Mysteries of the pyramids - construction of Egyptian pyramids; Special Report

1 Comment | Current Events, Feb 24, 1997

Thousand of workers toiled for years with no modern machinery to build the pyramids as monuments and burial chambers for ancient Egypt's pharaohs. The biggest pyramid, built by the pharaoh Khufu, is shown here. Its base covers 13 acres, the size of eight football fields. It is 450 feet high, as tall as 40-story skyscraper.

Made of 2,300,000 blocks of limestone, each blocks weighs an average of two and a half tons. Although no one is certain exactly how the pyramid were built, it is thought that the huge blocks of stone were cut from cliffs on the east side of the Nile and then floated across during the Nile's annual flooding.

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    haitheory

    10/21/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Mysteries of the pyramids - construction of Egyptian pyram ...

    In 2006 I was doing research for a university study in Australia concerning the construction of the Pyramids at Giza. Working with real excavated artefacts and ancient documents I was able to discover an ancient type of pulley that is unknown in the modern world until now. I am a mechanical fitter and people consider that my knowledge of mechanics at a practical level assisted me with this discovery.

    This ancient pulley walks up (or down) steps in a similar way to a three wheel step-trolley and I firmly believe that this is how the ancient Egyptians built their Pyramids. The Giza Pyramids have steps of course, which I have termed "racks" and of course there are four "racks" in a square based Pyramid. The wooden ancient Egyptian Pinion-Pulleys made positive engagements with the Pyramid's stone "racks" carrying a stone block each, rotating as they were being hoisted with ropes. No ramps were required as the Pyramid itself was used.

    This ancient pulley has a mechanical advantage of 2.8, thus is a simple machine and proves the Greek historian, Herodotus to be absolutely correct as he recorded wooden machines made of short wooden planks were used to raise the blocks of stone.

    These planks only needed to be the side length of a Pyramid block which is about one meter (one yard) and were easily carried, as Herodotus also records. Well, Herodotus was only writing what Egyptian Priests told him and Egyptian Priests recorded history as part of their duties.

    A working model has been made and a book about all of this has been published and I wish the World's people to know of this. This book is dedicated to the Egyptian people to promote "new awareness of their intelligent and innovative glorious historical past".

    RAISING STONE 1 - Paul Hai's racks & pinions theory. (121 pages)
    ISBN 9780646476797
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