Groaning stones

The walls of these cracks were covered with thin leaves of mica. At night the air is cooled and, in rock cracks, he kept his heat. Warm air rising up. He blew mica leaves and they began to sound. This sound was like a human groan. About four thousand years ago, the Egyptian pharaoh Amenkotep III ordered to carve out two blocks in honor of his father Ammon, two huge statues. Nearly two thousand years, they stood motionless and silent. But once there was an earthquake. One of the articles split into two parts and since then the "conspiracy". They said that every morning as soon as the sun's rays began to warm up the statue, she began to publish a lingering and plaintive cries. People thought she was complaining to God and the sun on his unhappy fate. A Roman Arry carved on the pedestal of this statue are the words "" Great gods, what a remarkable miracle I saw with my own eyes, this is a god, is one of the gods, who moved into the statue, lets you hear your voice and draws her crowd. Truly, mortal man never fails to produce such a miracle. "But there were other opinions on this kind of strange phenomena. The famous ancient geographer Strabo, who visited Egypt, made the following entry:" They say that the statue every day is a special sound is heard, which is similar the sound produced by a weak blow: he comes from that half of the statue, which remains on a pedestal. ... I did hear about the first hour of a noise. ... Maybe they have made so much noise, even on purpose? "Nothing that I say no I can: not knowing the real reason to imagine anything better than to suggest that the rocks may sound. "Previously, such" miracles "can create only the case or nature. Now people know how to create such wonders. In Alma-Ata, a monument to the composer and Korkuru poet who lived in the VIII-IX centuries. the appearance of the monument reminds stringed instrument resembling a violin. It mounted a special pipe which the wind begins to sound melodic sounds. These tubes operate on the principle of a shepherd's flute. in certain areas of each tube are made round holes. In the wind they make whistling a different tone, which depends on humidity and wind power.