Ancient Mystery Moves

The mystery of how ancient civilizations moved enormous stones without the use of mechanized power, metal, or wheels has puzzled the scientific community for centuries.

ANCIENT MYSTERY MOVES sets out to unearth the secrets behind some of the most famous and impressive feats of primitive load-shifting. Travel to the isolated Easter Island in Polynesia, where towering 80-ton statues, some transported more than 10 miles from their quarry, stand as magnificent testaments to the determination and resourcefulness of a long-lost culture. And at Baalbek, Lebanon’s temple to the Roman god Jupiter, discover one of the most famous trilithons-a group of three monoliths believed to weigh an astonishing 750 tons each.

How did they do it? HISTORYTM explores the answer to this, and many other questions, in this exciting look at some of the most magnificent achievements of the pre-industrialized world.