Huge stone structures are scattered all over the globe, the secret of the construction of which is still unknown to modern science. A distinctive feature of all megaliths is that they are built of very heavy boulders. The answer to the logical question: why the ancient builders used huge, and not small stones, similar, say, to modern bricks, is obvious - the creators of megaliths did not care what to build their giant buildings from.
Megaliths of the past
The Arab historian was particularly impressed by the Egyptian pyramids. He was interested in the process of their construction and left behind an interesting description. At first, Al-Masoudi wrote, a "magic papyrus" was placed under a huge stone. After the stone was touched with a metal rod, it lifted off the ground and moved through the air along a road paved with stones and fenced with metal pillars. After flying about 50 meters, the block descended to the ground. Such flights were repeated until the stone took the right place.
Considering that the pyramids were built three thousand years before the birth of Al-Masoudi, the question is logical: how did he know these details? Did they come down to him from the Egyptians, who passed them on from generation to generation, or is the story a figment of the rich imagination of a medieval scholar who, like many now, believed that it was impossible to do with the usual means when building the pyramids?
Egyptian pyramids are not the only megaliths on our planet. At the base of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon, lie the three largest stones ever used by man. Each of them weighs at least a thousand tons! None of the modern supercranes is able to lift such boulders, let alone stack them next to each other. And with such accuracy, one hundred cannot even stick a needle into the seams.
Not far from the temple in the quarry lies an even larger block. Hajar el-Qibla, the Stone of a Pregnant Woman, which weighs 1200 tons! Scientists have calculated that in order to move this rectangular block from its place by just a millimeter, it would take at least 16 thousand people.
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On the Bolivian Tiahuanaco plateau, at an altitude of almost four thousand meters above sea level, stands the Puerta del Sol, or the Solar Gate. How the Indians raised these gigantic gates, decorated with rich carvings and weighing 10 tons to such a height, still remains a mystery.
The thousand-ton stones of Baalbek in Lebanon.
Nan Madol (“that which lies in between,” in Micronesian) is sometimes called the Machu Picchu of the Pacific. We are talking about the ruins of an ancient city, built on the Micronesian island of Ponape about two hundred years BC from huge stone columns of six meters in length. They were more than a meter in diameter and weighed 2.5 tons. Ancient builders stacked them on top of each other like logs and built walls 12 meters high and 5.5 meters thick.
Acoustic construction
The most widespread theory is still considered, according to which the megaliths built tens of thousands of slaves using the simplest tools and their muscular strength. Nevertheless, almost all peoples, whose ancestors erected giant structures, have legends about how they moved huge boulders using acoustics. These are wonderful songs, and the touch of a magic wand or a metal rod, as a result of which acoustic vibrations arose, and pipes, and gongs, and lyres, and cymbals, and even whistles.
Solar Gate in Bolivia.
In his book Bridge to Eternity, Bruce Katie retells an amazing story he read in a German magazine about how Tibetan monks threw heavy stones through the air. Such miracles can often be found in the ancient legends of the Tibetan peoples, but the first and, it seems, the last (at least so far) European to see it with his own eyes, was in 1939 the Swedish professor Jarl.
High in the Himalayas, in the vicinity of the monastery, there is a gentle meadow, surrounded on all sides by almost sheer cliffs. On one of the rocks at a height of about 250 meters in front of the entrance to the cave there is a stone ledge-platform, which can only be reached from the top of the rock by a rope. Jarl saw the monks constructing a wall of huge rectangular boulders, one meter wide and one and a half meter long, on this ledge. In the meadow, about 250 meters from the rock with the ledge, lay a huge stone, polished to a shine. In its center there was a bowl-like notch, one meter in diameter and 15 centimeters deep. The monks carried the boulders on yaks and laid them strictly above this recess. At a distance of exactly 63 meters from the stone, 19 musical instruments were installed: 13 drums and 6 pipes. They formed a circlein the center of which there was a stone with a recess.
Ruins of Nan Mandol in Micronesia.
Several dozen monks stood by each instrument. As soon as the rectangular block was in the right position, the monk, who was on duty near the small drum, gave the signal to start the concert. The sound from this drum was so harsh and shrill that it could easily be heard in the rumbling made by other drums and trumpets. Some monks played trumpets and beat drums, gradually increasing the volume and rhythm, while others chanted prayers.
About four minutes later, when the rumble, according to Jarl, became completely unbearable, the block began to swing from side to side, then suddenly rose into the air and, picking up speed with every second, headed to the platform ledge in front of the cave entrance. The entire ascent of the boulder took about three minutes. In this way, the monks raised five or six huge stone blocks to a height of 250 meters per hour.
It's a shame the ancient secrets of levitation are now lost. However, there is reason to believe that if they are lost, then not irrevocably.