by
Damien F. Mackey
“Can you imagine maneuvering 25-80 ton stones up a
ramp, around corners and into final position… at fairly rapid pace? Where would
hundreds of workers stand (per stone) on the pyramid in order to move the
stones? How could they carve everything with almost optical precision with
primitive copper and iron tools (of which very few have been found)?”
The effort involved in
building the pyramids according to the conventional view of this, by contrast
with professor Davidovits’s explanation of it, is well summed up in the
following post: https://geopolymerhouses.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/ancient-stonework/
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There
are large pyramids all around the world, including in Egypt and other countries
in Africa, Central and South America, and China. The largest structures, in
particular the famous Egyptian pyramids at Giza, have baffled scientists since
they were first discovered. Many people agree that ramps to move the stones
would have been too large and impractical to build (some estimate the ramps
would have taken more time and effort to build than the pyramids). Here are
some quick facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
from Wikipedia:
– “building this in 20 years would involve installing approximately 800 tons of stone every day”
–
“since it consists of an estimated 2.3 million blocks, completing the building
in 20 years would involve moving an average of more than 12 of the blocks into
place each hour, day and night”
– “The
largest granite stones in the pyramid, found in the “King’s” chamber, weigh 25
to 80 tons and were [Ed.: some believe] transported from Aswan, more than 500
miles away.”
– “the
mean opening of the joints is only 0.5 millimetres wide (1/50th of an inch)”
(The list goes on and on.)
(The list goes on and on.)
All
these examples have one thing in common: conventional theories about how they
were built are difficult to believe, at least for me. Can you imagine
maneuvering 25-80 ton stones up a ramp, around corners and into final position…
at fairly rapid pace? Where would hundreds of workers stand (per stone) on the
pyramid in order to move the stones? How could they carve everything with
almost optical precision with primitive copper and iron tools (of which very
few have been found)? Why do the granite stones continue to salt up on the
surface? No other granite in the world accumulates salt deposits on the surface
except the ones in the pyramids. Microscopic analysis of stone samples from the
pyramids indicates random orientation, which indicates human construction
(tamping in a form) versus orientation in layers as in natural stone.
These
things have fascinated me since I was a child. There seemed to be no logical
explanation to the mysteries until just recently when I learned about geopolymer.
Finally, I found a theory that seems credible. This much appears certain: scientists
agree that ancient Egyptians did use polymer to build certain items such as
vessels. They agree geopolymer technology was known and understood at that
time. If this is true, then it’s reasonable to believe at least some of the
stones in the pyramids were made by geopolymer. It’s much easier for me to
imagine thousands of laborers carrying or passing along baskets of geopolymer
materials than moving and precisely fitting cut stone. ….
With professor Davidovits’s geopolymer
theory in mind, I watched with horror on SBS TV (Sunday 12th November
2017) as a team of archaeologists tried to sit a huge limestone block atop a
small boat apparently modelled on the ones used in ancient Egypt at the time of
the Giza constructions.
The block had to be situated
right in the centre of the boat.
After what seemed like an
age of careful and painstaking manoeuvring - this all involving just the one block - there was alarm because the
boat had begun to let in water. I am not sure how it ended up, because I found what
I considered to be more credible things on other channels. Though I would guess
from the above photo that the team did eventually manage to float above the
Nile with the limestone block atop.
I had felt sorry for them.
If this was the laborious process that the ancient Egyptians had been forced to
use for all of the blocks in the pyramids, then they would still be chipping
away at them to this very day!
Nevertheless, we read: http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/an-ancient-papyrus-reveals-how-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-was-built
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Wooden boats built with rope
instead of nails.
The limestone was carried along
the River Nile in wooden boats built with planks and rope that were capable of
hauling two-and-a-half tonne stones. Using ancient tomb carvings and the
remains of an ancient dismantled ship as a guide, archeologist Mohamed Abd
El-Maguid has recreated one Egyptian boat from scratch.
3D scans of the ship planks
revealed that the boats were full of holes that lined up perfectly with each
other. Instead of nails or wood pegs, these boats were sewn together with rope
like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
With 1,000 holes and five
kilometres of rope the new boat was assembled and Abd El-Maguid and in Secrets
of the Pyramid, attempts to re-create every step of Merer’s journey
down the Nile with a two-tonne limestone rock.
New evidence proves that the
ancient Egyptians constructed the Great Pyramid at Giza by transporting 170,000
tons of limestone in boats.
It has long been known that the
rock was extracted eight miles away in Tura and that granite used in the
monumental structure was quarried 533 miles away in Aswan.
However, archaeologists have
disagreed over how the material was transported to Giza, now part of modern-day
Cairo, for construction of Pharaoh Khufu’s tomb in 2600 BC.
Now that mystery could be a step
further to being solved after the discovery of an ancient scroll of papyrus, a
ceremonial boat and a network of waterways, the
Mail on Sunday reported.
The new evidence shows that
thousands of laborers transported 170,000 tons of limestone along the River
Nile in wooden boats built with planks and rope.
The 2.5-ton blocks were ferried
through a system of specially designed canals before arriving at an inland port
built just yards away from the base of the Great Pyramid.
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