How They Built the Pyramids.

Nobody knows how they built the pyramids. Well Stiffmouse has figured it out.

Pyramids are deceptive because we only see them finished not as the builders saw it in the first place, as just a flat piece of land, so we imagine building it from the outside where they built it from the inside out. So they laid the first layer of rocks leaving a slot in which they created a ramp (red) at quite a shallow angle. The drawing of the ramps on the right doesn’t relate to the layers drawing on the left. They surfaced it with greased rollers or planks. With a rock at the bottom a rope led to a roller at the top of the ramp and out to a downward slope in the sand where many workers could haul it up. These rocks then formed the second layer again leaving a slot for a ramp. The whole arrangement was repeated at 90* to the first. The third layer rocks were hauled up the first ramp then the second and onto the third flat surface and distributed. On the fourth layer the first ramp was covered in to form a tunnel and maintain the structural strength but still available to haul rocks up. Subsequent lays were completed in the same fashion. Throughout the whole process the four hauling teams stayed in situ and could operate simultaneously to speed up the process. There could even be 2 or more separate teams at each haulage position. When the pyramid was complete the rope exits and the bottom entrance were filled in leaving no external evidence. The tunnels may have been back-filled but there’s no reason other than structural integrity. So there you have it. In my Stiffmouse world this is how I’d do it, but then I’m no a Pharaoh.