Egypt vs Baalbek: Ancient Engineering Feats Compared - Joe Rogan Experience

Discover the mystery of Baalbek's Trilithon stones, each 15 times heavier than the largest in Egypt's Great Pyramid. Jimmy Corsetti and Dan Richards discuss how ancient civilizations moved and lifted these massive blocks, defying Roman-era technology. Explore one of history's greatest architectural enigmas!

[KS-]

“Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world” - Archimedes

[paulroberts]

people forget for 5000yrs 7 days a week they worked stone, they had schools for supreme stone masons, pulleys, winches.

[davideastwood]

As someone above said. They had enough of a labour force to build a low gradient earthen ramp and could easily have dragged the stones up then removed the ramp later. Why think they would be so stupid as to lift them up. The amazing achievement was cutting the stones and coordinating all that labour.

[danieltrujillo]

Lifting those giant granite blocks in the pyramids is nutz but to think about lifting 900 tons 20 feet off the ground🤯🤯🤯

[KS-]

Jordan Peterson once said: “if something seems out of reach, you’re not setting your goals low enough”

[ronemod]

Why would they lift the stones. Surely if they can drag them from quarry to site they can also build some sort of ramp and drag the stones in place

[lilkillars]

It’s not that hard to imagine if you spend a few years digging a canal and creating a float system flood the construction area inside the pyramid and float stones in. I wonder how smart modern scientist are when Einstein proposed relativity with minimal information

[SarcasmDetector]

the big Baalbek stones where "dragged' DOWNHILL from their quarry.

[lisasligh]

Add water and float it and the weight..depending on density it could potentially float...isnt there a water system inside the Pyramid of Giza? I say they used water or they used a magnetized lever system..🤔 or vibration and frequency basically energy to move them

[anonymous.anonymity.]

Wally Wallington demonstrates how one man can move a 20 tonne block with simple leverage.

[tampabaychameleons]

I feel like they mastered vibration frequencies, and figured out what the vibration frequency for levitation 🤓🧐

[Zerberus]

After rambling for decades " HOW DID EGYPTIANS DO MUHHH ALIENS" Schizos now found a bigger target.

[jamesmurray]

Not quite sure why everyone is so obsessed with weight. With a large enough lever you can lift anything

[AxiomTheory]

And there's me on a forklift everyday twitching my finger to lift 2 tonnes and zip it about at 15kmph

[romierome-ewgb]

they had to roll it gradually uphill into place or something, possibly using pulleys i really dont know, im saying this because they didn't have steel wire image how thick the ropes would have to be to lift it, who knows im probably wrong but i just dont see how they could lift it.

[josh]

The aliens used the UFO to move the stone

[VashStampede-clwp]

Levers
Using the stones themselves as counter balances for eachother
I believe a philosopher once lifted a boat using levers

[TheAgentx]

I want Archimedes to possess a modern conspiracy theorist and just rationally explain in detail how leverage works.

[MacClariggs]

they harnessed physics in a different way

[kmtb]

Who’s to say they didn’t make a giant dirt ramp up to where they needed it and just dragged into place?