The sculpture you see in the photo weighs about 50 tons. By comparison, its weight is equivalent to that of about four Eurofighter fighters armed and ready for combat. The statue has been transported at least 150 km from the quarry where the basaltic rock it came from. It was made at least between 3,000 and 4,000 years. But there’s no set date for these giant heads. They can also be a lot older.
These heads, of which there are currently 17, were found in the tropical region of Mexico. They belong to the oldest known Mesoamerican civilization: the Olmecs. Archaeologists still cannot explain how it is possible to move such heavy objects over such a long distance in the middle of the jungle, and therefore without roads or paths. According to the current reconstitution of history of the American continent, these peoples should not know iron nor the wheel. But how did they get out of the quarry the huge rocks used to build the statues?
How did they even work them? And more importantly, how did they transport them?…As archaeological discoveries progress, it’s becoming more and more evident that people of the distant past managed to move blocks of enormous weight. In Central America, the Olmecs moved giants weighing 50 tons. In the Pacific Ocean, in the submerged city of Nan Madol, you can find blocks of 50 tons high about ten meters above sea level (!! ). In Egypt, you can find granite blocks weighing up to 80 tons, raised to a height of 60 meters. Not forgetting the “monstrous” 1,650 ton monoliths from the Baalbek stone quarry….Obviously, there is still something we don’t know about our past.
