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Today: Freemasons still carry out rituals at ancient quarries and local shamans revere them as sacred places. No one know how they would have moved it in to place. Sacred Valley, Peru: On an opposing mountaintop to the Peruvian fortress of Ollantaytambo, gigantic, perfectly cut megalithic blocks line a forgotten path from the quarry to the bottom of the mountain, across a river.īaalbek, Lebanon : The largest monolith in the world, weighing in at a staggering 1242 tons, still sits in the nearby quarry at Baalbek. Stonehenge, England: 140 miles west of Britain’s premier stone circle, on a remote rocky hilltop in Wales, reside the remnants of the bluestones that are said to have magical healing powers and were transported by Merlin to Stonehenge. They transported it through jungles, swamps, and mountains, and is still revered today by shamans Mexico: Hidden within the Tuxtla mountains on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, a secret quarry was mined to create the huge basalt heads of the Olmec. Unfinished and sleeping, it waits for the gods to return to erect the 270 ton Moai in to place. Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Still reclining in the rock quarry alongside the edge of a volcano on Easter Island, is the largest Moai on the island. Cut out of granite, and estimated to weigh 1168 tons, it never got removed from the quarry that the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt were built with.
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In the famous granite quarries lies the largest Obelisk ever recorded.
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Karahan Tepe, Turkey: At the sister site to Gobekli Tepe, a famous 18 ft unfinished T-shaped pillar, that is over 10,500 years old still resides in the quarry.Īswan, Egypt. Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: Lying half-a-mile across a tough limestone plateau from the main sacred mound, is a 22ft-long t-shaped monolith that, like many other examples around the world, never got finished or moved to the main temple site.