18 years to carve from top-down. Impossible to accomplish with today's technologies. How was it done in the past?
>>19010681
Very carefully.
how the fuck is that in any way impossible ?
just give me a hammer and a chisel and enough time and motivation and id carve it myself
>>19010681
And I raise you Lalibela. Legend has it that angels used to show up at night and help out etc..
>>19010681
You forget about Petra.
Built with the same care in a even most difficult place to do it.
>>19010706
This. Lol
I bet a bunch of Mexicans with power tools could do it in 6 months
>>19010681
OP, your either badly misinformed or completely retarded. It's not rock cut architecture. It's stone built architecture cut out of granite (foundations) and sandstone (superstructure).
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>How was it done in the past
hammers and chisels, retard.
>>19010709
According to Wikipedia one of the rock hewn churches is believed to be the largest monolithic church in the world.
>>19010706
To accomplish it, they would have to had carve out 5 tons of rock per hour for 18 years non-stop. Again, something that cannot be achieved today.
Carving stone giants in a remote pacific island was also an herculean task, that seem to have a hidden angle to it.
>>19010745
>large chunk of rock, want to subtract out into structure
>begin by designing subtraction in slices
>designate largest subtractable areas
>bore holes, splash with boiling vinegar
>exposed rock turns to mush
>designate second largest subtractable area
>lather, rinse, repeat on smaller scale
>after large chunks of material have been removed the stonecarvers can get strait to work
Is at least hypothetically possible.
>>19010681
>The Revelation Of The Pyramids (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fS9ixfQ_no
>>19010681
magic
>>19010844
what kind?
White, Black or Mulatto?
>>19010681
A guy just finished carving a an art studio into limestone over the last 25 years as a personal sanctuary by himself. You dont think coordinated slave labor could do an entire city?
https://youtu.be/oxcftjJ39BU sauce
>>19010706
OP said it's impossible because all capable humans have left the region.
>>19010857
bindi
>>19010681
It's perfectly possible. You just have a hard time accepting a bunch of brown people from 1500 years were perfectly capable of creating something without the help of space aliens.
>>19011654
no, OP said it's impossible because he's racist and myopic from spending his life in some crappy suburb in a place like Tucson.
>>19010681
Slave labor!
>>19010681
>Impossible to accomplish with today's technologies.
You incredible fucking retard.