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To: SkyDancer

Only the bottom courses of the Great Pyramid are granite. The rest is mostly limestone which is far, far easier to work by hand and cut relatively square with axes. More intriguing to me is the fact that the Egyptian people of that epoch supposedly only had copper tools. So how do you cut stone - even limestone, with soft copper tooling? Where are the tools used for that massive building project? The ramps, giant cranes and pulleys, River barges for shipping the blocks from the quarries at Aswan. Massive amounts of “heavy equipment “ just vanished. That, to me is even more mysterious than the pyramids


44 posted on 12/27/2019 8:02:20 PM PST by atc23
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To: atc23

I was being factious. I read on how it was done and they had hard packed dirt up the side of the pyramid they were building and that’s how they got the blocks of limestone up.


69 posted on 12/28/2019 6:31:20 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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