You don't think they carried that stuff up in buckets do you?
You don't think they carried that stuff up in buckets do you?
ggg ping
I read a fun book about along those lines. The ancient Egyptians may have built simple cranes for the purposes of transporting limestone blocks. The book title, which is the first difficult bit to swallow, is:
"HOW TO BUILD A FLYING SAUCER: AND OTHER PROPOSALS IN SPECULATIVE ENGINEERING"
by T. B. Pawlicki
includes sketches for cranes that could have transported the pyramid stones to Giza as well as some investigation as to what might have survived thousands of years later, such as large rounded stones with holes in them that are currently used as grinding/millstones.