Re: Pyramid stone?



rms wrote:

> Smith dispenses with animal labor as requiring additional provisioning
> hassles, and points to a tomb painting showing a team of humans pulling a
> 60ton statue.

> This sounds to me like a ridiculous doubling of effort, if you are
> thinking of limestone blocks. Smith argues the ramp material was simply
> tossed back into the quarry, and has evidence to support it, namely a thick
> layer of what was clearly ramp material.
>
> You speculate the ramps were 20cubits (rouglhy 17ft) wide. Smith
> estimates 1000 Blocks/day were moving up the main ramp, which would be
> impossible without a much wider ramp. I believe his main ramp is as wide as
> the pyramid itself, 440cubits. He has a similar helical ramp system for the
> upper layers, I forget how wide they were exactly, but each successive ramp
> got narrower til the last one was 6-10ft wide near the top.
>
> rms

My ramps of Tura limestone are 10 royal cubits or 523.6 cm
wide, minus one royal cubit or 52.36 cm for the balustrade,
which served a double puprose: safety for the workers,
and making the slowly growing monument look most pretty.
You really think a pharaoh would have liked to look at
an immense heap of rubble for all his reigning time?
A rubble mountain would have been an ugly sight, moreover
uneconomical - requiring a larger volume of stone than the
pyramid itself! -, and dysfunctional: how can you pull
granite beams weighing sixty tons (the ones for the ceiling
of the so-called King's Chamber) over a rubble ramp that
gives in?

My sled carries a weight of twenty tons and is pulled by
oxen. Rainer Stadelmann proposed the use of oxen. I found
his idea plausible. Sneferu, father of Khufu, let build
three large pyramids, and he imported 200,000 oxen from
Nubia (Sudan).

I won't repeat myself for the umpteenth time. Please read
about my methods of aligning the Great Pyramid, measuring
and leveling the base, and building the core together with
the casing and very very slowly ascending ramps of Tura
limestone on my website www.seshat.ch - look up Egypt 3
on top, and scroll down to: 12) How was the Great Pyramid
built? (with large illustrations).

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

PS. I might repeat one thing, though. There are two types
of kooks when it comes to pyramids, a) those who believe
the ancient Egyptians were not able to build such a marvel
without alien help, and b) those who believe such a wonder
could possibly have been built without a solid body of
mathematics, including Imhotepean triangles (still and
falsely named for Pythagoras).

.

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