Now imagine some of these techniques scaled up to hundreds or thousands of people assigned to a task who do this everyday for a living. Ancient people were masters of wood and stone as they built everything using these materials. We still do for many things today, but through thousands of years of advancement our society has become far more specialised and varied in it's practices and fields of work and expertise, and with modern machines, moving these huge stones today would be far easier and take far less people.
I really get your point. Totaly valid. But the level of precision is absolutely unachievable with our current means. Things got moré complicated for historians once mathematicians, engeneers, geologists and geochimists got an opinion on it. For myself, i was not there, and any rationnal explanation is missing. At the time, the world population was stagnating at around 2 million people.... Those things are all over, simillar in achievement, and irreproducible yet. Not even on paper.
Regarding the huge stones at Baalbek, there is no evidence whatsoever that the Romans were responsible for this incredible feat of engineering, the general consensus is that they built their temple on pre existing building.
The written evidence that the Romans were involved on that are available. But even if this was taken from them we don't think they would be much concerned.
romans did sht,, they squated on allready built buildings,,like all post flood 13k, civilizations.. all the megalithic structures are well over 13k old.. do some research.. not mainstream bs..we can not now, move cut, transport over mountains, what is left on earth.. 600t is our limit,,on special built flat roads.. wake up..!..@@mauriziograndi1750
stones at balbek, or any, world wide, are over 100,000 yrs old.. as are the pyramids.. the builders left earth 13k ago.. so,, that puts a huge spanner in mainsteam bs they spew..this vid is total bs.. they didnt abandon structures,,they left earth..13k ago..
There's a slight problem when it comes to the mega sized stone work. It's simple, today, using a crane, when making precise sets, things over 20 tons, it's more often than not that it takes two or three picks before you finally get it set perfectly in place.... So the issue isn't the moving as much as it is the setting of these stones. You don't just pull the rollers or skids out from under these stones once you get them where they go, they had to jockey it into its precise position. We have cranes and picking eyes today, but the ancients had levers.. and you don't just lever a 100 ton block around once it's sitting flat on another flat stone. It can be done with a lot ropes and levers IF you have a large enough area to stage enough manpower to work the stone...at 200 tons, you have to get off the ground again, meaning they would have to drive wedges under it lift them again to set them perfectly,. Something that would definitely leave unmistakable deep cut groves into the stones, something missing in their work... Around 500/600 getting anything out from under the stone they used to move it with is as big as a feat as the project itself. 800- 1000? It's not happening. Whatever is under it will be staying under it. Even today we would have it to do to get anything used to set it from underneath.
They had completely different technologies to first mine the stones and transport them to these places. The Aswan quarry is not around the corner as we say. Then this precise fit in granite, which cannot be replicated even today. Have you already seen these vases? that were ground to thousandths of a millimeter? There was a time when there was a lot of technology and knowledge. There's no other way I can explain what's going on all over the world
@@levarris14 _"this precise fit in granite, which cannot be replicated even today"_ What grifter told you that and why were you gullible enough to believe them?
Despite "explanations" like this, not only the movement/placement of enormous weights along with incredible precision of cuts, finishes, and shapes will always lead me to consider there were earlier civilizations of much higher technology than we even have today.
I don't think so. Unless it was aliens and they took every trace of their technology with them. We have found no advanced metal alloys, no nuclear waste (that one would be easy to find), no satellites, no cut diamonds, no micro plastics etc. Absolutely nothing concrete that would shout advanced by today's standards. Maybe there was an advanced civilization that built these things and maybe they did take their technology with them when they left. And maybe they didn't really leave, maybe that civilization is what we see in our sky's, those UAPs. There ARE aliens watching us but the question of if it was them that built or helped built some of these structures is unanswered.
Proof? Data? Facts? No? I didn't think so. And what, exactly, was that higher technology? So why have no artifacts, relics, samples, abandoned machines of this "tech" ever been found? And what was their energy source? Think, if you can, before you speak, please.
@@kaoskronostyche9939 if the proof, data, and facts actually matched the style of construction and explained all the anomalies in these structures, people wouldn't be questioning the narrative. These questions are asked by people who actually think about what is being presented as facts and proof. And you are asking the right questions, what is the power source, where are the machines, the artifacts, the technology that fully explains the evidence left on ancient megalithic masonry scattered across the entire planet? Why are the largest most precise stone blocks always the oldest part of the structures? Why do we see the same style in different parts of the world before they knew how to circumnavigate the planet? What about the scoop marks? The over-cuts? The perfect 90° angles? Fully polished flat surfaces that exceed our modern straight edges? These questions are not explained by the technology of our ancestors.
@@RomoRooster There are proven answers to all the questions you list (I mean demonstrated) as well as repeating and well-documented common patterns in human behavior across cultures, across time, and across space. Just because humans are subject to the same tendency toward delusion does not mean they communicated or whatever stupidity it is you are suggesting. I am not going to attack you as you did me because I am so bewildered by people who believe the drek you do with no evidence, just Sci-Fi/ET credibility, that I would not know where to start in explaining your stupidity to you. Moreover, it would do no good because you are a believer and beilvers BELIEVE!
The baalbek temple clearly shows bevelled stones and non-bevelled stones of all sorts of sizes and shapes sitting next to each other ABOVE the triloton stones. Clearly a case of RE-USE. The clue is in the name: Baalbek. The temple of Baal. A Cananite god of child sacrifice destroyed by the israel in their first war under Solomon. Way before Roman times. WAY BEFORE.
For years I worked in offshore oil drilling business where 50 to 70 tons lifts where a daily occurence even 3,000 ton lifts on occasion, they all had one thing in common strong lifting gear especially lifting slings what was the sling / rope technology back 5000 years ago?
Great video! It's very illustrative on how ancient people were capable of moving and place huge pieces of stone. There is still a number of them, however, that can simply not be attributed to ingenuity, like the balbek stones (that are simply too large for these techniques to be applied), or the pink marble stone blocks present in Great Giza (they were moved hundreds of miles and accross a chain of mountains, and they were also lifted several hundred feet from the ground). It's also the case for the Sun Temple in Peru, where these blocks had to be moved no tgrough a grassy slope, but to an actual mountain peak, it doesnt take much analysis to conclude it's impossible to do it with logs and ropes. It's worth mentioning as well that the level of masonery we find in many of these ruins, in terms of precision, smoothness and geometrical proportion is impossible to be explained without consudering very advanced machinery, or something equivalent to that. So, please, open your eyes, and accept. There is at least one more ancient civilization that could do much more than the Romans and Egyptians could. They were unfortunately extinct, and forgotten. But the evidence is plain for anyone who wants to see it.
your brainwashed.. today, we can move 600t max,, on a special built road.. flat,, not over mountains, valleys as they did.. the blocks at pumu punku, came from 1000 ft, up the opposite mountain, then 1000 ft up to where they are.. all these structures are well over 13k.. minimum..more like 100,000 yrs old.. heres a shocker,, aliens made man genetically, as workers in mines.. the flood was meant to destroy us 13k ago.. FACT.
I will always believe it was done using hydrolics. Huge towers that slid on skids and held a large sack of water that was connected to a rope that went to a pully at the top and another at the bottom, then to the stone being pulled. Or through another set of pullys on the frount that pulled it forward between pulls on the stone.. Thing is when I first started writing about this it was before it was known that lots more water still flowing out if the hills along the nile then. That majes how the fed them easly understood now. But what do I know? Were told to follow the experts say and not think on our own. Even when logic proves the experts as being wrong. As the logistics of making enough rope would have been staggering alone. Where this idea only required one masive one that easaly could have handled the weight of even the colossal stones. Just got to do the math and see how many towers it would have taken verses the water they could hold have held.
No one has neglected them. There are many great books on ancient Peru and it's history. There are plenty of things that the Peruvians could NOT do that the Romans did; much of it has to do with the immediate environment. Humans are remarkable creatures.
Great Pyramid of Giza - Wikipedia: It was built by quarrying an estimated 2.3 million large blocks, weighing 6 million tonnes in total..... Pick a number: say 5 blocks per day comes to 520,000 which comes to completion in 1425 YEARS. How did 5 stones a day arrive? There is no accurate number about people brought into or bought as slaves. How many people would it take to carve, remove, and transport a 100 ton stone? Vast numbers would have to be fed. You would think there would be some sort of proof of this concept. There are historical accounts of taking slaves after certain events but they ran from two digits to 1,500 as I recall. Having a magical crane is all nice and everything, but how did the stones get to the site and be used in the lifetime of a particular pharo? Or did off duty farmers and slaves move and place say, 1000 stones per day? How many cranes? How did the stones get lifted high into the air? At ten minutes look at the monstrous effort to move one 250,000 ton column. This is followed by a clip of a crowed dragging a rock 18 miles along wood with a fat on it. That is ONE rock. The recounted other examples were one time huge projects using, mostly, modern equipment. There is rarely any deep thought to pop concensus whimsy.
_" large blocks"_ Not so large. The average stone in the great pyramid was 2.5 tons. _"Pick a number: say 5 blocks per day"_ A number pulled directly out of your ass. Look at it this way: the labor force for the great pyramid was an estimated 20 000. The average weight of a stone in the great pyramid is roughly 2.5 tons. The great pyramid itself is roughly 5 700 000 tons. A team of 10 men can easily drag 2.5 tons, even up a small incline, especially when rollers and sledges are used. So we've got 2 000 teams moving 2.5 tons each. If each team moved only the one 2.5 tons per day, that's 5 000 tons per day. Divide the mass of the pyramid, 5 700 000 tons, by 5 000 tons/day, and we get 1 140 days. Divide that by 365, we get 3.12 years to build the great pyramid. I think we can both agree that is a ridiculous time frame. Okay, so let's say that because of the annual Nile flood and all the work that had to done planting and harvesting, that the labor force was unavailable for half the year. Now we're up to 6.24 years of construction. Now, I think we can also agree that 2 000 work teams of 10 men each all on-site at the same time is also not viable. So let's halve that. Now we're at 12.48 years. That's still, IMO, too many simultaneously on-site, even considering how huge the pyramid is. Now, the overwhelming bulk of the stone for the great pyramid was quarried less than half a kilometer away. If we say that half the stones were in transit to the job site while half were being put into place, that brings us down to a not unreasonable 500 teams on-site over a 12-hour day. It also makes the construction time 25 years. That matches the 25-years between the date Pharoah Khufu ordered construction to begin (c. 2550 BCE) and the ascension of the Pharoah Djedefre (in c. 2575 BCE), who oversaw his father’s funeral rites in the pyramid’s attached mortuary complex. There's my math. Feel free to tell me which part is impossible, and *WHY.* The "why" is important, otherwise you'd just be making the same old fallacious argument you've already made.
Everything was real good until your last statement. You said the ancient stone workers didn't have to move theirs that far because they quarried most of it on site. Most of the materials in Egypt was quarried from hundreds of miles away and over a couple mountain ranges. The sphinx temple was quarried from sandstone on site and other stuff it of sandstone but all of the granite and other heavy materials weren't from anywhere close at all.
_" Most of the materials in Egypt was quarried from hundreds of miles away"_ You and everyone who upvoted you are 100% wrong. The vast, overwhelming bulk of the great pyramid was quarried less than half a kilometer away from the job site.
I have trouble with all these theories. They didn’t have farmers with 8 row equipment and grocery stores to get food they were in a day to day struggle to live. No one had time to make all these efforts just to see a statue set in place that was of no use to anyone. They had horses and camels that was a lot stronger than a man, but even with them it make little or no since to put out so much effort for so little gain. I truly believe there is something missing besides brut strengh
The societies that are being mentioned here were much more advanced and had the food resources, labor, time, and motivation to do all of these things and more. The societies that did not weren’t able to do any of this and many have been forgotten.
Excess food was never a problem in Egypt.. they had so much extra grain that once Rome took over it was called the breadbasket of the empire... Egypt produced enough excess grain to feed a million people in the city of Rome. They had plenty to feed their workers. The Egyptian army was known as the great bread army because their soldiers were given a rational of 2lbs of bread a day... and as a result... they were all fat.. no joke. Im 100% serious. Remains of ancient Egyptians, even commoners found in the desert sands, show that their citizens were more often than not, quite fat.
And how do you know all this..? For all you really know they just might have had some high technology. Monks in Tibet have moved large stones with sound waves..! Sounds crazy but it is not..!
I do, t o o, miles. You're too nice. I call it :more bullshit from the mainstream. I'm guessing these fake academics are getting paid somehow by someone or some group to try to bolster the mainstream lies.
I think the wheel may have invented itself. The action of something losing traction because it rolled on a round stone or branch pretty much had to happen. The attaching of an axle is the game changer. Rollers are a natural phenomenon that always existed. Rollers like logs or pipes or pvc tubing or even airbags have always been able to roll. You can roll things through extremely tight spaces with a bunch of small rollers.
Sliding, dragging, tilting.....fine. But how many people to LIFT these 50 ton blocks on top of another with perfect precision? Ramps? Give me a break! Also explain how they CARVED these 50 ton granite blocks so perfectly smooth that when fitted together, you can't get a razor blade between them.
Good video - but there's still too many unanswered questions about how ancient civilisations moved huge stones and the accuracy of their constructions. The great pyramid for example, with the laser accuracy of huge granite blocks which you can't fit a piece of paper between blocks. I guess we'll never know how they achieved this.
the pyramids are well over 100,000 yrs old, built as factories..not by us.. as all megalithic structures were. we can now, today, only move 600t, on a special made road.. work it out.. we, & the romans, did sht.. look up nan madol, the natives say the blocks were cut, flown down, built, by there ''gods''..aliens.. viper tv sumerian tablets. unchartedx.. brian foerster.. the facts by how to hunt.. old vids of, everything inside me.. might learn something..
All those questions have been answered and demonstrations have been done. My thought is that you prefer the "mystery" of not knowing to being open to learning what has been discovered. If you have an open mind you can check out the work of you tubers "Scientists Against Myths", "Ancient Presence", and "Sacred Geometry De-coded", for a few.
@@russellmillar7132 Don't be so foolish, feel free to provide the answers and demonstrations to this mystery. There is only theories put forward by academia. Do you really think anyone knows for sure? That is wishful thinking my friend.
Thanks for taking the time to gather the many videos and edit them properly so that we can easily understand the techniques that the ancients used. It's straight forward and logical. Kudos for a job well done!
In the introduction, the Pantheon is Roman and it was made with 13 foot thick concrete walls in the rotunda and a concrete dome overhead that is 13 feet thick at the outer edges and 3 feet thick at the oculus. The only stonework is maybe the columns of the porch which may be actually spec'd from Egypt.
romans did sht.. all those buildings inc. pyramids are well over 100,000 yrs old.. all those unfinished objects, inc. the ''box'', in the serapean, were abandoned 13k ago, when they left earth..
That old film of Ed leedskalnin shows him moving a 5ton block. That was probably the limit of those tools. Just HOW he moved 20 and 30 ton stones is still quite the mystery
@@abrogard yup. Nothing to see here. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Someone else did a video debunking the whole thing. No need to fret or lose sleep over it. Do not think for yourself. Experts have already figured it out. Go back to sleep. It was all done with mirrors, and geopolymer. The pyramid is filled with noodles. Nothing to see here.
Leave the desk and go quarry, move, carve and polish one of the Serapeum stone boxes with small radius tall wall blind cornered interiors. We can not duplicate that work let alone the high accuracy thin wall hard stone vases nor would we even try. Proof Romans moved those 3 big stones? First account for all the abnormal ancient stone works then account for all the resources and technology necessary then propose theories.
It’s not that I doubt that humans could have done this. The question is WHY? The Seripeum is not a burial place for bulls. That’s just silly. The great pyramids are not tombs. The walls at Sacsayhuaman simply don’t make sense! So why were early humans going through these insane efforts?
Yes it was a burial place for bulls! The reason it is called the Serapeum is because it was dedicated to the Serapis Bull, whom they considered sacred. There is a lot you could learn just by studying what has been written. But you'll likely stick to watching videos by Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson. You'll be asking the same empty questions twenty years from now. Ciao!
@@russellmillar7132 graham Hancock seems too much into DMT. He talks about other beings and extraterrestrials. I don’t know who the other guy is. I understand that bull burial is the idea. But it still doesn’t make sense. One unfinished-damaged block is left in a side tunnel? Why not remove it? HOW did they move these boxes into the earth?
@@abassett22 As a life-long atheist, I agree that the Egyptians of the new kingdom were crazy sons (and daughters) of bit*hes for believing in all their gods and erecting huge statues and digging tombs into the bedrock, building sprawling funerary complexes. How ridiculous! But I am nonetheless fascinated and mystified and awed at the abilities of pre-industrial people to accomplish what they did. It has be demonstrated many times that large, heavy objects can be dragged using human power and/or draft animals. In most cases (not all) the distances are not that far. The limestone blocks, and the filler rubble that comprise most of the bulk of the pyramids at Giza where quarried within a couple hundred meters of the site. The youtube channel: "Ancient Presence" does a great job on the Serapeum, They have a three part series that goes into all aspects of the possible methods and techniques that could have been employed. When you say: "Humans could have done it"...what or whom do you think the other options are?
@@russellmillar7132 How was it a burial place for bulls? Were bulls found in the boxes? The boxes are EVEN FINISHED being made. I understand thats what people assume and thats why they claim, but why isnt it done??
Great video. Very mind boggling and informative .it has opened my eyes to learn of these techniques which should be shared in schools which don't really mention these super interesting skills. Thanks. Best doco I've seen in ages. 👍👍👍
watch these.. then wake up.. viper tv sumerian tablets.. unchartedx.. the facts by how to hunt.. praveen mohan.. old vids of, everything inside me.. get some truth,,not this crap..
We don't give those that came before us enough credit. It may have been a long time ago, they may not have all the technology we have now, but they weren't dumb, there were just like us, just as smart, and VERY ingenious. Don't think that they couldn't have done something, wonder HOW they did it, because they DID do it.
That's not the point, but quite the opposite. We stand in awe of what these ancient cultures were able to achieve as the tools ascribed to them and the materials of the time, the ones that were found, make it hard to explain. So the question we want answered is: which techniques and tools did they have in ancient times for which there is no historical record ?
No question about human ingenuity, then and now. The question is “what kind of human will stand at a copper saw and cut 20mm an hour for 2 years?” To make a stone box. And another 2 years to polish it. I struggle with the concept that things we would struggle to make today (with our current technology) were easy to make in the past, just with manpower, primitive tools and lots of time. Obviously much of it was just so,,,, but scoop marks, flush jointed massive stones, high precision, unique geometry and challenging terrain tell us there is another dimension to the work. Perhaps only architects can get this concept. “A message in the method”. Why choose difficult when 10 kinds of easy are available? On the fence for now.🤔
"20mm an hour"? more like 2mm if you work very industriously, with the slight issue that you would be losing copper from the saw at a greater rate than the Granite. I can visualize a pile of saws about 1800mm high to cut one block. As you rightly say the jury is out on that one. (Doubtful at best)
4:56 The Romans moved obelisks weighing a few hundred tons from Egypt to Rome which is over 2000km away, so it doesn't seem too much of a stretch for them to scale up workforce to drag a few 800 ton blocks just 850 meters in Baalbek from the quarry, probably wedged up onto wooden tracks/rollers, maybe helped pulled with capstans. 9:28 shows how easily a 250 ton column can be moved over wooden rollers, they probably did something similar to this.
I know that for archaeological reasons it would never be done but I'd like to see Stonehenge be finished being built. "it only took 5000 years but its done being built now!"
I see nothing in this video to explain how stones, of 500 to 1,000 tons could be lifted about 12 meters and then brought down a rocky slope! There is in fact a quick photo shown in this video of one such site!
Apparently according to some sources they used levers to raise them a bit at a time with blocks under after each lift. Which would work at lower heights but try using that method for the Granite beams above the Kings chamber...maybe not!
Every single attempt at proving or explaining how these things were moved has either been disproven or basic math showed would destroy the tools meant to be used for it. The closest to proof was that image of an Egyptian statue being moved on a sled, but what Egyptologists tried desperately to hide is the fact that statue is actually known and was recorded. It was made of alabastor, which is quite light, and the statue itself was very light for its size. There is also the, I think it's called Thunder Stone in...Russa? Something like that. It's not a big deal by megolithic construction standards and yet was incredibly hard to move and took a very long time plus tools we have no way to know whether or not the people in ancient times had. I think they used acoustic levitation. Instruments for making sound and voices are something humans started with. It stands to reason that they'd notice eventually the vibrations caused by certain pitches and such from various angles and distances from objects and go from there out of curiosity. They probably understood a lot of things we don't today. Keep in mind that they had to start from scratch about half a million years ago and that is such a long time to work and grow. We, on the other-hand, based our technology on some tiny scraps of knowledge left from the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. It is only natural that our tools and knowledge are radically different from what would have naturally developed. The only reason people believe nonsense like rollers and sleds and such for the really heavy stuff is simply the sheer ego and hubris to believe our ancestors were stupid or primitive. They were neither and had existed for what dozens or hundreds of times longer than the oldest known current culture has existed (one of the Aboriginal tribes in Australia if I remember correctly). The incredible arrogance to think they were incapable of doing things we couldn't is mind-boggling. They were the same as us, just with a more primitive starting point and had _HALF A MILLION FREAKING YEARS_ to advance. And people believe those peoples couldn't think of more than dumping some logs on the ground. That is insane.
Even with the advanced technology of our time, there is no way can those stones be moved. How about those ruins up in the mountains with no access for huge heavy stones to ve drag. Still a mystery
Google Le Tourneau L-2350. Obv they didn't have these things back then, but at least ppl like you should stop spouting the bullshit that we can't move heavy things.
very interesting for what can be done. Now, how did they mirror polished durite and granite and andracite to that level on precision? Chichen bones? ! 200 tons is still not possible for us today and yet there are three of those under jupiter's temple, jacked up, more in jerusalem, and with stones not coming from a throw away... please.... good work explaining what is possible though... Thanks.
I'd like to see stones as big as the ones at Stonehenge moved up and down the Preseli Hills in Wales by this method, especially in the piss wet pouring rain.
@@ArchaeoLogic I am not sure why you have to continually explain the very obvious. I've seen less detailed videos of how the pyramids of Giza were built and been convinced that things may not be as difficult as we think.
this vid is mainstream bs.. blocks at pumu punku, were cut, from the opposite mountain, 1000 ft up,, then laid on the cut top of the mountain where they are now.. kailash temple, was cut from a solid hill of granite.. longyu caves, ect,, theres no burden, rubble , anywhere to be found.. we didnt do sht, except mine minerals for our creators..aliens.. ref. viper tv sumerian tablets.. unchartedx.. the facts by how to hunt.. praveen mohan.. .. old vids of everything inside me..
Think about the emotional roller coaster they went thru when Hall went down, Dobbs gets sacked for a safety, he fumbles 3 times. And then he drives them for 3 TDs the last one in 2 minutes for the win!
Several hundreds of thousands 50-100 ton, perfectly cut hard granite from several hundreds of miles away over difficult terrain- then placed hundreds of feet in the air or maneuvered through such tight spaces- is not satisfied by this hypothesis, in my opinion.
People, who think it *had* to take more advanced technology, than we have today, remind me of those who believe there *has* to be a god. The 'Russian Thunder Stone' is one of the largest rocks ever moved by man. The method, in which it was moved, is amazing.
It would be amazing to see demonstrated, I'm trying to dig up that documentary from the 90's where 100 people pull a 45 ton stone for 18 miles over wood rails lubricated with animal fat, I'm sure that'll help visualise a lot too!
According to records from New Kingdom Egypt, they were dragged to the site with draft animals, then pulled with human power and mechanical advantage with the aid of compound pulleys. The sarcophagi were hollowed out at the quarry which made them much lighter (45 tons rather than 80-100 tons). The tightness of the passages actually helped to make turning the corners with incremental movements, easier to accomplish. The bays where the boxes were moved to were pre-filled with sand, Once the box was in position, they pulled the sand out and lowered the box to its position. My thought is that if the ancients really had high technology, none of this stuff would be amazing or remarkable. It's the fact that they figured it out with just intelligence and ingenuity, planning, and coordination, that makes this far more exciting, IMHO.
A current theory holds that in ancient Egypt huge loads were transported over sand on human pulled sleds. The sand was made firm by pouring water on it from the front of the sled. This I believe is erroneous. It would require too much water, and footing for the pullers would be too loose. Instead, the sleds would have been pulled on paved causeways with a little sand as lubrication-- under the runners, not the feet of the pullers.
I've always been interested in the prehistoric moving of large objects and have watched every documentary that came along. A problem that I saw with quite a few of them, and you might keep an eye out for them, is that is that not realizing the difference, they used climbing rope. Climbing rope stretches (for safety). Natural rope does not. Therefore most of the force applied to the rope is lost in stretch. You watch as the fifty or so volunteers heave the ropes five feet or so and the stone moves ten inches. Funny to watch but a big problem when the expert in charge determines that "this is not a viable way to move big stones." Here's a mental image of me screaming at the TV. I remember two on Stonehenge, one on the Moai and at least two on the Pyramids. Unfortunately, there were more.
Love that channel! Yes this video doesn't show how a particular structure was built, but is more for helping visualise different techniques ancients could have used to transport huge weights
So how did they lift those 1 thousand ton stone blocks many metres into position,Also how did they lift the stone pyramid blocks to the heights read and place them precisely hundreds of feet on top of each other and also the Aztec pyramids, I have seen granite blocks several feet thick and 12 feet long split in Sri Lanka by ancient technology with such precision cuts like a laser,❤And no chipping or fractures in the granite, Figure that one out,,,,,,,
The 1000+ ton blocks are still in the quarries so they weren't transported, maybe they were just outside their capability at the time, but considering the Romans moved obelisks weighing a few hundred tons from Egypt to Rome which is over 2000km away, then it was certainly possible for them to scale up workforce when needed to drag the 800 ton blocks just 850 meters in Baalbek, probably wedged up onto wooden tracks/rollers, maybe helped pulled with capstans. As for the Pyramids, the only really large blocks are around main chambers, grand gallery and entrance keystones, most of the pyramids structures are filled with rough inner stones and concrete, and all the outer and casing stones were only 2-4 tons each, we can only guess at their exact methods as we don't have much documented like we do with the Romans, but they probably used similar tools and techniques as eachother.
I agree, those massive stones are almost impossible to be moved from the quarry site up to where it is located now. They just can't accept that the ancients were far more superior in terms of science and technology.
@@helbertsantos3275 It is only if one is fortunate to visit any one of these sites anywhere in the world that one can appreciate the level of skill and technology that these supposed primitive civilisations had available at their disposal,Also stone coloums that have keystone mechanisms chiselled into granite on of the hardest rocks that have piers been supported to this very day all done perhaps by hand ,
The Roman additions to Baalbek are clearly visible. Along the adjoining wall to the Three 800 ton blocks is a space that would fit the 1000 ton blocks that are still in the quarry or en route. That space is filled in with much smaller blocks that are Roman. For whatever reason the construction of the megalithic platform was stopped (quite suddenly by the looks of it), and the Romans carried on later but at a scale that they could handle. The Romans were capable of amazing feats of engineering and they built unbelievable cities and monuments and didn't tend to leave things half finished. They had control of this territory for a long time and had no reason to switch to smaller blocks if they were capable of working with the larger ones. Why would they purposely scale down the site midway?
Yea great vid, you can have as many people as you like on pulling a rope. The question is , is the ropes they made able to resist the pulling force of maybe a hundred people pulling on one large rope. The same with the lifting gear ,the theory is good but seeing that large stone swinging on what look like a very small diameter rope. How good were they at rope making.?
Gave up less than 4 minutes in due to a reference to the trilithon stones at Baalbek being deemed 'Roman'. Yes, the upper levels can be Roman but not the platform that they are built on. It is so obvious when you take the time to look and investigate.
Interesting but doesn’t answer all the questions about ancient architecture on the precise cutting of stones and ancient granite vases precise to the thousands of an inch. They could not be reproduced even now
Horses wouldn't have worked that well to move items back then either. It wasn't until about two hundred years ago that humans harnessed horses properly to pull items. They used to yoke horses like oxen. The issue with that is horses don't have as strong of a breast bone to be as effective. It would also restrict a horses breathing. Affecting it stamina as well.
That telephone exchange was so big, ALIENS must have done it. The aliens were so good at hiding (using alien technology) that we never saw them and so that PROVES the aliens did it ! 🙂
Brilliant compilation of video footage and informative information truly amazing engineering skill throughout the centaury's thank you for generating a fascinating video
There was a tv show either the 90s or 2000s where engineers were challenged to build something ancient. One team went to Egypt to erect a monolith, what was funny was they used Egyptian labour and supervisor. During the movement of the monolith they all had to pull together, something they were having difficulty achieving, until the supervisor told them they were showing themselves up as it was the Egyptians who had used this method and perfected it, so get your fingers out and do it right. They did and used the sand removal technique to get it upright but they did have to faff around with the ropes and getting them wound the correct direction.
I recall watching something along those lines, it wasn't a monolith but an extremely small pyramid, the stones were quite small around 1 ton and it too used Egyption labour, what ensued was a complete farce. 1st 2 courses no problem after that....? I don't think they even finished it.
Awesome video, but there's a lot of questions surrounding the cutting, shaping, polishing and accuracy of megalithic structures. There's also tool marks, over-cuts, scoop marks and nubs that exist on structures that doesn't match the tools of the time and also no explanation of how the same style of construction scattered across the world and predate the invention of the wheel. There's also the distance from the quarries and in south America for example no roads or evidence of how they lifted stones to the top of the mountain. I believe our ancestors found these ruins left from a much older more advanced civilization and spent thousands of years trying to copy and mimic the style, building on top of pre existing ruins....
Boats? They only found flimsy wooden boats in Egypt, on the shallow Nile? Locks weighing hundreds of tons? Bullsh!t The Romans never built Baalbek, they renovated it.
If I was bringing stones from Wales to Stonehenge for example. I would transport the stones as cylinders and then finish them on, or close to site. This strikes me as the easiest way to do it. Build a stout wooden trackway to facilitate rolling, then as the stones progress take the trackway up behind and move it in front. Obviously I'd map the route in advance to avoid excessive gradients and do any preparatory work to clear a way. Not saying it's how it was done, just my solution :).
Unfinished obelisk in Aswan quarry shows they didn't consider such for a 1200 ton block. There's a nice Moai statue still in the bed rock on Rapa Nui suggesting they didn't neither.
@@doctormarazanvose4373 Horses for courses mate. It would rather depend on size, shape and destination. All I know is that it's far easier to roll something than to drag it.
I've an old memory of a doco about the Orkneys (IIRC) where a man recalled that his father used to use the natural lubricants of certain seaweeds to assist in the movement of large loads. Is there any non-anecdotal evidence of this and or any historical evidence of this technique being used for stones?
they used leverage..if you've ever had to move large, heavy objects alone, youll begin to understand very quickly how these things work & what is possible.
Ok, so they used levers and levers obviously work, but that doesn't explain how they raised enormous blocks 100+ ft (I.e 70 ton Granite blocks above kings chamber) I'm a builder and it intrigues me how it was done, they certainly were not dragged up a ramp, they must of had some form of block & tackle to gain a mechanical advantage unless of course you believe the Alien theory's....conjures up images of little grey men wearing high vis & hard hats.
@@realistJB In almost every scenario the big blocks are not lifted. The builders knew to work smarter, not harder. They did have block and tackle and they did drag them up ramps. These things have been known for decades. Maybe watch something besides Ancient Aliens and UnsupportedX.
@@russellmillar7132 So, "these things have been known for years" well maybe you could possibly impart to the rest of the world this secret knowledge you seem to possess, because as far as I aware there are lots of theories & not one has been successful in practice. So we shall await your next spellbinding comment, hopefully without the pathetic Ancient Alien remarks.
I totally agree with you on the mechanical advantage gained from leverage, Archimedes once said "if I had a large enough lever I could move the earth" Just one problem is to move extremely heavy objects you would require very long & strong levers, what were they made of?
@@realistJB I can guess that when I say that the levers, the pulleys, the crane assemblies, and the scaffolding are built of wood, you will laugh. But that means you haven't done much digging into the technologies involved with erecting a huge number of 100 ton obelisks and columns that were used during the middle iron age in Egypt. There are demonstrations of how it may have been done on you tube. Certain types of wood are extremely strong when the weight is distributed properly. The Greeks improved the counterweight crane techniques they learned from the Egyptians. Most of the large granite coffers were done during the reign of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. You should check out the lifting cranes (built of wood) that the Romans devised that had huge hamster wheels powered by one or a group of people walking at a normal rate. It's fascinating to study this stuff. That is if you have an open mind.
@@Wanderinghead That's currently something I'm working on, still have a few pieces to put together to try and help visualise it well as this video does for moving large weights, but hopefully have a video out for that in the next month or 2 after my next few projects :)
Between 10,000 and 5000 BCE the Sahara and the Nile valley were in what is called "The African Humid Period", wherein the Nile was more like the Amazon. There were lush grasslands and forests and the region had monsoons and frequent catastrophic flooding. After that, the desert began to reassert itself and all the vegetation dried up and burned. Once (after a millennium and a half) the climate returned to pre AHP status, the Nile Valley became the arid desert we see today...there was plenty of sand to work with.
@helioshaul3924 well you didn't choose this problem, your brain just can't handle it. Video literally shows you lots of modern day recreations of the concepts.
@@chiznowtch don't you worry my brain can handle it no problem I can identify Fact from Fiction in an Instant, I also pride myself on respecting othets
I remember there was a guy who put out videos demonstrating how HE....by himself....moved, turned and raised huge stones. Its not Rocket Science....or even Alien Science when it comes to that. In the modern world we see huge stones and start scratching our heads about how something like that could be moved. Mostly because we don't live in a culture where moving stones and lifting them is an everyday occurance.
This was Wally Wallington. I have tried to get a number of friends and family members (who are fans of Randall Carlson or ancient aliens or both) to watch his video and explanations. Only one of them would actually watch the videos. The others refused saying I just couldn't accept that the mainstream explanations are all wrong. The one that did watch swore it was trick camara work or AI. She admonished me not to be so gullible!!
If only it was so simplistic. Moving giant blocks of stone is only one aspect. The precision with which some are cut and shaped is a greater question to me. There is evidence globally that somehow they could soften granite and scrape it like dough. How? not a clue. Barabar Hill caves cut out of solid granite in geometrical shapes with perfectly smooth, polished walls. Why would you do that? Makes me wonder if whomever did it was leaving a message - a bit like how we stuck pictographs on the Voyager probes. Zawyet el Aryan screams of functionality as well as precision. I have zero clue as to why you carve out a dish shape with a rim in solid granite and then shape a perfect granite lid to fit over the top and seal it. The floor made up of huge blocks of limestone and granite in a pattern that fitted together perfectly. We leap at religion as the reason. The truth is as Barsanti suggested - we haven't a clue. Even more intriguing is why such an inexplicable site would then be filled in and a military base stuck on top so no one can gain access. Let your imagination run wild with that one but it does suggest that no one wants it investigating further. It's not just the how but the why in so many cases - globally, from a time when not so long ago historians claimed we didn't travel such distances to spread such knowledge. Something is amiss whether you care to admit it or not.
Wait, what? OK yes, but no. If your posit had any validity, you also tell how these multi, [kilo], ton were moved from point A to point B as the 2 points were miles, [kilogramz], apart.
lol the egyptians didnt build shit they just carved crude jeirogliphics over pristne craftsmanship the pyramids were built before the egyptians got there
There is still the question as to how Egyptian statues of immense tonnage were sculptured with such precision that they were almost life-like. No modern technology exists that could be so amazingly precise. Thanks for this great video, though.
They aren't that precise when objectively measured. Not that hard to achieve near symmetry with plum bob and measuring stick. The techniques developed and employed by dynastic Egyptian stone masons and sculptors has a vast amount of literature devoted to it. Doing a little study of the topic could remove some of the mystery. Simply repeating what you hear Ben from UnsupportedX, or Brien Forester, or Graham H., or Randall C. say is more likely to be your approach I fear. Ciao!
@@russellmillar7132you are wrong about the statues. Some are perfectly symmetrical and carved with amazing precision. You can find the info on the web. All you have to do is look. The fact is, the things the ancients accomplished certainly were not done using the primitive tools our archeologists claim they had. There's just so much we don't yet know, and may never know.
Wrong! The Roman's did not quarry dress transport these massive stones found at Balbek The Roman's built ON TOP of the stone Nobody knows who built the platform You do not know what your talking about
there is no evidence of any use of any form of pulley system or wheel or wheel shaped block and pulley system ever used by the Egyptians! Even Egyptologists, swivel-eyed loons as most of them are state that categorically. So why come up with a fanciful (although logical ) description? It flies in the face of the so-called experts
Whoa! that is a masterpiece of logical reasoning! If I can lift the tire on my car to replace a flat, how big would I have to be to change a tire on a backhoe or a commercial airliner? Gerts you to thinking, no?
I do not think you would be allowed to move a building today. Too many regulations and the insurance needed would cost too much. I do not think any insurance company would give you an insurance policy.
It's about applied physics, not Ancient Aliens. Here is a detailed explanation by Dr. Michael S. Heiser, on how the Romans would have moved the Trilithon Stones at Baalbek. RUclips does not allow links, so you must use the following search phrase: "Transporting the Trilithon Stones of Baalbek: It’s About Applied Physics, Not Ancient Aliens".
@@mrjakefu Archaeological excavations have been done at Balbek to level of the pre-pottery neolithic era. They established that, at this site, there was no monumental construction prior to the Hellenistic period. The Romans were the ones that dragged the trilithon stones into place. They needed large foundation blocks to stabilize the bed of gravel at the site.
I watched his lecture on the construction of Balbek and other megalithic sites. His stuff is great till he starts in on his Christian faith, then he loses me.
Now imagine some of these techniques scaled up to hundreds or thousands of people assigned to a task who do this everyday for a living. Ancient people were masters of wood and stone as they built everything using these materials. We still do for many things today, but through thousands of years of advancement our society has become far more specialised and varied in it's practices and fields of work and expertise, and with modern machines, moving these huge stones today would be far easier and take far less people.
It has also been proven they were not slaves, they were skilled masons and the food they ate was of good quality.
@@boblordylordyhowie Correct ✅.
Bwahahahaha ya sure mate
OUR HISTORY IS FAKE. THIS IS A VERY STUPID VIDEO.
I really get your point. Totaly valid. But the level of precision is absolutely unachievable with our current means. Things got moré complicated for historians once mathematicians, engeneers, geologists and geochimists got an opinion on it. For myself, i was not there, and any rationnal explanation is missing. At the time, the world population was stagnating at around 2 million people.... Those things are all over, simillar in achievement, and irreproducible yet. Not even on paper.
Regarding the huge stones at Baalbek, there is no evidence whatsoever that the Romans were responsible for this incredible feat of engineering, the general consensus is that they built their temple on pre existing building.
The written evidence that the Romans were involved on that are available.
But even if this was taken from them we don't think they would be much concerned.
romans did sht,, they squated on allready built buildings,,like all post flood 13k, civilizations.. all the megalithic structures are well over 13k old.. do some research.. not mainstream bs..we can not now, move cut, transport over mountains, what is left on earth.. 600t is our limit,,on special built flat roads.. wake up..!..@@mauriziograndi1750
stones at balbek, or any, world wide, are over 100,000 yrs old.. as are the pyramids.. the builders left earth 13k ago.. so,, that puts a huge spanner in mainsteam bs they spew..this vid is total bs.. they didnt abandon structures,,they left earth..13k ago..
General consensus among alt-history numbskulls perhaps.
we still believe it was either the White Man or the Alien
There's a slight problem when it comes to the mega sized stone work. It's simple, today, using a crane, when making precise sets, things over 20 tons, it's more often than not that it takes two or three picks before you finally get it set perfectly in place....
So the issue isn't the moving as much as it is the setting of these stones. You don't just pull the rollers or skids out from under these stones once you get them where they go, they had to jockey it into its precise position. We have cranes and picking eyes today, but the ancients had levers.. and you don't just lever a 100 ton block around once it's sitting flat on another flat stone. It can be done with a lot ropes and levers IF you have a large enough area to stage enough manpower to work the stone...at 200 tons, you have to get off the ground again, meaning they would have to drive wedges under it lift them again to set them perfectly,. Something that would definitely leave unmistakable deep cut groves into the stones, something missing in their work... Around 500/600 getting anything out from under the stone they used to move it with is as big as a feat as the project itself. 800- 1000? It's not happening. Whatever is under it will be staying under it. Even today we would have it to do to get anything used to set it from underneath.
They had completely different technologies to first mine the stones and transport them to these places. The Aswan quarry is not around the corner as we say. Then this precise fit in granite, which cannot be replicated even today. Have you already seen these vases? that were ground to thousandths of a millimeter? There was a time when there was a lot of technology and knowledge. There's no other way I can explain what's going on all over the world
The better question might be; how would we move them today if we didn't have modern cranes?
@@levarris14 _"this precise fit in granite, which cannot be replicated even today"_
What grifter told you that and why were you gullible enough to believe them?
Despite "explanations" like this, not only the movement/placement of enormous weights along with incredible precision of cuts, finishes, and shapes will always lead me to consider there were earlier civilizations of much higher technology than we even have today.
I don't think so. Unless it was aliens and they took every trace of their technology with them. We have found no advanced metal alloys, no nuclear waste (that one would be easy to find), no satellites, no cut diamonds, no micro plastics etc. Absolutely nothing concrete that would shout advanced by today's standards. Maybe there was an advanced civilization that built these things and maybe they did take their technology with them when they left. And maybe they didn't really leave, maybe that civilization is what we see in our sky's, those UAPs. There ARE aliens watching us but the question of if it was them that built or helped built some of these structures is unanswered.
Oh well, you can lead a horse to water...
Proof? Data? Facts? No? I didn't think so. And what, exactly, was that higher technology? So why have no artifacts, relics, samples, abandoned machines of this "tech" ever been found? And what was their energy source? Think, if you can, before you speak, please.
@@kaoskronostyche9939 if the proof, data, and facts actually matched the style of construction and explained all the anomalies in these structures, people wouldn't be questioning the narrative. These questions are asked by people who actually think about what is being presented as facts and proof. And you are asking the right questions, what is the power source, where are the machines, the artifacts, the technology that fully explains the evidence left on ancient megalithic masonry scattered across the entire planet? Why are the largest most precise stone blocks always the oldest part of the structures? Why do we see the same style in different parts of the world before they knew how to circumnavigate the planet? What about the scoop marks? The over-cuts? The perfect 90° angles? Fully polished flat surfaces that exceed our modern straight edges? These questions are not explained by the technology of our ancestors.
@@RomoRooster There are proven answers to all the questions you list (I mean demonstrated) as well as repeating and well-documented common patterns in human behavior across cultures, across time, and across space. Just because humans are subject to the same tendency toward delusion does not mean they communicated or whatever stupidity it is you are suggesting.
I am not going to attack you as you did me because I am so bewildered by people who believe the drek you do with no evidence, just Sci-Fi/ET credibility, that I would not know where to start in explaining your stupidity to you. Moreover, it would do no good because you are a believer and beilvers BELIEVE!
The baalbek temple clearly shows bevelled stones and non-bevelled stones of all sorts of sizes and shapes sitting next to each other ABOVE the triloton stones. Clearly a case of RE-USE. The clue is in the name: Baalbek. The temple of Baal. A Cananite god of child sacrifice destroyed by the israel in their first war under Solomon. Way before Roman times. WAY BEFORE.
For years I worked in offshore oil drilling business where 50 to 70 tons lifts where a daily occurence even 3,000 ton lifts on occasion, they all had one thing in common strong lifting gear especially lifting slings what was the sling / rope technology back 5000 years ago?
Great video! It's very illustrative on how ancient people were capable of moving and place huge pieces of stone. There is still a number of them, however, that can simply not be attributed to ingenuity, like the balbek stones (that are simply too large for these techniques to be applied), or the pink marble stone blocks present in Great Giza (they were moved hundreds of miles and accross a chain of mountains, and they were also lifted several hundred feet from the ground). It's also the case for the Sun Temple in Peru, where these blocks had to be moved no tgrough a grassy slope, but to an actual mountain peak, it doesnt take much analysis to conclude it's impossible to do it with logs and ropes.
It's worth mentioning as well that the level of masonery we find in many of these ruins, in terms of precision, smoothness and geometrical proportion is impossible to be explained without consudering very advanced machinery, or something equivalent to that.
So, please, open your eyes, and accept. There is at least one more ancient civilization that could do much more than the Romans and Egyptians could. They were unfortunately extinct, and forgotten. But the evidence is plain for anyone who wants to see it.
your brainwashed.. today, we can move 600t max,, on a special built road.. flat,, not over mountains, valleys as they did.. the blocks at pumu punku, came from 1000 ft, up the opposite mountain, then 1000 ft up to where they are.. all these structures are well over 13k.. minimum..more like 100,000 yrs old.. heres a shocker,, aliens made man genetically, as workers in mines.. the flood was meant to destroy us 13k ago.. FACT.
I will always believe it was done using hydrolics. Huge towers that slid on skids and held a large sack of water that was connected to a rope that went to a pully at the top and another at the bottom, then to the stone being pulled. Or through another set of pullys on the frount that pulled it forward between pulls on the stone.. Thing is when I first started writing about this it was before it was known that lots more water still flowing out if the hills along the nile then. That majes how the fed them easly understood now. But what do I know? Were told to follow the experts say and not think on our own. Even when logic proves the experts as being wrong. As the logistics of making enough rope would have been staggering alone. Where this idea only required one masive one that easaly could have handled the weight of even the colossal stones. Just got to do the math and see how many towers it would have taken verses the water they could hold have held.
No one has neglected them. There are many great books on ancient Peru and it's history. There are plenty of things that the Peruvians could NOT do that the Romans did; much of it has to do with the immediate environment. Humans are remarkable creatures.
Great Pyramid of Giza - Wikipedia: It was built by quarrying an estimated 2.3 million large blocks, weighing 6 million tonnes in total..... Pick a number: say 5 blocks per day comes to 520,000 which comes to completion in 1425 YEARS. How did 5 stones a day arrive? There is no accurate number about people brought into or bought as slaves. How many people would it take to carve, remove, and transport a 100 ton stone?
Vast numbers would have to be fed. You would think there would be some sort of proof of this concept. There are historical accounts of taking slaves after certain events but they ran from two digits to 1,500 as I recall. Having a magical crane is all nice and everything, but how did the stones get to the site and be used in the lifetime of a particular pharo?
Or did off duty farmers and slaves move and place say, 1000 stones per day? How many cranes? How did the stones get lifted high into the air? At ten minutes look at the monstrous effort to move one 250,000 ton column. This is followed by a clip of a crowed dragging a rock 18 miles along wood with a fat on it. That is ONE rock. The recounted other examples were one time huge projects using, mostly, modern equipment. There is rarely any deep thought to pop concensus whimsy.
_" large blocks"_
Not so large. The average stone in the great pyramid was 2.5 tons.
_"Pick a number: say 5 blocks per day"_
A number pulled directly out of your ass.
Look at it this way: the labor force for the great pyramid was an estimated 20 000. The average weight of a stone in the great pyramid is roughly 2.5 tons. The great pyramid itself is roughly 5 700 000 tons.
A team of 10 men can easily drag 2.5 tons, even up a small incline, especially when rollers and sledges are used.
So we've got 2 000 teams moving 2.5 tons each. If each team moved only the one 2.5 tons per day, that's 5 000 tons per day.
Divide the mass of the pyramid, 5 700 000 tons, by 5 000 tons/day, and we get 1 140 days. Divide that by 365, we get 3.12 years to build the great pyramid.
I think we can both agree that is a ridiculous time frame.
Okay, so let's say that because of the annual Nile flood and all the work that had to done planting and harvesting, that the labor force was unavailable for half the year. Now we're up to 6.24 years of construction.
Now, I think we can also agree that 2 000 work teams of 10 men each all on-site at the same time is also not viable. So let's halve that. Now we're at 12.48 years.
That's still, IMO, too many simultaneously on-site, even considering how huge the pyramid is.
Now, the overwhelming bulk of the stone for the great pyramid was quarried less than half a kilometer away. If we say that half the stones were in transit to the job site while half were being put into place, that brings us down to a not unreasonable 500 teams on-site over a 12-hour day. It also makes the construction time 25 years.
That matches the 25-years between the date Pharoah Khufu ordered construction to begin (c. 2550 BCE) and the ascension of the Pharoah Djedefre (in c. 2575 BCE), who oversaw his father’s funeral rites in the pyramid’s attached mortuary complex.
There's my math. Feel free to tell me which part is impossible, and *WHY.* The "why" is important, otherwise you'd just be making the same old fallacious argument you've already made.
Everything was real good until your last statement. You said the ancient stone workers didn't have to move theirs that far because they quarried most of it on site. Most of the materials in Egypt was quarried from hundreds of miles away and over a couple mountain ranges. The sphinx temple was quarried from sandstone on site and other stuff it of sandstone but all of the granite and other heavy materials weren't from anywhere close at all.
The pyramids are 99.9% limestone from the same giza plateau and couple of dozens granite blocks from Aswan.
@@vencislavbangachev6692ok but the heaviest and biggest of the blocks like granite are all quarried from over 600 miles away
_" Most of the materials in Egypt was quarried from hundreds of miles away"_
You and everyone who upvoted you are 100% wrong. The vast, overwhelming bulk of the great pyramid was quarried less than half a kilometer away from the job site.
I have trouble with all these theories. They didn’t have farmers with 8 row equipment and grocery stores to get food they were in a day to day struggle to live. No one had time to make all these efforts just to see a statue set in place that was of no use to anyone. They had horses and camels that was a lot stronger than a man, but even with them it make little or no since to put out so much effort for so little gain. I truly believe there is something missing besides brut strengh
The societies that are being mentioned here were much more advanced and had the food resources, labor, time, and motivation to do all of these things and more. The societies that did not weren’t able to do any of this and many have been forgotten.
Excess food was never a problem in Egypt.. they had so much extra grain that once Rome took over it was called the breadbasket of the empire... Egypt produced enough excess grain to feed a million people in the city of Rome. They had plenty to feed their workers.
The Egyptian army was known as the great bread army because their soldiers were given a rational of 2lbs of bread a day... and as a result... they were all fat.. no joke. Im 100% serious. Remains of ancient Egyptians, even commoners found in the desert sands, show that their citizens were more often than not, quite fat.
And how do you know all this..? For all you really know they just might have had some high technology. Monks in Tibet have moved large stones with sound waves..! Sounds crazy but it is not..!
@@makita883 that is what I am saying to much for to little we are missing something big time
I do, t o o, miles. You're too nice. I call it :more bullshit from the mainstream. I'm guessing these fake academics are getting paid somehow by someone or some group to try to bolster the mainstream lies.
What were the ropes in ancient Egypt made from and what were their breaking strains food for thought.
I think the wheel may have invented itself. The action of something losing traction because it rolled on a round stone or branch pretty much had to happen.
The attaching of an axle is the game changer.
Rollers are a natural phenomenon that always existed. Rollers like logs or pipes or pvc tubing or even airbags have always been able to roll.
You can roll things through extremely tight spaces with a bunch of small rollers.
The native Americans never discovered the wheel
Sliding, dragging, tilting.....fine. But how many people to LIFT these 50 ton blocks on top of another with perfect precision? Ramps? Give me a break! Also explain how they CARVED these 50 ton granite blocks so perfectly smooth that when fitted together, you can't get a razor blade between them.
Good video - but there's still too many unanswered questions about how ancient civilisations moved huge stones and the accuracy of their constructions. The great pyramid for example, with
the laser accuracy of huge granite blocks which you can't fit a piece of paper between blocks. I guess we'll never know how they achieved this.
Laser accuracy on the pyramids is a myth perpetrated by the lost ancient high tech grifters.
the pyramids are well over 100,000 yrs old, built as factories..not by us.. as all megalithic structures were. we can now, today, only move 600t, on a special made road.. work it out.. we, & the romans, did sht.. look up nan madol, the natives say the blocks were cut, flown down, built, by there ''gods''..aliens.. viper tv sumerian tablets. unchartedx.. brian foerster.. the facts by how to hunt.. old vids of, everything inside me.. might learn something..
All those questions have been answered and demonstrations have been done. My thought is that you prefer the "mystery" of not knowing to being open to learning what has been discovered. If you have an open mind you can check out the work of you tubers "Scientists Against Myths", "Ancient Presence", and "Sacred Geometry De-coded", for a few.
@russellmillar7132 "bb-b-but YOU don't have an open mind bc you won't listen Graham Hancock or believe in Atlantis" - LAHT cultist
@@russellmillar7132 Don't be so foolish, feel free to provide the answers and demonstrations to this mystery. There is only theories put forward by academia. Do you really think anyone knows for sure? That is wishful thinking my friend.
Thanks for taking the time to gather the many videos and edit them properly so that we can easily understand the techniques that the ancients used. It's straight forward and logical. Kudos for a job well done!
In the introduction, the Pantheon is Roman and it was made with 13 foot thick concrete walls in the rotunda and a concrete dome overhead that is 13 feet thick at the outer edges and 3 feet thick at the oculus. The only stonework is maybe the columns of the porch which may be actually spec'd from Egypt.
romans did sht.. all those buildings inc. pyramids are well over 100,000 yrs old.. all those unfinished objects, inc. the ''box'', in the serapean, were abandoned 13k ago, when they left earth..
That old film of Ed leedskalnin shows him moving a 5ton block. That was probably the limit of those tools. Just HOW he moved 20 and 30 ton stones is still quite the mystery
On his own lol, so now imagine just a team of 10 or 20 people moving 10 times the weight, not hard to imagine when you scale up the methods!
@@ArchaeoLogic Sure dude. Im detecting an anti-Alien bias on your part. Smh.
It is not a mystery at all. All has been explained and put in videos you can find on YT
@@abrogard yup. Nothing to see here. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Someone else did a video debunking the whole thing. No need to fret or lose sleep over it. Do not think for yourself. Experts have already figured it out. Go back to sleep. It was all done with mirrors, and geopolymer. The pyramid is filled with noodles. Nothing to see here.
@@abrogard yup. nothing to see here. Go back to sleep.
Leave the desk and go quarry, move, carve and polish one of the Serapeum stone boxes with small radius tall wall blind cornered interiors. We can not duplicate that work let alone the high accuracy thin wall hard stone vases nor would we even try. Proof Romans moved those 3 big stones? First account for all the abnormal ancient stone works then account for all the resources and technology necessary then propose theories.
Thank you for that summary. I'm sick of theories that ancient people could not do what they did without using alens techniques.
For their machinery, where were they getting their lumber for cranes? Forests in ancient Egypt?
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/wood/index.html
They got up early and rolled them down hill! 🤣
Love this video! Great work. You made one guy from Sweden really happy 😃
Thank you, I'm happy you enjoyed it! 😁
It’s not that I doubt that humans could have done this. The question is WHY? The Seripeum is not a burial place for bulls. That’s just silly. The great pyramids are not tombs. The walls at Sacsayhuaman simply don’t make sense! So why were early humans going through these insane efforts?
Yes it was a burial place for bulls! The reason it is called the Serapeum is because it was dedicated to the Serapis Bull, whom they considered sacred. There is a lot you could learn just by studying what has been written. But you'll likely stick to watching videos by Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson. You'll be asking the same empty questions twenty years from now. Ciao!
@@russellmillar7132 So they found mummified bulls in them? Were the lids ever in place?
@@russellmillar7132 graham Hancock seems too much into DMT. He talks about other beings and extraterrestrials. I don’t know who the other guy is. I understand that bull burial is the idea. But it still doesn’t make sense. One unfinished-damaged block is left in a side tunnel? Why not remove it? HOW did they move these boxes into the earth?
@@abassett22 As a life-long atheist, I agree that the Egyptians of the new kingdom were crazy sons (and daughters) of bit*hes for believing in all their gods and erecting huge statues and digging tombs into the bedrock, building sprawling funerary complexes. How ridiculous! But I am nonetheless fascinated and mystified and awed at the abilities of pre-industrial people to accomplish what they did.
It has be demonstrated many times that large, heavy objects can be dragged using human power and/or draft animals. In most cases (not all) the distances are not that far. The limestone blocks, and the filler rubble that comprise most of the bulk of the pyramids at Giza where quarried within a couple hundred meters of the site.
The youtube channel: "Ancient Presence" does a great job on the Serapeum, They have a three part series that goes into all aspects of the possible methods and techniques that could have been employed.
When you say: "Humans could have done it"...what or whom do you think the other options are?
@@russellmillar7132 How was it a burial place for bulls? Were bulls found in the boxes? The boxes are EVEN FINISHED being made. I understand thats what people assume and thats why they claim, but why isnt it done??
The main question is not how blocks was moved but how blocks was made.
Study geology
Great video. Very mind boggling and informative .it has opened my eyes to learn of these techniques which should be shared in schools which don't really mention these super interesting skills. Thanks. Best doco I've seen in ages. 👍👍👍
Thanks for watching I'm glad it was informative! :)
watch these.. then wake up.. viper tv sumerian tablets.. unchartedx.. the facts by how to hunt.. praveen mohan.. old vids of, everything inside me.. get some truth,,not this crap..
We don't give those that came before us enough credit. It may have been a long time ago, they may not have all the technology we have now, but they weren't dumb, there were just like us, just as smart, and VERY ingenious. Don't think that they couldn't have done something, wonder HOW they did it, because they DID do it.
That's not the point, but quite the opposite. We stand in awe of what these ancient cultures were able to achieve as the tools ascribed to them and the materials of the time, the ones that were found, make it hard to explain. So the question we want answered is: which techniques and tools did they have in ancient times for which there is no historical record ?
No question about human ingenuity, then and now. The question is “what kind of human will stand at a copper saw and cut 20mm an hour for 2 years?” To make a stone box. And another 2 years to polish it. I struggle with the concept that things we would struggle to make today (with our current technology) were easy to make in the past, just with manpower, primitive tools and lots of time. Obviously much of it was just so,,,, but scoop marks, flush jointed massive stones, high precision, unique geometry and challenging terrain tell us there is another dimension to the work. Perhaps only architects can get this concept. “A message in the method”. Why choose difficult when 10 kinds of easy are available? On the fence for now.🤔
"20mm an hour"? more like 2mm if you work very industriously, with the slight issue that you would be losing copper from the saw at a greater rate than the Granite. I can visualize a pile of saws about 1800mm high to cut one block. As you rightly say the jury is out on that one. (Doubtful at best)
Two and a half tons? You think that proves anything about moving 800 tons? Really?
4:56 The Romans moved obelisks weighing a few hundred tons from Egypt to Rome which is over 2000km away, so it doesn't seem too much of a stretch for them to scale up workforce to drag a few 800 ton blocks just 850 meters in Baalbek from the quarry, probably wedged up onto wooden tracks/rollers, maybe helped pulled with capstans. 9:28 shows how easily a 250 ton column can be moved over wooden rollers, they probably did something similar to this.
I don't see how they put iron in the concrete. The Titanic also broke because it was only supported at one point.
I know that for archaeological reasons it would never be done but I'd like to see Stonehenge be finished being built. "it only took 5000 years but its done being built now!"
I see nothing in this video to explain how stones, of 500 to 1,000 tons could be lifted about 12 meters and then brought down a rocky slope! There is in fact a quick photo shown in this video of one such site!
Then you didn't watch it with an open mind.
Great! Now, how did they lift stones that weigh hundreds of tons 2 or 3 hundred feet in the air?
The normal way.
Apparently according to some sources they used levers to raise them a bit at a time with blocks under after each lift. Which would work at lower heights but try using that method for the Granite beams above the Kings chamber...maybe not!
@@russellmillar7132 Oh, so the used hydrolics?? Yeah, I don't think so.
@@dextermorgan1 sure mr " scientist " LMAO
They didn't. If something had to go that high, they used ramps.
Every single attempt at proving or explaining how these things were moved has either been disproven or basic math showed would destroy the tools meant to be used for it. The closest to proof was that image of an Egyptian statue being moved on a sled, but what Egyptologists tried desperately to hide is the fact that statue is actually known and was recorded. It was made of alabastor, which is quite light, and the statue itself was very light for its size. There is also the, I think it's called Thunder Stone in...Russa? Something like that. It's not a big deal by megolithic construction standards and yet was incredibly hard to move and took a very long time plus tools we have no way to know whether or not the people in ancient times had.
I think they used acoustic levitation. Instruments for making sound and voices are something humans started with. It stands to reason that they'd notice eventually the vibrations caused by certain pitches and such from various angles and distances from objects and go from there out of curiosity. They probably understood a lot of things we don't today. Keep in mind that they had to start from scratch about half a million years ago and that is such a long time to work and grow. We, on the other-hand, based our technology on some tiny scraps of knowledge left from the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. It is only natural that our tools and knowledge are radically different from what would have naturally developed.
The only reason people believe nonsense like rollers and sleds and such for the really heavy stuff is simply the sheer ego and hubris to believe our ancestors were stupid or primitive. They were neither and had existed for what dozens or hundreds of times longer than the oldest known current culture has existed (one of the Aboriginal tribes in Australia if I remember correctly). The incredible arrogance to think they were incapable of doing things we couldn't is mind-boggling. They were the same as us, just with a more primitive starting point and had _HALF A MILLION FREAKING YEARS_ to advance. And people believe those peoples couldn't think of more than dumping some logs on the ground. That is insane.
The Thunder stone was moved on steel rails, bearing, capstans & a large workforce. The Egyptians had none of these, you cannot compare the two.
Thank you for making this compilation.
Even with the advanced technology of our time, there is no way can those stones be moved. How about those ruins up in the mountains with no access for huge heavy stones to ve drag. Still a mystery
Tons ,tons😮 tons of hard stones ,blocks 😮
Google Le Tourneau L-2350. Obv they didn't have these things back then, but at least ppl like you should stop spouting the bullshit that we can't move heavy things.
very interesting for what can be done. Now, how did they mirror polished durite and granite and andracite to that level on precision? Chichen bones? ! 200 tons is still not possible for us today and yet there are three of those under jupiter's temple, jacked up, more in jerusalem, and with stones not coming from a throw away... please.... good work explaining what is possible though... Thanks.
I'd like to see stones as big as the ones at Stonehenge moved up and down the Preseli Hills in Wales by this method, especially in the piss wet pouring rain.
Easy, the largest stone at Stonehenge is only about 30 tons, 10% the weight of some of the largest Egyptian Obelisks 🧐
@@ArchaeoLogic Then I would like to see you prove what I said.
@@Dora-hi2nw Not in the piss wet weather of Britain and back when there were no Tarmac roads.
@@ArchaeoLogic I am not sure why you have to continually explain the very obvious. I've seen less detailed videos of how the pyramids of Giza were built and been convinced that things may not be as difficult as we think.
this vid is mainstream bs.. blocks at pumu punku, were cut, from the opposite mountain, 1000 ft up,, then laid on the cut top of the mountain where they are now.. kailash temple, was cut from a solid hill of granite.. longyu caves, ect,, theres no burden, rubble , anywhere to be found.. we didnt do sht, except mine minerals for our creators..aliens.. ref. viper tv sumerian tablets.. unchartedx.. the facts by how to hunt.. praveen mohan.. .. old vids of everything inside me..
Think about the emotional roller coaster they went thru when Hall went down, Dobbs gets sacked for a safety, he fumbles 3 times. And then he drives them for 3 TDs the last one in 2 minutes for the win!
Several hundreds of thousands 50-100 ton, perfectly cut hard granite from several hundreds of miles away over difficult terrain- then placed hundreds of feet in the air or maneuvered through such tight spaces- is not satisfied by this hypothesis, in my opinion.
People, who think it *had* to take more advanced technology, than we have today, remind me of those who believe there *has* to be a god.
The 'Russian Thunder Stone' is one of the largest rocks ever moved by man. The method, in which it was moved, is amazing.
Carzy to think any of these techniques could be used to move 70-ton blocks up the mountains to Mach Pichu. And then place them on a wall.
Wood rails/rollers, ramps, levers, manpower, a community vision, and time, all that's needed 😁
@@ArchaeoLogic Great if that could be demonstrated with their technology. Would be tough to orchestrate, though.
It would be amazing to see demonstrated, I'm trying to dig up that documentary from the 90's where 100 people pull a 45 ton stone for 18 miles over wood rails lubricated with animal fat, I'm sure that'll help visualise a lot too!
@@ArchaeoLogic Great. But probably not quite the same as up a ateep mountain.
Machu Pichu has very few megaliths. Those that there are didn't need to be moved. They were quarried at the site.
The blocks left in the serepium with only around 12" clearance, how where they moved?
According to records from New Kingdom Egypt, they were dragged to the site with draft animals, then pulled with human power and mechanical advantage with the aid of compound pulleys. The sarcophagi were hollowed out at the quarry which made them much lighter (45 tons rather than 80-100 tons). The tightness of the passages actually helped to make turning the corners with incremental movements, easier to accomplish. The bays where the boxes were moved to were pre-filled with sand, Once the box was in position, they pulled the sand out and lowered the box to its position.
My thought is that if the ancients really had high technology, none of this stuff would be amazing or remarkable. It's the fact that they figured it out with just intelligence and ingenuity, planning, and coordination, that makes this far more exciting, IMHO.
A current theory holds that in ancient Egypt huge loads were transported over sand on human pulled sleds. The sand was made firm by pouring water on it from the front of the sled. This I believe is erroneous. It would require too much water, and footing for the pullers would be too loose. Instead, the sleds would have been pulled on paved causeways with a little sand as lubrication-- under the runners, not the feet of the pullers.
I've always been interested in the prehistoric moving of large objects and have watched every documentary that came along. A problem that I saw with quite a few of them, and you might keep an eye out for them, is that is that not realizing the difference, they used climbing rope. Climbing rope stretches (for safety). Natural rope does not. Therefore most of the force applied to the rope is lost in stretch. You watch as the fifty or so volunteers heave the ropes five feet or so and the stone moves ten inches. Funny to watch but a big problem when the expert in charge determines that "this is not a viable way to move big stones." Here's a mental image of me screaming at the TV. I remember two on Stonehenge, one on the Moai and at least two on the Pyramids. Unfortunately, there were more.
It's clear we are missing something that probably right before our eyes.
History of Granite showed they weren't moved or positioned with these techniques
Love that channel! Yes this video doesn't show how a particular structure was built, but is more for helping visualise different techniques ancients could have used to transport huge weights
@@ArchaeoLogic apologies if it sounded critical. I enjoy both very much. Thanks!!
So how did they lift those 1 thousand ton stone blocks many metres into position,Also how did they lift the stone pyramid blocks to the heights read and place them precisely hundreds of feet on top of each other and also the Aztec pyramids, I have seen granite blocks several feet thick and 12 feet long split in Sri Lanka by ancient technology with such precision cuts like a laser,❤And no chipping or fractures in the granite, Figure that one out,,,,,,,
The 1000+ ton blocks are still in the quarries so they weren't transported, maybe they were just outside their capability at the time, but considering the Romans moved obelisks weighing a few hundred tons from Egypt to Rome which is over 2000km away, then it was certainly possible for them to scale up workforce when needed to drag the 800 ton blocks just 850 meters in Baalbek, probably wedged up onto wooden tracks/rollers, maybe helped pulled with capstans.
As for the Pyramids, the only really large blocks are around main chambers, grand gallery and entrance keystones, most of the pyramids structures are filled with rough inner stones and concrete, and all the outer and casing stones were only 2-4 tons each, we can only guess at their exact methods as we don't have much documented like we do with the Romans, but they probably used similar tools and techniques as eachother.
It was done by Fallen Angels and their technology and the giants. They levitated some as well. This dude is CO and only here to keep the duped duped!
I agree, those massive stones are almost impossible to be moved from the quarry site up to where it is located now. They just can't accept that the ancients were far more superior in terms of science and technology.
@@helbertsantos3275 It is only if one is fortunate to visit any one of these sites anywhere in the world that one can appreciate the level of skill and technology that these supposed primitive civilisations had available at their disposal,Also stone coloums that have keystone mechanisms chiselled into granite on of the hardest rocks that have piers been supported to this very day all done perhaps by hand ,
The Roman additions to Baalbek are clearly visible. Along the adjoining wall to the Three 800 ton blocks is a space that would fit the 1000 ton blocks that are still in the quarry or en route. That space is filled in with much smaller blocks that are Roman. For whatever reason the construction of the megalithic platform was stopped (quite suddenly by the looks of it), and the Romans carried on later but at a scale that they could handle. The Romans were capable of amazing feats of engineering and they built unbelievable cities and monuments and didn't tend to leave things half finished. They had control of this territory for a long time and had no reason to switch to smaller blocks if they were capable of working with the larger ones. Why would they purposely scale down the site midway?
It took a village to work together to build what they built. Pretty cool
Yea great vid, you can have as many people as you like on pulling a rope. The question is , is the ropes they made able to resist the pulling force of maybe a hundred people pulling on one large rope. The same with the lifting gear ,the theory is good but seeing that large stone swinging on what look like a very small diameter rope. How good were they at rope making.?
I have built a working model on how they moved the stones. It requires only a few people and is very simple fast and can be steered.
Gave up less than 4 minutes in due to a reference to the trilithon stones at Baalbek being deemed 'Roman'. Yes, the upper levels can be Roman but not the platform that they are built on. It is so obvious when you take the time to look and investigate.
Interesting but doesn’t answer all the questions about ancient architecture on the precise cutting of stones and ancient granite vases precise to the thousands of an inch. They could not be reproduced even now
Horses wouldn't have worked that well to move items back then either. It wasn't until about two hundred years ago that humans harnessed horses properly to pull items. They used to yoke horses like oxen. The issue with that is horses don't have as strong of a breast bone to be as effective. It would also restrict a horses breathing. Affecting it stamina as well.
And of course they were bred to be strong & heavy, shire horses for example.
That telephone exchange was so big, ALIENS must have done it. The aliens were so good at hiding (using alien technology) that we never saw them and so that PROVES the aliens did it ! 🙂
Brilliant compilation of video footage and informative information truly amazing engineering skill throughout the centaury's thank you for generating a fascinating video
Thank you glad you found it informative!
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There was a tv show either the 90s or 2000s where engineers were challenged to build something ancient. One team went to Egypt to erect a monolith, what was funny was they used Egyptian labour and supervisor. During the movement of the monolith they all had to pull together, something they were having difficulty achieving, until the supervisor told them they were showing themselves up as it was the Egyptians who had used this method and perfected it, so get your fingers out and do it right. They did and used the sand removal technique to get it upright but they did have to faff around with the ropes and getting them wound the correct direction.
That's awesome thanks for commenting I'm going to look that up 🙌
I recall watching something along those lines, it wasn't a monolith but an extremely small pyramid, the stones were quite small around 1 ton and it too used Egyption labour, what ensued was a complete farce. 1st 2 courses no problem after that....? I don't think they even finished it.
Awesome video, but there's a lot of questions surrounding the cutting, shaping, polishing and accuracy of megalithic structures. There's also tool marks, over-cuts, scoop marks and nubs that exist on structures that doesn't match the tools of the time and also no explanation of how the same style of construction scattered across the world and predate the invention of the wheel. There's also the distance from the quarries and in south America for example no roads or evidence of how they lifted stones to the top of the mountain. I believe our ancestors found these ruins left from a much older more advanced civilization and spent thousands of years trying to copy and mimic the style, building on top of pre existing ruins....
Boats? They only found flimsy wooden boats in Egypt, on the shallow Nile? Locks weighing hundreds of tons? Bullsh!t The Romans never built Baalbek, they renovated it.
Amazing ! Well done ! Cheers Eddie
The clip your curious about was --I believe-- a NOVA series about 'Building Stonehenge'--I have it on my VCR tapes somewhere.
15:25 - Put sails on large blocks/slabs that are on rollers or being slid on rails lubricated with animal fat.
Lol that would be awesome to see! xD
We don't need no steenking aliens.
If I was bringing stones from Wales to Stonehenge for example. I would transport the stones as cylinders and then finish them on, or close to site. This strikes me as the easiest way to do it. Build a stout wooden trackway to facilitate rolling, then as the stones progress take the trackway up behind and move it in front. Obviously I'd map the route in advance to avoid excessive gradients and do any preparatory work to clear a way. Not saying it's how it was done, just my solution :).
Unfinished obelisk in Aswan quarry shows they didn't consider such for a 1200 ton block. There's a nice Moai statue still in the bed rock on Rapa Nui suggesting they didn't neither.
@@doctormarazanvose4373 Horses for courses mate. It would rather depend on size, shape and destination. All I know is that it's far easier to roll something than to drag it.
@@donk1822 They possibly wrapped these objects in wooden cylinders. I have seen such a theory posited but it is just that - a theory.
Thank You! No aliens or lost technology invoked.
Thank you very much for such an informative programme.
The romans found the Baalbek stones there. They did not transport them
Many Chicago buildings were lifted about the time of the American Civil War.
I've an old memory of a doco about the Orkneys (IIRC) where a man recalled that his father used to use the natural lubricants of certain seaweeds to assist in the movement of large loads. Is there any non-anecdotal evidence of this and or any historical evidence of this technique being used for stones?
they used leverage..if you've ever had to move large, heavy objects alone, youll begin to understand very quickly how these things work & what is possible.
Ok, so they used levers and levers obviously work, but that doesn't explain how they raised enormous blocks 100+ ft (I.e 70 ton Granite blocks above kings chamber) I'm a builder and it intrigues me how it was done, they certainly were not dragged up a ramp, they must of had some form of block & tackle to gain a mechanical advantage unless of course you believe the Alien theory's....conjures up images of little grey men wearing high vis & hard hats.
@@realistJB In almost every scenario the big blocks are not lifted. The builders knew to work smarter, not harder. They did have block and tackle and they did drag them up ramps. These things have been known for decades. Maybe watch something besides Ancient Aliens and UnsupportedX.
@@russellmillar7132 So, "these things have been known for years" well maybe you could possibly impart to the rest of the world this secret knowledge you seem to possess, because as far as I aware there are lots of theories & not one has been successful in practice. So we shall await your next spellbinding comment, hopefully without the pathetic Ancient Alien remarks.
I totally agree with you on the mechanical advantage gained from leverage, Archimedes once said "if I had a large enough lever I could move the earth" Just one problem is to move extremely heavy objects you would require very long & strong levers, what were they made of?
@@realistJB I can guess that when I say that the levers, the pulleys, the crane assemblies, and the scaffolding are built of wood, you will laugh. But that means you haven't done much digging into the technologies involved with erecting a huge number of 100 ton obelisks and columns that were used during the middle iron age in Egypt. There are demonstrations of how it may have been done on you tube. Certain types of wood are extremely strong when the weight is distributed properly. The Greeks improved the counterweight crane techniques they learned from the Egyptians. Most of the large granite coffers were done during the reign of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. You should check out the lifting cranes (built of wood) that the Romans devised that had huge hamster wheels powered by one or a group of people walking at a normal rate. It's fascinating to study this stuff. That is if you have an open mind.
Love it Brother! Thanks for this!
Btw. Any takes on how they cut these BIG stones Also?🙏
@@Wanderinghead That's currently something I'm working on, still have a few pieces to put together to try and help visualise it well as this video does for moving large weights, but hopefully have a video out for that in the next month or 2 after my next few projects :)
@@ArchaeoLogic can't wait 😁
Please send this to Graham Hanncock!
It’s easier to move when there’s nothing else to do
The only argument I have is that; Did they really have a lot of sand? Wasn´t the desert more lush back then?
no
Between 10,000 and 5000 BCE the Sahara and the Nile valley were in what is called "The African Humid Period", wherein the Nile was more like the Amazon. There were lush grasslands and forests and the region had monsoons and frequent catastrophic flooding. After that, the desert began to reassert itself and all the vegetation dried up and burned. Once (after a millennium and a half) the climate returned to pre AHP status, the Nile Valley became the arid desert we see today...there was plenty of sand to work with.
When I see you pick up the "stone of the pregnant woman" I'll believe it. I see them lifting small ones. Hasn't convinced me.
The world is not a globe, sphere, or is it spinning chasing a fire ball.
The ancients knew it!
I was wondering how they got those huge chiseled stones up the Egyptian pyramids.
Rope and Wood pulleys, with only human power, that's my problem with all this.
That's not your problem, really
@@chiznowtch why not if it is my chosen problem I am free to choose my own problems
@helioshaul3924 well you didn't choose this problem, your brain just can't handle it. Video literally shows you lots of modern day recreations of the concepts.
@@chiznowtch don't you worry my brain can handle it no problem I can identify Fact from Fiction in an Instant, I also pride myself on respecting othets
@helioshaul3924 your brain is NOT, in this case, separating fact from fiction if you still think humans can't move heavy stuff
The walking house made it worth watching
I love that clip it looks so cool!
I remember there was a guy who put out videos demonstrating how HE....by himself....moved, turned and raised huge stones. Its not Rocket Science....or even Alien Science when it comes to that. In the modern world we see huge stones and start scratching our heads about how something like that could be moved. Mostly because we don't live in a culture where moving stones and lifting them is an everyday occurance.
This was Wally Wallington. I have tried to get a number of friends and family members (who are fans of Randall Carlson or ancient aliens or both) to watch his video and explanations. Only one of them would actually watch the videos. The others refused saying I just couldn't accept that the mainstream explanations are all wrong. The one that did watch swore it was trick camara work or AI. She admonished me not to be so gullible!!
If only it was so simplistic. Moving giant blocks of stone is only one aspect. The precision with which some are cut and shaped is a greater question to me. There is evidence globally that somehow they could soften granite and scrape it like dough. How? not a clue. Barabar Hill caves cut out of solid granite in geometrical shapes with perfectly smooth, polished walls. Why would you do that? Makes me wonder if whomever did it was leaving a message - a bit like how we stuck pictographs on the Voyager probes.
Zawyet el Aryan screams of functionality as well as precision. I have zero clue as to why you carve out a dish shape with a rim in solid granite and then shape a perfect granite lid to fit over the top and seal it. The floor made up of huge blocks of limestone and granite in a pattern that fitted together perfectly. We leap at religion as the reason. The truth is as Barsanti suggested - we haven't a clue. Even more intriguing is why such an inexplicable site would then be filled in and a military base stuck on top so no one can gain access. Let your imagination run wild with that one but it does suggest that no one wants it investigating further.
It's not just the how but the why in so many cases - globally, from a time when not so long ago historians claimed we didn't travel such distances to spread such knowledge. Something is amiss whether you care to admit it or not.
Wait, what? OK yes, but no. If your posit had any validity, you also tell how these multi, [kilo], ton were moved from point A to point B as the 2 points were miles, [kilogramz], apart.
lol the egyptians didnt build shit they just carved crude jeirogliphics over pristne craftsmanship the pyramids were built before the egyptians got there
There is still the question as to how Egyptian statues of immense tonnage were sculptured with such precision that they were almost life-like. No modern technology exists that could be so amazingly precise. Thanks for this great video, though.
They aren't that precise when objectively measured. Not that hard to achieve near symmetry with plum bob and measuring stick. The techniques developed and employed by dynastic Egyptian stone masons and sculptors has a vast amount of literature devoted to it. Doing a little study of the topic could remove some of the mystery. Simply repeating what you hear Ben from UnsupportedX, or Brien Forester, or Graham H., or Randall C. say is more likely to be your approach I fear. Ciao!
@@russellmillar7132you are wrong about the statues. Some are perfectly symmetrical and carved with amazing precision. You can find the info on the web. All you have to do is look. The fact is, the things the ancients accomplished certainly were not done using the primitive tools our archeologists claim they had. There's just so much we don't yet know, and may never know.
@@samdavis1958 Thanks for your expert opinion Sam. That's very helpful.
Wrong! The Roman's did not quarry dress transport these massive stones found at Balbek The Roman's built ON TOP of the stone Nobody knows who built the platform You do not know what your talking about
Truly amazing video. Thank you very much!
But how did they cut it so perfectly. I'm sure they moved and lifted them in a more advanced way
I'm working on that video in the next few weeks 😁
there is no evidence of any use of any form of pulley system or wheel or wheel shaped block and pulley system ever used by the Egyptians! Even Egyptologists, swivel-eyed loons as most of them are state that categorically. So why come up with a fanciful (although logical ) description? It flies in the face of the so-called experts
Humans have been intelligent and creative for a minute.
Hard, hard , hard work 😮
I was stoned when i watched this documentary.
I'd like to sign up to this but I want to be a rider on one these large stones while the village does the pulling! 😂
Our basic building block is a brick.We are 15 times its size.So if we assume that these blocks were their basic blocks,what will have been their size?
Whoa! that is a masterpiece of logical reasoning! If I can lift the tire on my car to replace a flat, how big would I have to be to change a tire on a backhoe or a commercial airliner? Gerts you to thinking, no?
@@russellmillar7132 but everywhere in egypt,the blocks are huge.
You have No 💡 idea. This is your Imagination. 😂😢😂😢😂😢😢
Thanks for ending the" must be space aliens that levatated them rocks" argument. I'll take my beer now,thanks.
This is pure speculation and opinion. This guy has not even tried it.
True I have not tried it lol, maybe one day when I have the finances and means 😉
I know the route and the method they used to transport the Sarsen Stones from Marlborough Down to Stonehenge.
Was it the A1?
I was really MOVED😮
That is, If you actually believe the ancient Egyptians built these, and the Romans built Baalbek. 🙄
I do not think you would be allowed to move a building today. Too many regulations and the insurance needed would cost too much. I do not think any insurance company would give you an insurance policy.
When was the wheel invented? Not in 11,000 yrs ago people!
It's about applied physics, not Ancient Aliens. Here is a detailed explanation by Dr. Michael S. Heiser, on how the Romans would have moved the Trilithon Stones at Baalbek. RUclips does not allow links, so you must use the following search phrase: "Transporting the Trilithon Stones of Baalbek: It’s About Applied Physics, Not Ancient Aliens".
I think those stones(Trilithon stones) were already there and the Romans built on top of them.
You are absolutely right
@@mrjakefu Archaeological excavations have been done at Balbek to level of the pre-pottery neolithic era. They established that, at this site, there was no monumental construction prior to the Hellenistic period. The Romans were the ones that dragged the trilithon stones into place. They needed large foundation blocks to stabilize the bed of gravel at the site.
I watched his lecture on the construction of Balbek and other megalithic sites. His stuff is great till he starts in on his Christian faith, then he loses me.