ENGINES OF AMERICA · NO. 05 · THE OLD WORLD ENGINE
The Megalith Engine
Who really built it, and when.
Running nowv1.0 BetaFree
Mounds, pyramids, sky-watching sites, forts and the towns they burned or flooded. The Megalith Engine pulls every one of them from the Atlas so you can line them up: where they stand, the dates they were given, and who was here before the paper says.
1,211sites
4Atlas layers
120shown in date order when you browse
Run the Megalith EngineEvery Engine of America
Old structuresDatesPlace
What it can do
- Searches 1,211 sites across four layers: mounds and sacred sites, sky-watching sites, forts and war ground, and towns destroyed, burned or flooded
- Browses oldest first
- Every site carries its source and label
- Same ground and same years between sites, on the table
- Every site on the Atlas, with the timeline and the azimuthal map
Spec plate
- Fuel
- Mounds and sacred sites, sky sites, forts, destroyed and flooded towns
- Output
- Each site with its date, place and source
- Browse
- Oldest first
- Then
- Map, timeline and compare on your table
How it runs
- Browse or searchLeave it blank to see them oldest first, or type 'pyramid', 'Cahokia', 'mound'.
- Put them on the tableMounds next to pyramids next to forts.
- Line them upMap, timeline, Compare, Connections.
Use it to
- Line up the pyramids of the Americas: 'pyramid' finds the Pyramid of the Sun, Cholula, Chichén Itzá
- Put Cahokia next to the towns they burned and flooded
- Build a timeline of the mound builders
Straight up
- Testing each claimed build date against the stone work is the next upgrade.
- Star forts are filed as forts; search 'fort'.
Tested
On the live site, Nov 14, 2026
- pyramid: 3
- Cahokia: 3
- mound: 332, the mound sites first
- Blank browse lists the oldest sites first
Found a bug?
This engine is in beta: working and in daily use, still being tested. If something broke, looked wrong or gave a bad answer, tell us. Every report gets read.