How was the stone transported to build the pyramids?

Answer 1

In 2006 I was doing research for a university study in Australia concerning the construction of the Pyramids at Giza. Working with real excavated artefacts and ancient documents I was able to discover an ancient type of pulley that is unknown in the modern world until now. I am a mechanical fitter and people consider that my knowledge of mechanics at a practical level assisted me with this discovery.

This ancient pulley walks up (or down) steps in a similar way to a three wheel step-trolley and I firmly believe that this is how the ancient Egyptians built their Pyramids. The Giza Pyramids have steps of course, which I have termed "racks" and of course there are four "racks" in a square based Pyramid. The wooden ancient Egyptian Pinion-Pulleys made positive engagements with the Pyramid's stone "racks" carrying a stone block each, rotating as they were being hoisted with ropes. No ramps were required as the Pyramid itself was used.

This ancient pulley has a mechanical advantage of 2.8, thus is a simple machine and proves the Greek historian, Herodotus to be absolutely correct as he recorded wooden machines made of short wooden planks were used to raise the blocks of stone.

These planks only needed to be the side length of a Pyramid block which is about one metre and were easily carried also, as Herodotus also records. Well, Herodotus was only writing what Egyptian Priests told him and Egyptian Priests recorded history as part of their duties.

A working model has been made and a book about all of this has been published and I wish the World's people to know of this. This book is dedicated to the Egyptian people to promote "new awareness of their intelligent and innovative glorious historical past".

RAISING STONE 1 - Paul Hai's racks & pinions theory. (121 pages)

ISBN 9780646476797

Please visit my website at www.haitheory.com

Best regards to you all from Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia,

Paul Hai

(author & publisher)

Answer 2

They would float it down the Nile River on a barge made from papyrus reeds to get it close to the pyramid site. They would tie ropes around the stones and gangs of slaves would drag them to the pyramid site.

Answer 3

Slaves were forced to transport them on sledges. An average pyramid stone weighed about 2.5 tons (2,545kg) and took twenty slaves to drag it along. Water or oil was poured under the runners to reduce friction. Granite stones were brought from Aswan some 400 miles (640km) away. These were loaded on barges made from papyrus reeds and floated down the river Nile. Once they reached the pyramid site via a canal dug for the purpose they were loaded onto sledges. These stones weighed anything up to 70 tons and took over 500 slaves to move.

Answer 4

The limestone blocks were cut out in the quarries close the pyramid site. Once the limestone blocks quarried they were lowered onto sledges. Gangs of about 20 slaves dragged the sledge along a causeway laid with planks. Water or oil was poured in front of the blades of the sledge to help them slide more easily.

Answer 5

The limestone blocks were cut out in the quarries close the pyramid site. Once the limestone blocks quarried they were lowered onto sledges. Gangs of slaves dragged the sledge along a causeway laid with planks. Water or oil was poured in front of the blades of the sledge to help them slide more easily.

A ramp made of brick and rubble mixed with tafla (a type of clay) was used to haul the blocks to the level where building was going on. Once at the working level the blocks were man-handled off the sledges into position by levers and brute force by further gangs of slaves called setters. Once relieved of their load the hauliers would then make their weary way back down the ramp to start the whole process again.

Answer 6

The stone blocks used to build the pyramids were transported mainly by dragging sledges across the sand. These sledges were likely lubricated with water to reduce friction and make transportation easier. Some evidence suggests that workers may have used a system of ramps to move the stones up the pyramid during construction.

Answer 7

Egyptian used inclined plane to shift heavy stones for the construction of Egyptian pyramids