The Coral Castle guy used big bags of water to move the coral about, so it would have been within the Egyptian's reach to use water or sand to lighten their blocks.
Unfortunately the water has to be higher than what they were building
Popular Mechanics ain’t what it used to be.
Provided to them by aliens 👽
Can someone explain how this would have worked?
I was going to mention Leedskalnin. Coral Castle (to me) is right on the pendulum between explained and not at all explained. And then to move the whole she-bang miles south.
At the center of the site...maybe they had 2 vertical shafts next to each other. They had a sealable entrance at the bottom and a flotation lift raft in each shaft and water brought to the site.
Put the stones on each raft, seal the entrance portals at the bottom, then fill first shaft with water and float raft and stone to the top level. Remove the stone, Then drain drain that shaft back in to the other shaft to float the the second stone. (You will need to pump the water to the other side once they have an equal volume in each shaft.) Open the first shaft and reload the raft while they repeat the process.
This would be more like a lock system draining back and forth and replacing the water has it is lost to the process. Then again, they might have used a water wheel associated with the dam and associated rope and pulley system to lift the stone.
Or, have water fed into an aquaduct system and float stone to the site. Raise the level of of aquaduct every few courses of stone.
Well, if it’s in Popular Mechanics, it has to be true.
Always wondered about the coral castle thing. Thanks :)
Interesting.
first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser
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Its called the first real pyramid because there a re various kings list used to date when it was built, but some of those Kings lists are known forgeries, the order of kings names on those lists differ from list to list, kings often used different names at different points in their reign, lists omit known kings for [ assumed ] political/religious reasons, etc - in short, Kings lists are not reliable for dating.
Yet Egyptologists insist on using them in order to keep the historical fiction created by Herodotus in the 4th century BC alive, no matter the evidence to the contrary. No one wants to lose their career by standing up to the evidence.
Moreover, the optical dating sample on Pyramid of Menkaure dates some 300 years prior to the Kings list date. Which places it as built hundreds of years before the Step Pyramid of Djoser.
So were hydraulics used any where else - who knows? It is obvious that the techniques used to build the Giza complex [ built as a interlocking geometric whole ] were far superior to Djoser. Building large structures with stone had regressed, not advanced.
they sure must have used a lot of water, cause there ain’t nothing there but desert.