Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Why weren't they carried in a harness? Probably
> for the simple reason that there wasn't a single
> material on the planet that had the tensile
> strength necessary to perform the task. Or another
> simple experiment. Try rigging up a harness to
> carry your car to the grocery store to pick up
> some lard vs. pushing it.

(Yes, but the car - whether or not its engine is working - has wheels ... )

The Altar Stone (Stone 80) weighs about 6 tons.

The heaviest of the granite blocks at the Great Pyramid weigh somewhere between 50-80 tons. The granite for the pyramid was obtained from Aswan, about 550 miles to the south, and was transported to Giza by boat. The limestone casing-stones from the Tura quarries apparently weigh somewhere between 15-20 tons, and, again, were transported to Giza by boat, and then presumably on to the construction site by wooden sledges. (One might at first think that a wooden sledge would simply have collapsed under the weight: but there are various references in the archaeological record to such sledges.)

As we know, according to this latest paper, [www.sciencedirect.com], it's proposed that the Altar Stone might have come from the area of Abergavenny, about 120 miles by land from Stonehenge. With no convenient water-course nearby to provide a means of transport, attention might now once again fall more heavily on the precise means used. Sledges are suggested here - [books.google.co.uk]

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