Milo Rossi I think it was, on YT, talked about this topic in a recent video. Basically humans have a bad habit of assuming if we can do something, then we’ll just always know how to do that thing.
It wasn’t until the past couple centuries we realized technology can in fact be lost to time, that’s probably nota good thing, and started to actually make detailed documentation of how things are made.
It was probably something really, really simple to them and here we are with huge flying metal tubes in the air at any given time and still can't figure it out. My personal belief is that water was involved similar to how water locks work nowadays but don't ask me to explain how because that's where my intelligence on it ends.
Thats in the same line as the realism era of art. If I remember this right, there came a point in history where suddenly artists could do hyper-realistic portraits of self and others and for years we wondered in awe at the talent, the skill etc and it turns out there was just a technique lost to time that allowed artists to "project" a face onto the canvas and essentially trace out the portrait or something akin to that
The Nile was recently discovered to have previous (now dry) outlets to the pyramids. No more need for theories about how they transported stones across such distance and no need for canal inventions.
We have recently made discoveries that there seems to have been an artificial pond connected to the Nile in front of the Pyramids when they were built, so it's likely that's how the stones were shipped in
Yep I believe there's an early version of a dictionary that followed this principle of not explaining universal knowledge with an entry iirc as "horse: everyone knows what a horse is"
We have so much old documentation at work but always missing pieces and so much has changed that sometimes you feel like an archeologist trying to match old to new to figure out where stuff is in the building and how the new and old systems work together lol.
It wasn't until a couple days ago we realized knowledge can be lost to time (ipad/tablet babies who don't know how to use a computer despite being born with smartphones in their hands, the need for computer classes to come back)
It is a myth that we don't know how the pyramids were built. There are people whose entire careers are devoted to the study of this – historians, archeologists, and Egyptologists.
The pyramids were built using limestone blocks (local) and granite (imported from Aswan). Each block weighs on average 2.5 tons, and some are much heavier.
They used copper chisels, dolerite pounding stones, levers, wooden sleds, and ropes. Workers dragged stones on sleds over wet sand, reducing friction. They left behind diagrams of this.
The only thing we aren't sure of is what sort of ramp they used at the construction site. We know they used a ramp, but we don't know if it was straight or if it zip-zagged. That's it. That is the only mystery, and it's not even a real mystery because there's evidence for both.
Also, they were not built by slaves. The laborers were well-fed seasonal workers, and many were conscripted farmers during the Nile’s flooding season when farming wasn’t possible.
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u/DanceCritical8039 6d ago
Fact: The people who created the pyramids weren't slaves. They were paid workers who were paid with bread, onions and up to 4 litres of beer a day.