In the past years and decades lots of research was done surrounding the GP.
Some of the new data we got made it seem much more plausible that the GP is the product of a bronze age civilization. For example:
- The relative crudeness of the newly discovered crawlspace above the entrance dispelled the notion that all blocks were perfectly cut.
- Gantenbrink (who sent the first robots up the "air-shafts") came to the conclusion that the builders weren't capable of calculating the more complex angles of these shafts correctly.
- A stonemason did an experiment where an average pyramid block was cut with copper tools. The results suggested that only 3,500 quarrymen were needed to cut the 6 million tons of stone blocks of the GP in 27 years.
- The ramp at the Hatnub quarry proved that at the time of Khufu the ancient Egyptians used ramps much steeper than previously assumed. Dispelling the notion that the GP's construction ramp needed to be a mile long and more voluminous than the GP.
Are there still good arguments for why the ancient Egyptians couldn't have done it with relatively primitive technology?
by Megalithon
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Great Pyramid of Giza is aligned to true north with incredible precision—within one-tenth of a degree – it’s over 13 acres, each side is like 800 feet, the thing is 40 stories tall, the accuracy goes up the edges the whole way all sides – we could not do it today, “Bronze Age” needs redefining, don’t believe the people downplaying the difficulty of construction
“We could not do it today.”Yeah bullshit