Canadian Inventor: Pyramids Were Rocked Into Place

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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You guys get paid to run /.?

[iCEBaLM]

Those damn Canadiasns....

Re:The Reason for the Mystery

[DancingSword]

That the 'cradles'
( term used in the TV program, or wherever-it-was that I years-ago got told this )
were placed-on each of the four long-sides of a block, and then rope wrapped 'round the sticks/rods holding the end-pieces of the cradles
( the quarter-rounds that were at each end of the block )
together, and the entire block rolled
( requiring only 5 people, rather than 60-150, which is what using small logs beneath a block would have required ),
was figured-out YEARS ago, and broadcast.

Perhaps the title should read:
Canadian Discovers Idea Broadcast Years Ago By American TV!

idiocy.

Idiocy that information has to be discovered again and again and again because of fractioning, of not-indexing ( it's proprietary, you aren't allowed to index it, publically ), of non-translation ( significant in science, the Yugoslavs have a saying 'Discovering Hot Water' for it... others already published, but it wasn't accessible in their info-sources... )...