This is how a 150-ton stone was moved thousands of years ago to complete the Dolmen of Menga

El Pais ^ | 08/31/2024 | Vicente Olaya

[Brian Griffin]

Until now, experts wondered how it was possible that in the middle of the Neolithic period, more than a thousand years before the first pyramids of Egypt were built, these enormous stones could be moved and placed with millimetric precision, orienting them towards the sunrise for astronomical purposes.

The 32 stones that make it up weigh about 1,140 tons. Of these, the largest — and the one that covers the back of the chamber — weighs 150 tons. This is the largest slab that was moved during the megalithic phenomenon in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-largest in Europe.

[Brian Griffin]

The article has the details and some pictures.

[Jonty30]

There is a guy on you tube that built his own miniature Stonehenge made of cement. He used the known ancient techniques, by himself, to move blocks that weighed upwards of 10 tons.

[FirstFlaBn]

Cement is a fine grayish powder. How did he get it to stay put when the wind blew?

[Tom Tetroxide]

How about moving 1000 ton or 1200 ton stones like the ones found at the temple of jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon? Has anyone figured that out yet?

[SteveH]

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[Jonty30]

Concrete, then.
It’s on YouTube and very interesting.

[Jonty30]

The ancient techniques allowed 1 man to move 10 ton blocks, so it is just a matter of scaling it.

[mairdie]

Loved it! So many thanks for the article.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Arrogance.

Man was dummer thousands of years ago than today.
My pronouns are they/ze. I married a tree.

[PUGACHEV]

Recently, I watched a YouTube video by some expert who explained using graphs how the average IQ has steadily decreased over the last few centuries. Leaving aside how IQ was measured in the past, I found it all convincing, if not reminiscent of the film Idiocracy. This leads me to believe that those engineers who built spectacular things in the past, they who never had the benefit of any textbook or manual, and only knew what they learned from their immediate predecessors and from their own intuition, were far, far smarter that even our modern-day physicists and rocket scientists, who, as newton put it, are standing on the shoulders of giants.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SunkenCiv]

• Skilled Neolithic Engineers Built Spain's Menga Dolmen [09/01/2024]

[SunkenCiv]

Thx. Added, not pinged.

[dljordan]

“How about moving 1000 ton or 1200 ton stones like the ones found at the temple of jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon? Has anyone figured that out yet?”

No, and they don’t want to talk about it.

[Organic Panic]

Per Wikipedia... The largest stone “of the pregnant woman” remakes unused in the quarry.

However... If I had to build it..... I would do it layer by layer with dirt. Each layer, plant in the base stones and the columns, keep loading up the dirt, then get the final stones in place. Remove the dirt. Pulleys, wheels, levers, and lots of slaves can accomplish many things.

[Organic Panic]

Remains in the quarry....

[al baby]

my pet peeve too

[DPMD]

And yet nobody could move 200 lb tim walz over to Iraq.

[Cold Heart]

There are a few TV shows that will talk about it.

But I won’t mention their names

[Night Hides Not]

I went to school in Northern California when their public schools were excellent. In 5th grade, Animal Farm was read in class. Same with The Count of Monte Cristo in 6th grade. I believe that everyone in that class tested at 12th grade reading level.

Nowadays, the kids aren’t challenged, their time is spent on smart phones.