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Classic: The Baalbek Trilithon

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What Happened to the Trilophon?

Once the stones were on logs, a lot of man power and some clever block and pullyc systems got them out of the quarry. As for getting them 30 feet up, upton thinks they were pushed probby very slowly along ramps. If you made a very, very locker ramp, the ankle bean to push ttak upwar much. The longer it is, the longer the angle. So simple, so brilliant. And yet, after the builders got the trilophon up there, they stopped using such enormous stones and went back to relatively smaller stones. What happened? Ah, it perhaps was too difficult. But i would guess that whatever laboru you save ot sto t

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