Quote:It may or may not have actually taken 20 years, but I think there is nothing intrinsically impossible about 20 year scenario.
Remember no one has a clue about the ramp.
Quote:The fact that they no longer pile 2.5 million stones into one pile doesn't mean their stone working technology regressed. Graham Hancock is a half nut and half charlatan.
Except they DID keep piling stones up but without their former success.
It is not the desire they lost but the technical ability and the Old Kingdom continued until the end of the 6th Dynasty so this loss of knowledge cannot be attributed to some vast catastrophe.
The last pyramid was built by Ahmose I - first pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty...the New Kingdom.
![[Image: Pyramid_of_Ahmose%2C_Abydos%2C_1998.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fc%2Fcc%2FPyramid_of_Ahmose%252C_Abydos%252C_1998.png)
It's a pile of shit, too....in spite of being about 1,000 years newer than the Great Pyramid.
