The time has come to write an article about some kind of ancient "incredible concrete", from which everything was allegedly cast, according to many supporters of this version.
In this article, I will write down the main points, based on which only one conclusion can be drawn - casting in ancient times is nonsense, at least in most cases.
But before that, I would like to say about the highest quality concrete. If it really existed among many civilizations of the past and would be of such high quality that it would last for thousands of years, imitating natural stone, then this is already a high technology, superior to ours, and this is worth understanding.
But if casting was used somewhere, in most cases, civilizations (or civilizations) of the past simply mined stone in unrealistic volumes and moved thousands of tons for many kilometers, which is difficult to explain.
Aswan Obelisk (approximately 1,200 tons), as you can see, it was not cast either. True, they simply did not have time to move, or did not want to, because of the resulting crack.
So why are most of the individual megaliths, pyramids and other structures natural stone? The first argument, albeit the most banal, is the quarries.
All over the world there are a huge number of quarries, in the same Egypt, from where the stone for the pyramids had to be mined. Many tens and even hundreds of thousands of tons of stones were produced from these quarries, but if concrete was used everywhere, where did these stones disappear to?
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It seems to me that this very simple question is already difficult to explain if you stick to the version with concrete. Was it possible that hundreds of thousands of tons of stone were mined all over the world, but they were not found anywhere?
In addition, it should be noted that some ancient megaliths are currently located very close to the quarries. The most correct example would be the Yanshan quarry. One of the megaliths, apparently, was not moved anywhere, but processed.
But the other two were somehow allegedly manually hollowed out, processed and moved several tens of meters, but their weight is 6 and 8 thousand tons, how to explain this? I think there is no way without technologies that are superior to ours.
And then everything is even more simple, but inexplicable for the version with concrete and casting. For example, what kind of formwork should have been and from what material in order to withstand some prohibitive volumes of this very concrete. After all, some megaliths have a weight estimated at thousands of tons.
The same applies to the finds of at least something similar to the molds for pouring there, the so-called "concrete" - nothing like that has ever been found.
Move on. Structure and composition definitions. I have repeatedly read in the comments that the pyramids were completely cast and in terms of composition it had already been proven, but for some reason it was not officially known anywhere.
Western stone, where you can see a homogeneous structure, as in all other large megaliths in the world.
But even so, the composition of many other megalithic structures always showed natural stone without any mixture.
Plus, if huge megaliths were flooded, it would immediately catch the eye. Only due to the fact that it is impossible to fill the huge megalith evenly. In other words, the structure of the stone in different parts would be very different.
Masonry in the Wailing Wall.
And finally, the last, no less interesting question is the primitive masonry and, accordingly, the primitive composition of the solution in many later objects.
For example, in Machu Picchu and many other objects, the walls were almost always made without mortar, perfectly fitting the blocks to each other. But later, closer to our time, the ancient people began to make a rougher masonry with a mortar, which is now falling apart, why is this?
In fact, you can go on like this by writing a few more questions and clarifications to them, which in no way explain the existence of the technology of "high quality concrete" in the past.
Then it turns out only that in an unknown way, in the past, the stone was produced in huge volumes, processing it in a variety of ways, which are partly impossible even in our time.
South Stone, Baalbek.
But the most important thing is that huge megaliths could be moved in some unknown way. Hundreds or thousands of tons could be lifted along steep slopes, from a gorge, on a rocky surface, high altitudes, etc., but it is difficult to answer how they did it.
That on the first, that on this channel, many "concrete workers" have already written to me and I hope this will be enough to seriously think about the absence of the possibility of the existence of some "fabulous" technology of concrete and casting, supposedly absolutely everything, up to huge pyramids …
