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Heaviest stone-s in Giza plateau. one is 468 tons!

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voggmo

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How did they move THAT one? & the other 2 Colossi.

8) The Ghiza Plateau, Egypt. -
There are several extraordinary sized stones recorded at the Ghiza plateau, with the largest regularly estimated at over 400 tons....



Temple East of 'Khafres' Pyramid.

'Largest stone estimated 468 ton block' (11).

(J. Cook; The Pyramids of Giza; p. 22). - 'Khafre foundation stones > 400 tons'.




4) The Colossi of Memnon, Egypt. -
These two giants were built from a single piece of stone each. They are orientated towards the sunrise at winter solstice (12)

Estimates: 2 x 1,000 tons (11), 2 x 600 tons (2)

(Inter. Herald Tribune (22/23 Dec 1973).) - 720 tons

(R. T. Gould; A book of Marvels; 1937, p. 133.) - 1200 tons.

The statues are made from blocks of quartzite sandstone which was stone quarried at el-Gabal el Ahmar (near modern-day Cairo) and transported 420 miles over land without using the Nile to Thebes. They are too heavy to transport upstream on the Nile.

Er, no link, afraid of copyright issues.
 
Hmmm, lotta sore fingers in that method I would think. Not enough logs in Egypt, & too heavy to float down the Nile. Sounds like a job for Copperfield.
 
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voggmo said:
Hmmm, lotta sore fingers in that method I would think. Not enough logs in Egypt, & too heavy to float down the Nile. Sounds like a job for Copperfield.
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For something like that there are easier low tech ways to move stones than dragging a them over loose rollers. One method involves raising the stone a few feet and constructing thick wood wheels around both ends (using the stone itself as the axle).

As far as the pyramids are concerned the massive ramps depicted in many movies and illustrations would have been an unnecessary expenditure of labor and materials. Levers could have lifted stones comparable to those used to build the pyramids far enough to support the stone with a half foot or so of cribbing. While the cribbing supports the weight the levers and associated slings could be rearranged to lift the stone enough to insert the next layer of cribbing. I once saw a modest crew lift a stone using that method in a documentary that indicated the process took less than half an hour. I suspect a much larger crew would have taken nearly as long dragging the stone up a ramp on rolers (not counting the ramp construction/demolition time).
 
voggmo said:
How did they move THAT one? & the other 2 Colossi.
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Fake historians are divided on the issue.

Some say it was built by the Dynasty of Primes in 17,000 BC to hide their sun-destroying spaceship from an evil robot known as The Fallen before being teabagged by giant robot balls in modern times and mostly destroyed by a flaming truck that could fly.

Others say it was built by an evil seven foot tall white dude with long fingernails in 10,000 BC before construction was stopped by a revolt of fashion models/slaves and a mammoth stampede (and no, I don't mean a very large stampede of animals you'd normally expect to find in Egypt, I mean actual Woolly Mammoths).

And still more say it was built by the slaves of the alien from the Crying Game posing as the sun god Ra to be used as a landing site for his spacecraft and home of the Stargate before the slaves rebelled in 5,000 BC, forcing him to leave Earth.

Sadly, we may never know the real fake truth. The one thing they all seem to agree on is that Locutus has seen way too many shitty movies.

Er, no link, afraid of copyright issues.
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Yeah, because that's what I told you in regard to copyright issues, voggmo; not to include links. Wave hello to reality next time it drives by.
 
Please. This so called "mystery" was solved back in the '70s.

It was anti-gravity technology supplied by space aliens who became the basis of all the god figures in Egyptian mythology. Didn't you read "Chariots of the Gods"? Sheesh. :rolleyes:

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It wasn't cause of anything you said Locutus. Halo polishing forum located elsewhere.

Levers eh? 468 tons. wood wheels. Well, science demands theories be tested for veracity is what time it is with that. Where would they get the rollers? Scant palm trees they had wouldn't do. & 500 miles is a long way to roll em. Wood wheels would be crushed anyways by 468 or 1200 ton stones.

It is significant to note that the Egyptians used sleds over sand in which wheels would have sunk.


As to ramps...

But there is neither room for such a long ramp on the Giza Plateau, nor evidence of such a massive construction. Also, a mile-long ramp would have had as great a volume as the pyramid itself, virtually doubling the man-hours needed to build the pyramid. Because the straight ramp theory just doesn't work, several pyramid experts have opted for a modified ramp theory.

This approach suggests that the ramp corkscrewed up the outside of the pyramid, much the way a mountain road spirals upward. The corkscrew ramp does away with the need for a massive mile-long one and explains why no remains of such a ramp have been found, but there is a flaw with this version of the theory. With a ramp corkscrewing up the outside of the pyramid, the corners couldn't be completed until the final stage of construction. But careful measurements of the angles at the corners would have been needed frequently to assure that the corners would meet to create a point at the top. Dieter Arnold, a renowned pyramid expert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, comments in his definitive work, Building in Egypt: "During the whole construction period, the pyramid trunk would have been completely buried under the ramps. The surveyors could therefore not have used the four corners, edges, and foot line of the pyramid for their calculations." Thus the modified ramp theory also has a serious problem.

How to Build a Pyramid

Internal ramp.

Huge granite and limestone blocks were needed for the roof beams and rafters of the Queen's and King's Chambers. Some of these beams weigh more than 60 tons and are far too large to have been brought up through the internal ramp.
 
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The Pyramid itself gets plenty chat, but the 468 ton stone & the Colossi don't get much press. & these chats will go on for a very long time, unfortunately pseudo expert Zahi Hawass is blocking progress by blocking studies by those who don't kowtow to his biased ideas. I spoke with one researcher many years ago who mentioned they wouldn't even let in a mini camera on a remote controlled robot in the chamber under the Sphynx.
 
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