# How were the pyramids in Egypt built? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 7, 2014, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559 "2014-12-07T10:40:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1042 "2015-04-30T23:42:46Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > Maybe it was just **an undone potato** or a fleeting whimsy. Sorry, but I already made that Scrooge reference. Try again. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > …the documentary cited many times already… Is that the National Geographic one hosted by Bob Brier? Because Brier gets so effing enthusiastic about Houdin’s ideas that it almost called it all into question. 😉 And Houdin still has a BIG ramp, just not one that goes all the way to the top. Placing the cladding stones without damaging the ones in place is piquing my interest, especially the ones over the corner ramp turnarounds. Making a pile of rocks is one thing. Covering the pile of rocks with pretty ones could be much harder. My viscera say that there was a lot of of people clinging to scaffolds and sanding out scratches. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1043 "2015-05-01T00:04:13Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Sorry, but I already made that Scrooge reference. Try again. > > Is that the National Geographic one hosted by Bob Brier? Because Brier gets so effing enthusiastic about Houdin’s ideas that it almost called it all into question. 😉 And Houdin still has a BIG ramp, just not one that goes all the way to the top. Still it is only just up to a third of the total height to add the stones over the Main Chamber, the length then is short enough to reach the bottom of the second pyramid area. Where the second ramp of the great pyramid most likely began. One could be pedantic and claim that the incline that goes from the sphinx to the second pyramid is just a walkway but Houdin and others see that incline as the first ramp section of the great pyramid. The reason why it is important for pseudo scientists to prop up the impractical big ramp to the top is precisely to make all researchers sound silly, because to be effective the length of it would be almost a mile long and require more material than the pyramid itself, very few egyptologists think that that was feasible, so most researchers think that any ramps were smaller than that. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1044 "2015-05-01T00:18:57Z")
It’s still a big-ass ramp. And Brier annoyed me. Such unseemly enthusiasm is what leaves Archaeology open for parody and Poe-ing, like what **cladking** has created. It needs to return to its dry, dusty roots, as exemplified by Howard Carter and Drs Henry Jones, Sr and Jr. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1045 "2015-05-01T12:53:37Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Cities don’t require science, just engineering. > Agriculture could be a combination of primitive science merged with trial and error. > > You don’t actually seem to have a point, here. No one calls the Ancient Egyptians stupid, (even if you like to pretend that Egyptologists do). However, it is also true that the notion that humanity can learn new things only through science is dumb. > > **So far, you have misused the word metaphysics, misused the word science, made odd claims about what Egyptologists claim (while refusing to actually quote them), made up odd translations of ancient Egyptian texts that only you can figure out, (despite having no background in actually studying the language), and have made odd claims about what modern society believes that is in direct conflict with actual modern beliefs.** He also appears to have some difficulty with the concept of telling a story. > [@cladking](#): > > Let me tell you a little story. > > At the base of the cliff face counterweights where a golf course sits today was a beautiful marsh with fragrant egyptian sycamore figs growing around. These trees were special and even had their own “natural phenomenon” to watch over them. The were the nbhk trees in the marsh of offereings overseen by sopdu. They often had a wonderful fragrance that could be smelled in the entire area. All this water came down the in the counterweights that were very fast cycling. Also pouring down the cliff face was CO2 evacuated from the pyramid and the mehet weret by alternately opening the valve that selected gas or water. The “surges” of the winding watercourse pulled gas by circling in the covered canals that fed the counterweights. The canal was at the edge of the desert on top of the Giza Plateau (Rosteau means “mouth of caves”) and was called the knst.i-canal. “Knsti” trasnslates to “deserts edge”. This canal was of critical importance to coming to understands how the great pyramids were all built. It was so important because there is so little evidence. After the canal the only thing that survives is the fill that was put on the cliff face to shape it properly. Before the canal all that survives is the base of the valve that creates the “billows of the winding watercourse” which was attached to a 100,000 ton water collection device that still survives nearly intact but is invisible to most of us. > > This canal is of the utmost importance and was found stuffed full with mummies (and daddies). These were intrusive burials as were found all over at these sites. So why isn’t this canal considered by Egyptologists? Why has it been dismissed and trashed forever? Why was it torn up repeatedly including as recently as the '30’s by King Farouk’s Palace? > > It’s all because we can’t imagine an oddly shaped canal was of any importance. Back in the day that Egyptologists hadn’t made up their minds Petrie could see the canal but was so astounded he hid the fact of its exoiistence in a 92 word sentence; > > “Hence it runs on, till, close to the edge of the basalt pavement, it branches in two, and narrows yet more; one line runs W., and another turning nearly due S., emerges on the pavement edge at 629.8 to 633.4 from the N.E. corner of the pavement, being there only 3.6 wide. From this remarkable forking, it [p. 50] is evident that the trench cannot have been made with any ideas of sighting along it, or of its marking out a direction or azimuth; and, starting as it does, from the basalt pavement (or from any building which stood there), and running with a steady fall to the nearest point of the cliff edge, it seems exactly as if intended for a drain; the more so as there is plainly a good deal of water-weanng at a point where it falls sharply, at its enlargement.” > > This is most of what you need to figure it all out once you can identify as being important. Petrie may have cherry picked his information too much and weighted it to his vision but he was one of the last who didn’t know everything and was intellectually honest, otherwise he wouldn’t have reported it at all rather than hiding it in a 92 word sentence. > > I’m repeating again “peer review” only applies to what they consider “peers” which by definition is “those who have accepted that stinky footed bumpkins dragged tombs up ramps”. I am in no way whatsoever a “peer” so they don’t want to hear it. They don’t invite ancient aliens and they don’t invite people who think the Egyptians were scientists. Ideas that are outside their assumptions can’t be considered at all because everything they know is contingent on these assumptions. Everything they know has been pounded to a framework created by these assumptions. Talking to me would be about equivalent to Isaac Newton explaining to a child that the earth isn’t flat. Newton would not consider the child a peer and would not seriously consider a paper that held the world to be flat just as Egyptologists can’t exist in a world where their assumptions aren’t true. > > They argue about the meanings of the most basic terms like “eye of horus”. You don’t need to believe I can understand the work and the meaning of “eye of horus” to know that if they can’t understand the most basic terms then they can’t possibly understand the book. Yet, as soon as I say the eye of horus was the eye of the natural phenomenon that oversaw the Land of Rainbows I become the child who believes the earth is flat or whom has succumbed to woo. It ends the conversation it does not begin it. > > Short answer is that being endorced by Egyptology simply means you might be right within the framework of tombs, bumpkins, and ramps. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY, UNCLE CLADKING? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1046 "2015-05-01T13:08:48Z")
I am really annoyed by his continuing use of “bumpkins.” The only people who consider the Egyptians too stupid to build the pyramids are the Ancient Aliens morons, and I do not wish to be lumped in with that convicted conman, von Daniken, or the nut with the hair. Proper investigators consider them deucedly clever, which is why, thousands of years later, we are trying to figure out how they did it. Ooops! I’ve fallen into his “they were smarter than us” trap. : old, snarkier rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1047 "2015-05-01T13:14:57Z")
By the way: what the hell is a benben? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1048 "2015-05-01T13:38:23Z")
[Benben](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benben) But you could have looked that up yourself. And who mentioned the word anyway? I don’t see it in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1049 "2015-05-01T14:17:59Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [Benben](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benben) > > But you could have looked that up yourself. > > And who mentioned the word anyway? I don’t see it in the thread. Egyptologists are right in a left handed sort of way. In reality the ben ben was the phalus of atum and stood atop the primeval mound which was created be the deposition of calcium carbonate. It was the “sandbank” and “ugly face bringing water”; [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Fly_geyser.jpg/794px-Fly_geyser.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Fly_geyser.jpg/794px-Fly_geyser.jpg) The hole through the ben ben was the feminine principle of creation and atum’s consort, iusaas. The ben ben built itself similarly to how the pyramid built itself. The ben ben was removed before the geysers were drilled and taken to museums; 1652a. To say: O Atum-Khepri, when thou didst mount as a hill, 1652b. and didst shine as bnw of the ben (or, benben) in the temple of the “phoenix” in Heliopolis, 1652c. and didst spew out as Shu, and did spit out as Tefnut, The eruption spewed out shu (upward) and spit out tefnut (downward). This water was embued with upward and downward and by so moving they defined the sky and the earth who are their progeny. It’s impossible to understand the cultural context without understanding the ben ben. This is why 150 years of intensive study of the PT has still yielded no word definitions to Egyptologists. They don’t understand the ben ben and they don’t even know what a simple w3s-sceptre was for or how it operated. All they have are countless mysteries that can’t be explained evidentially or through the cultural context. To build the paradigm they’ve had to bolt and clamp the facts to it because it is like teflon and otherwise nothing will stick to it. This wouldn’t be such a sad state of affairs if they didn’t shout down those who disagee by waving a non-existent cultural context. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1050 "2015-05-01T14:33:58Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I doubt that. I suspect that, just as you have demonstrated an inability to understand science, engineering, and philosophy or to distinguish between science, engineering, and philosophy, and since you can never actually quote the Egyptologists in the errors you attribute to them, you are simply foisting off your own bad logic and misunderstanding on them, wholesale, and the stuff you attribute to them is simply more of your imagination. I don’t understand anything the same way most people do. But my equations still work. My observations still reflect reality sometimes. And my theory about pyramid building still makes accurate predictions and explains the news. I’m sure as time goes by this will become increasingly apparent. More and more preople are looking at this in terms of water and are seeing more and more water. Read the link about the Egyptological interpretation of the benben above and compare it to mine. They never reall6ty say much of anyrthing and when they do it’s just interpretation and based on concepts from 1000 years after pyramid building. This is just the way it is. Egyptological opinion as it applies to the pyramid builders is not evidentially based but is derived from later concepts and the four foundational assumptions. This doesn’t prove they’re wrong but it sure makes their opinions irrelevant to me and quite annoying. They can’t even argue outside their assumptions so discussion is extremely difficult. This is why they simply dismiss everyone who doesn’t accept the assumptions; they have no choice because Egyptology is founded on these assumptions. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1051 "2015-05-01T14:37:08Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Incidentally, I recommend episode 2 of the History Channel series _Engineering an Empire_ for some plausible ideas regarding ancient Egyptian construction. Yes. I remember; they must have used ramps since that was the height of stone lifting technology at the time. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1052 "2015-05-01T14:43:05Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The reason why it is important for pseudo scientists to prop up the impractical big ramp to the top is precisely to make all researchers sound silly, because to be effective the length of it would be almost a mile long and require more material than the pyramid itself, very few egyptologists think that that was feasible, so most researchers think that any ramps were smaller than that. All ramps are debunked (see posat #152). Even internal ramps are debunked but these are less solidly debunked than ALL other ramps. But internal ramps have severe flaws not least of which is a near vacuum of evidence to support them. It doesnt matter how you configure a ramping system the stones at the top must travel about a mile up one ramp or another. Egyptologists design systems there I call “esheresque” because the stones can even travel downward and still arrive at the top. Reality, definitions, and common sense simply don’t allow this. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1053 "2015-05-01T14:44:15Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > All ramps are debunked (see posat #152). Nothing was debunked in post #152. A bunch of uncited assertions were made. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1054 "2015-05-01T14:52:17Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > I don’t understand anything the same way most people do. But my equations still work. Oh my, this is rich. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1055 "2015-05-01T15:04:07Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Why? I mean, what is so special about ancient Egyptian writing that makes you believe it was completely and utterly literal? No other writing in history has proven to be purely literal, why would that be true for hieroglyphics? Perhaps I should say that I understand author intent rather than the language itself. The language is complex and will require decades to properly translate. It will require a lot of deductions and large numbers of dead ends. But since it is totally logical it will be possible to understand it very very much more deeply than I do. But, after all this work and the last nuance is understood, I believe we’ll see very little metaphor per se. There are various artistic and literary devices but these are not so much about meaning as expression. This language will never be “translatable” because it is metaphysical. It would be like trying to set a highly complex computer program that operated animals with their own will to English. It can’t be done. It can’t be translated. But the language can be “explained”. The intended meaning of the author and what he was thinking is simply in the context of what he wrote. The PT appears to be nothing more than a book of ritual but it may well be in a flowery language or poetry. I don’t think it is; I think it’s in a very formal ancient language thart was still used in science, courts, and finance. The people spoke it but might have felt more comfortable using “slang” which was more similar to modern language and where most meaning was expressed directly. I don’t know. All I have to work with is the words carved in stone and the observation that these words are understood scorrectly ALL of the grammatical errors that Egyptologists believe exist dissipate. There are no grammatical errors and they arise from our misunderstanding. This really should be quite obvious since these exact same “errors” exist each time it is repeated. People don’t carve a lot of errors in stone. When they do it is corrected or discarded. Whether it’s all literal or not isn’t extremely important since all of the most absurd sounding statements only sound absurd. The king asks for the boat that flies up and alights because he needs a ride to the pyramid top. Not because he’s confused and thinks he’s going to an imaginary heaven he cal live forever. > [@](#): > > There’s no hieroglyphic for geyser and yet you seem to assign that to what is written, as well as dozens of other non-intuitive symbols and concepts. Yes there is. The word for geyser was “duat” which was respresented by a circle with a star in it. The circle was the arm of nut (the well) and the star was the bubbles in the water that powered it. The action word was “3gb” which meant “the violent inundation that causes abundance”. It’s name was atum. Everything is there right in the PT where no one ever thought to look. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1056 "2015-05-01T15:09:32Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Nothing was debunked in post #152. A bunch of uncited assertions were made. Please be specific. I will defend the debunkment and have for years. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1057 "2015-05-01T15:14:21Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > Please be specific. I will defend the debunkment and have for years. To yourself of course, but you are not capable of showing what progress you have made in the real world to convince others that that is so. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1058 "2015-05-01T15:22:51Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > Please be specific. I will defend the debunkment and have for years. Every one of your assertions is uncited. “No word for ramp” – uncited. “No overseers buried”, “the grooves are the routes”, “pyramid town numbers were too small”, and many more – all uncited. I’m not going to take your word for it. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1059 "2015-05-01T15:33:20Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > Perhaps I should say that I understand author intent rather than the language itself. The language is complex and will require decades to properly translate. > … > But the language can be “explained”. The intended meaning of the author and what he was thinking is simply in the context of what he wrote. > … > Yes there is. The word for geyser was “duat” which was respresented by a circle with a star in it. The circle was the arm of nut (the well) and the star was the bubbles in the water that powered it. The action word was “3gb” which meant “the violent inundation that causes abundance”. It’s name was atum. Everything is there right in the PT where no one ever thought to look. These statements are logically inconsistent. Either you can read the language or you can’t. You seem to want to have it both ways. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1060 "2015-05-01T15:40:46Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Every one of your assertions is uncited. “No word for ramp” – uncited. “No overseers buried”, “the grooves are the routes”, “pyramid town numbers were too small”, and many more – all uncited. I’m not going to take your word for it. So in order to prove the word ramp doesn’t exist or that there are no overseers of ramp builders I have to specifically cite all human knowledge which doesn’t include the word ramp from before 2500 BC!!! This isn’t the way it works. You have to show me the word exists from before 2500 BC. It’s the same with ramp overseers; you show me wrong. This will prove impossible because these concepts aren’t in the ancient writing. It is Egyptologists who claim there is a mountain of evidence but no Egyptologist has consulted this mountain and found the word “ramp”. It’s not there. I can ease your burden of checking all sources and all human knowledge because the only place to look fpor ramps is in the PT or the writing on tombs. Here is a compendium of virtuall tomb writing at Giza; [http://www.gizapyramids.org/static/html/gizamastabas.jsp](http://www.gizapyramids.org/static/html/gizamastabas.jsp) You are welcome to read these and get back to me if you think I’m wrong. But I’ve already scoured them looking for support or refutation of my hypothesis and Egyptological hypothesis. I can find nearly nothing at all to support the paradigm but there are volumes that support the use of geysers. Egyptologists don’t want to argue these points because I can cite the builders own woirds and titles to show they are wrong. I can demolish ramps with evidence and logic and they are demolished whether they admit it yet or not. There were no ramps and I have proven beyond doubt there’s a simpler and easier way to build. I have shown this easier method is the best evidenced theory in existence. These are simple facts and appeals to “cultural context” means nothing at all if the word “ramp” isn’t even attested. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/1061 "2015-05-01T15:44:21Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > I have shown this easier method is the best evidenced theory in existence. You haven’t even shown that this method is physically possible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559.md?page=54)