I thought they already knew they built them out of big rocks
Yeah from the bottom up, because top down looks much more difficult
You knever know with those clever buggers!
Hmm yes perhaps with a system of springs and pulleys, one could contrive otherwise
Getting the stones to the construction site is one thing.
Stacking them up in a pyramd shape, though, is a way bigger problem that still generates debates - and loads of crazy and stupid ideas, too.
Yeah, top down you’d have to juggle many pieces at once ;)
But now we know those big rocks can float. I imagine they threw the rocks in the water, attached an outboard and just putt-putted along until they got to the pyramid.
Lots of fun infographics/data at the studies link, contained in the article.
So they think they have solved one small side aspect of the whole puzzle.
Not exactly what the title promised.
I love how people act like its sooo easy to float 2 ton blocks on a tiny fucking raft
. Sure they did… now lets see if we can replicate itSpoil alert: slavery. The river was the transport, but slaves did nearly everything else.
Nah seems to have been seasonal citizen workers. Ancient Egyptians didn’t have money, but they seem to have been ‘paid’ in food, grain, accommodation etc.
Yep, slaves has been debunked for years. Also they needed healthy well fed workers to make such a big construction. In the Fall of Civilizations podcast the host mentions graffiti that suggests healthy competition amongst employees.
Don’t forget beer. They were paid with lots of beer.
It is my understanding that beer was basically food in this time period
Born too early to explore the galaxy, born too late for beer to be my primary food source.
Nope. At least not that way. Latest I’ve read is that the pharao taxed quite heavily, so people had to earn their own food back by working on public projects. Not really voluntary, but not slavery, either.
Today I learned.
