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I am assuming most of the stone came out
> of the main quarry just south of G1 and the Sphinx
> Quarry just to the east of that. These are the
> quarries identified but never studied by
> Egyptologists.
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> [url=http://www.aeraweb.org/gpmp-project/great-pyr
> amid-quarry/]AERA
> [/url]
> [quote="The bottom of the quarry slopes slightly
> upwards to the north toward what would later
> become the Khafre causeway. Massive amounts of
> limestone, sand, tafla (desert clay), and gypsum
> debris now fill the center of the quarry. Lehner
> speculates this material might be remnants of the
> pyramid construction ramps, which the workers
> removed and dumped back into the quarry to fill it
> at the end of the project."]
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> [/quote]
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> Steve, the word for ramp is st3 which is three
> coiled ropes. This word is also used for dragging.
> Cladking is ill-informed.
> Clearly ramps were used up to a certain course
> level. The archaeological evidence is solid. Heck
> you can see a ramp out of the quarry so obviously
> stones were dragged up on it.

I am well aware they had a word for "ramp" after the great pyramid building age. I assume they had this same word DURING the great pyramid building age. The problem here is that this word is unattested during the time we believe they were using them to build great pyramids.

The logogram for "ramp" (from after the great pyramid building age) was just an angle that looks like a ramp.