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Ancient Construction Techniques Hello friends, You all might have seen many ancient construction wonders like  Pyramids of Egypt, Forbidden City of China, Great Wall of China, Angkor wat etc... But have you ever thought of how such massive blocks of stones are moved or lifted to the construction site? Yeah, in the today's post we are going to discuss some such interesting techniques used by our ancient engineers.let us head to the topic. Forbidden City   As a matter of fact, the construction work of Forbidden City took 14 years to get completed.Some of the stones used for this construction weighs hundreds of tons which were quarried from the nearby quarry which is 70km away. So the question we are getting is how did they move them to construction site from the quarry? For this, the engineers of those times devised many plans. One of the down to earth technique is ice lubrication .During winters they use to lubricate the ice roads with ...