How was the Great Pyramid built? (video)

National Geographic, Oct. 31, 2008; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Great Pyramid Mystery Solved?

How were the blocks raised to the top of the 489 foot Great Pyramid of Giza? An architect developed a theory about a snaking internal ramp that he says has been hidden inside the pyramid for 4,500 years. The world's largest pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico. It's not in Egypt at all, but it's still exciting to see how any pyramid was built by any ancient human civilization.

Climbing the Great Pyramid

3-D technology offers clues to how Egypt’s pyramids were built

(National Geographic, Oct. 20, 2016) Archeologist Yukinori Kawae is leading an interdisciplinary approach to studying the Egyptian pyramids by combining computer science, 3-D data, and the latest technology to help decode how and why the pyramids were built. Oh, and he climbs them, too.

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