how did eygptians built pyramids?

Question

how could they built giant structure without modern technologies? do you think that aliens built the pyramids

iam just wondering please dont think that iam whack, crazy, mentaly ill, and getting too much tv or comics
-thanyou

Answer 1

I think people built them, but a higher source design them.

Answer 2

In the belief system of ancient Egypt the pyramid was a resurrection machine for the Pharaoh. If Pharaoh was resurrected then the people he ruled over were also resurrected. Great attention was paid to every detail of the burial process as the fate of the society was dependent upon it. So the people had a vested interest in the construction process and devoted much of their time to the project. Slaves and paid employees were only use on some of the projects, the vast bulk of the worker were volunteers. The first recorded strike in human history occurred at a pyramid site, and it ended when Pharaoh sent in the chariots. The technology of pyramid construction was built up over time and the builders sometimes made mistakes. There is one pyramid with two different angles because the builders got it wrong and the stone cap was too heavy for the base. The Egyptians were a river culture and moved the stone blocks on raft like sleds, not free rollers as was originally thought. Ramps were used to pull the blocks into place and removed afterwards. The pyramids were coated in decorated material and painted, but this has long vanished.

In Egypt they say, man fears time, but time fears the pyramids.

Answer 3

Egypt is famous for is pyramids because they formed an important part of that civilisation. They were considered as the pathway to heaven for the rulers and were filled with gold, silver & other rare precious items so thatthey could enjoy it in the next birth.

Each pyramid consisted of blocks of stones or brcks which were about 1 ton. When they built 2 to 3 layers of pyramid base, they created a passage through the stones from which they could keep the huge stones more easily creating a new layer.

About a minimum of 18 - 20 layer would form a pyramid. Inside the pyramid, old kind of elevators were used. The slaves used a wheel and constant pulley. The functions were similar to a old well's bucket when lift pump was not used. Standing on these elevators, they did the work and built a pyramid.

Answer 4

Before the Great Pyramids of Giza were built they had a few hundred years practice on smaller pyramids. Some of these have fallen down because they were either not well designed or were on poor foundations. Others are still standing, but they get very little publicity. The Egyptians had no slaves, or very few when the big pyramids were built. However they did have a lot of people who had nothing much to do when the Nile was in flood. That was for quite a while every year, so the farmers who could not work flooded land worked on the pyramids. They also kept expert builders working year-round.
These people were paid with food, clothing and housing, not money.


Hundreds of years of experience taught them to design the thing well and put it on a good foundation. Recent engineering calculations say that the Great Pyramid took about 17 years to build. This is not so different from what the ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote. Some of the great Gothic cathedrals in Europe took hundreds of years to build,

Their economy and sense of priorities was vastly different to what we have today.

Answer 5

Interesting answers!The guy who said the Egyptians were paid in beer is partly right. The accounts that have been interpreted say they were paid in onions, bread and beer. Onions were official as currency.
There were no slaves. The Egyptian empire never did use slavery. They had the opposite problem. More people than they had work for them to do. Temple building might have started as a make work project for the slack season. If it did then it very same became a high skill and high paying occupation. It was a great thing for the Egyptian who got selected to serve as a builder.
Recent archaeology shows that it takes a lot fewer men to move the stones than was previously though. They do not seem to have used rollers, and relied on a system of clay greased skids.

Answer 6

There are Pyramids in Egypt, Central America and many other countries throughout the World. Does anyone think that it was coincidence that civilizations who never came in contact with each other had the same idea? I find it hard to believe what they tell us about their construction. Technology is a step by step learning process. If the Egyptians had the technology to build Pyramids where are the examples of hundreds of years of previous technologies? It's like going from building Log Cabins to the Empire State Building with little in between. The Egyptians received this knowledge and so did the Mayans who also erected Pyramids.

Answer 7

It's a good question. For the level of precision, and the sheer weight of the building material, it ought to be a natural tendency for anyone to question the current assumptions of the archeological community. There is no way that a slave army moved the massive blocks into position with ropes and ramps. Transporting a 50 ton stone 100 miles is one thing, but the real problem is the last 1/2 inch. It seems contrary to our expectations, but in reality, it is a miraculous feat to fit just two heavy blocks together without morter and with the level of precision applied by the Egyptians. Either the stats on the pyramids at Giza are incorrect, or there is a major part of the story that we are missing. I suspect it's the latter.

Answer 8

Some historians believe that the Egyptians must have employed simple machines in order to be able to move the building materials for the pyramids into place. Personally, I don't think that aliens built the pyramids, but I do know that there is still some element of mystery to the process!

Answer 9

No aliens here, as much as I'd like to believe that, too. There are many theories, the most common one is that they built a spiraling mud ramp around the structure and then hauled each stone up that ramp using round pieces of wood and a hundred people per block or so. See link for more info.

Answer 10

No.

How did the romans make such incredible architecture that we can only rival with lots of fancy machines? And nobody yells "alien" on that one.

The principle is the same. The only difference is that the Egyptians had lots of slaves, so the hugeness was no obstacle.

I believe that there are "aliens" as in intelligent life on other planets, but they didn't make the pyramids, and the ones I know of don't have UFO's, sorry.

Answer 11

I have done research on this very subject for years and you know I have discovered that noone truly knows!! There are alot of theories and many times they have been tested and recreated but at the end of the day they are still just theories..some say slaves..others say it was a massive collective community project...aliens is a popular theme..and so is time travel actually...The pryamids are still a big beautiful mystery!!!