Okay re watched the video ... Merer's boat carried 70 tons and if average uncut block weight was about 3 tones (finished was 2.5 tons) then we can say he carried about 20 to 25 blocks per trip. Still awfully slow going ... Not too sure how many limestone facing blocks were used but it still seems awfully slow and getting the granite blocks there would have been another challenge.

Meanwhile a 1000 years later they were transporting 1000 ton blocks ... or so they say ...

Workers of Tuthmosis III. (1,486-1,425 B.C.) were able to erect a 187 feet long obelisk, a large monument made from one block, with an estimated weight of over 1,000 tons. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/09/28/papyrus-reveals-from-where-the-rocks-used-to-build-the-great-pyramid-came-from/)

Edit: insert missing source

"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/16/2021 05:16PM by Hermione.