How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

[GoodAttention]

No such thing as reconsolidated limestone. The source discribes a primitive form of concrete. Once it is ground up it is no longer limestone. Limestone is defined as a natural sedimentary rock

What would you call aggregate limestone mixed with cement and dry lime and then cast in a mold?

 

[GoodAttention]

Ramps were used in construction of the Meidum collapsed pyramid.

Mud bricks are not stones blocks. Not comparable.

If you understand basic physics, ramps, counterweights and pullies can be used to move huge weight in many cultures around the world.

Again. You will not find an engineer who will support your theory in the context of the Giza pyramids.

 

[shunyadragon]

Egyptologists have the crazy notion that teams of bumpkins tied themselves to stones and dragged them up ramps. This is not a staircase or a highway ramp with lots of traffic but an imaginary construct that lacks evidence and constrains every worker from being efficient. It's simple nonsense to suppose there was no other way to do it but the impossible. Of course each Egyptologist sees himself holding the whip rather than being one of the poor slobs straining on the baking pyramid in 120 degree heat.

If there were any evidence for ramps I'd still be quite certain they didn't use ramps but all the evidence says stones were pulled straight up the sides of the steps. what the hell do Egyptologists think the steps were used for? Decoration? Camouflage?

Seriously why would they build steps and then put ramps on them. Are we to believe the workers needed a break every 500'?

The simple physics of ramps, counterweights and pullies works, and the physics of your alternative fails. to move large blocks up the sides of the pyramids, The Meidum pyramid used ramps like found in the quarry.

 

[shunyadragon]

What would you call aggregate limestone mixed with cement and dry lime and then cast in a mold?

concrete. Dry lime is CaO, Limestone by definition is a Calcium Carbonate precipitate that forms n shallow seas and oceans,

Concrete does not contain Calcium Carbonate. Dolomite contains a mix of Magnesium Carbonate and Calcium Carbonate.


Limestone is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of CaCO₃. Limestone forms when these minerals precipitate out of water containing dissolved calcium. Wikipedia

 

[GoodAttention]

concrete. Dry lime is CaO, Limestone by definition is a Calcium Carbonate precipitate that forms n shallow seas and oceans,

Concrete does not contain Calcium Carbonate. Dolomite contains a mix of Magnesium Carbonate and Calcium Carbonate.


Limestone is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of CaCO₃. Limestone forms when these minerals precipitate out of water containing dissolved calcium. Wikipedia

Correct, concrete doesn’t contain calcium carbonate.

By weight, this mixture, once set, would be mostly calcium carbonate and calcium hydroxide. The hydroxide becomes carbonate over time as part of the lime cycle, hardening as it does.

This “stone” is as dense and hard as natural limestone.

 

[blü 2]

So you don't want to know.

I'm already sufficiently informed.