`The walls would have required moving 200,000 tons of stone, a task too big for the 500 or so people who lived there.`
I wonder. I made my living running a moving company, so I`m as qualified as anyone to judge.
It`s fairly possible for one man to move ten tons of stuff in a day. Obviously, there are variables, but that figure`s somewhere around the right order of magnitude.
Okay -- so 500 men can move 5000 tons a day. This becomes -- in theory -- a forty day project.
Not inconceivable. At any rate, I wouldn`t dismiss it out of hand. It certainly hasn`t been PROVEN that they must have had outside help. |
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