http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=686

I believe that date's based on the Mayan Calendar...

On 6/12/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Gel wrote:
> >> Umm...haven't they already shown how the Pyramids were built?
> >> I mean didn't they have an endless workforce?
> >>
> >
> >No.  For example, you can't get enough people under a 200 ton
> >limestone block to lift it into place over the Queen's gallery.  It's
> >not just the labor, btw.  It's the architecture, the site design, and
> >the workmanship.
>
> Why would you need to get enough people under it?  More than that why would 
> you WANT to get enough people under it?  We wouldn't try to manually lift 
> such a block today and it's almost a certainty that the ancients wouldn't 
> either.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> 

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