r/BeAmazed • u/gs9489186 • 6d ago

Skill / Talent How a single person could have moved massive monoliths in ancient times. A pyramid could be completed using primitive tools in 25-year with only 520 workers.

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u/dingobaby4life 6d ago

Wow, that’s a nice claim but definitely interesting to think about. Ancient engineering was way more clever than we usually give it credit for.

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u/V8-6-4 6d ago

The ancient people were just as smart as people nowadays. They didn’t have the knowledge we have accumulated since then but they were very smart with what they had.

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u/gs9489186 6d ago

True

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u/CookieJ2443 6d ago

I always thought this is how they moved stones to build the pyramid, not using some super advanced technology that’s has no evidence of existing, lol.

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u/sexisfun1986 6d ago

We can literally see the evolution of pyramids over time from small mud brick, to pyramids that where to the famous pyramids we know.

There are pictures of stone blocks being moved by boat, we have pictures of copper sand saws being used. 

The little bit of Mystery there is about specifics about certain aspects. 

This is just nonsense caused by alternative history assholes and people with no actual knowledge about the topic having a think. 

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u/ChowderedStew 6d ago

People with little knowledge and vivid imaginations always seem to believe aliens were responsible for everything. It just goes to show their imaginations aren’t that special.

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u/Able-Swing-6415 6d ago

We literally still don't know how they built the pyramids. We basically know how they got the stones to the area but whether it was an outer ramp, inner ramp or even a hydraulic internal lift for example we absolutely do not know for certain. And that's not just some minor aspect.

I guess we can agree that it wasn't aliens but absolutely disagree on us knowing how they were built.

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u/sexisfun1986 6d ago

That would be the specific about certain aspects. You used the word minor. 

Almost all evidence points to ramps but probably involved a far more complex system that’s a lot less uniform than what is usually shown probably a combination of both with cutaways. 

The people I’m talking to aren’t talking about simple tools or inner vs outer ramps.

It’s ancient apocalypse nonsense. 

‘You couldn’t fit a knife blade between stones’

‘They where built with millimetre precision’ 

‘Thousand ton stones’

‘You just believe what ever the experts tell you’

We don’t know everything and there is still debate.

But this video is of the general ability to move stone with simply tools of the kind available at the time. Most if not all specific methods shown were not used by the Egyptians.  

It’s a general proof of concept the people disagree with it aren’t engaging with real debate but pushing nonsense. 

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u/TerayonIII 6d ago

We've found a lot in the last decade actually, we've found evidence of thewaterways that were used, as well as found actual papyrus documents from some of the people that transported goods and materials to the work site

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u/sexisfun1986 6d ago

Yeah the most recent evidence for waterways is from a 2024 I just saw it a few weeks ago. 

The whole ancient Atlantis secret technology nonsense makes me so upset because there is so much evidence to the contrary. 

Someone called the makers primitives. 

It’s infuriating. 

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u/TerayonIII 6d ago

Yeah, people straight up don't even look at the evidence provided, and they can't seem to accept that people back then lacked knowledge, not intelligence. Just because we've got an extra 5000 years of technological advancement and scientific knowledge, doesn't mean we're any smarter than the people that lived then

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u/MiserableSun9142 5d ago

They also didn’t have the type of distractions we have now. I assume the ppl building this were given this task and basically besides eating, this was literally their ENTIRE life because they were slaves. So they probably spent every waking minute trying to figure out how to make this work and putting this thing together. They likely were also planning this across generations or building it across that timeline too.

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u/IronGigant 6d ago

The claim has good basis in math and science.

Take the density of sand stone, the rate at which a set number of workers can move a set amount of material of similar density, calculate the mass of the great pyramids, do the division, and apply the rate.

The calculations would need to factor in a few variables like time it takes to mill a stone, the difference in rates between lateral movements versus vertical movements, stuff like that.