- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Posted by: ObbiQuiet
We have some pretty god damn good guesses about how obelisks, pyramids, and other gigantic ancient structures were built. It doesn't take a more powerful machine to construct ramps and pulleys, you know.
Yeah, I was watching a special on that a few years back. A group of scientists were trying to raise blocks, using only what they had back then. It was difficult mainly because 1) they might have been under-staffed and 2) scientists don't have the physical abilities of, lets say, a slave that's been working for his entire life.
But they basically had a few ideas of how it would be possible.
The wind power idea?? That's the closest we can figure. But we still aren't sure -- and that still wouldn't help in Greece -- We simply have no idea -
Just what are you trying to say, anyway? If they were more intelligent back then, despite the amount of proof we have that humans use the full capacity of their brains, why would we have not found any advanced technological tools? Why would we have lost it all? Anything can be with numbers and simple machines.