To: SunkenCiv
weighing as much as 90 tons
How did they lower these statues into the mounting holes, if vertical transportation was used?
Raising and lowering the statue is relatively easy, but vertical transport over that terrain...
6 posted on
06/21/2012 4:11:11 AM PDT by
moose07
(The truth will out, one day.)
To: moose07
Raising and lowering the statue is relatively easy, but vertical transport over that terrain...
"Back in my day, we had to walk those statues uphill. In the snow. Both ways."
13 posted on
06/21/2012 4:41:02 AM PDT by
Renderofveils
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