Jon_B Wrote:
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> Only just come across this which might interest
> some:
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> Thare's actually more than just the "Rope Roll"
> explanation on this website with some interesting
> stuff about quarries and stone cutting. It gets me
> a bit worried though when theories are presented
> as facts as happens in a few places.
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> Jon
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> www.egyptarchive.co.uk


The granite beams ; 60 to 80 ton blocks hauled up with rope rolls ? Impossible. It's much more logical that the AE lifted them each time a layer was finished. They were lifted gradually, stepwise, one layer a time.

Ronald.