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The Invisible Ramps and Khufu Pyramid Building

October 6, 2025 maximios History

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How about these temporary ramps , which the Egyptians used to build the Pyramids ?

  • This is a total invention , but it i has been repeated so many times that it became a fact , in most peoples’ mind .
  • Herodotus never such ramps . His historical account described the typical stone causeway between the vase of the Khufu’s great pyramid and the Vally temple . Such a cause way was a permanent feature which was , as Herodotus described ,3300′ (1006m) long , 60′ (18m) wide and 48′ (15m) high .
  • Many scholars want to believeĀ  that the only way to build the pyramid is by increasing both the height and length of a temporary ramp , as it was raised ti the successive levels on the pyramid .

Ancient Egyptians

Was it at least possible ? No . The people who are stuck on the ramps theory , make reference to the temporary mud rump found at Sekhemket’s Pyramid , In Saqqara . That ramp was only 23’97m) high and thy were hauling blocks of 9.8″*5.9*3.3″ (25*15*10cm) weighing 50 – 100 pounds ( 22-45kg) apiece . You can’t compare that to the height of the Khufu’s pyramid of 481′ (147m) and stone weighting from 2.5 tones to as high as 70 tones apiece . The Danish civil engineer ,P.Garde-hanson , calculated that a ramp built all thee way to the top of the pyramid would require 17.5 million cubic yards of material (seven times the amount needed for the pyramid itself ) . A work force if 240,000 would have been needed to build such a ram with Khufu’s reign . To dismantle the ramp at t the completion of the pyramid it would have required a work force of 300,000 and further eight years . Such a huge amount of rubbish is not visible anywhere in the vicinity and was never mentioned by earlier historians . After reaching such unbelievable figures , Grade-Hanson theorized a combination of a ramp and a lifting device . he theorized a ramp that reached halfway up the pyramid . At such a level , about 0 percent of the material needed for the pyramid would have been used . the second element of his modified theory . i.e .the mysterious lifting device of some kind , was and is still an unresolved question . Hypothetically , if we agree with Grade-Hanson’s theories , try to visualize the staggering figures : 4,000 year-round quarrymen producing 330 blocks per day. During inundation season , 4,000 blocks per day are transported to the Nile, ferried across , hauled up the ramp to the Giza plateau , and set into place in the core – at a rate of 6.67 blocks per minute ! Imagine 6.67 blocks every 60 seconds ! This rate is impossible to achieve . This is another reason to disregard the validity of the quarrying and ramp theories . What is even more staggering is the case of Snefru (Khufu’s father ) . If the two main pyramids at Dahshur are to be attributed to Snefru , and possibly a third pyramid at Meidum , it means that Snefru , in the course of his reign of twenty-four, was responsible for the quarrying transport , and dressing of several times the quantity of the Great Pyramid . Even trying to calculated . Even the lithe is too overwhelming . Lastly , Diodorus Siculus (21B.C) , later Greek Historian visiting the pyramid s, stated , in Historical Library :

Egyptian Pyramids

“And the most remarkable part … is that , though the surroundings land consists of nothing but sand , not a trace remains either of ramps or the dressing of stones , so that they do not appear ti have been made by the slaw hand of man but instead look like a sudden creation , as though they had been made by a god set down bodily in the sand . We all know that the pyramids were man-made , but Diodorus affirms that there were no ramps .

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