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If we assume 40 years (350400) to build the pyramids they had to quarry, deliver and setup 6.5 blocks every hour of every day. Seems doable, especially in a co
by 6d6b73 8y ago
If we assume 40 years (350400) to build the pyramids they had to quarry, deliver and setup 6.5 blocks every hour of every day.
Seems doable, especially in a country with population probably below 1mln at that time. /s
- gameswithgo 8y agodistance to quarry would only affect stone latency, not stone throughput, anyway :D
- sbov 8y agoNot really true. In networking throughput vs latency rely on two different things. When it comes to moving huge stone blocks they rely on the same limited resource (humans).
- cryptonector 8y agoThey would have used boats on the Nile to carry stones long ways. They probably only did that for the finish blocks (the polished limestone most of which is gone).
- tcgv 8y agoOnly if we assume a large enough transportation labor force ;)
- irrational 8y agoNot every day. Studies have shown that the pyramids were built by ordinary people (as opposed to slaves) who mainly worked on it during the parts of the year when they couldn't work in their fields.
- acqq 8y agoI guess you've never seen: the quarries for the most of the stone blocks were effectively immediately by the pyramids: https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/image/map-Karte/pyramid-quarries.gif https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/image/map-Karte/pyramid-quarr...