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Ancient papyrus reveals secret of how Ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza in 2600BC


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2017 Sep 24, 11:32am   2,751 views  8 comments

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Archaeologists believe that they have finally solved the mystery of how the Ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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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1   RC2006   2017 Sep 24, 11:47am  

Its always pretty cool when they find documents that old.
2   Tenpoundbass   2017 Sep 24, 11:49am  

I'm always skeptical hearing about lost scrolls and lost books. In a report like these that the article isn't about the wonderful explorer or the tenacious historical investigator that tracked down the said documents first. Then the interpretations of the experts second. These articles always skip past the boring first act and the chase scene and get right to the epilogue.
3   Ceffer   2017 Sep 24, 2:54pm  

I'm so disappointed it wasn't built with UFOs.
4   HEY YOU   2017 Sep 24, 3:02pm  

No one can put anything on papyrus that's not true.
Everyone knows that the Pyramids are hundred of thousands of years old & were built by aliens.
5   WatermelonUniversity   2017 Sep 24, 6:12pm  

hard to imagine these were built by blacks when the only structures they can build these days are mud huts.

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6   Patrick   2017 Sep 24, 6:19pm  

I got to see them when I was 19 and studying in Europe. Took a trip to Greece, Israel, and Egypt. It's pretty damn cool how they are just there on the edge of such a massive desert.

There was an amusing "Please do not climb on the pyramids" sign on one corner of one.

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.
7   anonymous   2017 Sep 24, 9:09pm  

Patrick says
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.

I probably went a similar time (87). It smelt of piss inside if that’s any help.
8   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Sep 24, 9:13pm  

BorderPatrol says
hard to imagine these were built by blacks when the only structures they can build these days are mud huts.


"Black Egyptians built the Pyramids" is a myth but the part about the handful of Black Pharaohs millenia later, that is true, is kind of a sad story.

It was I think after the Sea Peoples attacked and ruled the Nile Delta down the river for a ways, that formerly Egyptian conquered, enslaved Blacks from the Upper Nile tried to rescue Egypt from Foreigners, only to be rejected by the largely Xenophobic Egyptians.as Pharaohs themselves. But in the Pyramid Building era, Blacks were definitely not in charge, or even a substantial segment of the population. Egyptians clearly drew a clear line by etching clear differences (and writing about them) between themselves and the Kushites (Blacks) to the South.

Egyptians were basically Phoenician or Semite in facial features. As they drew the latter with different outfits, but similar facial features. Whites (Greeks, who were definitely White, Aphrodite Statues were Blue-eyed Blondes based on Material Analysis, a lot Whiter than they are today in fact) and Blacks faces were drawn very differently.

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