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Each statue weighing 1,000 tons, and belonging to a Dynastic ’bronze’ age generation who did not use tools made of metal, how on earth did they make these megaliths? Better, how did they transport them from 400 miles away when many of them were one solid piece?
The Colossi of Memnon
The material that was used to make these statues is quartzite, which is very hard; and the stone came from Cairo, 400 miles away. They are estimated at weighing 1000 tons each. What is most intriguing is that, although some are made of multiple pieces, others are made of solid pieces of stone on an enormous base.
If it was brought from over 400 miles away, and it is quartzite, which has the hardness of granite..how did they move it from that great a distance and how did they carve it? The Dynastic Egyptians were a bronze age culture. They did not have steele, iron, or diamond equipment.
Wouldn’t something of this proportion require super-human strength, height, skill, and technology in order to successfully construct? I tend to think so. Why is the answer to one of the biggest mysteries so hard to accept?