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The Roman world is littered with thousands of huge monolithic granite columns. Where do they come from?

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[ansfridaeyowulfsdottir]

_"And to think! We couldn't even build that today with diamond-tipped tools!!"_ 🤪 😵 🤭

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[MartinScharfe]

You talk about granite industries. Probably we would understand Kemet and Rome much better, if we would see them as industrial societies.

[Bedonkabonk]

If you tell me it's granite, I'm going to verify. Just because you say it's so, I'm not going to take it for granite.

[qwertyuiopst]

The Romans were - for a pre-industrial revolution society - master engineers, knowing that surely one would take the Roman granite industry for granted....

[barbiedesoto]

Did they affix the columns or is it just held down by its weight and balanced by how it’s engineered?

[AlbertaGeek]

Are we _sure_ aliens didn't help the Romans quarry and shape granite?

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[silverQ]

Please make a video about the details of gobekli tepe sites.

[mattbarton]

Shout out to my giant ancient monolith. Haha. I’ve had a few beers. Night

[itsnot_stupid_ifitworks]

The difference between the methods used by Roman and Egyptian stone work is minor. A wooden handle with Stone, Bronze or Iron fastened to the end to make a Pick... same technique. btw Attention Atlantian fan club....all those picks/adze and chistles made of early Roman iron are lower on the Mohs scale than granite.

[GarGhuul]

So would those columns have been left bare or painted?

[intractablemaskvpmGy]

Granite is the best! Looks the best! Lasts for millennia! I'm young but already purchased my monument and it is placed where I will be buried. Blood Red granite from Afghanistan on a jet black granite base. I sleep more easily now that my final spot is prepared. I kinda feel like Pharaoh. I know my tombstone will still be shiny and polished 10, 000 years from now. Perhaps I will be dug up and my grave goods examined. They may conclude I was a very important man...

[kaloarepo]

The tomb of the Gothic king Theodoric the Great in Ravenna, Italy is surmounted by a huge granite (I think) monolithic dome - it was built in late antiquity showing that the Romans still had high level of engineering know how even then -and of course the wonders of Constantinople in the so called Christian Byzantine era proving that civilization didn't decline under the Christians as alleged by some!

[davepowell]

Cut marks in pillar quarries on remnant stumps were not explained by the method described. Thanks though

[jacobparry]

He says at one point that the Greeks weren't 'comfortable' using granite. Do we know why this is?
Was it a matter of Greeks considering it aesthetically unappealing? Or did they not deem it a practical building material?

[perceivedvelocity]

The Internet theories make me laugh. I don't know why our ancestors would need the help of aliens. These ancient buildings were beautiful but they were just made of stone. Why would an advanced alien culture build in stone?

[lefThumbs]

Wow! No content warning?🤔 have you no consideration for viewers who may be agoraphobic?😂

[pollywanda]

Perge --- pronounced-- Per gay ??? That's what I was taught.

[Nx.]

Oh, so it wasn't the aliens👽then?