How do you think the pyramids were built?

[europe1]

Was this work really done by some 'slaves' who were unwilling and forced to do hard labor?

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[PubliusVentidius]

Water shaft, brah.

 

[andnowweknow]

If at any point some says something relevant I'll bless this thread...until then.

 

[moreorless87]

A big issue is that when the Nile valley flooded each year you'd have had months were most of the population were unable to work, hence ancient Egypt had massive potential labour.

 

[Clippy]

There's a post credit scene on Xmen Days of Future past that explains it

 

[ralphc1]

A large number of people piled up rocks over many years.

 

[JAEGERX]

they were built by very smart and talented engineers, architects and craftmen of all sorts.

slaves dont build masterpieces.

 

[Amerikuracana]

With the blocks that make them up and man-power.. Any other answer and your father did not read enough to you as a child.

 

[Kframe]

Just look at that precision. They are aligned almost perfectly. Was this work really done by some 'slaves' who were unwilling and forced to do hard labor? Or, is it possible we are missing a time period from human history, perhaps an unknown civilization that has not been discovered yet (not Aliens, but rather a relative close to homo-sapiens).

Each stone you see here weighs between 2.5 -15 tonnes (5500 - 33000 lbs)! Isn't that crazy? How were humans back then able to lift and move such heavy structures?

An interesting fact is that the pyramids were aligned to 'true' north very precisely, with an accuracy that is within one-tenth of a degree. How was that accomplished in the age of sticks and stones?

Also, as you can see here, the structures actually contain 8 sides, which is only really noticed when looking from above:

Wasn't there already a topic on this recently?

 

[andnowweknow]

A large number of people piled up rocks over many years.

And more accurately aligned to North South than the modern Paris Observatory or the Greenwich Observatory, buildings that need exact alignment out of necessity of purpose...the mundane nature of it all is a bore.

 

[j123]

Pre-USADA

 

[Satsui Ryu]

Jews... Aliens... Possibly Jewish aliens.

 

[Kframe]

Jews... Aliens... Possibly Jewish aliens.

Surprised it took this long for the anti Semitic bigotry to rear its head in this thread.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

sound waves

 

[Soul Crusher]

A Mutant.

 

[FacePunch]

From the bottom up.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

I believe they were built with labor workers along with slaves. The stones were moved with water and sleds and were cut with wedges and tools.

People have a really hard time grasping time and thinking of things with a modern view. It's estimate that it took 30+ years to build the Great Pyramid. Think about that. 30 YEARS.

You also have to realize that this wasn't like just building some office building downtown. This was ordered by the pharaoh and if it doesn't get made, he doesn't go to the afterlife. Egyptians spent a good amount of time preparing for the afterlife journey and if they don't, they are stuck in purgatory potentially forever. It's just not that they just had to build this monument, they HAD to build it and everyone understood that. They took pride in it as evident by the worker's graffiti found deep inside the tomb.

Also, you can look at earlier pyramid designs in the area and see how it took them several times to get the design right. There's the pyramid that collapsed and was abandoned, then the bent pyramid where it couldn't quite get it straight and then so on.

The pyramids was simply an engineering feat and just because it would be difficult to do now doesn't mean that it couldn't have been done in the past.

 

[Loiosh]

Man.

There is a video online with an old man moving huge slabs of blocks with basic tools and lifts. If he could do it, so can our past ancestors.

There are things our ancestors did we can't recreate.

It's extraordinarily difficult to make a functioning catapult with any reasonable degree of accuracy.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

People also keep mentioning slaves. While I'm sure there were slaves involved, there were also workers and volunteers. Through excavation, they have found the graves of the pyramid builders along with "kitchens" nearby. The workers were fed beer, bread and fish. They were well fed and it was a job for some, a duty for others and some, a way to get fed.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Surprised it took this long for the anti Semitic bigotry to rear its head in this thread.

Wtf? How is that antisemstic? Many people believe the pyramids were built by Jews who were enslaved and forced to build them. And many idiots think aliens built them.