How a Roman pillar is built

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During the time of the Roman Empire, two thousand years ago, there was no sutch thing as cranes and bulldozers to help buid thier masive counstructions and to stand up all of their heavy pillars. Instead they used ropes and their own muscles to lift the rocks. So while touring around Ephesus, we were showed how the Romans made the large pillars which were used to make the old library and great walls. What they did was get a large chunck of rock, carve it out in a circle, then put three holes in the middle. You can see this in the picture. If you look closly, you should also see small trofs carved into the rock, starting from the primater of the large rock and leading into each of the small holes. Then they will place an iron barr in each hole. After doing that to the first rock, they get another one, carve three holes into the middle, then place it on top of the first stone so that the iron barrs in the first rock go into the holes into the second rock. Now that the rocks are placed on top of one another, a Roman will poor molten led into the trof which leads down to the three holes which contain the iron barrs. When the led drys up, it goes hard and fills in the gaps so the two rocks stacked on top of each other won't fall off. Now hwo could think of something as intelagent as that?