MEGALITHIC STONES at YANGSHAN QUARRY - CHINA

[ArMaP]

the 1200 ton pregnant lady stone is Jerusalem

Isn't that one in Baalbek, Lebanon?

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Lol... You having fun with this?  Looking up a bunch of quarried rocks in 5 minutes, bound to screw up.

All we all finished fact checking now?

[Hanslune]

Then they missed that one? And you did better than AI.

Thanks for the correction! 

Okay...  so the largest successfully moved one weighed 1000 tons and is the Ramses II one. The largest unfinished one is apparantly the 1200 ton pregnant lady stone is Jerusalem, and the heaviest one abandoned in Egypt is the 1000 ton pink Obelisk left at Aswan.

The ones in Yangshan are much larger but were never finished and never moved. There is another unfinished obelisk of the one in Egypt in the same area but it was abandoned before much work was done. In masonry nothing is impossible for the non-mason who orders it done! The big limitation is the rope technology - IF you can get enough rope, that is strong enough, and enough man power you can move the rock  - the problem is the ropes themselves as they add so  much weight you reach a mathematical impossibility. Example: A 100-meter hemp rope (Ancient Egyptians primarily made rope by twisting plant fibers, relying on materials like papyrus, date palm fibers, and flax.) rope that is 6 inches in diameter weighs approximately 1,320 kg (or about 2,910 lbs). In the end to move a 1,000 ton stone you'd need 3,000 to 6,000++ men who  then have to have ropes and you can see how the weight goes up due to those ropes so as you add men and that causes you to need more ropes etc. Harte is the mathematician he can do the figures, but it spirals out of control. I once used 128 men with much thinner ropes to move a 2½ ton truck, whose wheels had seized up about fifty meters to clear it off a road – it wasn’t easy, using oil on the road surface helped a great deal