Posted By admin on July 31, 2008

Egyptian Ancient Stone

Do you know how stones are cut? Also, how did the ancient Egyptians cut the stone and place it in the pyramids

How did the Ancient Egyptians place the cut stones into the Great Pyramid? I wonder, so please help me answer this question. It is for a research paper, due on Mon. 1/23/06!!!!!!!!!

the stone may have been cut with a chisel. the stones may have been placed by workers moving them up ramps and into position. it is hard to imagine either of these possibilities, but they are the best explanations that i have read. chiselling such large blocks(i've read as much as 200 tons) and pushing them up a ramp seems unlikely, because even if u had the stones on site(which they probably didn't), building a ramp that could support that much weight, and to that height, would be just as difficult a building the pyramid in the first place. it's also hard to understand how they had so much time to work on pyramids, when they should have been fishing and farming. unless you think aliens or magic was involved the best answer is "with lots of hard work" and maybe more importantly a long time.

Category: Antiques
Tags: ancient, archaeology, art, egypt, egyptian