How were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?

[arildno]

Is this one of those ingenious spiral ramp theories??

1. We have REMAINS of exterior ramps only, AFAIK

2. There was no shortage of man-power in ancient Egypt.

3. It is technologically trivial to build an exterior ramp.

4. It is equally trivial to deconstruct it.

Hence, it is no particular reason to think that any other method would be bothered with.

Only SOLID material/scriptural evidence to the contrary is sufficient to give credence to such theories.

 

[mgb_phys]

3. It is technologically trivial to build an exterior ramp.

Somehow you would think so -
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fail-owned-ramp-and-staircase-fail.jpg

 

[Sorry!]

Is this one of those ingenious spiral ramp theories??

1. We have REMAINS of exterior ramps only, AFAIK

2. There was no shortage of man-power in ancient Egypt.

3. It is technologically trivial to build an exterior ramp.

4. It is equally trivial to deconstruct it.

Hence, it is no particular reason to think that any other method would be bothered with.

Only SOLID material/scriptural evidence to the contrary is sufficient to give credence to such theories.

Yeah sort of like a corkscrew he presented this theory a few years ago and was looking for evidence of such a ramp... don't know what happened with that it's probably all in the book though so if you're interested in reading alternate theories of the sort then go ahead.

 

[arildno]

Somehow you would think so -
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fail-owned-ramp-and-staircase-fail.jpg

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[mgb_phys]

Is this one of those ingenious spiral ramp theories??
3. It is technologically trivial to build an exterior ramp.
Hence, it is no particular reason to think that any other method would be bothered with.

Is there any evidence for a linear ramp over an external spiral ramp?

 

[alxm]

Only SOLID material/scriptural evidence to the contrary is sufficient to give credence to such theories.

Pff.. at this point the whole 'mystery of the pyramids' thing is so hyped, I think you could actually build a full-scale pyramid using the 'mainstream idea' techniques and it still wouldn't convince some people that the ancient Egyptians didn't do it with some mysterious technology we haven't figured out yet.

 

[arildno]

From what I know, as with the Kheops pyramid, there was (at least) one large linear ramp leading up to the construction level. Once that level was finished, the large ramp was presumably adjusted to lead up to the next level.

It is the remains of such a ramp I was thinking of (and that we DO have).

 

[Sorry!]

Pff.. at this point the whole 'mystery of the pyramids' thing is so hyped, I think you could actually build a full-scale pyramid using the 'mainstream idea' techniques and it still wouldn't convince some people that the ancient Egyptians didn't do it with some mysterious technology we haven't figured out yet.

I'm sure we could build a pyramid with all techniques which have been suggested about how the Ancients did it. Does this mean they used every single method?

What I'm getting at is I think that the modern debate is mostly about which method was used... obviously there are always going to be some people out there that think crazy things but what's this matter?

 

[Sorry!]

From what I know, as with the Kheops pyramid, there was (at least) one large linear ramp leading up to the construction level. Once that level was finished, the large ramp was presumably adjusted to lead up to the next level.

It is the remains of such a ramp I was thinking of (and that we DO have).

They also have evidence on other pyramids of step-ramps...

 

[arildno]

They also have evidence on other pyramids of step-ramps...

Ok, I wasn't aware of that!

Thanks!

 

[Andre]

You guys didn't miss this one, did you?

http://www.relevant-television.com/arikat/miniseries_story.htm

 

[Nebula815]

Is this one of those ingenious spiral ramp theories??

1. We have REMAINS of exterior ramps only, AFAIK

2. There was no shortage of man-power in ancient Egypt.

3. It is technologically trivial to build an exterior ramp.

4. It is equally trivial to deconstruct it.

Hence, it is no particular reason to think that any other method would be bothered with.

Only SOLID material/scriptural evidence to the contrary is sufficient to give credence to such theories.

The book talks about an interior "spiral" type of ramp I believe. The book's theory is that the ramp was built into the structure of the pyramids.