[discostu]

But I believe you'r the one that pointed out that simply RUNNING Egypt at that time was a logistical nightmare. Once you can move the blocks it's just a matter of putting them in the right place at the right time, which really is a matter of getting them in the right order on the ground and sending them up the ramp in that order. We do parking at the county fair the same way, each car get's directed to the next spot, once you get in that line where you'll park is predestined. Of course there's more than one set of block and tackles, to me the hardest part is getting the first blocks in place, they'll provide the anchors for both the scaffolding and the pulley system once they're in place.

[RightWhale]

A logistical nightmare for sure. Both running the Empire and building the Great Pyramid. But some people like problems like this. I'm sure that we could build another Great Pyramid now if we wanted to, with or without power assist. Probably in less time, to greater precision, and with fewer than 20,000 slaves. Paying minimum wage to so many for 30 years would take an act of Congress. $12 billion or so. Like building the ISS.

[joanil]

Still, one must wonder at the massive multi-ton slabs of granite that were placed one set upon the other at the center of the pyramid just so. Imagine trying to 'block and tackle' or push such huge slabs of granite up the surface of the pyramid to a height of 20 plus stories! How then did they use 'compound multiple pulleys' to get those beautiful massive granite slabs into place? It is amazing enough that they could cut and transport these huge slabs of granite to support the roof of the pyramid. Even more amazing is that the builders of the pyramid knew that they could create a multiple spaced hollow atrium in the center of the pyramid that would support the entire weight of the thousands, no... millions of pounds of thrust with gravity that all the stone above would weigh. And then make the structure stand fast and strong for milleniums! The very fact that they could build a everlasting monument/ or massive power plant is not inconceivable in my mind. It is there! It has stood the test of time! And I do not believe it was just a tomb. There has never been a body of any kind ever found in Giza (except perhaps one of the raider/bandits). It is something far greater, something far more majestic....a lost technology? Yes, perhaps it was. And perhaps it was a far grander civilization than we have amongst us today....perhaps we are too proud to accept the fact that maybe....just maybe something far greater preceeded what we witness with our senses in this plane of time. Oh, by the way, the Builders of the pyramid did not build it to 'figure out pi' .....they already knew 'pi' and exploited it freely as any superior civilization was apt to do. Just like we humbly accept 'pi' and its ratio into our "currently civilized" world.