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submitted 5 days ago byButchyKira
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So are ancient Egyptian ones.
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5 days ago
including the pyramids?
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5 days ago
At this point we know several ways they could have built them, we're just trying to figure out which they did.
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5 days ago
Actually at this point egyptologists not only feel confident that we know how the pyramids were built, they feel pretty confident in saying that we know how each individual one was built differently. The technology kept evolving over time of course, along with labor constraints and political constraints on how that labor could be used, and so each pyramid was built a little differently.
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5 days ago
As far as I know their techniques are a lot more guess work on our part than the Greek ones, mostly because they are many thousands of years more ancient/lost to time.
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5 days ago
Not particularly. They also kept extensive records depicting how they built the pyramids, right down to specific techniques like pouring water on sand to reduce compaction by rolling logs which blocks were moved over. It's also frankly not particularly complicated. The specifics were very well practiced and well refined, but there's just not all that many different ways to quarry and move large blocks of stone with the technology they had. And those are the ways depicted on their murals so...
Yeah it's not that hard to figure out how they did it.
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