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How many ancient megalithic building sites used a form of iron or metal "staples" to hold large stones togethe
I've seen this method used in Angkor Wat, Tiahuanaco, Egyptian Pyramids, etc.. and I wonder how all these different cultures came up with the same methods. Pure chance? Or an ancient method that somehow was spread around the world.
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks-cambodia.htm
About halfway down the page are pictures of these "staples"
Perhaps megalithic was not the correct term....I understood it to mean any large stone structure. The metal staples used in the Pyramids were inside the structure...no need or reason to fabricate them at a later date and in some cases not possible...one was observed in an airshaft that had to have been installled concurrent with construction. I'm still searching for a photo source at Tiahuanaco and other sites although I have seen documentaries on TV that show them.
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- Irv SLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Mike is right.
The key is in the third caption "restored".
BTW The Egyptians and Incas didn't have iron,
so any you saw in a pyramid was added later.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
What a stupid site - first of all these are not ancient megalithic sites - compared to megaliths these are quite modern.
Megaliths are large standing stones. They are generally held together by the weight of the stones and "pegs" of the same material in holes in other stones. Iron is notorious for rusting (and expanding as it does so.) A more likely metal would be bronze. But using staples is obvious in building with clay and stone (bricks use wood and straw as strengthening and metal is just an extension of that) so it does not require any "ancient method that somehow spread"
And certainly carving images that look like dinosaurs doesn't mean the carvers saw them alive - they could have seen the same fossils we can see!
Second, the staples used in the buildings on the site could certainly have been made anytime after the iron age started a couple of thousand years ago. Note that the construction date of these things is AFTER Rome fell (800 AD) and nobody who imagines people and dinosaurs coexisted in 4004 BC claims that they did so after Christ was born.
