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[LRRPF52]

The ancient engineering books that showed how some builders moved heavy loads was really interesting.

I saw one recently where they attached large wheels around the ends of the heavy stone, like Obelisks or columns, then just turned the load into an axle and rolled it to the installation site, then used pulleys to erect them and drop into their foundation holes or footers.

The stone-cutting methods the Egyptians used was pretty cool, with frames set up over the cut area, cutting tool positions, then a large weight was rammed down on it repeatedly using ropes and mechanical advantages.

 

[Im2bent]

The ancient engineering books that showed how some builders moved heavy loads was really interesting.

I saw one recently where they attached large wheels around the ends of the heavy stone, like Obelisks or columns, then just turned the load into an axle and rolled it to the installation site, then used pulleys to erect them and drop into their foundation holes or footers.

The stone-cutting methods the Egyptians used was pretty cool, with frames set up over the cut area, cutting tool positions, then a large weight was rammed down on it repeatedly using ropes and mechanical advantages.

Except this would take a million years to complete a pyramid. Think of how many stones are involved and how they were placed. The thing has chambers and corridors. I.e. suspended stones it was not a solid block of stones stacked on stones. Aliens.

 

[LRRPF52]

Except this would take a million years to complete a pyramid. Think of how many stones are involved and how they were placed. The thing has chambers and corridors. I.e. suspended stones it was not a solid block of stones stacked on stones. Aliens.

For the Pyramids at Giza at least, there is a very persuasive study by a German Egyptologist if I recall, who found evidence of the Dows Dunham model. Basically use the pyramid itself at small inclines to continue to stack the stones, rather than the silly huge ramp ideas people posited for many decades.

If they could move much larger obelisks, moving the smaller blocks in comparison was well within their capacity, given the technology they had at the time.

There are pyramids all over the world, most of which we’re just barely discovering. Seems more like there was an ancient global pyramid-building civilization.

 

[Im2bent]

For the Pyramids at Giza at least, there is a very persuasive study by a German Egyptologist if I recall, who found evidence of the Dows Dunham model. Basically use the pyramid itself at small inclines to continue to stack the stones, rather than the silly huge ramp ideas people posited for many decades.

If they could move much larger obelisks, moving the smaller blocks in comparison was well within their capacity, given the technology they had at the time.

There are pyramids all over the world, most of which we’re just barely discovering. Seems more like there was an ancient global pyramid-building civilization.

Or a bunch of space aliens. What's more likely vastly separated civilizations came up with the same model independently.....or?