The Mystery Behind the Ancient Stone City

[Farmer77]

This is definitely on my top 5 list of dream vacation spots!

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cities/news-ancient-stone-city-nan-madol?image=0

Ancient technology, magic, giants what a great story!

[freetoroam]

Awesome.

But the question archaeologists have yet to answer is, “How in the world were these walls constructed so high, given how heavy the basalt logs were?” In fact, each basalt log can weigh as much as 50 tons.

Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cities/news-ancient-stone-city-nan-madol?image=2#Zb1uykFS0P3owyvp.99

Those who built the Pyramids did it, maybe they used a similar technique.

[+OverSword]

Magic giants. Gotte be magic giants.

No. I'm being serious. Definetly magic giants.

[PersonFromPorlock]

Awesome.

But the question archaeologists have yet to answer is, “How in the world were these walls constructed so high, given how heavy the basalt logs were?” In fact, each basalt log can weigh as much as 50 tons.

Read more at http://www.environme...ykFS0P3owyvp.99

Those who built the Pyramids did it, maybe they used a similar technique.

I dunno about that "50 tons" figure. My rough estimate is that 50 tons of basalt at 188 pounds per cubic foot would be a cube of basalt about eight feet on a side. The same volume in a 'log' would make for a really long log.