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The unifying features of these ancient and anonymous structures are the stark, undecorated austerity of the building style, and the use throughout of ponderous megaliths - many of which are estimated to weigh in the range of 200 tons apiece. There are no small blocks here at all: every single piece of stone is enormous - the least of them weighing more than 50 tons - and it is difficult to understand how such monsters could have been lifted and manouvered into place by the ancient Egyptians.
Indeed, even today, contractors using the latest construction technology would face formidable challenges if they were commissioned to produce exact replicas of the Sphinx Temple and the Valley Temple.
The problems are manifold but stem mainly from the extremely large size of blocks - which can be envisaged in terms of their dimensions and weight as a series of diesel locomotive engines stacked one on top of the other. Such loads simply cannot be hoisted by the typical tower and hydraulic cranes that we are familiar with from building sites in our cities.
These cranes, which are pieces of advanced technology, can generally 'pick' a maximum load of 20 tons at what is called 'minimum span' - i.e. at the closest distance to the tower along the 'boom' or 'arm' of the crane.
The longer the span the smaller the load and at 'maximum span' the limit is around 5 tons.
Loads exceeding 50 tons require special cranes. Furthermore, thee are few cranes in the world today that would be capable of picking 200-ton blocks of quarried limestone. Such cranes would normally have to be of the 'bridge' or 'gantry' type, often seen in factories and at major industial ports where they are used to move large pieces of equipment and machinery such as bulldozers, military tanks, or steel shipping containers.
Built with structural steel members and powered with massive electric motors, the majority of these cranes have a limit of under 100 tons. In short, a commision to put together a temple out of 200-ton blocks would be a most unusual and very taxing job, even for modern heavy-load and crane specialists.
in the united State there are presently only two land-based cranes of the 'counterweight and boom' type able to handle loads in the 200-ton range.
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As a man who knows and works with faces every day of his professional life, he was commisioned to make a detailed study of the points of similarity and difference between the Sphinx and the Khafre statue. Months later, after returning to his lab in New York where he undertook careful comparisons of hundreds of photographs of the two works, Domingo reported:
After reviewing my various drawings, scematics and measurements, my final conclusion with my initial reaction, i.e. that the two works represent two seperate individuals. The proportions in the frontal view, and especially the angles and facial protrusion in the lateral views convinced me that the Sphinx is not Khafre..."
So on the one hand we have a top forensic expert, Frank Domongi, telling us that the Sphinx's face does not represent Khafre's face. And on the other we have Mark Lehner, the Egyptologist computer buff, saying that only with Khafre's face does the Sphinx 'came alive'.
Amarican hallucinations! West is an amateur. There is absolutely no scientific base for any of this. We have older monuments in the same area.They deffinately weren't built by men form space of from atlantis. it's nonsense and we won't allow our monumnets to be expoloited for personal enrichment. The sphinx is the soul of Egypt.
It was at this crusial moment, while the members of the team were putting together the first independent geological profile of the sphinx, that Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Antiques Organization's Director-General of the Giza Pyramids, fell upon them, suddenly and unexpectedly, like the proverbial ton of bricks.
The team has obtained their permission from Dr. Igrahim Bakr, then the President of the Egyptian Antiques Orginazation. What they had not known, however, was that the relation between Bakr and Hawass were frosty. Neither had they reckoned with Hawass's energy and ego. Fuming that he had been bypassed by his superios, he accused the Americans of tampering with the monuments.
Originally posted by Zion Mainframe
ACTUALLY,
in the united State there are presently only two land-based cranes of the 'counterweight and boom' type able to handle loads in the 200-ton range.
Now for you wizards and geniuses out there. My question is, where did those funny Egyptians stash a crane that large?
Originally posted by Zion Mainframe
Now for you wizards and geniuses out there. My question is, where did those funny Egyptians stash a crane that large?
Who said they used cranes. The example Graham gave with the cranes is just for people to understand how difficult it must have been for the Egyptians 4000+ years ago...