How where the pyramids made?
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The pyramids were built by humans using ordinary yet clever means.
Modern people are very dependent on electronic technologies and often don't see how the world functioned without it, but the truth is, it functioned pretty well, and even modern electronic technologies, are just really doing what previous technologies have done, but faster.
For example, before calculators, people used slide rules with much the same results, with the exception that slide rules were more limited in the number of decimal places, and took longer to use. Before there were slide rules, people would use an abacus and often tables that someone had put the time into calculating. The basic principals of engineer that are used today have been known for centuries, and I would even make the claim that ancient human populations had a better day to day understanding of subjects like geometry, and trigonometry, though in a different form than is taught today. Many ancient populations had mechanical or physical measuring devices that they used for navigation and construction, and they had a lot of time for craftsmanship. Look how precise the Inca of Peru made their stone walls. Look at how well the Romans built roads and aqueducts.
People put a lot of thought into things and trained for their trades from a young age.
Here are some links you might find interesting.
Antikythera mechanism - An ancient Greek navigational device.
Examples of Roman Engineering
Moving large boulders using leverage.
There's actually many videos like the one above if you type in "using large boulders with leverage".
You will see that most of these methods, especially with the benefit of having the manpower of thousands of men, that blocks of the pyramids could be easily moved. Also remember that the pyramids took a very long time to build. Current estimates are 10-20 years.
What's more impressive are the blocks that the Inca managed to move.
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I think the biggest and most fascinating mystery with the main pyramid is how they were able to align the peak within such a fine tolerance. Clearly for what they lacked in technology they made up in engineering and determination.
Something livescience suggested with respect to how the blocks were moved across the desert:
https://www.livescience.com/45285-how-e ... tones.html
I've seen suggestions that part of the process of building the pyramid was burying each successive finished concourse so that the blocks could each be more effectively moved into place. that would also make a fair amount of sense.
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A guy in Michigan doing his own Coral Castle project at a larger scale:
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