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This is so frustrating, they were renovating not building. Anyone who can remotely work with numbers and has seen a building made with rocks should be able to

by JAVAL2022 5y ago

This is so frustrating, they were renovating not building. Anyone who can remotely work with numbers and has seen a building made with rocks should be able to calculate how much time IN THEORY the Great Pyramid needed from foundation to pinnacle. Let's say it's not that number (supposedly 30 years since that's how long that kheope guy reigned), remember you are actually a common person not an archeologist that needs slaves for 24/7/365 every day and night with every weather or invasion just to match the timelines. Then you need to add another large support staff to farm, care and replenish the first group. Then you ask yourself, how it is possible to raise blocks at dozen of meters? How you can use Pi without knowing it, or earth dimensions, or the true north and maintain right angles and orientation for hundred of meters? Just how do you make the base perfectly straight without opticals? And then you seem to notice that there are wonderful internals: how do you project them to fit before the externals? what about the black stones? How is it possible to cut (carving Mohs scale of 7 is impossible with iron, which they did not have), transport from the nearest hundred miles caves, raise about a hundred meters and assemble 70 tons blocks of granite so precisely than not even a sheet of paper can fit into the contact points? And only after that, falling in the rabbit hole, you have to admit there was a previous advanced civilization.

rednerrus 5y ago
Isn't it some sort of cement and the blocks were cast in place?
- kingcharles 5y ago
  That's the theory that makes the most sense. I think some of the blocks have lines that show where they seemingly ran out of cement that day and came back and finished it later.
xenadu02 5y ago
As noted elsewhere the Pyramids were not built by slaves, they were built by the best craftsmen in the kingdom. Second thing to note is the Great Pyramids didn't spring up from nowhere. The Egyptians spent hundreds of years building bigger and bigger Pyramids, refining the techniques. Long enough they were able to look at the older ones to see how they weathered as well as having written records of the many mistakes along the way.

rednerrus 5y ago

Isn't it some sort of cement and the blocks were cast in place?

kingcharles 5y ago
That's the theory that makes the most sense. I think some of the blocks have lines that show where they seemingly ran out of cement that day and came back and finished it later.

xenadu02 5y ago

As noted elsewhere the Pyramids were not built by slaves, they were built by the best craftsmen in the kingdom. Second thing to note is the Great Pyramids didn't spring up from nowhere. The Egyptians spent hundreds of years building bigger and bigger Pyramids, refining the techniques. Long enough they were able to look at the older ones to see how they weathered as well as having written records of the many mistakes along the way.