# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JlnMs616Z0
# by @HistoryForGranite

2024-11-19

@JorgeStolfi
2 months ago
The method described by Herodotus makes perfect sense and seems to be the most efficient, in all senses, than all the methods "Invented" later by scholars and amateurs.  It requires no ramps.  It does not require big teams of workers dragging each block up a single steep ramp for hundreds of meters.  . It requires only  simple cranes or whatever that can let 3-4 workers can lift one block up by one level at a time.  Hundreds of such teams can then work at the same time, all the way up the wall of the pyramid.  Then 4000 workers could easily have added 10000 blocks per day to the pyramid, with no big sweat.

@haitheory
1 month ago
checkout: Rampless Giza Pyramids construction using Four‑Lobe Pinion‑Pulleys 😎

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2024-12-13
@JorgeStolfi
1 month ago
 @haitheory  Interesting!  
However, those rockers seem to be too flat to be used as described by Paul.  When wrapped around a block, they would not make a flower or "pinion" shape, as drawn by Paul, but just a circle.  So they were probably used to roll the blocks on the flat ground, from the barges to the pyramids.
Anyway, even if the block+rockers assemblage had the shape drawn by Paul, it would hardly be the right shape to roll up the steps as shown.  The indentations between the "teeth" would be too shallow, and the thing would probably slip down the corner.
Anyway, I don't see the need for those rockers when lifting the blocks up the pyramid steps.  Many possible arrangements of levers and/or pulleys would be adequate for the required task -- namely, lift a block by a distance equal to its own height.