The Elders left us two very different things, which have lasted millennia.
Pyramids of great size, so big that they should survive any cataclysm to some degree. And statues that might be telling us nothing more than that there were men around.
The size of the pyramids means they will survive. The shape perhaps would help us realise that they are not natural, but intentional. The various locations around the world suggest that they only hoped that humans would survive, at least on one continent or island. Possibly they figured any survivors from Europe and Africa would find their way to Egypt one day…
But why? Why do they want someone in the future to find them? The default answer is that each pyramid contains a hall of records, time capsule, or whatever. But if that is the case, archaeologists haven’t found anything like that.
If the message was coded into the structures themselves, you’d expect uniformity.
If the pyramids collapsed in an earthquake, their internal passages would be lost.
Work this out, that is the key!
Here’s an idea. It can’t be inside, because it might collapse. It can’t be outside, because it might collapse. But the structure will survive to some degree, even as a mound, and every little city back when things began was called a mound…
What if the mound is a general X marks the spot, and the treasure is not in or under the pyramid, but nearby.
What if the human statues indicated where?
They either explicitly tell us the location of what we are meant to find, or it is underneath them, or the statues and pyramids triangulate the spot.
Alternatively, that we are meant to find is below each pyramid, remains undiscovered (archaeologists are careful not to dig unnecessarily) and is sitting, waiting.
Quite possibly the Great Pyramid has tunnels underneath (it is rumoured) and a Hall of Records (it is rumoured), and every other pyramid is a weaker attempt at the same thing.
Shallow Buried Statues
I cannot think of any reason for a shallow-buried statue except it was meant to be found…
The ĘżAin Ghazal Statues are a number of large-scale lime plaster and reed statues discovered at the archeological site of ĘżAin Ghazal in Jordan, dating back to approximately 9000 years ago (made between 7200 BC and 6250 BCE), from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic C period. A total of 15 statues and 15 busts were discovered in 1983 and 1985 in two underground caches, created about 200 years apart.
The statues are among the earliest large-scale representations of the human form, and are regarded to be among the most remarkable specimens of prehistoric art from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B or C period. Their purpose remains uncertain, with archaeologists believing they may have been buried just after production, having possibly been made with that intent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BFAin_Ghazal_statues
Likewise the Gobleki Tepe site was clearly a case of purposefully buried human statues. Urfa Man, the oldest for-sure, anatomically correct, human statue, was found close by. I sense this is meaningful. He may have been buried, it is not known.
I am guessing that they were indicating the location of a prototype pyramid, perhaps something local that wasn’t magnificent and it lost or misunderstood.
Meanwhile in China, they also have pyramids, and one famously has a spectacular example buried next door, the Terracotta Army.
While I am at it, Easter Island has statues. Those that have not been relocated are half-buried. I doubt anyone has considered that they were once fully buried, but the topsoil has worn or washed or blown away since.
The Sphinx was buried…