warmonger1981 wrote:The mystery about building pyramids is how they did it, the time in which they supposedly did it, the tools they supposedly used. Two million stones coming from 500 miles away built in 20 years with brass chisels and stone. The main tunnel to the inner chamber 300 feet perfectly level. The inner chamber has different stones that fit perfectly inside the chamber. The pyramid built within five hundredth of a degree due north. Perfectly under the north star. There is a 100 mile band that stretches around the earth that hits most pyramids from SA to Africa. No wheels involved to build this structure.
500 miles?
A horseshoe-shaped quarry lies just south of Khufuās Great Pyramid and the Khafre pyramid causeway. The sides of the quarry align with the sides of the Khufu Pyramid.
Lehner suspected that this great pit furnished most of the local stone for the core of the Great Pyramid. He calculated the missing volume of stone and compared the sum to the volume of the Great Pyramid (see MDAIK 41, 1985).
The blocks were apparently moved on sleds. the sand in front of the sleds was dampened to make the movement easier (just as it's easier to walk over wet sand at the beach. threre are clear pictures of this by the Egyptians.