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How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?
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9/23/2024
Scientists have had to piece together clues as to how pyramids were constructed.
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How were the Egyptian pyramids built?
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Building the pyramids was, understandably, a colossal undertaking.
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Aside from feeding a labor force of 10,000 people and constructing temples, cemeteries,
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and boat pits near the pyramid, how exactly did the Egyptians build these titanic structures?
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The process began when workers cut stone blocks from a quarry near modern-day Cairo and used
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boats to ship the blocks along the Nile River to Giza.
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These blocks were enormously heavy, so workers in Giza piled them onto large, sled-like vehicles
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called sledges that laborers could either push or pull to the construction site.
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These sledges were heavy, but a clever trick likely helped laborers move them.
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Illustrations from ancient Egypt show that workers poured water in front of the sledges
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to dampen the sand, making the sledges easier to move.
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Current experiments show that this method greatly reduces friction and halves the number
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of workers needed to move a load.
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Once the stones arrived at the pyramids, workers used a system of ramps to haul up the stones.
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Little evidence of these ramps survived, but scientists are now scanning and reconstructing
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the pyramids with the hopes of figuring out this mystery.
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Projects such as these may also reveal previously undiscovered chambers within the pyramids.
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Stay tuned, because if they do, live science will cover it.
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Egypt's pyramids?
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Just another one of life's little mysteries.
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