Modern researchers have demonstrated how to saw through stone with the tools that were available to Ancient Egyptians, but I'm pretty sure they used alien tech because that sounds like fun.
Social media lets stupid people spread their dumbass ideas and makes the whole of society stupider.
Its basically a copper tube or a lumberjack style copper 'saw' (which does not actually have teeth) + a guy consistently adding sand.
The tube drills were used with a contraption resembling an archery bow somewhat, with the string looped around the tube, such that you could draw the bow back and forth to 'drill'.
There are multiple, detailed, hieroglyph inscribed picture/diagrams showing how this was done, made by people commemorating the construction itself.
Archaeologists have even reconstructed and tested these methods in our time, and big surprise, they work.
Primitive Technology has a great video showing a couple ways string was used to drive tools. Great channel in general for seeing not only old tools, but how each one was experimented on and refined over time.
Once again, the instructions were all there.. we just needed to RTFM
Aliens built the pyramids because they were impressed by the Egyptians' engineering skill and technology. They didn't build any pyramids in Europe because white people sucked at engineering
New favorite theory.
“Ancient Egyptians… I’m pretty sure they used alien tech”
~@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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Even the whole "how did they move all those stones to the pyramid sites, and how did the tip of this Pramod end up all the way over here?!"
Egypt is full of ancient River systems that have long dried up and been covered by sands. They used those to move all the material, but since they're gonna and dried up now, we just scratch our heads and wonder how they got there.
We have also literally found shockingly well preserved sleds that match up with the diagrams depicting when the stones had to be moved over land (drawn by tens to hundreds of people).
More people need to learn that the African Humid Period was a thing.
Right? It took hard work and back breaking labor.
I think they used copper "saws" and then put sand under the saw so the sand would cut the stone as you pushed the saw over it.
Why not serious?
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"Yo Sedjem, check this out. Look what I can do with this wet string!"
“Hamish, what if we coat it with scratchy sand?”
Yep, and less people on earth at the time. And as the quote 'The only universal constant is human intelligence' tells, it shows, less people, more intelligence per single entity. And tbh most of us would die in the desert left alone. No Wifi, no Gaz, no PayTV or other stuff we need to survive. /S
Fake news, we all know water was invented near 1500 BC. What seems more reasonable; That they somehow discovered water 1500 years early, or the aliens just used their commercial masonry bits?
'Because I don't know how it's done, means it obviously can't be done.' - said many a proud tradesman and ancient astronaut theorist throughout the ages of mankind.
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I can't believe that people truly believe this especially when it's obvious that the pyramids were built by the antediluvian giants as beacons to call Satan and his angels to continue to conquer the world. The Sphinx' head was originally sculpted as a representation of Baphomet. The farmers arrived in the off season to be personal slaves to the giants who brainwashed them into thinking it was a project for their god Pharaoh.
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And have you seen Stargate? Explains it all really.
I haven’t but my friend has a six foot bong
Didn't they just throw peasants and slaves at the problem?
You're thinking of Amazon.
