How the Great Pyramid Was Built

Imagine how this wondrous structure could have been built 4,000 years ago! Using modern engineering systems and project management concepts, we'll learn how it would have been possible to put 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite -- weighing several metric tons each -- into place and examine the ways ancient Egyptian culture affected the design, labor and construction.

Craig Smith

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[OnTheFence31]

the pyramids are a lot older than 4000 years old and anyone with half a brain can see this.

[wcarlpdrysdale]

So they used the copper chisel to make the GRANITE blocks in the middle of the pyramid?

I think not!

[WakeupFreinds]

@OnTheFence31 Thats sad friend what u say, bcz once upon a time the pyramids where believed to be many thousands of years older then now known, just go to Google and type "age of pyramids in Egypt" and look at the evidence for your self and make a judgement, even atheist now admit that the pyramids r no more then 4-5 thousand years old. Why do I mention "atheists" bcz its usually these ppl who hate it when science shows proof for the Bible being real, so much proof out there friend if u want it

[VvDOPAMEANvV]

Comments section is terrifying, as always.

[M0b1u5]

@OnTheFence31 You appear to be fortunate to have half a brain. But you can't even use the half you have.

[sail1999]

Excellent presentation. Interesting to see how much manpower, material, and technology was required for such a construction.

[MrHEMPKING]

i think they quarried sand and granite, moved it using horses and carts, then mixed it with water to ahieve precision alignment.

[18998688]

"Imagine how this wondrous structure could have been built 4,000 years ago! " ... we have internet ?

[linghun]

@OnTheFence31 sure, but people with the whole brain know better

[0ne80ne]

Hi all if you watch a doco called Revelation Of The Pyramids. It will most certainly blow your minds away. Remember numbers do not lie, it is the universal language understood by all.

[0ne80ne]

Hi all if you watch a doco called Revelation Of The Pyramids. It will most certainly blow your minds away. Remember numbers do not lie, it is the universal language understood by all.

[0ne80ne]

The pyramids were never used as tombs, 3.17 minutes he said they buried there not true. Valley of the kings is the place is it not ?.Also mainstream archaeology ignore the elders of Egypt who are the keepers of knowledge about the pyramids on why they were built and how they were built. Their knowledge is very powerful and make western knowledge very puny by comparison ( mathematics stone masonry ). It is built with the golden number pi and metric, do your home work you are not a builder