Interesting theory on how the pyramids were build.

[Brian R. VanCise]

I think whips, brute force, rollers and yes keeping idle hands at work is the way to go! Really if you look around the world there are lots of pyramids and or structures that we know were built with human labor. Why should the pyramids be any different?

 

[Dirty Dog]

I use to as well and I still have no doubt Brute force played a major roll and to some extent slaves but based on some of the archeological evidence of workers villages that has been found near the pyramids I am not so sure that "civil service" and or a "required service" much like some countries require military service today was not a rather large part of it.

Other than a painful splitting of hairs, what would be the difference (in this context) between "slave" and "required service"? It boils down to "you're going to do this, like it or not".

 

[jks9199]

I always thought Hebrew slaves with flying saucers built them.

Nah it was aliens with flying saucers that taught the Hebrew slaves how to levitate stones, move them, kick pharos butt, part the Red Sea and get outta Dodge....or Egypt...whatever the case may be

Both wrong. They were a mistake.

Unless...

They're proof that gods DO play dice with the universe!

 

[crushing]

I thought for sure I was going to see this when I opened this thread.

 

[Sukerkin]

A nice, uncluttered, background information article on the BBC about the workforce involved in the construction of the pyramids:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/pyramid_builders_01.shtml

 

[Sukerkin]

And another on construction tools, instruments and methods:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/great_pyramid_01.shtml

With another, rather more fed-up-with-Aliens-claptrap site, just for colour :

http://www.livescience.com/32616-how-were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-.html

 

[Sukerkin]

And finally, something quite magical:

[video=youtube_share;jCwVGHSqQ7A]http://youtu.be/jCwVGHSqQ7A[/video]

 

[Xue Sheng]

Both wrong. They were a mistake.

Unless...

They're proof that gods DO play dice with the universe!

Nope..it was aliens...SEE!!!!

 

[Xue Sheng]

 

[Rokuta]

I was always fond of the four spiraling, exernal ramps approach. The incline is manageable and there is no evidence left afterwards because it it taken down when the pyramid is encased in it's casement stones.

Wouldn't the ancient tomb robbers who cut other passages in some of the pyramids have run into an enormous internal ramp system?