x' thereby ........something important is achieved.

Some monuments were set up so they could mark the season - which could be valuable to farmers.