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Solved! How Ancient Egyptians Moved Massive Pyramid Stones
LiveScience ^ | May 01, 2014 | Denise Chow

Posted on 05/03/2014 6:46:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

Ok......and they hauled all that water into the desert how?


21 posted on 05/03/2014 7:05:14 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Surprisingly, in before the Giorgio Tsoukalos picture.
22 posted on 05/03/2014 7:06:32 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The ancient Egyptians had the "secret ingredient": MORE slaves than they knew what to do with. They conquered and enslaved and thus had a ton of slaves to do slave labor to make and move the tons of sand and brick.

We saw the pyramids and the sphinx in person. They are amazing. The climate? Horrible. They were, without doubt, truly an amazing culture, but they didn't continue on forever. By the end of the B.C. era they had been replaced by Arabs. Arabs AIN'T no Egyptians.

TODAY, Egypt is Arab. We loved our two visits there while we were living and working in the middle east. The Egyptians, at the time, really LIKED Americans. I was so used to the world view, that Americans suck, that I enjoyed being where we were liked.
I have nothing but good things to say about Egypt. It's a shame that it's Arab now and turning to s*** something less that it used to be. Oh well, nothing's perfect.

23 posted on 05/03/2014 7:07:11 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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> Djehutihotep 12th Dynasty... was a nomarch during the reigns of Amenemhet II and Senwosret II, who reigned during the 12th Dynasty. He performed many services for the royal family and accompanied Senwosret II on a military campaign in Syria. The thing that he is best remembered for are the reliefs in his tomb at Bersha. These reliefs show the transporting of a colossal statue from the quarry at Hatnub. These give insight into the construction and the architectural methods of this time period. Many building projects were going on at this time. This statue weighed more than 60 tons and was moved on a huge sled by the Egyptians as part of their corvee obligations.

http://www.touregypt.net/who/djehutih.htm

[ by “as part of their corvee obligations” is meant “slavery”, a word that the Egyptians refuse to use to refer to the ancient past of that country ]


24 posted on 05/03/2014 7:07:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

They brought sand and lime (concrete mix) to the worksite, built forms, mixed with WATER, then let the mix set, them removed the forms


25 posted on 05/03/2014 7:07:31 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: SunkenCiv
So the top part that the UFOs built was the easy part.

Figures.

26 posted on 05/03/2014 7:07:44 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought they forced Isrealites to do it?


27 posted on 05/03/2014 7:07:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Mark17
They had beer, bread, onions, fish, dates, leafy vegetables, melons, and maybe Snickers(tm) bars.

I'm not sure about the last, because that wrapper may have been dropped by a grad student, but the rest, I'm pretty sure of.

I really did study ancient foods, especially breads and beers, very seriously.

/johnny

28 posted on 05/03/2014 7:07:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: MUDDOG
I like what Thoreau said about it — the peasants should’ve thrown the pharoah in the Nile.

If they had some sort of 2nd amendment, they might have done exactly that.

29 posted on 05/03/2014 7:09:55 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: lacrew

Dude- They used the hose!


30 posted on 05/03/2014 7:10:38 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
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Egyptian Statue Moved By Ropes?

Egyptian Statue Moved By Ropes?

31 posted on 05/03/2014 7:10:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: nickcarraway
That was the movie.

/johnny

32 posted on 05/03/2014 7:10:52 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SunkenCiv
The guy that drew that was drunk. Look how many legs are on the short guys on the right side.

/johnny

33 posted on 05/03/2014 7:12:28 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: lacrew

Clearly they had no labor shortage.


34 posted on 05/03/2014 7:12:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Bullish

By the time he leaves office, DC will be ass-deep in dung beetles.


35 posted on 05/03/2014 7:13:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s BS. Obviously, the ET’s levitated the dam@ed rocks with their tractor beams.


36 posted on 05/03/2014 7:15:31 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: SunkenCiv

Nothing new here. Perfect non-story. This has been known for years.


37 posted on 05/03/2014 7:16:04 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: cloudmountain

I’ve heard the same from most people who traveled there. A former coworker went there with her husband on their honeymoon (they made a weeks-long trip throughout the Holy Land and Egypt) in the late 1970s I think it was. She got all banged up in the bazaar in Cairo or other market area because the burkah-clad Egyptian beeotches would kick her or step on her feet because she was going around the way that women from actual civilizations go around.

That horrible mass-murder of tourists at Luxor was carried out by typical jihadi; the locals got very pissed off by that, and chased down the shooters, and beat the living hell out of at least one of them. I think that’s how all of them were apprehended.


38 posted on 05/03/2014 7:18:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

I think they just sprayed the rocks with WD-40.


39 posted on 05/03/2014 7:20:22 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: JRandomFreeper

The study of beer is nearly universal during the college years (in non-muzzie countries anyway). :’)


40 posted on 05/03/2014 7:20:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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