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We think we are so clever, these days with our modern technology, our computers, our space ships and advanced cars and aeroplanes. But in our rush for progress, have we left something behind?

No Explanation
There are certain aspects of the ancient world that we can not explain. There is no reliable written record of how certain buildings were constructed, with monolithic blocks of stone. And even truly unbelievable megalithic blocks.

These blocks could be lifted today with modern cranes. But the planning and difficulty of the terrain would stretch some of the projects into decades. How can we begin to speculate about the method used thousands of years ago to move these blocks?

Reliving Chamber Blocks
The Great Egyptian Pyramid at Giza, contains granite blocks, which can be accurately estimated to weigh 70 tonnes. But they have been installed in the edifice at 200 feet above ground.

Puma Punku
Red sandstone blocks over 100 tonnes In Bolivia in South America, at an altitude of 13,000 feet.
Sacsayhuaman
Red sandstone block weighing 120 tonnes is in the base of a wall in Sacsayhuaman ( pronounced Sexy Woman ) near Cuzco in Peru.
These South American Blocks Have been Clearly Quarried, some distance away, and somehow transported across very steep mountains and valleys to their installation, which is incredibly accurate, with elegant jointing. An undertaking of this size, would be unthinkable today. It would require many millions of dollars of investment and many years of work.

Giza Temples
The Temples next to the Sphinx, at Giza, contain locally quarried limestone lintels weighing between 50 and 200 tonnes. These are installed at, or below ground level, but sometimes stacked on top of each other. This means that they can't have been just dragged.

Baalbek
In Baalbek, Lebanon, is an installation, which was allegedly already ancient and reused by the romans as the foundation for their Temple Of Jupiter. It contains three 800 tonne granite blocks, that are raised up 20 feet to the sixth course of the wall. These blocks were quarried locally, and are known as The Trilithon. They are supported on blocks that weigh 300 tonnes each, themselves.
The 800 tonne blocks are fitted very precisely and so accurately jointed, that it is almost impossible to insert a needle between them.

The Stone Of The South
Ten miles to the south east of Baalbek, is a quarry with an unfinished stone. This stone is still attached to the ground at one end. It appears to have been abandoned before completion.
It weighs 1000 tonnes.
 

Very little evidence remains as to how these incredible feats were achieved.
There is always the possibility, that thousands of men spent hundreds of years, hauling massive sledges about, and this is backed up by an ancient Egyptian diagram of just such an operation. But constructing a slope to haul a 70 tonne block up to 200 feet on a sledge, would be an undertaking almost as time consuming as the pyramid itself. And none of this explains how the 100 tonne blocks reached their mountain destination at the dizzying height of 13,000 feet in Bolivia, where the air is so thin, that tourists have an exhausting time, just walking about.
 

PART 2 New Research & Technology

An acoustic levitator includes a pair of opposed sound sources which have interfering sound waves producing acoustic energy wells in which an object can be levitated. The phase of one sound source may be changed relative to the other in order to move the object along an axis between the sound sources.

This was for a process known as "Containerless processing" where a sample of material is to be melted and solidified without contact using intense sound.  An experiment using this technique was flown on Shuttle flights sts7 and sts51a and successfully melted and solidified ceramic samples from about 1000 deg C to about 1500 deg C.
While NASA's budget cutbacks forced the end of that work, it continues to be done (now on earth) by the containerless research spin-off of Intersonics.
http://www.containerless.com/aal.htm

A demonstration of Containerless Processing can be seen in the movie "Mystery of the Sphinx" with Charlton Heston. This footage was actually shot in Tom's Lab.

Later Tom Danley was invited to measure the acoustic properties of the King's Chamber
He writes about it in the following magazine article.
Livesound.com
 

PART 3 LEVITATION Speculation and supposed witness accounts

The theory, as I understand it is as follows :-

The block to be lifted is placed on the ground. A loud volume of sound is produced, which is directed at the block. This sound is at or near to the resonant frequency of the block, and is greatly affected by the surroundings, and people present.
After a period of minutes, of this continuous sound, the molecules within the block become excited sufficiently, at the resonant frequency, that the mass of the block is affected such that the normal effects of gravity are not observed with respect to the block.

Then either :-
a) the block becomes light and can be pushed around with ease by one man's hand for a short period of time.
b) the block jumps a distance into the air and lands many yards in the distance
c) the block accelerates upward in a parabolic curve, such that it can be dumped high on a cliff

a) nothing ?
b) the coffer would levitate ?
c) the coffer would shatter ?
d) a secret room appears ?
e) Jesus appears for the second coming ?
f) the whole pyramid collapses to rubble ?
g) the capstone descends from the sky ?
h) the hall of records is revealed ?
i) the lost continent of Atlantis is revealed ?

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2. Linauer
Was an Austrian Film maker who claimed to have witnessed a similar demonstration. During the 1930s he was privileged to be present at a monastery in a remote part of northern Tibet. The monks showed him a very large gong type of instrument, made out of three different kinds of metals, and resembling a large target 3.5 metres in diameter. The centre was made from very soft gold, which you could easily mark with a fingernail. When struck, it made only a dull thud, which had no sustain at all.
The second instrument was also made from three metals. It was shaped like a mussel shell and was 2 metres by 1 metre wide. It had strings stretched over it and hung in a frame. The monks told him that it was neither touched or played by humans, but did sing out in sympathy with the drum of it's own accord.
When these two instruments were used in conjunction with two large screens, presumably for directing the sound waves, then large blocks of stone could be rendered weightless, enabling a monk to push it around with relative ease and lift it with just one hand.
The monks told him that this method was used by their ancestors to build huge protecting walls around Tibet, and that these and similar devices could be used to disintegrate and dissolve physical matter!

The Tibetan monasteries, and their Lamaism religion were destroyed, by the Chinese Cultural Revolution during the 1950s

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PART 4  MODERN EXAMPLES

John Ernst Worrel Keeley ( 1827 - 1898 )

Keeley spent 50 years of his life learning about how sound could be used to propel material, and affect the physical properties of objects. He invented many curious contraptions to demonstrate and further investigate this peculiar brand of science.

He demonstrated to numerous people his basis for a prototype engine.
He demonstrated to the American Navy, a vibratory cannon.
In 1887 he discovered how to disintegrate quartz and other types of hard rock
In 1888 he demonstrated a " rock disintegrator " in the catskill mountains of New York state, to 12 wealthy financiers of American gold mining operations, so successfully, that it caused a minor panic on the San Fransisco stock market.

The rock disintegrator demonstrations led to him being granted additional funding, but he insisted on studiously following his careful and steady progress on his own. This angered all his investors, that they threatened to withdraw his funding and put him in prison.
He refused to share any of his secrets until his work was complete, and this made matters worse for him. He eventually burned all his papers and destroyed his equipment, leaving him to live out his remaining years, poor and forgotten.

See More About Sympathetic Vibration Physics , related issues and the latest developments

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What is interesting about this and similar subjects, is that moving objects with sound is just about believable to the layman with modern technology and equipment.
But could it be possible to do it or something similar without electricity and modern technology?

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