Everyone who is interested in riddles in the technologies of erecting ancient megalithic structures knows about the megalithic masonry in Peru, the giant masonry of 1000-ton blocks in the buildings of Baalbek. Many objects are well shown in the films of the LAI group and in their photo albums.
Pnyx Hill. Athens, Greece. Supposedly built in the 4th century BC. Dating according to the remains of dishes found in the vicinity and at the foot of the wall. On both sides, the masonry goes deep into the ground. This fact says that the wall is clearly not young.
The rock is limestone. Moreover, in conglomerates and limestone aggregates pressed into a monolith. It looks very fragile rock, crumbling into large stones.
A wall of megalithic blocks encircles the hillside. The principle is very similar to Sacsayauman in Peru. But why did it have to be done? The labor costs are huge. Moreover, for the transfer of such large masses, their processing, lifting and laying in the wall. Some blocks weigh up to 30 tons. It would be more expedient to make everything in smaller blocks. Or was it easier than we think? I'll tell you about this version below.
To better understand the scale of this masonry, I suggest watching a video by one of the researchers of antiquities:
Promotional video:
The blocks have traces of processing - parallel lines supposedly from a chisel. But what is the point of keeping strictly parallel lines? And will it be possible to do so at all? The impression is that it was carried out by some kind of scraper over loose or plastic rock. The rock is very fragile, when processing with a chisel, all individual conglomerates will fall out of the massif and high-quality processing of rock with different strength characteristics of its internal structure will not work.
Some regular readers of my magazine in the livejournal and this channel have probably guessed which version I am leaning towards. Yes, I have a version that this is also geo-concrete. Rather, in this case, it is a mineral limestone tuff. There is some evidence for this.
Let's move to the top of the hill, and look at the place where, according to the legend of historians, the meetings were gathered. The area, according to their estimates, could accommodate up to 5,000 people. But I believe that this is a quarry, here, in the bedrock, this mineral tuff was taken out and used in the construction of the city and this wall:
The edge of a limestone rock with smooth edges is visible. Here the rock was obviously cut off for blocks. The builders left the stairs so that they could freely climb to the top of the array. Historians present this podium as an object of a different purpose.
How can you carve a staircase in a rock with internal corners without pits and chain saws? In our time, we do not know other technologies for cutting blocks from rocks. But there are no pits in the limestone masses for setting up the chainsaw. To be honest, the LAI group found one pit at the top of the massif, but it is large in diameter and does not look like a technological pit.
Maybe all this was sawed with an ordinary flat saw in non-petrified mineral tuff? This is similar to how we do it when building snow and ice towns.
There are strange notches in the vertical edge of this quarry. Very similar to the "test of the pen" on the rocks in Peru. Directly analogy. It did not make any sense to knock them out with such high quality mechanically. But if we assume that this mineral tuff was loose or plastic, then everything is done in a few minutes with a simple tool. Perhaps they took samples of the breed or someone was practicing skill.
These photographs show that the bottom edges of the excavated rock were curved. Those. these are not sawn-off blocks, but scooped out by something. These masses were plastic - only this condition can explain such a picture.
