Best Ancient Construction Quotes

"Ancient megastructures were truly mindboggling in scale, thousands of years before modern trucks, cranes, or diggers."

"The Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon, contains the three largest stone blocks ever used in a man-made structure."

"The most finest and built wall in the Americas is in fact this one, which is found in Cusco."

"The world's oldest bridge bottlenecked the 100-foot waterway down to just 12 feet wide and served as a path to the city's sacred district where religious pilgrims traveled for festivals."

"It's truly mind-boggling how such enormous blocks of stone can be so randomly shaped yet so perfectly put together."

"Imagine having to transport these large slabs of rocks in ancient times with no cranes, forklifts, or any type of Advanced Machinery."

"The Great Pyramid came first, perhaps it was renovated and reworked, but it truly is a structure unrivaled in the ancient world."

"Pyramids were for the Egyptians," archaeologist Rufino Mauricio says. "We don't know how they brought the columns here and we don't know how they lifted them up to build the walls."

"Not only are many of these ancient unexplainable structures built with the utilization of seemingly impossibly huge megalithic blocks but they also display masonry techniques and refined stone carving."

"In summary, the core of my hypothesis is as follows: I don't believe the builders of the Great Pyramid would load up the entrance vault with lateral forces and then leave empty space where those forces would cause maximum stress by accident."

"Shock concluded that the oldest portions of the Great Sphinx known as The Core Body must date back to an earlier period at least 5000 BCE."

"Ancient humans were far greater at constructing than modern humans could have ever imagined."

"The Great Pyramid is a true masterpiece, built of such precision that our current technology cannot replicate it."

"They went to extreme effort to make this a tightly fit Precision megalithic wall."

"The grand Gallery is probably the most enigmatic feature of the Great Pyramid."

"The Great Pyramid was a type of Time Capsule that protected and concealed an advanced yet original theology."

"That is the exact right height in order to support the one above it. It's kind of amazing to touch these stones and think that they were laid by someone who once called this place home almost a thousand years ago."

"Scientists have no idea how stones of this size were transported to the site and then manipulated into place because the stone isn't local."

"Enormous random shaped Stones were apparently effortlessly stacked neatly together or one on top of another forming the amazing walls we see today."

"Ancient Builders were far more advanced and innovative in their construction techniques than we often give them credit for."

"120 feet of bronze, wrapped around an iron and stone skeleton, the Colossus was so large, it was said its fingers were the size of a man."

"The Great Pyramid of Giza was once encased in White Limestone, making it appear polished and shining brightly."

"Experts now believe that Gobekli Tepe, the world's oldest known temple, was the handiwork of hunter-gatherers."

"Humans built it, and we're literally looking at a monument from Atlantis."

"Given the limited technology of the time, it's astonishing that ancient Builders were able to sculpt this Monumental work."

"Built temples with stones that fit together like perfect puzzle pieces."

"Revolutionary conclusion: the ancient Egyptian pyramids are significantly older than experts realize."

"There is not a single image, drawing, artifact, or inventory list to tell of its construction by any ancient civilization."

"Either the people of the past were absolutely genius, or these buildings were not built by our people at all."

"We can logically presume that the royal kurgan not only shares the same constructor but also likely shares the same tremendous antiquity."

"The road bound about 16 feet below the water's surface consists of meticulously placed Stone plates forming a pathway roughly 13 feet wide."

"The mystery is that the chamber isn't small, and the passage is long. Thus, the builders required a huge amount of effort and time to construct. But in the end, the chamber wasn't finished. What could have gotten in the way, and what was the chamber for?"

"The granite stones, some weighing between 25 to 80 tons, were brought in from Aswan, a journey spanning over 560 miles to the south."

"Winchester Cathedral, as we see it today, dates at its oldest from 1079 A.D. and it was remodeled and expanded over the course of five centuries."

"The majority of the pyramid-building workforce would have been farmers, only available during the three-month flood season."

"The pyramids of Egypt, built by the kamite, are one of the most recognizable and enigmatic structures of the ancient world."

"Offa's Dyke is a spectacular ancient earthwork that splits the nations of England and Wales."

"It was man-made over 2300 years, enduring more than nine dynasties, and to this day, it stands, reminding us of the power of ancient leaders and the power of people just like us."

"Conservative estimates have placed its creation some one hundred thousand years ago."

"This place dates back to 3,200 BC, which is literally 1,000 years before the pyramids."

"The Sphinx was built around the same time as the Great Pyramid."

"Poverty Point was built above the flood plane on a natural 50-foot embankment above a tributary of the Mississippi River."

"It's now time for Egypt to start taking the big void seriously; the void is not a noise echo nor a masonry gap, it's a critical feature of humanity's greatest ancient construction."

"The pyramids were built on what was called in those days religious knowledge."

"The depths of the caves devoid of natural light raise questions about how ancient Builders worked in Pitch Black conditions."

"For decades, Alexandria was the largest construction site of the ancient Mediterranean."

"How did the ancient Egyptians manage to build the gigantic tombs without using modern technologies?"

"The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest construction in the world for approximately 3,500 years."

"Approximately 2.3 million blocks of stone averaging about two and a half tons each had to be cut, transported, and assembled to build Khufu's great pyramid."