What do you think about the Great Pyramid being built using water?

Question

I read about it last night and I must say it sounds very intriguing. It does sound better than the giant ramp theory I must say. Using barges to transport the stone, water locks to raise the stone, water ram pumps to move the water, water as a means of leveling each course. It almost seems they had to atleast use water to level the limestone bedrock. Hopefully some experts and enthusiasts will find this interesting.

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/How_the_Great_Pyramid_Was_Built.html

Answer 1

The problem with locks, canals, rafts etc. is that you end up spending more time and materials to build the stuff before you can build the pyramid. Then you have to haul the whole thing away, leaving no trace.



Tomb paintings show large blocks being moved by men. Sleds and a liquid lubricant is also seen.



It's agreed that the base was cut into rock. To level it water was dumped in and the base leveled by cutting to the same depth of water. After that it was piling stone on stone.



The "8 sides" are part of the design and are easily seen. However, it's not possible that this was due to "because of the pressure of the water" Natural forces aren't goung to result in equaly straight sides. You have to built it in.



The pyramids show a sequential history of building. The bent pyramid also shows how easily it was to make mistakes. The stone blocks also carry graffiti of the crews that hauled them into place, so no to aliens.



All this alien stuff must have the lead in of "As we humans were so dumb...we had to have someone else show us how to put a rock on a rock"



As for the cement being stronger then the stone, we're talking about limestone and maybe sandstone. The stuff crumbles and can be cut with copper. That's not a tough material.

Answer 2

I'll buy into using barges on the Nile to move stone blocks, using water to find the level, and using water as a lubricant, even using water to move sand. I just do not see the right materials to make lock gates, or the correct soils in the area to line the canal walls. The article refers to canals in Ohio. Most of Ohio has clay type soils that can act a sealant, keeping water in. The region of the pyramids is sand. It is hard to build canals and dikes from sand,

Still, an interesting article, and interesting hypothesis.

Answer 3

I think the most plausible explanation is one offered by a French architect who has studied the Great Pyramid for eight years and concluded in his theory that it was built with a combination of internal and a small external ramps. I'd have to agree with icabod that the water ram pump and coffer dam or locks theory is too complicated and unnecessary although the Egyptians probably did use water as a lubricant and the Nile to float blocks of stone to the site and possibly used water to level the base by constructing a grid of shallow trenches, fill them with water and chisel them down to the same level. But that doesn't explain how they made each coarse of blocks almost perfectly level. Some archeologists have concluded that the Egyptians might have used crude telescopes for surveying purposes since we have found crude optical lenses in Egyptian sites and we also know that they were capable of extremely detailed machine-turning, drilling, sawing and lathing of some of the hardest rocks on earth to produce bowls and other items. Some unfinished blocks in quarries show evidences of being drilled or sawed.

It's possible ...and likely...that they applied those methods to produce optical lenses as well.

"Ancient Egyptians built the 480-foot-high (146-meter-high) Great Pyramid of Giza from the inside out, according to a French architect.



Based on eight years of study, Jean-Pierre Houdin has created a novel three-dimensional computer simulation to present his hypothesis. He says his findings solve the mystery of how the massive monument just outside Cairo was constructed.



The 4,500-year-old tomb of Pharaoh Khufu, he concluded, was built using a ramp that spirals around the pyramid's interior 30 to 45 feet (9 to 14 meters) behind the exterior surface.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070402-great-pyramid.html



http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.html



A short video of his theory.......



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYnTlGFPcAc



A better National Geographic video...I watched the whole program on TV when it came out.....

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-lasCXujNPfs/great_pyramid_mystery_solved/



An online book about it......

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24268896/The-Secret-of-the-Great-Pyramid



This guy knows a thing or two about moving large blocks of stone............

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage1



Egyptian lathe turned objects...

http://www.altarcheologie.nl/egypt/Hard%20Facts%20-%20Lathe%20Turning.htm



Another "pyramid water pump" theory........

http://skepdic.com/refuge/pharoahspump.html



Lots of pyramid links here.........

http://www.world-mysteries.com/lnx_4.htm

Answer 4

Religion.

Answer 5

I think aliens were involved with the making of the pyramids. Just look at all the "coincidences" with the pyramids on the link below and you decide.

Answer 6

Sounds like sense to me- don't forget they had the Nile - and had to transport those rocks from far away - good idea.

Answer 7

I think that that is a bit of a better explanation that what I've heard in the past.