Forgotten Technology

ocianain

The author of the following website is a retired carpenter, he shows how he believes the ancients moved those huge stones (moves a 20,000 pound stone alone), it's not ancient astronauts:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com

I bought the DVD (its DV-R) and it's awesome. If it was more tightly edited it would be great for a science class

murfie

I dunno, looks good for moving the blocks over level ground, but the most amazing stone structure that even with today's modern technology would be hard to construct is at Puma Punku ruins, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.
These were stones up to 800 tons, and moved 10 miles. But what makes it more amazing is the accuracy of the workmanship, interlocking huge stone parts and slots and drilled holes that because of the type of rock would have needed to be diamond tip tools to recreate the accuracy.

Can this technique be used to move stone up to 800 ton?

Mellor

murfie wrote: »

These were stones up to 800 tons, and moved 10 miles. But what makes it more amazing is the accuracy of the workmanship, interlocking huge stone parts and slots and drilled holes that because of the type of rock would have needed to be diamond tip tools to recreate the accuracy.

Can this technique be used to move stone up to 800 ton?

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, from what I've read, the bggest were in the region of 130 tons

murfie

Mellor wrote: »

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, from what I've read, the bggest were in the region of 130 tons

The exaggeration was not by me, but the source site could be. I have read avg of 100-130 to but some as high as 440 tons and 800 tons.