>In that respect, it's not comparable to anything on Earth. Imagine
>something as ancient as the Acheulean axe deposit at Olorgesailie in
>Kenya - where Homo erectus first made stone hand axes something
>like a million years ago, and kept it up for a staggeringly long time
>- only with the grandeur, artistic sophistication, and advanced
>construction techniques of Baron Haussmann's 19th-century
>reconstruction of Paris. Or if the Paleolithic cave art of
>present-day Spain and France (ca. 40,000 BCE) were very much
>older than they are, but consisted of drawings as intricate,
>detailed, and technologically inventive as the sketches of Leonardo da
>Vinci (1452-1519). That's how incredible, and baffling, and
>intimidating Ryo Zan Paku is.

Hmmm.

So more of an Atlantis (the mythic version espoused by new-age Celtophiles, for example). I can get with that.