DailyDirt: Egyptian Pyramid Construction Techniques
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Construction techniques have changed a lot over the last thousand years. The example of the Great Pyramids, though, shows that projects with enormous scale can be accomplished without the help of modern machinery. We may never know exactly how the pyramids were built, but it's fun to try to re-create some of the methods they used. Here are just a few examples of possible construction techniques for moving extremely heavy building materials in the desert.- The Egyptian secret for moving huge 2.5-ton stones might be to "just add water" to the sand on the ground to reduce the forces necessary to drag them across the desert. This secret is actually apparent in artwork depicting people pouring water on the sand around other people hauling a huge statue. [url]
- A Caltech aeronautics professor has demonstrated that a kite could have been used to help move heavy objects like a 6,900-pound obelisk in the desert. This technique could have been used by ancient civilizations with technology available thousands of years ago. [url]
- Construction of an Egyption pyramid could be less mysterious than it seems when people have shown that a 2-ton stone could be moved by about 12-20 men on wood tracks. A mini-pyramid was built with only manpower and ancient tools, but the outcome wasn't quite as polished as the actual Egyptian pyramids. [url]
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Or the blocks could have been cement
The book Roman Concrete has ways modern concrete works could be made durable.
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Standard to Metric conversion problem
More like ~4.5m
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Manual Techniques
See the following link for a guy who knows how to move 10 ton blocks by hand by himself.
http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/
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This is another method
The video shows erection of 128 cubic-foot foot, 9.5 ton concrete block that looks to be about 20 feet long.
Man Moves Huge Blocks! (Youtube)
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Look to me more like some type of oil applied shown in original ancient picture. As water percolates too quickly, it would requre bigger vessels. Here we have just one guy using one container while dozens pull. There are also just few guys with additional hand held vessels. Not much to make desert sand moist for the path of blocks.
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:D
Sorry.
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Modern engineers have visited the ancient Egyptian pyramids and took detailed measurement the structures. The gaps between the stones on these stone structures are to within one-hundredth of an inch tolerance.
That's pretty hard to do with a pick axe and a chisel. Not to mention that everyone working on that pyramid must have been a master craftsman.
Most people laugh at the idea of aliens. Looking at all the pyramid structures around the world, especially Puma Punku in South America with it's laser precision cuts and drilled holes through stone, it leaves me to wonder.
I simply don't understand why ancient man would decide to spend their free time transporting stones that weigh up to 1,000 tons, and dragging them hundreds of miles across the desert. With that much weight, wooden logs would snap like toothpicks if they attempted to roll stones on top of them.
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just $80 worth
http://www.glu7.com/
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erm... coral castle anyone?
Look up coral castle, also, annuki and ancient technology. Everything is sound/energy including us. Carbon and hydrogen around energy/conciiousness/you!
There's energy everywhere but we just been turned into brainless, ignorant sheep by a few who want control and power (see Vatican/Israel). Why is it so hard for people to stop and think! Its all you need do and this western world of bullshit falls to pieces
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If they had heavy lift kites...
Which could explain the similarities between Egyptian, South American and even Chinese pyramids as well.
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Anyone ever heared of Elephants?
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