This is how STONEHENGE and the PYRAMIDS were built...

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage1

"I am a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction. In my work experience, over the years, many times I had to improvise on tools that were not at hand in order to get the job done.

At one of these times, about 12 years ago, I had to remove some 1200 lb. saw cut concrete blocks from an existing floor. The problem was that we did not have a machine that could reach some of the blocks. The only obvious answer was to break the blocks into smaller pieces with a sledgehammer and load them into a wheelbarrow. To me, this seemed to be too much labor at the time, so I improvised.

Using a few rocks and leverage, I removed the blocks from below the floor to an area that the machine could reach them for removal. After doing this several times, the technique became very easy and quick. This experience had me consider the possibility that people may have used this technique before modern day equipment was available."

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage2

In a few days time, I decided my one ton block was no longer challenging, so I made some bigger blocks to play with. Within a few months time, I was moving, rolling, standing on end, and stacking them on top of each other.

I found that I, working alone, could easily move a 2400 lb. block 300 ft. per hour with little effort, and a 10,000 lb. block at 70 ft. per hour. I also stood two 8 ft. 2400 lb. blocks on end and placed another 2400 lb. block on top. This took about two hours per block. I found that one man, working by himself, without the use of wheels, rollers, pulleys, or any type of hoisting equipment could perform the task.

I have found that ancient legends from around the world are true. Some megaliths could have been set in place by as few as one man. I could build The Great Pyramid of Giza, using my techniques and primitive tools. On a twenty-five year construction schedule, (working forty hours per week at fifty weeks per year, using the input of myself to calculate) I would need a crew of 520 people to move blocks from the main quarry to the site and another 100 to move the blocks on site. For hoisting I need a crew of 120 (40 working and 80 rotating). My crew can raise 7000 lb. 100 ft. per minute. I have found the design of the pyramid is functional in it’s own construction. No external ramp is needed.

I have began to build a replica of Stonehenge with eight 10 ton blocks on end and 2 ton blocks on top. One man, no wheels, no rollers, no ropes, no hoist or power equipment, using only sticks and stones. In the future, either myself, sons, or grandsons will be able to show this and other forms of The Forgotten Technology to the world. I believe that I have learned to use the laws of physics to my advantage.





You have GOT to see the videos on this guy's website. I've become convinced that he has figured out the secrets to the construction of megaliths the world over.

P.S. The videos are kind of quirky when viewing in firefox. Either d/l them, or view using MSIE.

It may not have been used of course but it certainly has an elegant simplicity to it.

but in the middle of the 20th century there was a man who built a stone house for himself using multi-ton rocks. Nobody knew how he did it and he would not reveal his techniques. He was robbed once by some thugs in his stone house so he MOVED IT to another location. When the guy died people searched all over for clues to how he built his house and all they found were documents with weird equations on them.



On edit: found it! Most of what I remembered about it is true!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

And the man's name was Ed Leedskalnin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

Hoping to somehow impress Scuffs, he spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view him while he worked. A few teenagers, who claimed to have witnessed his work, reported that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder."

Leedskalnin originally built the castle, which he named Rock Gate Park, in Florida City, FL around 1923. He purchased the land from Ruben Moser whose wife helped assist him when he had a very bad bout with tuberculosis.<1> Florida City which borders the Florida Everglades is the southernmost city in the United States that is not on an island. It was an extremely remote location with very little development at the time. The castle remained in Florida City until about 1936 when Leedskalnin decided to move and take the castle with him. No one knows for sure why Leedskalnin decided to relocate. The Coral Castle website states that he chose to move in order to protect his privacy when discussion about developing land in the area of the castle started.<2> The second commonly held notion was that he wanted to relocate to a more populous locale after being badly beaten one night by hooligans looking to rob him.<3> He spent three years moving the Coral Castle structures ten miles north from Florida City to its current location in Homestead, FL.

Leedskalnin continued to work on the castle up until his death in 1951. The coral pieces that are part of the newer castle and were not among those transported from the original location were quarried on the property only a few feet away from the southern wall.

Not bloody likely.

Always looking for elegance in engineering.

or grossly overestimate them. This guy seems to hit on a balanced, and probably accurate perspective on ancient technology and techniques. Humans of today aren't any smarter than they were 10,000 years ago, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least some machines were used then, such as the lever. Humans, by their very nature, are tinkerers, and we change our environments to suit ourselves all the time. We should look at history, and the development of technology through that perspective.

But if it isn't, they surely did miss a nifty way of doing it.

But I'm as close to "sure" as can be that this is / was the method used to construct ALL of the fantastic megalithic structures that grace our Earth.

Just my $0.02...

That would be a nice avatar. Maybe after the elections are over.

Everyone knows that.

the Aliens were an inferior race and hunted for sport by the Predators. Here ....

these guys ...

the OP obviously never saw the movie .... gee sh.

Seems I read something recently where someone claimed the possibility that the great pyramids were built from the inside out.

That "round road" idea is brilliant. No wonder the Egyptians never invented the wheel!

There could have been an entire crew of a hundred or two hundred workers, each pair responsible for picking up an individual piece of the "round road" after a stone block rolled over it and hustling it up front again!

:wow:

Archaeologists have found excised grooves in the quarry for the stone used to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu that match the "round road" EXACTLY. The only difference is one of scale.

Wally Wallington is a goddamned genius.

that they had several thousand slaves at their disposal...

The Egyptians did use slave and prison labor in the mines but for most part the big construction projects were constructed by free Egyptians. Whether this labor was done out of religious devotion, desire to get some extra pay or as a part of their taxes is not certain. It was probably a little bit of all three.

Excavations of the pyramid tomb workers village indicate that the people who worked on them were for the most part seasonal--employed during the annual Nile inundation when agricultural workers were otherwise out of work. They were paid in food and goods (there was no money as we know it) and at least in later periods, were known to go out on strike if payment was not forthcoming. There's evidence of medical care and even death benefits. Workers who died on the job were given the honor of burial near the king.

What really made their construction projects possible was the Nile River which enabled stone to be easily moved throughout the country.

Pyramids.
Stonehenge.
Easter Island.
Tiahuanaco.
Baalbek.

BTW~~~10,000 lbs. is STILL NOT 2,000 TONS!!!
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_baalbek_1.htm

Yeah, this old carpenter has figured out what teams of physicists/architects/engineers haven't been able to. Riiiiiiight.

But the problem is only one of scale, not method, as has been amply demonstrated on dude's web page.

"Yeah, this old carpenter has figured out what teams of physicists/architects/engineers haven't been able to. Riiiiiiight."

Why the skepticism? Or are you one of those "Even though I plainly see it, I don't believe it, because nobody without FORMAL training could possibly be intelligent" types?

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