Modern researchers have demonstrated how to saw through stone with the tools that were available to Ancient Egyptians, but I’m pretty sure they used alien tech because that sounds like fun.
Social media lets stupid people spread their dumbass ideas and makes the whole of society stupider.
This is the first time I’ve seen someone from threads show up in Lemmy comments. I’m not sure how I feel about that. My first thought is that I don’t like it.
Even the whole “how did they move all those stones to the pyramid sites, and how did the tip of this Pramod end up all the way over here?!”
Egypt is full of ancient River systems that have long dried up and been covered by sands. They used those to move all the material, but since they’re gonna and dried up now, we just scratch our heads and wonder how they got there.
We have also literally found shockingly well preserved sleds that match up with the diagrams depicting when the stones had to be moved over land (drawn by tens to hundreds of people).
Its basically a copper tube or a lumberjack style copper ‘saw’ (which does not actually have teeth) + a guy consistently adding sand.
The tube drills were used with a contraption resembling an archery bow somewhat, with the string looped around the tube, such that you could draw the bow back and forth to ‘drill’.
There are multiple, detailed, hieroglyph inscribed picture/diagrams showing how this was done, made by people commemorating the construction itself.
Archaeologists have even reconstructed and tested these methods in our time, and big surprise, they work.