Martin Stower Wrote:
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> By hand? So there are hauliers, yes? What do
> they stand on? A platform in the sky?


You have to get the idea of superstitious primitives out of your head.

On any massive job there will be unskilled workers whose job duties are too numerous to mention. Don't picture tens of thousands of barefoot stone draggers and armies of women carrying baskets of wet sand for the men to live upon. There was no need for large numbers of laborers because the work was done by the "gods", by natural phenomena. But they would have had as many as 100 men to do the numerous odd jobs as they arose.

When they lifted the top stones (above 460') they simply used little loads of about 9 tons and then they put only 8 3/4 ton in the counterweight. Four men pulling from the top of the fifth step made up the difference. The stones at the top become more uniform in order to create equal loads of three or four stones. When the top becomes less than 20' across it becomes far more difficult to stop a load and overshooting the top will cause a disaster. The stones flew up like the fleglings of swallows and like a swallow on its first flight might have trouble landing without a wide perch.

Everything's right there in the Pyramid Texts but if you believe in superstitious primitives then you can't see any of it.