slumpystones wrote:
His [very quiet] mate stood by for short whispered chats, both of them lost in the whole idea of creating a monument with nothing but bare hands and brute strength.
Surely the original builders were using much more than bare hands and brute strength! All the monumental stone constructions from the ancients have been a puzzle to modern builders, but clearly way back then they knew about levers, inclined planes, wheels, greased tracks, etc. In other words, they were using their brains too, to build mechanisms and strategies for accomplishing what we have a hard time imaging doing without our giant machines today.
