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

    09/05/2024 9:16:51 AM PDT · by Brian Griffin · 24 replies
    El Pais ^ | 08/31/2024 | Vicente Olaya
    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.