Latest / Logosofia no Dia a Dia
Building Herod's Wall, One Course at a Time
The Western Wall is usually encountered as a place of prayer. This episode treats it as a construction site. Working from a listener's spec-sheet request, we walk through the material, the quarrying, the transport and the lifting of Herod the Great's 488-metre retaining wall — 19 metres of exposed height, 45 courses, blocks weighing hundreds of tonnes. The stone dictated the module: local meleke limestone with horizontal bedding planes eighteen inches to five feet thick meant the course heights were set by geology two hundred million years before anyone showed up. Quarry evidence from Har…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.