<HTML>Hi y'all.....
I was flipping through my copy of <a href="[
www.amazon.com] Mysteries</a> (which btw is an awesome book) and found some interesting information.
"The truth is that the sheer sweat of massed labor is the basic answer to the mystery of how the ancient world's great monumnets were built. In the sixteenth century the Spanish <i>conquistador</i> Pedro de Cieza de Leon recorded the numbers of Inca workers employed to build the fortress of Sacayhuman, still under construction when the Spanish arrived:
"Four thousand of them quarried and cut the stones; six thousand hauled them with great cables of leather and hemp; the others dug the ditch and laid the foundation, while still others cut the poles and beams for the timbers."
Other Spanish sources at the time say that the Inca emperor employed four master masons and thirty thousand laborers to carry out his building projects."
The truly great wonder to me is the skill of the organization!
Kat</HTML>
