[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?

[Jonty30]

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

[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.

[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.