Have you ever read about the Coral Castle? One guy did a lot of things that have baffled modern engineers:
Coral Castle
Edit: I wonder if they used water as a counter weight ... or something like that ... combined with leverage. Then they could add/remove the water gradually. I guess in the desert sand might make more sense.
Edit: Hmmm... I was reading more about it... pretty cool stuff:
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What is most remarkable about the contents of the Coral Castle is the massive size of the stones used throughout the construction. Even more so when you consider the assembly was performed by one man with crude tools. With few exceptions, the objects are made from single pieces of stone. The stones on average weigh more than the stones found in the Pyramids of Egypt. The largest stone weighs 30 tons, which is over three times the size of the heaviest stone found in the Great Pyramid of Giza.[9] Leedskalnin may have well been aware of this as the fact that the 30 ton stone is capped by a stone that closely resembles the gabled roof of the King's Chamber in the Pyramid of Khufu.[10] Two of the stones are monolithic and stand twenty-five foot high above the ground which make them taller than any stone found in Stonehenge.[11][12][13]
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Coral Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia