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How to build a pyramid

ScumLord · 2017-01-24 17:54:33

Came across this great video explaining how the pyramid may have been built. It seems like the best explaination I've heard to date. According to the video the grand gallery was actually a counterweight system for moving large stones and isn't the corridor they would have used during the funeral at all. It also states that…

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24-01-2017 6:54pm

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ScumLord

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Came across this great video explaining how the pyramid may have been built. It seems like the best explaination I've heard to date.

According to the video the grand gallery was actually a counterweight system for moving large stones and isn't the corridor they would have used during the funeral at all.

It also states that antichambers usually present in Pyramids and used to store the pharaohs possessions are still to be found on an alternative route into the main chamber.

The planning that must have gone into the building of the pyramid was incredible, they had to have thought out every stage of the build before hand and must have had loads of experience building projects like this.

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