Ronald Wrote:
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> > Anthony,
>
>
> The only way to understand how the AE built their
> Great Pyramid is to try to place ourselves into
> their minds, combined with careful study of the
> remained, related evidence. Of course, the big
> problem is that these minds existed 4500 years
> ago. I mean, can modern Man fully
> understand/detect wich resources/modi operandi the
> AE would have used/exercised in the world they
> were so familiar with (and we aren't) ?


First, your thesis is based upon a potentially false assumption: we cannot be familiar with their world. In fact, they were enormously helpful in leaving copious amounts of documents that demonstrate their worldview for us.

Secondly, your methodology is a bit backwards. We should assemble all the available evidence and then imagine how an ancient Egyptian might use it to accomplish the tasks at hand. If you do it the other way, your imagination might limit the visibility of available resources.

Ergo, these people who start with a conclusion don't actually tell us anything but how they would solve the problem.

Houdin's idea of the internal ramp would never have come about if he had started with the knowledge of about thirty 60-ton granite blocks being halfway up in the middle of the structure. Most pyramid building theories begin with the easiest parameter, and then try to account for the most difficult. If you start with the most difficult, the core masonry should, logically, become a snap.

A good example of this flawed methodology is the "roller" idea (where's Ddeden to yell at me????). It only works on a static, standard sized block. Every course had different sizes, and virtually no blocks were really "square" on one end. This means that virtually every block had to be custom fit to a roller device. The pyramid had almost 4 MILLION blocks in it... every one of them a custom fit job. It's an unworkable concept. Mass movement could never have occurred within these parameters.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.