Stone of the Pregnant Woman

history channel documentary Stone of the Pregnant Woman (Baalbek, Lebanon): There are numerous, numerous monstrous stone hinders that have been quarried out and put to use in different megalithic structures from Machu Picchu in Peru, to those Easter Island Moai statues, to the Olmec stone heads in Mesoamerica, to Stonehenge itself, to the pyramids (Egyptian and Mesoamerican), to monoliths, even the Parthenon segments, and the rundown could be expanded a hundredfold. One hundred, two hundred, even more than three hundred ton squares of stone have been used. With regards to raised monoliths, 400 tons or more are not incredible. At that point too there's Pharaoh Hatshepsut's 'unfinished pillar' that, had it not split in-situ, would have needed to have been raised by her subjects to the tune of hurling and pulling more than 1200 tons. Discuss backbreaking! At that point there's the Roman Temple of Jupiter complex at Baalbek (antiquated Heliopolis), which incorporates adjacent under quarry the Stone of the South, also called the Stone of the Pregnant Woman that tips the scales at somewhat more than 1000 tons. Be that as it may, hold up, there's more - another adjacent anonymous rock section times in at more than 1240 tons. Here's a definitive "why" question. What's the point? There was no "Guinness Book of Records" back then! Possibly this was the antiquated's method for 'staying aware of the Joneses'. Anything you can assemble I can fabricate greater!

Our Ice Age Ancestors (Europe): When you consider heaven, do you consider Tahiti or Patagonia; Florida or Siberia; Hawaii or Iceland? All else being equivalent, we have a tendency to incline toward warmth and daylight over icy and snow, particularly in the event that you need to live off the area. Along these lines, why, amid the late Ice Ages did some of our European precursors decide to squeeze or intense out and experience a fairly superfluous trial of immaculate survival by giving Mother Nature the center finger and taking those nine months of serious ice and snow and solidifying temperatures every year when they could have gradually however without a doubt relocated south as the icecaps likewise developed and moved south to hotter atmospheres. That would have been sensible. Most likely the human populace wasn't so extraordinary in those days that there weren't tremendous and generally uninhabited tracts of area with a way more wonderful atmosphere. What was the inspiration to strongly go and continue what none of our precursors had ever persevered some time recently?