Mystery's of Egypt

Originally posted by Robtard
Not questioning the supply of dirt, but the scope of work required to build and then take down these massive dirt mounds/ramps.

Be like building another Pyramid or two in terms of labor.

Heterodotus says they used 100,000 people.

Let's say they had a third that number available all carrying 20lb bags.

The NIST gives an average of 120lb per cubic foot for dirt. That's 5500 cubic feet of building material every few hours.

10 meters wide. 5 degree angle. Let's call it 85, 90, 5. 146 meters tall. That's 1675 meters long and 1668 meters at the bottom.

So 121763 * 10 = 1217630m^3

So those guys would all have to make 7818 trips in the course of 30 years. Not even one trip per person per day.

Originally posted by Robtard
Be like building another Pyramid or two in terms of labor.

even if that were true, that is more of a criticism of the practicallity of the pyrimids than it is an argument against some type of ramp construction

though, at the end of the day, you are probably right that they used some series of different methods depending on what they were doing.

Originally posted by King Castle
cuckoo cuckoo.. 🤪

anyways.. not even sure how they got lighting in there. i am assuming they had torches, air vents and whatnot.

plus, could have also build and worked on Sarcophagus while inside.

i think they may have actually just made their own limestone style cement and formed the blocks on site.

Built what? It's a solid piece of rock. Are you saying the stones in the pyramids are some sort of cast cement?

What always amazed me about the Mesoamerican pyrmaids was the fact that the Mayans and Aztecs never had the wheel, yet they were still able to transport all that material and built those massive buildings.

Then you're equally impressed by the same feat having been performed by the ancient Egyptians?

i climbed the step of the pyramid of the sun and moon(aztec)

those steps are steep almost vertical.. F'n dangerous.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/ccheng/latin_america07.1198642620.steep_steps_1.jpg

not me by the way just wanted to show them.

I've been there too, it's pretty amazing.

its the Mecca for the brown ppl of the americas.. Nican Tlaca.

😉

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So, how about that pesky piece of solid granite?

Sad. Do you want to know anything about the threads you post, or are you just interested in spamming?