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  • This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid

    11/01/2018 7:37:06 AM PDT · by ETL · 43 replies
    LiveScience.com<br> ^ | Oct 31, 2018 | Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
    Archaeologists have long wondered exactly how the ancient Egyptians constructed the world's biggest pyramid, the Great Pyramid. Now, they may have discovered the system used to haul massive stone blocks into place some 4,500 years ago. They discovered the remains of this system at the site of Hatnub, an ancient quarry in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The contraption would have been used to transport heavy alabaster stones up a steep ramp, according to the archaeologists working at the site, from the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (French Institute for Oriental Archaeology)in Cairo and from the University of Liverpool in England....