Hah, looks like Bill & Ted invented the high-five 6,000 years ago:
This is true. And they last existed on an island (of which the name escapes me atm) near Alaska.
Well now I want a Woolly Mammoth burger.
I really think the Egyptians had the services of giants - i.e. men of great strength and stature.
They've actually found two methods on how the pyramids were made, based on the, uh, How to Build a Pyramid for Dummies manuals they found. No but seriously, they found work instructions & actually tested them out. One of the methods was using a sled & pouring water on the sand so that the sled would slide instead of getting stuck, pretty slick little trick. They found this puppy in Djehutihotep's tomb:
So big stuff like pyramid blocks or jumbo statues could be built in one location & then transported to another location, instead of having to be built or carved in place, or having to lug the full raw material over to the final destination first. The other one I saw demonstrated was using a water system. Super fascinating stuff considering they didn't have the same level of engineering or computer resources that we have today.
They even had old-school Excel back in the day. Probably made the poor interns draw all of the rows & columns manually by hand all day:
Just how big are the pyramids? I feel like they've been exploring them for centuries and should have discovered all that inside by now.
Really goddamn big! And unless we just want to start jackhammering away at the last remaining ancient wonder it is going to continue to be really hard to discover things like this.
755' long x 455' high. Not that big. 2 million bricks though, wow those builders musta been jacked!
2.5M bricks at roughly 3 tons each. I read somewhere that if they did actually complete it in 20 years that a stone would have had to be placed every 5 minutes 24/7. It's tough to imagine that being accomplished with modern construction equipment much less by people 4,500 years ago.
2.5M bricks at roughly 3 tons each. I read somewhere that if they did actually complete it in 20 years that a stone would have had to be placed every 5 minutes 24/7. It's tough to imagine that being accomplished with modern construction equipment much less by people 4,500 years ago.
I'd say they had some next level engineering going on, can you think of anything we have built in modern time that will last for over 6,000 years with virtually no upkeep?
755' long x 455' high. Not that big. 2 million bricks though, wow those builders musta been jacked!
There is a theory that a vast amount of the interior of the pyramid is ruble not solid bricks.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/new-theory...t-will-cause-war-archaeologists-video-1431910
And the great pyramid held its height record for 3870+ years
Prepare to have your mind blown:
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...earth-when-the-great-pyramids-were-built.html