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Canadian Inventor: Pyramids Were Rocked Into Place

Posted by timothy on from the slurms-mckenzie-was-on-hand dept.

seafortn writes "A Canadian man is claiming he has solved the mystery of the construction of the pyramids - the ancient Egyptians attached curved boards to the building blocks and rolled them into place."

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  1. Re:The Reason for the Mystery by rco3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    365 days per year times 20 years is 7300 days. No holidays, of course. 12 hours of work every day gives us a total of 87,600 hours.

    This is all approximate, of course. However...

    2 million blocks divided by 87,600 is about 23. That's 23 blocks per hour, or about 2.7 minutes per block.

    That's a factor of five different from your estimate, although still impressive. Did you mean 20 to 30 blocks per minute?

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  2. pyramids built with slave labour? by geoswan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Until you look under the rocks and find out that there is a human corpse under each and every one of them... They pyramids were just a fancified death machine. :)

    Yes, that is what we were taught in school -- that the pyramids were built with slave labour, with brutal working conditions. But there have been a number of documentaries about archeological investigations into the dormitories where the workers lived. IIRC the archeological evidence points to the workers not being slaves. IIRC the archeological evidence points to the workers working and living under reasonable circumstances.