[SmartAZ]

Someplace on the internet is a gallery of pictures of men moving a large stone. It was about the size of a car, but twice as long, and it was moved by hand using wood beams and ropes. The men all wore robes, like they were maybe Egyptian or someplace around there.

Has anybody seen such a thing?

[Chills]

Someplace on the internet is a gallery of pictures of men moving a large stone. It was about the size of a car, but twice as long, and it was moved by hand using wood beams and ropes. The men all wore robes, like they were maybe Egyptian or someplace around there.

Has anybody seen such a thing?


I dont recall seeing anything on the net...but I recall seeing some archealogists and engineers doing something like that on Easter Island trying the move those big stone head thingermajigs.

I believe that was on a discovery channel show...quite a while back..

By the way I thought an engineer solved the mystery of how the stones in the pyrimad etc were moved... based on a toy ...he recognized as a miniature of a tool (?) it was a quarter arc kind of rocker.. that when applied to all four sides of a cube made it into a wheel of sorts...

I am not familiar with the terms for engineering...

Dont know if that is relevant but I thought I would add it anyway... :rolleyes:

[SmartAZ]

What I remember about the pic I saw is that they used tripods on each side of the stone, and pulleys on the tripods with beams under the stone. As they tightened the ropes in front, the stone would be lifted and pulled forward, and then the tripods in back would be moved to the front, etc, so the whole thing looked something like a gigantic caterpillar. They had maybe three men for each tripod, and whatever number of tripods it took to hold the stone off the ground. Speed was a few miles a day. The method is fairly obvious when you think about it, but I want to find the pictures.

[SmartAZ]

By the way I thought an engineer solved the mystery of how the stones in the pyrimad etc were moved... based on a toy ...he recognized as a miniature of a tool (?) it was a quarter arc kind of rocker.. that when applied to all four sides of a cube made it into a wheel of sorts...
I've seen that, and I've also seen a lever arrangement that fits the historic description a lot better. It was used to move stones up the stepped sides of a pyramid, where a "wheel" gizmo is not really appropriate.

[Kimber]

This one may (or may not) be what you are thinking of. Very interesting nevertheless. Nice video shots. And the guy is building a mini-recreation of Stonehenge.

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/Page1.htm

Edited again!

David

[SmartAZ]

Thanks, Kimber. About half the pictures wouldn't load, and I didn't see any videos. But I'll check back to see if that changes.

[Kimber]

SmartAz,

I use Internet Explorer (I know - but I'm too lazy/busy to change horses right now). The web pages come up with some black boxes. When I move the cursor over the black box and/or click on them, a little embedded 10 second video plays within the box. They aren't pop-up videos running through a player.

Maybe someone with more tech knowledge can explain whether you need to be doing something different. The embedded videos are the best part of the site.

David

[north runner]

I've seen science shows that reenact moving pyramid sized stones, not that I can remember a title. There's a book that contains diagrams by l. sprague de camp titled Ancient Engineers. See it at barnes and noble as a discounter.

[SmartAZ]

You mean l. sprague de camp the author of books on Atlantis, Lemuria, and various occult and outright bs topics? I don't care to read any of his stuff. He is not a credible source.