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Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> A barge carrying 12 stones need to be
> pulled of the top of the Causeway every 12 to 16
> minutes.
You're still fixating on all stone coming up the causeway even though the quarry is right next to the pyramid and in a different direction.
Most stones were pulled straight out of the quarry and straight up the pyramid in almost all probability. You need to concentrate on the bulk of the stones and not the causeway. Do you dispute the quarry was just south of the pyramid?
> That only leaves the possibility, the
> barges were placed a short distance apart, as in
> Tandem. Also reduces the rope needing to be long,
> as there were many of them combined. Do this, and
> it becomes plausible. It works.
On paper you can count the number of angels who dance on the head of a pin.
No offence but you could consider getting training in Egyptology if this is appealing.
> Mark
> Lehner's discovery of small catering / sleeping
> quarters put even a higher strain on proposals.
If this were the only workers village it simply ELIMINATES the possibility they used a muscle based system of lifting stone. If there's another village it makes the builders highly inefficient and ignorant. If they slept on ramps then they were insane.
> They spent 10 years preparing according to
> Herodotus.
The pavement, mason's shop, causeways, port and associated facilities (composed largely of tura stone for cannibalization) required an enormous expenditure in time and effort. They built a machine that built pyramids right in place.
> "they raised the remaining stones to their
> places by means of machines formed of short wooden
> planks."
You're calling these "machines", barges. I am calling them "counterweights" (built of short pieces of wood) that were called "henu boats" by the builders. This is hardly a semantical argument. The pyramids were built in steps with machines composed "chiefly) of short pieces of wood EXACTLY as Herodotus said and we misinterpret.
EVERYTHING IS PERSPECTIVE AND BELIEF. Ancient people got everything right and we get it wrong, but even more, we got it wrongly.
> I will illustrate my proposal better, showing the
> barges in tandem. Takes me time.
I'll look forward t it.
> Odd, how no one
> left any illustrations, decorations, statues in
> wall reliefs...on & on.
I believe they left everything right in front of our face and we misinterpret it. There are even depictions (drawings) and descriptions of funiculars but we see something else.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 26-Mar-20 19:26 by cladking.
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> A barge carrying 12 stones need to be
> pulled of the top of the Causeway every 12 to 16
> minutes.
You're still fixating on all stone coming up the causeway even though the quarry is right next to the pyramid and in a different direction.
Most stones were pulled straight out of the quarry and straight up the pyramid in almost all probability. You need to concentrate on the bulk of the stones and not the causeway. Do you dispute the quarry was just south of the pyramid?
> That only leaves the possibility, the
> barges were placed a short distance apart, as in
> Tandem. Also reduces the rope needing to be long,
> as there were many of them combined. Do this, and
> it becomes plausible. It works.
On paper you can count the number of angels who dance on the head of a pin.
No offence but you could consider getting training in Egyptology if this is appealing.
> Mark
> Lehner's discovery of small catering / sleeping
> quarters put even a higher strain on proposals.
If this were the only workers village it simply ELIMINATES the possibility they used a muscle based system of lifting stone. If there's another village it makes the builders highly inefficient and ignorant. If they slept on ramps then they were insane.
> They spent 10 years preparing according to
> Herodotus.
The pavement, mason's shop, causeways, port and associated facilities (composed largely of tura stone for cannibalization) required an enormous expenditure in time and effort. They built a machine that built pyramids right in place.
> "they raised the remaining stones to their
> places by means of machines formed of short wooden
> planks."
You're calling these "machines", barges. I am calling them "counterweights" (built of short pieces of wood) that were called "henu boats" by the builders. This is hardly a semantical argument. The pyramids were built in steps with machines composed "chiefly) of short pieces of wood EXACTLY as Herodotus said and we misinterpret.
EVERYTHING IS PERSPECTIVE AND BELIEF. Ancient people got everything right and we get it wrong, but even more, we got it wrongly.
> I will illustrate my proposal better, showing the
> barges in tandem. Takes me time.
I'll look forward t it.
> Odd, how no one
> left any illustrations, decorations, statues in
> wall reliefs...on & on.
I believe they left everything right in front of our face and we misinterpret it. There are even depictions (drawings) and descriptions of funiculars but we see something else.
Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 26-Mar-20 19:26 by cladking.
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