Star Forts or Ancient Power Stations?

The Synopsis

Hundreds of beautiful buildings known as star forts adorn our planet like jewelry. In today's curriculum, these magnificent structures are rarely, if ever, brought up — and the hush around these antiquities has many people questioning their true history.

In 1520, star forts were employed by the famous Michelangelo in the defensive earthworks of Florence, and refined in the 16th century by Baldassare Peruzzi and Vincenzo Scamozzi. The design spread out of Italy in the 1530s and 1540s and was employed heavily throughout Europe for the following three centuries.

A star fort is also known as a bastion fort or trace italienne — a fortification style that evolved during the age of gunpowder, when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield in mid-15th-century Italy. The sharp angles helped eliminate "dead zones" — areas that could not be fired upon due to the angle of a fort's rounded towers. Mainstream historians assure us the peculiar shape existed purely for battlefield coverage.

There is no doubt that star forts were used to fight battles. But that doesn't mean the design evolved specifically for military purposes. Many of these forts are left completely open for enemies to enter — and their original purpose may have been something else entirely.

Why Is This Important?

It can be hard to know whom to trust amid the disputes of the educational system, politics, and world history. Being able to discern truth is a powerful virtue in the age of information — and there is a great deal to be learned from these massive structures.

Some very evolved technology would have been needed to execute the comprehensive anatomy and design of these forts. They are found in over 37 countries — America, South Africa, Japan, and Germany, to mention just a few.

Although the star-shaped forts are dispersed worldwide and were supposedly built across centuries, their architectural features are so similar that they appear as if designed by a single engineer.

As visually pleasing as the forts are, much of their structure is out of sight: approximately half of a star fort's structure lies underground, often including mazes of tunnels.

The Deeper Question

Considering the hundreds — possibly thousands — of star forts around the world, together with their identical geometry, a question begs asking: beyond defense, could there have been a cosmic or stellar significance to these structures?

Their placement on hallowed ground underscores possible symbolic weight, for these places either were, or would become, scenes of survival, death, and the afterlife. The true purpose and technology behind these impressive structures are worth questioning — they may even hold solutions to problems of today.

Keep Pulling the Thread

Related mysteries from the same era invite the same scrutiny:

• The Gilded Age — a mysterious time of impossibly rapid advancement
• Tartary — an entire nation, gone or hidden among us?
• The mud flood hypothesis and the buried first floors of the old world

Question the geometry. Question the timeline. The stones, as always, keep their own record.