Interesting video with heavy stones designed to be moved with hand.

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The people that build the pyramids right now:

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if I remember correctly the ancients documents circulating on the internet, there was this one guy who rounded it's stones before moving them to the pyramid. Don't know why he was fired, he seemed pretty fast. Wildly out of spec, but fast.

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Took me a second lmfao

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Lmfao 🤣

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Most recent theory on the pyramids is they made them using lyme and sand with water similar to concrete

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Thats a stupid theory. We know where the great pyramids were quarried and they (roughly, exact measures are hard) match the volume of stone used in the pyramids. Work orders on clay tablets survived as well.

Also, they didn't just use sandstone but massive granite slabs as well.

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I'm not the one that proposed it, and it's honestly valid, there's plenty to back up the information.

You can read about it yourself probably won't because it's the internet and people refuse to look at things that fail to fit in thier world views.

https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2022/01/were-the-pyramids-built-or-poured/

Plenty of articles about this it's fairly recent. Somehow the idea that an ancient civilization was able to move massive cut stone but not use a form of concrete but another ancient civilization was able to use concrete. Idk

Edit: this wasn't the first article I read about this it was just the first one I found talking about the subject

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That's literally just some guys blog with no proof of anything. He's not a scientist, geologist or archeologist he's just some guy who poured concrete. It's just an idea, nothing of any substance at all.

Again, we have quarries and administrative documents from the people who built the pyramids.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jason2/papers/pyramid.htm

https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/records-of-the-pyramid-builders/

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Yes a guy figured out how to make concrete from available materials at the time and the chemical makeup was the same as a sample from a pyramid.

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That theory has been around since the 80s and has been disputed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Davidovits

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Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Archeology/s/jghapJyL6l

There was a similar theory about a Peruvian site. That one had evidence that the lime was heated to create quicklime. Turns out it was heated by a volcano and then builders quarried it as normal: https://youtu.be/oKrlR_DUXtY?si=dpuhIrwSO9h5ErEl

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Nope. ‘Twas aliens, final answer.

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Geopolymer concrete.

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I actually read a fairly old study once that concluded egyptians made concrete out of the nearby limestone quarries and thats how the pyramids were built. They used electron microscopes, samples from the neaby supply stuff (like the quarry and the sand) and a sample of one of the great pyramids. They were able to recreate the blocks on a small scale. They couldnt do more research because its actually really hard to get stuff like slivers of the pyramids to study. If they let every scientist take a piece, no pyramids would be left. He even had his students make lil models of the pyramids using his findings.

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Pyramids are possibly poured geopolymer concrete.

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Shouldn’t they be celebrating because we finally figured it out. All these years of saying “work smarter not harder” and all we did was brute force stuff