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Like I said in the original video, no one knows for certain how these were built and the methods I present here are just my best guesses based on my years in construction. Even today with so much technology at our disposal, much of the work that goes into putting together a building is done by hand by individual workers. And I don't see the great pyramids as anything other than a very large construction project with thousands of men doing relatively specialized jobs.
As for how long it took to build one or when they were built, that's not really important. I do know that even if it took 100 years, they still would have used the most practical methods possible, and practical usually means the simplest and most direct.
I didn't mention another method commented on several times, and that's casting the stones from "geopolymer" concrete. It's easy to distinguish a real stone from one that's man-made, especially for the geologists that have looked at these structures. The limestone used for the bulk of the building was quarried from bedrock very close to the site and that limestone is relatively soft and easy to cut. The quarries are still there (Google search) and show the trenches between block as I described in this video.
As for the tools used, I think it's entirely possible that chisels were made with hard tips to make them more effective for cutting the stone. We have those today, chisels with carbide tips, and the technology is not much different from putting an arrow head on a wooden arrow shaft.
Sintering is widely used today to fuse diamond chips to a metal plate, and again that tech is not very advanced. While there's no evidence that it was used back then, you can't rule it out as a possibility. Like I said, the tools used to do this work were valuable and wouldn't be thrown away after they wore out. Not to mention the several thousand years between then and now, and how many people have had access to these buildings in that span of time and would have taken anything of value. Any kind of metal then was very valuable.
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Like I said in the original video, no one knows for certain how these were built and the methods I present here are just my best guesses based on my years in construction. Even today with so much technology at our disposal, much of the work that goes into putting together a building is done by hand by individual workers. And I don't see the great pyramids as anything other than a very large construction project with thousands of men doing relatively specialized jobs.
As for how long it took to build one or when they were built, that's not really important. I do know that even if it took 100 years, they still would have used the most practical methods possible, and practical usually means the simplest and most direct.
I didn't mention another method commented on several times, and that's casting the stones from "geopolymer" concrete. It's easy to distinguish a real stone from one that's man-made, especially for the geologists that have looked at these structures. The limestone used for the bulk of the building was quarried from bedrock very close to the site and that limestone is relatively soft and easy to cut. The quarries are still there (Google search) and show the trenches between block as I described in this video.
As for the tools used, I think it's entirely possible that chisels were made with hard tips to make them more effective for cutting the stone. We have those today, chisels with carbide tips, and the technology is not much different from putting an arrow head on a wooden arrow shaft.
Sintering is widely used today to fuse diamond chips to a metal plate, and again that tech is not very advanced. While there's no evidence that it was used back then, you can't rule it out as a possibility. Like I said, the tools used to do this work were valuable and wouldn't be thrown away after they wore out. Not to mention the several thousand years between then and now, and how many people have had access to these buildings in that span of time and would have taken anything of value. Any kind of metal then was very valuable.
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#ibuildit
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