Maybe they were created to save on materials. Nah that makes too much sense.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Maybe they were created to save on materials.

LOL. That was my first thought as well when reading the news.
I wouldn't surprised if they find more voids in the pyramid.
The ancient egyptian constructors where really clever and learned from previous mistakes.
Like the bent pyramid.

I'd love to visit those pyramids.

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Apparently there is limited access inside them with tickets only.

And then an everyday citizen can only visit places that have been set up for the public to go.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Apparently there is limited access inside them with tickets only.

And then an everyday citizen can only visit places that have been set up for the public to go.

Not in Britain.
I have visited both The Science Museum and the National Gallery of Art and Tate Gallery without paying a penny.
And Isaac Newton's tomb in Westminster Abbey and Nelson's flagship Victory in Portsmouth.

janne you have lost the plot! We are talking about Egyptian pyramids not UK public museums! Look at the thread title :-)

Sorry. I was carried away to the fact that you have to pay money to visit sights that I thought is very public!

You must pay a ticket even to visit the Duomo di Milano, since it needs money for its continuing repairs. The works have been going on for centuries, and in Italy any work of very long duration is called "La fabbrica del Domm!"
Tullio

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As I understand it the Great pyramid has a limit of 150 people in the morning and then again in the afternoon.

That's a small number, but I guess it's necessary. I'm actually surprised they let any tourists inside. When I was in Mexico, in 2000, they let me climb up to the top of the main pyramid in Chichen Itza, but I've heard they stopped that because the steps are really not safe, and I'll tell ya I had a serious case of vertigo on the descent.

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My dad was stationed in Eritrea during WWII, and he apparently had some fun going to Egypt. He's on the first camel in this picture:

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This is what blows my mind.

There are also images of the Dr crawling out of a chamber from under the sphinx.


But, Indeed the (G-Pyramid) is sacred to us all.
I hold a special place in my heart for them both.

so accurately placed, that we couldn't do it today.

We would have no problem building it today. As evidence: consider the Washington Monument and the reproduction of the Parthenon here in Nashville, both of which were done over 100 years ago.

They used sand ramps, oxen, sleds and rollers to move the massive blocks into place. to build the Egyptian pyramids.

so accurately placed, that we couldn't do it today.

We would have no problem building it today.
They used sand ramps, oxen, sleds and rollers to move the massive blocks into place. to build the Egyptian pyramids.

Of course we can.
They also used wooden saws with sand as an abrasive to cut the stones
Cupper chisels to cut the stones further.
Transported the stones from many miles away.
Moving about 2 millions stone to assemble them to a pyramid.
But it's not rocket science and it's doable even today.
Rather expensive though.
As it was in ancient Egypt.

Puzzling thing is How did they lift these buggers so high?
These are not just a few kilo's they are in ton's (many) per block

They built a sloping ramp out of sand and then pulled them up on sleds using oxen, rope and rollers (logs). When they were done they moved the sand away.

It has also now been established that a large canal was constructed right up to the edge of the Giza plateau and that the large blocks were floated from the quarries to the construction site.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

A straight, sloping ramp would have gotten quite steep, perhaps too steep, as they worked upward. They may have had a ramp, or ramps, that wound around the growing pyramid. This would reduce the slope angle markedly.