Alex:
> Does anyone in These Islands (or with PBS/Discovery elsewhere?) recall
> a documentary on the erection of egyptian monoliths? (Secrets of
> Lost Empires, I think it was.) I think that diorite was what they
> reckoned they made masonary hammers out of, but I may have _entirely_
> the wrong rock here.
I'm not from your islands, but I happen to know that
diorite is the rock they made a lot of statues from.
The masonry hammers were made of dolerite, which is
supposedly even harder.
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