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How much does the stone of the pregnant woman weigh?

The Stone of the Pregnant Woman weighs approximately 1,000 metric tonnes — roughly 2.2 million pounds — making it one of the largest single stones ever quarried in human history. A 1996 geodetic team from the Austrian city of Linz conducted precise topographical measurements and confirmed this figure, corroborating earlier estimates by French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Adam. Its sheer mass poses questions that conventional Roman engineering explanations struggle to fully answer.

Evidence

  • The block is cut from Cretaceous limestone and measures 20.31–20.76 metres in length, 4–5.29 metres in width, and 4.21–4.32 metres in height.
  • The stone sits in a quarry roughly 900 metres from the Heliopolis temple complex, never having been moved to its intended destination.
  • A third monolith, the so-called 'Forgotten Stone,' was discovered in the same quarry in 2014 by the German Archaeological Institute and is estimated at approximately 1,650 tonnes, now considered the largest known quarried stone on Earth.
  • Randall Carlson has contextualised these megaliths within a broader argument for a lost high-technology civilisation, suggesting the Baalbek platform predates the Roman temple built atop it by thousands of years — a position echoed by independent researcher Matthew LaCroix.
  • At a limestone density of 2.6–2.8 g/cm³, the computed mass falls between 960 and 1,005 metric tonnes, with some estimates ranging as high as 1,200 tonnes depending on measurement methodology.

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