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In Reply to: RE: A possible world first has just been made public .... posted by JDK on October 14, 2016 at 17:08:17
On the same order of age is Gobekli Tepe.
While I don't know if anyone has looked at alignments, this is also a VERY significant site and Also about 10k years old.
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It's great to read things like this.
How they cut and moved the huge blocks is amazing.
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John K
MANY examples, the world over, of large stones being moved by people well-prior to recorded history.
The Ancient Egyptians, about 2600BC moved several hundred TONS of granite 400 miles or so to be part of the Great Pyramid. The finished pieces in the CEILING of the Kings Chamber are roughly 50 to 60 TONS per. And they extend up 5 relieving chambers tall.
How'd the builders of STONEHENGE move THOSE stones? How were the lower level stones at BAALBEK moved? These bad-boys are an astonishing 1000 TONS per.
And for THAT matter, how'd the guy who built the Coral Castle maneuver 6 ton to maybe 15 ton blocks BY HIMSELF and place them with good accuracy? This is in South Florida and can be visited today. I did.
Nearly countless examples of constructions in stone which are head-shakers for modern persons.
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The answer for most of these stone structures is ramps and manpower. Not sure about the Coral Castle. Never heard of that one.
Coral Castle is a weird place.
ALL Coral, as the name implies, it was built by a 120lb guy who was waiting for his GF to come from Europe. She never came and he built her a 'castle'.
Well worth the investigation.
One interesting factoid was the place was used as a set in a Soft Core 'porn' movie from the 50s.
Ramps are of course part of MOST theories of moving large stones. But in some cases, like the Great Pyramid, they are NOT the whole story. A ramp long enough at a reasonable grade to reach the TOP would be over a MILE LONG and at least equal in volume to the pyramid, itself. Various external ramp theories are also nutty, since you LOSE SIGHT of the sides and therefore cannot guarantee alignment or straightness. An INTERIOR ramp, for which SOME evidence exists is a very good idea originated by a French Architect named Houdin. I'm certain we have NOT heard the last of the 'secrets' of the Great Pyramid. One stone in the wall of the Kings Chamber (of 100) is NOT load bearing and shows signs of having been moved in from the back.
The Egyptians had (abandonded due to crack) a 1000ton Obelisk in quarry. I stood on it. I can NOT imagine HOW you'd get this thing a couple hundred miles down the Nile to point of use.
Egyptians routinely erected Obelisks of 300tons and perhaps more. An obelisk is a SINGLE piece of stone, usually granite.
Using ROLLERS to move large blocks is probably a no-go, too. You need a VERY flat surface and a nearly UNLIMITED supply of wood. Egyptians would recycle and reuse wood since it WAS so valuable. I saw a large sledge in the Egyptian Museum. Drawings show someboyd pouring a lube on runners with huge numbers of persons pulling such a sledge.
Other stuff exists which would require me to write 10 pages just to touch upon. The ROUND BALLS (stone) in Costa Rica are one such. WHY would be my question.
How'd the Inca and the subject peoples build those wonderful walls and a 25000 mile road system?
Several sites around Lake Titicaca are very weird. They do not necessarily appear to be related thru iconography or style, so they may NOT have been made by the same people. Curved pieces of polished stone, with ROUND holes bored thru them.
…cheers...
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Huge monoliths dragged down to the shoreline, and then stood up and half buried, for some mysterious purpose.
Cheers,
John K
it appears they 'walked' the Moai to the place where they were to remain.
They have an odd-shaped bottom and can be rocked / tilted and they move forward in 'steps'.
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