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Demystifying how the pyramids were built

The pharaoh is the king of ancient Egypt, and the pyramid is the tomb of the pharaoh. Why did pharaohs build pyramids? How were the giant pyramids built? Some people say that the pyramids were created by aliens. What is the truth? If the legend about the bold and wonderful design of the pyramid can still be accepted by modern people, then it is hard to imagine the construction process of such a huge scale.

Khufu’s pyramid is built with millions of huge stones, each weighing more than 2,000 kilograms on average, and the largest one weighs more than 100 tons. Herodotus, known as the “father of Western historiography”, once recorded that the stones for the construction of the Pyramid of Khufu were mined from the “Arabian Mountains” (probably the Sinai Peninsula).

However, we know that most of the stone was mined locally, and the limestone that decorated its surface was quarried and transported from Tula on the east side of the river.

It was not easy to mine stones at that time, because people did not have dynamite or steel brazing at that time. The Egyptians used copper or bronze chisels to drill holes in the rocks, then inserted wooden wedges and filled them with water. When the wooden wedges were swelled by water, the rocks were swelled and cracked. Such a method may seem clumsy today, but it was a remarkable technology more than 4,000 years ago. It is also extremely difficult to transport from the quarry to the pyramid site.

Discussions about how to build have prevailed for centuries, and one scholar has put forward a more convincing and objective statement. What he was talking about was the spiral construction method, which is to build a spiral staircase along the four walls, and build up the stairs while going up. In this way, there is no need to use levers, crowbars, and cranes. This formulation is more in line with the actual situation of the ancient Egyptians.

In this century, as the flying saucer observation and research activities become more and more extensive, some people even link the mysterious pyramid with the aliens on the unpredictable flying saucer. They believe that thousands of years ago, it was impossible for human beings to have the ability to build pyramids, and only aliens could have it. After calculation, they also found that the meridian passing through the Pyramid of Khufu in the suburbs of Cairo divides the earth into two hemispheres, the eastern and western hemispheres, and their land areas are equal. This “coincidence” is probably the intention of the aliens to choose the pyramid construction site.

However, a French chemist named David Duwes put forward a brand-new insight about the construction of the pyramids. He believed that the huge stones used to build the pyramids were not natural, but artificially poured. From an archaeologist, he got 5 small stones taken from the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt, and tested them one by one. Unexpectedly, assays proved that the blocks were composed of conch limestone. Despite archaeological evidence that humans have mastered the art of concrete-making thousands of years ago, it is hard to believe that these shell limestones were poured so rock-solid that it was difficult to distinguish them from granite.

David Duweis speculates from this that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids at that time by “dividing the whole into parts”, that is, putting the mixed concrete into baskets, and carrying or carrying the pyramids under construction. In this way, as long as you master certain skills, you can cast huge stones one by one and raise the tower layer by layer. This method saves labor and labor. According to his estimation, only 1,500 people, instead of 100,000 people in each batch as Herodotus said. Even more unexpectedly, the French scientist also found an inch-long strand of human hair embedded in the stone. This lock of hair may be the testimony of their hard work and brilliant wisdom.

But these claims are still speculative. But in any case, the construction of the pyramid must have concentrated all the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians at that time, because there must be many problems to be solved. But these problems have been solved, the pyramid has been built, and it has stood for more than 4,000 years, which is a miracle in itself. Therefore, it can be said that the pyramid is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Egyptian people and a symbol of ancient Egyptian civilization. Some people don’t believe that miracles can be created through simple cooperation, and they don’t believe that human beings on the earth can create such miracles as the pyramids, and they say it is the creation of aliens. This is obviously not true, and it does not help people explore their own history and recognize their own abilities.

Another theory is that according to the “Thiaoouba Prophecy”, the pyramids were built by the colonists of the Mu continent with anti-gravity technology.