I have read that nobody really knows how they built the pyramids, as the very huge rocks they are built from come from many hundreds of kilometers away. There are people who propose that extraterrestrial help and technology was needed. In my opinion, just like ants can build structures that relative to their size are comparable to the pyramids, man was able to build the pyramids without needing any extraterrestrial help or technology. All man needed was a motive and enough time to build them. Comments and opinions from those interested in this topic are most welcome.
A summary of my ideas:
- Motive was a mufti-functional structure (observing stars, a lookout tower, a silo, a refuge)
- Stones were moved using elephants to pull barges floating in canals with locks
- Stones were lifted using a system of locks
A very crude animation is presented in the section of video starting at 6:20 into the video. The video can be seen at " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmS2rzOLxXA&list=UU9rOAPUfZe3KEja0vvFpe_A&index=61&feature=plcp
The text of the short story is below:
I was born in Egypt and was the chief engineer for the Pharaoh. He wanted to make a mufti-functional structure. First and foremost it was to be a tool to investigate and measure heavenly movements. It had to be a structure that would stand stable for thousands of years to help future generations to observe and study the heavens. It was to be a laboratory to examine earth and heaven movements. It had to endure the erosion of nature and the plunder and destruction of man.
It was also to serve as a lookout and communications tower sufficiently high to see approaching armies hundreds of kilometers away. It was to provide the Pharaoh and his family a safe refuge whenever threatened by siege from enemies and a secure vault for their wealth. It was to serve as a silo for grain and a reservoir for water. It was to be a symbol of his lasting power and of his nation that built the imposing structure. Some thought he was just making a pretentious tombstone for himself.
The project was actually a make work program. The wise Pharaoh believed that such a project would stimulate economic growth in the long term. It was hoped that such a grand project would help open the region for tourists and farmers for generations to come. It was my responsibility to design and build it.
I had at my disposal the best mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. The site was chosen 1 km from a tributary of the Nile that had a thick and flat bedrock. 200,000 men worked day and night with 10,000 elephants for 70 years and excavated, cut, carved and moved 2.5 million 2.5 ton blocks from hundreds of km away and piled them up into a 140m high pyramid. They were divided into 4 teams. Recognition and prizes were given to the team with the most progress each year. 4 blocks were placed every hour, 100 blocks each day. They were placed into position on the pyramid, one on each of its 4 sides, until the last blocks were raised to the top 70 years later. I was 25 years old when I started and lived to see the pyramid's completion.
First a suitable site was chosen, sufficiently high from the delta, with a thick and flat bed stone. A canal was dug from the tributary of the Nile to the site of the pyramid. The stone blocks from far away quarries along the Nile were floated in wooden rafts to the canal that ran 20 meters below the ground at the pyramid's base. Along their long journey the blocks were shaped and polished to precision. Then they were raised by steep steps of locks that emptied into a flat platform. Once the platform was walled in and sealed by tar, it was flooded. The base platform was a square that was 250m wide. This huge swimming pool got smaller as it got higher each year forming a pyramid structure.
Each year a new level was completed. The shrinking platform was divided into four parts. One was a swimming pool for the people, the other was a pond with birds and water plants for the privileged. The 3rd was a natural pond that people visited like a park. The 4th was a water reservoir.
Children were used to lift the water up to the top level. They climbed up to the top and then jumped down attached to a rope. Their weight pulled up an equal weight of water in a bucket. The water from the top fed the steps of locks that were used to float the blocks up to the top where they were moved toward the walls and used to build up the walls for the next layer.
The structure lasted for 7,000 years despite being ravaged by man and nature. In the end the entire continent sank into the sea. The pyramid served as a tourist attraction for its entire lifetime. But its main purpose as tool for studying the heaven and measuring the movement of the earth with respect to the stars was forgotten after a few generations.
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