(March 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(March 27, 2017 at 11:38 am)Minimalist Wrote: The only problem with the Giza Pyramids is that no one has figured out what kind of ramp they used. A single ramp would have used more material than the pyramid itself and a ramp which wraps around the edges would have obscured the corners making it impossible for the architects to get accurate measurements.
I have a suspicion but no one is going to take a pyramid apart to test it out!
Actually today's physicists have a damned good idea how it could have been done.
http://www.livescience.com/45285-how-egy...tones.html
Rediscovered. I've seen that "wetting down" technique in, IIRC, "The Ten Commandments", with Charleton Heston and the bald dude.