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I love stories like this - how in the world were those giant blocks moved? Better call the Ancient Aliens guy with the hair.
I would refer to this as the Galactica Theory - where mankind has been traveling through the stars and forced to find new planets because they keep destroying the ones the currently occupy. We keep making the same mistakes as a small band of survivors begins anew - but generations later - the same is repeated. 9,000 yrs ago with some form of technology to form and move those blocks - pretty advanced...as the Cylons say, “All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again.”
just my opinion to through this conversation in another direction...
Perhaps in later days...
This post reminds me of another from November:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2964149/posts
Stonemason James Vieira of Ashfield studies ‘mound builders,’ ancient stonework
Real interesting video of a lecture of his findings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNjm4_moFE
Sheesh, you would think by now dogs could have learned how to spell.
Has anyone ever checked to see if those blocks are solid stone?
I love watching youtube videos on this megolithic construction sites around the world.
Nephtalim!
Pretty impressive, regardless of the answer.
Richard Haliburton taught me this lesson at age 12.
Richard Haliburton Book of Marvels, the Orient
It is my memory that the block, the largest known to history, was on the road to the quarry.
In before the entire universe is only 6000 years old.
Men were a lot bigger then?
The Unfinished Tekhen (Obelisk) of Aswan
As the title suggests, Unfinished Obelisk is an incomplete work, located in Aswan, Egypt. If completed it would have been the largest Egyptian obelisk ever finished. It is carved from bedrock with an estimated weight of 1100 tons.