2019

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How they did it: a Greek temple’s ruins suggest lifting machines were used 150 years earlier than previously thought

As modern Greeks undertake to reconstruct the Parthenon, largely using stone material from the site’s ruins, a question naturally arises: How did ancient Greeks construct massive temples and other buildings β€” lifting and placing one heavy block at a time, and up multiple rows in a wall β€” without modern advanced machinery?…

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