Tag: ancient construction

Construction Equipment

The Original Ice Road Truckers: 15th-century Chinese workers used frozen paths to move 100-ton stones

Get the History channel on the phone because we’ve got a great idea for their next reality series. A new engineering study delves into the mammoth task Chinese workers in the 15th Century faced in building the Forbidden City and the findings shed light on a brilliant tactic. The city was built with massive stones, […]

November 18, 2013