Great Pyramids - Man Made? or...?

[squealpiggy]

No problem.

He's talking about the Great Pyramid. No inscribtions at all.
The Egyptians always penned down what they did and why they did it, but not so in the Great Pyramid for some reason.

[j]

there is this guy who once lived who knew or claimed to know the secrets of how the egyptian pyramids were built. his name was edward leedskalnin. it's the same guy who created the coral castle. so, considering what he accomplished, he probably did know how the pyramids were built. he left behind a couple of pamphlets that are supposed to contain some secrets of how he did the things he did. i've also heard that edward is sort of hush-hush in higher levels of government.

if you don't know who this guy is, look him up.

[Salty]

Damn that is impressive that coral castle he built!

[baddest]

We know that after constructing the central core that contained the subterranean passages and most of the chambers the outer masonry that made the pyramid form was put in place by using earthen ramps sloping at around 45% and specially built sleds pulled by teams of 20 men -varying in number on the size of the limestone block.
After the pyramid was constructed and the pyramidion or capstone was put insitu,then the outer casing of highly polished limestone was added which gave the pyramid a dazzling sheen.
The finshed effect must have beeen incredible and made these amazing monolithic monuments seems even more "of the gods" as they were intended to be.
These casing stones were put in place, starting at the top and the masons worked their way down the pyramid face.
As each layer was completed the ramp was removed and the sand and earth carted away from the immediate area. Much of it was reused locally, as mudbrick in the construction of store houses, the workers village,the pyramids causeways to the Nile and also in the making if its small harbour or jetty.
Rather than go into a long detailed desctiption of exactly how this was achieved I will refer you to a very good site that also has an interactive game where you can test your knowledge as a pyramid bulder.
Contrary to what was once traditional opinion, we know now that the pyramids were built using willing labour force.
Each nome or province thoughout Egypt was expected to send a specified number of able bodied men to work on "public works"including the construction of the pyramids during the season of the inundation, when the flooding of the Nile made agricultural work impossible.
Very few ****** were used and certainly not the Hebrew or the Habiru,for they had not yet entered Egypt.
There was also a permanent labour force that lived in what was likely the first "company town" in history and its inhabitants were the craftsmen and tool makers as well as doctors,dentists and a vast array of other proffesionals one could expect to find to support the workers .
I will refer you to this site which has very detailed correct information, plus an interactive game where you can test your skills as a pyramid builder.

[corporateheroin]

I vote not man made.

[THE REED]

i still dont understand how these people made them to perfection

[!! Shawn]

i never heard about any of this....

it really doesnt make sense.. how could those people possibly have the technology to build something like that?

Contrary to popular belief, stacking rocks is not a feat of immense technological achievement; shaping rocks is not a feat of immense technological achievement; moving rocks is not a feat of immense technological achievement.

People have a tendency to look back at people of the past as if they were ****** and incompetent; they weren't. They were just as intelligent, just as creative, and just as clever as modern man.

For example:

People have this bizarre notion that mankind thought the Earth was flat up until the 1600's, when it was determined that the Earth was indeed round by around 400 BC. In fact Eratosthenes had already calculated the circumference of the Earth by 250 BC.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Contrary to popular belief, stacking rocks is not a feat of immense technological achievement; shaping rocks is not a feat of immense technological achievement; moving rocks is not a feat of immense technological achievement.

People have a tendency to look back at people of the past as if they were ****** and incompetent; they weren't. They were just as intelligent, just as creative, and just as clever as modern man.

Actually, even more so than we are today because they didn't have the technology we do today.

They were man made for sure and most Egyptologyst know this. These types of videos are made because they sell and get peoples attention. In reality, the Egyptians were a great civilization just like the Maya and Aztec's were in central Mexico.

They were great mathematicians and knew a lot more than we give them credit for. If you look at the evolution of the pyramids, they build pyramids that were "mistakes". There is the crooked pyramid and it shows historians how they builder made an engineering mistake.

I'm not saying that aliens don't exist but to say that the Egyptians didn't make these structures is an insult to the people of that region. They made them and they were very capable.

[AliKillsTyson]

Simple answer.

Yes, they are man made.

[THE REED]

i just want to know how the hell after all these years, the pyramids have only sunk into the ground, something like 6-8 inches!!!!!!!!