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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Have you never heard of the temple of Baalbek? The Trilithon? The Hadjar el Gouble (Stone of the South)
Below you will find a picture of Hadjar el Gouble (the stone of the south) entitled megalith. It is perfectly hewn (as is the trilithon). This particular stone weighs in excess of 1000 metric tons and is still in the quarry location about 1/2 mile from the actual temple of Baalbek.
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If it's "still in the quarry" then it doesn't qualify as the requested example. It's still in the quarry because NOBODY could move it in antiquity. "Oops!" went the Temple's project manager.
I've attached a picture of a machine that can lift itself and move around -
it weighs 45x's as much as that stone.
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
You will also find a picture of what is known as the trilithon. The 3 stones were brought from the same quarry 1/2 mile away and they each weigh in excess of 800 tons each.
In each picture there are people located in the picture for size reference. |
The machine above could pick them each up at the same time and transport them along its 750 foot conveyer belt in a matter of seconds.
None of these "rocks" presents a real engineering challenge for today.
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