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> You didn't say 'apparently' for this one. Could
> you quote for us the source which tells you this?
Cultural context and architecture clearly show that they started with low squat structures, learned how to lift more stones on top to stack them, and finally learned to lift vast numbers of stone to ever higher altitudes in order to build great pyramids. Even though G1 required 45 times as much lifting as the first great pyramid the first great pyramid required many times as much lifting work as the largest mastaba. This clearly indicates the same means were used to lift all the stones. They used a robust means of lifting stones as evidenced by the fact that stones weighed an average of 2 1/2 tons.
> Are you talking about
> their using plain old muscle power?
They might have used muscle power to lift weight in the grand gallery but this weight was a small fraction of all the counterweight used to build G1.
> The inside of the pyramid is nice and cool but you
> put a number of people in there doing heavy labour
> it will become warmer and harder to breath in a
> few hours. Any work there would have been
> completed before it was roofed over.
A man made stone structure like a pyramid will not get hot like a mine. There would normally be plenty of air flow to carry away heat made by the workers or from lamps. Perhaps under some conditions it did get hot and this was one of the reasons they didn't lift weight in this manner after G1.
I believe there were only 28 "wag-priests" working in here at a time and 14 spellmen. At 1/10 HP each this would produce little heat for the size of the ventilation system.
> What? Are you saying the infallible "ancient
> science" and your make believe super ancient
> Egyptians made a mistake? LOL
Ancient science was observational. Just like us they wouldn't always know results until they actually tried it.
> I love how you just make up stuff about things you
> know absolutely nothing about...hilarious
Deducing their reality through physical evidence and the words they used ritually while sending the dead king off to heaven is hardly an exact science. Even reverse engineering modern technology is not really an exact science. There is a lot of logic to solving the meaning of unknown words with unknown referents but logic alone is probably going to be insufficient to the task which is why the physical characteristics of the pyramids is so important. Excluding the reality of airshaft function before even looking at all these characteristics and the actual cultural context is necessarily going to lead one astray. When you exclude the possibility these were for air you are excluding the nature of the people and the very function of the pyramid.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.