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@sisfreak2017 | 8 August 19 | |
@deusexmachina | 8 August 19 | |
@ shadow27 - 8.08.19 - 01:46am Basalt logs that make up the walls of Nan Madol can weigh as much 50 tonnes. Archaelogists can't explain exactly how it was constructed. There were no pulleys, levers or metal used in the construction. Let alone the sheer manpower needed to shift those weights.. I thought the biggest were only 25 tonnes. I would also be very surprised if pulleys hadn't been used. I mean, it was the 12th century. They had been used for thousands of years. |
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@shadow27 | 8 August 19 | |
This was in Micronesia, just north of Papua New Guinea. I assume they were fairly isolated from the rest of civilization there. The only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef, Nan Madol is a marvel of ancient engineering so complex, no one can figure out how it was conceived and built starting in the 8th or 9th century CE. Nan Madol is located off the island of Pohnpei in the present-day Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean, and consists of nearly 100 small artificial islands bordered by tidal canals. |
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@shadow27 | 8 August 19 | |
The people who built it - the Saudeleur - ruled these islands for more than a millennium, yet there is nothing left of them but legend and the crumbling black basalt ruins. No art, no carvings, no writing. They were known to be deeply religious, tyrannical and cruel, and the remains of their civilization are often viewed with fear and superstition by modern-day Pohnpeians.
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@shadow27 | 8 August 19 | |
The Nahnmwarki people, who overthrew the last Saudeleur leader and killed the islands inhabitants, found themselves unable to withstand the difficult lifestyle of living at Nan Madol, which required food and fresh water to be brought over from the main island.
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@shadow27 | 8 August 19 | |
The ruins have been abandoned for hundreds of years. Often called the Venice of the Pacific, Nan Madol's canals and islands were constructed starting in the 8th century, but its most iconic megalithic architecture came later, in the 12th and 13th centuries. Historians and archaeologists dont know how the giant stones were transported and lifted into place; most Pohnpeians still believe the lore that credits magical flying abilities for the citys construction. Another folktale tells of giants large and strong enough to move the rocks.
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@mok214 | 8 August 19 | |
Well, I imagine they lifted the stones the same way Native Americans and the builders of the henges did.
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@deusexmachina | 8 August 19 | |
@ shadow27 - 8.08.19 - 03:14pm This was in Micronesia, just north of Papua New Guinea. I assume they were fairly isolated from the rest of civilization there. The only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef, Nan Madol is a marvel of ancient engineering so complex, no one can figure out how it was conceived and built starting in the 8th or 9th century CE. Nan Madol is located off the island of Pohnpei in the present-day Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean, and consists of nearly 100 small artificial islands bordered by tidal canals. 12th century. |
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@deusexmachina | 8 August 19 | |
@ mok214 - 8.08.19 - 03:22pm Well, I imagine they lifted the stones the same way Native Americans and the builders of the henges did. Lever scaffolding. |
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@shadow27 | 8 August 19 | |
All they know is that the basalt was transported (somehow, no details about that either) to the site from an extinct volcano. They also used coral and crushed it up to use as a building material.
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