In a recent announcement untold numbers of people are probably face-palming when it comes to how ancient peoples could have transported some megalithic stones.

From an article on LiveScience.Com

China’s Forbidden City Built with Giant ‘Sliding Stones’
By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor, November 04, 2013

The Forbidden City, the palace once home to the emperors of China, was built by workers sliding giant stones for miles on slippery paths of wet ice, researchers have found.

Many of the largest building blocks of the Forbidden City came from a quarry about 43 miles (70 kilometers) away from the site. People in China had been using the spoked wheel since about 1500 B. C., so it was commonly thought that such colossal stones would’ve been transported on wheels,

However, Jiang Li, an engineer at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, translated a 500-year-old document, which revealed that an especially large stone — measuring 31 feet (9.5 meters) long and weighing about 135 tons (123 metric tons) — was slid over ice to the Forbidden City on a sledge hauled by a team of men over 28 days in the winter of 1557. This finding supported previously discovered clues suggesting that sleds helped to build the imperial palace.

The ancient document Li translated revealed that workers dug wells every 1,600 feet (500 meters) or so to get water to pour on the ice to lubricate it. This made the ice even more slippery and, therefore, easier upon which to slide rocks.

Of course this doesn’t do the Egyptians a whole lot of good, but when it comes to structures further north, well it does make some people’s lives easier if they think of it. It’s not like it takes much more technology than the bucket.

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