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How Did They Build the Pyramids
How did they LÄ°FT a five-ton block of stone to build the pyramids? We know that at the time of the first pyramid the Egyptian culture was well developed and they were KNOWLEDGEABLE in some methods of building and construction. To get the blocks so close and in such perfect order would be extremely difficult using just man power. It would be impossible to ASSEMBLE enough men around a 9,000 POUND stone that is perhaps three and a half feet by three and a half feet, by five feet long to move it. To lift this stone onto a BARGE and off a barge, and then to MANEUVER it in place on the pyramid would take ten men, three on each side and two at each end. This placement means that each man, if all lifted equally, would be lifting 900-pounds. OBVÄ°OUSLY such a MÄ°RACULOUS display of strength not only seems impracticable, but impossible.
The most commonly held solution for moving these large blocks is to slide skids under the blocks so that many men would pull the skid along the ground and up RAMPs built around the pyramid to the level REQUÄ°RED......
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