>>3947923there is the possibillity of the stones predicting the future. either way, its not like we dont have stuff carved in stone ourself, its simply a really effective way of having stuff stay around for a long time, which it appearently did. if you read carefully i also propose a global cataclysm of some kind, likely a flood, possibly nuclear world war, which destroyed pretty much every technology with the remains all pretty much deteriorating after a couple thousand years or being on the bottom of the ocean.