Beautiful walls in excellent condition, the turrets look later as the blocks dont interconnect. I really appreciate the builders skills and thanks for sharing once again.
My thoughts as well in that the turrets might have been added later. As a stonemason putting in the effort to set, shape each stone to one another you wouldn´t create a `weak` corner in the process. But what do I know. Have tools been found at the site?
@@henningerflats it's always good to see a stonemason comment and take intrest in ancient builders techniques, we might actually get somewhere as to know how they did this work. Never seen any evidence for tools found, just tooling marks.
4:22 polygonal walls are earthquake proof, common walls with rectangular same size stones with continuous horizontal connections will dislocate during a severe earthquake and will collapse with such earth quakes is the very simple answer why polygonal stones walls are the best Also the reason why in Rome many building have collapsed the romans have built with non polygonal walls in an earthquake prone area
Wastage ! Cutting all stones to a regular cuboid shape results in much wasted time, effort and stone. I think that adapting stones to the existing shapes would have been much simpler and thriftier. Do you know the source of the stones? If quarried as "tufa" they would have been relatively soft and easy to shape when taken out of the ground, and hardening over time. Perhaps they were trying for regular shapes, but utilised the odd shapes resulting from something going wrong during quarrying, (I visited ancient tufa quarries in France, Spain, Italy and Malta as part of my archaeological and geological interests)
Polygonal walls, which are found all over the planet even on Easter Island, are earthquake resistant which is partly why they did it. The other things I think of is defense or retaining walls. They could be limestone. I'm interested to know what kind of stone too.
@@CitizenSmith50 they sure built big, they must have have crains 3-5 thousand years ago. Why didn't the Romans copy the style and technology? Maybe because the techniques are far older and lost knowledge.
This is so wonderful and Enlightening!❤
Always mesmerized by the Poly fitment of these walls!
Thank you both!
Thankyou for another great video.
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Beautiful walls in excellent condition, the turrets look later as the blocks dont interconnect. I really appreciate the builders skills and thanks for sharing once again.
My thoughts as well in that the turrets might have been added later.
As a stonemason putting in the effort to set, shape each stone to one another you wouldn´t create a `weak` corner in the process.
But what do I know.
Have tools been found at the site?
@@henningerflats it's always good to see a stonemason comment and take intrest in ancient builders techniques, we might actually get somewhere as to know how they did this work. Never seen any evidence for tools found, just tooling marks.
Great video, keep it up.
Wow, never seen this before. Great find!
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Could you go inside the site? What was the purpose of this buildings? Fortress? Thank you, incredible find of these polygonal structures.
Very heavy weathering and crude repair work.
Definitely something that was built by giants, no human has to do anything with these impossible structures whatsoever.
4:22 polygonal walls are earthquake proof, common walls with rectangular same size stones with continuous horizontal connections will dislocate during a severe earthquake and will collapse with such earth quakes is the very simple answer why polygonal stones walls are the best
Also the reason why in Rome many building have collapsed the romans have built with non polygonal walls in an earthquake prone area
It seems strange that the junction, the corner stones are not interlocking, overlapping.
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Wastage ! Cutting all stones to a regular cuboid shape results in much wasted time, effort and stone. I think that adapting stones to the existing shapes would have been much simpler and thriftier. Do you know the source of the stones? If quarried as "tufa" they would have been relatively soft and easy to shape when taken out of the ground, and hardening over time. Perhaps they were trying for regular shapes, but utilised the odd shapes resulting from something going wrong during quarrying, (I visited ancient tufa quarries in France, Spain, Italy and Malta as part of my archaeological and geological interests)
Polygonal walls, which are found all over the planet even on Easter Island, are earthquake resistant which is partly why they did it. The other things I think of is defense or retaining walls. They could be limestone. I'm interested to know what kind of stone too.
@@CitizenSmith50 they sure built big, they must have have crains 3-5 thousand years ago. Why didn't the Romans copy the style and technology? Maybe because the techniques are far older and lost knowledge.