Solved! How Ancient Egyptians Moved Massive Pyramid Stones

LiveScience ^ | May 01, 2014 | Denise Chow

[varmintman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQk_yBHre4

[Big Red Badger]

And nobody wants to be Shemp.

[5th MEB]

Hey! We all know that they used their alien space ships to move those rocks.

[BlueDragon]

cheaters! forming the blocks in place would be like, too easy.

[Irish Eyes]

Much ado about a pile of rocks.

A pile of rocks?

[Bullish]

Touche’

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids may have been able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects, according to a new study.

Water into sand is like pouring water through a sieve. Water will filter through too quickly. The sand will dry out before the sled can traverse the wetted area. The images of desert around the pyramids give the impression that the sand layer is deep and would drain immediately. If this belief is to hold water, they would have had to add fine particles to hold the water at the surface.

[Lmo56]

I thought King Tut "Moved to Arizona and bought a condo made of stone-a ..."

[devolve]

- all this for some damn fags that thought they needed huge gravestones

[Fledermaus]

First, massive use of Hebrew slaves. And second, why didn’t they just watch “The Ten Commandments”? Pretty much explained there.

[Grimmy]

“Ok......and they hauled all that water into the desert how?”

Tanker trucks, of course.

[ApplegateRanch]

Again? Do they really mean it this time? LOL

[Political Junkie Too]

But missed the most important part.

The scientists said that the Egyptians had a "contraption."

Slicking the ground with water AND using a contraption is what did it.

-PJ

[ApplegateRanch]

Dude- They used the hose!

My man, they used hose and pimpses both; as long as they could work, Pharomone didn't care what sex they were.

[Gene Eric]

>> tankers...

Exactly!

[varmintman]

Those blocks were poured and you only need to think about this one for a couple of seconds to grasp the reality that there is no other possibility. Trying to cut literally millions of stone blocks that size would waste most of the stone and there'd be more effort needed just to keep the cutting area clean than for actual cutting.

In real life, you'd fill wagons up with loose stone broken away from the quarry area, haul same in wagons pulled by oxen or elephants to the pyramid build site, pour same into formers as the video shows, add some sort of bonding liquid, and presto, on to the next block. Ever wonder how those blocks fit as tightly as they do? Pouring them would do that....

[1010RD]

Well, at least he dresses like a professor. How can they say ‘solved’ in the headline when the story says, ‘may have been able’?

[norwaypinesavage]

"The findings could help researchers understand the behavior of other granular materials, such as asphalt, concrete or coal, which could lead to more efficient ways to transport these resources."

Hey!! I have a brilliant idea!!! Maybe someone could put WHEELS under the sleds to make them pull easier.

[trebb]

Sometimes it’s better to be dumb. If they hadn’t figured it out, maybe they wouldn’t wasted all that time building the pyramids.

Inevitable that it be discovered - them slaves pulling on the ropes sweat - a LOT.

[stockpirate]

At one time, that whole area was a rain forest, and it has been suggested that is when the Sphyx was built....