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
During geosynthesis kaolinite clay (naturally included in the Giza limestone) first reacts with caustic soda (see chemical formula 2). To manufacture this caustic soda, one uses Egyptian natron (sodium carbonate) and lime (coming from plant ashes) (see chemical formula 1). The so obtained caustic soda, NaOH, will react with clay.
The book Roman Concrete has ways modern concrete works could be made durable.
Standard to Metric conversion problem
15′ <> 3.0m
More like ~4.5m
I like how they created level ground for the base.
Manual Techniques
There are many techniques that have passed into history with the advent of more modern and efficient methods. But these capabilities are maintains by some individuals, not unlike those who will only use hand tools in wood or metal work.
See the following link for a guy who knows how to move 10 ton blocks by hand by himself.
http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/
This is another method
Wally Wallington moves blocks up to 20 tons by himself. He can move a one-ton block 300 feet in an hour, by himself.
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)
Has anybody tested in real life adding water technique?
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.
“from the urls-we-dig-up dept”
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Sorry.
After watching the TV series Ancient Aliens, I’m convinced humans had extraterrestrial help building all the pyramids located at almost every corner of this planet. They even found ancient pyramids in China, that the Chinese tried to bury in dirt and then they planted trees on top of them.
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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After watching the series Finding Bigfoot, I am convinced that such creatures exist even thought they never found anything. Chupacabra is also real, I saw it on TV.
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I think we’re more wrong than right about what we think we know about the Pyramids. I find the “water” discovery interesting but largely unimportant.
erm... coral castle anyone?
People, do you know we were a lot clever back in the day and you all need stop listening to HIS-STOREY!
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
If they had heavy lift kites...
Then they had enough knowledge of aerodynamics to make manned gliders too.
Which could explain the similarities between Egyptian, South American and even Chinese pyramids as well.
Anyone ever heared of Elephants?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/raising/perspective.html Pharaohs like Thomoses III created a zoo in the Karnak temple, so the whole “are not common, thus not logical” argument of NOVA doesn’t make sense. Imagine, you are a pharaoh and want the job done BEFORE you die. Wouldn’t you just get 100 Elephants and fix the job before noon?