The Pont du Gard is one of the largest ancient aqueducts in the world, located in France. If I am not mistaken, it is ranked 10th among all in the world or even higher. In general, the structure is impressive, the height of the aqueduct and its length.
I will return to the aqueduct later, but the most interesting place here is the nearest quarry, from where in the past (presumably 2,000 years ago) a stone was mined for this very aqueduct.
As soon as a general view of this quarry opens, strange traces immediately catch the eye, as if from a large technique that cut out even fragments at one angle.
As far as we know, these quarries were used until the 19th century, after which everyone forgot about the place and few people are taken there, and not everyone knows about this quarry.
On each of the walls, where, presumably, something has carved a whole multi-ton piece, you can see parallel grooves with the same pitch, which primitive tools cannot leave.
And there are a lot of such traces, it would even be more correct to say, they are everywhere. But for unknown reasons, there are no traces of some crude instruments. Although scientists, of course, believe that all this was built and cut down from the quarries by manual and rough labor.
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And now, it is worth returning to the aqueduct itself, where on the blocks belonging to the period of construction you can see all the same traces from an unknown technique or some kind of technology.
It is known that the Pont du Gard was restored in the 19th century, but the problem of history is that the blocks of the 19th century and the 1st century BC do not differ at all in terms of the level of processing, they are practically the same, although then supposedly there was no technology.
And on the ancient blocks, from which the aqueduct was originally built, you can see all the same grooves, the same as in the quarry, which does not really fit into history.
It turns out that the technologies 2,000 years ago were not particularly inferior to those that were 100 years ago. For 2,000 years, civilizations have been able to cut whole pieces of rock, and then cut into blocks of the same size.
This is how the history of the construction of one of the largest aqueducts in the world about 2,000 years ago looks like, if you pay a little attention to the details. However, scientists do not really want to see these details, apparently, although this is not unusual, this is a common thing.
