Posted on 09/05/2009 7:36:06 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.
The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it.
Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists.
"To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. "I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it."
Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, "You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons."
The discovered section is 24 meters (79 feet) long. "However, it is thought the fortification is much longer because it continues west beyond the part that was exposed," the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a news release.
It was found inside the City of David, an archaeological excavation site outside the Old City of East Jerusalem on a slope of the Silwan Valley.
The wall is believed to have been built by the Canaanites, an ancient pagan people who the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism. Watch report on the discovery of the ancient wall »
"This is the most massive wall that has ever been uncovered in the City of David," Reich and Shukron said in a joint statement about the find. It marks the first time "that such massive construction that predates the Herodian period has been discovered in Jerusalem."
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Jerusalem still gets water from the spring that this wall protects.
The dreaded double post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332842/posts
It was probably built by the Jebusites, from whom, I think David took Jerusalem.
bttt
Given ropes,large timbers, and plenty of manpower, surprisingly large and heavy thing can be moved.See lever,fulcrum,wheel,wedge,etc.
I don’t know how I got the dreaded double post, I am hoping that an admin will delete the duplicate.
He/she did — I guess the other one was the bad one :)
I’ve often wondered if the Egyptians discovered how to build with those HUGE stones and the technique was eventually learned in Israel and then the Persians learned if from them or was it the other way around. The Wailing WAll has some large stones but if you look down there are stones as big as those supporting the pyramids.
Or Ancient Astronauts used their anti-grav beams to help...
double post nazi tattletale
>>double post nazi tattletale<<
It is a public service to keep all the comments in one place.
OK, it is a service to ME to keep all the comments in one place. My ADD is already tough enough to deal with ...;)
Narcing on a pulled thread?
This thread has been pulled.
It wasn’t pulled when I narced.
Jeeze, guys.
Try to help a little and whaddya get?
*gumble* *mumble* Kids on lawn *grumble*
Here is a good video of how such feats can be accomplished with very little manpower, very interesting, must see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
It is always good to have my buddy Bender in charge...
Abraham stopped at Salem (usually identified as the same location we now call Jerusalem) and paid tithes to Melchizedek (priest and king of Salem) after rescuing Lot and other inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah.
“Given ropes,large timbers, and plenty of manpower, surprisingly large and heavy thing can be moved.See lever,fulcrum,wheel,wedge,etc.”
Ever heard of Baalbek?
“The sloping terrain necessitated the creation of retaining walls on the north, south and west sides of the plaza. These walls are built of about 24 monoliths at their lowest level each weighing approximately 300 tons. The western, tallest retaining wall has a second course of monoliths containg the famous “trilithon”: a row of three stones, estimated to weigh over 750 tons each.[3] A fourth, still larger stone called “the stone of the south” (Hajar el Gouble) or “the stone of the pregnant woman” (Hajar el Hibla) lies unused in a nearby quarry about 1 mile from the town.[4] - its weight, often exaggerated, is estimated at 970 tonnes.”
Ping.
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