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Stonehenge Secrets? MIT’s 25-Ton Boulders Can Be Moved By Hand

Enormous monolithic structures weighing as much as 25 tons are tilted, rotated and wiggled across a room by a single person in a new experiment by researchers at MIT, giving us a look into how ...

Ancient Engineering Fail: 12 Historic Structural Disasters

You can't exactly fault ancient architects for building structures that were unable to withstand stone-shattering earthquakes, or simply experimental in nature - failure is part of the learning ...

7 Man-Made Architectural Wonders of the Ancient World

The Colosseum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Great Wall of China and Machu Picchu are world-famous ancient architectural wonders, but they're hardly the only man-made structures worthy of ...

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