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nally tried to move the stones uphill using crudely manufactured wheels. But their efforts were in vain. This

was just one of the experiments carried out in order to establish how the bluestones might have been trans-
ported as far as where Stonehenge lies now. Many others have been performed, and investigators have at-
tempted to understand what method of transportation the people of the time might have used. Yet none of

these attempts came anywhere near achieving success, because they were all carried out under the misap-
prehension that the people who built Stonehenge had a backward culture and used only crude implements
made of stone and wood.
Another point that needs emphasis is that the experiments in question benefited from present-day tech-
nology. They used various models produced in naval shipyards, employed ropes produced in high-tech fac-

tories, and made detailed plans and calculations. Yet even so, they obtained no positive results. However,
people living some 5,000 years ago transported these stones, weighing many tons each, and arranged them
in a circle by calculating their exact geographical positions. Clearly, they did not accomplish all this with

stone tools, rafts made of logs and cranks made of timber. Stonehenge and the many other megaliths were
built using some technology we are unable even to guess at today.

The Astonishing Remains in the City of Tiahuanaco

At about 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level, in the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Peru,

the city of Tiahuanaco is full of ruins that stun visitors. The region is regarded as one of the archaeological
marvels of South America, indeed, of the entire world.
One of the most astonishing remains in Tiahuanaco is a calendar that shows the equinoxes, the seasons,
and the position of the Moon at every hour and its motions. This calendar is one of the proofs that the people

living there possessed a highly advanced technology. Among the other astonishing remains in Tiahuanaco
are monuments made out of huge stone blocks, some of them weighing as much as 100 tons.

A Reader's Digest author wrote, "... the best engineers of today still ask themselves whether they could cut and
move huge masses of rock such as those used to build the city. The giant blocks look almost as though a die were
used to cut them..." 41
For example, the city walls were built by placing

blocks weighing 60 tons on top of other blocks of sand-
stone weighing some 100 tons. The stoneworking used to
build these walls required enormous expertise. Huge

square blocks were joined together with accurate
grooves. Holes 2.5 meters (8 feet) long have been opened
in blocks weighing 10 tons. In some parts of the ruins,
there are stone water conduits 1.8 meters (6 feet) long and

It is impossible for stones weighing
many tons each, used here in the
South American city of
Tiahuanaco, to be transported
without steel cables, winches, and
other construction equipment.

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