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Wish I had gone in. I didn't go because I heard there is nothing inside but a long passage to a room, and then there is an extra random fee to get them to turn on the lights. I really should have just paid it.
hard to imagine these were built by blacks when the only structures they can build these days are mud huts.
The pyramid is the oldest and only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World having been built over a 20-year-period using locally-sourced limestone from Tora and granite from the south of the country.
An ancient scroll written by an overseer named Merer was discovered in the seaport Wadi Al-Jarf provides the only first hand account on record of how the pyramids were built.
Written on ancient papyrus (a plant-based paper used in the region at the time) Merer said thousands of labourers transported the 170,000 tonnes of limestone along the Nile in wooden boats, held together by ropes, reported the Mail on Sunday.
The estimated 2.3million blocks were dragged through a specially constructed system of canals to an inland port just yards away from the base of the pyramid.
Archaeologist Mark Lehner, an Eygptologist, also found a centuries-lost waterway underneath the Great Pyramid.
"We've outlined the central canal basin, which we think was the primary delivery area to the foot of the Giza Plateau," he said.
Archaeologists also found a ceremonial boat designed for Khufu, who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth dynasty (ruling Egypt between 2609 BC - 2584 BC).
The boat, historians believe, was for Khufu to sail into the afterlife, and despite finding parts of the boast all over the area since the 1980's restored wooden planks and 3D laser technology has shone light on just how it was built.
Scientists discovered that they were sewn together with loops of rope, and that this technique may have also been used to transport the huge blocks from Aswan.
The new discoveries are being revealed at 8pm (September 24) in Channel 4 documentary Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence.
Article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-papyrus-reveals-secret-how-ancient-egyptians-built-great-pyramid-giza-2600bc-1640617
Note: Not sure which channel the documentary will appear on in the U.S. or on what day, kind of thinking the History channel or Discovery channel.
Related: Overview of the film/documentary. http://www.windfallfilms.com/show/7080/egypts-great-pyramid-the-new-evidence.aspx
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