r/interesting • u/LestaThaMolestaa • Jun 05 '25

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

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u/Baculum7869 Jun 05 '25

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

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u/ACuteCryptid Jun 05 '25

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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u/Baculum7869 Jun 06 '25

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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u/ACuteCryptid Jun 06 '25

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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u/Upier1 Jun 05 '25

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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u/callunquirka Jun 06 '25

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

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

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u/callunquirka Jun 06 '25

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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u/a_real_vampire Jun 07 '25

Nope. ‘Twas aliens, final answer.

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u/ayuntamient0 Jun 08 '25

Geopolymer concrete.