What technology did they use to build the pyramids?

aliens

Large amounts of manual labor. There's nothing impressive about the pyramids, it's literally a pile of bricks. A very well built pile of bricks, but still a pile of bricks.

>>105588660
This. They enslaved the ayys to build the pyramids.

>>105588651 (OP)
geometry

>>105588671
How did they cut the stones?

>>105588697
With lasers, duh.

>>105588697
>how did they cut limestone and granite
With chisels and hammers. Duh. It just takes a lot of manual labor, and Egypt had massive amounts from their farming caste who had to wait out the nile floods and needed some kind of income during that period, which the Ancient Egyptian government provided with public works projects. The entire Egyptian society revolved around monument building during the Old Kingdom because they were economically dependent on it. It was their version of a social safety net.

>>105588651 (OP)
floating stones; no niggers involved. That's basically it.

>>105588671
Kek
We have modern tools now, we can build bigger, taller buildings.
Pyramids are nothing special.

>>105588671
>large amounts of manual labor
All that you need is Wally Wallington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4OuFoijHw

>>105588716
Use case for big pointless monuments?

Sure it provided a lot of things to do, but to what end? Just sounds like busy work.

>>105588651 (OP)
Pulley.

>>105588660
>>105588703
>>105588829
please retvrn to orange reddit.

>>105588829
>Use case for big pointless monuments?
Power projection for ruling elites and (hypothetical) improved access to the afterlife.

Magic

a secret technique called piling shit together

>>105588924
Should've invested in developing better technology instead

>>105588651 (OP)
Alien technology.
They can even levitate cows with just light:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzJGM661D0

Before you wonder, yes, this video is real

>>105588924
to satisfy the massive egos of Kings who thought they were Gods

such a great civilization ended up falling in barbarians (muslims) hands. pathetic

>>105589018
It got passed around like a battered whore for quite a while before it reached their hands.

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Masonry_(Civ4)

>>105589018
one of the retarded muslim kings tried to take down one of the smaller pyramids, he gave up after defacing it a bit.

>>105588697
They didn't cut any stones, they just poured the concrete into the form

>>105588829
Use case for steel towers full of techfaggots working to make the world a little bit shittier every day?

>>105588651 (OP)

lol, lmao even

this question is always a stupidity shit fest

- what material was the ropes made of?
- what energy sources were used to pull?
- what material was used to build the pulleys?

notice: no forests, no iron or steel known, no wooden stuff, like trunks, will sustain the weight of a single block.

party hard, degens!

>>105588671
Agreed.

Medieval cathedrals, having large open spaces, are impressive.
Pyramids, being solid piles, are not.

>>105590090
They just build a dirt ramp.
No need for cranes or anything like that, just dirt and manpower.

no one ITT has done much research on the topic

>>105590122
New-Age cathedrals are more impressive than Middle-Age ones. Have you seen the Palais des Papes in France?

>>105590413
This thing I think is the largest gothic-style building in history

>>105588651 (OP)
>What technology
water. and they aren't tombs, they're probably pumps. or part of the mechanism. look at osirion, that's probably some valve works. archaeologists call everything fucking temples because they're fucking stupid.

>>105590141

ropes? weights? friction? basic high school physics?

>>105588651 (OP)
sleds
ramps
rock quarries
some geometric architecture patterns
egyptian mason tools
man made estuaries
oil lamps
and a hierarchy of wagies based on skill level
A functioning egyptian economy
which is a technology we haven't seen exist since the times of the pyramids, truly lost forever.

>>105591018
And whatever they used to furnish the insides.

>>105588651 (OP)
chatgpt

WE WAZ KANGZ N SHIT BUILDIN UNDERGROUND PIEZ0ELECTRIC GENRATAHZ THE SIZE OF SIX FUCKIN EIFFEL TOWAS YALL. SHIT WAS MAD LIT IN EGYPT BACK IN THE BC. MAD LIT LIKE MOFUGGN IONIZED CAPSTONE SPARKIN SHIT ACROSS THE SKY LIKE A FUGGN TESLA COIL SHEEEESH. KANGZ, ENGENEERZ & ESOTERIC ARTIFICER SHIT MAN FR FR. ALIENS? NAH.

>>105591099

they used frequencies

>>105590122
>Things built 500-800 years ago are more impressive to me than things built 4500 years ago
okey buddey :DD

>>105588651 (OP)

>>105588651 (OP)
Pyramids are fake. In reality they are only 1 meter tall. Media and corporations wants to believe as if they are big deal. All people who report otherwise - are government agents under cover.

>>105588651 (OP)
>>105588942
>>105590090
>I can't figure out how to do it therefore no one can

Not camels that's for sure.

>>105592473
gigachad constructed the pyramids?!

>>105588716
imagine having the same opinion as this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9HZQqvlVjA

As much manual labor and human suffering as necessary

>>105588660
GOOLD?

>>105588651 (OP)
pulleys and a ramp?

how much did pyramids reinforce the god king myth

it probably had diminishing returns after the first few as long as you could somehow latch onto the earlier greats

also think how many million Egyptians over the millennia never even saw them

>>105596172
>also think how many million Egyptians over the millennia never even saw them
I wish we wad a massive scientific/engineering projects that occupied many generations of people. We would have a purpose, something better than muh paradise.
Something related to biology, physics or space travel.

>>105596172
>god king myth
looking into them just a little bit, i find no one has been found buried in any of them. all of that mighty pharaoh crap was cooked up by archaeologists. my guess is what originally happened is some smart guy was able to predict nile floods, invented nileometers, etc. held in high esteem. passed that on, advantage was gained from foreknowledge. methods of dealing with water, canals, dams, pumps, were devised. some people took advantage of this, became a priesthood, pharaoh. controlled the mechanisms of controlling the water. for offerings. for a thousand years, it was nice work if you could get it. then some glacier dried up, some weather pattern shifted. and all of their predictions fell flat. no longer talking to god and no understanding of the shit they were running. so no longer god king, eh? archaeologists perpetuate that shit for some reason. training the masses in dominance hierarchy or somesuch.

>>105596074
yeah bro let's just use pulleys and a ramp to move 40 ton blocks

>>105588651 (OP)
goa'uld technology

>>105588671
bullshit, they had some stone-cutting tech we lost
they used rods, its depicted on the murals

>>105588651 (OP)
cum

>>105588651 (OP)
>>105588697
no idea about egypt, but incas split big stones like this:
https://bigtrailcusco.com/how-were-the-stones-of-machu-picchu-cut/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CStone%20splitting%E2%80%9D%20technique

>>105588651 (OP)
masons + astronomy (religious orders) + a large population

>>105588829
>Just sounds like busy work.
yes. and?

>>105588651 (OP)
Desert Mexicans

>>105590050
A modern poet.

>>105588697
You can cut crudely shaped blocks of limestone like that with a small rock if you do it for long enough, anon

>>105590090
>Ancient Egypt didn't have access to rope and wood
Lol absolute fucking brainlet

>>105588651 (OP)
AI powered alien maschines

Oh nice I've never infodumped on /g/ before

Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya etc) history and archeology autist here, ask me your questions about Mesoamerican technology

Pic related, with the bottom row of images showing some of the major reservoirs in the urban core of the Maya city of Tikal, and how they are networked with channels and dams which can be opened to permit water between them to avoid overflow, and there being some branched channels with switching mechanisms to choose where the water goes.

It's not shown here but much of the major buildings and plazas also have drains/channels built into them so rain flows into the reservoirs way from other infrastructure, and the reservoirs also have filter systems (some also having jungle fruit tree groves/botanical gardens around their edges/shores), with the broader water network here also extending out into the suburban sprawl many dozens of kilometers out with smaller reservoirs and into agricultural irrigation systems.

Keep also in mind the architecture was painted with murals and such, the grey color you see today is because the paint and plaster over the masonry is worn away, so the grey seen in the model in the image isn't accurate either

>>105589018
>Chadslims out of nowhere
Muslims built and revolutionized every culture it came into contact with meanwhile your faggot kaffir ancestors did nothing but rape and destroy every city they invaded with Andalucia as an example.
Seethe your brains out kikerat

>>105600268
>Keep also in mind the architecture was painted with murals and such, the grey color you see today is because the paint and plaster over the masonry is worn away, so the grey seen in the model in the image isn't accurate either

An example, this is the Rosalila construction phase of Temple 16 in the Maya city of Copan

The paint here also actually had Mica flakes (I think? might have been hematite) mixed in, so it glittered like modern car paints. In general the Mesoamericans had a thing for glittering and shimmering artwork: Stone mosaics that reflected lights off each facet, and iridesecent feather mosaics, etc.

>>105600268
>they built a pyramid on top of another building
man, that's cool

but the question is: how the fuck did they build these things? how much time did it take them?
and how come people are still discovering stuff? why is it so hard to discover new stuff?

>>105588697
how did they cut THIS stone??

>>105602735
With a chisel and 120 years of spare time
You dumb fuck

>>105588651 (OP)
They were power plants. They harnessed zero point energy coming out of the earth and shot it into the ionosphere with the help of the golden capstone. Gold on top (conductor), rose granite interior (very quartz heavy conductive rock) and limestone exterior (insulator). Water underneath, spark gap in the middle (kings chamber). It's a giant battery system that powered the world. Every ancient pyramid was, that's why they align across the planet, to properly capture the electromagnetism escaping earth.
This was a society with free wireless over the air electricity for everyone, just like Tesla posited. Not my idea by the way, research of others.

>>105588671
Okay please demonstrate raising 1,000 tons single piece rock up a cliff with manual labour. I'll wait.

>>105602898
>raising 1,000 tons single piece rock up a cliff with manual labour.
Using like 200,000 slaves you retard

>>105602910
Did the 200k slaves create a human rope chain like ants or what?

>>105602757
look closer. Even if they made those side cuts with a chisel, there's no way to cut the back side of the block to free it from the rock wall.

>>105588651 (OP)
https://gizapower.com/gizeh/articles/the-precision-of-the-ancient-egyptians/

>>105602910
dunning kruger

>>105588660
This

>>105588660

>>105602444
>they built a pyramid on top of another building

Not sure which structure they're you're talking about, you could argue dozens of structures there are an example of that, which actually segues nicely into...

>but the question is: how the fuck did they build these things?

Honestly, generally, Mesoamerican architecture is not that complicated. Stone architecture was generally a fill of rough or roughly processed stone with limestone mortar, and then that was covered with more precise brickwork, which was then covered in smooth limestone stucco/plaster, and then on top of that you had painted murals, sculptural accents, engraved reliefs, etc. Pic shows the fill, bricks, and stucco being applied sequentially. When you see ruins today in Mexico, Guatemala, etc, you're generally seeing the inner fill or bricks.

What also made it less complicated is that structures were often built incrementally: Small temples/pyramids would get encased like russian dolls with new, bigger construction phases over time as new kings took power or nobles wanted to sponsor a project. You can see this in >>105601223. So many structures were built up over many centuries or over a millennia.

Alternatively, rather then just enlarging the structure like a Russian doll, you sometimes had temples or palaces "branch out" like a fractal, with wider platforms, secondary temple spires sprouting up, or new rooms/halls being added, and over time those could continue to branch out and expand into big connected acropoli complexes.

You can't see it from the view in >>105601223, but that is ALSO a larger acropolis connected to other temples in addition to being a Russian doll type expansion (see https://i.imgur.com/CWBsiKw.jpeg for a view of the acropolis and other nearby structures), and in >>105600268 you can see many examples of that, most obviously the Central Acropolis next to the Palace Reservoir (open the image fullsize and look at the maps, then compare those to the model).

2/?

>>105603758
>Not sure which structure they're you're talking about
the one you posted, rosalila

>structures were often built incrementally
>sometimes had temples or palaces "branch out" like a fractal
>So many structures were built up over many centuries or over a millennia.
I see.
incas build their most of their shit without plaster, and made it fit perfectly. it's interesting to see it live.

>>105602972
They obviously intended to carve some structure out of that instead of cutting out blocks for use in other places.

>>105594339
The real question is who constructed the gigachad.

>>105598866
Is this real?

>>105606106
gigachads all the way down

>>105596172
>god king myth
More like god king truth!

>>105606106
Me

>>105607740
yes

>>105602853
>They were power plants.
yeah sort of. i think they were pumps to pull clean groundwater, powered by the flow of the nile. when the well went dry they had to build a new one. when it worked for too long of a time, they forgot the how and why. then some climate change, river reroute, whatever, and they stopped working. then the people saw pharaoh was just another fuckwit with his hand in their pocket.