Re:Archaeologists Uncover How Egyptians Built the Great Pyra...
by cryptonector on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:14PM
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What's it take to make the concrete mix? I agree that it's a lot easier to move concrete mix and water, mix on site and pour, than it is to move blocks cut from a quarry. But it's important to look at the whole picture. If it is sufficiently easier to cut and move blocks than to make concrete, then that's the more likely method.
Re:Archaeologists Uncover How Egyptians Built the Great Pyra...
by david927 on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:34PM
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But the stones used weren't just limestone but also granite with marbling.
Re:Archaeologists Uncover How Egyptians Built the Great Pyra...
by agumonkey on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:58PM
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Funny, it's fancy enough to be "stuff for kings" yet simple enough not to write it down.
Re:Archaeologists Uncover How Egyptians Built the Great Pyra...
by kelvin0 on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:05PM
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Not sure I understand your point here? Do you mean it's peculiar that the casting technique (if true) was not documented by the builders? Maybe we simply haven't found the evidence (yet).
Please clarify.
Re:Archaeologists Uncover How Egyptians Built the Great Pyra...
by agumonkey on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:32PM
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I meant if it was a huge amazing feat of gigantic tech, there would be lots of traces and people would have carried out the technique I suppose. But here it's nothing special but casting blocks. So no need to make a fuss about it.
But maybe you're right, there might be traces somewhere.
Here a video explaining the theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQk_yBHre4