Ausgetrockneter Fluss enthüllt Geheimnis des Baus der Großen Pyramide

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/16/secret-of-great-pyramid-construction-revealed-by-dry-river/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    A lost branch of the River Nile was used by ancient Egyptians to transport the enormous stones of the Great Pyramid at Giza, a study suggests.

    Egypt’s largest pyramid, one of the ancient wonders of the world and the tallest building on Earth for almost 4,000 years, sits among the largest cluster of pyramids in the African country on a narrow strip of desert.

    It has long been a mystery how millions of tonnes of rock were transported to the site to build the pyramids, and the Great Sphinx, on the Giza plateau.

    Scientists have now discovered a 40-mile long branch of the River Nile which existed during the time of pharoahs but has subsequently been buried beneath farmland and desert.

    The Great Pyramid was built around 2,500 BC by Khufu, a fourth dynasty pharaoh, and the river disappeared some three centuries later, about 4,200 years ago.

    The former Nile branch was found using satellite imagery, geophysical surveys and rock samples. Analysis revealed it ran along the foothills of the Western Desert Plateau, close to the pyramid fields.

    **Read more:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/16/secret-of-great-pyramid-construction-revealed-by-dry-river/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/16/secret-of-great-pyramid-construction-revealed-by-dry-river/)

  2. I remember reading this as a theory back in high school (I’m almost 40 now.) Really cool to see some physical evidence to help support that. They mentioned using satellite imagery to find it but I’m wondering why lidar wasn’t used like they’re using in the Amazon rainforest to find remnants of lost civilizations there.

  5. Did they just discover this now ? We have known this already in Egypt ever since i can remember

  6. Do we know how they floated them down the river? A boat I guess but what kind can hold that much weight. Being how I don’t know shit about pyramids, boats, or rivers this seems like magic to me.

  7. The article doesn’t really go into detail as to HOW the river aided in the construction. I’m assuming they floated the large stones to the pyramid construction site, but what happened after that?

  8. How many million stones are there in the Great Pyramid of Giza? Oh and they weighed how much? Before any more theories I would like to have a simple demonstration of it being done on the Nile river.

  10. Well, looks like that solves it! We’re all done here. Excuse me, I’ll see myself out.

  12. There was a theory I’ve seen that they used water to float the stones into place in the pyramid. I wonder if this lends more credence to that now. If a branch was closer to the site, it would’ve been easier to build a moat.

  13. So aliens . . . used the river to move the rocks? Smells fishy to me. Why wouldn’t the aliens just use sound waves to move the rocks? I mean, Joe Rogan had a science on, and aliens def moved rocks with sound waves. Aliens.

  14. Unless they find better evidence, then this is just a branch of a river near the pyramids. They’d need to find something like lost stones at the bottom of it, for example. Accidents happened, so no doubt there’d be various things at the bottom of the ancient river.

  19. Isn’t this what Pliny the Elder wrote on? He figured the pyramids were built by having a river flow underneath or through it and had a pulley system to lift the stones up through the middle

  20. OK, now we know they transport the bricks by river but how do they stack the bricks this high??? Also by river?
    The paragraph said the river was higher but… the pyramid is extremely tall.
    And bricks density is bigger than water, bricks cannot float in a water right?

  21. Hahaha this explains nothing, first of all we already knew this, secondly, it provides no answers about construction, yet they want people to think a mystery has been solved.

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