How did eygptians built pyramids?

Question

how could they built giant structure without modern technologies? do you think that aliens built the pyramids

Answer 1

Never underestimate the power of slave labor.

From the thumbs down I guess you were fishing for 'aliens built it', which is really a dumb answer. You ought to know that there were actual replicas built, using sleds that allowed the blocks to slide along the sand, and block and tackle technology that we know existed at the time.

It was built by slave labor... sorry you didn't like the correct answer.

Answer 2

aliens i dont know

Answer 3

OMG i always wonder that cause it has to be so true omg they had to help them cause if they did'nt who did like those things are so tall they did'nt have airplanes helicopters or anything

Answer 4

Interesting answers!The guy who said the Egyptians were paid in beer is partly right. The accounts that have been interpreted say they were paid in onions, bread and beer. Onions were official as currency.

There were no slaves. The Egyptian empire never did use slavery. They had the opposite problem. More people than they had work for them to do. Temple building might have started as a make work project for the slack season. If it did then it very same became a high skill and high paying occupation. It was a great thing for the Egyptian who got selected to serve as a builder.

Recent archaeology shows that it takes a lot fewer men to move the stones than was previously though. They do not seem to have used rollers, and relied on a system of clay greased skids.

Answer 5

I guess they built it "one block at a time " ! !

Answer 6

No.

How did the romans make such incredible architecture that we can only rival with lots of fancy machines? And nobody yells "alien"  on that one.

The principle is the same. The only difference is that the Egyptians had lots of slaves, so the hugeness was no obstacle.

I believe that there are "aliens" as in intelligent life on other planets, but they didn't make the pyramids, and the ones I know of don't have UFO's, sorry.

Answer 7

It's a good question.  For the level of precision, and the sheer weight of the building material, it ought to be a natural tendency for anyone to question the current assumptions of the archeological community.  There is no way that a slave army moved the massive blocks into position with ropes and ramps.  Transporting a 50 ton stone 100 miles is one thing, but the real problem is the last 1/2 inch.  It seems contrary to our expectations, but in reality, it is a miraculous feat to fit just two heavy blocks together without morter and with the level of precision applied by the Egyptians.  Either the stats on the pyramids at Giza are incorrect, or there is a major part of the story that we are missing.  I suspect it's the latter.

Answer 8

Some historians believe that the Egyptians must have employed simple machines in order to be able to move the building materials for the pyramids into place.  Personally, I don't think that aliens built the pyramids, but I do know that there is still some element of mystery to the process!

Answer 9

I think people built them,  but a higher source design them.

Answer 10

No aliens here, as much as I'd like to believe that, too. There are many theories, the most common one is that they built a spiraling mud ramp around the structure and then hauled each stone up that ramp using round pieces of wood and a hundred  people per block or so. See link for more info.

Answer 11

Before the Great Pyramids of Giza were built they had a few hundred years practice on smaller pyramids.  Some of these have fallen down because they were either not well designed or were on poor foundations.  Others are still standing, but they get very little publicity.  The Egyptians had no slaves, or very few when the big pyramids were built.  However they did have a lot of people who had nothing much to do when the Nile was in flood.  That was for quite a while every year, so the farmers who could not work flooded land worked on the pyramids.  They also kept expert builders working year-round.  

These people were paid with food, clothing and housing, not money.

Hundreds of years of experience taught them to design the thing well and put it on a good foundation.  Recent engineering calculations say that the Great Pyramid took about 17 years to build.  This is not so different from what the ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote.   Some of the great Gothic cathedrals in Europe took hundreds of years to build,

Their economy and sense of priorities was vastly different to what we have today.

Answer 12

Same way as the statues were constructed on Easter Island, lots of hard, time-consuming, laborous work.

Answer 13

Duh aliens!! And the aztecs too!!1

Sike...Tis the beauty of having slaves, you can squeeze the most out of them, The egyptians had the Jews the mayas had the indians, etc.  When a group of people has someone else to do their dirty work of course they are gonna try to get the most out of them, btu in the end marvelous things may happen, Ironic?

Answer 14

I'm down with what rockman said.  That seems to be what they did.  Watch the History channel.  They had medical benefits, free room and board, food, all sorts of good stuff.  It probably wasn't very hard to bring people in on the pyramid scheme.

Answer 15

After the stones were made,they were stacked  with decreasing numbers as they ascended,much the way bolling pins are lined up.at each level there were steps so that the stones could be pulled up.

Answer 16

I think it was the aliens

Answer 17

Yes ,I firmly believe that they had help from above.And I don't mean God! Look at their pictures, how many flying things do you see in them? And the people who deciphered their pictures, I think is only the ,One Mans Opinion thing.Who knows what was really going on? You'd have to be a fool ,to think they didn't have help. From where is the question people don't know about. But I do.......

Answer 18

I dont think that you are crazy on the contrary I liked your question .

There are many claims related to the pyramids , many says that the egyptions were great builders, and scientists discovered maps for the pyramids that reflect a great intelligence of the egyptions.

But in my relegion I believe that the pyramids are a miracle from  God

Hope that my answer hits your point.

Answer 19

Lot of very large structures were built in antiquity.   You don't need a diesel engine to use levers, ramps and wheels.  Very little modern technology is actually used in building large structures, other than engines and an occassional helicopter.  We're still using basic, simple machines,  just made with steel, rather than wood.   In Hong Kong,  they still build large skyscrapers using bamboo scafolding, erected by hand.

Answer 20

any one who would know that for sure would be very famous

Answer 21

Simple. They built the pyramids with ancient technology. While we can't always pin point the exact methods used, we do know they used principals of mechanical physics, such as leverage, and pulley systems. They also had an abundance of man power and pleanty of time. Remember, pyramids took decades to build.

Answer 22

if u have any interest in science, u would know that they used a pulley system

they made a machine thing that was connected to the blocks with rope i guess and hundred of men pulled cuz of the weight of the blocks and they put it together....

no lol

aliens would not help us yet lol

they still conducting research wheater if we r friendly or not

they r having doubts cuz of "the war on terror"

Answer 23

I think Aliens built them.

Answer 24

There are Pyramids in Egypt, Central America and many other countries throughout the World. Does anyone think that it was coincidence  that civilizations who never came in contact with each other had the same idea?  I find it hard to believe what  they tell us about their construction. Technology is a step by step learning process. If the Egyptians had the technology to build Pyramids where are the examples of hundreds of years of previous technologies?  It's like going from building Log Cabins to the Empire State Building with little in between.  The Egyptians received this knowledge and so did the Mayans who also erected  Pyramids.

Answer 25

No, it was not aliens,

h**l no ,it was not slaves

These were people with highly developed telekinetic

abilities, and yes the descendants are among you.

Answer 26

its a possibility that can be considered,it would be interesting

if they could built a replica in this times,if that really was the case(made by slaves)?

Answer 27

No I seen a special on it some Guy used lumber & ropes & moved concrete blocks that were huge all by himself he did just to show it was possible for people to build the pyramids

I cant remember what it was called but it was on youtube

Answer 28

They paid in beer. "You guys want this beer? Take this rock up there."

Answer 29

Discover channel reenacted - seems manual labor - took years - chisel large stones and understood fault lines within rocks - they pulled stones using ropes with many men and slid them over wooden rounded beams.

Answer 30

I have done research on this very subject for years and you know I have discovered that noone truly knows!! There are alot of theories and many times they have been tested and recreated but at the end of the day they are still just theories..some say slaves..others say it was a massive collective community project...aliens is a popular theme..and so is time travel actually...The pryamids are still a big beautiful mystery!!!

Answer 31

In the belief system of ancient Egypt the pyramid was a resurrection machine for the Pharaoh. If Pharaoh was resurrected then the people he ruled over were also resurrected. Great attention was paid to every detail of the burial process as the fate of the society was dependent upon it. So the people had a vested interest in the construction process and devoted much of their time to the project. Slaves and paid employees were only use on some of the projects, the vast bulk of the worker were volunteers. The first recorded strike in human history occurred at a pyramid site, and it ended when Pharaoh sent in the chariots. The technology of pyramid construction was built up over time and the builders sometimes made mistakes. There is one pyramid with two different angles because the builders got it wrong and the stone cap was too heavy for the base. The Egyptians were a river culture and moved the stone blocks on raft like sleds, not free rollers as was originally thought. Ramps were used to pull the blocks into place and removed afterwards. The pyramids were coated in decorated material and painted, but this has long vanished.

In Egypt they say, man fears time, but time fears the pyramids.