The mystery of the construction of the pyramids of Giza finally solved
The transport of such a mass of stone left perplexed archaeologists until recently. Spoiler: no extraterrestrial civilization seems to have contributed to it.
The pyramids of Giza are the largest built under ancient Egypt. Their unconventional dimensions have left archaeologists for decades in the face of a mystery. How, with the technology they had 4700 years ago, did the Egyptians, for example, manage to transport the some 4.7 million tons of the Cheops pyramid? New clues suggest that an ingenious channel system has made the feat possible.
A group of archaeologists working in the Giza pyramidal complex unearthed an ancient scroll of papyrus, a unique testimony of one of the field leaders involved in this grandiose achievement. Merer, who had some forty workers under his command, details the transport of the blocks of stone. These were taken from Tourah, fifteen kilometers from the Giza site.
An ingenious canal system
In the documentary "The Great Pyramids of Egypt: The New Evidence" broadcast on the Channel 4 Channel, it is explained that the 2.5-ton heavy limestone and granite blocks were transported from Turah and Aswan to more than 800 km, by sea. In other words, on the Nile for most of the journey, then on specially designed artificial canals.
Pierre Tale, who spent four years deciphering the document carefully, told Channel 4 his belief that it is "the oldest papyrus in the world ever found."
The reconstituted channel layout
Physical evidence was also exhumed. In particular the remains of ropes used to keep the boats specially designed for this transport in one piece. The American archaeologist Mark Lehner has also discovered the layout of these channels. "We have established the contours of the central basin, which we believe is the place where the stones were delivered at the foot of the Giza plateau," said the Egyptologist to the Daily Mail.
During the twenty or so years of the Giza shipyard, some 2.3 million blocks of stone were transported as well, a few meters from the base of the pyramids.
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