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Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 1:19 pm**

http://paranormal.about.com/library/wee ... 31901a.htm

The ruins of several ancient civilizations - from Stonehenge to the pyramids - show that they used massive stones to construct their monuments. A basic question is why? Why use stone pieces of such enormous size and weight when the same structures could have been constructed with more easily managed smaller blocks - much like we use bricks and cinderblocks today?

Could part of the answer be that these ancients had a method of lifting and moving these massive stones - some weighing several tons - that made the task as easy and manageable as lifting a two-pound brick? The ancients, some researchers suggest, may have mastered the art of levitation, through sonics or some other obscure method, that allowed them to defy gravity and manipulate massive objects with ease.

Something we've heard about before, from Graham Hancock mainly. Entertaining.

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 1:36 pm**

Yeah...Hancock said something along the lines of:

'The engineering problems in the Great Pyramid are such that it seems as if the designers/builders were showing off by deliberately making things hard for themselves,' if I recall correctly.

Posted: **Wed May 14, 2008 1:48 pm**

Yep, this article is far out, but it emphasizes the seeming impossibility of moving the stones at Baalbek. I've never been satisfied that men with ropes could do that.

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 2:01 pm**

As an engineer I would suggest the 'why' is based on a lack of mortar. Small blocks can only be supported by larger ones, lintels for example, unless you have a binding agent.

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Megalithic Levitation? : )

Megalithic Levitation? : )