How Were the Pyramids Built?
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Published 2014-11-05
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The most common misconception about the pyramids is that they were built by slaves. Recent archeological evidence suggests they were instead constructed by paid workers. Some may have performed this work as a form of tax payment for several months of the year. Skilled engineers would have planned and orchestrated the building. An estimated 10,000-20,000 people would have been working on a pyramid at any one point in time. They were well fed and provided with shelter near the pyramids. Plus their burial sites close by indicate they were respected and were not slaves.
Much of the limestone was quarried from the Giza plateau itself, meaning the stones did not need to be transported far. The granite casing of Menkaure's pyramid, on the other hand, was transported from Aswan, around 600 miles, or 1000 km up the Nile.
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All Comments (21)
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Well the pyramids were built before Isaac Newton invented gravity, so the stones weight wasn't a problem.
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I love how a single youtuber can make all this quality science/history content, yet the actual History Channel on television can't do any better than pawn stars or storage wars.
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I love that these pyramids are too big to be destroyed. They can be weathered but no empire could take apart the pyramids. It would take considerably more effort to destroy it than building it. It’s a structure that I think the Egyptians knew would outlive their society and maybe humans as a whole. This was their legacy.
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The building of the pyramids, the forging and making of tools, the agricultural input, the building of towns to support the workers and everything else is simply incredible
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The Egyptians just figured out how to change it to creative mode.
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Why do I always discover new interesting channels right before I was going to sleep...?
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It's so awesome how much content accumulated over the years in this channel. I am a relatively recent subscriber and it always blows me away when I get some video-recommendation from this channel. I hope you revisit this topic some day and collect some experts and kind of give an overview about the current theories on how such big project had been realized back in the days
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I went to the Pyramids to finish some quests in Assassination Creed, I must admit I must appreciate the level of detailing they have done and it was a sight to behold after climbing up the pyramid, you can see the entire city from there.
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Q: "How were the Pyramids built?" A: "No idea. But thanks for clicking."
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I think they started from the bottom
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Imagine how they looked when not only they were beautiful and new but also a beautiful city around it and probably some kind of decorative park leading to them.
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came to this video after watching a documentary and recognizing him in it! it’s called ancient impossible in case you were wondering and it goes more in depth (i have no idea where you can watch it though because it just came on tv)
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Imagine how beautiful the pyramids looked like once they were completely finished and the sun shined brightly onto to them.
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Imagine being part of a civilization in which you worked so hard, that a future civilization believes that "aliens did it."
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Came here from an old repost showing the title and the Top comment.
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POV: You came searching for the comment about when Isaac Newton didn't invent gravity so stone weight wasn't a problem.
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The Egyptians used an analog 3D printer to build the pyramids.
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Imagine the look on the faces of the Egyptians if someone would have rolled up in a cart or wagon with wheels on it right after the last block was placed on the pyramid. "Hey guys! Whatcha doin?"
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Interesting. Liked the clip. I've heard a theory to the effect that a ramp was indeed used and was part of the pyramid, so that the blocks were pushed up a rising course the coiled around the structure and then backfilled on the way donwn in a manner of speaking.
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Id like to see an updated video on this
