Who and how did they build the Pyramids in egypt?

Answer 1

The Egyptians built the Great Pyramids of Giza during the Old Kingdom. You can find a lot of information about this on line. National Geographic is also a good resource.

They cut the rock from a quarry, and reassembled it in the geometric shape of the pyramid. (The blocks are not all the same!) The farmers did most of the labor, and they worked during the time of the annual flood. Their fields were covered with water, so the government employed them. It was strenuous work, but they were paid. Ramps and strength helped move the giant stones. Originally, the outside of the pyramids were covered in white limestone; however, it was removed by later groups who did not value the ancients to make mortar.

Also, if you hear and nonsense about the Israelites building it: that's false. If the Israelites were in Egypt, it was probably during the New Kingdom. Many suspect during the reign of Ramses II, during the 19th dynasty. By that time, the Kings were buried in rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings, not in pyramids. Pyramids were made during the Old Kingdom. Also, the Egyptians never used slavery as a means for building projects. Egyptians did the building during the flood seasons, and they were employed by the government.

Answer 2

I don't know why pyramid construction techniques are still considered to be such a mystery... they are, in fact, obvious.

I will not speculate on how they got the stones to the building site... only on the method of construction.

Back in 1973 or 1974 I saw an article in Smithsonian magazine that pondered this mystery. So I posed two questions to myself:

1. What resources did they have to work with?

2. If it were my responsibility, and I was limited to those resources by technology or availability, how would I employ the resources to facilitate the construction of a pyramid.

About 3 minutes of off-handed reflection provided the answers.

RESOURCES:

1. Lots of manpower
2. Lots of sand
3. Intelligence

The reason sand is a resource is that it can easily be transported upward in small quantities by somebody carrying a container up a ladder, hauling a container up with a rope, or using a "pass the ammunition" type approach. It is even conceiveable that a system of animal-powered conveyer buckets was used... a logical achievement, for a society that used animals to turn big millstones.

Initially, earthen ramps were probably used... but only until a critical height had been reached (maybe four, five tiers). Then, the ramps would have been dispensed with.

After the critical height was achieved, timber ramps would have been constructed AGAINST THE SIDE of the structure, from bottom to top, with corresponding ramps on the opposite side. These ramps would be greased. As construction progressed, the ramps would be extended as necessary, by attaching another segment to the top.

(Wooden ramps may have evolved into dressed stone ramps, at some point. After all, some pyramids were smooth-sided... until Arabs raided them for building materials. It has been generally assumed that the dressed smooth faced stones, being decorative, were added in the final stages of construction. However, it may be that they were functional (as the ramp sliding surface), and were added in-process.)

PROCEDURE:

1. Crew of men pulls empty wooden sledge up to top of opposing ramp.

2. Ropes are extended down the opposite side and attached to humongous stone block.

3. Hordes of little Egyptian dudes haul up bags (baskets?) of sand and dump them into wooden sledge. Soon, sledge is heavier than stone block; sledge goes down, block goes up.

4. Detach block.

5. Dump sand from wooden sledge.

6. Haul up the to the top of the ramp and do it again.

7. Repeat until pyramid is built.

It s conceiveable, during the early stages of construction at least, that 30, 40, 50 of these machines may have been operated simultaneously... it would just be a matter of organization and coordination, to stay out of each other's way. It seems to me that up-ramps could have occupied 2 sides of the structure, and down-ramps the opposite sides. The number of machines would have to diminish, of course, as the structure grew taller.

Perhaps the reason that this has remained an enduring mystery is that nobody looked upon Egypt's most abundant material (sand) as an important resource for pyramid building.

Answer 3

A bunch of Egyptian people (not Jewish slaves, that is a myth) were drawn by corvee and came and worked hauling the huge rocks to build the pyramids for the glory of their king.

Answer 4

The egyptian slaves and the peasants built them. They make the bricks out of mud, set them in the hot African sun to dry and then stacked them up in a design called the pyramid.

Answer 5

Don't know, but found a Site where they showed a Globe of the World.
Pretty Interesting too.
Alot of the Structure's found on the EARTH, when connected by a Line, form almost a Perfect Circle, bout a quarter of the Way to the Top of the EARTH.
Interesting------------Ditto...............

Answer 6

These pyramids were impossible to be built by the egyptians with their tools thousands of years ago. Even we tried to do with modern machines. We couldn't bludge it. Japanese people couldn't duplicate them.

Physics around the world said they were brought by the extraterrestials in the favor of the Egyptians through the certain points of the world (bermuda triangle and the devil sea were two of these points).

I bet you think that's crazy.

Answer 7

Aliens from Krypton built them with supplies from Home Depot.

Answer 8

We hired thousands of illegal immigrants, the problem was smuggling them into the country.

Answer 9

Slaves built it because of the egptians belive in the afterlife.

Answer 10

aliens built them with ray beams. if you dont believe me check out the latest issue of weekly world news