Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> For the reader, it is unlikely these sleds
> examples were used for transporting blocks up
> ramps, but rather statues or the like across flat
> terrain: Obviously
> sleds could be modified for the use and rigors of

Hi
> stone block transport, up ramps included, but this
> is not the issue.
>
> The problem is not using sleds, but rather the
> logistics of making (and repairing) the untold
> thousands of sleds that would have been required
> not just to build the OK pyramids spanning the
> centuries, big and small, but also the hundreds of
> mastabas, temples, statues, ect. But then there is
> the wood to build the fleets of ships, the
> thousands of tons of wood needed to make the
> gypsum mortar, furniture, various tools and
> sundries for a population of a million people,
> ect.
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> I am not sure what the answer is, I have ideas,
> but personally I do not think it is possible for
> there to have been enough wood to transport
> millions of blocks regardless of how long it took.
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>
> Something to consider in general is that pivot
> stones like these were found in the OK related to
> moving stone:
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> As we can see each stone was used many times for
> this function until it was no longer viable.

Hi Thanos5150,

That is all good work, I have never seen the pivot stones. Did they mention where in the OK?