[ml/nj]

During the Summer of 2001 I took the "Tunnels" tour that follows much of the unexposed portion of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. There are some huge stones that make up this wall, and my reaction and question for our guide was, "Forget the pyramids. How did they build this thing?"

Below is a picture which shows the extent of a single large stone that is part of the Wall. My son, in orange, is at the end of the stone which extends slighly beyond the foreground of the picture. Note also that this stone is twice the "normal" Wall stone height in the foreground. For comparison sake I also include a picture I took of a part of the Wall that is normally visible. (right portion of bottom photograph)

The guide told me that they had no idea how it was moved.

ML/NJ

[Sabertooth]

Pyramids schmyramids.

Let's talk about Baalbek.

Some of the larger stones in Baalbek weigh in at about 750 tons.

The largest Baalbek stone never made it all the way to the structure. It's 68' x 14' x 14', and estimated at over 1200 tons.

How'd they do that?