My crackpot theory is that aliens showed up, told the Egyptians at lasergun-point to build them pyramids, but then didn’t give them any help at all. The Egyptians had to work out all the trigonometry and engineering entirely for themselves, while those lazy fucking aliens hung back and contributed absolutely nothing. Fuck those goddamn lazy space aliens.
Excuse me, they’re ‘job creators.’
Damn Goa’uld.
Don’t tell me what to do! :-P
Very heavy Cunk On Earth vibes on this one.
You moron. Build it from the top down, then just flip it over
Wouldn’t that be from the top up?
Love her humour. It’s impossible not to cringe while watching but at the same time it’s captivating.
I remember watching this vut can’t remember where it’s from.
I didn’t remember either but I took like a quarter hour and got it. This character’s name is Philomena Cunk.
My favorite thing people say is that we don’t have the technology to rebuild the pyramids today. Wait, we are able to build skyscrapers but not able to stack some bricks in a specific shape?
These weren’t built in Egypt at all. They imported them from the Mayans.
Imagine the customs fee on that
… who had licensed them from the Toltecs.
i think the people saying its a mystery just didnt want to admit it was slave labour
Nah, it’s just good old fashioned legacy colonial racism.
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism/
That’s dumb, I’m sure some think that because of racism but that can be said of anything. I think for most it’s due to the mystery about their construction that still remains and the seeming impossibility of moving huge numbers of truly massive blocks 6000 years ago. If it was an equivalent sized castle or something built with blocks that could be carried by one or two people there would be less motivation to look for crazy explanations.
Not everything is racist.
Maybe that’s what they mean when they say we couldn’t build the pyramids with modern technology. Not nearly enough slaves.
Except they weren’t built by slaves…
You do build steel grain bins from the top, down, however
Maybe you do
This fact was knocking around my brain already and I suspect I have Destin Sandlin to thank for it.
Found an Australian.
Secret trick no one knows to make your own pyramid
-Slaves
For most monuments, yea. But in building these all the workers had 3 monthish stints, were fully paid, and had lodgings near the worksite!
Don’t forget the beerbread, that’s what really sold it.
The Shard in London was built using a top-down approach https://www.architecturelab.net/architecture/landmark/the-shard/
The ‘top-down’ construction method was used, which allowed the first 23 stories to be built before the basement was fully excavated.
So it was aliens, got it.
Graham Hancock has entered the chat.
Also they probably packed in dirt to act as ramps, and shit loads of labor.
We learned many things from the mighty Egyptians, such as pyramid building, space travel… and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.
But did the ancient Egyptians pump up the jam?
It’s amazing what you can achieve with…slaves.
Exactly. I was actually thinking of that.