Imagine we wanted to make an exact copy of the pyramids in Egypt, the great pyramid specifically.
Never mind building them without machines. Do you think mankind, not just the current residents of Egypt, but do you think in this world there exists the technical know how and political will to even be able to do it?
Large stone blocks from natural stone is cuted out from rock using rope saw, not with jackhammers. It is self-aligning thing, so you get precise flat cut out of the box. Just modern ones use polymer ropes and modern abrasives. Oh, and electrical/diesel power instead of slaves.
What could be a problem with that? It is not a rocket science to find axis of Earth roatation at all.
Occupying a very small part of whole volume. IDK, did you ever saw a smoke-duct path inside a traditional Russian stove? That's the pinnacle of ancient topology of internal cavities, not that pyramid tunnels.
Easily. And it will be much better pyramid then Egyptian ones. The question is only in an idiot who will agree to finance building of such useless thing.
What the fuck with you, people? Yes, pyramids are cool monuments of ancient architects and builders. Nice. We will never find out exact methods used to build them. You could endlessly guess what exact fiber they use for ropes of rope saws or what configuration or levers and how many slaves exactly they needed to move stones. We could never find out. But what's the point of that, seriously? Do we urgently need to build a pyramid for some Soros or Rothshild mummy? Or is it have to be built using exact ancient tech now just because?
I don't see any use for pyramid itself and its building tech details unless you are an archeologist whose job to study that monument.
As for conspiracy part of pyramids "mystery". If there was some "advanced" "alien" "lost" technology used to build pyramids, then I have to make you sad.
No advanced technology exists by itself. There are always enormous amount of things in line to make that technology exist. Even if it is a magic wand, there should be whole industry to mass produce them. Not even talking about something not from fairy tales. But no any traces of tha found.
If you are looking for mystery in pyramids, then why you stuck on their properties, instead of searching and studying archeological artifacts with unimaginable purpose? Remnants of some unknown technology or something like. That should be the main direction of research, not that endless dancing around pyramids and posting already rotten shit about "how they did it"/"today it is impossible" round and round.
Bring here some obviously technological archeological artifact found somwhere in Egypt that is clearly out-of-time, too advaced for ancient Egypt and having unknown purpose. Well, even ancient Egyptian screw with cross head will be much more interesting than this endless "they build them, now we can't do the same". Not even talking about some more interesting and puzzling things that could really be a part of that "lost advanced ancient techology". That would be cool and interesting, not yet another standard post with standard phrases and deceit about regular things.
It is really doesn't fit in my head, how someone could wonder about pyramids technology, but have no any real intent to look for that techology.
Or I got all that wrong and real goal is just to sow a narrative "ancient Egyptians had a technology we don't have"? Then it is even more weird. What is the real purpose of pushing such narrative?
No, I don't think the ancient Egyptians used special secret tech.
I'm not an construction engineer, I don't care about the details of the construction, such as how we cut the rock. Maybe we use rock saws and polish them which wire brushes. I don't care, just using the most efficient modern methods. Why quibble about the how?
Purpose? The purpose to them was to magnify the greatness of their civilization, as embodied in their god-king the pharaoh. That's reason enough for them. Also, it kept the peasants busy outside growing season and they got some money for the work.
What narrative? I'm not pushing any secret narrative. I'm asking a question.
Kind of "ancient Egyptians had a technology we don't have". It is in every post about pyramids, directly or by implication.
Like answer is not obvious. There is no any technical problems to build a pyramid twice larger than greatest one with much better quality, precision and complexity of inner design.
But who will pay for it and for what purpose? Why it could be necessary to build a pyramid?
It's like asking if we could build Great Wall. Of course we could. But who need it?
We don't build pyramids not because we can't or don't know some secret know-how, but because they are completely useless.
The pyramids were built for the glory of that civilization. People are just a tiny fraction of themselves like honey-bees, who work for the collective. It's why fascism has an innate appeal. A pyramid was one way they could express that glory.
There are other ways in which a modern civilization can do a mammoth accomplishment for the glory of their civilization. Such things include building the tallest building in the world, or landing on the moon, or a massive art project like Mount Rushmore.
What my question is getting at, is not the secret alien tech aspect, which I don't believe, but whether it's possible man could relearn these skills without sufficient motivation. And if man could have these skills atrophy in one area, why not a second? That's where I'm developing the argument. Your somewhat on the right track then.
More like for the glory of pharaons. They have no any purpose useful for civilisation. Say, another megalitic project - Suez canal, at least useful for delivering huge amount of goods from one hemisphere to another. Pyramids, in the best case, is just an archeological curiosity and attraction for tourists.
What could be a motivation to build a copy of pyramid?
Once, one millionare built a giant fiberglass pyramids with all that precise "golden" ratios and even that "direction to the North star" not far from Moscow. You know that energies and all that esoteric stuff. Dude spent millions of dollars. Guess what. They was nothing more than attraction for idlers. Some was disassembled, largest one crushed onto neighbouring ostrich farm during one of hurricanes. Enthusiasm about all that "positive energy" from "golden ratio geometry" dried fast, and not much was spent on further maintenance. Look for it - "Alexander Golod pyramides".
That was some motivated millionare. To build a copy of Great pyramid you will need billion of dollars at minimum. So you need a billion dollar motivation. What could it be?
Nothing except creating a tomb for some elite bastard who obsessed with pharaons glory coming to my mind.