tiompan wrote: That's the point ,it's not what you would do , or anyone else , modern or otherwise , it's what was done . It's not an exercise in common sense building , it's a portal tomb .
Well of course, if you assume that belief and tradition rather than efficiency and practicality were the things driving the form of construction then there is little to be learned from looking at how the thing is put together. As you say it just "is".
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