Pistol Wrote:
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> Heroditus writes the priests told him the pyramid
> was built from the top down. Imagining this; the
> face of the Tura casing of Khufu's pyramid was
> left in the rough, the joints between the stones
> were well crafted, eventually the finished
> pyramidion was set atop the pyramid... all the
> tura limestone facing in the rough was trimmed to
> match the sloping faces of the Pyramidion...they
> worked from the top down. There's no proof of
> this, it's written as a logical conclusion based
> soley on Heroditus' account.
Well ... the English translation has it as "finished off", not built as such; and, before that, Herodotus writes: "heaved up the blocks from the ground on to the first tier of steps."
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This pyramid was made like a stairway with tiers, or steps. When this, its first form, was completed, the workmen used levers made of short wooden logs to raise the rest of the stones; ... they heaved up the blocks from the ground on to the first tier of steps; when the stone had been so raised it was set on another lever that stood on the first tier, and a lever again drew it up from this tier to the next. It may be that there was a new lever on each tier of the steps, or perhaps there was but one lever, and that easily lifted, which they carried up to each tier in turn, when they had taken out the stone; I leave this uncertain, both ways being told me. But this is certain, that the upper part of the pyramid was the first finished off, then the next below it, and last of all the base and the lowest part (Herodotus 2:125) [
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