Amid The Pyramids
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Q: Did Egyptians use mammoths in building the pyramids?
A: No. It is true that woolly mammoths did exist at the time when the pyramids were being built, but they only existed on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia. There were no woolly mammoths anywhere near Egypt when the pyramids were being built.
A: No. It is true that woolly mammoths did exist at the time when the pyramids were being built, but they only existed on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia. There were no woolly mammoths anywhere near Egypt when the pyramids were being built.
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The Four Pyramid Building Activities (link)
"Above: tomb painting showing workmen pulling a huge statue on a sledge, using ropes. 172 men are shown; the statue is estimated at 58 tonnes. One man stands on the front of the sledge, pouring water under the front of the sledge runners, to lubricate the passage of the sledge.
Left: Modern Egyptians pulling a stone block on a sled, on top of a reconstruction of the roads made by the ancient Egyptians. The roads were made by laying down wooden beams (recycled from boats used to bring some of the stones), and filling the gaps with stone chips and mortar. This was also covered in a layer of stone chips and gypsum (like plaster) to give a solid surface. On top of this, mud was probably used as a lubricant".
"Above: tomb painting showing workmen pulling a huge statue on a sledge, using ropes. 172 men are shown; the statue is estimated at 58 tonnes. One man stands on the front of the sledge, pouring water under the front of the sledge runners, to lubricate the passage of the sledge.
Left: Modern Egyptians pulling a stone block on a sled, on top of a reconstruction of the roads made by the ancient Egyptians. The roads were made by laying down wooden beams (recycled from boats used to bring some of the stones), and filling the gaps with stone chips and mortar. This was also covered in a layer of stone chips and gypsum (like plaster) to give a solid surface. On top of this, mud was probably used as a lubricant".
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LABOR USED TO BUILD THE PYRAMIDS
"Most of the pyramid builders were paid conscripts. Some were full-time employees. An inscription on a tomb of a priest judge buried near the pyramid builders city read: “I paid them in beer and bread, and I made them make an oath that they were satisfied".
“The splitting of task and workforce, combined with the use of temporary labourers, was a typical Egyptian answer to a logistical problem. Already temple staff were split into five shifts or 'phyles', and sub-divided into two divisions, which were each required to work one month in ten. Boat crews were always divided into left-and right-side gangs and then sub-divided; the tombs in the Valley of the Kings were decorated following this system, also by left-and right-hand gangs."
“At Giza the workforce was divided into crews of approximately 2,000 and then sub-divided into named gangs of 1,000...These gangs were divided into phyles of roughly 200. Finally the phyles were split into divisions of maybe 20 workers, who were allocated their own specific task and their own project leader. Thus 20,000 could be separated into efficient, easily monitored, units and a seemingly impossible project, the raising of a huge pyramid, became an achievable ambition."
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"Most of the pyramid builders were paid conscripts. Some were full-time employees. An inscription on a tomb of a priest judge buried near the pyramid builders city read: “I paid them in beer and bread, and I made them make an oath that they were satisfied".
“The splitting of task and workforce, combined with the use of temporary labourers, was a typical Egyptian answer to a logistical problem. Already temple staff were split into five shifts or 'phyles', and sub-divided into two divisions, which were each required to work one month in ten. Boat crews were always divided into left-and right-side gangs and then sub-divided; the tombs in the Valley of the Kings were decorated following this system, also by left-and right-hand gangs."
“At Giza the workforce was divided into crews of approximately 2,000 and then sub-divided into named gangs of 1,000...These gangs were divided into phyles of roughly 200. Finally the phyles were split into divisions of maybe 20 workers, who were allocated their own specific task and their own project leader. Thus 20,000 could be separated into efficient, easily monitored, units and a seemingly impossible project, the raising of a huge pyramid, became an achievable ambition."
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