A few days ago
Anonymous

How were the Egyptian pyramids built?

What is the substance used to build the pyramids? How many trips did it take to bring all the stone needed?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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Most of the pyramids of Egypt were built by farmers or other members of the labor class who were more than willing to haul huge boulders, shape them, and place them were the engineers told them to. The idea was that the pyramid would allow a Pharaoh to live forever in the after life.

Of course no one was there to take a picture, but from archaeological and art within the pyramids themselves that depicted the construction process. The best theory is that each boulder was moved in teams of twenty and would roll them on logs. It took quiet a long time, so Pharaohs would start the process about 30 years before they died.

As for moving the stones on top of each other in perfect symmetry…well not perfect. Actually there are many flaws in the symmetry of the pyramids, however they’re difficult to notice. Again there are several theories about how the Egyptians managed to get these things to line up correctly, the sun worked as a guide and they had means of predicting the patterns to use the sun as a reference.

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A few days ago
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Most of the earlier Egyptian royal pyramids were constructed primarily of limestone blocks quarried at or very near the location of the pyramid itself. For example, the quarry for the majority of the limestone blocks used for the Giza pyramids can still be visited today. Facing stones were typically of finer limestone brought from the quarry at Tura. Other architectural elements like internal chambers, sometimes the lower courses of pyramids, etc., were frequently made of other types of stone, granite being particularly popular, usually brought from the granite quarry near Aswan.

Later Egyptian pyramids, especially those of the Middle Kingdom were often constructed partially of mudbrick, rubble, gravel, and then faced with cut and dressed stone blocks, again, typically limestone with the inclusion of some other types of stone.

The stone brought from elsewhere was typically quarried into individual rough blocks, transported, and then finished in place, so one could estimate the number of trips to outside quarries based on the number of blocks in a given pyramid made of stone that was not local. For local stone, well, I suppose you could say one trip from the location of the quarry to the precise location of the pyramid per stone.

Royal pyramid construction usually began as soon as a king took the throne and continued until his death, often involving a construction effort spanning over a decade or several decades. It seems that royal construction projects in general, especially those related to the afterlife of the king were never really “finished” during the reign of a king but were constantly adapted, refined, added to, and expanded until his death.

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4 years ago
tant
Your question is extraordinary…the place did they build pyramids or How did they build pyramids?? They outfitted pyramids alongside the Nile river, southwest of Cairo. They used their huge guy ability for the duration of the off season (non growing to be season) to erect the massive structures…They shrink the extensive limestone blocks 1000’s of miles up flow and floated them down the Nile in direction of Cairo…
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A few days ago
Anonymous
You answered your second question with the third question.

It took 3 trips to bring the stone – the bottom, the middle, and the top stones.

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A few days ago
athleticsfan12
The aliens helped them……

Okay, maybe not, but anyway, they used a ramp system, I believe, to transport all the heavy stones from one level of the pyramid to another. Their technology, brainpower, and manpower combined is a lot more than he have today so we can’t really imagine it.

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A few days ago
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levitation. Stone was substance.
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A few days ago
Katie
They were built by Egyptian slaves during seasons when they were not farming.
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A few days ago
Mark
Very carfully!
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