does anyone remember a tv series called unexplained mysteries? while it was interesting in all that it explored there was one episode that has always seemed truly a mystery. it involved a rectangular stone on a andean mountainside ledge.this stone ,40ft. wide 20ft. tall 120ft. long. now this stone was claimed to have been cut out of a mountainside 60 miles away with nothing between its origin and its present location except for mountainous terrain. i remember the show saying how if this stone was on the plains in the usa, all of modern technology could not move it let alone over 60 miles of mountainous terrain. i`ve always wondered about it but have never found anything about it.the episode showed the stone{damned big}and where it supposedly came from. if it is real it would truly be a mystery not easily explained. i would like to know more but?

is this the stone u were on about?

Morning, as the sun rises from behind towering peaks, we also rise and set forth into the village. Up into the splendor that is and can only be Ollantaytambo, stepping up and up to the hilltop, breathless wonders to be seen. Massive pink granite building blocks weighing 120 tons, unmovable with today's best engineering cranes, stand erect and mute, having been brought from ten miles away across the chasm of the Urubamba River. Remains, only remains of a once vast structure that towered into the sky. Set upon solid rock, a platform of stone that is even still called the Landing Place of the Gods, testament to the flying craft that the gods of eons gone by flew about the world. Carven faces of mountain walls exhibit geometries unfathomable to our eye, yet the experience of resonant power remains potent. Sitting in the crevices carved, laying upon the platforms cut into the sides of the mountain, visions come, visions of what once had been done here, and what might still be.


dont know anything sorry...found this story tho
http://www.shamanic.net/articles/andesreminisce.htm

anyhoo, the baalbek monolith is the biggest known, weighing approx 1200 tons. no machine today could move it. and looks like they couldnt either...its still attached to bedrock. but other large stones at baalbek were moved over half mile uphill.
perhaps they had a 'technique'.

no, it was by itself on a mountain ledge in the andes and i don`t think there were any buidings or anything around if i remember correctly. oh and it was aliagned east & west and i think it was spotted from the air,also i think the episode{could be mistaken} had something to do with pole shift

Are you thinking of Unsolved Mysteries, hosted by Mr. Spock from Star Trek?
I remember THAT one, but Unexplained Mysteries doesn't ring a bell.

yes that`s the one, sorry its been 30 years or so since i saw it.

No, no, no.
Unsolved Mysteries was hosted by the animatronic corpse of Robert Stack in the late 80s and into the 90s on the NBC and LifeTime networks.

Leonard Nimoy did voice over work for the series "In Search Of..." from the late 70s and early 80s. It was last rerun on A&E several years ago.

And I think the place you're talking about is Tiahuanaco, Bolivia -- particularly, the Gate of the Sun:






--Jaylemurph

Unsolved mysteries was hosted by Robert Stack, Leonar Nimoy (Mr. Spock), was the host of In Search Of, which can stioll be found occasionally on A&E as well as Sci Fi here on the East coast of the US

Odd that you can't remember the specifics of the show, etc., yet you recall the size of the stone...?

As Lil' Gremlin said, the Roman site at Baalbek has the largest worked stone ever found.

For both of you, here's a short list of cranes capable of lifting the Baalbek stone completely off the ground and setting it pretty much anywhere and in any orientation you might want (something the Romans certainly did not attempt at Baalbek):
(My emphases to highlight capacities.)
From: The Mammoet Crane company, the Netherlands.
This is an excellent example of why one should look into these matters for oneself, rather than to take the word of some pseudoscientist that's trying to sell books. The claim that large worked stones all over the world couldn't be moved even by today's technology is a common, powerful and completely bogus attempt to legitimize the idea that some sort of ancient technology has been either lost to us or hidden from us by the ubiquitous "THEY" or "THEM."

Please note that the quoted capacities above came from a single search return at the first crane company I looked at, after using Google to find large capacity cranes.

Also, Lil' Gremlin, the Baalbek stones were not moved uphill. Rather, they were moved down a shallow slope. More info about this Roman structure (sometimes called the trilithion) HERE.



Jaylemurph,

I concur. The only problem is that given the dimensions that thirteen13 gave, the "stone" couldn't be made out of stone at all, it would in fact be far less dense than any type of stone:

Source.
At 120'X40'X20' (96,000 cubic feet, 165,888,000 cubic inches)and 45 tons (90,000 lb), it's density comes out to around .9375 lb/cubic foot or 0.00054253472 lb/cubic inch.

Given that the density of water is 62.4 lb/cubic foot, compare that to this humongous stone with a density of .9375 lb/cubic foot and we can all see that, if the Inca (or their predecessors) didn't float the thing up there via some mountain stream, then it's possible a gust of wind blew this stone to it's current perch in the Andes.

Harte

Harte --

I'm no engineer, and I have no stake in whether it's true or not, but it is floating around teh internets that the gate is carved from one stone. And teh internets is always right.


--Jaylemurph