A world tour of pyramids.
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To play devil's advocate, what happens when you simply pile sand? It forms a conical structure, similar to a pyramid.
Maybe this is just a simple structure to build with stone
Oh, that it is. Usually the impressive part is the sheer scale of the construction, along with certain other details that are different for each pyramid. Not that any of it was beyond the technological means of the people back then, but in terms of organization, it implied a level of leadership and resource management not often seen in history. For lack of a better word, it really took god-kings to build those things.
2 million 5-10 ton blocks make up the great P.
divide that by how many days are in 25yrs.
youre telln my lumbering ass, some brown assholes (wait a minute) laid enough sandstone, to build it in 25 years?
quary was something like 75 miles a day.
2 MILLION.
apologies, my noggin literally told myself to fuck off.
Well, I did say the sheer scale tends to be the odd feature. In this case, it could have been:
A) built on top of a pre-existing ziggurat-type building - possible, since this happened early in the dynastic era, where Upper Egypt had yet to achieve complete dominance over Lower Egypt, and the pharaoh would have an interest in replacing local religious sites with ones devoted to his own religion. After all, that's what happened to the Sphinx, replacing its original sacred animal head with that of a pharaoh.
B) built using faster transportation means than we give them credit for. Namely, reed boats - reed has insane flotation capabilities, is readily available along the Nile, and would leave no lasting trace after use. Moreover, both reed and limestone get slippery when wet, so a flat causeway (of which there is on-site evidence) kept watered (of which the Egyptians were masters) would provide the perfect path for sliding the blocks to the building sites, boats and all. Now, it would still take a near-constant stream of stone to match that timeline, but then again, the pharaohs were exactly the kind of people capable of organizing logistics like that.
C) built using a combination of the above. Again, the pharaohs had every reason to claim they built the pyramids alone, within their own reign, and it would be easy for them to destroy any records saying otherwise. The actual distinguishing features of the pyramids as such are the cover and capstones - and those can easily fit the given timeframe by themselves.