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April 26, 2024, 6:18 pm UTC    
September 18, 2022 03:05PM
Quoting a sentence;

"In another jarring shift, after saying that no one knows how Egyptians moved stones (their own carvings and writings about it notwithstanding), he catapults the reader to Easter Island, Baalbek, Uxmal, the standing stones of the U.K. (including Stonehenge), to discuss various myths and legends of stones that moved by themselves in response to spells, songs, whistles, etc. He argues that people could never move heavy stones unaided and therefore sonic levitation is logical."

More accurately nobody knows how the Egyptians moved stone up the pyramid and no records exist. While aliens and sonic levitation are nearly equally improbable the fact remains that we do not know how it was done. Every sign says stones were pulled straight up the nearly sheer sides of step pyramids but, obviously, men could not drag stones while scaling the pyramid sides stepped or not.

"It is said that the builders had palm wood sheets covered in writing, and after having extracted every stone and having it cut, they placed over each stone one of these sheets; they then gave a blow to the stone, and it traveled far beyond the reach of sight."

It's hardly impossible that this is essentially accurate. They did have a "Weigher/ Reckoner" who might have had to attach a paper to a stone stating the weight and size of the stone for the workers who sent them on the pyramid. It was also said in Arab legends that the stones flew a bowshot (300') at a time.

I'm certainly reminded by the rest of the article by the declassified document that says in three places that there was water spouting up;

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It might be very telling that there are no depictions of Egyptians dragging stones up ramps. That very large stones were used to save a little bit of work in the quarry suggests a highly robust means of lifting them it would be very difficult to make a drawing of men pulling them up the side or the usage of counterweights to pull the stones up. They would simply NOT have saved a little work in the quarry and then created a great deal of very onerous work getting the stones around corners on ramps. With so much effort required to lift these stones by any means at all they would bnot have used a highly imefficient means.

Colavito couldn't be more wrong than to suggest that how they built pyramids is not only no mystery but is well attested.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
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Hermione September 21, 2022 03:26AM

Stones Were Pulled Up, Not Dragged Up!

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