aLiEnS!!1

Yeah they had less lead in their environment. They probably were actually smarter, just had less access to foundational knowledge

Yeah, it's been linked to systemic racist thought patterns (which are often unintentional but should be acknowledged). I explain it to people like this: take a handful of sand and turn your fist so that your palm faces perpendicular to the ground. Now release the sand slowly... What shape does it form? It isn't rocket science.

I probably didn't have as good an education as the highest educated classes in most ancient Egyptian dynasties.

I don’t know about that. Intelligence is attractive and it’s a predictor of lifetime success.

Egyptians didn't just decide "hey, let's build a pyramid". Mastabas were first, the shape of a Pyramid evolved later.

Not to mention that there's a few faulty pyramids (e.g. Bent Pyramid which were finished quickly or all together abandoned before completion.

Merer forgot to mention aliens in his diary too.

But hey, aliens did it. They couldn't just land on Earth. Their ships were designed to land on a Pyramid because that's how intelligent race would build their spaceships. Don't question it, just trust the specialists (who wrote books!).

Anyway, for anyone interested in Ancient Egypt, the best thing out there (I think) are Bob Briers lectures also available on Audible.

But imagine the size of the lever. And how would they haul it on top of the pyramid? Wouldn't we have found traces of a 500m long lever ?

Great Wall of China? Come-on, no body can do that. And its not aliens, its GOD, who show favors protecting his favorite people, the Chinese.

Not to mention the Chrysler tower. Def aliens

You can disable shorts??

I need to do that. I get stuck in a loop of watching them, and 90% of them just piss me off anyway.

The creation of the feature is what made me disable shorts. If I wanted vine then I'd go back to 2013.

I think they started at the top and then built down

Lifting is the hard part, you can move blocks short distances on rollers, long distances on barges, really short distances by a dozen men pushing

Nobody has so far given you a serious answer, so:

Cutting - They only had IIRC bronze, which is not enough on its own to cut through the granite. However using sand to add friction makes it cut significant faster/easier.

Moving miles - Boats are incredibly capable of carrying heavy loads with minimal energy expenditure to move said boat. Using logs and levers also goes far.

Getting to the too of the pyramid, that's a little more of a mystery. But there is evidence they included ramps within the structure as they built the bigger ones as they went. And IIRC the smaller ones had pulley systems going through the center.

It doesn't require fancy tech, just of patience and application of basic physics.

Here is a guy using some of the basic movement techniques in his backyard with multi ton stones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewtm1s02Ih8

He who cast the first stone built the pyramid

If you take the heaviest stone and divide it by a reasonable weight to walk long distances- say 20lbs, you find you need a few thousand people to carry one stone. You need several thousand ropes for each worker, but again each rope only needs to lift 20 lbs of the whole.

Modern estimates put the number of workers at 10,000. So they just had to carry them.

It's no wonder they didn't document it. Lift stone and walk. What's the big deal?

Slavery: It get shits done.

Moving material gets done via cart, or rolling on top of logs. I had heard various theories for how they got the big bricks up, from rolling up a dirt pile (put into place by, you guessed it.) to building a waterproof chute with the bricks in it on a raft, and just filling the chute with water to make the raft go up.

ay good one, Archimedes

There's a whole chapter on levers called Leviticus

Amen.

Sounds like he was sneaking sniffs in the flammable cabinet a little too often.

Famously impossible thing to detect in historical records: massive amounts of uranium-235.

Pfff I'm sorry but no, it was the cats.

You see cats have powers similar to Telekinesis. Why do you think they choose rivers surrounded by deserts to start the first civilizations. Sandboxes everywhere they please.

But one dark day the Faraó Ramses forgot to refil the food pile because and I quote "but it still had food from yesterday".

This one mistake doomed humanity to the eternal silence treatment.

(and that's why his tomb sucked, his was the first that humans actually had to build)

I do really enjoy the theory that the great pyramids are actually industrial reactant chambers.

Great filter theory bit it already happened and nobody noticed.

She must go to some good parties.

Also, boats!

you can't just not have levers.

I think the lever here is a stand-in for mechanical advantage. I don't believe anyone is seriously proposing they lifted the blocks with a very long stick.

But others have levers

Woah

I'm going to go out on a limb and say i don't think they found the pyramid whole and moved the entire thing. I think they took small pieces, possibly block shaped and moved those one at a time

You're gonna need a bigger load arm. The pyramid is way more than a meter across.

The ancient Egyptians utilized neither wheels nor work animals for the majority of the pyramid-building era, so the giant blocks, weighing 2.5 tons on average, had to be moved through human muscle power alone. But until recently, nobody really knew how. The answer, it seems, is simply water. Evidence suggests that the blocks were first levered onto wooden sleds and then hauled up ramps made of sand. However, dry sand piles up in front of a moving sled, increasing friction until the sled is nearly impossible to pull. Wet sand reduces friction dramatically beneath the sled runners, eliminating the sand piles and making it possible for a team of people to move massive objects.

https://daily.jstor.org/scientists-have-an-answer-to-how-the-egyptian-pyramids-were-built/

Top text, they built it

Bottom text, aliens built it

Maybe everyone dislikes humans as much as the aliens

were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array”

*will be part of

remember that the Finno-Korean Hyperwar is going to have been the war where we first learn how to manipulate chronodirectionality.

It became the Nile river.

Source: physics

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Stick assembly is the key thing.

You're not going to find a thread strong enough to pull a few tonnes of stone, but you can easily pull it with a large number of ropes pulled by a few hundred people.

Similarly, a single 8x8 beam as a lever arm would just snap, but a dozen 8x8 beams as lever arms for a dozen levers probably wouldn't.

Here you go.

I'm not saying those are the exact techniques that were used to build the pyramids, but they demonstrate that massive stones can be easily lifted and accurately placed using only "primitive" resources and leverage.

There is no guarantee that the lever would break in any position as particular as the pivot point.