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Build pyramids using ancient skills

In this video, I showcase a pyramid construction project completed over 20 days: 13 days for brick-making and 7 days for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ancient Egyptians May Have Used Hydraulic Lift to Build Pyramid

The Step Pyramid stands more than 200 feet tall and is made from stones weighing more than 650 pounds. Some other researchers are not yet convinced by the idea that it was built using a hydraulics ...
New Atlas

Ancient hydraulic lift systems could have helped build the pyramids

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...
Ars Technica

Study suggests Egyptians used hydraulic lifts to build Pyramid of Djoser

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has long been a hotly debated open question, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and ...
Artnet

Did the Egyptians Use a Hydraulic System to Build the Pyramids?

The Step Pyramid of King Djoser, on the Saqqara plateau in northern Egypt, is an awesome feat of engineering, and experts still do not understand the techniques used to erect it. Built about 4,500 ...