| Season 1 - Before The Egyptians North Africa - Show #2  Explorers
have often been puzzled by the diminishing size of cut stone that has been
found in cities built atop of each other over the years. In the
earliest times, masons cut remarkably gigantic blocks.
The city of Lixus in Morocco, North Africa, is generally regarded as Carthaginian, but at the ruins there are at least three levels of construction representing totally different cultures. The top (latest) layer is Roman, and beneath it Carthaginian, yet below that is a style representing a yet unknown civilization. Like the pre-Incan masonry in Peru, this bottom style incorporates huge massive stones and the peculiar precise (earthquake proof) polygonal style similar to Sacsahuaman, where one great stone remaining in the outer wall is 8.5 metres high and estimated to weigh over 360 tons. |