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I'll agree on the why. But the how isn't really a mystery.
Or maybe the mummified remains that were found inside might have been an good indication?
Somehow I feel we are not being told the whole story here...
This shit.
FUCKING THANK YOU!
For instance, yes I use grinders and saws to cut big pieces of stone into smaller pieces so they fit where I need them, but I was taught how to do all that by hand as well. Sometimes you don't have power or petrol, but the shit still needs to go up!
And the way we do things now is just a continuous evolution from how we did it then. I don't have to sharpen my chisels every 30mins because we have better materials. I don't have to break a giant billet of stone into manageable sizes(I can though) because a shop does it for me. And almost all of the old tech is still in use, albeit in a new form or in new materials.
Wire/string friction sawing has been around for millenia....here's an example of a new bit of kit.
No, it's totally about a single rock being precise. That's the name of the game son. If you don't get the first stone precise, you can't get the second one in precise. And there's loads of different ways to move stone without trucks. I work in a conservation setting, and we use modern machinery as little as possible. If these scholars would bother asking anyone with actual experience in the field they'd get some answers to their questions.
Also what's with the Ancient Aliens bs at the end there?
One day, but not today!
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I am in this picture and I don't like it.....
Right you are, but 99% of people would be all: don't you Bob for apple? Why Bob for plum?
The rock and string, with help from gravity point down to the ground. If angle between the stick and string isn't 90°, then it's not level.
As a Stonemason, this shit always bothers me. Recent example was an article on stone henge. "Scientists still mystified as to how the stones were stood so that to caps were level!"
Mfr! Give me a straight piece of wood, a length of string and a rock, I will make you a basic level. Don't want to lift the stone in and out multiple times to adjust the level? Get logs and cut them to the same length as the upright stones. It's not fucking rocket surgery!
Exactly! I used to do solo jobs, and it's shocking how many people balk at my (legit very reasonable) rates, and say things like: well you're just piling up some rocks.